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If you encounter Internetantivirus, please understand that this program will not do what it claims to. You will be browsing the internet when you encounter this rogue anti-spyware program. These types of programs offer to scan your computer for free. They will also claim that they can scan and remove any malicious software (malware) that is on your computer. However, these programs cannot do either and will only download malware onto your computer instead. During all of this, you will have no idea that your computers safety is about to be compromised.

Internetantivirus will pop up on your computer, offering up a free scan of your system. If you click ok to this scan, you will allow the program to download onto your computer. This is tricky because you will not be expecting anything to download without your consent. However, this is how these malware programs work. With the internet, we expect to be in control of what is downloading, but this is just not true anymore. Although programs cannot download without your granting them access, when you click ok to the free scan, this is giving them access.

Once you say ok to the free scan, and the malware downloads to your computer. Even though this download is taking place during the free scan, you will not be aware of this download. However, you will be presented with a results page that is completely fabricated. The program cannot scan or remove malware. But, you will be given a whole list of programs that need to be removed. When, in actuality, the programs they offer up for deletion are programs that your computer needs to run. After the scan, they will allow you to purchase the full version of their program for a fee to remove the programs. However, this will not work and instead you will be contributing your money to their scam.

Now that you have this malware on your computer you will begin to see more and more of the Internetantivirus. The program will initiate every time you start your computer. It will also give you lots of pop up ads showing that you have more viruses. These will also be fake reports. It will slow down your computer drastically.

You will not be able to get rid of these programs yourself. The Internetantivirus will hide its files in temporary files that are all labeled incorrectly. So even if you attempt to uninstall the program, you will always miss a few files. These files are sending your personal information back to the programmers so that they can use your personal information for their own profit. They can lift your credit card information by keeping logs of what you are typing.

There is hope here though. Even though you cannot remove the program yourself, there are experts that are equipped to take care of them for you. Search for on that offers 100% guarantee on their removal of these malware programs.



News writing doesn’t have to be boring! If a writer can’t learn to spice up the story with the right angle, readers will skip right past it – no matter how important the content.
Writing an interesting news piece isn’t hard. You just have to learn how to approach it in a more interesting manner. Readers need to know what happened at last night’s school board meeting, but is it necessary to bore them with a basic rundown of the agenda? Of course not! Even at the most mundane meeting, a good writer can find a unique angle or twist to highlight some aspect of what’s being discussed. Just stay away from sensationalizing and editorializing in order to create a story. It may seem that that’s what sells these days, but a true news journalist should always strive to get the story – the real story – and present it in a fair and factual manner.
Angles Are Everything:

What is an angle? It’s an articles selling tool. It’s what takes those boring who, what, where, when, and why facts of the story, and gives it a little extra pop! It’s a new twist on an old idea. That doesn’t mean that every story deserves (or can handle) an offbeat angle, but it does need to fresh and interesting.
While feature writing encouraging trying unique angles, using them in hard news can be a bit trickier. Solid news writing should be first and foremost factual, informative, and to the point. Readers need to know about that new “playground tax” discussed at the Board of Supervisors meeting, but, instead of presenting it as a sensationalistic piece on yet another burdening tax on local citizens, or a dry lowdown on how much this tax will cost homeowners, why not try a more interesting angle?
Find out why the Supervisors find it necessary to implement such an unusual tax. Visit the playgrounds in town and see their disrepair. Show your readers the safety concerns under question, and explain the cost of refurbishing the playgrounds in detail. Find out about communities that have closed their playgrounds. Did boredom cause an increase in vandalism? Offer some alternatives to the tax — like community fix-up days or corporation and church-sponsored fundraisers.
Another angle you might like to try: interview doctors at a local emergency room to the results of the head injuries and broken bones caused by under-maintained playgrounds in your area. Interview a young child and their parents who have suffered a debilitating injury from a playground accident. Give your readers a chance to see the importance of this tax. If you find there isn’t one after doing some research, than show that too! Prove your findings using lots of statistics and human interest.
How To Find The Right Angle:

