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If you want to keep your essential belongings safe,  you need to look forward to buying the right kind of safe for yourself. There are a number of varieties of private and business safe obtainable available in the market to decide on from. Some of the common varieties of safe to select from are:

1. Freestanding safe

This type of safe is out there in various sizes. It is advisable to buy the freestanding safe which is product of the thick steel as the burglars have entry to the safe from all of the 4 angles. To discourage burglars to carry-off the freestanding safe it is better to be bolted by the cemented floor.

2. Wall safe:

This safe is conveniently put in within the wall and is concealed both by a tv or a painting. Though, the burglars are sensible sufficient to understand such tricks.

3. Ground safe

One of these safe may be very safe. The safe is inside the floor and thus very safe from attack by the burglars. Solely the door of the safe is accessible and it is nearly impossible for the burglars to open it. Though, the installation cost is sort of high.

4. Drop safe:

This safe is sort of common with the business males as they will keep the big amount of cash safe. It is most popular by car sellers and other business the place giant amount of cash is involved. This type of safe has detailed drawer mechanisms. You possibly can even get the drop safe put in within the flooring or on the wall. This type of safe is mild in weight.

5. Fire safe:

any such safe is designed to maintain the valuables safe within the occasion of fire. One of these safe doesn’t let the papers catch fire in case there’s a fire accident. This very best quality fire safe can stand up to the temperature for nearly a hundred and twenty minutes. Whereas, the low grade fire safe can stand up to the temperature for 30 minutes.

6. Gun safe:

This is a particular sort of safe used to maintain the guns safe from the reach of the children and outsiders. These type of safe are available in various sizes and types to decide on from. They’re most popular by gun lovers to a terrific deal to display their satisfaction possessions. A gun safe should have robust lock systems.

7. Media safe:

This safe is designed to maintain the digital equipments safe from tampering or theft. This type of safe maintains the required temperature within the safe to maintain the equipments safe from fire. Also, it protects the equipments from moisture.

8. Laptop safe:

Because the name suggests any such safe is used to maintain the laptop computer safe. These safes are available in various shapes and sizes to decide on from. Most luxurious accommodations function laptop computer safe for their business guests.

9. Diversion safe:

This type of safe has various partitions. Each partition can be used to safeguard various valuables like money, jewellery, keys and other valuables.

10. Medical safe:

Medical safe is used to maintain the precious and life saving drugs and other crucial medical equipments. They’re generally found in hospitals andmedixal stores.

10 FOODS I WANT TO COOK IN BULK

I’ve really wanted to try the Once A Month Cooking (also known as Freezer Cooking) for a while. Since I’m totally new at this I’m starting slowly and cooking only a few things at a time. (And hopefully I can make it only once a month!)

Here are ten foods I’d like to start cooking in bulk:

1. Whole Wheat Pancakes.

I think these are healthier choices than cereal and toast every morning. We also love them for dinner too. (With grilled kielbasa. Yum!!) I usually make them with flax as well. Mike will only eat plain ones but the girls and I like banana and blueberry so we’re getting some fruit in there too. You can look up whole wheat recipes on Cooks.com or Allrecipes.com. I want to make a huge batch of them and then freeze them in smaller portions. When we want a pancake I can just take it out of the freezer and defrost it!

2. Whole Wheat/Grain Waffles.

I got a waffle maker for Christmas a couple of years ago and have used it once. Waffles are a fun alternative to pancakes and I like them for all the same reasons I like pancakes!

3. Homemade Granola Bars.

I haven’t found a recipe I just love yet but I’m going to keep trying. The ones posted at Kitchen Stewardship  sound great so these will be the ones I try next. The last batch I made (with chocolate chips) tasted like dessert so I wasn’t convinced it was that healthy. I can make a big batch of these and freeze some of them. Again, I’ve been using Cooks.com or Allrecipes.com for these. If you have a delicious, healthy granola bar recipe please share it with me! As a side note, I’ve also heard plain, homemade granola is really good too. I want to make some of that as well.

I made these a few weeks ago and they were a hit!

