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I have used Zone Alarm for years now, ever since my good friend from Hungary introduced the software to me.

My first virus software was Norton Anti-virus. Then, after quite a few too many computer crashes and hearing that the software was the cause, I switched to McAfee and paid for service for about three years after first receiving one-year free. But that didn’t last too much longer because I somehow got charged twice for one year and then got crappy service because my computer became virus-infected.

My friend, let’s just call him, Mr. P, told me about Zone Alarm anti-virus software many years ago. He told me he and other techies at his university used the software because it did the best job without causing computer problems on the side. I told him to show me the software! I then downloaded and installed the program, and the rest is history!

I have had Zone Alarm software now for over 5 years and have never had my computer infected with a virus. The software has, however, caught many viruses attached to emails. I get several hundred emails a day because I do a lot of Internet work.

If this software can protect me, I would be willing to bet it could protect your computer!

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I am not sure why Apple didn’t design a better way to deal with Contact Groups, File and Information Sharing, Calendar and ToDo apps in the iPhone OS. If you own an iPhone you may be wondering the same thing. The built-in apps fall short of providing stellar convenience, ease of use and technology. Apple may not have realized the potential the iPhone offers users when they designed apps for their OS. Either that or their designers are not as creative as the public sector.

If you came to this article hoping to find why Apple didn’t do a better job designing built-in apps, stop reading now. I do not know the answer. However, I do have an opinion on some apps that may help resolve issues where Apple failed in the Calendar, Note-taking and ToDo areas.

SaiSuke is about the best Calendar app out. It is as user-friendly as an app can get. It is straight forward, easy to use and gets the calendaring job done. It syncs with Google Calendar making it very convenient. The fact that you can copy events in your calendar and quickly paste them to future dates in just a few taps makes it even more convenient and user-friendly. The app provides users the ability to drag and move events in the daily view is extremely nice and saves time opening and editing. There are tons more features packed into this app that make it the best calendar app available so far.

As for Note-taking, Tanzaku, although not the best note-taking app, is the best one available that allows a user to use their finger or a specially designed iPhone pen to write notes and then store them in an endless hierarchy of folders that can be viewed in any position the user holds the iPhone. Users can also zoom in and out while viewing documents and folders using the same pinch finger-gesture. I love this app when taking notes because I can write faster than I can type on the iPhone.

Two other Note-taking apps are Awesome Note and Appigo Todo. They do an excellent job at recording Notes and ToDos allowing users to keep track of ideas, events and notes. However, none of them do a perfect job either. There are features that other apps have that, if available in these apps, they would be much better

One more very good app is called Organizer. It does a great job at what it was designed for. This app allows users to organize Calendar Events, Record Voice Memos, Draw, insert Photos, Contacts and Emoticons as well as cut, copy and paste. It is an amazing Calendar, Organizer and ToDo app, although, if previously mentioned features were built into this app, it would probably be the most sought after app in the iTunes store.

Apple needs to create a built-in app that has features from these five apps. If they did that, every iPhone user would have exactly what they need in their phone to create Calendar Events, ToDos and Notes, and keep themselves organized better than any other competition.

As for Contact Groups and File Sharing, there are apps out there that do a better job of organizing contact groups and sharing files, but they are not built into the iPhone so they only work well if other users have them pre-installed. Apple would do well to include apps like Bump and ABContacts and add functions that allow users to organize their groups and contacts from within the iPhone, not just off their desktop or mobile computers. Organizing groups is one of the most necessary features the iPhone is missing.

Sure there are tons of other apps available, but you and I have most likely downloaded them and already given them a try and found out that they lack even more features than the ones I’ve mentioned here today. For now, if you don’t already have these apps, download them and install them. You’ll be a much happier iPhone user once you do.

Adding a video can be a difficult task especially if you do not know much about videos, your iPhone or iTunes.

First of all, Apple has designed your iPhone to only be able to view specific formats of video. Flash files do not work; at least not yet. Users can view YouTube videos straight from the iPhone without having to convert anything. However, ff you shoot a video using your own video camera, download something off the Internet from a site other than YouTube or a torrent file, you will most likely need to convert the file to an iPhone-friendly format…MP4.

There are many software programs available to do this, but they cost $$. If you are reading this article, my guess is you are looking for something free. The best program I’ve found is Free Studio Manager. It’s a free download; free to download and free to use to convert all your video or videos, not just a little bit as a trial. There are no limitations to this software!

Download the software and then open it. Drag and drop the file you want to convert and let the software do the rest. Once the file is converted, you can add the file to your iTunes and then sync your iPhone.

To add the file to iTunes, open the software, click on File and then either Add File to Library or Add Folder to Library. Choose the file or folder and it will import into iTunes. Once that is done, you can plug in your iPhone. Once iTunes recognizes your iPhone, click on the Movies tab and make sure the file or files are present and available to be synced. Then sync your phone! When syncing is done, you should have a new video available to view using your iPod app on your iPhone.

Apple iPhone is picking up steam in the cellular phone wars in Japan. Japanese used to fear buying an iPhone because it has been labeled an American phone. So most Japanese think they cannot operate an iPhone because they think it doesn’t read or write or operate in Japanese.

So what’s changed? Not much except as more and more non-foreigner people run around with the very handy phone, Japanese are taking notice and becoming interested. However, they are not the only to notice the recent increase in iPhone purchases.

Docomo, eMobile and KDDI au are beginning to air commercials to combat the growing popularity of the iPhone. What is their focus? It seems to be games. Commercials on TV and in print show people having fun playing games on their cellular phones. As an iPhone user though, it makes me laugh. I have played some of the games on the old-style cell phones and they are nothing compared to the much higher quality intense games on the iPhone. On top of that, the screen size and interaction methods old-style cellular phones have compared to the iPhone are nowhere in the same league.

Docomo, KDDI au and eMobile must be hoping to catch the elderly cell phone users, those who know very little about the iPhone or those who are still afraid to make the jump from old-style cell phone to iPhone. If people in Japan continue to catch wind of iPhone and how much easier it is than they think, companies competing with the iPhone are sure to begin losing customers. Not even the latest touch screen phones being marketed by these companies can stand up to its competition.