A different type of Guestbook!
Bravenet.com

A really cool service that lets your guests pin a map!

The free GuestMap provides a great way to interact with visitors and is a super community building tool. This is especially handy for chat related websites, gaming sites, personals and so on.

Handy Features:

• Paging support: Use the paging feature to limit the number of pins on a page when your map starts to get crowded!
• Read-Only: 'Lock' the Map and allow only yourself to post pins, for example, to show visitors your progress while on vacation.
• Professional Version: Unlock the full potential of this service by adding your own custom maps and storing many more Visitor entries.

With a little creativity you can put the flexibility and versatility of the Bravenet GuestMap service to work for you.

Get a FREE Guestmap for your Site Today »

Cool Rank Analyzing Tool for your Site
by Daniel Insley

Use our "Search Engine Position Analyzer" to offer as a tool for your website visitors to use, or to analyze your own page rank. The results from this tool will let you see what rank your webpage is on certain Search Engines such as Google, Excite, Altavista, and more.

Your visitor types in the website address (URI) and the keyword that they want to see page rank for, then they click on "Analyze this Page" and their rank results are returned for each Search Engine!

Copy and paste this code onto your webpage to let your website visitors analyze their page rank:

The above code will reproduce the Search Engine Position Analyzer form onto your webpage, which your visitors can then use to check their own webpages.

Keep your visitors coming back to your page -- give them plenty to do and be sure to check out all of our other awesome Mini Tools in our Resource Center!

Get many other instant, interactive and informative tools for your website by visiting the:

Bravenet Mini Tools and Resource Center »

Spyware and Adware
by Jocelyn Kinnear

Spyware and Adware are small programs that covertly gather information from host computers and transmit the collected information to points unknown.

Adware differs slightly in that it will also run advertisements on your computer. The ads usually appear as pop-ups, banner ads, or even as plug-ins for your web browser. Some Adware programs will change your homepage, add bookmarks, and/or add invisible links to websites that you might be viewing (Browser Hijacking).

Adware and Spyware have a lot in common with viruses, in that they can be very hard to remove from your system. Usually these programs are capable of re-installing themselves once deleted.

These programs can infect your computer in many different ways. Clicking on a banner, closing a browser window, saying "No" or "Cancel" to prompts, and many other actions can install these programs without you even knowing.

While looking around for a good anti-Adware and anti-Spyware program for your computer you must be careful as some of these programs are actually Spyware in disguise. Remember to always keep your anti-Adware/Spyware updated.

Here are some tried and true free Adware removal programs:

Ad-aware Personal Version » (http://lavasoftusa.com)

Spyware Doctor » (http://www.pctools.com)

Don't forget that it is always a good idea to install and use a Firewall.

Zone Alarm » (http://www.zonealarm.com)