With advances in solar cells and the widespread use of LED lights, options for solar accents in the garden abound. Whether you are looking for a single solar light or artistic solar garden decor, solutions are both easy to find and economical.

A trademark of many gardens and patios is the solar lantern staked into the ground. While one of the first solar lighting products on the market, lanterns still remain popular and are available in an incredible variety of styles and materials. Many sets now come with a single and movable solar panel, which allow for lanterns placed in shadowy areas to still burn brightly at night.
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It’s a bit of an open secret in the computer security industry that the number-one most effective tool for protecting your computer from viruses and malware is your own brain.  Firewalls, antivirus scanners, and so on definitely have their place, but those computer users who never seem to have major problems (while your computer seems to get more bugs in it than an ant farm) aren’t safer because they have superior antivirus software–it’s because they’ve learned to break these three common bad computing habits.
1) The habit: Downloading “free” products that cost you more than money

Remember those animated smileys that seemed so cute?  Remember how you asked yourself, “they’re free, so why not try it out?  I can always uninstall it later.”  Unfortunately there are a lot of products out there that claim to be free but carry all kinds of computer-hogging spyware or malicious bugs.  Uninstalling them in the conventional way won’t stop the problems they cause; in the worst cases, nothing will fix the problem except a reformat and reinstalling your operating system.
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If you got a copy of the Windows 7 beta, you may be wondering what changes there are in the experience for the average user.  After all, at first glance it largely looks like just a new skin on a slightly leaner version of Vista.

But if you look closer, there’s all kinds of minor tweaks and new features that make Windows 7 more than the sum of its parts–not to say it’s a perfect operating system, just that you’ve got to do a little poking around to appreciate the extent of what’s different about it.
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