(ARA) – In this day and age, we all have to be careful about how we share information online. Browsing the Web is the single most popular activity on the PC — with both the time people spend on the Web and the range of things they can do continuing to grow. With social networking sites, online shopping, and online banking becoming more common and convenient, the risk of fraud or identity theft continues to grow. This kind of activity is on the rise every year.

This doesn’t mean that you can’t surf safely online. Quite the contrary, you just need to follow a few simple guidelines to protect yourself and your family and create a safe and enjoyable experience. And given that June marks Internet Safety Month, it’s a good time to think about how best to educate yourself and your loved ones on both the risks out there, and the simple ways to prevent them.

“Consumers really need to be proactive in the fight against cyber crime. Staying safe online is a combination of using the latest and greatest security software tools and exercising good judgment and common sense,” says Michael Kaiser, executive director of the National Cyber Security Alliance.

In honor of Internet Safety Month, here are eight tips to help keep you, your family and your personal information safe online:

1. Manage your e-mail inbox. Delete unwanted and unsolicited email and don’t open e-mails from people you don’t know. Be cautious about unusual e-mail from people you do know. Some cyber criminals use software to make an e-mail look like it comes from an official organization (like your bank) or someone you know.

2. Always think before you click and treat links and attachments in e-mail and instant messaging with caution. Download files only from sites you know and trust and never open an attachment from someone you don’t know. These can contain viruses and malware that can cause your computer to break down or is an attempt to steal personal information. If in doubt, delete it.

3. Use extreme caution when working on a public computer; Do not save your log in information, always log out of Web sites by clicking “log out” on the site (even if you are just stepping away for a few minutes), and never enter sensitive or personal information on a public computer.

4. Be sure your firewall is turned on. A firewall is an electronic fence that helps protect your PC from hackers that may try to steal sensitive information. To turn on your firewall, simply click the start button and open the control panel. Follow the security link and then click ‘Turn Windows Firewall on or off.’

5. Protect personal information by using strong passwords. Make sure they are lengthy and incorporate letters, numbers and symbols.

6. When shopping online, be a savvy consumer. Conduct online research to find out what others have to say about their customer satisfaction. Be wary of companies that don’t provide any contact information, including a physical mailing address and telephone number.

7. The best way to protect yourself is to keep your security software, operating system and browser up-to-date with automatic updates and practice safe online behavior.

8. New security, privacy and reliability features tools in Internet Explorer 8 can provide you with a more secure Internet experience. It’s worth considering downloading it for free. Internet Explorer 8 puts you in control of your safety and privacy online and helps protect you from new threats online.

For more information, please visit www.microsoft.com/ie8 or the National Cyber Security Alliance at www.StaySafeOnline.org.

Courtesy of ARAcontent

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Get Your Computer Back in the Fast Lane

Does your computer take forever to load programs or change pages when you’re surfing the Internet? Have you ever been in the middle of writing an e-mail only to have the screen freeze and force you to reboot and lose all your work? There are few things more frustrating than a slow computer, but it doesn’t need to be that way.

Having a professional look at your system can be costly and buying a new computer is often unnecessary. There are some steps that you can follow to keep your system running at its best.

1) Limit open programs and windows.
If you have too many Internet windows open or are working with a variety of computer programs at once, your computer might run slowly. Limit open programs and windows to maximize your computer speed.

2) When in doubt, reboot.
Sometimes there are things we just can’t explain with computers. If yours is running slow, try rebooting. Often this is all the system needs to begin functioning at a normal pace again. Although many programs have automatic retrieval of work, it’s a smart idea to always save what you are working on before shutting down.

3) Use a registry cleaner.
Even if you’re extremely careful about how you use your computer and never download questionable material, over time it is inevitable that your system will accumulate unwanted registry entries, errors, clutter and debris.

The most common causes of problems are the installation and removal of software, online games, application crashes and upgrades of software programs. While many errors will go unnoticed, the more errors your computer has, the greater the chance that you’ll experience trouble. But there is something proactive you can do to protect your system: install a one-click tool called Advanced Registry Optimizer 5 (ARO 5) that will safely and efficiently scan, identify and repair errors.

Advanced Registry Optimizer 5 was awarded four stars in May 2007 from CNET’s Download.com editorial staff which said, “Advanced Registry Optimizer will clean your computer’s clock and keep it ticking.” To take advantage of a free trial offer, log on to www.sammsoft.com and click on the link that says “Show Me the Product Now.”

