Anonymous surfing is the ability to surf the Web without being tracked. By using “sniffers” somebody could find out your IP address, cookies, what’s in your browser cache, what kind of computer you’re using…they could even connect to your hard drive and access your private files, including passwords and banking information.

Web sites and other people can sniff out information about you including your IP address. You can be found and tracked using your IP address very easily. Your IP address gives hackers an entryway into your computer.

Anonymous, or proxy, servers work by retrieving Web pages for you. They hide your IP address and other important browsing information, so the remote server does not see your information but sees the proxy server’s information instead.

Surfing with an anonymous proxy site/service is simple: all you do is enter in the URL you’d like to visit anonymously, and you’ll be able to surf leaving virtually no trace that you were ever there. Basically, when you use an anonymous proxy and enter in the URL that you’d like to visit anonymously, the anonymous proxy retrieves the pages BEFORE they are delivered to you. This way, the IP address and other browsing information that the remote server sees does not belong to you - it belongs to the anonymous proxy. When you surf the internet, your computer lets every other computer know who it is by giving away information such as your ip address, type of browser and a ton of other information. The goal is to hide all this information from other computers and this is called anonymous surfing.

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Now that you’ve selected your niche let’s look at some blog design tips with your readers in mind. Balancing a design with pizzazz and individuality to attract new visitors but yet still have the warmth and comfort of an old worn shoe for returning readers is a delicate task. In order to accomplish this feat here are 5 tips that will increase the appeal of your blog design.

1) Blog theme

The overall blog theme should correspond with the niche you’re blogging about. Don’t confuse your visitors by going off target with pictures, symbols, or other visual aids that ‘decorate’ your blog but have no relationship with the niche you’re in. Your blog theme is a subtle yet powerful component that reinforces your affiliation with the niche you’re in.

For instance on Halloween you display pumpkins, witches, and other scenes and figures commonly associated with this holiday. Christmas holds the same association with Santa Claus just as Thanksgiving does with pilgrims or turkeys.

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So if you are looking to create your own site at no cost and without those annoying pop ups ads, just follow this little tip and you can get it in no time.

1. Go to http://sites.google.com and create an account.
2. Log in into your account and click the “Create Site” button.
3. Choose from the large variety of templates and enter all the info that is require.
4. Once your site is created, click edit to begin entering content. You can add calendars, files, photo slideshows, and more!

10 tips that will enable you to shoot like a pro.

1. Warm up Those Tones

Have you ever noticed that your shots sometimes have a cool, clammy feel to them? If so, you’re not alone. The default white balance setting for digital cameras is AUTO, which is fine for most snapshots, but tends to be a bit on the “cool” side.

When shooting outdoor portraits and sunny landscapes, try changing your white balance setting from AUTO to CLOUDY. That’s right, cloudy. Why? This adjustment is like putting a mild warming filter on your camera. It increases the reds and yellows resulting in richer, warmer pictures.

If you don’t believe me, then do a test. Take a few outdoor shots with the white balance on AUTO to CLOUDY. Upload the images to your computer and look at them side by side. My guess is that you’ll like the warmer image better.

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When taking pictures, there are a number of choices you can make about such things as image sizes, compression ratios, and file formats. Your choices determine image quality and the size of the files you create.

When you take a photograph, the size of the image file is huge compared to many other types of computer files since each pixel requires 24 bits (3 bytes) to store color information. As the resolution increases, so does the file size. A file for a low-resolution 1 megapixel image is 3 megabytes, and at 3 megapixels is climbs to 9 megabytes, and at 6 megapixels all the way to 18 megabytes. The files become too large to easily store, transmit, and edit. To make image files smaller and more manageable, digital cameras use a process called compression. Compressing images not only let’s you save more images on a camera’s storage device, it also allows you to download, display, edit, and transmit them more quickly.

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