The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

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The Lost Symbol is a novel written by Dan Brown and published by Doubleday. It is the sequel to his 2003 novel, The Da Vinci Code. The novel again features the fictional, mystery-solving Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon. It is set in Washington D.C., and the story takes place over a 12-hour period. The Langdon character also appeared in Brown’s 2000 novel, Angels & Demons. 

According to a Reuters article published July 8, 2009 :

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   ‘Brown's U.S. editor Jason Kaufman from Knopf Doubleday, an imprint of Random House, said in a widely reported statement that the book is "largely" set in Washington but "it's a Washington few will recognize."
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         "As we would expect, he pulls back the veil -- revealing an unseen world of mysticism, secret societies, and hidden locations, with a stunning twist that long predates America," said Kaufman.’
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Brown himself revealed in 2006 that the book's release date of September 15, 2009 would have significance. Adding the numbers 9/15/09 equals “33.”

When the hardback edition of “The Da Vinci Code” was published, Dan Brown intentionally placed clues within the cover artwork about his next novel. Brown’s books make frequent use of symbolism and secret code breaking. On the inside paper flaps of the original hardback edition, certain letters were printed darker than others. When copied down in order, they revealed a phrase of ritualistic significance specific to Freemasons. The first announced title of the book was “The Solomon Key,” and the biblical story of the building of King Solomon’s Temple in 1000 BC is central to Freemasonry’s ritual ceremonies and mythical origins.

In May of 2004, Brown made a rare speech in Concord, New Hampshire, and said his sequel to The Da Vinci Code would be about the Masons. He added that Masons should be happy because there is so much misinformation about the group.2

Once The Lost Symbol was published, speculation came to an end. Freemasonry does indeed appear throughout the book, and is central to the story. The headquarters of the Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction, the House of the Temple, is the setting for important (and harrowing) sequences in the story.

New Dan Brown Title Boosts Ebook Future

The electronic book reader reaches adolescence next month when Dan Brown's "The Last Symbol" will be published simultaneously in print and download format.

The release day is Sept. 15. The publisher Doubleday said the first press run is 5 million books priced at $29.95. The e-book version is considerably less; Amazon's Kindle version and the Sony Reader offering are $9.99.

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System Utilities

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system. CPU-Z yields an impressive data sheet of a computer system's functions and operations. By cutting out a lot of technical and manual searching, this handy freeware generates a list of information that computer lovers will find very helpful.

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This powerful application offers extensive utilities to improve your system's performance and protect your privacy. Glary Utilities' well-organized interface allows users to easily choose from several tools. It cleans unwanted junk files and removes invalid and broken shortcuts, freeing up valuable disk space.

Process Explorer v11.33

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded.Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

Watch Pacquiao Vs Clottey Live Online Free

Going for 50-3-2, 38 KO stat, Manny Pacquiao will engage in a WBO welterweight title defense against Joshua Clottey of Ghana, holding 35-3, 20 KO record. March 13, 2010 is a day for Pacquiao Vs Clottey Live Streaming Online, live from Arlington, Texas for the welterweight contenders Pacquiao and Clottey..

Pacquiao vs Clottey fight is full of great anticipation from both camps. Pacquiao sees Clottey as a good defense fighter, while on the other hand, Clottey respects Pacquiao and it is an honor for him to fight the pound for pound king. Both fighters carry utmost respects for each other

Where to watch Pacquiao vs Clottey Fight in the Philippines. In view of the Manny Pacquiao vs Joshua Clottey fight this March 13, 2010, I found the following list on where to watch Pacquiao vs Clottey fight, in case you are in the Philippines. For sure, millions of boxing fans around the world may be able to avail the related stream but for some, they have to rely on cable network coverage to witness the fight. Now you don’t have to worry if you can’t catch the Pacquiao vs Clottey live streaming online, just go to one of the establishments listed below, secure your seat or set a reservation for you and your friends and family members.

Watch Pacquiao vs Clottey Fight in the Philippines / List of establishments in the Philippines to watch Pacquiao vs Clottey fight, which will be aired on Sunday, March 14, 2010.

Glorietta 4. At Cinemas 1 and 2 of Glorietta 4
- P600 per head, food and drinks not included
- Call 752-7880 to inquire about seat availability

SM Malls, SM Cinemas nationwide
- P550 per head, food and drinks not included
- Call 831-7000 local 2670 to inquire about seat availability

Shangri-La Plaza, Shang Cineplex
- P700 per head, food and drinks not included
- Call 633-2227 to inquire about seat availability

TGI Friday’s, all TGI Friday’s branches
- P750 per head (P250 is consumable; will be deducted from the food bill)
- Booking is made on a first come, first served basis

National Sports Grill — Greenbelt 3
- P500 per head (main dining hall) and P300 per head (Al Fresco), food and drinks not included
- Booking is made on a first come, first served basis

Dencio’s Metrowalk
- P620 per head, inclusive of breakfast (beef tapa), iced tea, and beer
- Booking is made on a first come, first served basis

Edsa Shangri-La Hotel – Isla Ballroom
- P1,500 net per head, inclusive of breakfast buffet
- Call 633-8888 for reservations

Thanks to abs-cbnnews.com for the list!