Once you have downloaded ARO 5, just click the “Run” button to install the software to your PC. The program will then do a complete scan and diagnosis of your computer’s registry and tell you how many errors are present. It will then fix the first 20 problems completely FREE of charge.

There’s no catch. The company is confident you’ll love the personal version of ARO 5 so much you’ll consider purchasing the unlimited commercial system which retails for $29.95. To purchase ARO 5, go to www.sammsoft.com and click on the “Products” tab. You’ll find ARO 5 in the Product Gallery. Simply click on the “Buy Now” button to continue with your purchase.

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Long-distance caregivers should plan time for listening to problems and use resources to handle some of them.

John is 82 and lives in Manhattan. Since the death of his brother, he regularly checks on his 87-year-old sister-in-law who lives about 90 minutes away. She has dementia and needs help with daily needs. An aide lives with her, but John is concerned the help is getting burned out. The last time John visited he noticed his sister-in-law’s condition was worsening, and he wonders what he can do to help.

John is a long-distance caregiver, one of an estimated 6.9 million Americans who care for someone living at least an hour away, according to a study by MetLife and AARP. Americans age 85 and older numbered 4.2 million in 2000, the fastest growing segment of the population according to the National Institute on Aging. By mid-century, as baby boomers transition from being the caregiver to needing care, that segment is estimated to swell to 21 million.

“This is a national problem with local solutions,” says Nora Jean Levin, executive director of Caring From a Distance (CFAD), a non-profit organization for distance caregivers. CFAD’s Web site, www.cfad.org, extends resources and advice to caregivers like John who e-mail their questions and concerns or search the site’s many resources and links. Help from CFAD is also available by telephone at (202) 895-9465. CFAD helped John consider other solutions such as assisted living, finding adult day care facilities and calling a home care agency to arrange to give the live-in help a break.

Levin understands that despite the obstacles of time and miles, distance caregivers are in a unique position to help.

“Long distance caregivers can offer perspective because they aren’t on the scene every day to really observe small changes, and that perspective is very valuable,” she says. “Sometimes if you’re in a care situation day after day, you feel overwhelmed and hopeless and you can’t see out of that box. But a person who comes in from the outside can help pinpoint a problem and recommend ways to help improve the situation.”

Levin offers these tips to buoy long-distance caregivers:

1. Offer help.
Lend a hand solving problems that daily caregivers may not have time to think about. Shop for gadgets that help with daily needs, like telephones with large buttons or “grabber” devices that help seniors reach items they need. Make arrangements for a handicapped permit. If appropriate, help manage finances and pay bills.

2. Don’t be a “swooper.”
It’s really hard when you’re the daily caregiver and the long distance caregiver swoops in and tries to change everything. Instead, plan time for listening to problems and perhaps for handling a few, and spend quality time with your loved one.

3. Make observations, but be careful how you share them.
“Retain respect for the individual who needs care, and be mindful of preserving personal dignity when every step towards dependence may be viewed as loss of control,” Levin suggests.

4. Visit and look for changes that indicate a need for more care.
Is your loved one eating regularly? Is personal hygiene slipping? Are prescriptions unfilled or forgotten? A helpful checklist, “Ten Warning Signs: Your Older Family Member May Need Help” can be found at http://www.cfad.org/library/HolidayFactSheetFinal.pdf.

5. Use the Internet to ease a transition.
“Transitions can be rough or smooth, depending on the nature of the situation, whether it’s a crisis or something that’s been coming gradually, and the nature of the person being cared for,” Levin says. Transitions to senior housing are smoothest when approached proactively, before a crisis arises.

For example, long-distance caregivers can screen more than 60,000 housing options online by visiting www.snapforseniors.com. The SNAPforSeniors online search tool is like the Multiple Listing Service for senior housing. Long-distance caregivers can narrow the search by geographic location, care needs, type of facility and personal amenities.

A new tool from SNAPforSeniors and the Alzheimer’s Association, the Caregiver Conversation Checklist, helps families discussing housing options. The checklist, which can be found on alz.org, offers tips for determining if long-term care is appropriate and explains how to broach the conversation.

“The possibilities offered by the Internet to help long distance caregivers are fabulous, and we’ve made our Web site a portal for people looking for solutions,” Levin says. “SNAPforSeniors is a site designed to help families deal with the housing part of the picture. Long-distance caregivers can also get help from CFAD when investigating other local personal and community-based resources like home care, daily money managers, eldercare lawyers, or geriatric care managers to coordinate activities or even where you can donate a wheelchair.”

