How to Stop Receiving Fanbox Spam

A lot of email users experience problem with fanbox and question it spam messages. I have been receiving fanbox and question it messages for several months now. I started to receive these messages from my friends but later on, I have been receiving fanbox messages from people I do not know.

I already decided that these fan box question it emails are actually spam messages that I need to ge
t rid of. Unfortunately, I still receive fan box and question it messages regardless that I have already marked them as spam.

What is fanbox?
Fanbox is the rebranded sms.ac but I would like to adopt gadgetpanel.com's description of fanbox, "Fanbox is SPAM. They will phish your password and SPAM your friends." Take note of the word phishing. How to stop spam from fanbox?

How to Stop Receiving Fanbox Spam

Mark the fanbox email you receive as spam.
This may not totally stop fanbox from sending you with spam messages but this can blacklist the sender. Once marked as spam, fanbox mails may no longer go directly to your inbox but to your spam or junk mails.

To disable fanbox spam, click the "opt out" option from the fanbox email.

Click "Never" and "Save". I will try to do this when I receive my next fanbox spam mail and see if this will work.

Update August 18:

I have not been receiving fanbox spam mails for quite a while now until this week. A new wave of fanbox fan messages are arriving in my spam folder. The message comes from NOREPLY@fanboxnotes.com with the subject msg me on yahoo wants to be your loyal fan" and the email even has my own name on it!

Here is what the message contains:
Msg me on yahoo wants to be your loyal fan!

Automatically sign in to view msg me on yahoo's profile and/or photo, and accept or reject her fan request.
You can change the frequency of this type of notification. Visit our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy.
FanBox - 255 G Street #723, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
Spam protection
Computer users can do something about the prevalence of spam and viruses by taking advantage of spam blockers. It is even recommended that big companies that are in need of email spam filtering make use of anti spam appliance. A spam appliance is a hardware device that is used together with a spam filter software for instant messaging and email filtering and spam solutions.

73 New Wii Games for Release in 2008

For wii owners who have been looking forward to play better wii games, the new and upcoming wii games for 2008 may just be far better if not to become the best and most popular wii games to become available.

Here is a list of the wii games that are set for release this year.

Royalty Free Images for Use on Websites

Images on websites and blog posts can greatly enhance the appearance of a site as well as encourage visitors to read featured articles. This is the reason why many webmasters find photos and images helpful in improving the appearance as well as the readership of a website. Not all bloggers however are able to produce images that they can use. Thanfkfully, there are royalty free images that can be used on websites. Here are some sources of royalty free images that can be used in blogs and websites:



Amgmedia.com Royalty free photos in this site can be used provided that credit is given to the site and photographer.

Visipix.com The site provides free copyright images for private and commercial use.

Unprofound.com

Stockvault.net

Freedigitalphotos.net

Cepolina.com

Freindster Background and Layouts

Freindster, (correctly spelled as friendster) is considered as the most popular social networking site in the Philippines. While Filipinos have friendster alternatives such as the option to showcase their backgrounds, profiles and photos through blogs, many still prefer to check out public and private photos posted by their classmates and friends in services like Friendster.

By having an account and profile at friendster.com, long lost friends and classmates are able to find and communicate with each other. I opened an account at Friendster a few years back with the encouragement of my husband and since then, I was able to find old friends and classmates who are now based in different parts of the globe.

Background and History
Friendster is founded by Jonathan Abrams in 2002. In 2003 internet giant company google tried to buy the social networking site for $30 million but the offer was turned down. In 2007, Freindster introduced a social & photosharing community, the photodiary.com.

Free Layouts and Graphics
The popularity of freindster particularly in the Philippines is perhaps the reason why there have been massive searches on friendster background, friendster free layout and friendster tweaks. Thankfully, users of the social networking site no longer have to settle with the traditional friendster overlay layouts because there are now a number of sites that offer help in hacking friendster and provide skins, tricks and layouts.

Here are some of the hot friendster layout that users can find online:

Anime Friendster layout. Catz19 is a good source of anime layouts for friendster . The site also has friendster crossover layouts such as this one:

Free to Watch Animal Videos

Animal videos can be fun and entertaining but the best of it all, there are plenty of these videos that you can watch for free even without a login. Plus, if you are into SEO, the keywords might do wonders to your site traffic as well.

Updated August 2008: I made changes to this post. If you arrive here looking for videos or pictures, I suggest you try watching the following videos. They are fun and entertaining:

Grand Theft Auto 4 Release, Controversies and Reviews

The video game Grand Theft Auto IV is getting numerous searches lately with fans googling in search of xbox 360 cheats, reviews, maps and gameplay. Some have even been looking to download grand theft auto online or are searching about grand theft auto 5. The searches may be sparked by the worldwide release of the Grand Theft Auto 4 last April 29 but some of the searches may also be attributed to the grand theft auto vice city stories and controversy.

Critics of the grand theft auto 4 multiplayer video game consider it not suitable for minors and letters were even sent to retailers to discourage them from selling the "disgusting and violent" new grand theft auto games.

Nevertheless there have been good and positive grand theft auto 4 reviews. The wikipedia even says it is the best rated video game of all time.

Prepaid wireless broadband from Smart

Smart has introduced another wireless broadband service to Fiipinos who are gradually becoming dependent on internet access, SmartBro Prepaid. SmartBro Prepaid is a lot similar to the smart plug and surf only that Smartbro prepaid does not have monthly fees. The rate for using this wireless prepaid broadband service is P10 per 30 minutes of internet use.

The Smart broadband prepaid kit costs PhP 4500 and is inclusive of one and a half hour worth of internet access load. I believe that this also comes with the Smart BRO USB modem which will be used to plug into the laptop's USB port to connect to the world wide web. Reloading can also be reportedly done by buying credits from smart load retailers. Speed is reportedly up to 384 kbps in areas with 3G coverages.

Smart claims this can be used nationwide but I wonder if this smart prepaid wireless broadband will work if I go to the boondocks. I mean will the broadband work in areas without 3G coverages? I still need to get out of the house to call when I go to some remote places in the provinces that I go to sometimes. I wonder if I can use the prepaid broadband in those areas.

Beautiful Free 3 Column Blogger Templates

Here are some of the reasons why some bloggers prefer to use 3 column blogger tempaltes:

1. 3 column blogger templates can accommodate more widgets than 2 column templates

2. The extra sidebar in a 3 column blogger template can be used as an advertising space for google ads or similar blog revenue earning programs
There used to be a limited number of 3 column blogger templates on the web but now, say goodbye to hacking your blogger templates to add an extra sidebar. There are now a number of blogger template designers who offer new and better looking blogger skins for your blog. The best thing about these templates is that they can be downloaded for free. Here are some links that provide 3 column xml templates  for download online.



http://aspiredblogger.blogspot.com/2009/07/polaroid-3-column-blogger-xml-template.html

http://freeskins.blogspot.com/

http://aspiredblogger.blogspot.com/

Some of these 3 column beautiful blogger templates were actually inspired if not converted from wordpress themes. Unfortunately not all of the beautiful wordpress themes are available for download as blogger templates. Most popular magazine wordpress themes like Options and Structure, for example, have not yet been converted to blogger and not everyone has the ability to make blogger converted wordpress templates.