Readers, I believe a brief update is on the cards; a  few things have changed lately. I’ll attempt to keep you updated with the major changes:

MyWindowsPC

• ReCaptcha is being used on members’ blogs to cut spam comments for them (thanks for the suggestion Christopher.)
• MyWindowsPC Help, the official MyWindowsPC help blog has been updated and given a new name.
• Members’ posts are now being featured on the front page.
• The site activity feed is now being parsed to the sidebar of Windows Guides.

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While some of you have entered the competition and are in with a chance to win Windows 7 Home Premium, many of you have not.

Tips to Enter the Competition

• Competition details.
• Windows Guides comment tips.
• You can comment on ANY post on this site.
• Multiple comments on different posts count.
• Submitting ANY post to a social network will count (see how this works below.)

Social Bookmarking

(I’m just sayin’) When you bookmark a page on Delicious, Digg, StumbleUpon etc, the comment system automatically picks up your bookmark and puts a note in the comments like this:

When you post a comment, login with one, or many, social networking accounts (in the FROM field) and ensure the message is sent to your social accounts (in the TO field):

Note: Up to six hours may elapse before your social network link is displayed in the comments below.

Good luck everyone, I’ll get back to you on Sunday, September 13, 2009 @ 11 P.M EST (GMT -5) with an announcement of who wins.

Further Reading

• Best Windows Freebies and Guides 18 [September 2009]
• IObit Security 360: Complete PC Tool-Suite for 2009 [Reader Review]
• Changes to mintywhite.com (and my other sites)
• PC Maintenance Handbook Now Available
• Zip Tools: The Best Alternatives to WinZip and WinRar

Q10 is a freeware text editor that is packed with features that help you focus and get your work done. I highly recommend this if you are frequently distracted by e-mails, StumbleUpon etc…

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Every now and then, I take a look at my Google Analytics page to see where visitors to this website come from. I am pleased to see a high diversity of visitors–with visits from 186 195 countries and territories.

Which of the 186 195 countries and territories are you from? Are you from the US/UK? If so, which state/county/city are you from? Let us know in the comments and represent your part of the world.

Please see Figure A below for all the countries the site’s visitors come from. Mintywhite.com has been around for just over three months and I thought I would share how many unique visitors have come to the site: at time of publishing, the number stands at 1,215,033 visitors. Thank you for your support and diligent readership.

Figure A: Google Analytics Map of Visitors to Mintywhite.com

Haven’t commented before? It takes a few seconds plus the time you take to share a little about where you are from. I look forward to hearing from you!

Further Reading

• 90 Free High Quality Icon Packs [Set 1]
• Free Mac/Windows/Linux Icon Packs [Set 15] PNG/ICO
• Best Windows Freebies and Guides 18 [September 2009]
• Windows Basics Section Online; what do you think?
• Changes to mintywhite.com (and my other sites)

I have tried many Firefox extensions – listed here are the 9 best add-ons; I recommend them to everyone.

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Every time you click the Stumble! button, you are presented with a web page on one of the topics you specified earlier. Sometimes you want more control over what kind of pages you’d like to browse through.
To do this, you will need to enable the SumbleUpon search feature, which allows you to surf through web pages on a single topic of your liking until you specify otherwise.

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Let’s face it — we love to waste time. We love to relax and lets our minds wander. Now we’ve got that out of the way… lets waste some time!!

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When you are stumbling, it can be inconvenient to click the stumble button, or press a thumbs up. In this guide we will learn how to use simple keyboard shortcuts to stumble and vote with ease.

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