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Keylogging software for home and business

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A software company named SpectorSoft has just come out with a new type of software that allows you to record every key that has been typed on a computer. Now I know to the average person reading this keylogging probably sounds like a horrible idea, but there several circumstances where it would come in handy and might even be invaluable.

You see, companies might be interested in using keylogging software in a data entry company. They could easily monitor the work that’s been done and make sure that perhaps the sensitive data that they are working with stays within the company. Governments or companies dealing with sensitive information might find this useful.

One use for the home that I can think of would be to monitor a teenagers computer activity. No I don’t mean using keylogging software to spy on your kids. Not at all. Perhaps your child has been accused of writing nasty emails to classmates or posting things on the internet about their friends or the school they attend. You child swears that he or she did not do this. Keylogging software could help you prove that your child didn’t do it – well at least not on the home computer anyway.






Cash back when you shop online?

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I just found a site that you might be interested in if you like to get cash back that you can use to get other items. It’s called dealking.com. One of the best offers that they have right now is to use the cash back to get a free pre-paid T-Mobile phone.

I went looking to see exactly how Deal King works and it seems quite simple. All you have to do is register with their site, and then start shopping at the various stores that are listed on Deal King by clicking through to them with the Deal King link. Along with getting cash back on the items you purchase, Deal King also offers discounts, coupons and specials that you can’t find anywhere else.

I took a look at the list of stores that have partnered with Deal King and I see hundreds of store names I recognize easily – buy.com, Apple iTunes, Tiger Direct, Vonage and many more. Check it out for yourself.

Garden season ending- start redecorating

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Now that the active gardening season is ending here in Toronto my attention is turning back towards our house. As I’ve said before we’ve been slowly, very slowly, renovating parts of our home as we go along. Right now it’s the living room dinning room area that is in a state of renovation.

Last Fall and Winter it was our upstairs bedroom. We had some air leaks near the baseboards at the front of the house – in our master bedroom and we ended up pulling off all the baseboards and repairing cracked mortar and doing a very good job of sealing any drafty areas that we found. I ended up using some venetian plaster on the walls of our bedroom and now the walls have a marbled mirror like tone to them in shades of green. It’s lovely.

Naturally, this caused us to end up getting new curtains and to start looking at comforter sets that would look nice with the new room decor. We settled on a subtle floral pattern with the base colour being a very pale yellow toned background that just looks amazing with the wall and sheer curtains we selected. The room has a very romantic, modern feel to it now and it’s warmer in the winter too.

Also, as some of you might know we occasionally take in boarders – students from other Countries that are just here for a very short stay to learn English. Well, the room we put them in has a single bed. The room is very nice but I have my old teen bedding on the bed, the ones my mom actually made to match the style of my bedroom when I myself was a teenage. It’s nice, but I’m thinking of getting a warmer set of bedding for the room since many of our boarders come from warmer countries. Actually the first boarder we had brought a beat up looking electric blanket and I really didn’t like him using that in our house. I’m always afraid of fires and since his electric blanket looked like it was 20 plus years old I figured it was more of a hazard than anything. So maybe getting a warm comforter in a style that goes with the room decor might be in order.

You can see my brain never stops. I leave gardening in November and start focusing on my house- room by room. I hope we’re done renovating and decorating at some point in the next few years.

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