Rain Bird Sweepstakes Will Award an ESP-SMT Smart Control System to Its Facebook Fans Each Week in July
“Smart Irrigation Month is designed to increase public awareness of the need to use water wisely”
“Smart Irrigation Month is designed to increase public awareness of the need to use water wisely,” said Dave Johnson, Rain Bird’s director of corporate marketing. “It’s about practicing smart water use and helping people become more aware of the irrigation technology that makes it possible. We feel that our ESP-SMT controller truly embodies the concept of intelligent irrigation, and that makes it the perfect reward for our Facebook fans during this very important month.”
Designed for residential and light commercial applications, the Rain Bird® ESP-SMT uses accurate, weather-based control to save between 30-70 percent in water. During installation and set-up, users enter their ZIP code (or site location and elevation), sprinkler type, sun exposure, soil type and slope. The ESP-SMT then combines this information with location-specific monthly historical weather data to create an optimum irrigation schedule. Each day, the system uses temperature and rainfall data to determine how much water is needed to maintain the optimum level of moisture in the soil. The ESP-SMT uses all these factors to decide whether to continue with the current irrigation schedule, suspend irrigation or adjust the schedule to apply more or less water.
To enter Rain Bird’s Smart Irrigation Month Sweepstakes, participants must first “like” the company’s page on Facebook and then complete a brief form with their contact information. Rain Bird will randomly select and notify the winner of a new ESP-SMT each Monday beginning July 11. Weekly winners will be announced on Rain Bird’s Facebook page. The sweepstakes will end with the drawing of its final winner on Monday, August 1, 2011. Official sweepstakes rules are available on Rain Bird’s Facebook page,http://www.facebook.com/RainBirdCorp.
“The ESP-SMT Smart Control System is just one example of the technology that is making it easier for all of us to practice smart irrigation,” Johnson said. “It’s easy and quick for contractors to install, and it takes the guesswork out of irrigation scheduling. We hope that by offering all of our Facebook fans—both property owners and irrigation professionals—the opportunity to win an ESP-SMT, we’ll also encourage them to learn more about the latest water-saving technologies and techniques that can help them save water and efficiently manage their landscapes.”
To learn more about how the Rain Bird ESP-SMT Smart Controller saves water and maintains a healthy landscape, visit http://www.rainbird.com/ESP-SMT. For information about Rain Bird’s many other water-efficient products for landscape, golf course and agricultural irrigation, visit http://www.rainbird.com.
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Secure, Child friendly email for Kids and peace of mind for Parents
Today’s digital age offers even the youngest users educational, entertaining, and communication tools. Yet, it is fraught with danger exposing our children to abuse and predators. MouseMail.com is designed with the youngest, first time internet users in mind. Parents can manage their children’s contact list and be alerted if messages contain inappropriate language. MouseMail.com is not spyware. Rather, it is a safe environment for children to enjoy the marvels of technology. It contains age appropriate games, educational tools, interactive calendar, point system for future prizes and other fun features. Teaching our children from the very beginning the importance of being safe and protected on the internet will carry on into their teen years
Email Filtering
MouseMail uses Active Email Filtering to scan for inappropriate content, as well as non-approved contacts in every email. Questionable messages will not be delivered to the child, but diverted to the parent for review. This filtering alerts parents to any inappropriate communications, giving the parents a chance to talk with their child if an issue arises before it becomes serious.
WebTXT
MouseMail uses Active Filtering to scan every WebTXT message for inappropriate content, as well as non-approved contacts. WebTXT provides the ability to send a WebTXT message from MouseMail.com to any cell phone. This feature is great for children that want to stay in touch with Mom, Dad, and other approved contacts. WebTXT uses Active filtering technology to scan for inappropriate content so parents can rest assured that their children will not be exposed to objectionable content while enjoying this feature. Furthermore, WebTXT messages can only be received from parent-approved contacts, preventing bullies or child predators from communicating with your child. MouseMail.com scans all incoming and outgoing WebTXT messages sent from within the MouseMail website to either a mobile phone or to another MouseMail user. This filtering allows parents to monitor their children’s communications, giving the parents a chance to talk with their child if an issue arises before that issue becomes serious.
Future Release
MouseMail also planning future features including:
Skoop Filtering
MouseMail’s Global Scan Technology will search for any mention of your child or family anywhere on the web. MouseMail’s SKOOP™ Technology puts one of the most powerful search tools at the fingertips of parents who want to know what is being said about their children or family on the internet. With our Skoop technology, parents will receive regular reports of any mention of their child on blogs and social sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. Join MouseMail today and become one of the first users to experience the power and reach of MouseMail’s Social Website Scan Technology when it goes live.
Social Website Scanning
MouseMail uses Social Website Scanning to search for inappropriate content, as well as non-approved contacts on each of your children’s social pages. MouseMail scans all of the social networking websites your children belong to, monitoring their pages for questionable content or postings. When content that contains certain words is scanned, the parent is notified and can decide what action needs to be taken. They can also block postings, as well as uninvited or unapproved friends, blocking further communications from the banned poster. This filtering alerts parents to any inappropriate communications, giving the parents a chance to talk with their child if an issue arises before it becomes serious. Our Active Social Site Filtering Tools are designed to work seamlessly with all major social websites.
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The Last Password You’ll Have to Remember!
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Effortlessly save, organize, and access log-in data
Ranked a tie for the top spot of my Top 5 Internet Productivity tools! It’s so easy, I use it all the time! LastPass is a password manager that makes web browsing easier and more secure. While our minds struggle to keep track of increasingly complex online accounts, LastPass allows you to effortlessly save, organize, and access your web sites and log-in data.
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LastPass employs localized, government-level encryption (256-bit AES implemented in C++ and JavaScript) and local one-way salted hashes to give you complete security with the go-anywhere convenience of syncing through the cloud. All encrypting and decrypting happens on your computer – no one at LastPass can ever access your sensitive data. LastPass’ Security Challenge also allows you to identify weak account data and provides suggestions for significantly improving your online security (see LastPass Possible Security Breach). Long gone are my days of using the same user name and password for multiple sites (Very bad practice as anyone with a pulse should know with the recent hacks and compromised data. Epsilon one of the largest email distributors in the world, and Sony’s Play Station Network just to name two recent breaches). Quite simply, if you use the same user name and password say for email and banking, that information is stolen or compromised, you just handed over the keys to any number of undesirable folks. No more using simple or same passwords and no more keeping a typed or hand written list for me!
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Click, bang! I’m logged in!
One of the first reasons I chose to try LastPass in the beginning was it’s ability to store Sites and credentials. As a tech professional, I work with and deal with an ever increasing number of web sites and resources. It honestly became necessary to find some easier way to store, organize, and access those. I needed a solution that would be secure and not overly cumbersome, quick and accessible from multiple devices. Saving and organizing a site couldn’t be easier. For instance, say I want to save my cable company’s website with all my log-in information: Using the Chrome browser and the LastPass add on, I open and log into the site, LastPass recognizes the new site and prompts to save the site, organize it and enter any optional notes. Once LastPass has saved the site, I then can quickly access and log in with just a click. Click, bang! I’m logged in! This feature and the Generate Secure Password tool alone has me sold on using LastPass. I currently have over 150 different sites and credentials I’m storing on LastPass, all with different, strong, unique passwords. LastPass has made my life infinitely easier managing, securing, and maintaining my list of all the sites and services I use.
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Follow the download button and instructions on LastPass.com for your selected platform and browser.
Supported Platforms
The list continues to grow!
Operating platforms:
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Browsers:
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Dolphin Browser HD
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