The History of Web Browsers

http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/the-history-of-web-browsers/

Windows xp to 7

We aren’t talking about upgrading your Windows but we are talking about customizing your Windows XP to Windows 7. Google about many things and found very useful resources to convert your default XP GUI to latest Windows 7 GUI. Before that I should give you some preview of what your windows gonna look like.


(Click thumbnail to view original size picture)

1. Shell theme for Windows XP, Get it here
2. Icon pack of Windows 7, Get it here. (Only works with TuneUp styler, Get it here)

Instruction inside the pack in Step 1.

Enjoy!


Originally written here at BlogoFlux

General keyboard shortcuts

~:Microsoft Windows Keboard Shortcuts:~
General keyboard shortcuts
• CTRL+C (Copy)
• CTRL+X (Cut)
• CTRL+V (Paste)
• CTRL+Z (Undo)
• DELETE (Delete)
• SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
• CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
• CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)• F2 key (Rename the selected item)
• CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word)
• CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word)
• CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph)
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• CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph)
• CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
• SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document)
• CTRL+A (Select all)• F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)• ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
• ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
• ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)
• ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
• CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)
• ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)
• ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
• F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
• F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
• SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item)
• ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window)
• CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)
• ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name (Display the corresponding menu)
• Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu (Perform the corresponding command)
• F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program)
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• RIGHT ARROW (Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu)
• LEFT ARROW (Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu)
• F5 key (Update the active window)
• BACKSPACE (View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
• ESC (Cancel the current task)
• SHIFT when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive (Prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing)
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC (Open Task Manager)
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Dialog box keyboard shortcuts
If you press SHIFT+F8 in extended selection list boxes, you enable extended selection mode. In this mode, you can use an arrow key to move a cursor without changing the selection. You can press CTRL+SPACEBAR or SHIFT+SPACEBAR to adjust the selection. To cancel extended selection mode, press SHIFT+F8 again. Extended selection mode cancels itself when you move the focus to another control.• CTRL+TAB (Move forward through the tabs)• CTRL+SHIFT+TAB (Move backward through the tabs)• TAB (Move forward through the options)
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SHIFT+TAB (Move backward through the options)
• ALT+Underlined letter (Perform the corresponding command or select the corresponding option)
• ENTER (Perform the command for the active option or button)
• SPACEBAR (Select or clear the check box if the active option is a check box)
• Arrow keys (Select a button if the active option is a group of option buttons)
• F1 key (Display Help)
• F4 key (Display the items in the active list)
• BACKSPACE (Open a folder one level up if a folder is selected in the Save As or Open dialog box)
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Microsoft natural keyboard shortcuts
• Windows Logo (Display or hide the Start menu)
• Windows Logo+BREAK (Display the System Properties dialog box)
• Windows Logo+D (Display the desktop)
• Windows Logo+M (Minimize all of the windows)
• Windows Logo+SHIFT+M (Restore the minimized windows)
• Windows Logo+E (Open My Computer)
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-• Windows Logo+F (Search for a file or a folder)
• CTRL+Windows Logo+F (Search for computers)
• Windows Logo+F1 (Display Windows Help)
• Windows Logo+F1 (Display Windows Help)
• Windows Logo+ L (Lock the keyboard)
• Windows Logo+R (Open the Run dialog box)
• Windows Logo+U (Open Utility Manager)
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Accessibility keyboard shortcuts
• Right SHIFT for eight seconds (Switch FilterKeys either on or off)
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN (Switch High Contrast either on or off)
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK (Switch the MouseKeys either on or off)
• SHIFT five times (Switch the StickyKeys either on or off)
• NUM LOCK for five seconds (Switch the ToggleKeys either on or off)
• Windows Logo +U (Open Utility Manager)
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Windows Explorer keyboard shortcuts
• END (Display the bottom of the active window)
• HOME (Display the top of the active window)
• NUM LOCK+Asterisk sign (*) (Display all of the subfolders that are under the selected folder)
• NUM LOCK+Plus sign (+) (Display the contents of the selected folder)
• NUM LOCK+Minus sign (-) (Collapse the selected folder)
• LEFT ARROW (Collapse the current selection if it is expanded, or select the parent folder)
• RIGHT ARROW (Display the current selection if it is collapsed, or select the first subfolder)
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Shortcut keys for Character Map
After you double-click a character on the grid of characters, you can move through the grid by using the keyboard shortcuts:
• RIGHT ARROW (Move to the right or to the beginning of the next line)
• LEFT ARROW (Move to the left or to the end of the previous line)
• UP ARROW (Move up one row)
• DOWN ARROW (Move down one row)
• PAGE UP (Move up one screen at a time)
• PAGE DOWN (Move down one screen at a time)
• HOME (Move to the beginning of the line)
• END (Move to the end of the line)
• CTRL+HOME (Move to the first character)
• CTRL+END (Move to the last character)
• SPACEBAR (Switch between Enlarged and Normal mode when a character is selected)
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Microsoft Management Console (MMC) main window keyboard shortcuts
• CTRL+O (Open a saved console)
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CTRL+N (Open a new console)
• CTRL+S (Save the open console)
• CTRL+M (Add or remove a console item)
• CTRL+W (Open a new window)
• F5 key (Update the content of all console windows)
• ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the MMC window menu)
• ALT+F4 (Close the console)
• ALT+A (Display the Action menu)
• ALT+V (Display the View menu)
• ALT+F (Display the File menu)
• ALT+O (Display the Favorites menu)

