This is one of the most useful sites I visited lately. When you need to find the right name for a website, I suggest you visit this site.

Just type the words you want to see in your domain name and bustaname.com will check all the possible combinations and show you which ones are available. There’s also a domain name check box, where you type the name you want to use and it tells you if the .com, .net or .org is available.

One of the best features is the related words finder, which is a little blue arrow that every word have at the end. Clicking on it will show you a pop-up list of words that are similar or related to the original one.

There’s more: Select the maximun number of words you want in your domain. Select if you want only  .com   .net  .org .info or .biz. Prefixes an suffixes, etc.

Then you can buy the domain name and even the hosting. They have special discount offers if you buy thru them.

Click here to visit Bustaname.com

Surprisingly this is not one of those fake websites that have links like “How to get rid of bad credit” and it leads to a ton of ads for credit counceling, bankruptcy attorneys, etc.

It actually have real articles in each and every topic.  Some examples are the classic “How to get rid of spyware” or “How to get rid of digestive problems”. But there are some categories that catched my attention, like the People category, where you find “How to get rid of homesales”, “Jehova’s Witnesses”, Gang Members”, “Noisy roomates” or “How to get rid of your Gag Reflex” (!?).

There’s a small link at the bottom to submit your problem, or what you want to get rid of. And the admins will take it in consideration to include it in the site.

The website layout  is very basic and elegant, which is good for fast browsing.  I was expecting to see intrusive advertising all over the site, but that didn’t happened. The ads are focused in the topic and not annoying at all.

I can say that this website already helped me with a couple of problems I had. And no, It wasn’t the gag reflex.

Click here to visit howtogetridofstuff.com

The European Commision made a proposition that if it becomes a law, software developers may be held liable if their applications fail.

This proposal wants to extend the principles of consumer protection rules so it can cover software licensing. This short sighted people says that consumers need to have the guarantee that a licensed software will not cause data loss, system instability, or who knows what else they may include in this nonsense law proposal.

There’s absolutly no way a programmer or a team of programmers can guarantee a 100% bug free application. And that is a fact. Add the infinite configuration combinations that computers have today and you realize what’s next.

Only big corporations like Microsoft and IBM will be capable of writing sofware, elevating prices and eliminating the small developer who can’t afford to be sued because a conflict of memory in his application caused a customer some data loss. 

If this becomes law, I can see developers adding code in their applications to block a program from being installed if the computer don’t have exactly the required configuration making installation a real pain you know where.

Is there anbody who thinks this is a good idea? Please tell me how this can be good for anybody.

Click here to read the article in ZDnet.co.uk

The safe mode sometimes is not safe enough when trying to eliminate viruses, recovering files, delete system components, and a lot more.
Microsoft created a PE (Preinstalled Environment) for this special situations. It’s basically a minimal win32 with a few services which is burned in a bootable CD or DVD.

But there’s some limitations in this Windows PE. A guy named Bart Lagerweij (http://www.nu2.nu) from the Nederlands made something a lot better and more useful than Microsoft’s. He built Bart’sPE.

For example, Windows PE is command line only, that means no graphic environment, no mouse support, etc. Bart’sPE is a graphic environment with the choice of using command line if you want/need it.

Another one: Windows PE is for OEM users only, and Bart’s PE is free for everybody. All you need is the Windows installation files.

You have to download the builder, run it and point to the location of the Windows installation files. The program can burn the CD directly or you may choose to create the ISO image to burn it later.

Once you boot your PC with Bart’s PE you get a complete Win32 environment with network support, a graphical user interface and FAT/NTFS/CDFS filesystem support.

If you still use that MS-DOS cd to make a clean boot, you may want to replace it with this one.

System requirements:

1. The files from your Windows Installation CD-Rom.
   Supported Windows versions are:
   • Windows XP Home Edition (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher)
   • Windows XP Professional (must be slip streamed with Service Pack 1 or higher)
   • Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
   • Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
   • Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
2. PE Builder runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/BartPE systems.
3. CD/DVD writer if you want to creat a bootable CD/DVD.

Click here to download Bart’sPE builder.

This is a good one. Today I checked my website statistics for the last year (May 9 2008 -May 9 2009) and among other things this came up: 

Which means that, at least the people who visits this site is more aware of the benefits of using Firefox over Internet Explorer.

Safer and faster are the words that describe Firefox against IE. If you want to try Firefox 3 and see for yourself, all you have to do is click here.