If you ever worked on project management, then you are probably aware of how important it is to have a good Time Tracking Software, so you can calculate the profitability of your project. Think that each person involved in the project consumes, other than resources, their time, which they are paid for. So, if John, who is paid with $100 per hour spends 10 hours on the job, then his time, worth $1000 needs to be added to all other project expenses, in order to determine the profit.
This is one of the features of the timesheet, expense and project management software from Atlantic Global does. One of the best parts is that the reports can be accessed from anywhere, provided you have an internet connection: the timesheets are web-based. Additionally, they have multiple filtering and sorting options, to make it easier for anybody to generate customized reports. Should these not be enough for your needs, there is also the possibility to download the data as Excel spreadsheets, for further processing and analysis. For those of you who are interested, Atlantic Global offer a demo timesheet on their website.
The case studies show how useful such a software can be, and what would be the benefits for those companies which understand the importance of getting organized in order to have all things under control and of tracking progress of all projects.
Recently, I’ve had a very big problem with the guestbook I have on my personal website: it was flooded with spam. I think I was deleting several hundreds messages each day, and they kept on appearing.
I was desperate, I was even thinking of deleting my guestbook. Although it had a captcha in place, it seemed not to be stopping those messages at all. Probably there are programs which can read those captchas, so they are semi-useless.
Before deleting the guestbook, however, I looked through the files on my server and I noticed one that was not mine. It was called postinfo.html and it seemed to be something that granted access to external users to post content on my site’s pages. I deleted it, and the messages seemed to slow down a bit. Then I changed the permalink to my guestbook and I added an instruction on robots.txt to disallow all bots from crawling that page.
It worked. I don’t know for how long, but I’ll keep you posted. I have a honest internet business and I simply don’t understand those people who are so keen on spamming my guestbook.
Septic tanks are used to collect household residual waters in places where a centralized water collection system does not exist. Every now and then, your septic tank would get loaded to its full capacity and it would require specialized intervention to get it emptied. In case something goes wrong, the polluted water from the tank may spill out in the environment.
If you didn’t know already, please find out that there is a possibility to reuse water from Septic tanks – Sewage treatment system. This system, called Biokube, replaces the soakway in your septic tank and cleans the water, making it suitable for purposes like watering the garden or toilets flushing. However, if your intention is to reuse it in the toilets, you’d need to install an additional UV sterilizer, to prevent bacteria from spreading in your home and infecting your family members.
If this sounds interesting, you can find out more from the biokube.co.uk website, where you can also apply to get a free brochure about this system of cleaning residual waters.
Internet has gone crazy lately. There’s no wonder then that everybody is chasing a super anti spyware program, also known as spyware blockers, to keep their computers away from unseen eyes. They are right to do so, because getting rid of spyware and adware can be a hassle many times, and every now and then cleaning the computer may mean formatting the hard disk and installing everything from the beginning. Have you any idea how much this would take? I can tell you: too much! Of course, if you have graduated from some good IT training courses you may know exactly the steps and how to proceed with everything, but still it would take you several hours to restore your system to its initial status.
What Super Anti Spyware Should Do
As I see it, a super anti spyware, in case it exists, should accomplish the following tasks:
- keep my computer protected from spyware and dangerous trojans like the win32 trojan, trojan w32 looksky or trojan zlob, or any trojan horse generic program
- protect and keep backup copies of the following files: svchost exe, ctfmon exe, rhdcpl exe, alg exe, winlogon exe, rundll32 exe and lsass exe.
- in the unlikely event of a sypware infection, retrieve the above mentioned files and overwrite the infected ones, like winlogon exe, which is very important for starting your operating system clean.
- update itself automatically with new definitions, to avoid any trojan dropper to mess with my computer
What would the super anti spyware do for you?
Should you be looking for a Dedicated Server to host your website, you could check out the offer of RapidSwitch: they are just giving good discounts, so you may like that. to give you only one example, the price of the entry level servers was cut from 49 to 39 GBP per month. The best thing here is that the price reductions do not attract a quality decrease at all. On the contrary, RapidSwitch have just announced that they are going to launch a new data centre with a 20,000 server capacity, in order to be able to manage the increasing number of customers. No further than the month of June 2008, RapidSwitch were proud to announce that they put live their 5000th server. They are truly a fast growing company, that’s for sure.
The 24 hours support is standard. Moreover, their clients would benefit from free KVMoIP access. Actually, all services include the following:
- Private datacentre
- Free KVMoIP
- Freephone support
- Free IP addresses
- 24/7 Staff Onsite
- Free monitoring
Some of the additional services offered by RapidSwitch are the server management solutions like server updates, backup and restore managed services. Why bother with those yourself when you can let the specialists take care of them for you? And when these specialists come from a company which has been nominated by Microsoft as the 3rd fastest growing server company in the UK, then you can be sure you won’t have reasons to worry about quality services. This may be a good choice if you intend to use the 7 Dollar Script for making a big number of small, targeted websites.
It is well-known that Windows-operated PCs tend to slow down after a while, until even the slightest task becomes a never ending process. This is what you can do to delay or even to avoid this process:
- Run a defragmentation of the hard disk every week, even though your computer might announce you that this isn’t necessary. You don’t have to follow computer courses in order to be able to do that. The program is included with the operating system and you’ll be able to find it in System Tools. If you want, you can also try this registry scan program which will show you if there are any registry errors. Showing is free, for fixing you’ll have to buy the software.
- Don’t keep items on your desktop. Put everything in other folders, then drag some shortcuts on your desktop if this is easier for you to find your things
- Keep your antivirus program up to date. Some anti virus programs announce you every time they need to update their virus definitions. Always choose yes, let them update, otherwise your computer is at risk of getting infected
- Always check how much free space you have on the disk where your operating system is installed. Good operation requires some free space, and if it isn’t enough, you’d get in trouble because some programs won’t start at all, while others would run very very slow.
- Don’t install programs which you don’t know what they do or who made them. You might get infected with adware and spyware and this is very hard to get rid of. The effect is slowing down the computer.
If you follow these tips, you’ll enjoy your computer’s speed for a long time and you’ll save some money for some nice hot kicks shoes or anything else.