WordPress: Homepage Ads ONLY After The First Article

Have you ever wondered how to show Google ads on your WordPress blog’s home page, but only after the very first article? Well, here is how you do it. And don’t worry, it’s quite simple, and you can’t permanently damage anything by giving it a try. ANYONE can do this!

1. In the PRESENTATION menu, under THEMES EDITOR, find the theme file called “Main Index Template” (index.php).
2. FIRST: Copy and paste everything you see here into a blank text file and save it. This way if you screw something up you can revert back to the original without hurting anything.
3. Find a line of code that looks much like the following:
4. Immediately after that, paste the following: ENTER YOUR AD CODE HERE
5. Save the document and refresh your page. You should see the ad ONLY after the first article on the homepage.


If it doesn’t show up in the right place, just try moving it around a bit and use a little trial and error. Also, remember to disable WP-Cache while you are testing the changes. If your pages are cached you won’t see the changes and it might throw you off a bit. You can enable it after you are satisfied.

Speed up browsing - Some firefox tips

Its not tech configuring tips for speeding up your daily browsing speed but its the thing that can make you browsing speedly by changing attitude of browsing.
Firefox has some inbuilt things that makes you browsing speedly but many people don’t know these.Don’t worry if you don’t know them I am going to post them here.
1. Firefox has default direction to Google I m feeling Lucky button setting.
You must be thinking how this thing is useful.
Now think you need to go to a website yahoo.com So what you need to do is in address bar just type yahoo and press enter.
Same way you can use it for all famous sites.Type orkut n press enter and reach to orkut.com
another use of this is if you need something product or anything then just type it out
like I need internet download manager then I would just type it and it will take me to official site or download page in most of cases.
If you need info about something like radio active just type it ,it will take you to the most relative page of your query.
Just try it and use it.Get used to it you will save a lot time in daily use.No need to use google to find a thing!
2.Remembering some useful shortcuts
You should get used from these shortcuts
CTRL + T - Gives you a new tab
F5 refreshes the page
F6 - Makes Address bar active.(Puts cursor there to type)
F7 - Actives the special mode where you can navigate on page by keyboard (very useful when you are not using mouse or less familiar with it)
Rather than some tech tweaks will help you like editing config.

Wordpress Security Flaw: Reset Admin Password of Any Blog Without Confirmation!

This is just way too exciting! Wordpress which is THE CMS of choice for bloggeimagers did has such a big security hole! Someone has found a way to reset the admin password without any confirmation and this can have serious consequences.

The hack is still open and can even be applied to the latest Wordpress release 2.8.3

This is how it works:

The normal password reset page asks you to enter the username or email address and if that’s correct then a link is send to the email address associated with that account to reset your password but note that the password itself is not changed and you can just ignore the email and carry on.

But hackers have found a way in which they simply bypass that check and the password is reset by passing a special value in the key parameter of the reset page URL.

This is all you have todo:
http://www.domainname.com/wp-login.php?action=rp&key[]=

Replace domainname with any domain name of a blog hosted on Wordpress and see it for yourself!

Don’t waste time trying this on ProgrammerFish because I have already secured it.
If you also want to know the fix then better search it yourself or wait for my update and until that time let me test this on some more blogs.

Here is a list of blogs that I have tried this hack on. Sorry guys. You can always restore your passwords though.

