Child abuse on the World Wide Web has been on the rise. Children can access internet like never before. Internet has never been faster, easier to use, more advanced and cheaper. Compared to even a decade ago, a significant percentage of global population has now an access to internet facilities and their children have not lagged.

Good things apart, rampant child abuse on the internet has accompanied these advancements in technology. Parents can play a key role in preventing or containing cyber crimes against their children and ironically, they have technology as their ally. Parents need to first monitor the activities of their children on the internet and a good key logging software can help them do so.

What is a Keylogger?

A Keylogger can register the keystrokes on a keyboard and store the information for viewing later. A Keylogger can either be installed into a computer physically or downloaded from the internet. If you download a Keylogger from the internet, you do not need to remove it from the computer physically. There are a plethora of websites offering key logging software for download and many of them are for free. Obviously, you can find out the names of the websites your children have been visiting. So obviously, a key logger can provide valuable information on the internet activities of your children.

How can a Keylogger help in controlling child abuse on the web?

As stated earlier, a Keylogger gives important information about the websites your children have been visiting. This information will help you to take remedial measures. Key logging software has been evolving significantly and they are now amazingly easy and convenient to use. Most key loggers are windows-based and have an easy-to-use web interface. Your children would not have an inkling of someone monitoring their activities on the web. Most of the Key loggers also enable you to monitor activities on the internet from another computer, if you have the time.

Is it an intrusion on your child’s privacy?

It is a matter of choice and wisdom, really. Choice one: You concede privacy and allow your child to walk into cyber bullying and harassment. Choice two: You put your foot down and stop your children from visiting undesirable websites at the cost of irking your child. The second choice may not seem pleasant in the short-term but promises a lot of good things in the long term. Ideally, one should choose spying over privacy for the greater good of one’s child.

Key loggers certainly seem an able ally in the war against child abuse on internet. However, like most other things in life, there are flipsides as well. It is important to remember that Key loggers can be used to capture confidential information as well. In fact, key loggers have for a long time been the favorite tool for hackers who eye your confidential details (bank account number and passwords, for example). Keeping this in mind, it is important that the use of key loggers are confined to their ethical sides strictly.

About the author: Alia Haley is a blogger by profession. She loves writing on technology and luxury. Beside this she is fond of games. She recently bought a Gaming Mouse for herself. These days she is busy in writing an article on luxury yacht.

If you’re looking for a new job or are thinking about going into business for yourself, starting an online business might be something you consider. I first took the plunge and started an online business back in 2005 and I did so by setting up my first website using SiteBuildIt. SiteBuildIt (SBI) is an all-in-one website building and hosting service that enables people with no IT skills or programming experience to build their own website in one package. For someone like myself who had no prior experience in HMTL or CSS or other programming technologies, it was a great way to start and it might be a great option for you.

Right now, you can get a 2 for 1 deal through SBI whereby you pay for 1 website building package and receive 2. That way you can start up 2 websites for the price of 1 or perhaps split the cost with a friend so that each of you can start a website for half price. Either way, you win.

To learn more about SBI, the 2 for 1 special, and to see examples of others who have built a website – and in some cases a complete online business – using SiteBuildIt, click here.

Doing well in your career is important for nearly everyone on earth.  This is especially true, for medical staff such as nurses and doctors, business administrators, accountants, lawyers, and even celebrities! Of course, no matter how smart you are, the average person can’t remember everything he studied throughout their entire curriculum. This is where references come in handy.

For example, if you are a staff nurse that cannot remember the uses of a certain medicine, there’s the MIMS, a medical textbook that is literally a drug encyclopedia. For those who need to diagnose and chart the patient’s condition, there’s the NANDA. It will help depict and clarify all of the signs and symptoms you find in your patient and document them in an orderly passion. Even so, books like these will hinder you at your work station. Imagine going to work or to a meeting and bringing those thick textbooks with more than a thousand pages – quite tough, right? Want to carry something like this in a much smaller package? Well, the solution is just a smartphone app!

Smartphone apps are fairly common nowadays. They vary from calculators to diaries to calendars. So one must also think: is there an app for MIMS and NANDAS? Is there an app for the Civil Code and other legal rules? Yes, there is. The best thing about these apps is that you won’t have to carry those heavy books anymore if you need a guide in doing your everyday work, try these 7 smartphone apps that support your career.

1. Documents To Go

A professional’s life mostly revolves around documents, projects, and some more documents. So if you always deal with word documents, tables and spreadsheets, Documents To Go can greatly aid you in keeping your work organized.

