For the past few years, I have been using a pretty basic Registry cleaner to optimize my PC and some client PCs. On top of that, I generally run a couple of anti-spyware products too. This usually gets the job done and PC performance will run pretty fast at all times.

Well, about a week ago, I was introduced to a product called “PC Health Advisor”. I was thinking, yeah great, another crappy Registry cleaner. So I went through the motions and got the download then ran the installer. Now when I first fired up this software, I realized this wasn’t just a Registry cleaner, but possibly the optimization tool that I had been dreaming of….So how did it measure up.

What is PC Health Advisor

PC Health Advisor is a complete optimization tool for your PC. Forget about Registry cleaners. This thing does that and a hell of a lot more. This product fully optimizes your PC by doing all of the following:

• Registry cleaning
• Malware detection and removal
• Disk optimization and duplicate finder
• Process manager
• Startup manager
• Restore point manager
• and more

This product covers all bases of optimization and PC error repair. I have written a lot of guides on manually optimizing disk and startup performance, but now this product incorporates all of that. So with one piece of software you can do everything. In the past, you could clean the Registry, but then you still had to perform disk optimization separately. Malware removal also required a separate program, but that is incorporated too.

You can download PC Health Advisor here

Using PC Health Advisor

Ok, so this product has a great feature set, but does it actually work and is it easy to use?

The installation process took under 2 minutes in total, on a Windows 7 64bit computer with 8GB ram. The total install was pretty small at under 10mb. So far so good.

I don’t read instructions, so after installing, I see these big buttons as options.  There are also tabs at the top of the program that give you access to each of the areas of optimization. You can access the process manager, startup manager, duplicate finder, browser manager, clear temp files, clear recent history, manage registry scan settings and so on.

The interface was all very intuitive. It took me less than a minute to figure it all out. There are quite a few options in there, some are not apparent directly from the main interface, but there is an excellent level of optimization available and this means faster computer. Anyway, after checking out all the settings I started the scan, which is the huge button on the main interface.

The scan results you can see below.

PC Health Advisor scans in three separate areas. The Registry, processes and privacy. The scan results, as you can see, incorporate all the different areas, privacy, Malware, startup, Registry etc. From here you can choose which area to optimize, or you can fix them all. Thankfully I have no Malware.

I didn’t fix all of the 268 items. I was able to check through the privacy files section and most of those were ok. Just a few that needed deleting, which i could do via the edit button. This was really cool, because you don’t always want to fix/remove everything. I did clean out the 193 Registry problems and the startup processes.

Duplicate File Finder

The scan doesn’t include the duplicate file finder. This is a separate section to the program but it will save you lots of disk space. I ran the scan on c: and located 252 duplicate entries. There were some doubled up folders I was not aware of.

Total disk space I saved from this was approximately 1.23GB. Not too bad for 30 seconds work. I know if I run this on some older PCs I will probably free up half the disk.

PC Health Advisor Good and Bad

Well this is a very solid optimization product, the best I have seen so far. I love the fact that it breaks down the scan into different sections and you can then view and optimize each one. It gives much greater control over the whole optimization process and I feel like I can now do away with much of the manual work I used to do.

This is essentially 3 or 4 products rolled into one. But the integration is excellent, so it doesn’t feel like you are using something that has just been patched together. I am still discovering some new features and techniques for better optimization within this software. It is a powerful tool, but so simple to use.

The only thing I am doubtful of is the Malware scanner. I don’t know how well this part has been done or how much it will actually find. I will perform further tests and compare with a fully fledged anti-spyware product.

The interface itself is great, but there are some features that you won’t immediately find. Some things are buried a bit and I would love to see all of these on the main interface. When you use this program, just take a couple of minutes to browse around, because you will find many features that are not evident at first.

9/10 from me. I have already deleted my old Registry cleaner.

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When we ran into trouble with a client’s PST file, we found there were a few products on the market. Many of them look similar and probably do a similar job.

Stellar PST Repair

So why did we end up using Stellar Outlook PST Repair?

The main reason was that we were impressed with the free download and simple to use interface. Once we had the product installed, it was able to quickly identify the problematic PST and provide a solution. A paid version is required to implement the real fixes, but saving our clients email was worth 100 times the asking price.

So What Does Stellar Outlook Repair Actually Do?

Stellar Outlook PST Repair scans all the damaged .pst files on your system, it then extracts and restores that information into new and usable .pst files – allowing you to completely and totally recover all your missing Outlook data… Fast! It can provide a quick fix for the following Outlook PST problems:

• Completely recovers emails, calendar entries, contacts, notes and journals from damaged PST files
• Repairs password protected files
• Restores Text, RTF and HTML messages
• Recovers data from encrypted files
• Repairs .pst files larger than 2GB
• Recovers deleted emails
• Creates unique profiles for individual PST files
• Exports recovered files automatically to Microsoft Outlook
• Includes a Live Update option to constantly update the software with the latest version
• Supports MS Outlook 97, 98, 2000, 2002 ,XP, 2003 & 2007

Using Stellar Outlook PST Repair

Here is a quick rundown of how we used the program and what you can expect. Getting started is really easy, just grab the download and install. Just follow the on-screen wizard, it should take no longer than about 2 minutes to get the product fully installed.

