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Article Submitter v3 The facts and myths
What is Article Submitter and does it work?
The fact you are reading this article is proof enough that Article Submitter does work as this article was submitted with the software. But beware!! There is much to do before this submitter software can be used without crashes.
The Article Submitter software is quite good really, its sadly let down by its database of article websites that will accept your articles. Having spent days taming this beast and forcing it to do what it should do anyway, I decided to write this article about Article Submitter so others could make wise and informed decisions about buying submitter software.
Like I say, the software does the job, but needs a day or two invested into making it work to acceptable standard. If you are not prepared to spend this time then Article Submitter is not for you. As it simple does not work out of the box! If however, you are prepared to give up a couple of days and fine tune Article Submitter, you can submit articles all day long on virtually auto pilot. And submitting articles does work. You get loads of good backlinks, the search engines will love you and your site will rocket up the search engine listings. Creating and successfully submitting informative articles about whichever product or service your site offers, will generate high quality visitors and increased affiliate or sales revenue.
Why on earth the guys (or gals) down at Article Submitters office dont clean up the database is a total mystery to me. I used the latest Version 3 with the latest (supposedly cleaned) database to try out. The database had over 400 article sites listed when I got it. After deleting out the bad url’s, hacked sites and just simply badly set up sites, there were only just over 200 sites left. What took me two days would have taken them a couple of hours to sort out.
Basically, once you have created the author information page, you register it. Have a big sheet of paper and pen at the ready.
As this software goes through the automated process of registering a new account with all the article sites, you will need to note the failed ones. There will be 404’s, php / script loading faults, hacked by MOu34d, stuck pages or just times out. Note these urls in Article Submitters menu (left top) Where ‘Directory:’ will show the submission sites url you are on. In the
travel category for example we found initially around 40 dud sites for one reason or another. Close down Article Submitter and open up the file directories.cdb with note pad (Make a backup copy first in case you mess up). Scrolling down the list of directory sites, find the bad ones and delete everything beginning with containing the bad site. You can find some worked examples at my website linked at the bottom of this article. Save the file and open the program again. Click ‘Manage article directories list’ the page will then show in pink any sites that failed for some reason to register the author details. Note all of these and after closing Article Submitter, open up directories.cdb with notepad again and delete all those sites as before.
Next, choose your article and start submission. Have the pad and pen ready again as there will still be quite a few missed first time round and some will time out with bad php or poorly hosted. So note all these down again. When a site freezes or shows blank page or does some other weird php badly written script failure, just click the ‘Skip url’ button after noting it.
By now, you will have been working on the software for some hours and probably wondering why the heck you bothered. Well, Ive tried a few article submitters over the years and this one is brilliant once you’ve made the changes, it will work like a dream on virtually auto pilot.
Article Submitters database is stored under C:/Program Files/Submit Suite/ in that folder you will find a file named directories.cdb. This is the main file that Article Submitter stores information about which article directories to submit to.
Modifying it is a breeze once opened in Notepad.
For a complete worked example, go to the main article at bottom of this article. You can also download a cleaned Article Submitter database from there as well as a free trial copy of the software to experiment with.
The 5 Most Common Types of Viruses
Computer viruses are those malicious programs that once they infect your computer, they will start causing mass destruction to your PC. Similar to biological viruses, they can multiply in various ways and develop from one type to another. Since there are hundreds of viruses out there, here are the five basic types of viruses that people are most likely to encounter, in order to make the identifying process easier.
Trojan Virus
Worms
Macro Virus
Boot Sector Virus
File Infector Virus
Trojan Virus – This virus appears to be nothing more than an interesting computer program or file of a user who’s interested in collecting audio files. Once this virus enters your computer, it doesn’t reproduce, but instead makes your computer vulnerable to malicious intruders by allowing them to access and read your files. A Trojan horse must be sent by someone or carried by a program or software of some sort. The malicious functionality of a Trojan horse may be anything undesirable for a computer user, including data destruction or compromising a system by providing a means for another computer to gain access, thus bypassing normal access controls.
Worm A Worm is a virus program that copies and multiplies itself by using computer networks and security flaws. Worms are more complex than Trojan viruses, I should say, and usually attacks multi-user systems. It can spread over corporate networks via the circulation of emails. Once multiplied, the copied worms scan the network for further escape and will then cause errors on the network.
Macro Virus – This type of virus usually comes as part of a document or spreadsheet, more often found in an email. Many of the current macro viruses are written in this language and attached to Word documents. This capability is powerful, but allows viruses to be written and executed much more easily than by using other methods.
Boot Sector Virus – A virus which attaches itself to the first part of the hard disk that is read by the computer upon start up, which are normally spread by floppy disks. In time, they can spread to other readable disks. Booting problems and start up problems, problems with retrieving data, computer performance instability and the inability to locate hard drives are all issues that may arise due to a boot sector virus infection.
File Infector Virus As the name indicates, this type of virus was designed to avoid detection by antivirus software by changing itself internally. Upon running a program that has been corrupted by a file infector, the virus copies the malicious code and applies it to other executable applications on the computer. Files that are the most vulnerable to this type of infection have the extensions of EXE. and .COM, though any file is capable of execution can be infected.
How to fight some of these viruses is still completely a puzzle for anti-virus makers. However, knowing a little about your enemies could be an advantage to get vital information on how to defend your computer from those threats. Read on Virus Removal Help – How to Remove Viruses Easily From Your PC? in order to become more familiar with the steps on how to remove the common types of viruses from your computer.
CSV Converter Converts CSV to Other File Types with Outstanding Accuracy
We often need to move data from one format to the other. Take CSV for example. too often we need to export CSV to other file types to load that file to an application that does not support CSV, or it is just convenient for editing. But what’s a user to do? Until recently,we had to buy several specialized software packages to export to other formats, which was expensive. Also you could re-enter all data from a CSV database to a file in a new format but that would be too hard and require too many efforts. Hopefully, all of that is eliminated.
CSV Converter lets the user convert CSV to nine popular formats, such as DBF (Dbase III/IV, Visual Foxpro) , Excel (XLS,XLSX), TXT, HTML, PRG, XML, SQL, and RTF. To export a file, you just need to choose the source database, the target format and output directory. If there is anything in a CSV database that you do not want to be exported, the program allows you to set a filter by example and choose columns to exclude from the conversion, which gives flexibility in defining output database parameters. Once everything is set and configured, the next step is to start the process, which is only one click. The program intelligently parses the source database, converts all data to a li
st of data fields and saves the output to the output folder. All of this happens without requiring your attention. Also no external drivers such as ODBC or BDE are required. Claimed accuracy is around 100 %.
Advanced CSV Converter requires no learning after the installation. The user can begin your first CSV conversion right after the installation thanks to the wizard-driven interface that guides you through all the stages of the setup process in a step-by-step manner. In addition to exporting a single file, the user can also run a batch conversion of more than one file in one go. For this purpose, the user should select the folder with CSV files as the source, configure export parameters and start the conversion. Also although most people prefer to use the GUI user interface, some advanced users may prefer to do conversion from the command line, and the program provides support for this function too.
Once you try, you’re going to see that Advanced CSV Converter provides an easy and inexpensive solution to converting your data from CSV to other formats. The program runs on all versions of Windows, including Vista and Windows 7 (32/64-bit).