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File compression is the tried and true way to make a large file fit in a smaller space. Back in the 1980′s, it was imperative because storage costs were much higher than they are now. In 1990′s, storage costs came down, but with the rise of online files, compressed files were a solution to slow bandwidth. Even today, with flash drives, bandwidth caps, and email attachments, file compression is extremely important.

The most popular form of file compression is the ubiquitous .zip standard. It was invented by a company called PKWARE and is arguably one of the most important file technologies in history. PKWARE has brand new product now called SecureZIP Express. It is a robust .zip technology with the added benefit of encryption. It utilizes strong encryption to keep your files secure. You can find out all about it at www.securezip.com.

To help promote this revolutionary way of encrypting and compressing files, they are running a special contest called Decrypt and Drive. Just install the software and then try to decrypt a message. You can play every day and you have a chance to win some great prizes. You can find out all about it at www.DecryptandDrive.com.

Here’s a press release about it, if you want to find out more information:

PKWARE, the inventor of the .zip standard, is giving away a non-commercial use license of SecureZIP Express and the opportunity to win great prizes in the new “Decrypt and Drive” contest! With SecureZIP Express you can compress/decompress and encrypt files that you store or send. Compressing files is a great way to save storage space, especially on thumb drives and CD’s, and we all have files we should be securing!

The software also includes a digital certificate so you can exchange files securely with others without using passwords. Only the person the file was encrypted for can open it when you use a digital certificate. The software is fully licensed for non-commercial use and has no toolbars or spyware! For years, PKWARE has given free .zip software away and wants as many users as possible to receive the benefits of SecureZIP.

PKWARE is giving away great prizes including a Honda scooter, bicycles, Wii games, gas cards, and more! Visit www.DecryptandDrive.com to play the game daily and/or download the free software. You need to have SecureZIP, and the digital certificate it installs, on the computer you play the game from. You can also get SecureZIP Express at www.securezip.com Good luck! Hope you win something cool!

There are many great ideas out there on increasing web traffic and we have talked about them here on several occasions. It seems every time I write up an article on ways to increase web traffic, I will come across more ways to get traffic.

First off, don’t waste your time on 125×125 banner type exchanges like Entrecard. Basically, you visit other people’s site and then they visit yours, but it doesn’t quite work out that way. You end up visiting more sites than the number of visitors you get. Not only that, but the visitors come in for mere seconds and do not even know what your site is about. I ran Entrecard for awhile, but it was a huge waste of time and bandwidth.

Ok, so back to the idea of increasing traffic. If you are not using the StumbleUpon toolbar than you are missing out on a great way to get traffic. If you have got some great pages, then by all means stumble them. You’ll get people visiting your site and bringing you steady traffic. You’ll also be pleasantly surprised with the quality of traffic.

Another great idea for increasing web traffic is to submit all of your decent posts to Digg. By doing this, you’ll get some search engine juice which helps in search engine, but if the article is good, you’ll get Digg traffic itself. It doesn’t hurt to submit to other sites as well.

This brings us to a great way to increase web traffic. Increase your search engine rankings. Write articles that rank well in search engines and get the link needed to get high in the search engine results. Get as many links as you can and exploit them.

Lastly, I want your suggestions. Tell me some ideas to increase the traffic to your sites that have been effective for you.

For a project that I am working on, I need to be able to put videos online and then be able to control the videos and the brand image associated with the video. I don’t have a big budget to work with so I have been looking for a solution to hosting my own videos onsite.

Youtube doesn’t work for this project because of the lack of control of the videos. I’d hate for a competitors video to pop up and get people to click away. This means that I have to recreate my own mini video site. To this end, I came across some nice open source scripts and packages that help me make my own video site.

Once I have everything up and running, I will share the site and the exact code I used to make the site a reality.

I remember back in the early days of free email on the net, there were three main places you could go to for free email. Hotmail, Rocketmail and Usa.net. Hotmail got bought out by Microsoft and forever changed. Usa.net decided to became a paid service overnight, locking many people out of their email. Rocketmail got bought out by Yahoo and the domain was retired.

Well, sometimes today, Yahoo is going to be opening up signups for Rocketmail.com. I know I will be there, for nostalgia reasons alone. I have a few email accounts that I want to register. Some are accounts that I let escape me and thought I could never get back. Thank you Yahoo!

There was a transformer explosion and a resulting fire over the weekend at the Planet Data Center in Houston. It’s hard to believe that these kind of freak accidents can happen, but they do. All the best laid plans can easily be put asunder with a freak accident.

In this case, no data was lost, just internet connectivity was lost until power could be restored. The question pops, though, what would have happened if data had been lost? Do you have an offsite backup? Do you have a plan ready should data be lost? How often do you make backups?

I will discussing a few ways to backup web files in the next week or so.