5. Homemade Muffins.

Again, I try to make these with whole wheat flour, flaxseed and blueberries. We like corn and bran muffins too. There are some good recipes online too. I’m still in search of the one I like best.

6. Taco Meat.

I want to start precooking and freezing taco meat in bulk since we love tacos around here. If I keep several cans of refried beans and tortillas on hand that’s a simple and easy meal on weeknights and especially for weekends when we’re most tempted to eat out.

7. Homemade Calzone.

I make a super easy calzone. I make the dough in my bread maker and then roll it out. I then cook up ground beef and mix it with cheddar and mozzarella cheese. I lay the mixture on one side of the dough and then fold over the other side of the dough and pinch the edges. Then I bake it at 350 degrees until it looks done. I know this version doesn’t sound very healthy so I’d like to modify it a bit (Adding tomatoes, onions and mushrooms maybe?). Although, I’ll probably be the only one to eat that one. I want to make a couple of these and freeze them. Can I freeze them unbaked? Does anyone know?

8. Oatmeal Cookies.

I really want to find a healthy(er) oatmeal cookie recipe to make. (Sans raisins since we don’t like them in baked goods). I think that would also make a great snack and dessert. Mike loves them.

9. Fajita Chicken.

Another meal we love. I want to make it in bulk and freeze smaller portions so it’s ready to go on a weekend when mealtime rolls around and I don’t feel like cooking. (Thanks to Kathy at House Of Hills  for this idea.) I love it with peppers, mushrooms, onions and avocado. Mike and the girls will only eat them with chicken and cheese. We’re going to have to work on that…..

10. What foods do YOU make in bulk? What is your go-to, must have freezer recipe? Please share!!!

You already have a website that has good content on it. You might not be interested in joining a bunch of affiliate programs and having to keep up with all the affiliate networks. But you want to offer your visitors products and services that are related to your web content. You might not be expecting to make a whole lot of money but instead you are looking out for your web visitors.

Start with loading your website with good SEO keyword optimized content. It just means making sure that the search engines can understand what your page is about by properly identifying information. For AdSense to work you have to have people coming to your site.

Signing up with Google AdSense only takes a few minutes. You just enter some basic information about yourself and your website and if everything checks out you get into the AdSense program. Getting into the program is only the beginning. Once you are in you have to learn how to use the system. You log into the site and have to start creating the ads that will appear on your website. First take a look at your website and start identifying places on your site that might be a good place for an ad. Make a note of the colors that you are using because you are going to use these colors later when you are making your ads.

Select the type of ad that you want to run

You can choose between graphic and text ads for your website. So if you have a color scheme then use it in creating your text link ads. You can customize the color and size of the title, background, and url of the ad. Once you come up with a good looking ad you can name it and create it. This is a key step because you will want to know which ads are being seen by your web visitors. Instead of using a generic name for the link make sure to be descriptive so you will know where it traffic is coming from. So instead of naming an ad ad1 call it blackfridaysidebar. This way when you log in to your account you can know which ad and site is generating traffic. You can have multiple ads on a page so it also helps to identify which particular ad is getting traffic.

Before making changes

Before you start adding any code to your site. You should make sure to backup the website. If you make changes to the site and it doesn’t work correctly or you delete some html it could cause you website to not appear correctly. Save a copy of the pages that you are going to update. Just in case you have to restore the page to its working condition.

Placement of text links and banners

Where are you going to put them? Here are just a few places that you can put them. You can place them in the sidebar. You can put them in the footer or you can put them above the header at the top of the page. Some people like to put the ads in close to the content. You will have to try out ad placements and find what works best for your website. You are not trying to trick your web visitors into clicking on ads. You just want to make your website and the ads blend well.

Testing your website

After you have created the links and copied and pasted them into your site then its time to test your site to make sure that links and banners are showing up correctly. After a few minutes of loading your site you should go back to your site and see if the ads are appearing. When you see them on your site you are done. If you see an error message then go back to your code and check to make sure you copied all the ad code.

