First of all, what are permalinks? Permalinks are the the URLs or addresses to your blog posts, as well as categories and other lists of your postings. A permalink is what another website or blog will use to link to your post or page. Since the URL to a blog post should not change and should remain unchanged indefinitely, hence… it’s called the permalink.

In WordPress, the default permalink looks like:

http://www.example.com/?p=N

where N will be a number. This is ugly and not search engine friendly. What we prefer to do is to change this permalink to the search engine friendly version where your post title appears in the URL itself. Examples:

http://www.example.com/category/post-name/

OR

http://www.example.com/year/month/day/post-name

These beautiful permalinks look more pleasing to the eyes too, don’t you think so? The more important thing is of course not for our eyes, but for the search engines. You will most certainly get more traffic and wah… your online earnings will sky rocket!

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Have you used Microsoft Windows 1.0 before? I bet you haven’t even seen Windows 1.0 before not to mention use it, unless you are a 60 years old nerd born don’t know how many centuries ago. I hope this will not scare you from admitting you have used Windows 1.0 before in the un-likeliest case.

In 1984, the Macintosh operating system popularized the concept of graphical user interfaces. Microsoft saw the trend and quickly responded with the first version of Windows. It was in fact wasn’t so much of an operating system, rather more like an add-on to MS-DOS. The interface was very DOS-like and very difficult to use.

Let’s check out a few screen shots.

That’s the Microsoft Windows 1.01 boot up screen. Looks like Bill Gates really likes blue color… from the boot screen to the dreaded blue screen!

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Have you heard of the latest development in Microsoft? No? Let me tell you then. Microsoft is releasing their latest Windows operating system which will feature the best from the previous versions namely, Windows CE, Windows ME, and Windows NT Workstation.

This new Windows is code named Windows Cement. It’s going to be as hard as a rock and as dumb as a brick. You want to enroll as a beta tester?

See how many times you can press the space bar within a given time say 5 seconds, 10 seconds or 20 seconds. See if you can beat my personal best of 45 times at 5 seconds. The more you try the faster you get. I got this after 5 attempts.

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My friend called me frantically today. I thought what good stuff he has for me… turned out it was his computer that needs some serious attention. To illustrate the matter better, I requested him to do some screen shots.

Whenever he starts his computer, Spy Shredder would popup and claims there are viruses and trojans in his computer. In order to remove them, he will need to purchase the full version Spy Shredder!

A quick search on the Internet reveals that Spy Shredder is a trojan application itself that lures the victim into buying the product by displaying false positive malware detections on the his computer. How Spy Shredder infected my friend’s computer is unknown, but most likely by exploiting his browser’s security. Moreover, Spy Shredder may install other malware on the victim’s computer, thus further damaging his system. Immediate removal is advised.

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