Geeky Corner

On Tuesday, November 18, Check Point Software will offer the ZoneAlarm Pro for free. The download location for the free ZoneAlarm Pro package will go live at 6 AM PDT on Tuesday morning and will be valid only for 24 hours. The free offer includes also a one year’s subscription which is normally priced at $39.95.

The offer is a part of Check Point’s 15th anniversary celebration where customers will also be able to access additional details at Check Point’s Innovation Store, including a 50-percent deal on the Aerovation Checkpoint Friendly laptop bag.

Google has released an official Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide that covers around a dozen common areas that webmasters might consider optimizing.

Here are some topics covered in Google’s SEO Starter Guide:

• Create unique and accurate page titles
• Make use of the “description” meta tag
• Improve the structure of your URL’s
• Write better anchor texts
• Use heading tags appropriately
• Optimize your use of images
• Making effective use of Robots.txt
• Be aware of “nofollow” tags for links
• Make use of free webmaster tools
• Take advantage of web analytics services

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Today, 11.17.08, is the official launch of the 2009 Elite Retreat. The event will take place on February 18th - 20th, 2009 in San Francisco, California. From an amazing speaker line-up to five-star dinners, this is a first-class event that sells out extremely fast. Last year it was sold out in the first month, and this year it is expected to sell out in two weeks.

The event is very exclusive and has limited availability. Attendees will be chosen by an application only process. The purpose of this event is to take your business to another level.

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What if the Matrix ran on Windows?

Do you want to know when someone unfollows you on the micro blogging service Twitter?

Qwitter is a Twitter service which sends you an email telling you when someone unfollows you on Twitter. It also includes your last twitter update in that email message which could be the reason why you have been unfollowed.

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There are just a few hours before the end of the presidential campaign in the US. Here is a quick list of all the sites, services, highlights and memories that have made this the most socially involved election in modern history.

Video Your Vote
Want to tell millions of people which lever you intend to pull on November 4th during the U.S. presidential election? YouTube has launched a channel called Video Your Vote intended to shed light on voting in America and show democracy in action through the eyes of voters like you.

Tube The Vote
Tube The Vote is an interactive online political magazine that strives to be as unbiased as possible.

Twitter Election 2008
Filtering hundreds of Twitter updates per minute to create a new source for gathering public opinion about the election and a new way for you to share your thoughts.

What Would You Say To The President
The site allows visitors to submit a letter, upload a video, and/or vote in various polls. Messages for President Bush are delivered to White House Press Secretary Dana Parino, and then users receive a notification of when their submission was delivered and who signed for it.

Why We Vote
Cite it, work through it, and post what you feel explains to other voters why you will vote.

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Is the third installment of Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank book just another e-book with big claims or can you really teach you how to make a lot of money with blogs?

The system you will learn from the book relies on Rob’s proved system which made him over a million dollars from blogging:

• build your blog using WordPress.org
• produce content by writing it yourself, buying it and outsourcing
• market your blog to build traffic
• monetize your blog with advertising, affiliate programs and adsense

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Are you tired of manually building Amazon.com Associates links?

The new Site Stripe feature allows you to create links directly from the Amazon.com site without having to visit Associates Central so you can update your website more frequently, with fewer clicks and less time. It lets you build links to any page on Amazon, and even add products to your aStore. It also has handy short-cuts to some other useful Associates pages.

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Gmail just added email emotions and smileys to add some color to your emails.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

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After a a low risk vulnerability was discovered in the Snoopy library, which is used to fetch the feeds shown in the Control Panel Dashboard, WordPress has released a security update to their blogging software.

Because this is a security issue, all WordPress users must upgrade. If you don’t want to download the entire WordPress program you can just download the following two files and copy them over your 2.6.2 installation.

• wp-includes/class-snoopy.php
• wp-includes/version.php

This is the easiest Wordpress update yet.