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Networking is certainly not a new concept. People all over the world have networked for years to get ahead in business, meet new people and make new friends. What is fairly new is the idea of networking online. Social networking via the Internet has literally exploded since the birth of the Internet. What could be easier than logging on the Internet, visiting a few sites and meeting new people all over the world?

MySpace.com is a site that is specifically geared towards social networking on the Internet. If you sign up for a free MySpace account, it won’t be long until you start noticing that people from all over are seeing your profile and wanting to be your friend. This is a haven for people to meet while on the Internet and in the privacy of your own home. MySpace is mostly geared and used by teenagers and college students. In fact, in the United States, the MySpace website is the third most popular website on the Internet. It is gaining popularity in non-English speaking countries, too. It won’t be long before anyone can sign up for a MySpace account and start networking all over the world.

Why is MySpace such a popular place for networking? It is true that over 180,000 people sign up for a MySpace account on a daily basis. It could be the fact that accounts are free. It could also be the fact that MySpace accounts are easy to use. But the truth of the matter is that MySpace is probably such a phenomenon because it puts people in touch with each other. It networks people, who are very unlikely to every meet in the “real world” together. It helps people meet others like them and helps strangers find a common thread that pulls them together. It used to be that keeping and maintaining friendship took work and a lot of long distance calls and stamps. Now with the Internet and MySpace accounts, this is made easier than ever.

Here is a brief look at how this online social networking site works. First, you log on to MySpace.com and choose to sign up for a free account. When you sign up with an account, you create your unique profile. This is the same as a webpage. You choose what you want to go on it and what you want others to see. It can be very simple or it can be very elaborate with photos, music and video.

After you have completed your MySpace Profile, you start inviting your friends and family to join. They will need a MySpace profile in order to post on your site, but chances are your friends probably already have an account. You can also use the search option on MySpace to located friends that might already have MySpace profiles. After you do this, these people will then be added to your “Friend Space”. They are now in your network! Once you have done that, you can visit other profile and pages of people you may not know, but have a common interest with. You invite those people to join your site and before long, you have more online networking opportunities than you ever though possible.

MySpace networking is certainly fun and useful. However, any user must remember that there are some drawbacks. You must be careful when you network on MySpace. There are many stories on the news about sexual predators posing as teens on MySpace. This site is very public and you must remember to be extremely careful about the information you give out over the Internet. Most of all, if you every plan to come in contact with anyone you have networked with over the Internet, take safety precautions before doing so.

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For many MySpace users, comments are a difficult part of the game.  Especially where younger people are concerned (middle school and high school users) commenting can sometimes get way out of hand.  Posting comments on MySpace is as easy as pie, and people post comments at every flip of a button.  This is good in the sense that MySpace profiles have a very fun and very communicative flavor; the downside is that these comments, once made, become part of the profile space.  If you find yourself in a comment war, going back and forth with insults, you might say some things that you regret.

In some instances, MySpace users post comments that they, three weeks later, upon seeing the comment after a long lapse of time, don’t like to think of as their own personal post.  Another possibility is that, as soon as you’ve posted the submit button and your comment is flying through cyberspace to every computer in the land, the gravity of the contents of your comment hits you.  For some people, the desire to delete a comment comes immediately, whereas for others the desire to delete old comments only comes with 20/20 hindsight.  Either way, fortunately, on MySpace, users have the option of deleted comments on their own profiles and they also have the option of deleting comments that they have made on other people’s profiles.  This last feature is not possible on all websites that allow commenting; in this way, MySpace is well-designed for its audience.

Of course, you can delete comments that other users have left on your own profile simply by clicking on the ‘delete comment’ button; however, there’s a common myth that it is not possible for users to delete comments that they have made on other user’s profiles.  This myth is a dangerous one because all human beings say things that they don’t mean and the opportunity to make it right is a good website feature.  Additionally, on the technical side of things, it frequently occurs that a user gets a MySpace error message while posting a comment.  In this event, one usually hits the back button and then hits post again, this time receiving a success message.  While only one successful post message was received, a closer look at the user’s profile will show that the comment was posted, not once but twice, even though it didn’t appear that way.