Once installed, just fire up the software. It is then just a matter of selecting the Outlook PST file to repair, or you can let the software find the PST files.

You will see a status bar showing the progress of the repair. Depending on how large the PST file is, this can take anywhere from 2 minutes to an hour. The software shows you what can be retrieved, then it outputs this to a new, fully working .PST file.

It is a very simple process and anyone can have this running in just a few minutes. You just select the corrupt file and this software throws out a working version.

What We Really Think of Stellar Outlook PST Repair

Well, in this area of computing, some software can be very intimidating. Luckily, Stellar Outlook PST Repair is not one of these products, instead it is very simple to use and any user can get results fast. Just open the program, choose the .pst files you want to repair and recover, select a destination, and click to restore. Watch the slider-bar glide across the screen to indicate your important Outlook data has been completely revived!

The interface is fast loading and very intuitive. So once you install the product, you can get started immediately without having to read through pages of documentation. Just note: the recovery process can be slow depending on your CPU, RAM and the size of your PST file. If it is a very large file, you will need to be patient. So after running the recovery, we recommend that you let it completely finish before using your computer.

I really like this product, because it did the job. It was very easy to install and you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to run the scan and repair. I think the only downside is that it could have been a bit cheaper. But then again, this is a solid product and obviously a lot of development time has gone into this.

If you value your email and want it back, check out this product. You can get it from our downloads page.

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But, by a wonderful twist of fate he lands right on your Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi, with the help of homebrew programmers and the trusty R4 DS Card for the Nintendo DS / DSi system.Can you help and save Rick Dangerous and guide him through the tiers to escape the angry Amazonians? I think you can. With the help of your R4 DS and your stylus for the Nintendo DS, you’ll be running through each level with ease…But don’t make the mistake of thinking it is easy.Rick Dangerous is not not an easy platorm game, whether you play the remake or play the original on the Amiga.

Oh the memories of platform games come rushing in when I recollect my fondest of them all – Rick Dangerous as the main character. Undoubltly based right on the hero himself made famous by the movies.With giant stone boulders chasing you in the first five seconds of the game.What was the name of our hero? A young Indian Jones?  No… It was none other than Core Designs Rick Dangerous.It really was the reason I still, to this day, love my trusty Amiga 500 so very much.So much that I couldn’t stop myself from buying an Amiga 500 online after close to 10 years of having sold mine.

fine, I am assuming a lot, and assuming that everyone reading this will have heard of or player Rick Dangerous.For the people that have not, here is a quick explanation. Rick Dangerous is a platform game developed by Core Design for the Amiga, Atari ST, and 8-Bit computers, as well as for DOS based PCs. It was put out in EU by Rainbird Software and MicroProse in North America back in 1989. subsequently it was released with two other games – Stunt Car Racer and Microprose Soccer on the Commodore 64 Powerplay 64 cartridge.I don’t want to go over the packed in games – instead, I want to focus on the main Rick Dangerous itself!) and how you can play it using an R4 DS Card with your Nintendo DS.

So why talk about a game that was release back in 1989?How could it, in any way, be even close to what you’re playing now. Well, if you know anything about challenging platform games, or are into platform games, you’re reading about the grandfather of platform games Really. Many of the elements from this game have been incorporated into countless newer generation platform games.Mo than that though, if you think about it, it is because what is old is once again new. With the help and dedication of homebrew programmers that make or remake games for the pure love and joy of it. You can, with the help of an R4 DS Card, play Rick Dangerous on your current generation hand held Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi consoles. And it won’t cost you a cent, because the game is released absolutely FREE. Non commercially, and available for download for your to enjoy on your NDS system (and assorted other systems as well) All you’ll need is an R4 for Nintendo DS for Nintendo DS and the NDS itself of course.

The game is largely based on the Indiana Jones movie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Set in 1945, British agent Rick Dangerous travels to the Amazon jungle to search for the lost Goolu tribe. The airplance crash lands in the middle of the jungle and Rick has nowhere to go, but has to get there was in order to escape the Goolu tribe. When the game starts Rick finds himself in a cave running from a rolling boulder, a famous scene from the Indiana Jones movie.

Armed with a pistol and dynamite, Rick must fight hostiles and evade countless traps in 3 more levels. The second level is set inside a Great Pyramid in Egypt. On Level Three, You and Rick need to take a trip to the Nazi Stronghold of Schwarzendumpf to save the captured Allied soldiers. The rescued soldiers tell him that the Nazis are planning a missile attack on London. Therefore, in the last level Rick must infiltrate their secret missile base.

