Ever wanted to troubleshoot your PC but do not even know where to begin?
Have you ever tried to make use of a specific Windows system tool but do not know where to find it?
Have you ever felt like being in total control over your PC and not having to run to the computer geeks in order to fine tune or modify your PC to your taste?

If you are a Windows operating system user then you will definitely come across virus infected programs from time to time. You will come across them more often if you make lots of downloads and also if you like to try out new programs(epecially the free ones).
You would also come across them if you have to crack a program using keygen or patches which are widely available on the internet.
I download programs a lot and I also like to try out and discover new and rare programs. Many times, I also have to get the crack of some program because I don't want to buy the product serial key/activation key ;-)

Nobody likes it when you insert your USB flash drive into a computer system and it catches a virus. Many people often panic when their USB flash drive catches a virus or they are always so careful how they insert their flash drives in other people's computer systems.
I'm never scared of putting my flash drive in any PC because I know how to see if my flash drive has caught a virus and I also know how to easily remove the virus.
There are different kinds of viruses. I don't know much about them but I know of the following types:

Most bloggers know about blog pinging and why it's important to do that regularly.
Why you should ping your blog. You should because pinging your blog notifies Blog Search Engines, Search Engines and blog directories that your blog has been updated. What you are doing is inviting the search engines to crawl and index your most recent update.

The Aero Shake is a Windows 7 feature that I did not even know of in a long time. To know about what Aero Shake is, grab a window in your Windows 7 and shake it, all other windows will be minimized. That's a cool feature right?
It's very useful while you are multitasking. You have a couple of windows open and it gets to a point where you need to have only one window active; you can put the Windows Aero Shake feature to use instead of minimizing all other windows, then bringing up the one you want.


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This is why I am giving out another free browsing software. It works on MTN
It's been around for a while and I'm sure many people have been enjoying it. The set back of this software, however, is that it does not browse HTTPS sites. However, there is a work around for that. Although, it does not work all the time. It works for my blogger account though.

Glo 1 is an international submarine cable. It's not just the regular Optic Fibre cabling but this is a high end version with tremendous bandwidth capabilities. It has 16 landing stations in 16 African countries. It is now Africa's major bandwidth provider.

Mobstac is an online service that provides a mobile viewing platform for your blog. The internet is now being accessed more and more by mobile devices nowadays and it is your responsibility as a blogger to ensure that the people who view your site on mobile devices have a good viewing experience when they visit your site.

Mobstac helps in rendering your site in a very mobile-friendly form and the good part is that you can integrate your Google Adsense Ads into your mobstac powered mobile blog.

Opera Mini is the most popular browser for the mobile platform. It is loved by everybody and the Opera software company always do well by introducing new updates frequently with more and more better features than the previous versions.

The latest version now is version 6.1 and it's been the fastest ever and it comes with cool features. Opera Mini does well on small phones as well as big phones.

The reason why it is good to host your images to your own blogger account is simply that if you link from an external source, you don't know when the image might go down. Anything could happen and your image is not there again.
I discovered this technique when I tried to use social sharing icons on my sidebar for the first time. I did not want to link it from an external url so I created a new post put the pictures there but I did not publish the post;

The new Facebook chat bar is a good development from Facebook but it can be annoying at times.
Personally, I feel that it should have the option for collapsing it. I'm sure there are many other Facebook users out there who also feel the same way.

If you own a blog, you should ping your blog regularly to tell the Search Engines that your blog has been updated. By doing this you are inviting them to crawl your blog and update your listing in the Search Engines.

Below is a list of good services which I also use
Google Blog Search Ping
Pingler

The MTN MiFi is a USB powered device that allows you to connect 5 WiFi enabled devices to the internet at the same time.
You can connect your WiFi enabled devices like

• Laptops
• Tablet PCs
• WiFi enabled phones (iPhone, Android Phones, Nokia 5800, etc)

In order to browse free on Nokia S40 or Java phones you need to create and send your own .prov file to them even if you are using the default settings. If you don't do this, your free browsing config will not work.
To create .prov file first go to this address

• Select Access >> Click to Proceed
• Enter your Settings

MTN PayGo is a prepaid tarrif plan from MTN suitable for everybody. 


It is flexible and has many benefits.

This is an MTN prepaid plan that allows you to register up to 10 Family and Friends numbers and enjoy rates as low as 17k/sec on calls to your registered MTN numbers and 20k/sec for calls to other networks that you register as your Family and Friends.

