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		<title>Downloader-CJY Trojan Removal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Downloader-CJY Trojan is an extremely new piece of malicious software on the scene. McAfee just added it to their database this week. Right now it&#8217;s being categorized as a low threat to both business and home users but it&#8217;s important to always play it safe when it comes to new trojans. Unfortunately, Downloader-CJY is [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Downloader-CJY Trojan is an extremely new piece of malicious software on the scene. McAfee just added it to their database this week. Right now it&#8217;s being categorized as a low threat to both business and home users but it&#8217;s important to always play it safe when it comes to new trojans.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Downloader-CJY is so new that there aren&#8217;t many resources online to help with its removal if you happen to already be infected. Without manual instructions for Downloader-CJY removal, keeping your antivirus software running is your best bet while security experts come up with better and more detailed solutions for its removal. Make sure your antivirus software is running the latest version possible with the most recent data definitions. Maintaining a current antivirus solution is always the best way to keep yourself safe. </p>
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		<title>Simplifying Business Headaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been running my own small business for several years now and from the beginning I&#8217;ve had a &#8220;Work Smarter Not Harder&#8221; attitude. One of the hardest parts of running your own business is worrying about the everyday things: project management, billing, taxes, insurance and more. With an attitude of keeping things as simple as [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been running my own small business for several years now and from the beginning I&#8217;ve had a &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nsx82-5vFk">Work Smarter Not Harder</a>&#8221; attitude. One of the hardest parts of running your own business is worrying about the everyday things: project management, billing, taxes, insurance and more. With an attitude of keeping things as simple as possible, it&#8217;s been important for me to run my business with outside help regarding the aspects of operation I&#8217;m not interested in or adept at performing.</p>
<p>A lot of the accounting functions of my business I handle with software, and when it comes to tax time, I visit a certified accountant to deal with my filings. I use project management software to keep tabs on my client work and to track changes and shifts in each deal as they occur. As for insurance, I use a local agent who has always had my best interests in mind and has constantly found me good rates.</p>
<p>The video below is a promotional one from the folks at <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Mavenlink">Mavenlink</a> who offer some of the services for small businesses I mentioned above. The goal at Mavenlink is to consolidate all of your small business needs into one easy to use destination. Check out the video to learn more.</p>
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		<title>Mobile Broadband Saves The Day</title>
		<link>http://www.wordpressings.com/mobile-broadband-saves-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently in Chicago for a short vacation and took the leap and went without taking my laptop. This was a big step for me, as I&#8217;m usually chained to my laptop whenever I leave home, and it was all thanks to the emergence of mobile broadband. I&#8217;m an AT&#038;T customer with a shiny [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was recently in Chicago for a short vacation and took the leap and went without taking my laptop. This was a big step for me, as I&#8217;m usually chained to my laptop whenever I leave home, and it was all thanks to the emergence of <a href="http://www.broadband-finder.co.uk/compare-broadband/mobile-broadband.html">mobile broadband</a>. I&#8217;m an AT&#038;T customer with a shiny new iPhone so I was able to leverage the power of my phone and the broadband network connection to do everything I am used to doing on my laptop with my mobile instead.</p>
<p>With high speed mobile broadband I was able to check my mail, look up directions and even get a little bit of work done while walking the streets of Chicago. I was able to keep up with my favorite team&#8217;s scores (even some play-by-play) as we hopped from restaurant to restaurant and to the various tourist attractions around town.</p>
<p>This would have never been possible with my old cell phone. I would have had to carry around with me paper maps and notes or, even worse, had to look like a lost tourist and ask the locals for directions everywhere. Having access to broadband was also a huge money saver. I didn&#8217;t have to pay for Internet access in our snooty downtown hotel or pay for cabs to destinations I found out were within walking distance.</p>
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		<title>Build A Site With WebStudio</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always on the lookout these days for easy to use and simple to setup website builder programs. As a freelance web developer with a growing client base I find that programs like NetIDNow&#8217;s WebStudio offer a simple solution for my smaller clients to create a website. Most of my tinier clients are small business [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m always on the lookout these days for easy to use and simple to setup <a href="http://www.netidnow.com/web-site-store-builder.html">website builder</a> programs. As a freelance web developer with a growing client base I find that programs like NetIDNow&#8217;s WebStudio offer a simple solution for my smaller clients to <a href="http://www.netidnow.com/">create a website</a>.</p>
<p>Most of my tinier clients are small business owners without the expertise or budgets for a large and elaborate site that might be, quite frankly, a little over the top for their needs anyway. With a program like WebStudio, these clients can build and maintain their own sites without having the professional knowledge or skills that I have. At the same time, the quality of site they can offer to their customers and people interested in learning more about their business is of a high enough quality to pass as a professionally done web site.</p>
