Know more, increase business effectiveness on-line
For many businesses, The Internet is an essential component of their strategy.
Success on-line for your business is not easily achieved and takes a wide range of knowledge ranging from technical to marketing.
Here, I am going to share some information with you that I have picked up along the way having established and run several successful on-line businesses since 2000.
Many of these findings ultimately lead to the software and services that we proudly create at Rolosoft.com.
I hope that you enjoy this lens and thank you for visiting!
Rowland
Top 5 Tips to Improve Windows Performance
Speed up Windows Again

Over time, your Windows Vista or XP system can lose performance causing potentially long delays in getting stuff done. This can be very frustrating and many people experience this particularly with computers running Windows.
You might consider radical approaches such as complete re-install of Windows or perhaps even buying a new computer? Usually, there is no need and you can save a lot of time and money with some simple steps to improve your Windows computer performance. The five tips below are the easiest and cheapest ways to speed up your Windows XP or VISTA computer today:
1) Eliminate viruses and spyware
Viruses and spyware are one of the main causes of making your Windows computer run slowly as they deliver nothing but consume valuable system resources.
2) Free up disk space
Windows needs a lot of free disk space to operate. If you are running short on disk space, it can slow down your computers performance.
Free up as much disk space as possible on your system diver (c:) by deleting unwanted programs and data or moving these to cheap USB data keys or other storage devices.
3) Clean the registry
The "registry" is a system file that keeps track of software settings. You don't see it but it's essential for Windows to operate. As you install and uninstall programs, small fragments of data are left hanging around on your computer in its "registry". Over time, these small fragments of old data can cause Windows to slow down.
Using an inexpensive registry cleaner can improve your Windows system performance.
4) Eliminate unnecessary programs
Many programs that you install load into memory every time you start Windows. Loading programs into memory means longer start up time for Windows and slows down performance.
Type "MSCONFIG" into Windows Vista search to identify and disable unwanted programs that run on Windows start up.
5) Optimize your hard drive
As you use your computer, the data becomes scattered across your hard drive. This is perfectly normal but can slow down your Windows performance over time.
Use the Windows built in tool "Defragmentation" [right click a drive -> properties -> tools -> Defragmentation] to optimize your hard disk and speed up your Windows computer.
These steps are easy and can significantly improve your computer's Windows performance. Why not give them a go and see if they can save you time on re-installing Windows or even money on buying a new computer?
Over time, Windows slows down and crashes can get more frequent.
Try our award winning registry cleaner for an easy way to speed up windows and reduce crashes.
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Fetching RSS feed... please stand byOur Current Top Tip: Prevent Domain Hijacking
What would happen if a thief entered your business premises and stole your corporate brand and intellectual property?
This is exactly what can happen on-line to your web site through an exploit called "domain hijacking"
.TIP: Prevent this vulnerability by configuring your web server to use "Host Headers" only.
Find IP Location
Location software for ASP.net

If you run a web business you there are times when you may need to find an IP location. It is helpful to know the region and country where most of your website's traffic is coming from so you can better market to potential customers in these regions. You may need to find the IP location of people who have fraudulently used credit cards or sent inappropriate emails. It is important to safe guarding your web business from abuse and to know the location of your customers and you can get this information through a users IP address. It is possible to find the IP location of any visitors to your website, customers, or anyone who has sent you an email or posted a message on your site.
There are many online programs that give you the location of an IP address if you know the IP address and enter it into the program. These applications are useful if you already know the IP address of the user you are trying to trace.
There are also applications that will display the IP address or find the IP location of your website's visitors or your customers automatically. These programs are useful to identify the location of your visitors so that you can tailor your website to their specific needs based on region. IP locator programs vary in accuracy and will usually only give you the region and country of an IP address although sometimes you can get more specific results.
If you need to find the IP location of one internet user or an entire group of website customers you can do so with an IP address locator program. These find IP location programs will display the IP location on a map and give you the IP address hostname which usually includes the region and city of the internet service provider assigning the IP address and its company name.
Download a free, no obligation trial of Find IP location software for ASP.net today.
Easily identify your web site visitors country. Works natively with .net framework. Root/server access not required, simply upload and go.
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Improving Page Rank in Search Engines
The Most Important HTML Tag
Is as follows:
<title>Your Title Here</title>
Search engines pay more attention to this tag than any other!
Give your web page a meaningful title to see an almost instant improvement in search engine ranking.
See how many people miss this trick by typing "Untitled Document" into any search engine. You will be surprised!
See your web editor program help file for specific details of how to do this.
Prevent More Hack Attempts
Defending against the "Script Injection" attack
Does your company web site use databases?
If so, then your web site may be vulnerable to "Script Injection" attacks.
A successful attack can result in your database being compromised with the following possible implications:
- User registration details (e.g. user name, password, demographics) exposed for potential commercial exploitation.
- Change to web site / page content if your database drives your web site content.
Close down these vulnerabilities by:
- Hiring professional programmers with demonstrable experience / knowledge in writing code that is impervious to these attacks.
- Use server side redirects (defined in an ".htaccess" file to detect and respond to potential attacks.
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