Every story has at least a dozen angles. The writer’s job is to find one that fits your readership and publication’s style. Stuck for finding a way to make your next news story jump off the page? Try these tips for finding just the right angle:
-Observation is Everything. No matter what the subject, take the time to sit back and really observe what’s happening around you. Not only will you find an interesting angle, you just might find the story everyone else is missing. Are all the reporters covering the school board meeting as a whole? Take one interesting little tidbit from the meeting and run with it. Maybe the school superintendent won’t agree to attend the annual training seminar this summer he has for the past 20. Ask why? Maybe he’s planning a unique family vacation that week – or maybe he’s going to resign before the end of the school year and hasn’t announced it yet. Be on the lookout for strange or unusual behavior. It may lead you down a more interesting story path.
-Keep An Open Mind. Don’t overlook any possibility when looking for an article angle. After all, that messy eater you saw at the local community dinner may be all the inspiration you need to write an article on proper picnic etiquette.
-Write Down Everything. Keep meticulous notes. Don’t worry so much about gathering facts and statistics you can gather later. First, concentrate on gathering images and bits of conversations that will be lost and forgotten once the meeting or event is over. Those are the real gems to bring your article to life. Save them.
-Let Your Subject Captivate You. Really listen during an interview. Feel what your subject is feeling. Bring that personal aspect to your story. After all, if you can’t get excited about your subject matter, how can you expect your reader to?
What makes a good news writer? Most readers agree it’s the ability to find new ways to tell old stories. There will always be a new tax on the table, or a controversy in the courthouse. Learn to take those bland and ordinary facts and turn them into interesting articles readers will want to read.



How to Make Web Videos like Video News on Yahoo, MSN and YouTube?

Complete Guide – Step by Step — Publish video and player to your website, blog or forum and more

Video news has now become a necessary part on news websites due to its visual representation of information to people. Below are two screenshots of video news from MSN and Yahoo. From the screenshots, we may find that they contain two main parts: video and player. We may also find that the interface is simple but less functional. It is easy to navigate.

Now, what we will discuss right here is: How to easily make video news like these or even better and more functional ones?

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MSN video news

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Yahoo video news

First Step: Download and Install Socusoft Web Video Player

I will show you an easy way to make such videos step by step. Before we go any further, we need to download a professional tool — Socusoft Web Video Player from http://www.web-video-player.com

When installation is completed, launch Socusoft Web Video Player.

Second Step: Check Video Format — Convert Video into FLV

Like other software, the input video files only accept FLV format so as to enable output video player to playback clips. If your video clips are different formats, you need to convert them to FLV format first. There is a simple tutorial on its website of converting video files of different formats such as MOV, WMV, FLV, MPEG-4, MPG, RM, RMVB, AVI, VOB, ASF, DV, 3GP, M1V and M2V into FLV format. Here is the link:

http://www.web-video-player.com/videoconverter.php

If you don’t need a tutorial, you may do it yourself. Click “Convert” to launch integrated converter and convert your video into FLV format.

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Third Step: Add Videos to Player

Go to “(1) Video” and click the button “Add” to add flash video (flv) files.

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Fourth Step: Choose Themes for Player

Go to “Themes” and choose the template of web player for your video clips. There are lots of cool templates. Get one as you like or that matches the style of your website or blog. The program allows you to customize web player in advanced mode. Click to button “Customize Parameters” at the bottom right corner to find out more.

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Fifth Step: Advertising Function (For registered users) — Add advertisement and link to video and player

Some people may want to add advertisements and links to video and player, which is considered as another strategy in product advertising and website promotion. Well, Socusoft Web Video Player has such advertising function with advanced templates but only for registered users. That is, you need to buy the program and then use the license name and code to register it so as to enjoy full function.

1) Prepare advertisement image

The format of the ad image can be jpeg, gif, jpg, png and swf. If you want to add an advertisement image with no target link on it, the format of the image can be jpeg, gif, jpg and png. If you want to add a target link to a web page for the advertisement image, the format must be swf. You may use Flash Slideshow Maker, Macromedia Flash, SnagIt or other tools to add URL easily to the image and save it as swf format.

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2) Choose advertising templates

Go to “Themes” and choose the template of web player for your video clips such as the template “Advertisement”.

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3) Add image to player

Now go to the advanced mode. Click button “Customize Parameters” at the bottom right corner. Then, Click the blank field of Advertisement and get the advertising image.

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Sample:

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4) Add link to video

If you need to add target links to videos, go back to “(1) Video” and choose videos that you need to add target URL to. Then, click the button “Edit”. There will be a pop-up dialogue.

Go to “Target URL” and input the link such as company website. Please remember to add “http://” first.

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Sixth Step: Publish Video and Player on Your Computer

When finished the above steps, go to the sixth step “Publish”. Click the button “Publish Now” to integrate your video with player. Your video has right now been embedded a cool player. You may click “View Web Page” to preview your web video.

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Last Step: Upload Files – Publish Video to Your Website or Blog

1) Publish video to your website

Click “Open Output Folder” and use upload tools such as CuteFTP to upload all of the files in the folder of “output” to your web space. You may create a new folder on your web space first such as “video” for the output files. If the created folder is in the root directory, the URL of your web video should be:

http://www.*****.com/video/***(name of the published html file).html

2) Add web video to your blog or forum and more

You may also add your published web videos to your blog or forum and more. Here is an example of adding videos to google blog.

