Wednesday 20 October 2010

How to Prevent Acne? (Facial Scars)

Some people say that acne is a normal part of life, but does it really have to be so? Fortunately, there are some measures you can take to prevent pimples from ever showing up in your face.

Where Do Pimples Come From?

Pimples typically arise from dirt and oil getting trapped in your pores. They can also be triggered by allergies and hormones, but dirt buildup is usually the cause.

Know Your Skin

Acne can stem from genetics, your diet, hormones, allergies, certain habits, medication and your environment, among other things. If you have observed your family members to be prone to acne outbreaks at whatever age, there’s a possibility that you will be susceptible to acne yourself.

Check your skin type if it is oily, dry or a combination of both. Identifying your skin type will help you find a way to treat and prevent acne. Here’s a quick look how:

    * Oily residue: You have a combination of dry and oily skin
    * Oily patches everywhere: You have oily skin
    * Flaky skin or residue: You have dry skin
   * Slight oil sheen everywhere: You have normal skin

Knowing the root of your acne, or at least the likely cause of acne, is key in preventing acne. Once you’ve narrowed down your root causes, it’s time to take action.

Clean Your Skin

Finding the right skin cleanser for your skin type is very important in preventing acne. It must not be too harsh as to strip your face’s natural oil and cause irritation on your skin. However, skin cleansers that are too gentle might not be enough for you to effectively fight against acne.

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Unfortunately, no convincing replies can, it seems, convince you out of the mass forwards. Your pleas for email silence are well received and benevolently ignored. Everybody wants to have and get some fun, right?

Either way, you have to read the jokes, amazing stores and virus warnings or delete them right away. Or let technology do the job.

With a simple filter, Gmail can send all incoming mail from your favorite forwarders to theTrash folder as it arrives. As an alternative, you can archive these messages and equip the with a label for later review.

Block a Sender in Gmail

To have Gmail send messages from a specific sender to the Trash automatically:

Follow the Create a filter link (at the top of any Gmail mailbox, near the search buttons).
Type the desired email address under From:.
- You can block an entire domain by entering just that. To block all mail from both natsuko@example.com and pjotr@example.com, type "@example.com".
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Monday 18 October 2010

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How to Preserve the Books?

What is a book?

The objects we think of as books have been made of diverse materials throughout history. Cultures around the world have recorded information using available natural materials and technologies. Before paper, writing was chiseled on stone or clay tablets. The invention of paper in Han Dynasty China around 105 A.D. allowed writing to become portable. The Chinese developed a thin yet strong paper for writing and arranged the paper in accordion folded books, hand scrolls, or sewn bindings. As paper and bookmaking moved east to Japan, south through India, and west to the Middle East with the trade routes, new forms and structures emerged according to cultural and religious needs.

Codex, or multi-section book

The first example of the codex, or a book made of sheets gathered together like a modern book, was in the 1st century A.D. During this period in northern Africa, books were made of sheets of parchment or papyrus, and "bound" together with rings. Later books were given covers and actually sewn together. Throughout Europe, parchment was considered a superior material for writing, and monasteries produced beautiful vellum or parchment books and illustrations for religious texts. Paper wasn't made in Europe until the 12th century, eleven hundred years after its invention in China, when the first paper mills began operation in Spain and Italy. Eventually, paper gained acceptance with scribes and bookbinders and its popularity soared by the development of movable type printing in the late 15th century. These early European papers were far superior to the papers of today, because they were made from cotton rags or linen, which are pure sources of cellulose. With the advent of machine made paper in the early 19th century, and the use of ground wood pulp instead of cotton and linen by the 1850's, paper quality declined radically.

But, ground wood pulp as a papermaking material did allow paper to be made cheaply and quickly. By the mid-19th century, common people could own books, read newspapers and serialized novels and stories. Unfortunately, these "advances" in technology led to a decline in paper quality. Ground wood pulp contains a complex acid called lignin, which is essentially self-destructive, causing paper to become brown and brittle with time. It is safe to say that almost any book printed after the 1850's is made of a ground wood pulp paper, unless it was from a fine press or it specifies the paper as acid-free. (also permanent durable).

The First Step: Triage

Just like the casualties of war, books need to be sorted into categories for their preservation. Some books are more valuable than others, and "value" can be a very subjective term. In the book world, there are rare books, a designation that refers to books that are old or financially valuable, to books which are finely printed and bound, or to books which have been owned by famous people. Librarians, curators, and collectors develop categories for rare books, or special collections.

In your home, you might have books which are "special", and books which are "ordinary". In the special category might be an oversized art book, a favorite novel or book of poems, a family Bible, or a scrapbook of mementos or photographs. In addition, you might also have old yearbooks, textbooks from school or college, books of literature, books about a profession or trade. These are groups of books which are not looked at very often, but remain important reference tools. Books like paperbacks would constitute the "ordinary" category, books which might have once been enjoyed, but are easily replaced.

The first thing you need to do to take proper care of your book collection is ask a series of questions: how many books do you have? which books are most valuable? do you need to keep all the books in your collection? are there any books which could be given to schools or libraries?