<p>And, thankfully, WebStudio also offers ecommerce solutions. This is especially important to me as many of the potential clients I steer in the direction of programs like WebStudio are very interested in selling things online but don&#8217;t have the slightest idea where to start with the process. By simplifying ecommerce, NetIDNow has put together an excellent web site creation suite for many businesses looking to get started on the web.</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Optimisation</title>
		<link>http://www.wordpressings.com/search-engine-optimisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lot of people starting blogs for the first time are typically disappointed in the amount of traffic their sites receive. It&#8217;s not uncommon for a new blogger to find themselves unmotivated to the point of quitting as time moves on and the number of visitors they see never increases. One of the keys to [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I lot of people starting blogs for the first time are typically disappointed in the amount of traffic their sites receive. It&#8217;s not uncommon for a new blogger to find themselves unmotivated to the point of quitting as time moves on and the number of visitors they see never increases. One of the keys to getting traffic is to rank highly in search engines, such as Google and Yahoo, for specific search terms related to your blog&#8217;s topic. By using some basic <a href="http://www.topclickmedia.co.uk/seo.htm">search engine optimisation</a> techniques you can see your site rise in search results and begin to see more visitors coming to read your blog.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the easiest way to work on the search engine optimisation of your blog? Well, if you&#8217;re using WordPress (and that&#8217;s most likely true if you&#8217;re reading this blog right now) than you have a good start right out of the gate. WordPress is built with an underlying framework that makes it easy for themes to be search engine efficient. The coding and order of the site&#8217;s elements are typically fashioned in such a manner to make it easy for search engines to crawl and index your site.</p>
<p>Aside from your blogging software, much of the onus is on you as a writer to help get your blog high in the search results. Write with your keywords in mind and use them throughout your posts. If you&#8217;re interested in ranking in Google for the term &#8220;paper airplanes&#8221; than make sure that phrase appears in your blog frequently. Another tip is to try and get links back to your blog from other sites related to paper airplanes. A combination of high quality back links and well written content will help raise your blog in the search engines.</p>
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		<title>Are WordPress.com Premium Features Worth It?</title>
		<link>http://www.wordpressings.com/are-wordpresscom-premium-features-worth-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WordPress.com offers a lot of features to their users at a small price each year. You can get extra storage, CSS options and ad removal each with their own fee. The question I have to ask is are these features, all added together, worth the price? Or would someone looking to expand their blog with [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a> offers a lot of features to their users at a small price each year. You can get extra storage, CSS options and ad removal each with their own fee. The question I have to ask is are these features, all added together, worth the price? Or would someone looking to expand their blog with more customization be better off finding their own web hosting package and using the open source <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress.org</a> software to run their blog?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a breakdown of the <a href="http://en.wordpress.com/products/">WordPress.com premium features</a>:</p>
<p><b>Your Own Domain</b> &#8211; You can have your WordPress.com blog run by their service but using your own domain for $10/year. That&#8217;s the same fee for that same price by yourself or you can use WordPress.com&#8217;s domain register for an extra $15/year.</p>
<p><b>Extra Storage</b> &#8211; All WordPress.com accounts come with 3GB of storage but you can expand that storage in blocks of 5GB. So for an extra 5G you&#8217;d pay $20/year, 15GB for $50/year and 25GB for $90/year. Any web host worth their weight can offer you similar space options for equal or lower prices.</p>
<p><b>Custom CSS</b> &#8211; You can gain the ability to customize your own CSS on your blog for $15/year. With WordPress.org this is obviously free.</p>
<p><b>Go Ad-Free</b> &#8211; For $30/year, WordPress.com will stop running their ads on your blog. Let&#8217;s think about this for a second. A small blog probably doesn&#8217;t even generate $30/year in revenue for WordPress.com when the ads run normally. This is a huge win for WordPress.com in most cases.</p>
<h3>Final Verdict</h3>
<p>If you host a blog on WordPress.com and are considering upgrading to any of these premium features I strongly, strongly suggest you think twice. For much less money you can find quality web hosting that will give you even more benefits than what WordPress.com can offer you.</p>
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		<title>WordPress 2.7 Impressions</title>
		<link>http://www.wordpressings.com/wordpress-27-impressions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve had a chance to use the 2.7 release of WordPress for a few weeks on all of my blogs I think I&#8217;m ready to render a verdict, so to speak, on the latest version. Overall I really, really like 2.7. I was a huge fan of the previous update to the admin [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that I&#8217;ve had a chance to use the 2.7 release of WordPress for a few weeks on all of my blogs I think I&#8217;m ready to render a verdict, so to speak, on the latest version.</p>
<p>Overall I really, really like 2.7. I was a huge fan of the previous update to the admin but the newer version in 2.7 even blows that one away. Things were stepping in the right direction before but now the admin for WordPress makes it all feel like real, professional software and not some user interface monstrosity that is so common in the Open Source scene.</p>
