As part of my business plan, I decided that I would become established as an expert on the Internet dealing with the Boomer generation. I launched off on that quest. All was going well for a while until I googled "John Howe". I found that the first several Google pages were full of information on John Howe, but alas, it was not yours truly.
The John Howe who occupies the first several pages of Google is an illustrator from Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is best known for his illustrations based on J. R. R. Tolkien's worlds (Middle-Earth). His website is http://www.john-howe.com. He was the lead illustrator for the very popular "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy.
You know the old saying, "If you are going to have to fight a battle, choose your own battlefield". Well, my parents took care of that for me by giving me two middle initials. V and W. When people ask me what it stands for, I keep a straight face and tell them, "Volkswagen". Actually it is Vernon Wallace. My parents were Canadian and having two middle names is more common in Canada than in the US.
Anyway, I chose to adopt the full name, John V. W. Howe as my Internet Name, since that sets me apart. I even had to go through special procedures with some sites (Ezine Articles, etc.) to ask them to go back and change my registered name from John Howe to John V.W. Howe.
It was worth the effort since if you google "John V W Howe" you will find that I have no competition on the search engines for that form of my name.
I pass this along to you if you are trying to brand yourself as part of your marketing plan. Do your planning and research first (which I did not) so you do not have to go back and correct prior actions like I did. Check out Google to see who has claim to your name's space and use your initial or some variation to make yourself unique.
Every time you click on a web resource, the Internet Service Provider (ISP) gives you a unique number, called IP address. An IP address (Internet Protocol address) is a unique address that certain electronic devices use in order to identify and communicate with each other on a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol standard. This number reveals your location and other personal information about you and your computer. If your IP address is uncovered, all information about you can be exposed by hackers or by more experienced computer users.
An important thing people must know is that they can hide/change their IP. Thus, they will browse the web invisibly and keep their internet activity private. This most wanted internet security is provided by online privacy solutions through the use of proxy servers. A proxy server is a server that retrieves Web pages for you, providing only its own identity to the sites it visits. So, all your internet traffic gets routed by the proxy. This means that your internet requests will be sent to and contented by this proxy server instead of your Internet Service Provider. As a result, the websites will see the IP address of the proxy server instead of your own IP address. In this way you will be invisible even for your ISP, which won’t be able to track your online traces.
There are many applications on the market that assure you a safe web surfing. One of them is Anonymity Gateway - an online privacy solution developed by Privacy-Gateway. Anonymity Gateway masks the real IP of a user, allowing you to browse all kind of pages without ever worrying that the ISPs or any other marketing tool is monitoring your surfing habits or spammers are attacking your computer. To do this, the software uses proxy servers. Anonymity Gateway has a comprehensive proxy list, containing proxies from various countries, so you can use proxies from different countries at your choice, having the identity well hidden.
Your IP can also be revealed because of the traces you leave navigating through web pages. Anonymity Gateway can help you clean all online traces, such as: Internet History, Typed URL, Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, Auto Complete Forms History, Auto Complete Password History and Internet Favorites.
Using Anonymity Gateway you will surf anonymously and your online identity will be hidden because the IP address everyone sees will be different from the real one. In conclusion any information you transmit can not be seen without your permission because your web surfing is kept private and secure.
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