One of this seasons hottest mobile phones is the Nokia N95.

The Nokia N95 is equipped with an amazing list of features.

• built-in GPS
• photo studio
• mobile disco
• internet browsing
• 3G speeds
• interactive maps
• local city guides
• 5 mega-pixel clarity
• Carl Zeiss optics

What more could we possibly need in a mobile phone?

Save space and move forward with technology.  LCD digital picture frames are taking the place of traditional photos and frames. Just imagine viewing every photo of your latest vacation in one single picture frame. How about yearly photos of your children, or your wedding; the possibilities are endless with a digital picture frame . I had a chance recently to review some digital photo frames currently offered and I am very pleased to tell you that digital picture frames are going to revolutionize the way we view our pictures.

STCFX,

What are the differences between internet, intranet and extranet?

Carl

Hi Carl,

Thanks for submitting your question. Let’s see if we can help you understand the differences. We have color coded each to make things easier to follow.

Internet

This is the world-wide network of computers accessible to anyone who knows their Internet Protocol ( IP ) address - the IP address is a unique set of numbers (such as 209.34.28.100) that defines the computer’s location.

Most will have accessed a computer using a name such as http://www.stcfx.com . Before this named computer can be accessed, the name needs to be resolved (translated) into an IP address. To do this your browser (for example Netscape or Internet Explorer) will access a Domain Name Server ( DNS ) computer to lookup the name and return an IP address - or issue an error message to indicate that the name was not found. Once your browser has the IP address it can access the remote computer.

The actual server (the computer that serves up the web pages) does not reside behind a firewall - if it did, it would be an Extranet. It may implement security at a directory level so that access is via a username and password, but otherwise all the information is accessible.

Intranet

This is a network that is not available to the world outside of the Intranet. If the Intranet network is connected to the Internet, the Intranet will reside behind a firewall and, if it allows access from the Internet, will be an Extranet. The firewall helps to control access between the Intranet and Internet to permit access to the Intranet only to people who are members of the same company or organisation.

In its simplest form, an Intranet can be set up on a networked PC without any PC on the network having access via the Intranet network to the Internet.

For example, consider an office with a few PCs and a few printers all networked together. The network would not be connected to the outside world. On one of the drives of one of the PCs there would be a directory of web pages that comprise the Intranet. Other PCs on the network could access this Intranet by pointing their browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer) to this directory - for example

U:\inet\index.htm. From then onwards they would navigate around the Intranet in the same way as they would get around the Internet.

Extranet

An Extranet is actually an Intranet that is partially accessible to authorised outsiders. The actual server (the computer that serves up the web pages) will reside behind a firewall. The firewall helps to control access between the Intranet and Internet permitting access to the Intranet only to people who are suitably authorised. The level of access can be set to different levels for individuals or groups of outside users. The access can be based on a username and password or an IP address (a unique set of numbers such as 209.34.28.100 that defines the computer that the user is on).

Hello everyone,

As some of you might remember I create our “Cheap Links List” a while back and promised to update it with all the great text link offers I find; Well I have done just that.

We now have an ever growing list of great PR links at rock bottom prices. From PR6 links right down the line.

Be sure to view the “Cheap Links List” and bookmark it for future reference.

Cheap Links List: http://www.stcfx.com/index.php/2007/03/21/cheap-links-list/ 

Also, if you have or know of a site offering some great deals on PR links please feel free to sign up and share them with the rest of us.

If you have any other terms that we might have missed, feel free to post below.

0-9

• 1337 - From the word Leet, derived from the word elite
• 2 - too, or to
• 4 - for

A

• AFAICR/S/T - As far as I can recall / remember / see / tell
• AFAIK - As far as I know
• AFK - Away from keyboard
• ANFSCD - And Now For Something Completely Different. Used to change the subject of conversation.
• ASAP - As soon as possible
• ASL - Age / sex / location
• ATEOTD - At The End of the Day
• ATM - At the moment
• AWOL - Absent Without (Official) Leave
• AYBABTU (also abbreviated as AYB) - All your base are belong to us (from the video game Zero Wing)

B

• B2B - Business to Business
• BBIAB - Be back in a bit
• BBL/S - Be back later / shortly / soon
• BCNU - Be seein’ you
• Blog - Also known as web log or an online journal
• BOF - Beginning of file
• BOFH - Bastard operator from hell
• Bot - Any type of automated software in chatrooms and web-cataloging software
• BRB - Be right back
• BRT - Be right there
• BS - Backstab / Bullshit
• BSOD - Blue Screen of Death
• BTDT - Been there done that
• BTDTGTTSAWIO - Been there, done that, got the t-shirt and wore it out
• BTW - By the way
• Bump - Increment (For example, C’s ++ operator.) or a backronym for “Bring Up My Post”