Remember the first tape answering machines you could call your house phone, push a couple of numbers, a.k.a., your secret code and listen to your messages? If you’re not old enough to remember this period of time when the dinosaurs were becoming extinct and Microsoft was in its first stages then all you have to think about is a world without cell phones and you’ll get the idea.

As I look back on this, I think this was the introduction to social media for all of us, but we just didn’t know it. We used the machine for leveraging our lives and our time. We didn’t have to go home to accept a phone call at a specific time and we had a way to keep in touch with our social circles without having the hassle of having to physically be somewhere. We could be anywhere. Voila Leverage!

OPTIMIZE YOUR BUSINESS WITH FUNNEL VISION AND START LEVERAGING

I’m listening to an audio of Jay Abraham and Anthony Robbins and I can’t help but start this post because it’s truly fascinating what I’m learning and I want to share it with you. Here are some of the questions I’m being asked.

* How many better ways can you leverage your business?
* What are the greatest opportunities you have in your business?
* What other ways are you willing to operate?

How do you answer these questions when your business isn’t even creating a profit?

When you’re struggling just to hang on, go to seminars, make it to conventions and purchase the course you want to take so you can learn and implement, how can you answer these questions with an assessment that makes sense to you or anyone else for that matter?

And the bigger question, how do people know about you enough to know like and trust you to achieve a relationship with you so they are your customer for life?

How do I use the social media avenue to get my name, my brand, my product, my value out to the masses who truly need what I have to offer? Hold, on, I’ll answer that in a moment but first,

LEVERAGE

Here’s a story about leverage and how we can use it in our businesses every single day.

You know that product IcyHot? Have you ever used it? I have. It’s a great product. Expensive too when compared to the good old BenGay. But, it doesn’t stink and it works a lot better.

In the beginning days before the company sold for tens of millions of dollars to a pharmaceutical company Jay Abraham got involved with this company and here’s what he did. The product cost $0.45 to manufacture and the company sold it for $3.00. But, the product wasn’t selling. Jay said, “We’re going to give the advertisers the product and let them sell it, keep 100% of the profits, in exchange for the contact information of the person who purchases IcyHot.”

So, IcyHot gave away their product to advertisers for free advertising in exchange for the contact information of the buyer. They literally said, “You can sell this product for $3.00 and keep 100% of the profits if you’ll put a full page advertisement in your newspaper in exchange for the customer’s contact information.”

It worked like a charm. The company was able to get $18million of free advertising and boost sales exponentially. LEVERAGE using a social media platform.

Jay Abraham is a genius in this business of marketing and direct sales. He once took a company from $300k in annual sales to over $500,000,000.00 in sales; yes, you read that right 1/2 billion dollars in sales. In 18 months and he says, “It’s harder to make money slow.”

Social media is your avenue to get to know people. They start to trust you and voila! there’s a beautiful synergy that happens and all is well in your social media world.

But, people aren’t buying from you? People aren’t flocking to your product? People aren’t knocking down your doors to get your product? What are you NOT doing that the others are?

They’ve leveraged themselves to achieve massive success in their field by using the tracks left behind that are indelible and etched into the pavement of network marketing. They’ve used the system and the system works. They’ve tweaked the system for their product and the system works. They’ve created a funded proposal using the system and the system works! Holy cow.

Ok, you’ve heard this before, but are you really applying it? Are you really implementing it? I know I haven’t been implementing a lot of what I learn because I haven’t learned how to manage myself in time, but it’s a process and I know I’m getting better at it because my product is starting to take formation and I’m actually getting it to market in the month of March. So how will I promote it? How will I let people know about what I have to offer and why they need my funded proposal?

Are you interested in knowing how I did it? I’ll be updating you here on the blog so stay tuned. In the meantime, check out the links in this post and think about your investment in yourself and your business. What is it you want to achieve and how fast do you want to see your results?

* media leverage
* what is media expansion

Media is the source of information. It is the source for business. It is the source for contacts also. Newspapers, television, radio etc are the medias which we used for many years and still continuing to use. Internet is one of media which has been recently established and used by many. It has many attractive features like games, chats, infomations etc. thus it is important to have knowledge on it. The social websites which are used to get contacts and find friends can be used to elevate marketing and advertise your product also. Thus it is necessary to learn about this. This article will brief you on how to use social media to promote your business.