How do I Activate MTN Family and Friends Xpanded?
Simply Text 407 to 131 or dial *407#

MTN FunLink Reloaded is the prepaid plan that enables you to make calls to MTN numbers at a very affordable rate of 15k/sec as well as enjoy Free Night Calls, 40 MTN to MTN SSMSs and free 4MB of data during Happy Hour(12:30am - 4:30am) everyday with a minimum balance of N100

This MTN plan is for MTN users who make lots of long calls. On MTN TalkOn you will be charge 50k/sec for the first minute of your call and 25k/sec on the subsequent minutes on the MTN network. There are no access fees/hidden charges.
Also on the MTN TalkOn you have access to wonderful services, value adding bundles and very low international call rates.

MTN Select allows MTN TalkOn customers to call any one of the most frequently called international destination at a discounted rate.
It allows MTN subscribers to register one international destination as their MTN select destination. You can then call any number at this destination at a discounted rate, giving you more talk time and a better value.

With MTN Happy Hour you can make free night calls to as many MTN numbers as you wish between 12:30am and 4:30am everyday and including weekends and it is available to all customers on the MTN network.

How do I enjoy MTN Happy Hour

With MTN Super Saver Prepaid plan, you enjoy call rates of 17k/sec on on-net calls. However, this is only applicable after you have spent a whole minute on the line. You then enjoy calls (MTN to MTN) at 17k/sec.
The call rate to other networks, however, is 35k/sec.

A bundle is a bouquet of voice minutes and SMS. In other words, it is a pre-subscribed package just like the internet data bundles, available at reasonable discount rates.
Types of MTN Bundles:
There are three types of the MTN bundles availabe to customers on MTN Family and Friends Xpanded, MTN Super Saver, MTN TalkOn and MTN Paygo plans

I actually ran into problems inserting Adsense code and getting it to work on my posts on Blogger. I was trying to do it the popular and common way but that did not work for me so I decided to think outside the box and I was eventually successful at getting it to work for me. Read on to see how I did it.

How to display Adsense code in your Blogger posts:

• Log in to your Blogger account

• Click on Design and then Edit HTML

WHAT IS UBUNTU?
Many people know what Ubuntu is and some people don't. Just in case you do not know what it is; It's an Operating System(OS), like Windows or Mac and so on. Ubuntu is a complete desktop linux OS, freely available with both community and professional support.
You might have already heard of Linux before. It is an operating system on it's own but there are many flavors of Linux being that it is an Open Source OS.

Opera Mini 5.x, 6.0:

TuneUp Utilities is a great package with lots of features that will benefit your computer system. It is the kind of software I would say should be on your top ten computer software list. I have been using TuneUp Utilities for a long time now and I like it because many of its actions are just automated. It cleans up your registry, automatically defragments your hard disk, automatically frees your disk space and so much more.

Blogger comes with a good comment box by default and it's okay but you can also get a better performance and functionality from other third party integration such as the one offered by Disqus.

Disqus offers the following features:

• Realtime comment system

Comments become more like live discussions with realtime posting and updating. By offering a faster, more intuitive experience.

• Notification and reply system

Everyone is aware that you can share your photos and videos on Facebook but not many people know that you can now share and listen to music on Facebook.
I'm sure you must have loved to share your favorite songs with your friends on facebook. I have always wanted to do that.
I know you must now be wondering how you have not noticed the option to upload a music file to your Facebook account. But No, you don't upload directly to Facebook.

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Steve Jobs - the brain behind the famous Apple products died on the 5th of October, 2011. Everyone is aware of this and if you'll agree with me, his death is a great loss to the IT world. The purpose this article is mainly to give a brief history about his life as well as show you some quotes from him.

If you are a vintage game lover like me then you would love this cool Super Nintendo Entertainment System Games Pack compiled by me.



This games pack consists of the following games:

• Alien Vs. Predator
• Biker Mice From Mars

You are an Etisalat line user and you want to browse free. If that's what you really want then this post is for ya!
Below is a working tweak on Opera Mini.
Check our my previous post to download an Opera Mini pack if you don't have them.


IP Address or Proxy Address: 82.145.210.80
Port: 80
Custom Server or Primary Server: http://209.85.169.104:80
Host: www.google.com.ng


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IP Address: MTN Default Settings: 10.199.212.2 with port 8080
Custom/Primary Server: http://v13-15.opera-mini.net
Host: 41.220.77.210


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By default, blogger templates are not optimized for good search engine results on the major search engines. In order to be relevant on the internet you need to be visible on the search engines and one important thing they look out for is your title tag.
Every blog or website needs traffic or else what is your website there for? you may write good content or make your blog look really good but you also need to make the big guns of the internet have a unique title tag to your blog.

Yes! it is very possible to download any YouTube video without using a software.