C

• CBA - Can’t Be Arsed. A term to indicate or dictate laziness.
• Crawl - To retrieve a web page along with the hyperlinks that reference it
• Crapplet - A poorly written computer application
• CU - See you (later)
• CYA - See ya OR Cover Your Ass
• Cyber (prefix) - A term used to connect the subsequent word loosely to the world of computers or the Internet or sex over a computer
• Cyberspace - Virtual reality, the Internet, the World Wide Web, and other kinds of computer systems. Science fiction author William Gibson popularized the term in his novel Neuromancer. Gibson used the word to describe a virtual world of computer networks that his cyberpunk heroes ‘jacked into’

D

• DFTT - Don’t feed the trolls
• DGAF - Don’t Give A Fuck
• DIAF - Die in a fire
• DILLIGAF/D/S - Does it look like I give a flip / fuck / damn / shit
• DND - Do not disturb
• DOA - Dead on arrival. Refers to hardware that is broken on delivery.

E

• EOF - End Of File
• EOM - End of Message
• EOL - End of Life. Device or hardware that is at the end of its product life cycle.
• EQ - EverQuest
• ETA - Estimated time of arrival

F

• FAQ - Frequently Asked Question(s)
• FFS - For fuck’s sake
• Flamer - Someone who makes inflammatory, abusive or directly offensive comments. Similar to, but not quite the same as an Internet troll.
• FMCDH - From My Cold Dead Hands
• FOAD - Fuck off and die
• FOAF - Friend of a friend
• FTHOI - For the hell of it
• FTL - For the loss
• FTW - For the win
• FU - Fuck you
• FUBAR - Fucked up beyond all recognition / repair (from military slang; pronounced “foo-bar”)
• FUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (the purposeful spread of misinformation)
• FWIW - For what it’s worth
• FYI - For your information

G

• GBTW - Get back to work
• GF - Great/good fight/girlfriend
• GFETE - Grinning from ear to ear
• GFU - Good for you
• GFY - Go fuck yourself
• GG - Good game, used at or near the conclusion of a gaming match
• GL - Good luck, often used at beginning of a contest
• GJ - Good job, often used in online gaming when a teammate performs an act benefitting his team, such as killing an opponent or enabling that kill
• GMTA - Great minds think alike
• Godwin’s Law - Dictates that the longer a thread, the more likely someone will post a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler
• Gratz - Congratulations
• GTFO - Get the fuck out
• GTG or G2G - ‘Got to go’ or ‘Good to go’
• GR -Good Race
• GR8 - Great

H

• HAND - Have A Nice Day
• Handle - Name used in online chat, (AKA nick(name), alias, screen/user name)
• HF - Have fun
• Haxor or H4×0r (1337) - Hacker
• Hit - A request made to the web server, (noun) the results of an internet search, (verb) loading a Web page. Hits are not equivalent to visitors of a webpage.
• Home page - The website’s introduction page, starting point, and guide. The technical term is “index”
• Hot list - A collection of publicly available URLs (World Wide Web site addresses), sometimes available as text files.
• HTH - Hope this / that helps, or happy to help
• H8 - Hate

I

• IANAL - I am not a lawyer
• IAWTC - I agree with that/this comment
• IBTL - In before the lock
• IDC - I don’t care
• IDK - I don’t know
• IINM - If I’m not mistaken
• IIRC - If I recall / remember correctly
• IIUC - If I understand correctly
• ILY- I love you
• IMO/IMHO/IMNSHO/IMAO - In my (humble / honest / not so humble / arrogant) opinion
• Information superhighway - The Internet (AKA: I-way, infobahn)
• IONO - I don’t know
• IOW - In other words
• IRC - Internet Relay Chat
• IRL - In real life
• ITYM - I Think You Mean
• IWSN - I want sex now
• IYKWIM - If you know what I mean

J

• Jaggy - Aliased computer graphics
• JAS - Just a second
• JK or j/k - Just kidding, or joke
• JFGI - Just Fucking/Freaking Google It

K

• k or kk - OK
• KISS - Keep it simple stupid.
• KS(ing) - Kill-Steal(ing)
• KOS - Kill on sight
• KTHX - OK, thanks
• KTHXBAI or KTHXBYE - OK, thanks, goodbye, used either to cut short a conversation or to express displeasure with being cut short