It is a known fact that people will like to update themselves with the latest improvements. Hence you should change your way of business and marketing techniques also accordingly. The traditional way of business is still in use, but the new techniques have been more effective than them. One way to get updated is to utilize social media for this purpose. It will serve beneficial if utilized efficiently. Hence it is a skill. The following lines will give you hints on it.

There are many such sites and this sometimes might complicate the problem at hand. The choice of the site must not be mistaken. Before choosing the site to which to publish information regarding the organisation, study and do a research regarding the number of people and the age group of the majority of the people who use the website. This is called the demographics of the website. Once this is chosen it can be a great outlet of promotional activities for the business.

The first step in choosing would be to make a careful study of all the features available in leading web sites that exactly caters to the customers who we are targeting. There are even social forums to where we can start this discussions. We can have even multiple promotion done through multiple media web sites at the same time.

Be an active member of these networking web sites. Do not be narrow down the thoughts in just promoting our own business. Such self centered approach may not be welcomed by many that to in a social network.

Once readers start responding to the status that is put, carry on the conversation in a friendly way. This will encourage others to join also. Once you have quite a number of participants, they would be interested to join your business. One more thing to follow is to have a positive attitude. There are many types of people who could comment in an indifferent way. Some might also try to be offensive and rude. In such cases be as calm and upbeat as possible. The business must also be kept up and not let down.

The information that is posted must be intriguing that the readers get engrossed in it. There should be a mixture of many general trivia, information as well as contests. This will keep the fans engaged in the community. Apart from business there should be some fun involved as well. People after having a long day would like to relax in your page.

By reading this some idea on how to use social media to promote your business can be obtained.

Looking to find the best marketing strategies for your business, you might want to visit www.powernetshop.at on Car Hifi and Car audio to see the strategies and results the webmaster has used for years.

If you have been a dog owner for any length of time you know that a dog jumping on you or others can be be frustrating and embarrassing. I know the situation all to well, you come home from a long day at work, you walk into the front door and boom, your greeted with a big wet kiss sharp paws running down your arms or torso, ouch! Or even worse your smaller child get caught in the excitement and gets knocked over and scratched as well.

Well, I am sorry, but this could be all your fault. Let me explain:

Many unknowing dog owners encourage this behavior early in a puppies life. It’s hard to resist a cute little puppy who is happy to see you. He comes running to meet you, leaps at your knees and what do we you? We reach down and pet or even pitch up the happy puppy and in effect, reword his behavior of jumping on us.

You have just taught your puppy a very nice lesson, if he runs up to you and jumps on your foot or knee he can get praise and affection. Fast foreword a few months and now that little puppy is as much as 5 or 6 times the size that he was, but still thinking like a puppy, (“if I jump on my owner he will give me love”). He does not know the difference between his puppy size, of say 4 or 5lbs and his new size of maybe 30 or 40lbs or more, not to mention he is taller now and can reach up to your arms or chest. All he knows is that he wants the praise and affection that he has missed all day long and you taught him how to get it, by jumping.

Is jumping ever acceptable?

You have to make it perfectly clear that jumping is unacceptable. Although owners of small breed dogs or “toy” dog breeds may expect their dog to jump, (this is totally up to you) but jumping on an unsuspecting guest could get things off on the wrong foot. That is why, if you do allow your dog to jump, you should at least work the command “off” into it’s training.

For larger dog breeds, there really is no debate on this matter. You should either never allow him to jump or at the very least work the “off” or “no jump” command in to their regular training. After all it is one thing to have to deal with scrapes or soiled cloths due to your own dog, it is quite another to have to deal with him jumping on a guest or stranger.

Generally, there are two reasons why dogs jump.

The number one reason dogs jump is most likely out of pure excitement after a long separation (returning home from work) or during playtime when adrenaline is running high.

