November 2, 2009

Take back control of your inbox. Eliminate annoying and potentially harmful e-mails

Filed under: Living With Networks — admin @ 2:42 pm

Are you tired of spam stealing your time, your money, your bandwidth and your hard disc space?

The time you devote each day to sort and delete spam from your inbox could be put to much better use. In the European Union alone, the working hours employees are spending on sorting and deleting spam is costing the companies and estimated 10 billion euros every year! By manually sorting out spam after it has reached your inbox you are loosing time and money, as well as bandwidth and space. You are also putting your computer at risk by allowing possibly hazardous content to enter your server. Supportcave.com offers free intelligent Spam Blockers, helping computer users to protect their computers as well as reclaiming their time, money, bandwidth and space from the spammers.

Every day - 365 days a year - more than 10 billion spam e-mails are sent out to e-mail users all over the world. Despite new laws and verdicts trying to strike down on the spammers, the number of spam e-mails are expected to rise to 30 billion a day by the end of 2005. Today spam constitutes 37% of all e-mail traffic in the U.S.

Spam is not only annoying, it’s dangerous and it is causing financial losses for companies as well as individuals. For example, an estimated 10 billion euros are spent every year by companies in the European Union to deal with spam. Spam is sent out by fraudulent companies and individuals and can often be infected with viruses, spy programs or other undesired software. Studies show that 95% of all computer viruses are sent through e-mail. Even virus free spam causes problems since it consumes the users’ time as well as hard disc space. Spam is however not only shunned by the users, the Internet Service Providers abhor it as well since it chews up a lot of bandwidth and disc space, and the non-stop sending of e-mails uses a lot of system resources and stresses the e-mail servers. This leads to a less effective Internet and increased costs for everyone.

The best way to protect your self from spam and battle the spammers is to use a Spam Blocker. The most basic forms of Spam Blockers are software programs periodically checking your e-mail for the best known types of spam and remove them, or filter them into a special folder for you to remove. There are however much more sophisticated Anti Spam programs on the market. The Webroot Spam Shredder is a Spam Filtering Software that lets you to remove spam e-mails from the mail server without ever pulling them down into your inbox. This means heavily increased security for your computer and your network and is the most efficient and effortless way of controlling your incoming e-mails. You will be given the opportunity to accept or delete suspected e-mails while they are still on the server. You can also choose to quarantine them for later review.

The Webroot Spam Shredder is equipped with a smart learning engine, which studies your decisions to keep or delete spam. The longer you use the Webroot Spam Shredder, the more effectively the program will sort your incoming e-mail. The Webroot Spam Shredder Whitelist and the Webroot Spam Shredder Blacklist features let you identify e-mails that should be immediately delivered or instantly deleted. If you use Outlook, Outlook Express or Eudora for your e-mail, you can effortlessly import your contact list into your Whitelist. When friends, family, colleagues etcetera send you e-mail those letters while be instantly delivered to you inbox and you won’t have to make any decisions regarding them.

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Are you tired of spam stealing your time, bandwidth and hard disc space? Applying the Webroot Spam Shredder allows you to determine up to 99.9% of the spam e-mails. Install the Webroot Spam Shredder today and start safeguarding your time as well as your money from the fraudulent spam senders!

Volunteer Work and the Company

Filed under: Commerce, Radicals and Others — admin @ 1:19 pm

The brotherhood that volunteers experience can tie their community together more closely, and as you’d expect it will fulfill the volunteers’ goal of supporting those who can’t support themselves. But how do you actually schedule this? It’s much less hassle to get involved when a volunteer event is pre-planned. Keep in mind that you’ll have more fun volunteering with your colleagues pitching in right along with you!

Reacting to this issue, a number of companies are making themselves into organizing points helping their employees to give back to the community. One of the more significant examples is Adaptive Marketing LLC who also offer shopping and financial benefits programs including Todays Escapes (MVQ*TRAVELMEMBER) to consumers. Company-supported volunteer work is more than once-a-year charitable giving. Looking at a specific company, Adaptive Marketing has provided its staff with chances to participate in everything from shoe recycling efforts to local tree planting weekends. With all relevant information — time, date, location, specifics of event, etc. — prominently displayed it is a simple matter for staff to decide how much time they could give and what program they’d join. The volunteers will want a choice between initiatives. At Adaptive Marketing, the people who brought you Todays Escapes (MVQ*TRAVELMEMBER), employees are presented with the chance to choose from a wide range of events. You’ll soon see your civic-minded workforce helping out children and young adults, community projects in arts, working on environmental initiatives and so on. This provides Adaptive Marketing volunteers with the chance to use their time in meaningful, important ways and relish taking part. A one-off event or a regularly scheduled day — these are the most common ways for a business to arrange volunteer initiatives like these, possibly at a local school or the homeless shelter in town. There may be those who say they don’t have the time, but even they can arrange the public library’s used book sale or a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park. It has always been a fairly common practice for businesses to help to support the community which they serve. Like many other businesses, Adaptive Marketing supports volunteer initiatives to help others and to generate positive feeling within the local community through its staffers actions. Helping around your hometown leaves you feeling a lot better about yourself — just the sort of thing to leave stafrf motivated in both their volunteer work and back behind their desks, too.

La Roux Thinks Most Female Acts Are Poor

Filed under: Music Tips — admin @ 5:35 am

La Roux has shot down talk of girl power taking over the charts … because she thinks many female acts are rubbish.

Flame-haired Elly Jackson fronts the duo who have had a No.1 single with Bulletproof, a No.2 single with In For The Kill and a No.2 debut album, which was nominated for a Mercury Music Prize.

She and synth player, co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid have shared chart success this year with Lady Gaga, Florence And The Machine and Little Boots.

But Elly doesn’t think all the female acts are as strong.

She said: “There are a few strong girls, but there are a lot who are not all that strong. There have always been strong women in the charts. It comes in waves.

“I feel music’s in a transitional period. Half of it wants to go one way and half of it wants to go the other.

“A lot of it doesn’t really sit well together in the charts. There’s a fair amount of bland music out there.

“Girls will always be strong in the charts. It’s a really good platform for strong girls, more so than the film world. So I don’t see why it’s different now from at any other time.”

La Roux, who had to cancel their spot at T in the Park this summer, will play Glasgow O2 ABC on Monday, November 16 and will be back in Glasgow next year in May at the 02 Academy. They re-release first single Quicksand on November 23.

It was the song that put La Roux on all the “hot for 2009″ lists.

First released by independent record label Kitsun Music in December 2008, it helped them to get a deal with Polydor, who released their No.2 debut album.

Their first proper single, In For The Kill, has become one of the biggest selling songs of the year and went to No.2 in March, with Bulletproof hitting the top spot in June.

But Elly, who is the daughter of The Bill star Trudie Goodwin, doesn’t think La Roux’s three-year rise to the top has changed her.

She said: “I’ve tried really hard not not to let it. It would be easy when you have everything at your disposal. But I try to forget that and not to abuse it.”