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 Seeing as the price of Super Bowl tickets is pretty much outrageous (we saw one place asking $1000 for a Tailgate ticket), this years contest will be a little different. This year, we will fly the winner into Buffalo, NY for a private Super Bowl party at Greenguy's house on February 6th 2005!

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The Coolest Software I Have Seen
During the show in Florida, Greenguy and I saw Marty from PrivacyView. He took the opportunity to show us the PrivacyView software. I have to tell you, if I had to hide my web viewing from anyone, this is the software I would use. I can only imagine what a necessity software like this is for the average surfer.

Do yourself a favor and take a look at the PrivacyView Software. There are too many features to list here but look at it and I'm sure you will agree, having this software is a surfer's dream.


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BANDWIDTH SAVING BY DESIGN (Part 2)

By Hazel from Hazel's Harem

Every picture costs you money

Fine. Your gallery page is now a bit leaner, and still gets the meaning over to the surfer. You submit it to all the big players, and you strike it lucky. The top five or six TGPs have accepted it and you can expect nearly half a million hits. Wow! Christmas come early.

You have twenty thumbs and twenty full size images. The thumbs are 6-8kb each, and the big pictures are about 100kb a piece. That's over two megabytes of images. Multiply that by the half million visitors and you get the biggest bill you ever saw for bandwidth overage.

Would fifteen pictures do as well? That saves you about 25%. Making your thumbnails a bit smaller would help a little. Your big images are way too big. If they are 800x600, you could resize them to 640x480 or some such. Besides resizing, proper compression will give you additional savings. Depending on how well or poorly the originals have been compressed, you could save 30-50%. Perhaps more. Then you might even consider resolution. Being only an advertisement for your wares it may not need to be a crisp 'top quality' image.

One handy piece of freeware is available for this purpose. It is very simple to use, and I can personally recommend it for JPG images. The name is Easy Thumbs. You can get a copy at:
http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.php

No doubt that images are the largest bandwidth burner. Flashy, multi-layered GIFs probably more than most. Something sized 250x250 with four or five layers may look really swish, but it can weigh in at over 40 or 50kb a go. Don't be tempted unless you have deep pockets.

Read the rest of Hazel's Tip and Trick HERE!

Thank You Hazel :)

Have a Great Day!
Greenguy and Jim

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