If this happens to you, don’t despair!  The fix is very simple although not widely known.  Rest assured, it involves no html encoding!  Simply go to the user’s profile and go to the comments section.  You’ll see your comment there, and look for the link that says display all comments.  Once you press this button, all of the comments to that user’s profile will pop up on a new screen.  You will no longer be on the profile of that friend, but on a page with all of the comments posted for that friend.  As long as you are properly logged in to MySpace, you should see an icon for deleting your comment(s).  Of course, there is no such icon on the comments left by others; only the person who is logged in can delete their own comments, not the comments left by others.  All you have to do is press delete and your duplicate comment or your comment that you regretted will disappear.  The helpfulness of this feature is obvious, although it leaves friends powerless to delete hurtful comments about their friends.  The only way to delete a comment is to be the maker, or the receiver of the comment.

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Now, in addition to people who want to chat online, single people who wish to meet other single people, do-it-at-home matchmakers who want to match their friends up with other friends, families who wish to stay in contact; business people who want to network with other business people, classmates and students looking for potential study partners, and anyone looking for long-lost friends, musicians also have a home on MySpace.com.

Whether you are a musician looking to share your songs or a music lover looking for music or music videos, MySpace has your ticket—and the ticket of millions of people across the globe.  With over 100 million members, MySpace has become the fourth most popular English-language website and the third most popular website in the United States, surpassing even Google and ebay.  Nearly 250,000 new members join the social networking site every day.

The MySpace Music Page features a number of music links for both musicians and music lovers.  You need not be a member of MySpace to view the comedy content.  There is a Featured Artist section, which lists the hot artists based on genre.  Links to the featured musicians’ personal profile pages allows you to listen to their music and learn about the bands.  The MySpace Exclusives section keys users in to upcoming music events, tours, or releases.  A Featured Video section links to a new music video and artist profile page.  MySpace On Tour highlights upcoming tours, dates, and venues of featured artists.  The Pick of the Week, sponsored by Filter Magazine, reviews new releases and offers recommendations for music listeners.  MySpace also allows your to search and listen to top bands by searching via music genre.

MySpace has been a critical tool in the progression of many amateur bands.  Membership to MySpace is necessary if you are a musician wanted to post your music for others to listen to on your MySpace personal profile.  With its wide viewership, MySpace can offer musicians a significant amount of publicity.  A number of artists, like the English band Arctic Monkeys and pop artist Lily Allen, owe some of their success to the publicity generated by MySpace.

A number of other musicians, however, have found issue with MySpace’s terms of agreement.  Up until June 2006, the fine print within the MySpace’s user agreement states: “You hereby grant to MySpace.com a non-exclusive, fully-paid and royalty-free, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense through unlimited levels of sublicensees) to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate, publicly perform, publicly display, store, reproduce, transmit, and distribute such Content on and through the Services”.  As this agreement is essentially made between the artist and Rupert Murdoch’s media giant News Corporation, many musicians, including songwriter Billy Bragg, were rightly concerned.  Bragg actually pulled his songs from the website in protest.  In repsonse to the concern raised by musicians, MySpace changed their user agreement to assure artists that the company does not claim any ownership of the text, files, photos, video, sounds, musical works, or any other materials posted to MySpace.  Hopefully, this amendment will reassure artists as to the safety of their material on MySpace so that thousands of users can continue to enjoy it.

If you are a musician looking to share your music with others, connect with other musicians, or be discovered by an audience that could top 100 million people, MySpace Music is the place for you.  If you are a music lover looking to discover up and coming artists, find upcoming music events in your neighborhood, or connect with the musicians who make some of your favorite tunes, MySpace music is also the place for you.

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One of the most popular websites in the world could become your new social planner.  Known as a social networking website where friends meet, MySpace.com has upwards of 100 million members with roughly 200,000 new members joining daily. Just imagine the social possibilities with all these people! The company, which is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, is owned by the News Corporation (also the owner of the Fox Network).

In addition to being one the top places in cyberspace to chat online, hook up with single people, match your friends up with other friends, stay in contact with your long-distance family members, network with like-minded business people, find potential study partners, or look for long-lost friends, you can also find the coolest hangouts in your MySpace backyard.  The Events Section of MySpace provides an arena for MySpace users to post various events throughout the United States.  You could even arrange to meet some of your new or long lost friends at these MySpace-advertised events!

You can reach the Events Section of MySpace via the company’s homepage.  Simply find the Events link along the top toolbar.  A MySpace membership isn’t necessary in order to view the Events calendar.  Once there, you will find a listing of the MySpace Featured Events.  Today, the featured events include Turkeylicious, a MySpace-sponsored event to be held at the Elysium Lounge in Detroit, Michigan, and an after-Thanksgiving Megaevent, Family Affair 2006, to be held in Los Angeles, California.  For each featured event, you can view the related profile page, including the organizer’s email information and event address.  There is also a place to leave comments about the event, although this feature doesn’t appear to be taken very seriously based on the comments left for Turkeylicious and Family Affair 2006.  You can also view MySpace members who plan on attending the event.

