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Have you ever wonder why Snagit is the best capturing software today? Yes, you don’t have to worry about capturing, editing or sharing your favorite pictures or even text on your screen. With over 40 ways to capture your screen, you can have your pics or docs created immediately. More than that there are also accessories you can choose from including capture profiles and stamps. But the most interesting feature I like is the ability of this software to capture text. If you have a hard time typing the long lists of files, documents or even mp3’s in you windows explorer, then you can use its Text Screen Capture. In order to capture hard to copy and paste text, here is what you are going to do.

First, install the the free trial version of Snagit, that can be found here. After installing trial version which comes with a 30 day period, download the Text Capture Profiles, then open it with Snagit. From there, you can choose what profile you are going to use, whether you choose Scrolling Window-comma delimited, Scrolling Window with no blank lines or columns, Region-comma delimited, Region with no blank lines or columns, Window-comma delimited or Window with no blank lines or columns, your choices is yours.

From now on, I don’t have to turn my time more into typing text as I find this tool very useful. It does a lot of things and I have to explore more of its features offered.

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I was not able to posts for a couple of days, as I have to return to my old server. Although, I am on a free hosts, they did not ask me to mention or make a representation from them, I have made up my mind to at least give thank to them.

This part of my experiments on how to get the best of life for free or at least you can get something over the net at a minimum. I believe nothing in this world is free, but it is also fact that sometimes there are people who are kind enough to give others what they find useful. For the meantime lets get back the blog rolling again.

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If you want to extend your blog’s existence and want to build a community out from it, then a forum might be right for you. Before leaping a step towards installing a forum, here are some points you should consider. First, you should be able to extract the recent posts, forum statistics towards your blog, in other words were are talking about SSI (Server Side Includes) Although, some forum software can easily extract the information you want to appear on your site or blog, others will rely on your knowledge on database. If you can’t, then you should consider hiring a database guru instead. Second, you might as well consider the scalability of the forum software wherein you can easily modify your forums package. Third, database integration. I don’t like to come back to a websites that make you sign-up for two accounts. Aside from the hassle it makes, it might be time consuming on your part considering that you have to remember your two accounts. Lastly, you should also consider either paid or free forum softwares. Here are some of the forum softwares, widely used today.

Open source bulletin board software:

• phpBB - is a powerful, multi-functional, and easily modifiable bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple administration, and helpful tutorial. With phpBB you can:

have unlimited forums and posts

use multiple language interface

search within forum posts

post private messages to your forum members

has a plugin to integrate with wordpress blog

• SMF - is free, elegant, feature-rich community forum software. It has a comprehensible and intuitive user interface. SMF has large online community with developers and other users able and willing to help. It has many high-value and high-quality features. SMF offers easy-to-modify theme support and has highly optimized database structure and queries are suitable for small and large forums. Has a plugin to integrate forum database with Wordpress blog.

Affiliate Crunch has chosen this forum software.
Paid bulletin board software:

• Vbulletin - scalable and easily modifiable forums package for your web site. vBulletin is suitable for medium and large forum communities. Being paid software, vBulletin ensures much better security of its code and database. vBulletin is written in PHP and uses MySQL backend. Although a sort of costly investment, it has however a lot of add-ons to enhance its functionality. Can integrate well with Wordpress blog.

• Invision Power Board - another powerful scaleable bulletin board system. It allows you to easily create, customize and manage your online forum. IPB is written in PHP and needs one MySQL database. It is easily installed, has intuitive administration and tons of features. Has a plugin to interact with Wordpress blog.

Wordpress forum plugin:

• Simple Forum - As the name suggests, Simple Forum is a simple and straightforward forum that does the sort of stuff a forum is supposed to. It is fully integrated with WordPress and the WP User system and has grown from being simple to being very richly featured because people keep asking for extra and exciting stuff!

Affiliate Crunch . com is using this plugin at the moment.

• bbPress - from the makers of Wordpress, this simple bulletin board software can well integrate with wordpress although it is not a plugin for wordpress. This software is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, and speed.

In the long run, forum can be at times hard to maintain. You might experience more downsides in running this software if you have less time on this. But establishing this on your site with high traffic can be rewarding.

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When I purchased a laptop with Vista Basic installed, I was thinking that it was a dream come true. But like most of the dismayed computer users, it was a decision I cannot forget that I have to install some softwares to make my laptop shine again.

Tweaking vista basic is far more complicated than installing a wordpress blog. I compiled a set of free softwares I used to speed my vista basic on a Compaq Presario V3000, here’s the list:

1.  Tweak VI -  There are 3 different editions to choose from, Basic Edition which contains features for standard system tweaking, the Premium Edition, which gives you more access to performance and optimization and the Ultimate Edition, which is the top of the line for complete control on Windows Vista. However, both Premium Editions and Ultimate Editions are not free. So go for the Basic Edition which is free.
2. Auslogics Disk Defrag - After you tweak some settings on Vista Basic, a free defragment tool comes in handy. Use this to see your hard drives clicking  for action.
3. Windows ReadyBoost - Another tool to improve system memory and improve performance. Be sure to get your 2GB flash drive so that you can use this feature. It relies on the intelligent memory management of Windows SuperFetch and can significantly improve system responsiveness.
4. CCleaner - If you are keen on valuable space of your hard disk, then this tool is for you. This tool can eliminate traces of your online activities allowing you to gain back the lost disk spaces used.
5. Get more Memory- This is the best among the tools previously mentioned. Even if you get the best tweaking tools out there, but you always run out of memory, you cannot enjoy and appreciate this thing called Vista. Among the best things that surrounds the marketing world is called marketing strategy. I have realized that sometimes Marketing Strategy would mean marketing lie? Why? I cannot accept the fact that Vista is bundled on a Core duo processor with only 512mb memory. Its a fact and I do have one of this machine and I cannot understand why they have such strategy.

Additionally, more tips on how to speed up Vista OS can be found here.

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I’m using the two fire* for the past months already and I’m surprised to see a notice from gmail, informing that Firebug can make Gmail slow. Luckily, gmail handed out an instruction on how to fix the problem immediately aside from disabling Firebug. Click here to see the instructions and get rid of the thing called G-bug.

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