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Hi all,
I’m afraid the commenting on this blog is not working at present.

In the meantime if you would like to contact me feel free to email me at weeatbricks@gmail.com

Thanks
Jamie

Recently I had the misfortune of installing Norton 360.

It was supposed to provide an all in one Antivirus, Antispyware , firewall solution and retails at $80. I installed it on a beast of a machine, plenty of memory, processor power exceeding stated requirements but Norton 360 managed to slow it down to a crawl rendering WinXP virtually unusable for up to 5 minutes after boot up and intermittently thereafter. I think it safe to say that up to that point we had not experienced a virus attack or security breach that caused as much chaos!

And ironically after installing Norton 360 the machine was promptly infected with the Netsky virus.

Thanks a bunch Norton!! What happened to that company?

Anyway bye bye Norton 360.

Why pay money for such shoddy software when you can get the most important elements free?

Try the following:

For your Antivirus software, download and install AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition.

For your firewall software, download and install ZoneAlarm® Free Firewall.

Lastly to handle Spyware download and install the Ad-Aware 2007 Free

I have used these for some time, they work great AND and work with WinXP, not against it. Are you listening Norton?

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You can now embed a Youtube video in your blog.

Firstly create a new entry and then select ‘video’ in the text formatting video at the bottom of you entry page.

Secondly enclose the Youtube video id in the tags [yt]insert_YouTube_Id_here[/yt]

Note: the Youtube video id is the part of the Youtube url after the equals symbol. For example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=this_is_the_Youtube_id

There is a buzz developing around the upcoming BarCamp Southeast meeting on the 20th January 2007. I have not been to the event before but the word on the street is that it’s an fun, informal, informative affair.

Finally I’ll get to meet the bloggers on the Irish circuit that I’ve been avidly reading about for the last few months. I’m particularly interested in hearing about the web20 business models in use (or lack thereof) and considering 2007 could be ‘the year of the webapp’ this will be an appropriate introduction.

Take care and merry Christmas.

37siganls has made ‘Getting Real’ the book available on line.
http://gettingreal.37signals.com/

To give a brief overview of this company:
37signals is a web-based software development company whose acclaimed products are currently used by over 500,000 subscribers.
Their blog http://www.37signals.com/svn/ is read by over 30,000 people daily!

37signals describes their angle:

We believe software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much to learn. We build web-based products that do less, work smarter, feel better, and are easier to use. We pay enormous attention to the details, interface, and overall customer experience of our products.

Enjoy.