This Week’s Cool Free Software – Turn Your Start Button into a Weather Report!

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  • Written on: September 30th, 2007

Every week I try to bring you some neat piece of free software that is just plain neat. One thing that everyone appreciates is an unobtrusive and accurate weather widget for Windows XP!

Since the dawn of online weather, people have always been excited by a weather widget on their computers. Unfortunately, most of the widgets out there that provide accurate forecasts are also packed full of spyware and other nastiness.

Start Button Weather Widget for Windows XP Last night I found a new weather widget that was pretty unique. It actually changes the text on your Start button (Windows XP only) to be the current temperature and conditions outside. Everyone knows what the Start button is for, so why not make use of the space, right?

I ran a complete scan of my PC after installing the widget and I have confirmed that the installation is spyware free.

The only marginal aspect of this widget is the search bar it ads to your Internet Explorer browser. If you use FireFox, you will not notice anything different, AND you will get the awesome widget in your start button.

Go ahead and give it a try and let me know what you think. It does have an uninstaller, so if you don’t like it, just open Add/Remove programs and remove it.

If you know of any cool free software you would like to have featured on this blog, let me know and I will test it out!

BlogRush Making Progress Against Scam Blogs

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  • Written on: September 25th, 2007

John reese and Blogrush are making progress weeding out the blogs scamming the traffic generation system.

RSS Cross-Promotion Widget Can Boost Your Traffic FREE!

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  • Written on: September 24th, 2007

New RSS Feed Cross-Promotion syndication tool is an alternative to RSS-Include that allows you to display the contents of an RSS feed on your webpage, or cross market your blog and forum posts to your readers.

Don’t Miss Shoemoney’s Omaha Nebraska Meetup in October!

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  • Written on: September 24th, 2007

RSVP now for your FREE seat at Jeremy Schoemaker’s (aka Shoemoney) People Making Money online Nebraska Meet-up Group. Great networking, free pizza, and some awesome guest speakers from Proxibid!

Mattel Says Toy Recalls are Not China’s Fault!

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  • Written on: September 22nd, 2007

Mattel says that many of the toys they recalled should not have been, and most toys with problems were the result of bad Mattel designs and not Chinese misbehaviour.

Next Internet Millionaire Contestant GIVES Hacker Safe Shirt Away!

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  • Written on: September 21st, 2007

Nico gives away the HackerSafe immunity shirt in episode 5 of the Next Internet Millionaire!

September 8th Compute This Online at Schrock Innovations.com!

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  • Written on: September 20th, 2007

Compute This from September 8, 2007 is online!

Thor’s Blog Splits in Two to Provide More Focus!

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  • Written on: September 19th, 2007

Thor Schrock’s technology blog is going to focus more on marketing and technology and a whole new blog will be posted on the Schrock Innovations website to offer more computer help and tutorials than ever before!

Drive More Traffic to Your Blog with BlogRush Beta!

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  • Written on: September 18th, 2007

Get FREE Syndication Credits by Exploiting a BlogRush Loophole!

Save Hundreds on Computer Repair!

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  • Written on: September 17th, 2007

Get all of the computer repair helpyou need for one lowmonthly price! Introducing the all-new Schrock Desk!

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