The Glo More Classic is a package that caters to the needs of customers who make Short & Frequent Calls on the Glo Network.

It's features:

• Uniform, low tariff of only 49K/sec to ANY network
• Uniform, low tariff of only 49K/sec to ANY network

You would normally install new fonts in Windows (Except Vista/7) by clicking on the font entry in control panel, and then selecting install new font.

Infolinks, the first and the world's fastest growing In-Text advertising network has announced the launch of the first and only Self-service In-Text Advertising Marketplace - the Infolinks Marketplace. 


This is a wonderful innovation from Infolinks and it makes me a proud publisher on their network. This new service is of a great benefit to advertisers as it enables them to quickly and seamlessly create an In-Text Advertising campaign, with various targeting options, in a matter of minutes. The Infolinks network is a giant among its counterparts, delivering In-Text advertising campaigns across 250 billion pages of content, reaching over 350 million unique visitors each month.

It can be quite annoying at times to have to wait 60 seconds or sometime like 600 seconds before you can download a file from the popular file sharing services. SkipScree is just the tool you need to avoid this. With this add-on for firefox you do not have to wait again.
However, the purpose behind this constraint to download immediately is for them to get you to sign up for their premium service. This does not usually cost much so you can get their premium service if you have the means. There are benefits for doing this too like :

1. Better bandwidth
2. Support for resumed downloading
3. Support for download managers and accelerators

I would say that things are getting better with mobile communication in Nigeria as there is now a lot of competition especially with tarrif plans. This new offer from Glo is a very good one and I see it as an improvement over the Glo Infinito plan.

This is my own personal review of the top 5 music players on the Windows operating system. I'm making this review based on sound quality and media organization.


The number 1 at the top is Cowon Jet Audio
Jet Audio is a nice Media player with a ton of features. It is best suited for audio although it does play videos very well, too.

More Power is a package that caters to the needs of customers who make Long duration calls or High Usage on the Glo Network.


Features:

• Uniform, low tarrif calls at 55k/sec in the first minute and 25k/sec from the second minute upward
• Friends and Family numbers: up to 5 numbers at 25k/sec

More Prime is a package from Glo that caters to the needs of customers who make Medium and Long duration calls on the Glo Network.


Features:

• Uniform low tarrif calls (on net and off net)
• 20 Free glo to glo SMS per month
• 35 Hours FREE Glo-to-Glo Talktime per week, from 12 midnight to 5 am, upon usage of N 500 in previous week

The Glo More Business package caters to the needs of customers that make long duration calls or generally use their phone to make lots of phone calls.


Features:

• Pay per call: Users get charged only once every 3 minutes and not every second or every minute
• Uniform, low tarrif of only N40 per call. That's a N40 per 3 minutes

EasyBlaze is a new competitive one from etisalat. This is the first of its kind in Nigeria so far and I give a thumbs up for Etisalat on this one. Below are the features of Easyblaze.

• HSPA at 3.75G up to 42Mbps
• Currently accessible in Lagos, Ibadan, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Akwa, Nnewi, Warri, Kaduna, Kano, Zaria, Enugu, Onitsha, Aba, and Benin.

I'm proud to give you this tip or short tutorial. It's a really cool thing if you know ways of going around things.
This is about using an advanced search term in google to download softwares, music or any file.
Searching for information in Google is not only about typing in keywords.

There are also advanced search strings that can get you advanced results like the one I'm giving our now. I have used this to get many softwares out there that are supposed to be for sale. One cool thing about this where for-sale softwares are concerned is that I discovered that most of these softwares are overpriced.
Without further ado

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is a new product from Samsung and it's really getting a lot of recognition among it's counterpart Tab devices due to its sleek design and the fact that it's really pretty.




Etisalat is offereing free 250MB for every first day of every month for 12 months if you get your's from Etisalat


Other bonuses you get from Etisalat's Samsung Galaxy Tab are:

• Free Etisalat SIM card that comes with:
• Free monthly voice [25 minutes], Text [25 SMS] and data [250MB] bundles for a 12-month duration. The bundle is awarded on the first day of  every month for 12 months beginning from the day of activation. 

E-top up is a cool service from Etisalat. It enables direct top up of etisalat lines with a prepaid airtime of all values between N50 - N50,000 including the recharge of irregular amounts such as 51, 52, 53, 54, 55….up till 49,999 that do not exist in recharge card denominations. Recharge is done without the use of PINs or recharge numbers obtained from scratch recharge cards.






