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Alexa Ranking

lancsoft — Sun, 22 May 2011 20:37:12 GMT

The Windowscollective has reached a ranking in Alexa at 760,769 worldwide. It has also been ranked in China at 105,156 !
It is an important milestone for us and you. We want to thank everyone for using our website and we hope to provide more content and useful features in the near future.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/windowscollective.net

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Removal Of Some Features

lancsoft — Sun, 22 May 2011 20:31:40 GMT

It came to a point, with spammers, that I had to remove some of the features we have here at the Windowscollective. I tried hard to manage our Forum, Wiki and Social Net. But it seems that some idiots just can't follow rules!
It was nice we had a Wiki (mediawiki) where our users could help to build a place with information that was useful and informative for everyone. Perhaps some people did not know what a wiki was or how to use it. But that is a poor excuse. Because there was links to information on what the mission was and how to make useful entries. Nevertheless, most of what I saw was being entered was links to pill pushing, porn, on-line pharmacy sites for profit. Surly this was not what was intended for a Wiki. So... I deleted the entire thing. Gone!
As if that was not enough! the bastards thought the Social Net (ELGG) was to used for the same thing. certainly I found some people used it for what I consider a legit purpose. Roughly 3% had used it correctly. but the other 97% of users just thought it was a place to post links to pharmacy, porn and rouge websites. so... completely removed it too.
Now, our Simple machines forum had for several years been a place where users could share information about technical issues, offer technical help and post links to websites that offered tech assistance. It worked out quite well. But all of a sudden, there where 23,000 plus users who used it for.... same junk as the others. So after trying to edit or delete users who where abusing our features, I gave up and just removed the one I was spending so much time fighting. I really do not like to fight. A good argument is good. but I do not have the time to spend hours each week just trying to edit your useless post.
So being this is the Web Republic Of Net Citizens. And I really want to have links to other websites, why did i remove this? It is my belief that people had enough! Enough of YOU, the people who fill our inbox with your spam about some dating hook-up, pharmacy pushing scam and messages about some crap we do not want from you. And I'll be damn if I am going to let you use my website to promote junk I have no interest in at all.

Who's Who

lancsoft — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:25:00 GMT

Wanted to let everyone know of my inclusion into the Global Who's Who and my nomination in the Cambridge Who's Who. Thanks to all who recommended me.

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To all My Readers

lancsoft — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 17:42:00 GMT

I want to thank everyone who has commented on on my blog. Certainly I want to let all of you know I am receiving your comments. I want to invite you to also be my friend on FaceBook http://www.facebook.com/lancaster.wade and Twitter @lancsoft Also we are on linkedin, myspace and wordpress. Here at the Windowscollective we are The Web Republic Of Net Citizens.

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OMG it's called a FORWARD SLASH

lancsoft — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 06:49:00 GMT

Oh My Gosh.

Come on everyone! You hear it all the time. SLASH. "Yeah, just go to somethingoranother.com SLASH thingamajiggy. for a new whatjamacallit.
So just what is this slash thing after all? And why does it matter? That is a question I am going to answer. So sit back and hold on to your laptops, and we shall go to what it all means. And it really matters, at least to me to clarify it to the thousands of people I talked to that did not know.

Here it is;
This is called a back slash \ .
This is called a forward slash / .
As can be seen, the back slash leans to the left. The forward slash leans to the right.
The back slash is normally used on the local machine (computer) to access the hard disk drive (hdd).
The forward slash is used to access the Internet or a network.

Ok. I feel better now.

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WinCol Entertainment

lancsoft — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:51:00 GMT

During my time away from this blog, I was working to make the web republic of net citizens a better place. For me, it is nice to have access to a collection of links to everything I use on the Internet. This is the reason I created the Windowscollective. It was a selfish reason no doubt. However, it does provide for me everything "I" need. Nevertheless, each day I find I need to connect with more persons and sites. Therefore I keep updating my website. This Blog is a fine example of the tools one has available to simply express something.
I hope that anyone whom Stumbleupon this blog learns that I wish to share this site. I welcome you to use it and if you need something added, send me an e-Mail with the link and I can add it.
One of the things I like while surfing the net is listening to music. So it was natural I store music here and a way to listen. Here is the link so you may enjoy it too.

http://windowscollective.net/dn/pub/cd/player.html

And if you have Windows Media Player, you can save the entire playlist to you PC. There are at the date of this blog 204 songs in this playlist. It is very small because it is only a list of where the music is stored. In addtion to, the list will be named "Wincol Stream" in your playlist. It plays in streaming media. Enjoy it!

https://www.windowscollective.net/dn/pub/cd/wincol stream.wpl

I will continue to make this your site so you can enjoy it too.

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The Examiner.com

lancsoft — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:51:00 GMT

Coming soon I will be a writer for The Examiner http://examiner.com My works will be about home based business and how to set-up and maintain a website. I hope to add valuable information for our readers. You can visit me also on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and Bloglines.

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Lancsoft Blog

lancsoft — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:19:31 GMT

Created this new blog, to replace the old one that was deleted. Maybe I can post something useful here.

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Welcome

lancsoft — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:14:45 GMT

Welcome to my blog. Please check back soon for new entries.

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