Today I want to discuss a program that is used for content filtering.  Content filtering can be a good solution if there are children who use the computer in the house.  There is a lot of dangerous content and sites on the Internet and the need to protect our children is extremely important.

K9 Web Protection is a free solution that is used to filter content.  I have installed this on family member’s computers and have found that it is a great piece of software.  The filtering is a very easy process.  When I installed it on my mom’s computer, I used keywords to filter the content.  Some of the keywords that my mom wanted me to use was porn, YouTube, and Limewire.

When I say filtering content, it just means that I blocked certain types of content.  So when the kids in my mom’s house types the word porn or anything that has the word porn in it, K9 Web Protection will let out a loud bark.  The software will let out a bark whenever one of the blocked keywords are typed or used in any browser.

I installed this on a friend’s computer because he has some teenagers that like to visit some pornographic Web sites.  He called me and told me a funny story.  He was sitting on the couch watching TV and one of his sons were on the computer.  His son tried to access a pornographic site and the computer let out a loud bark that scared the kid.  He went up to see what the kid was doing and when he got there his son was in shock.  The bark really scared the **** out of the kid.  He has told me that the kids do not try and access any porno sites anymore (LOL).

If anyone would like to bypass the content filter, the person will be required to enter a password.  Here are some of the features of K9 Web Protection and can be found HERE.

Block 60 Content Categories

This feature allows you to filter 60 different categories.  The categories are stored in the Blue Coat database, are updated regularly, and contain over eight million ratings of websites and domains.

Time Restrictions

K9 Web Protection allows the user to restrict certain times when these sites can be accessed.  For example, the kids are gone during the day so we can just restrict the times when they get home and on the weekend.

Web Site Restriction

K9 Web Protection has the ability to block or allow access to certain Web sites.

Blocking Effects

The software will send out an alert whenever it blocks one of the user-defined restrictions (the barking sound).  K9 also enables a time out feature.  If a user attempts to visit a restricted site to many times in a specified time period, K9 will block all Web access for a certain amount of time.

URL Keywords

K9 allows the user to block access to Web pages that have a certain keyword.  If the Web site has a blocked keyword in the address, the software will block access to the site.

Web Search Option

K9 Web Protection offers the option of enforcing the use of Google SafeSearch, which diminishes the amount of adult material that might be returned because of an Internet search.  This feature is enabled by default.  Currently, K9 Web Protection supports the safe search functionality of the Google Search Engine only.

View Reports and Activities

K9 Web Protection allows you to view reports of all Internet browsing activity and administrative actions.

Conclusion

If there are young children in the house and you feel the need to restrict access to certain Web pages, then K9 Web Protection is the solution for you.  The software was very easy to setup.  It took about 20 minutes to setup and test K9 Web Protection.  As far as the price, you cannot beat the price tag of free.  Download K9 Web Protection Now

Source:  K9 Web Protection Web Site

Tonight I was reading an article about building an online reputation and how it can affect ones blog.  Another thing the article talked about was to search the persons name on Google.  So I did a search of name and did not turn up any hits.  I then typed in my Yahoo name which is dejay19826 and was surprised to see that there was 12 pages on that name.

From time to time I will go on Yahoo answers to answer some questions on how to remove malware from a computer.  I did not think that I would have 12 pages about my user name dejay19826.  When I did the search it had a lot of my online activity from my Youtube videos, and a lot of the answers I have given on Yahoo.

Now I am wondering how I can go about turning all of this into traffic to my blog.  There was tons of different Websites with my information and answers.  My question for everyone is, how do I turn this information to traffic to my blog?  I really would appreciate everyone’s input on this one.  If you have an answer or idea, please leave a comment.

Today’s article is going to be on a program that I use to write all my blog posts. When I first started blogging I was using Microsoft Word to write my articles. Microsoft Word is a good product but I have been using one that has taken its place. The program is called Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer is easy to setup and best of all is free to use.

Windows Live Writer is a little program that is used to do multiple things with your blog. When Windows Live Writer is setup, it will look exactly like your blog page and it’s easy to see how your post will look when someone is reading it. It is also easy to add pictures, video, and keywords.  Windows Live Writer also has the ability to check for grammar and spelling errors, and the ability to check the word count of the article.  Here are the features of the program

• New border treatments (including Instant Photo)
• Crop and tilt photos
• Insert multiple photos
• Toolbar alignment commands enabled for images
• Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums
• Insert and publish video to YouTube
• Additional spell checking languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian
• Server-side tagging (for supported blogs)
• Type-down filtering in the Open dialog
• Twitter, Digg and Flickr Plug-ins
• Improved blog account setup
• Lightbox and Windows Live Spaces inline preview support
• Improved category control: adding categories, type-down filtering
• Tabbed view switching
• AutoLink glossary
• Smart quotes/typographic characters
• Word count
• Support for bidirectional languages (like Hebrew and Arabic)
• Tabs for view switching
• Updated look and feel

Windows Live Writer also has a ton of plug-ins that will help Live Writer be more efficient for you. I have been using Windows Live Writer for a few weeks now and have found it to be very useful when I want to publish a blog post. I am still in the process of downloading plug-ins that will fit my needs. This is a very good free program that I will definitely be using on a regular basis. If you are a dedicated blogger and likes to be able to publish posts quickly, then this is the program for you.  Windows Live Writer can be downloaded from HERE.

This is a short Youtube video on how to merge mp3 files.  I have found this to be very useful for merging audio books.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sayhk5aCsGI[/youtube]

In this video post, I demonstrate how to download a Youtube video and convert it to various audio formats to play through iTunes.