L

• L2P - Learn to play; an admonishment to MMORPG players who are incompetent and/or whine
• L8R - Later, L8R also sometimes abbreviated as L8ER is commonly used in chat rooms and other text based communications as a way of saying good bye.
• Lag - Slang term for slow Internet speeds or high Internet latency; Lag is sometimes due to a server problem, but more frequently due to the connection between client and server. A slow or intermittent connection may often be referred to as laggy
• Lamer - A know-nothing, one who is lame.
• Leet - Often spelled as l33t or 1337 in ASCII form. It originally meant elite
• LFG - Looking for group
• LFM - Looking for more
• LM(F)AO - Laughing my (fucking) ass off
• LMIRL - Let’s meet in real life.
• LMK - Let me know
• LOL - Laughing out loud, laugh out loud
• LOTI - Laughing on the inside
• LTNS - Long time no see
• LYLAS - Love you like a sister
• Lurker - Someone who frequents a Usenet group without participating in discussions

M

• MMORPG, MMO - Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game
• MMOFPS - Massive Multi-player Online First Person Shooter
• MOTD - Message of the day
• MS - MapleStory, an MMORPG
• MTFBWY - May The Force be with you
• MUD - Multi-User Dungeon
• MUSH - Multi-User Shared Hallucination
• MYOB - Mind your own business
• M8 - Mate

N

• NE1 - “Anyone”
• Newbie, noob, or n00b - An inexperienced user of a system or game, or an annoying person.
• NIFOC - Naked In Front Of Computer
• NFW - No freaking way (polite form)
• NM - (Sometimes written N/M) Not much, Never mind or no message, used on message boards or in e-mails to indicate that everything is already said in the subject line.
• NP - No problem
• NSFW - Not safe for work. Warning about content that may get the viewer in trouble with his employer or co-workers.
• NVM, NVMD, or nm - Nevermind, not much

O

• O RLY - Oh really?
• OIC - Oh, I see
• OFN - Old fucking news
• OMG - Oh my god
• OMFG - Oh my fucking god/gosh
• OMGWTFBBQ- Oh my God, What the Fuck/Freak, Barbecue
• OMW - On my way or Oh my word
• OP - Original poster / Operator / Outpost
• OS - Operating systemOT - Off topic
• OTOH - On the other hand
• OTP - On the phone or One true pairing

P

• P2P - Peer to peer, or pay to play
• PAW - Parents are watching
• PEBKAC - Problem exists between keyboard and chair
• Ping - From the popular network monitoring tool, used as a greeting similar to “Are you there?”.
• PITA - Pain in the arse / ass
• PLMK - Please let me know
• plz - Please
• PM - Personal message or private message
• PMSL - Pissing myself laughing
• POS - Piece of shit, or parent over shoulder.
• POTS - Plain old telephone service
• POV - Point of view
• PPL - People
• PST - Please send tellPTKFGS - Punch the Keys For God’s Sake
• pr0n - Intentional misspelling of porn
• PW - Persistent World (gaming)
• pwned — Intentional misspelling of owned

Q

• QFA - Quoted for accuracy. Similar to QFT
• QFT - Quoted for truth. Used on internet message boards to show agreement from a previous message

R

• Rehi (or merely re) - Hello again
• RL - Real Life
• RO(T)FL - Rolling on (the) floor laughing
• RO(T)FLMAO - Rolling on (the) floor laughing my ass off
• RO(T)FLOL - Rolling on (the) floor laughing out loud
• RSN - Real soon now (used sarcastically)
• RTFB - Read the fucking binary (or book)
• RTFS - Read the fucking source
• RTFM/RTM - Read the (fucking) manual

S

• SCNR - Sorry, could not resist
• sk8/sk8r - skate/skater
• Smiley - Another name for emoticons
• SMH - Shaking my headSNAFU - Situation normal: all (fucked/fouled) up
• Snail mail - Normal paper mail service
• SOHF - Sense of humor failure
• Spider - The program behind a search engine
• STFU - Shut the fuck up
• STFW - Search the fucking web

T

• TANSTAAFL - There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch, from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
• TBF - Time between failures
• TBH - To be honest
• TG - That’s great
• TGIF - Thank god it’s Friday
• TH(N)X, TNX or TX - Thanks
• TIA - Thanks in advance
• TINC - There Is No Cabal, a term discouraging conspiracy theories
• TL;DR - Too Long; Didn’t Read, an admonishment that a post is too lengthy or lacks worthwhile content
• TMI - Too much information
• TOS - Terms of service
• TTBOMK - To the best of my knowledge
• TTFN - Ta ta for now
• TTT - To the top, used in forums to bump a thread
• TTTH - Talk to the hand
• TTYL - Talk to you later (also spelled TTUL, T2UL or T2YL)TTYTT - To Tell You The
• TruthTweedler - One who has deep love for all computer related technology and gadgets
• TWIMC - To Whom It May Concern
• TY - Thank you
• TYT - Take your time
• TYVM - Thank you very much