Watch Pacquiao vs. Clottey Road to Dallas from HBO

You can now watch below the "Road to Dallas" the documentary series for the upcoming fight dubbed as the Manny Pacquiao vs. Joshua Clottey "The Event."

This video shows the story behind the fighters and their training in going to the fight to the Dallas Stadium. By the way, this documentary premiere (which as you see is only 7 minutes) is on preview and I am still looking for the complete video of the said show that just aired on HBO. Enjoy!

How to remove unwanted Startup Programs in Windows Vista?

There is a another method to increase your Vista or Windows 7 to its loading upon at start up. By default, your installed application may load or its loaded because of pre-installed program that is created by putting an application that will load at start up or a script that will load at your start up.

And because of this you notice that at start up your computer is at low speed or make you wait for 5 minutes in order to load all programs that you have installed to your computer or without knowing that your is infected by third party program that is installed unseeingly when you are browsing to the net.
And because of this your usage of RAM is to high more than 50% percent of your memory usage, and this time you need to free some space in order to run smoothly and faster.
So to improve your start up loading, you need to remove some unwanted programs in order to increase the performance.
Here is how to removed some unwanted programs of windows vista and windows seven.


Click the Start button and Type MSCONFIG in the Search Box and hit Enter. (If you are using XP, go to RUN and type MSCONFIG)

You will get System Configuration Window. Click the Startup tab and uncheck all the programs or applications that you don’t want to automatically load every time you use your PC.

Usually, you can safely uncheck all apart from any antivirus software, applications like Windows Defender, or any applications that you would love to have every time.

After unchecking the ones that you don’t want, Click OK. In the next window, you may choose either to restart or later and the effects would take place next time you start your PC.

Next time when you start your computer you should feel the difference provided currently you had a huge list of unwanted startup items.

Free Software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and that manufacturers of consumer-facing hardware allow user modifications to their hardware. Free software is generally available without charge, but can have a fee.

In practice, for software to be distributed as free software, the human-readable form of the program (the source code) must be made available to the recipient along with a notice granting the above permissions. Such a notice either is a "free software license", or a notice that the source code is released into the public domain.

How does technology affects you on your everyday life?

Hello everyone, nowadays technology is innovating and has a great affect on us, we can now send easily our message through internet by chatting, emailing and by social networking, pen-pals strategy is becoming a history, because now we can connect our communication through internet with personal computer.

We don't use type writer anymore, we use printer that we can customize the fonts, style, color, size and by printing a design.  We can customize our PC to our desire specifications with a good video graphics in order to play the game and you can increase your RAM to maximize your speed and by choosing the exact processor that fit to your motherboard. And by choosing a good monitor that you can see clearly the details of the graphics. A good store where to buy a computer is PC Express. Our daily activities with technology and modernization makes our life easier .

Fixed Regedit cannot open

This problem cause by third party program that runs in your pc without knowing where and when this started , you will noticed your computer suddenly slowing but you are thinking that because it is old or over use. But actually some viruses did this to your machine you actually killed the virus but the virus had done already secretly managing some editing with your registry.   CAUSES Corrupt registry settings or some third party product (or virus) can change the default configuration for running EXE files. This may lead to failed operation when you try to run EXE files.

SOLUTION:

1. Click Start, and then click Run.


2. Type "command.com" , and then press Enter. (A DOS window opens.)


3. Type the following:

"cd\"

"cd \windows"

Press Enter after typing each one.

4. Type copy "regedit.exe regedit.com" and then press Enter.

5. Type "start regedit.com" and then press Enter.

6. Navigate to and select the key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\exefile\shell\open\command

7. In the right pane, double-click the (Default) value.

8. Delete the current value data, and then type:

                           "%1" %*

Tip: Type the characters: quote-percent-one-quote-space-percent-asterisk.