Once you prioritize the items in your collection, the job of preservation is simplified. The enemies of books--insects, mold, and damage from light--do not discriminate between expensive books and cheap paperbacks. This article will outline suggested steps for preventive preservation, explaining specific ways to create a better environment for your collection.

Enemies of Books: Temperature and Humidity

Books are made of organic materials, paper and board made from pulp, cloth made from natural fibers, leathers from tanned animal skins. All organic materials begin to deteriorate in reaction to the environment. Fluctuations in temperature and humidity cause these materials to expand and contract, which in turn can cause books to warp and buckle, crack and fall apart. While temperature and humidity affect paper, cloth, and leather differently, fluctuations in temperature and humidity do even more damage on books because they are composite objects. All the parts are joined together to make an operating, three dimensional object, with folds and hinges.

Books are hygroscopic, meaning that they readily absorb and release moisture. The amount of moisture in the air can be measured as relative humidity (referring to the water vapor in the air relative to the greatest amount of water vapor the air could hold at the same temperature). Relative humidity is expressed in percentages, and in Hawai'i's humid environment, the relative humidity averages between 60% and 75%. High humidity causes mold growth, and increased insect activity. Moreover, daily and seasonal fluctuations in humidity are extremely damaging to books.

Temperature is also an important consideration. The higher the temperature, the faster the book will deteriorate, as the rate of chemical reactions is doubled with each increase in temperature of 18 degrees F. Hawai'i's temperature averages from 60 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit. As a result, books and paper objects are self-destructing in the high heat, which, combined with high humidity, leaves books extremely vulnerable.

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Choose Your Path Carefully

There are so many options and choices when you decide that you want to try and make some money online. I actually think that the vast majority of people that try and fail, have failed not because the Internet is too crowded with other people making money or that the path they choose was not viable.
I think that those that fail do so because they are overwhelmed and inconsistent. I know that I have been, and I am not actually making any money yet. I am not ready to call it failure yet.

Online Store

I have tried to setup an online store selling anything available from drop shippers. I got as far as setting up a website and getting it configured to sell products.
Once I started investigated the “what” to sell I realized that a LOT of people were selling the same exact things. Everyone was using the same exact photos and advertising copy. They were all completing on price just trying to make a few dollars on each transaction.
I realized quickly that this would not be good for me. I like my day job, I want something that can run without constant attention.

Copywriting

The next thing that REALLY caught my attention and I believe that I will do someday is writing copy for other people’s websites and advertising campaign’s. This is a real and very viable approach to making some money. I would highly recommend this as a path of consideration.
I purchased and studied the Copywriting course by American Writers & Artists Inc, AWAI. The course is very good and I feel that it was worth the price, although it is $500.00.
I have made some money Offline with these skills and I do some Marketing and Copywriting. I am sure that I will share what I have learned about copywriting along the way. Writers will always have work available. Check out www.elance.com or www.guru.com.

Blogging

About this time I came to learn that professional Bloggers can make a lot of money from other people advertising on their site. All they need to do is start a blog, make it interesting and create a huge following and readership.

Informational Products

Looking for copywriting jobs helped me realize that the guys making the serious money (like Millions a year) were launching their own informational products and books. So, I reasoned that I should create my own informational offering and sell it instead of selling someone else’s.

Online Marketing

What I then came to understand is that even if you put in the MASSIVE amount of time required to create your own online product. The art is not in creating the product but the Online Marketing that brings in the money, finding the “who” to sell it too.

Affiliate Marketing

As for marketing, there is a whole network of marketers out there that will help you sell your product for a commission called Affiliate Marketers. Some these guys are making a ton of money and they don’t even create their own products. They are selling other people’s products for a fee. But in order to do this successfully you have to understand a lot about Traffic generation, SEO, Link Juice, Backlinks, Google Slaps, and the list goes on forever.

Conclusion

So here I have come full circle back to a path that is selling other people’s stuff for a piece of the sale. I am a long way down the road and yet no closer to making any money online. There is a mind boggling amount of stuff to learn. So, I would recommend understanding each of the available business models and selecting one at a time. There is nothing wrong with planning for growth from one thing to another, but I think that you (and hopefully I) will have a better chance of success picking a path and REALLY learning it and getting it to pay before moving on.

How to Use Twitter to Drive Traffic??