2. iTimes Sheet

This app is a must-have for almost every professional out there. iTimes Sheet help keep you organized so you that you will never miss out on important job matters. Because time is gold, why not keep your time organized with this app.

3. Box

Box is a very helpful app that you can install on your smartphone. Box is like a big bottomless box in real life where you can place and organize all your important files and documents.

4. The Merck Manual

The famous Merck Manual that health professionals have been using for almost a century now is already available for iPhone and iPad. This app includes a wide-range of information about different medical problems and the corresponding treatment and medical approaches for them.

5. Pocket Lab Values

This small but handy application can be used by medical professionals and students in interpreting laboratory values and other test results.

6. QlikView

QlikView can be an important intangible asset for people who are engaged in the business field. In making decisions, you are most likely to seek the advice of consultants. But if you have QlikView, you do not need to approach a consulting company anymore because this app can already be your all-around assistant and consultant at the same time.

7. Legal Terms Pro

Law has a special language of its own. Even if you are a certified lawyer, you may not be able to memorize or remember every legal term there is. So if you forgot something, save yourself from the difficulty of browsing that thick legal dictionary, just install Legal Terms Pro on your smartphone.

Everyday work can be very demanding, so in order to succeed, you need lots of support and assistance. If you need some aid with your career, just look out for those career apps you can install on your smartphone.

This guest was provided by Danny Ashton who blogs regular about the best android tablets at
his blog android tablet fanatic .

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Many young adults are coming fresh out of college and are now facing the extremely tough challenge of getting a job. This task is no walk in the park. You have to constantly motivate yourself, pull yourself up by your feet, keep applying to the endless list of jobs, going to interviews, and following up like a machine, no matter how the interview went or what you think your chances are.

It would only make sense that, with the amount of stress and insecurity young job-seekers have to manage, people would seek some level of support from their friends and connections. This support is more and more becoming available online through social networks, through career networks like LinkedIn and even just social networks like Facebook. Using social media can definitely help you in your job search, but also be careful because some online behavior can actually be detrimental to you getting that perfect job.

To Post or Not to Post?

I know that it’s really tempting to post how terrible your job search is going so that your friends can console you, but you really shouldn’t use any social media for cathartic reasons regarding your job hunt. Even with security measures in place on your account, it is still not worth the risk.

Rather than posting about how tough it is to find a job, I advise you to invoke a writing practice I call “show and not tell.” So, instead of saying something like, “I’m so tired of applying for 100 jobs a day,” perhaps you should post something like, “just tweaked my cover letter and resume for (whatever field of jobs you’re adapting to) and have an interview this afternoon!” Don’t complain about being busy; just say what you’re doing, and people (including employers) will know that you’re busy.

How to Network?

As far as soliciting for job opportunities on social media through a general post (“Anyone know of any design jobs in whatever city?”), this might seem helpful in theory, but you can also come off as a little too eager or even desperate to get a job. Plus, you should know what jobs are available by using the many classifieds and job search engines available. These types of posts just make you appear lazy and looking for a handout. Not to mention, not everyone who lives in your area will even see it.

Rather than posting generally to all your friends or followers about aiding your job search, I recommend doing some research and searches to find who lives in your area and what types of jobs they have. If you feel like you know them well enough, give them a private message, asking how they’re doing, how their job is, and if they have any advice or know of any place around that is hiring.

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Ah, technology...

Basically we’re talking pre-Internet versus post-Internet here.

For those of you too young to remember life before the Internet, let me tell you that things are very different in a career and job searching context.

We’re talking colored resume paper and dot matrix printers and stuff like that.

I can think of quite a few differences just off the top of my head, Here are some of the more noticeable ones:

Pre-Internet: When you printed your resume in hard copy to send to a potential employer, you’d ask your friends and family for a second opinion as to which colour and stock of paper you should use. You didn’t want to pick the wrong colour or pattern nor did you want to pick a cheap looking one.

Post-Internet: They used to print resumes on paper?

Pre-Internet: When applying to jobs you either had to mail individual cover letters and resumes to every single company you wanted to apply to or as that wonderful invention (sarcasm) known as a fax machine became popular, you’d fax them to the employer all at your own expense of course. Stamps and fax fees added up back then!

Post-Internet: With the Internet you can easily fire off dozens or hundreds of resumes to many employers anywhere in the world and it costs you virtually nothing except the time that you waste by applying to jobs that you don’t actually qualify for but figure you might as well apply for “just in case.”

Pre-Internet: When you got a rejected by a company you had applied to, you actually got a written letter in the mail politely telling you they weren’t interested in you. In business school, we affectionately referred to it as a FOAD letter. FOAD stood for F#$% Off and Die since that was basically what the company was telling you. Clever, eh?