The original garnered fantastic reviews. Many magazines giving the game 92% or more in the reviews. And I am certain of the R4 DS card version / homebrew version for the Nintendo DS / DSi were ever released commercially, it would garner the same type of reviews, for both its retro look and feel and amazing gameplay. The really amazing thing about this is that it is not a commercial release, and that this free homebrew version has the blessing of the original developers as well.

So get out your Nintendo DS, buy an R4 DS Card and start exploring the amazing world of Rick Dangerous and other great homebrew games for the Nintendo DS system.

One of the oft overlooked, but most important elements of your campaign will be how targeted you are with your advertising. You will get much better results if you tailor your ads so they specifically target the market you want to follow. You need to be aware of who you are trying to draw in and then you need to focus on pleasing these people.

This will not only help you get clarity but will also help you save a lot of time and money. If you are using Pay per Click with your campaign, you want to be sure and incorporate keywords that are heavily used by your market so that the people that are seeing your offer are likely to turn into a conversion. You need to perform high quality market research so that you are bringing in the kind of traffic that you want. You may find success using article marketing to bring in the type of visitors you want for your site. If you are able to create good quality articles, you will most likely be able to find sites and article directories to distribute them through. You may also find some success posting these articles that you have written to related forums where they will be stumbled across by interested parties.

If you are able to create the content that is necessary for successful article marketing, it will be a winning strategy for you. People will read your articles and then click the link that you provide in the resource box, and when they have clicked on the link they will be highly targeted when they show up at your site.

You can also take advantage of social bookmarking lists. You will often find that the traffic generated by these sites converts nicely. To get the most out of this plan, you will want to join several of these services so that you are able to maximize the reach of your efforts and gain the most audience possible. You need to spend time thinking about the best way to tag the bookmarks for your site, because this will be one of the determining factors in how well the search engines find your site. When you use these services you will be able to submit your individual content pages as well as the homepage for your site. However, you do need to be careful to not spam the services, so you will want to submit bookmarks for sites outside your network in order to keep everyone happy.~Many marketers overlook the importance of word of mouth. Word of mouth is not necessarily viral marketing. It can begin with simply telling your friends. Those that know you best will be pest suited to spreading the word about what it is that you are doing. You do not have to convince these people that can be trusted, and they are motivated to help you from the get go. The potential gains here will only be magnified if the friends in question already operate a successful blog since they will already have a loyal following, so you will be able to mine this audience much easier.

If you are willing to spend some money on your campaign, you would do well to invest in banner advertising and do some media buying. There are plenty of high traffic sites within your niche that will be happy to post ads for you once you have gotten in touch with them. Many sites will already be running Google AdSense advertisements, so for the fixed fee you will be able to advertise on the site very easily. Traffic generation is not overly complex and it should be something that you can tackle and use to achieve great success if you put in the requisite effort. You may not achieve instantaneous success, but if you keep with the plan you should see a steady increase in the number of people that are coming to your site and you will be able to ride your plan for quite some time. It’s just how you plan, organize, test and track your results to optimize your campaigns and reach to a larger audience.

The problem mainly is of getting all the students to work together.

The traditional way is to take individual submissions from students, but that takes a horribly large amount of time in terms of manual checking and revision submissions.

It might very well happen that teachers have to rush and accept whatever they get and do with a low quality job.

Maybe that’s the reason why a lot of teachers are getting interested in Book4U.

You have a great number of plus points with this.

We shall briefly see a few of them.

1. The finished product looks quite smart and as though it is expertly accomplished.

You can be sure there aren’t any inferior inputs here; everything is just as you have checked and got corrected.

1. The number of mistakes for you to change will be quite minimal.

The teacher-student interactive platform that Book4U provides you with is really helpful.

You can check individual submissions as they are done and send them back for as many revisions as you want.

1. One more thing is that you don’t have to wait till the nth hour to finish the job.

Since you are able to communicate with the students all the time, you know exactly what’s happening and all last minute panic is completely avoided.

1. The students get a chance to collaborate better among themselves and with you, their teacher.

They don’t have to wait if they are seeking a quick answer to something.

This helps speed up the work and you can ensure that you are getting what you are looking for.

Since you are able to track individual work of your students over a considerable period of time, you can also evaluate your students’ performance.

1. A hardcopy is very simple to get and it can be sent to wherever you want.

There is a price for the printing Book4U does, but it is much cheaper than what anyone else might charge you.

Since these are mostly school-related publications, the books won’t have a lot of pages.

The prices are according to the number of pages, which makes it quite a feasible option.

So, this time when you have a printing requirement like a school yearbook, take a closer look at Book4U.

This service will take your presentations several notches higher and you will see that you are completing your work before time.