Ben Hovinga

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As everyone knows April 1st is the pranksters day known as April Fools Day. April Fools Day can be quite fun. The joy of putting a fake spider on your co-workers desk, who happens to have Arachnophobia. But you need to be careful for yourself on this day of lols, mostly due to computer pranks also. April Fools is a dangerous day for computer users as it is one of the top days in the year when computer viruses are releases.

But what can you do to prevent this? Here are my top five tips:

5. Be aware of what pages you are viewing. Try not to go to any websites that you have not been to before.

4. Know who you communicate with. When using an instant messenger or checking email don’t open any links or files unless it relates to the discussed topic at hand. The person who your talking to may already have a virus that spams his/her contact list.

3. Keep updated! Check that all of your software is up to date, most updates are security fixes to prevent problems.

2. Get Protection! Make sure you have anti-virus software and that its up to date. If you don’t have any anti-virus software? Here is a free one. Just wants you to register once a year.

1. Abstinence. You can’t get infected if the computer is not on.

That’s it. Spread this around to help everyone to stay computer safe this April 1st.

This I love. If I get a file from a friend and I can’t open it because I don’t have a program that can read it I usually go nuts trying to find the program. Not any more. With OpenWith.org I simply right-click and select “OpenWith.org – How do I Open This?” it will show me the details of that file type and also give me some FREE (and most of the time open source) programs that run that file and asks if I want to download and install it. Its all that simple now.

Try it out for your self – OpenWith.org

As I was going through my reader I found an interesting post about a list on listable, passwords that you should never, ever use.

Here is the list: http://www.listable.org/show/passwords-you-shouldnt-ever-use

I just wanted to add to that list.

• (Your Last Name)
• (Your Phone Number)
• (Your address)
• (… Nothing about you)
• secret
• top secret
• (Anything in this list typed in revers)
• computer
• mouse
• keyboard
• (Anything you see around you)
• (Pet Name)
• (where you work)

That is just a small list of passwords that you should never use.

For more password stuff you might be interested in this.

This is a little trick that I learned when I was setting up the Durham Networks blog last week.
I would recommend this for anyone using a custom domain and template to help keep the feel from your site to the blogger site natural. Do no do this if you do not have a custom domain, give blogger some credit for the free blog.
I am not doing this on my blog because I like blogger and the navbar is used to promote other blogs. I did do it on the Durham Networks blog because it is a company blog and I wanted the template to remain the same throughout the site. I also have it setup as a custom domain at blog.durhamnetworks.com.

Now with all the “do not do this” stuff out of the way lets begin.

You will need to have some HTML knowledge in order for you to understand this.

Backup
It is recommended that you backup your template just in case you screw this up and don’t know how to fix it. From the blogger dashboard go to your blogs layout page. Now click [Edit HTML]. Near the top of the page you will see [Download Full Template], click that. It will then start the download for the XML template file. Make sure you save it somewhere safe.

The Code
You now need to put the code in the layout that will hide the navbar. While still on the [Edit HTML] page in the textbox find where it says something like <title>…</title>. Just under that line you will put this code.

<style type=’text/css’>
#navbar {
visibility:hidden;
height:0px;
}
</style>

Hit the [PREVIEW] button just to make sure that it is working then save the changes by clicking [SAVE TEMPLATE]. If you go to the preview and the navbar is still there then try moving the code just before the line </head>.