Spy Sweeper

I just bought Webroot Spy Sweeper 4.5 for free after rebate (FAR) last week. It's an anti-spyware removal and protection software. I purchased it because it has excellent reviews, won many awards, and cleaned out over 90% of spyware (and did I mention that it was FAR?). Compared to like 60% with other programs like adaware and spybot. A lot of times I have to use multiple programs to remove spyware. Anyways, my take on it the internet these days is that its not safe anymore, unless you are SUPER careful. I've been SUPER careful and Spy Sweeper still found some spyware on my computer. And trust my I've cleaned out many machines already to prove it. I know its not me to suggest buying something that's not free, but Im going to do it anyways. Buy this program, you wont regret it.

Black Friday Ads

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Happy Shopping!

Best Black Friday Deal Ever - $200 laptop

Black Friday is the nickname for the Friday sales and deals after Thanksgiving.
This is the best deal I've ever seen for a laptop.

$200 for:
Toshiba laptop
Intel Celeron M processor 370
DVD/CD-RW
512MB
15' screen
60GB hard drive
Internal Wireless G
Instant $600 discount - no rebates

PLUS
Free Wireless G router
Free All-in-one printer

**UPDATE - I zoomed into the ad scan and it looks like its only that price with signing up with AOL for a year (which will cost like $180). WEAK! AOL stinks.

$1.50/0.99 DVD rentals

I just rented Jet Li's "Unleashed" movie DVD at the Safeway at the 16th and Portrero Center using a DVDPlay kiosk. I just selected the movie I wanted and swiped my credit card and the movie came out of the machine. Pretty slick. The rental fee is $1.50 and you have to return it the next day otherwise, its another 99 cents. On Monday's the rental fee is only 99 cents. They had all the new releases and they come out with new releases every Tuesday. Also, the first rental is free :)
Not too many locations in SF, but check out there website for more info.

Aloha!

Just got back from Hawaii. We really had a good time. I wouldnt say it was easy with Caden, but with enough teamwork, we managed. I miss Hawaii already so I had to create a slideshow for the memories.

Aloha!

19 inch laptop!?

Is it me or are laptops getting bigger and bigger? I dont understand why people get large laptops. It kinda defeats the whole purpose of laptops which is portability (unless you use it as a desktop replacement). So Samsung is coming out with a new 19in laptop which weighs about 10 pounds. Who wants to carry around a 10 pound laptop? Anyways, the cool thing is that the screen detaches and presto..you have an lcd.

I've been Phished!

Im extremely careful when it comes to junk mail, phishing, pop ups, and spyware schemes. But 2 days ago, I fell for a real sneaky phishing scam. I was talking to a coworker on AIM and suddenly he sends me this URL. I click on it and the yahoo photos page loads. I thought he wanted me to check out some pictures hosted on his yahoo photos account and in order to view the photos, I would need to sign into my yahoo account to view the pics. I was totally not thinking and I just went ahead and logged in. Lucky I used my dummy yahoo account. Phew. Well basically, this dummy yahoo photos page is a fake copied page that is hosted on a free geosities website. So basically, they just basically know my login and password. I cant believe I fell for it. But the reason I fell for it is because i didnt know that spyware that was on my coworkers machine can send out these bad IM's to people. Yowsers. This one was real tricky. More details on the yahoo photos phishing scam.

Reunion

Oh no! Another good tv series! Reunion is a mix of 90210 and Lost. Martha Stewart and Apprentice is tonight too! My Tivo is working overtime.

Macromedia Studio 8 Now Available

The newest versions of our products are out.
Macromedia Studio 8 which includes Flash Professional 8, Fireworks 8, Dreamweaver 8, and Contribute 3.

Free Opera browser

The Opera browser is now free, meaning no more ads. Its another alternative to Internet Explorer or Firefox. It has some pretty cool features and is very fast.