The number two reason dogs jump is a bit more complicated and serous. It has to do with dominance. Dogs social order comes from a pack mentality and the only way to move up the ranks in a pack is to show physical superiority over the lesser animal. Dogs often demonstrate their superiority over other dogs by mounting or jumping on the lesser dogs back or shoulders.

That’s all well and good, but why is my dog jumping on me and how do I stop this behavior? First off, lets determine which type of jumping problem we are dealing with. This is pretty simple: If your dog jumps on you or anyone else out side of an excited welcome or high energy playtime, your dog is trying to dominate you or the person that he is jumping on. This will have to be dealt with in a much different way and you should bone up on your alpha dog techniques. (Tip: Secrets to dog training has a great course on dog behavior problems, you can find the link at the bottom of this page.)

Stop your dog from jumping on you.

Your actions are key to eliminating this annoying and possibly dangerous habit of your dogs. As with most all dog training consistency in your training will speed up his learning curve and prove to be more reliable. To stop dog jumping you have to make it clear to your dog that jumping is no longer tolerated.

This means sticking to your training plan every day until there is not longer a problem. Your dog will not stop jumping on you if you allow it one day and not the next or allow him to jump on you but not your children. If you send this message to your dog he will jump when ever he feels like it.

This means that you must fallow your stop jumping techniques always. You can’t expect your dog to understand the difference between playtime and greeting, nice cloths and play cloths, rainy days or sunny days. If you let your dog jump at anytime, he will feel free to jump whenever he feels like it.

Most professional trainers agree that the most effective way is also the easiest way to stop unwanted behavior (such as jumping) in your dog is to ignore him whenever he jumps. No need to yell or correct, although that is usually the first thing that comes to mind when your dog just ruined another pair of nylons or scratch one of your children.

When your dog jumps on you or is about to jump on you, turn your back to him and ignore this behavior. As soon as he has all four paws on the ground praise him. If he goes to jump again turn your back, cross your arms and face away.

This technique works really well because dogs actually study and understand body language more so than the spoken word.

Again, as soon as he has all four paws back on the ground praise him lavishly. Don’t worry that you may be confusing him, dogs have a very short “training memory” and they can only comprehend the reaction you give to his behavior at that moment.

Continue this cycle and you will notice that he will clam down rather quickly.

To learn more about dog training basics  Stop by Matt Closson’s site where you can find out all about leash training a dog  and how you can get a free 6 day training course.

If that isn’t a headline I don’t know what is. I’ve been an affiliate marketer going on about 5 years now, and have seen the industry change in sooo many different ways. Gone are the days of just throwing up a direct linked affiliate offer on Google or Yahoo or MSN. Though you might argue that Yahoo and MSN/Bing will look the other way in the recession times that we are in right now. So if all you have been reading is about pre-2003 affiliate marketing tactics like, direct linking off of Google Adwords or using redirects off of the search engines, then I can definitely say that you’ve been going to the wrong places for information. Maybe you bought an e-book about affiliate marketing (guilty), maybe you’ve bought a service such as keywordspy (guilty), or read every affiliate marketing blog on the internet (guilty 10x over). I’m not saying that you’ve made any mistakes I’m just saying that they are pretty much feeding you 5 year old useless information.

So how is this site different?

I will only write about affiliate marketing tactics that have worked for me in the past year. If a service/ad network, offer, has completely bombed out for me, I will promise to warn you about the dangers of investing your money at these places.

Lastly I’m an extremely impatient affiliate marketer so you there won’t be any “start a wordpress blog and produce good content” articles. Every single affiliate marketing blog on the planet gives the “write good content advice”, and I hate reading about it, much less writing about it. So if you want to start a niche website and earn $100/day be my guest, but for most people that doesn’t even pay the bills.

This post was supposed to be about how to succeed in affiliate marketing so I’ll go ahead and give my top three pieces of advice for making this your full time gig:

1. Fearlessness – If you are the paralysis by analysis type then get out of this business. Get into stocks, get into finance, you will fail about becoming an affiliate marketer.

