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There are many reasons why you may want to spoof your referral website, privacy is the obvious one. Websites usually log how you got there, either by search engine or clicking on a link, if the latter they will also log what website you were visiting before you went to them.

Spoof your referral page

There are also some websites that will only make their content available to those being referred from certain place, the Wall Street Journal for example wants you to pay in order to read their articles, but they have an agreement with digg and Google News. If you search for a Wall Street Journal in Google news and you follow the link  through them you will be able to access the complete article for free, but there is even an easier way to read the Wall Street Journal online for free, you will need to fake your referral website as digg.com, you can do this easily with a Firefox extension called RefSpoof.

After installing the Refspoof addon visit WSJ.com. Then, in the “spoof” field of the Refspoof toolbar type digg.com. Then, click on the “R” icon to the right and select “static referrer”. That is all, you can now read all of the Wall Street Journal for free.

UPDATE: As of 1st December 2009 the trick above seems to have stopped working, therefore here goes another way for you to read the Wall Street Journal online for free:

1) Copy the headline of the Wall Street Journal article you want to read.

2) Visit http://news.google.com and paste the headline on the search box.

3) Clink on the link leading to the Wall Street Journal article. That is it, now you will be able to read the full article for free, the WSJ journal has an agreement with Google News to let people referred by them read the full article.

Wall Street Journal Newspaper

If you just got your new shiny Windows 7 out of the box and are thinking about how to protect yourself from spyware and malware online, free antivirus software does a pretty good job, there is no need to shell out any cash if you are the average Joe Doe. Actually, most viruses get into computers thanks to people installing cracked software, they themselves authorise that trojan to be installed together bundled with their cracked program. The most stupid of all of them even install a hacked antivirus.

Here goes a list of free antivirus software that claims to be compatible with Windows 7, there is no reason why you should not look after your operating system security, even more given that you have to pay nothing, this is not a free trial this is truly free antivirus software with regular updates, if you want extra features you can upgrade to their paid for version, but otherwise it works just fine.

• Avira Antivir Personal Edition

• avast! Antivirus Home

• AVG

If you have an old computer with old hardware there is a good chance you may not be able to run the latest Microsft Windows 7 operating system, officially, if you want to run Windows 7 on your PC you will need this as a minimum:

Windows 7 Minimum System requirements:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
• 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

There is an easier way to know if your PC will run Windows 7, simply download Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, an official tool by Microsoft itself. You can get it from here:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/upgrade-advisor

This tool will also tell what software installed in your computer is not compatible with Windows 7.

Windows 7 minimum system requirements

You can now perform a clean, full-featured installation of Windows 7 for the price of an upgrade.

Simply follow these instructions:

1. Perform a clean installation using the Upgrade disc, you should have no problems here

2. Make sure there are no Windows Updates pending — if there’s an orange shield icon next to the Shutdown button in the Start Menu, that means you need to reboot before attempting the next steps.

3. Open ‘regedit.exe‘ from the Start Menu — just type it in there, where it says: Search programs and files. Accept the User Account Control dialogue that pops up to give yourself Windows 7 superpowers.

4. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/

5. Change MediaBootInstall from ‘1‘ to ‘0‘

6. Open the Start Menu again and type ‘cmd’ — use ctrl+shift+enter to run it as an elevated-permissions user

7. Finally, type slmgr /rearm — and press enter.

Windows 7 hacked

Your computer will now reboot and run the Activate Windows utility. Type in your product key, and there you go… a full Windows 7 with all of its utilities for eighty dollars less than the original price.