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I’m always looking for more and varied blog themes for both WordPress and Blogger. Here are two new sites to add to your bookmarks. These sites have a large variety of themes and templates.
PYZAM Blogger Templates
eBlog Templates
Of course, because these sites offer free templates, you often have to endure advertisements for diet pills and/or class reunion websites. It’s up to you if you want to endure them or not. It’s for reasons such as these that ad blockers for browsers come in handy. 
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I write articles mostly for my own sake– because I like to write, because I have found a way of doing something or found a great site and just want to talk about it. This blog was initially a testing blog, but it formed into a geeky-kind of blog where I could post about all the cool things I discover as I surf the internet, play with blog software, or cute things to buy at Ju Ju Be.
It’s really, really cool to meet new people, make new friends, and find that people are helped by what I write. This is just amazing and it really makes my day. One such lady is Fida Abbott. She is from Indonesia, but came to the United States to marry and raise her children. She lives in the Northeast– imagine leaving tropical Indonesia for the chilly Northeast! But she is a star. I don’t think I have ever met anyone with such a sweet, tender, feminine heart. She is a real example of what a gracious woman of God should be. And she is always giving me internet awards and saying she is helped by my blog posts! Amazing!
I recently gave her the I Heart Your Blog Award, and in return, she gave the award right back to me and then she created a special badge of honor. I am the second recipient of her special badge. This is a great honor, because Fida has some very loving friends and she hardly knows little old me!
So thank you, Fida. You are a dear friend. God bless you.
If you are like me, you forget EVERYTHING unless it is written down. But my desk is literally littered with notes, papers, scribblings, and a mass of sticky notes. Wow, to think I used to be organized! And now, I do everything from my laptop. But I can’t go sticking sticky notes to my laptop screen. Whoever invented the “virtual” sticky note for computers is a genius, I tell you! I use mine all the time. Here are some neato (and free) sticky note computer programs. They all have varying degrees of features (like changing colors or not, choosing fonts or not, etc). Here’s a list of some of the most popular and functional sticky note programs.
Post-It Software Notes This software was made by the company that makes the real Post-It sticky notes. It’s cute and looks and works a lot like a “real” sticky.
Sticky Notes 2.1.3 Nice and simple. One of the top-rated at C|Net. It’s free!
Free Sticky Notes 2.0 Not extremely pretty, but it works. It’s a no-frills program and uses little of your computer’s resources.
Sticky Notes 2 Another no-frills package, but it works out of your system tray so it’s convenient.
Sticky Notes Free 4 This is pretty and you can make certain notes with higher priority than others (so the most important ones will always be on top). But the limit is 10 notes at a time on your desktop.
NoteZilla OK, this is not free (it’s 30!) but it’s the best sticky note program out there. So if you are looking for the premeir sticky note, check it out. It’s a verrry nice program.
So there you have it. Never forget your appointment or forget to buy fence installation parts! I know I won’t again. 
Live and learn. And I usually learn the hard way, lol. Nothing like experience to aid a little lesson along.
I’ve discovered that toggling on and off the hotlinking features in my cPanel (where I host my blogs) messes with my blogs’ permalinks. This seems to be a common problem. What happens is that the hotlinking changes the coding to the .htaccess file of your blog.
For your information: “hotlinking” is the term we use for the stealing of bandwidth. Let’s say you upload a photo of your weight loss pills to your web host’s server, in your image folder. You then post the photo onto your blog. That photo is being hosted by your web host, at your expense. (Sites like Flickr and Photobucket host your photos for free). Hotlinking is when a person takes the url of your photo from your web host, and puts it on their website. The “energy draw” for the photo at your site and at the thief’s site is coming from your web host and thus using up your bandwidth– a service you are paying for. You are being robbed. You can prevent hotlinking by turning the feature on at your web host’s cPanel, but you risk changing your .htaccesss file, and ruining your permalinks. (Basically what toggling the hotlinking feature does is it deletes the line “RewriteEngine on” line from your .htaccess file. Adding this back in to your .htaccess file will restore your permalinks.
But you DO want to stop the hotlinking of your images. So I found some sites with information about it. Mind you, I am still learning about the process! But so far, preventing hotlinking is working for me for one of my blogs. I just have to get around to adding the code to the rest of my blogs’ .htaccess files.
Using .htaccess to Stop Content Theft
Protect Your Images with .htaccess
Remeber– ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS back up your files before changing them. Your .htaccess file is crucial to the functionality of your blog. Don’t mess with it unless you know what you’re doing and until you’ve backed it up.
Many Blogger blogs have the Blogger NavBar– that horizontal bar at the very top of Blogger blogs. It’s not changed in many years– it’s either black, blue, silver, or tan, and gives you the ability to browse other Blogger blogs (NOT a recommended habit, by the way) or to search the current blog. I believe its usefulness has passed.
Most new blogs now have their own search feature, and I do not recommend surfing Blogger blogs (too risky for malware). And besides, the old Blogger NavBar looks soooo tacky. It’s the same old bar that’s been up there for more than five years.
If you want to hide the NavBar, it’s as easy as putting in a “do not display” command in your HTML code. Here’s a great tutorial video I found at Blogger Templates:
Hope this helps! Let’s make the blogosphere a prettier place! 
I adore Comodo Firewall. I have it installed on all five computers here and it is the best firewall I have ever used. And believe me, I’ve used them all. I highly recommend Comodo for its reliability, usability, and most importantly, its security. Comodo is proving once again it’s an excellent company with innovative ideas; Comodo has recently released their brainchild, the Trusted Internet. This is from their website:
This is where every digital interaction, every online interaction will include a new layer of security and trust enabled by an entire infrastructure designed to help us create mutual and real time trust. In a Trusted Internet, we can find what we want online without wasting our time with untrustworthy merchants. We can shop far more efficiently because we can verify the site’s credibility and business practices – immediately.
And with a Trusted Internet, we will be able to do things we can’t even try to do today. With a Trusted Internet, our PCs will automatically be able to find products or information we want from reputable, authenticated merchants and “subject matter experts”. Our computers will be able to vigorously and proactively defend our identities ensuring, in real time, that our information is safe and has not been compromised. But most fundamentally it means that we will all able to connect with each other with full confidence that we can create trust online when and where we need it.
Interesting. This news comes at a time when security breaches and theft has been in the news (again). Comodo’s idea is different than the other kinds of PC security plans we’ve seen, which rely heavily on consumers’ ability to pay for security programs, and on consumers’ knowledge of security measures. New computer users are not very knowledgeable of all the threats and how to prevent them, which accounts for the enormous spread of malicious software and the degradation of the Internet experience as a whole. Comodo intends to change this by turning the Internet security system on its head– that is, treating PC security as a right, not as a priviledge.
To reach this state, we intend to change behavior and help people move from not using PC security because they can’t afford it to using PC security because we give away it away for free. We intend to change people’s low expectation of not being able to authenticate anything online to being able to authenticate everything online – identities, content and even a site’s legitimacy.
This is an amazing concept to me; overall I think it a good thing. However, will this be the end to Internet privacy, to Internet anonymity? Does the answer to PC security– across the board– mean a centralized Internet security hub or system?
Comodo is certainly a company to watch. I love their firewall, of course, and they have outstanding antivirus and email software. This company is known for its creativity and innovation. It will be interesting to see how this Trusted Internet develops among PC users and other software companies.
What do you think? Do like the idea of a Trusted Internet? Do you think the Internet is ready for something like this?
If it does something to decrease the massive comment spam I get on my blogs, I’m all for it!
