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Gardening Tips forum created at GoBoardz

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GoBoardz is a newish site where you can go and create your own GoBoardz Forums absolutely free of charge. GoBoardz is sponsoring this post so that I can tell you how to create your own free forum for your website.

It’s very easy actually. You just visit the site, create an account and then go to the forum set up area. Some of the things I like about the forums at GoBoardz is that users can upload photos or link to ones on other sites. Members can also have avatars to uniquely express themselves when posting on the boards. If someone creates a really good post on the board you can even save it to Del.icio.us or Digg it.

So I went ahead and created a forum for gardeners and I called it Gardening Tips. I’ve only created one category so far – General – but if you’d like to sign in and begin a topic that would be nice.






Is your computer protected?

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I get emails from people all the time who are having trouble with their computer, relatives phone me and ask me to walk them through a problem they are having with their computer … you know what the problem is half the time? A computer virus or worm that they’ve accidentally downloaded onto their computer when they’ve visited a link sent to them by email.

Come on people- get some antivirus protection on your computers. Why am I saying that? Well, 90% of the time when people ask me to help them out with their computers it’s because they didn’t have an antivirus program on their computer to block or delete virus’, spyware and worms as they came in, in their email.

If you don’t have antivirus protection on your computer go and download Norton Antivirus software. it’s a fact, you need to protect your computer. If you haven’t had a major problem yet- you’re lucky. I know so many people who’s computers were so messed up there was nothing left to do but wipe their hard drive clean and re-install windows and all their other computer programs. Most of these people never back up their files on their computers either so they end up losing precious files, photos, all their favorite music etc. Don’t be one of those people, get protected.

What is your child doing on their Myspace Account?

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Do you have a myspace account yet? It seems these days that just about everyone has one. I have one but I really haven’t done anything with it- I assume there are a lot of people like me out there that have done the same, started an account to see what all the fuss was but then never really did much with it or explored the possibilities that the myspace account allowed.

Unfortunately, if you have kids, there is a high chance that they have a myspace account and that they are using it to it’s full extent. Now, I know there are a lot of good things about myspace like talking with friends online, and sharing photos and links etc, but there are a lot of bad things too. I’m sure you’ve heard some of the news stories about special police or FBI task forces concentrating on internet predators. It’s an unfortunate fact that many of these predators and pedophiles also have myspace accounts and use these accounts to talk to the type of kids that they are interested in or perversely drawn towards.

SpectorSoft has created a software application that does Myspace tracking. Concerned parents can record your child or teens myspace activity so that they can find out what there child has been doing on myspace. You’ll know when they’ve updated their site, or uploaded photos, made comments or invited people to be their friends. With this Myspace Tracking software parents can keep an eye on things and make sure that their “friends” aren’t really 45 year old pedophiles, or that your child isn’t being sent inappropriate photos. I don’t think this would be considered spying on your child. A parent using this software would just be looking out for their kid and making sure that something bad didn’t happen to them.

We go through enough confusing stuff as we are growing up. It would be nice to be able to protect kids from some of the worst kinds of encounters they might ever have.

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