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Welcome to my website. My name is Matt Smith and I am the guy behind SwoofWare.com. You can read a little more about me and this site on the About page - but let me take a moment to give you a bit of glimpse at who I am. - I am glad you are here, and hope you come back often. Feel free to surf around and see if you like what's on my site.

I am one of the founder of ThinkFirst, LLC, a web development company that specializes in web-based applications. Our primary project is MyHomePoint.

Besides my computer related activities, I keep busy with my wife and three kids. I am actively involved in Cub Scouts and was a Den Leader for three years and am now the Pack Committee Chair.

ACL Fest iTunes Music Sampler Download Codes

September 28, 2008

My nephew and sister-in-law went to ACL Fest yesterday and brought back a bunch of freebies. One of the items that they brought back multiples of was iTunes gift cards good for 25 free songs. Of course, the 25 songs are ‘A special collection of songs from this year’s artists.’ So, I used one card and downloaded my free songs. I now have 12 more cards that I have no use for. If you want a download code from one of the cards, leave a comment below with your email address and I will send one to you.

  • Above the Clouds by Slightly Stoopid on Chronchitis
  • All Around Me by Flyleaf on Flyleaf
  • Bitch, I Love You by Black Joe Lewis on Black Joe Lewis
  • Bubble Pop by Del the Funky Homosapien on Eleventh Hour
  • Caroline by The Belleville Outfit on Wanderin’
  • Come Home by Back Door Slam on Roll Away
  • Come to Me by South Austin Jug Band on Strange Invitation
  • Dirt In My Pocket by Joe Bonamassa on Sloe Gin
  • Guinevere by Eli Young Band on Jet Black & Jealous
  • Hold On by Hot Chip on Made In the Dark
  • Hurly / Burly by Man Man on Rabbit Habits
  • I’m Gonna Get There by Mike Farris on Salvation In Lights
  • Killing for Love by José González on In Our Nature
  • Love In Our Hearts by Electric Touch on Electric Touch (Bonus Track Version)
  • My Only Offer by Mates of State on Re-Arrange Us
  • New Resolution by Heartless Bastards on Stairs and Elevators
  • Oh Man! by Sybris on Into the Trees
  • Play The Role [Statewide Remix] by Bavu Blakes on Nobody Leavin
  • Politik Kills by Manu Chao on La Radiolina
  • Something Good This Way Comes by Jakob Dylan on Seeing Things - EP
  • Soul On Fire by Spiritualized on Songs In A&E
  • Stake Your Claim by Eli "Paperboy" Reed And The True Loves on Roll With You
  • Sultan by What Made Milwaukee Famous on What Doesn’t Kill Us
  • Time by Christopher Denny on Age Old Hunger
  • Traffic by Ben Cyllus on Cinnamon Matinee
  • The Way It Is by Nicole Atkins on Neptune City
  • The Wolf by Shooter Jennings on The Wolf
  • 100 Days, 100 Nights by Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings on 100 Days, 100 Nights

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Gustavugees

August 31, 2008

After a two week fun-filled vacation to Colorado, Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Schlitterbahn, immediately followed by the start of school, I was hoping to spend this Labor Day weekend catching up around the house. I should have known better given that it was hurricane season!

My wife has family down on the Texas coast near Beaumont and Port Arthur and we started receiving calls Thursday night from them looking for a place to stay. I’m calling them ‘Gustavugees’. The first group arrived Friday night and another group on Saturday. Right now we have an extra six people in the house and might get a seventh if my brother-in-law’s plant gets shut down.

So, rather than spending the weekend trying to catch up on things around here and try to get the kids in a routine for school, I am spending the weekend trying to stay on top of feeding and cleaning up after 11 people.

All-in-all, it isn’t too bad. Everyone is in good spirits. My 14yo nephew keeps my 10yo and 6yo sons busy. I haven’t hardly seen my 6yo niece and my 8yo daughter since they have been playing so well together. My wife and I have spent a fair amount of time with our 15mo grand-nephew. He is at that perfect age where he is really cute.

We do only have one bathroom but we’ve been through many holidays with more people here. We do have overflow given that my mother-in-law lives next door, another sister-in-law about two miles away and there are additional siblings in Bastrop with two houses.

The exodus around Hurrican Rita back in 2005 was much worse. It seems like everyone was pretty raw from the coverage around Katrina and were fearful of the results of Rita. Hopefully there won’t be any damage to their houses on the coast and everyone can get back home on Wednesday.

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Antivirus XP 2008 and avxp2008.com

July 23, 2008

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Removing Antivirus 2009

I’ve been monitoring my traffic a fair amount over the past few weeks since I first published XP Antivirus 2008 and Antivirus 2009 are evil!. It looks like things were starting to taper off a little but has jumped up this week and in checking my Google Analytics Traffic Sources, I see that I am getting a bunch of hits from Google for the term ‘avxp2008′. Surprisingly, there were only 5 hits for that term, this site being one of them due to the mention in a comment from krisi on July 12th.

One of the search results had a vague mention of a web address of avxp2008.com. So I fired up Firefox and took a visit. While not quite as slick as the other site (see Antivirus 2009 and microsoft.browserprotectioncenter.com), they are definitely doing everything they can to try to lull you into their confidence and click on one of their download links. With most sites, you expect some kind of intermediate page once you click a download link where they will either provide some additional details or instructions or gather some information from you. Not here. They try right off the bat to get you to download a .exe file (AntivirusXP2008Installer.exe) in the hopes that you will click the Run button and install it.

If you are already infected, you should take a look at Removing Antivirus 2009 - Round 3 for how I was able to remove it from my Dad’s computer. In the next day or so I hope to post a quick article on how to avoid getting infected in the first place.

If anyone has any other advice or suggestions, please leave a comment for others to benefit from.

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