<p>The other big improvement, and one I haven&#8217;t even had a chance to try yet, is the ability to update the WordPress install without using FTP. This has been available for updating plugins for quite some time but updating the core software was never an option. This will be a huge feature for people like myself who have multiple blogs and found it to be a pain to update their WordPress install after each major release.</p>
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		<title>The Best In Toronto Web Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time for another website designer spotlight. This time around I&#8217;m going to talk about 9th sphere, a leader in Toronto website design. 9th sphere sets themselves apart from other website solutions firms in the region by offering more than just simple design services. They have an expanded set of client offerings including building web [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s time for another website designer spotlight. This time around I&#8217;m going to talk about 9th sphere, a leader in <a href="http://www.9thsphere.com/home.html">Toronto website design</a>.  9th sphere sets themselves apart from other website solutions firms in the region by offering more than just simple design services. They have an expanded set of client offerings including building web applications, Internet marketing, web consulting and domain name and hosting solutions.</p>
<p>Since this is a blog about design and development I thought I&#8217;d take a look at their web application services a little more closely. 9th sphere offers a multitude of web application types for their clients. They have a strong focus on ecommerce (a topic near and dear to our hearts here) and offer shopping cart and catalog web apps. The shopping carts and catalogs run on custom-built content management systems and, in the case of the cart, come with standard security layers and credit card processing integration.</p>
<p>Canadian businesses looking to build a new website utilizing <a href="http://blog.9thsphere.com/blog/category/best-practices">best practices</a> or expand upon their current one should consider contacting 9th sphere and seeing what they can do to help. From simple website design to more elaborate web applications and Internet Marketing, 9th sphere has the tools and abilities necessary to make your project a reality.</p>
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		<title>Open Source Web Design Templates</title>
		<link>http://www.wordpressings.com/open-source-web-design-templates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this is a blog focused on WordPress it&#8217;s not surprising that the topic of open source web design is near and dear to our hearts. For those of you interested in building web applications and sites but don&#8217;t have the keen design eye you feel you need the option of using an open source [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since this is a blog focused on WordPress it&#8217;s not surprising that the topic of open source <a href="http://www.synotac.com">web design</a> is near and dear to our hearts. For those of you interested in building web applications and sites but don&#8217;t have the keen design eye you feel you need the option of using an open source web layout is certainly a viable solution.</p>
<p>Many people who are experts in <a href="http://synotac.com/process.php">website development</a> are prone to relying on themselves for everything. When this includes your site&#8217;s design there&#8217;s a good chance you might end up with an unattractive product. No matter how good it is behind-the-scenes, people won&#8217;t use or visit your site if it doesn&#8217;t look good.</p>
<p>With Open Source web design, there are thousands of pre-made layouts and templates available for free online that you can use in your projects. This way you can ensure your site or application looks good even if you aren&#8217;t a designer yourself. Most Open Source designers ask that you leave a simple link in the footer of the template giving attribution and credit to the author. That&#8217;s the only price you&#8217;d have to pay to instantly have a site design up and running that is of high quality.</p>
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		<title>Is It Possible To Connect The Work Of Different Offices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people underestimate the work of any software development company. Today more and more companies of custom software which will meet the requirements of every customer. Only imagine that your company has many offices which are situated all over the world. This is great because you try to reduce costs and thus increase profit. But [...]<p>a</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people underestimate the work of any <a href="http://www.logicsoftware.net/">software development company</a>. Today more and more companies of custom software which will meet the requirements of every customer. </p>
<p>Only imagine that your company has many offices which are situated all over the world. This is great because you try to reduce costs and thus increase profit. But in this case you can face serious problems connected with control of their work. It would  be not an easy task to estimate the results of their work. But there is a very simple solution of that problem which seems to be obvious for everyone. You can install <a href="http://www.celoxis.com/">web based collaboration</a> software which gives a possibility to solve this problem by increasing the overall control of the company.</p>
<p>One of the main advantage of  this  particular  kind  of  software is that  it gives a possibility to control the  work of  every manager online with the  help of  internet thus you can follow the work on the  task in progress and of course make corrections if  that is required. Also another advantage of this <a href="http://www.easyprojects.net/">collaboration software</a> is that you can estimate the work of every manager because his salary is connected with the number of the tasks that he has done. As you see you can easily connect all your offices working in different parts of the world</p>
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