1) Our very own ProgrammerFish. Cannot be exploited now though

2) TechToggle – I really like this blog though
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3) TutPlus – Yeah yeah yeah! image

4) Tutorial9
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5) Wordpress Founder’s Personal Blog! ma.tt [Am not sure whether its reset or not but I think it is]

6) Noupe
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7) PKPolitics
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There are a couple others I tried this on and none of them was protected!

Note: I have just tried this as a proof-of-concept and nothing more then that. You will get an email with your new password and can always reset it yourself again. And sorry guys, OpenSource is not the best thing on earth!

http://www.programmerfish.com/wordpress-security-flaw-reset-admin-password-of-any-blog-without-confirmation/

How to Create an Invisible Folder in Windows XP

You Can Make Any Folder Invisible Without Using Any Software Or Program Just Follow These Steps:

1. Right click where ever you want the invisible folder to be and select create a new folder.

2 Right Click on the folder and hit rename. Erase the name of the folder so there is nothing there.

3. If you try to stop here windows will tell you that you need to provide a name. So to get around this with the name field still active hold down ALT and press 0160 on the number pad (make sure Num Lock is on), release alt

You should now have a blank name with nothing but a folder next to it

4. Now click on the nameless folder and right click. Select Properties.

5. Go to the Customize tab.

6. Find and press the Change Icon button. Scroll through the icons until you find one that has no image.

7. Hit OK and you have an invisible folder!

With the invisible folder you can hide what ever undesirables you have. Be it video games at work, pictures of your family or anything else you can think of "wink".

The folder will show up for a brief second if you put it on your desktop. For that reason it might be smart to place it inside a folder or amongst a group of folders.

Detect your Invisible friend On Gtalk

1.) Open Gtalk

2.) Double click on your invisible friend's name (u can use the search bar to find him)

3.) Click on the little button on top right of the chat window...... Choose Go off the record.

4.) Send him/her an IM (blah blah blah)

5.) If u see a message from GTalk saying mx@gmail.com is offline & cant receive your messages right now, it means he/she is offline.

if there is no message like this that means he/she is invisible.

Find him now :)

You are not a web designer if

1. you don’t know what a PIXEL is
2. you don’t know what a mockup is
3. you don’t know what RGB or CMYK is and stands for
4. you don’t know what screen real estate is
5. you only design and never code
6. you don’t know the difference between vector and raster
7. you have only heard about Photoshop
8. you can’t name an alternative to Photoshop
9. you know some cool Photoshop filters
10. you know only a way of selection in Photoshop
11. you don’t know what DPI stands for
12. you don’t know what image formats are
13. you know only JPG and GIF
14. you know some cool effects in Front Page
15. you don’t know what a DTD is
16. you use only HTML Transitional DTD
17. you don’t know the difference between HTML and XHTML
18. you don’t know what CSS is
19. you are inclined of using inline CSS
20. you don’t know anything about typography
21. you don’t know what a serif is
22. you’ve never heard about W3C
23. you know to code only in Dreamweaver
24. you test your web pages only in Internet Explorer
25. you don’t read web design blogs
26. you don’t use wireframes
27. you have a Mac. ( you are not necessarily a designer if you own a mac )
28. you have no knowledge of design history ( although this is something that can be learned between projects :D )

9 Great Ways To Build Links

1) Build a “X list”. Meaning a list of however many things you want on your topic. Example: 10 Ways To Make Money Online. People like to link to these type of posts/articles

2) Add a privacy policy and a picture of yourself to build authority on your website/blog

3) Create a list of the top 10 myths for a specific category

4) Post comments on other peoples blogs

5) Produce a free e-book and put a link for it on your homepage

6) Link to other blogs. By doing this most bloggers can track where links are coming from and they may in turn link back to your blog

7) Build a tool collection. Tools are always useful and people like to link to lists of useful tools

8) Add your posts to social marketing websites such as Digg and get your friends to tag it so hopefully it gets to the front page of the website and gets lots of hits / links

9) Make your content easy to understand and follow so that people are more likely to link to it

25 Tutorials To Get You Started With Blender

If you are an aspiring Graphic designer you should be already familiar with blender by now, but if you are thinking about being a game developer or a graphic designer you should know that Blender is not only the best free and open source choice but also rivals all commercial 3d applications out there. You can look at two very detailed comparison here and here. Blender is the only free 3d application compared against the heavyweight industry favorites like 3d max (which costs around $5000+) and the only second application to support all three major operating system.

Why Blender?