2. Hard Work – This is number 2 because all the hard work in the world isn’t going to help you if you have the fear of every starting somewhere. Get some good headphones, get some good music, and get ready to start working because this business isn’t for the meek. You hear about all of the affiliate marketers that are by the pool not working, traveling with their laptops, etc, etc etc. The truth is to be a fulltime affiliate marketer you have to live and breath this stuff. If you aren’t testing and trying new stuff, you’re just slowly working your way back to that 9-5pm. Though, I say all this I’m totally guilty of traveling, taking months off not working except to log some stats, playing basketball during the days, and taking my dog out for hours.

3. Be Willing to Get Your Hands Dirty – The reason that I see most affiliate marketers fail is because they don’t want to get their hands dirty. “I don’t want to learn any HTML”, “I don’t want to write any content”, or my favorite “I don’t want to do the marketing”. Tell me, in what profession do you outsource critical skills? If you were an accountant, I’m sorry you need to know how to use Quickbooks. If you barber, might help to know how to use scissors. You get my point, affiliate marketing is not for the lazy. Go buy lottery tickets if you don’t want to work for your money. With that said, learn to put a web page together (not even a website), learn to install basic tracking codes, and finally learn a little about the affiliate links that you are using.

Ok, If I haven’t officially turned you off to Affiliate Marketing by now, then here is the good news. I absolutely would NEVER go back to an 9-5pm over being a fulltime affiliate marketer. NEVER, EVER.

In what job do you:

Make Your Own Hours

Take Vacation When You Want

Have Total Control of How Much Money You Will Make (pending some luck, and hard work)

Work from ANYWHERE (I’m serious, I’ve worked from some pretty remote spots)

Never Get Bored

Let me help you with that question, NONE. So If you are still game to try your hand at becoming a a fulltime affiliate marketer, then I’m game to try and help you to the best of my ability. I’ll be reviewing, giving advice, how-tos, and even tossing up some really simple code that you can copy and paste into your landing pages/websites.

In all advertising of the internet business ideas, the effectiveness of the ad and the headline is a result of a specific process.

1. An Ad Must Be Recoqnized.

If no one will recoqnize the ad of the internet business ideas, it is simply worthless, waste of money. The job of the headline is to grab the attention of the reader by promising something useful. It is clear that only those readers are interested about the headline, who have those kind of needs at the very moment.

2. A Headline Gets 5 Times More Readers Than The Body Copy.

Think about this. The body copy is just a more detailed explanation about the internet business ideas but is left unread, if the headline is not interesting. Another way round, some readers read only the headlines. This means that a successful headline must have content, something useful for the reader.

3. The Headlines Form Often A Directory, How To Differ?

How we read our morning newspapers? I think most of us look first the headlines and from most stories the headlines only. According to the researches people need at least 7 contacts about internet business ideas before they are ready to buy. This means that a headline has to differ from the crowd, for instance from the email inbox list, and to grab our interest 7 times before we are ready to buy.

4. The Headline Must Be A Promise.

The headline draws warm internet business ideas readers, who have the kind of the need, when they recoqnize and read the headline. The headline has to have an answer to the readers problems. Also if the headline has other values, it will make a reader to laugh, this means good in the future.

5. The Headline Must Sound Like News.

People are always looking something new and interesting. The news in the headline is like a magnet. It does not necessarily mean that there is something really new in the internet business ideas but the headline can just give that kind of an impression.

6. Longer Headlines Work Better Than The Shorter Ones.

According to the many researches, the longer headlines sell more products than the shorter ones. A longer headline is simply a more convincing because of the longer time of influence. In the marketing of the internet business ideas it is recommended to write headlines with max 12 words.

7. Use Some Magic Words.

There are two magic words: How To. Why do they work so well? People just want to learn how to. It raises the curiosity. The other two good words are: free and new.

8. Use Keyword In The Headline.

The keyword should be among the first 4 words so that the search engines can more easily find it.

9. Use Upper / Lower Cases.

It is effective to capitalize the first letters of the internet business ideas headline words but not the whole words. It just makes the headline more readable and a special looking. Do not add a period in the end.

