I am not a computer geek so my knowledge on this subject is limited. I downloaded the free Yahoo Toolbar last year. It has a zapper on it that makes a noise when it blocks an ad - reminds me of a flyswatter killing flies. It does a good job. What is really annoying is the ads that cover up what you are reading. You have to sit there and let it go through its thing because there is no x box to kill it. I have found this mainly on newspaper sites. The Yahoo zapper doesn't kill those. I call them popovers! The forum is so slooooooooow to come up under iVillage. Also, it frequently 'forgets' me and I have to log in again. Sometimes I have to wade through all those things I never use like my page, my want list, etc. before I can get to the actual forum. I agree that Spike did a better job. Walter Moores

A story about Angie's List. I got a freebie trial for a year when they were new to this area. So I was heading out of town, afternoon before got an oil change (quickie place, not dealer). They bunged up the transmission (forget details now but would have stopped me from making that trip). Reimbursed my money and were trying to get me to head to their 'transmission guy'. No way! A girl customer who overheard that fiasco gave me her ex BFs card, said if he couldn't help me he had friends who could. He did body work but sent me to his friend. Sweetest, kindest mechanic I've ever met. Got there at closing time on Friday evening. Still, he stayed, fixed it, and wasn't going to charge me. (I gave him money anyway.) I also gave him highest rec on Angie's List. I bumped into him a few months later. He's very laid back so didn't complain, but the poor guy had since been flooded with snail mail solicitations from AL to join and IIRC he said their fees for business owners were astronomical. He was appreciative of the review, but he was small & just starting out then so had to watch every penny. But we were both kind of surprised they'd solicit business owners that way, seems that would create bias to some extent? I didn't renew when my freebie subscription ran out, but to this day they've not stopped soliciting heavily, even after multiple requests from me to unsubscribe from their list. Aside from having "paid" members in the business community, it's pretty annoying the way they hound people incessantly, a total turn off imho.

Forgot to add, I used to simmer water and cinnamon but the cinnamon would turn my pans a dark color. The cinnamon spray from B&BW is fantastic. If I know company is coming I spray it about 30 minutes before. I'm pretty sure our new "mini" Walmart SuperCenter won't sell these items, so I ordered 3 solid Citrus thingys (not the spray), and one Lysol automatic neutral spray. The only drawback I read about it is it can sometimes leak on the floor. So I'll find an obscure place in the LR and have a little towel under it. Can't wait until they come in! I'm definitely going to put one of the solid Citrus things in the back bedrooms where our very old carpet is.

Yes most browsers do but not IE, my firefox does it too. Have you followed the tutorial I linked to for setting up the blocker in the addons you installed? You should be able to block these with it.