Navigate :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\regedit.exe
in the right panel, right click of the mouse on the value "Debugger" and delete ! (Date of Value are C:\windows\notepad.exe)
one more in to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\msconfig.exe
in the right panel, right click of the mouse on the value "Debugger" and delete ! (Date of Value are C:\windows\notepad.exe)
Now close regedit
and try open "regedit" from RUN window
or direclty in to the your system folder c:\windows\regedit.exe

ok after this tip, if you cant open regedit because you read the  windows xp message:
Regedit.exe has been disable from system administrator
you can try whit this tip for fix disable rules:
1) Go to start > settings > control panel > folder option (open this icon)
2) Go to View window
3) You need to enable "Show hidden files and folders"
4) You need to disable "Hide extensions for known file types"
5) Click on "Apply" and "OK" button too.
Now you can read all real extensions and hide files and folders in your computer
6) Go to your desktop
7) Right click mouse on desktop > new > text document
Call text document "unhook.txt"
8) Now open "unhook.txt" and paste this inside "unhook.txt":
[Version]
Signature="$Chicago$"
Provider=Symantec

[DefaultInstall]
AddReg=UnhookRegKey

[UnhookRegKey]
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\batfile\shell\open\command,,,"""%1"" %*"
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\comfile\shell\open\command,,,"""%1"" %*"
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\exefile\shell\open\command,,,"""%1"" %*"
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\piffile\shell\open\command,,,"""%1"" %*"
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\regfile\shell\open\command,,,"regedit.exe ""%1"""
HKLM, Software\CLASSES\scrfile\shell\open\command,,,"""%1"" %*"
HKCU, Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System,DisableRegistryTools,0x00000020,0


pause

9) Now save this modify
10) Now right click on "unhook.txt" and rename the extensions file "unhook.inf"
11) Windows ask if you want modify the file extensions, click yes
12) Now right click on "unhook.inf" and click on "Install"
13) Now go to start > run > type "cmd" or "command" if you have a old windows before windows XP version.
14) Now type "cd \"
15) Now type "c:\windows\copy regedit.exe regedit.com"
"When you read the message, 1 file has correctly been copied,
16) Now type "c:\windows\start regedit.com"
And now you can open regedit and you can to delete all debuggers value (C:\windows\notepad.exe) under the right panel from the applications you find under this reg key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\
Example: "regedit.exe" "msconfig.exe"
and all system admin applications they have inside in the right panel the value "Debugger" whit "c:\windows\notepad.exe"
May be i think the many problems are fixed, but for your security, download the Trend Micro Internet Security Trial 30 day version (xp32or64 - Vista32or64)
from this web page http://uk.trendmicro.com/uk/downloads/home-and-homeoffice/
(When you install Trend Micro Internet Security he unistall before all yours Antivirus Software)
After the installation update immediatly the antivirus definitons and try to scan all your hard disk and external hard disk too if you have.


9. Close Regedit utility.

Note: If you are using Windows XP and you enable "System Restore" , you need to

disable "System Restore" in "Safe Mode" before using the instructions above.

Unable to download or save files using Mozilla

Clear the downloads history

Clearing the downloads history can fix some problems with downloading files:

1. On the menu bar, click Tools and then select Downloads. The Downloads window will open.
2. In the Downloads window, click Clear List.

 

Choose a different download folder

Firefox may not be able to download files if there is a problem with the folder in which downloaded files are saved:

1. At the top of the Firefox windowOn the menu bar, click on the ToolsFirefoxEdit menu, and select Options...Preferences....
2. Select General panel (Main panel in Firefox 3.5).
3. In the Downloads section, select Save files to.
4. To select a download location, click Browse.... Choose a different folder to try saving files.
5. Click OK to close the Options window.

 

Reset the download folder

If you have tried the above suggestions, you can restore the default Firefox download folder settings:

1. In the Location bar, type about:config and press EnterReturn.
   • The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.
2. In the Filter field, enter browser.download.
3. If any of the following settings have a status of user set, reset their values. To reset a value, right-clickhold down the Ctrl key while you click the setting and select Reset from the context menu:
   • browser.download.dir
   • browser.download.downloadDir
   • browser.download.folderList
   • browser.download.lastDir
   • browser.download.useDownloadDir
4. If desired, you can revert back to your preferred download folder settings by changing your Firefox settings.

Enable downloads blocked by Security Zone Policy

Downloading an executable file (e.g., an .exe or .msi file) may fail, with the Downloads window showing Canceled under the file name. 

 

This happens because Firefox honors your Windows security settings for downloading applications and other potentially unsafe files from the Internet. To resolve this problem, use one of the solutions given below.

Bypass Windows Security Policy check

3.5/3.6:

(Firefox 3.5)

You can add the preference, browser.download.manager.skipWinSecurityPolicyChecks and set it to true. This will bypass the Windows Security Policy check and allow you to download executable files. To add this new preference:

1. In the Location bar, type about:config and press EnterReturn.
   • The about:config "This might void your warranty!" warning page may appear. Click I'll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.
2. Right-click anywhere in the list of preferences.
3. In the context menu, select New then select Boolean. The "New boolean value" dialog box will appear.
4. Enter the preference name browser.download.manager.skipWinSecurityPolicyChecks in the text field and click OK.
5. In the "Enter boolean value" box that appears, select true and click OK. 

 Note: This preference does not work in Firefox 3.6. 

Reset system Internet Security settings

You can reset your system Internet security settings in Internet Explorer. See How to reset Internet Explorer settings at Microsoft Support for instructions.