10. Do Not Use Quotes Around The Headline.

One expert once said that a headline is a headline, not a quote. Do not include your name in the headline too.

11. Include A Numerical Value.

The researches show that numbers work well in the headlines. They give the credibility and an exact image to the headline. Odd numbers work best, excluding number 10.

You do not need to be a Pulitzer Prize Winner, the skill to write a strong headline is a technique, which is easy to learn. If the headline contains keyword and invokes curiosity, it will be read. This will bring the targeted website traffic, you so desperately need.

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This website is devoted to helping you build your own awesome computer, but I also want to help you get the most out of your computer after you have finished building it.

One of the easiest and fastest ways to boost your computer’s speed is to use the best Internet browsing program. We all spend a lot of time surfing the web every day. Therefore we spend a lot of time waiting for pages to load — even if we have broadband access. (If you don’t have DSL or cable Internet access by now then you have to get it immediately!) What if there was a better browser than the one you use? Well, guess what — there probably is. And the best part is they are all free.

I checked the stats for my website to see which browsers the visitors to this website are using. 67.8% of you are still using Microsoft Internet Explorer, 25.5% are using Mozilla Firefox and 3.4% use Apple’s Safari. My guess is a year from now the percentages will be very different.

Let’s take a look at the options available to us. In addition to Explorer, Firefox and Safari we also could use Google Chrome and Opera. There are multiple versions of each and they are being updated frequently.

The different browsers all do essentially the same thing — they allow us to surf the Internet. But some are better than others. They differ in speed, security, features and ease of use.

Here is how I rank them:

1. Mozilla Firefox 3
2. Opera 9.6
3. Google Chrome
4. Apple Safari 3.2
5. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

That’s right — I rank the most popular browser dead last. And it deserves it. Once you try the others you will not go back to IE7. Maybe the new IE8 (coming soon) will be better.

This browser is much faster than Internet Explorer, but not quite as fast as Chrome, Safari and Opera. The security of Firefox is excellent so popups, phishing and other types of malicious code are not likely to cause any problems on your computer. Firefox does a great job of displaying all kinds of web content without choking. The browser is loaded with all of the latest features that make it possible to personalize the look of the screen and location of icons, toolbars and menus. Managing bookmarks is a breeze. The only small downside is that it uses a lot of system resources such as your RAM memory. You should definitely be using Firefox.

Opera is a great browser that almost nobody uses. It is not popular, but it should be. It is very fast and loaded with features. In fact, many of the features that have been popularized by other browsers were first developed by Opera. Opera has many features and tools that cannot be found in any other browser. It does not hog system resources. Security is not a problem, but it does have some minor issues with certain web pages containing complex Flash code or multimedia. Opera does not have an auto-update feature like the others do. If you want to try something unique give Opera a tryout. I recommend it.

Chrome is a bare-bones, streamlined browser that concentrates on speed and maximizing viewable screen space. There are no cluttered toolbars and menus taking up loads of screen space here. I like that. Chrome is a little lacking in terms of security and is heavy on system resources. You can use Chrome to run a webpage directly on your desktop instead of opening a browser window. They also have an Incognito Window to view websites privately. Other than that Chrome is light on features and customizability. It is a no-frills fast browser.

You can now run Apple’s Mac browser on your Windows-based PC computer. You might want to do that if you are used to using Safari on your Mac at home and would like to use it on your PC at work. I found Safari a little harder to use than some others and it lacks some features found in the others. It is definitely fast when loading simple web pages, but slows down noticeably on bulky pages with lots of pictures or videos. The overall design is fairly simple and the navigation tools are very basic. Security is not very good either. I don’t recommend Safari even though it is much faster than Internet Explorer.

This browser is just plain slow. Not just slow but molasses slow. Ice Age slow. Sloth slow. Turtle slow. IE7 is loaded with features that allow you to customize everything just how you like it and Microsoft has done a great job improving security. But who cares since it is so slow? Do yourself a huge favor and switch to Firefox or Opera. You will be glad you did.