Click “Open Output Folder”. Then, open the html file with FrontPage, Dreamweaver or Notepad. The html file is the same with the one uploaded.

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Right here, I use Notepad to open the above-mentioned html file and switch to the code mode and change the paths like the following screenshot. Please note that you need to input your website URL instead of ” *****.com” as shown below.

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After that, copy the code between “object” as above. Go to your google blog and paste the code as shown below. After that, publish the post. You may now view your web video on google blog.

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Sample: http://funny-video-youtube.blogspot.com

Some blogs may not support HTML well. If so, you may also use the following code, which is simple. That is, “iframe” plus “the path”.

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Well, owners of homes in Charlotte, North Carolina will be simply delighted to hear some optimistic and local, realty news. It may be puzzling, but it is encouraging to know that your own city is not caught up in the national down-spiral of house prices.

In fact, Charlotte, North Carolina is actually listed in the top ten of America for being a minimal risk realty market. So all you home owners who want to move around (locally), go for it – you will not be losing out!

Here’s the story: a nation-wide insurance company this week published their national ‘risk list’ which ranks cities of America by the relative risks involved in buying or owning a home there.

The company uses this compilation which is their own analysis and intelligent guesswork to make a projection about real estate markets for the next two years. They need to have this table of cities to refer to when they have to decide whether or not to insure a home loan.

The company concerned, PMI, is a private mortgage insurance company and underwrites loans from all over the United States – hence the need for a country-wide chart.

Their chart rates a city’s chances of realty decline from 1% to over 90% odds. It starts with a one per cent projection that a city’s real estate prices will not de-value in the next two years and moves all the way up to as high as a ninety-four per cent chance that it will!

For those who dabble in investments in real estate, or those who like to keep a close eye on the financial situations and ‘pounce’ when the chips are at their lowest, you will probably want to earmark the cities who are on the falling list. This way, when prices are rock bottom, you can clean up; a bit ruthless, but also good business sense.

However, there should be no ‘clean up’ in Charlotte! The risky places were the cities that were mostly the high fliers in the realty boom; states like Nevada, Florida, California and Arizona are not cited by PMI as good risk areas in the next two years.

Amongst the top ten, and listed alongside Charlotte, North Carolina were a few surprises. Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania is listed, as is Kansas City, Missouri.

Some of the other cities listed alongside Charlotte in the top ten could be considered predictable. For instance, Texas has five cities listed all with the rating of less than one per cent chance of realty market decline.

A surprising city to be earmarked as a possible high risk was Las Vegas, with a rating of 89% chance of declining prices. However, with all this good news for Charlotte, we do not want to get into the negative side of things; there is cause for celebration in Charlotte – pop open the champagne!



If you’ve recently had Antivirus 2009 pop up on your computer, you’re probably wondering where it came from.  Did somebody else do you a favor by downloading some helpful security software on your computer?

I’m afraid that nobody did you any favors, and you don’t have new security software!  This program is anything but a real anti-virus program.  It’s what’s known in the security industry as “rogue antispyware.”

What is rogue antispyware?  It’s a misleading term, is what it is!  It gives the impression that Antivirus really is a spyware program, that is just somehow out of control.  But that’s not the case–not at all!

It is rather a FAKE antispyware/antivirus program.  If its scan yields any legitimate results, it’s only a ploy.  This software actually put those infections on your computer, so it’d seem like it was doing a good job!

But all it really wants to do is try and scare you into buying its “upgraded” version.  As you might guess, the paid version will do nothing but just take your money.  In the meantime, you also might have to deal with:

Hijacked browsers. This program will often hijack your browser, inserting an ad in Google results that advertises its paid version.  Many people have been fooled this way into thinking it’s a legitimate program.

Generate annoying pop-ups while you browse the web. What’s worse is that these pop-ups are so well-done, they often look legitimate.  This is just another way to try and fool you into buying the useless paid version.

Install other types of malicious software, such as spyware. A malicious program like this will often act as a Trojan horse, allowing other kinds of spyware in your system.  Thus your computer becomes even more compromised, and your safety is at risk!

Regenerate. Many people have thought they’ve removed Antivirus 2009, only to have it show up again when they restarted their computer!  This is because it will hide multiple files in multiple places (often very sensitive places like DLL files and registry keys).  You can really screw up your computer if you delete some of these.

It’s easy to miss one or more of the files it’s hiding on.  If you do, the program will regenerate itself again, the next time you start your computer!

I developed a program back in 2004 that could deal with these kind of malicious, ever-present software.  I’ll be honest and tell you that it didn’t always work so well at first.  But I’ve got it working well enough these days that I’ll offer a 100% money-back guarantee to anyone who uses it and still can’t rid their computer of malicious software.