The MySpace Events Section also allows you to search for events based on location or date.  You can also hunt for events based on event type—MySpace categorizes events into such groups as Arts and Culture, Band Shows, Clubs and DJs, Models and Fashion, MySpace Parties, Sports and Recreation, and Politics and Activism.  A listing of upcoming events also runs on the bottom of the Events Section page.

The MySpace Events Section also features a spot for you to keep track of your events—either those you are attending or those you are hosting.  You can maintain a calendar, view your event invites, post an event, and create a new event.  Use of these features does require you to become a member of MySpace, however, which is a free service.

It is important for you to be aware of the risks involved when meeting strangers (even those who have become friends) in person who you’ve met virtually.  So far, seven men have been arrested in conjunction with a rape and robbery that took place when a woman planned a meeting with the men she had met on the MySpace website.  While it may sound like a great idea to plan a meeting at an event advertised on MySpace, be sure to take adequate precautions.  If possible, attend all events with another trusted person in a safe location.  Many of the events listed advertise drinking, strippers, and an excess of female company.  Make sure you are aware of the type of event you are attending.

MySpace is a panacea for virtual socialites, offering options for meeting new friends, chatting with like-minded folks, and finding events to attend.  If you want to know what’s going on in your own MySpace backyard, the Events Section on MySpace is the place to be.

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MySpace has many great features, but what it all comes down to are your friends.  This is important not only in the sense of simply having the friends, but it is from your friends that absolutely everything on your MySpace page comes.  Your pictures become ten times more interesting once someone has left a comment on them and your bulletin board gets filled up with things you actually want to read if your friends are actual friends.  The key to having a good experience on MySpace is in having and choosing the right friends.  This does not mean that it’s a popularity contest, and that the more; the better is a fast rule. On the contrary, it’s about having the right friends, not about having the most friends.

For example, how many users still keep Tom in their friends’ list even though they’ve never even exchanged a single word with the guy?  He’s a name and a face in the friends’ list, and the more the better, right?  Wrong.  It’s about having friends that you want to be kept aware of their life happenings.  It’s about having friends who will post nice comments about you (or at least comments that are not so nice but that are meant in good, clean fun).  It’s about choosing friends that you have something to say and that are likely to have something to say back to you.  On the other hand, choosing the friends for your friends’ list doesn’t have to be limited to the small circle of people that you were friends with in high school.  Beyond that, there are friends that you knew in college and friends that you now work with.  In addition, there are people who work in the same field as you do, but in another region with whom you can network, exchange ideas and strategies.  MySpace is personal, but its limits lie far beyond the personal realm.

You will not be happy with your friends’ list if you simply add every name that you recognize from your high school.  The result of this kind of friends adding is that you have a large number of friends, only some of which you are actually interested in staying friends with.  Choose the friends who are actual friends, or at least the friends that you used to be very close to and still would be close to today if circumstances were different.  What this means is that you shouldn’t add somebody if you’re not willing to spend three hours with them on a Friday night, catching up.

Along with adding old friends, you can search for people with whom you can network.  This can be done through a general search or through the networking function of the profile.  It can also be done through searching for groups in the field that you are looking for and then checking out the forums of those groups.  Perhaps there are not forum topics that you want to post in, but maybe some of the members who have posted in the forum are people with whom you would like to network or exchange ideas.  The bottom line is that there are many ways to network with people on MySpace whether your motivation for networking is to have a virtual version of your closest friends close by you or if your motivation is to gain professional work contacts.  Either way, think twice before you click ‘Add’ because adding a friend and then deleting them a few weeks later isn’t such a nice way to go.   A lot is permissible on MySpace, but it is not ‘anything goes’–fortunately, at least not yet.

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History is making history on the World Wide Web. With a click of the mouse, lifelong historians and those who just caught the history bug are taking to the Internet in record numbers to explore its nearly limitless access to times gone by. Today, with our country engaged in war and Americans everywhere expressing their heartfelt appreciation of our armed services, it’s no surprise that military history sites are reporting unprecedented Web traffic.

An F/A-18 Hornet launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman.