U

• U - You
• UTFSE - Use the fucking search engine

V

No Entries *

W

• w00t, w00T or WOOT - First two express exuberance, the latter is a backronym for the term “We Own the Other Team”.
• W/ or W/O - With or without
• WB - Welcome back
• W/E - Whatever
• WoW - World of Warcraft (game)
• WP - Well Played
• WRT - With respect / regard to
• WTB - Want to buyWTF - What the fuck
• WTG - Way to go
• WTH - What the hell
• WTS - Want to sell
• WTT - Want to trade
• WUG - What you got?
• WUBU2 - What (have) you been up to?
• WUU2 - What (are) you up to?
• WUW - What you want?
• WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get
• W8 - Wait

X

No Entries *

Y

• YARLY - Yeah Really
• YIS - Yours in service -or- Yours in Scouting. (Boy Scouts of America)
• YHBT - You have been trolled.
• YKW - You know what?
• YMMV - Your mileage may vary.
• YTMND - You’re The Man Now, Dog
• YW - You’re welcome.
• YOYO - You’re On Your Own.
• YOYOW - You own your own words.

Z

• ZOMG - An intentional misspelling of the acronym shorthand for “Oh My God/Gawd” and pronounced “Zoh My God/Gawd” This version is mainly used in jest or to ridicule people who use abbreviations like OMG and OMFG

I had a chance to review MarketingMule.com recently and I am very impressed with the collection of internet marketing tools that were available.

There were a few tools in paticular that I found to be most useful and would like to share with you all.

Website Grader (SEO Tool)

The website grader rates your site out of 100 by using various factors such as; Google PageRank, Web Page Structure, Domain Info, Use of Headers, Use of Images, Keywords, Google Indexed Pages, Google Crawl Date, Conversion Methods, Inbound Links, Technorati Ranking, del.icio.us bookmarks, Alexa Traffic Ranking, Readability Level.

Give it a try and let us know what your grade is.

Link Appeal

This tool will check any website or page and calculate the desirability rating of having a link on a certian page. This tool takes many factors into consideration; PageRank, number of outbound links and the overall percentage of links to html. This tool can be useful in checking potential link placement.

Ping-O-Matic

This tool is a must have for any blogger. This tool will notify various search engines every time you make a post on your site. Never wait for web crawls again, the bots will come to you. I have found this to be on of the most useful tools to me and I’m proud to say I use it on all my blogs.

Almost everyone at this point has a blog. This blogging game really has caught on. People have blogs for their new born babies where they can post all about their daily adventures as well as post pictures to share with family and friends. There are even blogs for pets!

With all this blogging going on there has got to be a way to blog for money right?

Right! Your blog can make you money just by doing what you love to do; blog.

How you ask? Simple there is a great new marketing strategy going on called blog advertising, people will pay to advertise on blogs, YOUR blogs. Think about it, you login almost daily to blog about your thoughts and opinions so what not blog for money?

Good morning everyone,

As you may have noticed there is now a fancy little image button located in the footer of each post. If you would like to make some fast cash you can click on it and review any of my posts.

How does it work?
I post, you review it and you make money sent via PayPal.

Do you have a blog?
If so, after you review my post you can include a button on your own site and have people reviews your posts too!

Pretty nice don’t you think?

As you may have noticed we have a new feature on STCFX; author avatars. You can upload your avatar in your profile and it will be displayed in all of your posts and comments.

We would like to thank Dan for this wonderful wordpress avatar plugin.

STCFX,

What are widgets?

I have looked all over the place for an answer that I can understand, but after reading up I am more confused than ever. Could you please help me? What are widgets?

Karley

Hi Karley, thanks for sending in your question.

There are many forms of widgets available for use either online or on your computer.

A great example of a widget would be a computer desktop icon - by clicking on the icon you are telling the computer to open a program.

Another more common example would be the now ever popular drag and drop features offered on many blogs and social networking sites. You select the “widget” you would like to have on your sites sidebar and simply drag and drop it where you want it to appear.

If you look on our sites sidebar you will see various “widgets”.

Widgets were created with the intention of simplifying the users experience.

Buttons, drop-down menus and text-boxes are all considered “widgets” due to the fact that they can be manipulated by the user to preform a desired action.

If you can click it, mouse over or type something and it causes a reaction chances are its a “widget”.

Hope that helps.