Post-Internet: These days you might get an auto response email the moment you hit “send” to deliver an email application or you might get nothing at all. I think I’d prefer a FOAD letter as at least it meant you got some closure.

Pre-Internet: When you were lucky enough to get a job interview, the first thing you thought about doing was going to your public library to see if you could get a copy of a recent annual report for the company you were interviewing with so you could memorize a few key figures about the company just in case they asked what you knew about them. Popular stats to memorize included annual sales and annual profits. Sometimes you’d try to impress the interviewer by pulling a quote out of the annual report and telling them you were aware of their recent acquisition of a company and how it fit into their long terms plans, or something like that.

Post-Internet: With the Internet, you can find out virtually anything about a company without having to leave the comfort of your home. You can learn about probably every senior manager there too since they probably all have a Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn account too.

Pre-Internet: Before the Internet, it was difficult to imagine that you could realistically do anything in public that would ruin your reputation for life.

Post-Internet: Post Internet it’s difficult to image there was a time where it was virtually impossible to do anything that would ruin your reputation for life. Think drunken Facebook photos and cellphone cameras.

Think before you type when it comes to anything you do online...

Technology is great but sometimes it can get people into trouble if they misuse it or don’t take enough time and effort to use it properly.

I tend to notice little things when it comes to how people act and one of the things I tend to see more and more is how the use of email makes people lazy. I always open emails by saying “Hi Marc” or “Hey Joan” depending on who the person is and how well I know them. The nature of the correspondence also tends to dictate whether I’d start the email with “Dear Karen” if I was applying for a job for example.

Many people simply reply to an email without the opening salutation and simply start the email with their response which kind of annoys me.

How hard is it to say hi to the person you’re trading emails with?

Certainly if you’re trading a string of emails, the second and subsequent ones tend to less formal and that’s cool but for the opening one I just think it’s professional and good mannered to at least address the person you’re dealing with.

OK, perhaps that’s a small one…It just bothers me for some reason.

There are certainly much bigger issues when it comes to digital etiquette like whether or not you should be friends with your boss on Facebook for example. I guess it depends on the job you hold and how it’s perceived in that industry. If you work in a professional and old-school environment, perhaps it’s not such a great idea. But if you work in social media or in another Internet-related field, or perhaps in another funky field where technology is embraced, perhaps it’s not such a bad idea.

I guess a bigger question is how to react if you’re a manager who gets friended by a staffer or the reverse, where you’re an employee who gets friended by your boss. In these instances, I think the above-mentioned comment about the industry and job you have might help to play a part as does your actual interest in being friends with that person.

Yesterday I read a story about teachers who had been told by their school board not to become friends with students on Facebook. This one is probably a bit more obvious but I’m sure there are some teachers and other professionals who’ve gotten themselves into trouble by getting a bit too close to students or patients or other people who they should have maintained a more formal relationship with even if there was no bad intent.

These days it’s increasingly difficult to do anything that doesn’t get noticed by someone especially when whatever you’re doing is done online.

Just ask the high school secretary in Quebec who got fired from her job after it was found that she was moonlighting as an online porn star…

Whether it’s is fiddling with your iPhone or other device during meetings or your cellphone going off in a job interview, digital etiquette seems to be something that many people probably need to think a bit more about especially when they’re in an environment where people noticing how you’re acting can hurt you if it’s perceived that you’re being rude.

When it comes to social media, there’s the further realization too that much of what you do online – that is available for other people to read – is time-stamped so do you really want your boss and colleagues knowing that you’re spending your work hours playing around on non-work related social media sites?

We’ve still got one week left in 2010 but with the holidays coming up and people’s focus probably going elsewhere for a few days or more, here are some things to think about that you can do for the upcoming year that can help to benefit your job searches, your career and by extension your life:

Turn over a new leaf in the new year

1. Stop tweaking: I’m a tweaker so I know this is an area I need to improve upon. By tweaking, I mean tweaking your resume, tweaking your cover letter, tweaking anything over and over again when you could be otherwise spending your time doing something more productive like meeting people who could positively influence your career. I constantly tweak my websites and posts but I’ve been trying to focus more on adding posts and good content and worrying about the really important things and less on making little changes here and there. Sure, making improvements is great and often necessary but so is looking at the bigger picture and actually getting stuff accomplished that will lead to a bigger payoff than simply tweaking what you’ve already done.