A new online television network at www.NAVYTV.org is capturing its share of cyber-surfing history buffs with its vast collection of vintage and contemporary footage — available 24 hours a day. Co-sponsored by the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C., NAVY TV is organized like a traditional broadcast network with channels and episodes. The site also provides an interactive forum for the larger Navy community of active duty, veterans, civilian workers and families.

“There’s no doubt that our Navy film library is a key draw,” explains Jim Franco, CEO of EFX Media, co-sponsor of NAVY TV. “Our footage is extensive and increasing daily. For military history enthusiasts, we’re a one-stop treasure trove of top quality, classic Navy films such as ‘Operation Sunshine,’ a 1958 story about the USS Nautilus narrated by broadcast legend Edward R. Murrow.”

Rear Adm. Richard A. Buchanan, USN (Ret.), President and CEO of the Navy Memorial, invites all of the site’s visitors to register for e-mail alerts that herald important events in Navy history. “On June 4th,” he notes, “we reminded people about the landmark Battle of Midway, a turning point in World War II that marked the first Japanese naval defeat since 1592. When people clicked on the link we sent, they could watch an Academy Award-winning collection of footage that captured all the drama and heroism of that epic fight.”

Torpedo Squadron Six (VT-6) TBD-1 aircraft prepared for launch on USS Enterprise during the Battle of Midway, June 1942.

Visitors regularly comment on the site’s historical selections. After watching “The Battle of Midway,” one user wrote, “People who love history will enjoy this video. It’s a long way from Jules Verne!”

Another popular page is “U.S. Navy Today,” featuring video shorts on ships, naval aviation, submarines, the medical community, special warfare and even the Navy Band. Straight from the fleet, these clips are created by the Navy and posted daily.

Since the site was launched last November, viewers have been posting comments, greetings and even their own videos. They use the site to tell their own Navy stories, find fellow shipmates and share memories.

For information about NAVY TV and to submit your own video, visit www.NAVYTV.org or call the United States Navy Memorial at (202) 737-2300.

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When it comes to customizing your MySpace profile, you can go with the default layout or you can choose to use pre-made MySpace layouts, which are available at a number of different websites. Knowing exactly how to place the pre-made MySpace layouts can be tricky and very frustrating so let us make an effort to simplify it.

First you need to begin by visiting the MySpace login page and from there logging in to your profile. Once you have gotten yourself logged in, go ahead and click on the button labeled “Home.” By now you should be looking at your MySpace Profile and it should provide you with a number of different options such as Edit Profile, Safe Mode, Upload/ Change Photos, Account Settings, Edit Comments, Manage Calendar, Manage Blog Manage Address Book and under your photo it should read view My: Profile l Blog. What you will need to do is click on the first option, the link for “Edit Profile.” It should easily be displayed in the upper left side of the profile page.

Once you have reached the “Edit Profile” page, you will be broken to a set of tabs running horizontal across the page, which can only be referred to as the MySpace dashboard. These tabs will say things such as Interests & Personality, Background & Lifestyle, School, Companies, Networking, Home and Basic Info. The one you need to click on for pre-made MySpace layouts is Interests & Personality. This should automatically come up for you.

You are getting closer to completion so be glad that you made it to this step. In the Interests & Personality section of the profile you will need to scroll down the length of the page until you come to a section that is labeled “About Me.” You should find this section easily under the space marked Headline. Underneath the “About Me” spot, click on Edit.

Now you have come to the stage where you can position your pre-made MySpace layouts to your satisfaction. The Edit button should take you to the section set aside for editing the “About Me” area. It is here that you will want to place the code for the pre-made MySpace layouts of your choice. Copy and paste the code from the layout and carefully put it in the box labeled “About Me.” You may have to do this once or twice, as it can sometimes be confusing for individuals who are not accustomed to working with pre-made layouts.

Once the code for the pre-made layout is placed where it should be (in the “About Me” box) now it is time to preview your handiwork by clicking on the button marked “Preview”.  The preview will show you what your finished product will look like. This is, it goes without saying, what other people will see as well. Make sure that this is what you want. Read everything over to check for any mistakes and then double check your work. If there is a problem then click Edit and redo whatever is wrong. However if you like what you see then click on Submit and what you see in front of you will be what you get.

After this stage in the game you will then be taken back to the dashboard for your MySpace profile and from there you can click on the link for View Profile and get an up close and personal look at what other people visiting your profile will be in for. Hopefully you will be happy with your pre-made MySpace layout because it is too late to change it now. The website About.com has many pre-made MySpace layouts to choose from so if you are stumped as to where to find one then start your search there.

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