I HATE giving money back (doesn’t everybody).  So I work hard to make sure this software does its job!

If your current antivirus program can take care of this threat, then more power to you!  But if it can’t, I’ll be happy to let you try Spyzooka, completely risk-free.



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25

Are you tired of going into stores, not fitting the clothes you want? Are you tired of trying diets, diet pills, and exersizes that only work for curtain people? Following this can help you lose weight from all of your body. Ihave three solutions to this problem, and it helped many people.

1. the foods: Black beans, spices, grilled fish, fruits, and veggies.

These foods can boost up anyone’s metabolism, and it is good for your hair, your teeth, and any acne on your face. You are maybe thinking that the things I’m telling you are very common, and everyone says it works when it doesn’t. Trust me, this one works.

2. water and…………  MORE water!!! Lay off the pop too!!!

Believe it or not, water is the best beverage you can ever have. I know that every person’s advice is, “drink water” or “don’t drink pop”. Did you know that you can take away water weight from drinking water? It actually happens very fast too.Water has no calories, sodium, sugar, or carbs. A bottle of pop can have tons of carbs, calories, and sugar which you would want to stay away from.

3. Balance out exercise

Try to think about how much exercise and movement you do in a day. After a while, try to increase your exercise to an amount of it you can manage to do everyday. Once you do that, more weight will go off in no time. Also try to just move around, and stick in your stomach to get nice toned abs.
Try to follow this, and you should be getting results soon!



For those brave enough to come out and claim that the UK is becoming a nanny state, there claims have been vindicated! You only have to look daily in the press to see the country has gone mad. Take, for instance, today’s news that a super pill has been invented that promises to lower heart disease and strokes in people over the age of fifty. Then look at the reasons why the Government are holding back from making it available and, contrary to popular belief, it’s not about the money.
For life insurance companies, some of their biggest payouts come from heart disease, strokes and Alzheimer’s, all claimed for under the umbrella term of critical illness. Life insurance firms are keen for us all to look after our health and as such, will reward those that do with lower life insurance premiums. But do they have a right to say where we draw the line in how much we are interfering with nature?
British scientists have developed the findings of Japanese scientists from the 1970′s. Their discovery of statins and their amazing health benefits have continued to be used to aid many illness but have truly come to the front in the ‘polypill’ that scientists now want made available to the British population.
The polypill contains the mega important statins that inhibit the production of enzymes that lead to the production of ‘bad’ cholesterol. They also act as anti-inflammatories making them an excellent tool in the fight against heart disease and even Alzheimer’s.

These miracle pills also contain a combination of chemicals that lower cholesterol and blood pressure and could possibly reduce heart disease by ninety per cent and incidents of stroke by up to eighty per cent.
All this treatment in one easy daily pill at a ridiculously low price of less than 1 pounds a day seems unbelievable but it is so. However, not everyone is keen to see it out on the open market. These protestors are concerned that life insurance companies will try to force everyone over the age of fifty to take these tablets even if they don’t want to, to reduce their costs. Surely this is where Government legislation would come in to stop them doing so? Surely it’s not right to prevent the good health of millions because of the notion that some companies will see it as a money maker?
And we are talking large figures of people that could be helped here. To provide this pill to everybody over the age of fifty in the UK would cost the NHS 6 pounds billion a year but, conversely, would save them 14 pounds billion by not having to treat the 200,000 people who suffer cardiovascular disease every year.
There is some concern from the anti-miracle pill lobbyists who say that side effects could kill some people. Unfortunately, bad news sells and if deaths occurred they would be publicised much quicker than the lives that were saved, possibly causing panic among users. It has also been claimed that people may not take the pill properly and this could cause complications along with those who mix their drugs.
And this is exactly my point. Instead of the hundreds of thousands of lives that could be saved every year we worry about those who do not have the sense to keep to their simple, given instructions on how to take their one pill a day. The nanny state rules again.
On top of this, do life insurance companies take into account the fact that short people are more prone to Alzheimer’s than taller people? Not quite sure why but apparently it is a recognised finding among those in the know. I’m certain that most people, whatever their stature, could manage to pop one pill a day to increase the length of their lives.

Alcohol consumption is frowned on by life insurance companies but as most of us wine drinkers have known for a long time, it is good for us. No, I’m not talking about it being the only way to wind down at the end of the day! I’m talking about a glass of red wine, particularly the Sardinian variety, being able to protect you against heart disease, cancer and strokes. Not sure if it works for Alzheimer’s as, after a few glasses, I have a dreadful memory!
Even white and rose wine have health benefits not to be sniffed at. Is it too much to ask that we pop one pill and down a couple of glasses of wine a day to elongate our lives without being told we might not be able to do it properly?