The Universal Image Format (UIF) is a disk image file format. This means that an .uif file contains a perfect copy of a CD/DVD disc. Essentially, an uif file is very very much alike the de-facto standard of disk image formats – ISO. However, .uif files also support several interesting features that set them apart from the ISO file format.

For one, they have built-in support for data compression. This means that your CD/DVD backups in the UIF format would take up less hard-drive space than if you used ISO. The efficiency of the compression varies – software, HTML and text documents usually compress well. On the other hand, Video-CD, Audio-CD, DVD-Video and other multimedia formats can be compressed only slightly or not at all.

Additional features of the UIF format are password-protection and encryption for your more sensitive data. It also supports the MD5 checksums, which is mainly used to verify that a file hasn’t been damaged or infected with a virus.

Now that I’ve listed all the appealing features of this format, you might be wondering “where’s the catch?” Sure enough there is one, and this is it – the .uif file extension/format is a proprietary one, which means that most disk applications can’t open it. These files can only be opened with MagicISO (shareware). So to get the full benefits of this novel disk image format you’d have to shell out around $30 dollars.

The other unpleasant aspect of UIF files is the aforementioned incompatibility with other CD/DVD software. For example, if you send an .uif file to a friend, chances are they won’t be able to open it and will be forced to go looking for a way to convert the UIF to ISO.

In conclusion, while the UIF file format has several appealing features, I wouldn’t recommend it for anything other than infrequent personal use.

It has been some time since the debut of Article Marketing Automation and I must say, I am impressed at this service since I joined 2 months ago.

Below you will read a completely unbiased Article Marketing Automation review of this system.

The super SEO team over at PLRPro, Marc Lindsay and Daniel Turner have launched Article Marketing Automation as their new article promotion free ( and paid ) service aimed at helping blog owners earn income with their article promotion.

Let me explain…

What this service does is fundamentally drips related content ( that you select ) in occasionally intervals into your blog for your dominating niche.  As a free member, you can create an account and add your blog into the network to accept these articles.  You’ve read the last statement in the right way.  You can sign up to ArticleMarketingAutomation.com at no obligation and include your blog straight away.

To add your blog into their network is literally child’s play.

- you log into your blog and register a new user as a writer in your settings.  Author is the best option to pick as you do not need to give anybody else administrator access to your blog for security / tampering reasons

- in the AMA interface, enter the category of your blog, URL, the user login credentials you created as writer in your blog, click Add and you’re done

You can either choose to approve every article that is queued for your blog or have them immediately accepted for publication.  I selected the second, as I have quite a few blogs of mine setup in the network, and manually accepting every article that comes along can be a very unlikely task after a bit.

Though I must tell youthe beef of this system is in the seo article writing and submitting your articles to drip into other blogs in the network.  You may either choose the number of blogs to accept your article, or leave an unlimited amount for all blogs to accept them at will.  You are able to add up to three different links into each article.  This is an absolutely HUGE addition to this service.  As an exampleI submitted an article into the AMA system 3 days ago with two anchor text links inserted in the article.  So far, up to this writing, the article has been accepted and posted by twenty-two blog owners.  Since I have three links in the article, that works out to 66 added links pointing to my website on my chosen keywords in only three days!  These are natural white hat links that’s's giving me high rankings in the search engines.  I am already in the middle of page 2 in Google for my selected keywords, and receiving traffic!  Of course, this is where you may have to join and become a member of ArticleMarketingAutomation.com in order to receive the seo article writing submission benefits.

So why is it worth it for you to join?

In brief, Google and other search engines love content and many related links pointing to your websites.  Daily addition of new fresh content is great in it’s own right, but that will only bring some traffic to your sites.  The trick in receiving monster traffic to your internet site is in submitting articles with anchor text links in them, making the most of your link building over time with many related links pointing to your blog.  This service is largely a set-it-and-forget-it system, with all the tough work being finished in the background, leaving you to focus on other jobs.

In this recent poll (16th May 2009), all articles in AMA were found that they ranked for their targeted keywords like such:

* 10% held a #1 Position
* 41% held a 1st Page Position
* 20% held a 2nd Page Position
* 10% held a 3rd Page Position
* 29% held a top 40-100 Position

At the very least join Article Marketing Automation free and try this service out for yourself.  Though, if you want to earn a substantial quantity of income with your internet site then I recommend you try their article marketing system.  I’m sure you can agree that it was well worth it.

The best way to get rid of pests in your home is to prevent them from entering in the first place. You have to understand what the pests want when they come into your home, so that you can eliminate it. If you remove the things they enjoy about being inside they will likely find another place to call home. Moreover, you will surely need to use pest control products.

Part of getting rid of pests involves getting to know a little about the type of pest that you have in your home. Some pests hang out in the food cabinets near boxed foods, while others live in wood. Having knowledge the habits of the pests will go a long way in helping you figure out how to eliminate them.

The key to killing mice and really controlling mice is to find great mice traps. There are such things as live mouse traps that can help greatly in controlling your mice problem. The mouse’s tendency to return to your property is the reason why many people use poison free mouse traps. The problem is finding the right mouse trap. Do ample research before buying your next mouse trap. You definitely want to deter mice from running on your treadmills for sale.