People want free stuff. I do, my friends do, and I’m sure you do. One site that aims to do this is FreePay.com. Don’t be too skeptical because I myself actually took advantage of their offers and won not only an iPod Shuffle, an iPod 30GB Photo, but a Nikon Digital Camera, and an Xbox.

FreePay offers plenty of tech gadgets, from iPods, to Desktops and Laptops, and even Xbox 360′s and PS3s. Whatever site you choose to actually try for, make sure you look up what it requires and what are the best offers to complete. What do I mean?

Say you are wanting to get an iPod and it requires you to sign up, complete an offer, and have 8 people complete offers of their own. What this means is that you need to sign up, participate in one of their sponsored products or services, and then get 8 of your friends to sign up under you (using your referal link) and also complete an offer. Now you don’t get credit if your friend gets someone to sign up under them, so make sure you get to people first, because once they sign up and complete an offer for a site, they aren’t allowed to do it again for that particular site.

Here is where you can take advantage of the internet. Make sure you go to Free Ipod Guide Forums and read through what people are saying about each site and their offers. People give you hints on which ones are free, or the cheapest, and the easiest to cancel. You can also trade sites with people (WARNING: Read the rules first so you don’t get scammed by someone and complete an offer for them but get nothing in return) if you can’t get friends and family to sign up, or simply pay them to do so (might cost you $5 per referral, but if you had to get 8 for an iPod that is $300, well then your iPod only costs you $40, see how you win). Anyhow make sure to go to the forums and read. This short amount of reading could save you the hassle of choosing the wrong product or service to try. Good luck!

Write the list of free items, explain the freeipodforum site. Also explain how it works and how you got the items the first time.

These MySpace codes are readily available on different MySpace sites
around the internet. I’ve compiled a list of the most popular MySpace
Hide Codes here for your convenience. Be sure to follow the
instructions carefully. Enjoy!

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE LAST LOGIN

Last login is located to the right of your MySpace display pic. Hiding
last login means that your friends won’t know when your last logged
into your MySpace profile

1) In your Headline section enter:

<div class=”hll”>

2) In your About Me section enter:

<style type=”text/css”> div.hll {overflow:hidden; height:120px;} </style>

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE FRIENDS & COMMENTS

MySpace friends and comments have been the cause of some major drama
for some MySpace users. In fact, some MySpace users decide it’s better
to not have either of these displayed on their profile. Hiding friends
and comments will keep your friends from being able to see your Top
friends list and checking out who’s been leaving you comments. Of
course, you’ll still be able to see your friend’s list and comments.

1) In your About Me section enter:

<style type=”text/css”>.comments {visibility:hidden;display:none;}</style><br />

2) In your Who I’d Like To Meet section enter:

<div class=”comments”><table><tr><td><table><tr><td><br />

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE FRIENDS ONLY

Want to leave your comments up, but just don’t want to deal with the
drama of choosing the order of your Top friends? There’s a code for
hiding your friends list only.

In your About Me section enter:
<style type=”text/css”>
td.text td.text table table table, td.text td.text table br, td.text
td.text table .orangetext15, td.text td.text .redlink, td.text td.text
span.btext {display:none;}
td.text td.text table {background-color:transparent;}
td.text td.text table td, td.text td.text table {height:0;padding:0;border:0;}
td.text td.text table table td {padding:3;}
td.text td.text table table br {display:inline;}
</style>

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE COMMENTS ONLY

In your Who I’d Like To Meet section enter at the bottom:

<div style=”position:relative; height:400px; overflow:hidden; border:0px;”><table><tr><td><table><tr><td>

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE EXTENDED NETWORK

Extended network is that banner above your MySpace blog that says
“MySpace User is in your Extended Network”. Get rid of the extended
network banner to simplify the look of your MySpace profile.

In your About Me section enter:

<style type=”text/css”>.blacktext12 {visibility:hidden;
display:none}</style><br />

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE ABOUT ME SECTION

Don’t want to be bothered with coming up with cool, new content for
your “About Me” section? Hide it instead…

In your About Me section enter:

<style>.LIGHTBLUETEXT8{DISPLAY:NONE;VISIBILITY:HIDDEN}</style><br />

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE NAVIGATION BAR

The Navigation bar has links to Home, Browse, Search, Blogs, Music and
more. Make it disappear with this code…

In your About Me section enter:

<style type=”text/css”><br />
table td div div font {visibility:hidden;}<br />
</style><br />

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE CONTACT BOX

Your MySpace contact box is the way that MySpace users can send you
messages, add you as a friend, add you to their favorites or even
block you. Hiding it means that anyone viewing your profile won’t be
able to do any of these things with your profile.