2. Get out and meet new people: Using the online social networks is great and it can pay off especially if you’re in a profession that values this sort of networking but actually meeting new people face-to-face is a tried and true method that works too. Social media is evolving and over the past few days, we’ve learned that Yahoo is shutting down Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, and AltaVista with several other services potentially getting shut down too. It seems that the social networks are consolidating as consumers have generally decided that Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn tend to be the ones that they use for work purposes. These also tend to among the higher profile networks for those of us who really couldn’t be bothered signing up for every new one that pops up. While spending time on some of the more popular career-oriented networks can help your career, the last thing you want to do is focus the majority of your job search using these services. And at the end of the day, job interviews tend to be held face-to-face, not through an Internet connection.

3. Ask for help: Another area I have personal experience with…I tend to be someone who tries to do things myself because I like not to have to rely on other people plus I like the feeling of accomplishing things on my own. Having said that, no one wants to be a jack of all trades and master of none and the fact is that we will never know everything. There is always someone else who knows more about a topic than we do and we shouldn’t feel like we shouldn’t ask for help when the time comes. By asking for help, it could be asking someone specific – like a peer, colleague, manager, friend or mentor – or it could be consulting the web. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve been trying to figure something out and simply typed what I’m looking for into Google (my favorite search engine truth be told) and find that I can quickly find the answer rather than having to search for it myself. Just yesterday I was trying to figure out how to do some programming work on another website and not being a programmer by trade but someone who likes to dabble, I spent some time trying to figure it out and then simply typed my problem into Google…and had the answer about 1 minute later. You won’t always get your problems solved through a search engine but if you’re unsure about something related to your career, don’t be afraid to ask for assistance from someone who can help.

I recently learned about a website that I hadn’t heard of before called Quora. It’s a question and answer site developed by former Facebook execs. You can check out my new Quora profile here.

How can you use Quora for your career?

Quora is a website where people ask questions and other people answer them. The goal is to provide the best answer possible for the question so that when you visit the site, you expect to view answers that are credible and useful. You can follow people and people can follow you just like do on Facebook and Twitter. So as far as your career goes, not only can you establish your credibility by posting questions and answers, you can link up with like-minded people who share the same interests as you do. I began by following topics that I’m interested in related to career and job searching, Internet marketing, investing and things of that nature. I even added fantasy sports which I also like.

Everything you do on the site such as asking and answering questions or editing existing topics gets tied back to your account so people who visit your page or follow you can check out all of your contributions.

Check out here to set up a free account and to start searching for topics (and people) who interest you.

Email makes you strong

Email can also cost you during job searches when you don’t pay enough attention to what you write and make grammatical or spelling mistakes that the reader takes as meaning that you are either aren’t a good speller or are lazy and don’t double check your work.

I’ve seen cases where candidates who I was working with wanted to send a thank you email following an interview and sent a draft of the email to me first so I could check it over. In some cases, the email probably would have hurt them more than it would have helped them because it had spelling mistakes and grammatical errors that didn’t make them look too good. At this point, some hiring managers look for a reason not to hire someone and certainly sending a poorly written email might be a good start to lose out on a job.

I’ve also seen people turned down for resumes because their resume or cover letter was poorly written so this sort of thing can hurt you as well.

While people often use email to hide behind rather than picking up the phone to call someone, email can sometimes help you get in touch with a person who might prefer it as a contact method. I recall contacting people and leaving them several messages and not hearing back from them but when I emailed them, I heard back from them within minutes receiving a response from their Blackberry or iPhone.

It goes to show you that sometimes when contacting someone, a combination of methods – phone and email – often yields the best results.

When possible it doesn’t hurt to ask someone what their preferred method(s) of contact is just so you know in advance.
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With the Internet changing the way we search for jobs – and the way recruiters and hiring manager search for potential employees – comes the ability to search for a new job using some of the existing technologies you’re already using.

Twitter is a great example of a technology that can be used to find a new job and at a minimum to network and meet people (virtually meet them anyways) who might be able to positively influence your job search and ultimately your career.

I recently read a newspaper article that gave examples of people who had found new jobs using Twitter. In one case, the person had followed a Twitter feed that advertised local jobs and saw a tweet that referenced a job that interested him. He applied for it and got the job.

In another instance, it was a case of someone who had been followed by another person on Twitter who ended up interviewing them for a job after following them for awhile, learning about them, and being impressed enough by what they saw to ask if they’d be interested to interview for a new job.

It goes to show you that technology like this can be used for your advantage in a career setting. It also goes to show you the importance of keeping your profile – in this case your tweets – professional.

As an aside, I also know of recruiters who in some cases either use LinkedIn exclusively or almost exclusively to search for job candidates to fill their jobs which is another great way to get noticed online by people you don’t currently know. The same might be said for actual hiring managers who use LinkedIn to find staff for their company.