Fast Cleaner 4.0

Fast Cleaner is a fast, powerful, skinnable, and easy-to-use utility to free up valuable disk space by cleaning up those unwanted and error-making garbage files. It automatically searches the hard disks or any target you specify and identifies garbage files. The engine that identifies the junk files is updated on a frequent basis and can be downloaded separately. You can clean the found files by deleting them or moving them to the Recycle Bin or a backup directory. Review. Download.

6:37:48 AM   

ChoiceMail

In essence, ChoiceMail's software turns your e-mail box into the equivalent of your front door. If strangers want to enter, they have to knock and identify themselves first. Anyone who won't do that is automatically turned away without you being bothered. The company calls this approach "permission based" e-mail management. Review. Download.

6:17:54 AM   

MAINTAIN PERSONAL COMPUTER WORKSPACE

1. Install software as required to get jobs done
2. Delete software from one's personal computer when it is no longer required
3. Ensure all files are uninstalled when a software program is deleted
4. Install a personal firewall to ensure privacy of computer workspace
5. Enable updates of firewall software to allow for enforced privacy (e.g. use McAfee Personal Firewall Plus)
6. Obtain software to check for and delete unwanted software -- including trojans, hacker tools, hostile active X, and spyware (e.g. use Pest Patrol)
7. Install virus detection software (e.g. McAfee online Virus Scanner)
8. Enable upadates to virus detection software and ensure that the most recent virus detection files are loaded
9. Ensure one's hard disk space  is regularly cleaned of unwanted files (e.g. use Fast Cleaner or similar)
10. Manage documents created personally in Word, Excel or other office software so that key files are archived, old files no longer needed are deleted

  And more . . .

4:34:56 AM   

Technacy Info (http://technacy.info)

This site is now 'THE' location for information on 'technacy'. The domain "technacy.info" has started directing people to this site. Through this action, of registering a domain and having people come to this site a whole new meaning to technacy has been demonstrated. A major part of technacy is knowing how to use and exploit the technologies of common communication systems. Weblogging is one of those major systems that takes its place alongside email, instant messaging, websites and file transfer. Weblogging and knowing how to make use of online systems to display one's personal information is part of the technate capability an individual may acquire. 

The real point about being technate is that one can participate in common means of communication in the age of electronic language. As weblogging is now entering that common status -- there are at least 500,000 webloggers on the service I am using at Radio Userland, and there are perhaps more than 1,500,000 others elsewhere (such as in www.blogger.com and other private services) now to be technate I must demonstrate an ability to organize my personal information in a weblogging system.

The Taxonomy of Technacy Skills, Activities and Experiences is the place where I am working on registering a list of the items for which a person to be identified to be 'technate' should display a competency. Just as I am now adding weblogging as an activity area in which a technate person should display competence to be considered technate, other cultural activities will be added as they are adopted by groups of more than 500,000 people.

So, what is the significance of adding weblogging to the list of cultural activities within which a technate person needs to display competence?

Just as in the age when print dominated communication and literacy was the skill within which a person needed to display competence in order to be able to participate in social activities (such as reading a newspaper, reading a book, participating in education, having the capability to write, having a voice when writing and being able to be heard by publishing that writing in some manner), in this age of electronic language where websites, email, weblogging, and instant messaging are starting to become dominant ways of sharing information and getting things done, competence in 'technate' activities are required as a general set of skills to maintain or enhance one's position in society.

What is now becoming clearly evident is that weblogging is becoming a standard way of managing and recording one's personal knowledge. Online evidence shows that this is becoming standard -- look at the librarians, academics, educators, and others who are managing their personal information in this manner. Simply do a search on Goggle and see for yourself. Perhaps this is one of the subsites I can develop -- a site showing the range of personal information weblogged to show that weblogging is now becoming a key cultural activity of technacy. . . more on this as I develop this thinking.

So  what now . . .

3:58:59 AM