In your About Me section enter:

<style type=”text/css”>
.contactTable {display: none;}
</style>

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE GENERAL INFO

General info is your age and location which are to the right of your
display pic. If you don’t want people to know these details about you,
simply hide them using this code…

In your About Me section enter:

<style type=”text/css”>
table td.text {visibility:hidden;}
td.text td, td.text span, td.text a {visibility:visible;}
</style>

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE URL BOX

Every MySpace user is prompted to pick a unique URL after signing up
for a MySpace account. This replaces the friend ID number that you’re
given in the beginning. But if you don’t want that URL Box dispalyed
on your profile, it’s certainly easy enough to hide.

In your About Me section enter:
<style type=”text/css”>
table table table table div {visibility:hidden;}
div table table table table table div input, div a, td.text div
{visibility:visible;}
</style>

MYSPACE CODE TO HIDE DETAILS

Sometimes you’d just rather not reveal things like relationship
status, occupation, hometown, zodiac or whether or not your want kids.
So hide your entire Details box with this code…

1) At the bottom of Heroes section enter:

<table><tr><td><table><tr><td>

2) At the top of the About Me section enter:

<style>.hidethem {visibility:hidden; display:none;}</style>

If you run into problems, check your code and make sure that you copied it in correctly. Enjoy hacking your page.

Let’s get into some hard evidence now. From the Associated Press I bring you two snippets of articles. Author ANICK JESDANUN wrote the article, “A leading printer maker wants to help you do less printing.“. Two excerpts from the article are:

The Web software also extends the “printer-friendly” features many sites offer. Often those printer-friendly versions still carry logos and other graphics; the Lexmark tools let you eliminate those as well.
…
Lexmark has versions available for both Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers.

The Firefox version offers more functions. Lexmark says Firefox users tend to be more technically advanced, and thus open to more customization. While the Internet Explorer tool lets you eliminate images, for instance, the Firefox version lets you remove forms, links and other elements, too.

Read the last paragraph? Need I say more? Probably not, but here is another example from author JORDAN ROBERTSON who wrote the article,”Researchers offer new way to avoid bogus Web sites“. Here is a snippet from their article:

Intercepting Internet traffic, and spying on the communication between two computers, is a gold mine for hackers. Now Carnegie Mellon University researchers hope software they’ve built will make it harder for criminals to hit that jackpot.
The software, a free download for use with latest version of the Firefox Web browser, creates an additional way for people to verify whether the site they’re trying to visit is authentic.

Simply put, the researchers are Carnegie Mellon were able to implement a solution to their findings quickly through Firefox because it is open source. No mention of Internet Explorer is stated in the article.

The new version of IE8 beta is released, and looks to be some competition to Firefox. But by the time the stable version is released, my guess is that whatever security features and extra functions are to win back market share for Internet Explorer 8, Firefox will have already included it in a release or tweaked it so it works a little better.

These 3 are very useful shortcuts for removing files, quickly changing open programs, and quickly killing a program instead of having to navigate to the “X” to close it.  ALT+F4 (meaning hit the ALT key and then the Function 4 key (F4) at the same time) is useful when a program hides the usual minimize, maximize, and close buttons at the top right of the window.  Next on the list is basic formatting shortcuts.

These are great for any word processing program you use (helps when you switch from Office 2003 to 2007 and have no clue where Microsoft decided to put any button). 

The first 4 shortcuts are also useful for Windows Explorer so that you can cut/copy/paste/and undo moving files and folders around (CTRL+Y may “redo” the undo that you might have invoked) as shown below:

You can normally add Ctrl+F to open the find dialog box to search for specific files.  F2 is great for renaming files quickly (but for renaming a lot of files or removing characters %,@,!,#,$, whitespaces, etc. I would suggest downloading a renaming tool).

Next we have a few more commands:

The select all items is a great shortcut which I use all the time in conjunction with Ctrl+C or Ctrl+X (cut or copy, respectively).

These are actually the ones that weird people out the most.  They invoke that “How did you do that?” reaction.  If I have a bunch of open windows on my screens and need to get to something on my desktop, Windows Logo+D is my goto command.

There are also commands for your web browser (such as CTRL+T to start a new tab in FireFox and IE7, as well as CTRL+Tab to scroll through those tabs).  Again, for the complete list of keyboard shortcuts for the Windows OS, go here.