* Its free. Better than paying $5000 for a software.
* It rivals commercial software both in functions and features.
* Small installation footprint of 9mb. AutoCAD needs 2GB.
* Large community support with last version generating 800,000+ downloads.
* Intuitive user interface.
* Python scripting API for game logic.
* Third party free plug-in, textures, renderers and scripts available.

In simple words, and with all due respect to GIMP, Blender is closer to commercial products in terms of performance and features than GIMP is to Photoshop.

Hopefully these beginners tutorials of Blender will start your journey towards becoming the next rockstar graphic designer.

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/02/19/25-tutorials-to-get-you-started-with-blender/

50 Tutorials To Get You Started With Gimp

Gimp has been famously known as the “poor man’s Photoshop”, and perhaps rightfully so. That’s a complement Gimp won’t mind taking. While it would be an unfair comparison to make between Gimp and Photoshop, Gimp can easily meet needs of most amateur image editors out there and then some. Since its release in 1995 Gimp has come a long way in to being the most powerful image editing tool freely available out there. With these tutorials we hope to vanish some of the doubts you might have had about Gimp’s ability as a powerful image editor.

http://www.linuxhaxor.net/2009/02/09/50-tutorials-to-get-you-started-with-gimp/

Different way of one way back links

One way back links play a very important role in search engines ranking. There are following way to get back.

1-Article submission and comment posting.
2-Own blog creation and comments on blogs.
3-Participation in forums and place a link in signature.
4-Submission in book marking sites.
5-Submission in directories.
6-RSS feed submission
7-Press release submission

Useful SEO Tips

* Use keywords and keyword phrases appropriately in text links, image ALT attributes and even your domain name.

* Be bold - Use your tag in everywhere its required.

* Content is king, so be sure to have good, well-written and unique content that will focus on your primary keyword or keyword phrase.

* Site map: A big site needs a site map, which should be linked to from every page on the site.

* Article exchanges: There is a link exchanges, but not useful as they generally are. Article exchanges are similar to link exchanges but its much more useful. You publish someone Else's article on the history of pudding pops with a link back to their site.

* The bottom line in SEO is Text, Links, Popularity and Reputation.

* When optimizing your blog posts, optimize your post title tag independently from your blog title.

* Use a lengthy Page titles.

These are the few tips for you, hope your site will rank much better if you follow these tips. All the best....

Tips for Achieving a Low Alexa Ranking

Tips for Achieving a Low Alexa Ranking

There are many ways that you can create a better Alexa ranking for your website. The first and most basic is to always develop high-quality content that is relevant and concise. Beyond that:

• You must have the Alexa toolbar installed in order to start being ranked by Alexa. You can get it here.

• Make your website worthy of developing backlinks by keeping the content accurate and relevant. Part of the Alexa algorithm measures the number of other quality sites that are linked to yours.

• You need to position an Alexa ranking widget on your website. It’s a simple maneuver in HTML. The code is provided for you conveniently at the link above.

• Gently encourage visitors to utilize the Alexa toolbar and install it on their sites as well.

• Get your colleagues, friends, family and visitors to rate your Alexa profile in a positive manner.

• Include posts in your blog periodically about how to increase your Alexa ranking.

List of Pligg Sites

Here are some of the pligg sites i'm going to share with you

www.a1-links.com/bookmark/
www.spicybookmark.com
www.pittsburgh.juicytown.com/
www.pligg.se
www.pliggs.com/templates/june/
www.mecozz.com
digg.com
mixx.com
blogcatalog.com
bloggerschoiceawards.com
blogtoplist.com
bloggernity.com
Kewlr.com

The Webmaster Forum - Monthly Best Post Contest

I have already informed you about "The Webmaster Forums" which is going to be a very useful forums for web developers and Graphing Designers.... On January 18th they started a contest for their active members for 2 months till 18th march and the prize money is over $1500... to see more details about this contest click here: The Webmaster Forum - Contest ...

The happiness of the active forum members are not stopped here!!! They announced a new Monthly Contest... This contest is for the best post which is going to start from this february 1st. The result will be announced at the end of every month and the user who posted for the best topic is the winner of that particular month...

The prize is a free business hosting account for a year at Digiweb, including a free domain name (.com, .net or .org). You can choose between Windows or Linux hosting.

Rules
1. Your thread must be in compliance with our forum rules, as with any other thread/post.
2. Your thread must be posted in a subforum within the "Internet Marketing" or "Web Design & Development" categories.
3. Your thread must be useful to other members.

