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Website of the Day: Friday July 9th
>> Stop the wobbly man from falling over
Thanks to listener Ed Lacey for tipping me off about this one. Another game and one that’s very simple but VERY addictive. You are charged with assisting an inebriated gentleman to walk home from what appears to have been some kind of liquid-charged celebration. You just move your mouse from left to right to help him balance and walk as far as he can without falling over and nodding off!
Website of the Day: Friday July 9th
>> Racing Frogs
We love a good game for the weekend, so here’s one aimed primarily at 7-13 year old children (which may explain why we’ve got hooked on it in the office this week!) The main game is free to play, but be warned that to enter the VIP zone you’ll need a password available by premium rate SMS or in the Racing Frogs Children’s book.
In the game you adopt the role of frog trainer. When you first load the site, there’s a 10 second delay before you can create your first frog. From there you get to name and accessorise your virtual frog, train it in the frog gym, select its diet and buy it presents ranging from a pogo-stick to a computer. The races take place overnight and you receive an email from your frog every morning telling you how it got on.
Website of the Day: Thursday July 8th
There are two kinds of pop-up adverts ... Those which appear only when you visit a certain webpage, and those which pop up all the time, even when you’re not connected to the internet. BBC Webwise has a useful feature about popup blocking software here.
Be aware that some pop-up blockers can also close legitimate pop-up pages (like photo galleries, webcam windows and the BBC Radio Player for example) Having said that, I find that the pop-up blocker which is built into the Google Toolbar is pretty flexible, so that it can be taught to only block the pop-ups you don't want.
If you find that ads popup even when you're not already online, this means that a site you have visited, or some software that you have downloaded has installed a piece of so-called spyware or "scumware" which is causing these particular pop-ups.
If that's the case you'll need to download and run a free "spyware remover" which scans your machine for any rogue programmes and helps you remove them. The best established spyware remover is called Ad-Aware - it comes in several different versions but the free version should be adequate for most home users
If Ad Aware doesn't work for you, the other leading (free) spyware removal software is called Spybot Search and Destroy
Like anti-virus software, it's important to keep spyware removal software up-to-date for it to work properly. So do be sure to download the latest reference file for Ad Aware or Spybot before you scan your system, to make sure it picks up all the most recent rogue programmes.
For more information on spyware in general, there's another useful feature on the BBC Webwise site.
Website of the Day: Wednesday July 7th
>> Fix the Fells
This brand new site has been put together to support a campaign to repair damage to some of the most beautiful footpaths in the Lake District. A combination of the region’s extreme weather conditions and the huge number of walkers exploring the paths has created an urgent need for extensive restoration work to deal with the erosion problems. The site explains how the damage occurs, invites users on a virtual tour of some of the damaged paths andenables people to donate money to repair them.
Website of the Day: Wednesday 7th July
>> Pig Brother on BBC Cumbria
Tying in (very loosely!) with today’s Lake District theme, people whose interest in Big Brother is waning may want to switch their allegiance to BBC Cumbria’s spoof online reality series, which stars 8 animals made entirely from modelling clay who are taken out of their natural environment and locked in an ark moored off Maryport.. Video highlights from the Pig Brother house are posted on the site on Friday mornings with text updates at least twice a day. We’re quite taken with Frank the ‘scouse frog.
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