The benefits of E-Top up:

• Convenience of recharge, no scratching of  cards or input of long recharge numbers
• Availability of airtime is enhanced by extensive reach of retailers
• Airtime is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week

If you are on etisalat's easystarter plan you can get N300 worth of credit free. This is the You and Me feature under the Etisalat EasyStarter plan. However, this bonus feature applies to only 1 number and you can add any etisalat number of your choice by dialing *233*1*etisalat number# 






You can continue to enjoy this bonus every week by simply loading N200 credit.
Other cool features under the Etisalat EasyStarter plan are: 

Etisalat users have been enjoying free data from etisalat for a while now. You can get free 15 megabytes data if you load a recharge card of 200 naira in a week.

For this post I'm sharing how to get up to 1GB data from etisalat. You can get free data from etisalat by simply subscribing to any of the plans listed below. And depending on the plan that you purchase, you can get up to 1GB free data.






Plans:

Etisalat's DotMe is a new feature from etisalat. It's an SMS-based bulletin board service that allows customers to easily share information and stay connected to their contacts anywhere anytime

You can instantly publish information or status updates via SMS from your mobile phone at anytime. The service is entirely based on SMS so having access to the Internet or a smart phone is not necessary.





Who is a Dotter? Any Etisalat subscriber that posts a message.

The Etisalt EasyLife 2.0 plan is a good one from etisalat. With this plan you can make calls to any network at 20 kobo per second from the very first minute.














Features:

• 20k to call anyone, anytime on any network anywhere in 9ja
• 20k to call anyone, anytime in US (mobile and land line) & UK (land line)
• 20 free SMS daily (etisalat to etisalat lines)

Energizer is a world leading battery producer. They have a line up of quality batteries to suit your everyday needs. Their batteries are in different categories for different uses.

High Tech: Energizer Maz

• Long-lasting, dependable power
  for your everyday devices
• Sizes: AA, AAA, C, D, 9 volt
• With PowerSeal Technology
  locks in power

The floating social bookmarking and sharing plugin used to be very popular but now bloggers don't really care much about it anymore. Some blogs however still use it. 

In order to do add the floating, fixed social bookmarking and sharing plugin to your blogger site, 

Below are a couple of icons for you to use for your blog or website. They are in .PNG format and you can even use then as your website or blog favicon by converting it to a .ICO. you can get the software to do that here

If you have been looking for ways to shorten your website URL in order to make it look more attractive or to make it more easier for you to transfer it to your friend on social media sites without stress, then this post

• General: GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 900/2100 MHz, HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
• Form factor: Touchscreen bar phone

The Nokia 500 is a great new phone from Nokia It runs on Symbian Ann and I'm very sure it has a great hope to getting in the spot light.
It's exactly phones like the nokia 500 that do well. It's much more like an upgraded version of Nokia C5-03 but upgraded: 1GHz CPU and a double RAM(whoa!), a capacitive touchscreen and Symbian Anna. It can only get more beautiful with all that specs. I particularly like the fact that it's running on a 1GHz CPU

 

The scotch thermal laminator TL901 is a very useful tool. It is small in size and it is quite handy. You can easily use it in a number of places like in the classroom, at home or in your office.
It gives you professional and quality laminating.
Laminating your documents is good as it can save you a lot of trouble that can be procured from wetness or staining of your important document, art work, teaching aids or just about any important thing you can think of.

Below is a reviewed and selected 10 best hosting companies from the worlds best web hosting companies. All these hosting services are very good and they are reliable too.

These companies are the best and they support a lot of features like PHP, MySQL, Python, FrontPage web hosting and almost all run on Linux.


Blue Hosting


Monster Host


Host Gator

You want to browse free huh? You're probably like me. You like free things. lol.
I did not give you this tweak. lol. Just enjoy... while it lasts.

I will try to update these tweaks so you can subscribe to my blog by e-mail to get all the updates. Do this by entering your email address on the right side of this page.

Etisalat Tweaks
Opera 5, 6:
IP: 82.145.210.160  Port: 80

Don't say I gave you this tweaks lol. I will try top update these tweaks regularly because I feel that some people should enjoy browsing like me. I do not pay for browsing. I have but only a negligible amount of times.

Anyways, you should subscribe to this blog to get regular updates or just post a comment requesting for a free browsing tweak update.

This morning I wanted to note down something when I was working on my laptop and I did not want to open a new note so I opened the windows gadget menu to bring up the notes gadget but it was not there. I guessed the last time I used it was when I was using Windows Vista so I clicked Get more gadgets and I was surprised at the wonderful gadgets I found in Window's gadget gallery.

Hey there!
Here are some wallpapers for ya. More wallpapers are coming in later posts. Stay subscribed!
To download each wallpaper, right-click on it and save it to your PC




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