Note: Please add my name as your referrer of the forum if you like to... here is the link, http://www.thewebmasterforum.net

What's new in Photoshop CS4 Extended

The "Extended" version adds motion graphics functions and expanded 3D visualization.

Photoshop CS4 Extended adds 3D manipulation. We can can paint directly on 3D models and surfaces, merge 2-D files onto 3D images and animate 3D objects. We can edit properties like light and the ability to create more realistic renderings with a new high-quality ray-tracer.

We can turn any 3D object into a video display zone and can animate 3D objects and properties. There are more single-key shortcuts.

"The 3D painting enhancements in Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended save us valuable time by enabling artists to paint directly on our 3D flight simulator models in Photoshop instead of using a separate 3D paint program," says Luis Barcena, executive vice president of databases and modeling for Aechelon Technology, Inc., a leader in real time computer graphics applications for training, simulation and entertainment markets. "Additionally, the ability to perform localized color correction in Photoshop CS4 Extended lets us easily color correct and balance simulated environments and terrain databases using images taken in different climates to achieve a more realistic and compelling user experience."

Photoshop CS4 Extended lets radiologists render DICOM image stacks into a volume that can be viewed from all angles.

Robots.txt

The most basic technique is the "robots.txt" file. This file allows you to tell search engine robots what parts of your site that the cannot crawl. To start, you need to create a file called robots.txt, and it must live in the root directory for your domain. This means that if your site is "www.yourdomain.com" the robots.txt file must be located at "www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt". Do not place it any where else, because it will have no effect.

The basic technique is simple. To exclude all bots from your server, structure your robots.txt as follows:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

You can choose to disable only certain bots, simply by specifying the bot name on the User-Agent line, instead of using the "*" to indicate all bots. You can also specify that only certain directories are protected, with a file similar to this one:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /php/

The definitive definitions for the robots.txt file can be found at this location.

On-page elements

The Title tag
<title>some title words</title>

The Description tag
<meta name="description" content="a nice description">

The Keywords tag
<meta name="keywords" content="some keywords">

The H tag
<Hn>some heading words</Hn>

Alt text
<img src="url" alt="some alt text which is displayed on mouseover">

Bold text

Text

Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

The main Google's SEO to remember,

* Create unique, accurate page titles

* Make use of the "description" meta tag

* Improve the structure of your URLs

* Make your site easier to navigate

* Offer quality content and services

* Write better anchor text

* Use heading tags appropriately

* Optimize your use of images

* Make effective use of robots.txt

* Be aware of rel="nofollow" for links

* Promote your website in the right ways

* Make use of free webmaster tools

* Take advantage of web analytics services

The Webmaster Forum - Contest

I just heard about revenue sharing forums, where members can essentially earn revenues on the quality of there posts. This can be done because having better threads, that get more views can earn more money for the member creating the thread. As a community, it becomes a 50-50 situation for both the community and the members as it promotes discussion. Most Importantly The Web Master Forums has started a Contest for their active members ....
The contest will start from January 18th (today) and it will end after 2 months that's on March 18th. The winner will be calculated using point systems and the point details in mentioned below.... The prize money is over $1,500....

Prizes:
- 2 years free hosting from WebHostingPad (Value $95.04)
- 2X 1 year subscritions to GoStats (Value $180)
- One months free hosting plus a free domain name from HappyStar (value 14.90)
- 3 Month 125X125 Sidebar Ad Slot on InternetBabel.com (value $30)
- 3 single theme packages from briangardner.com (value $179.85)
- Multi-Use Citrus theme from Unique Blog Designs (value $99)
- Free domain + free 6-month reseller account from HostedFX
- 1 Month 125X125 banner ad slot at The University Kid (Value $30)
- 1 free press release from Two Believers (Value $285)
- BlogSlammer entire suite of software - BlogSlammer for windows, Server Edition, and SiteSlammer. (Value 494.92)
- Free 30,000 visitor campaign from Better Visitors (Value 91.95)
- 1 month subscription to Logo Search (Value 49.95)

1st place will get to choose any 3 of the above prizes, 2nd place will get to choose 2, and 3rd - 10th places can choose 1.

How To Earn Points
The contest will be based on a points system. You will get:
- 5 points for each new thread
- 3 points for each new reply
- 50 points for posting about the contest on your blog .
- Points will be removed for low quality posts or posts with bad english, and posts advertising another website.


What you are waiting for? click the link below to Join The Webmaster Forum... Just add "karthimx" as your referrer...

http://www.thewebmasterforum.net

Happy Posting !!!