Everyone is all a buzz about Twitter and Social Media. That is great, but what the heck does in mean and how can I use to to help drive real traffic to my website?
It is no secret that the most key ingredient to success in any marketing campaign is the exposure of the advertisement. The more people that see your ad or read what you have to say the higher your probability of success.
It is no different online. You don’t have to be a master affiliate marketer to understand the value of traffic. Ok, if Twitter is so great, then I should use Twitter. I want to explore anything that is a real tool to help me build my business.
Why is Twitter so Great?
Twitter appears at first to be a kid’s toy. It gives the impression that all it is good for is announcing to the world the most boring details of your life, and there are certainly a lot of people using Twitter that way. But there is another way to look at it. I find the service to be like a rolling ticker tape of news and conversation among a group of people that are the exact target group of who I want to sell to.
The key to success with Twitter is to Follow the right people, and conversely to have the right people follow you. The great part is that all of the traffic and targeting is free.
You can search for a topic of interest and find people talking about it. When you see that someone made an interesting comment, you should choose to follow them. The next time you look at your home page you will see any comment from this person.
Once you have followed a bunch of people your news reel will start to roll with comments and conversations. You can look at the followers of your followers and add them as well.
You can and should just jump into the dialog. Don’t worry if nobody answers you. Conversations do not always take off.
The nature of Twitter is that when you follow people they see that you are following and some will follow you back. Many people use software tools to help them “follow back.”
I can hear the “so what” thoughts at this point. The best thing that you can do to see the value in this is to get out there and try it.
So what this means is that you can build a network or group of individuals that are interested and talking about the same thing that you are interested in or selling or in this case blogging about.
You can then post your own snippets of wisdom, tweets. There is no rule about what you can tweet about. But if you are just sending out links to your site or sales pitches without saying anything interesting you will be “un-followed” en mass.
The advice that I have seen says that about 20% of your tweets can be self serving, ie links to your blog or products. This number will probably not chase your followers away.
Most tweets I add directly into the Twitter interface, but I have recently installed an awesome WordPress Plugin that will automatically send my new blog posts out as tweets.
I installed Shorten2Ping, which automatically sends my blog title and link to Ping.fm and this service posts the information to Twitter for me as a Tweet.

Wednesday 13 October 2010

How to Make Firefox Faster???

If you use broadband, you can make webpages load even faster in Firefox by using this "pipelining" trick. Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which can speed up page loading.

Follow these Steps:

Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return.
Look for “network.http.keep-alive”. If it’s false, double-click that line and to change it to true.
Make sure “network.http.version” is set to “1.1″.
Look for “network.http.pipelining”. If it’s false, double-click that line and change it to true.
Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to true by double-clicking it.
Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8 by double-clicking it. This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. The default value for this setting is 4.
Optional: Right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it shows you the information it receives. This is particularly helpful on pages with search bars, however, it doesn't actually make the page load faster.

Other Methods For Broadband Users:

Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

Alter the entries as follows:

Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”
Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer.

Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!

Saturday 9 October 2010

How to Count Characters in Microsoft Office Word (2007 and 2010)?

Many people would be knowing, how to count the words in Microsoft Office Word..

But many people puzzling themselves, how to count the characters: with spaces and without spaces.

So Lets see how to count those characters..
Here we Go...

Open Microsoft Office Word application.

Follow the below sequence...>>>>>>>>>>>
Microsoft Office Word> Write something..
For Example: A web developer is writing Meta Description or Data for a HTML page and manage the limited characters for making it search engine friendly.

But Microsoft Office Word by default it counts words...

But he wanna count characters.. So lets see how to do it..!!!
Follow this Sequence...>>>>
Microsoft Office Word>Review(On the Menu bar next to Home..>>Mailings)>

Then click on Word Count>>

Its done...

Wednesday 6 October 2010

7 Ways: Your Job could shorten your Life- 7 Solutions to Stop It to happen

If work enriches our lives in many ways, it can shorten them too.

Here are the seven ways your job could put you at risk and how you can nip some of these problems in the bud for a better chance of a longer, healthier life, reports ABC News.

1. Distracted driving: Taking the office on the road

Cell phones, smart phones and personal digital assistants have improved the ability to conduct work at all hours. Meanwhile there has been a surge in the number of fatal crashes caused by drivers who continue texting and talking on cell phones behind the wheel.

The solution:

When you are on the road, put down your phone or BlackBerry. Considering the consequences, it is likely that work, however important, can wait.

2. Sitting still: When work's got you chained to the desk

Doctors, nutritionists and other health professionals tell us time and again how sitting on a couch, snacks at the ready, contributes to heart disease and diabetes. But who knew until quite recently that the countless hours many workers spent seated at their desks, eyes glued to computer screens or phones attached to ears might cut their lives short?

The solution:

Make sure you build into your daily schedule opportunities to get up from your desk and walk around. Take the stairs, leave your desk for lunch.

3. Work is hell: When you have a bad boss or hostile workplace

Multiple studies in recent years have focused on the impact of a hostile workplace and a bad boss on a worker's physical and mental health. It turns out that these factors can be life shortening.

The solution:

Do what you can to change the work culture in your office. Building positive relationships with co-workers and working to forge better communication with your supervisors may go a long way in terms of improving the morale within your work environment. If the situation is untenable, consider talking to human resources to see if there is a legal way to remedy the hostile environment in your workplace.

4. Wide awake: When work disrupts your sleep

Work stress can creep up more subtly. The cumulative effect of insufficient sleep, whether caused by interrupted or poor sleep, insomnia or the body's inability to adjust to shift work can also speed your demise.

The solution:

When possible, leave work at the office; try not to let your work life bleed into the late hours of the night. If necessary, schedule your sleep so that you are guaranteed to get a solid six to eight hours. And if stress is keeping you awake at night on a regular basis, you may want to seek professional help.

5. Walking papers: Getting laid off or fired

The stress associated with losing a job is often described as one of the most trying life events, along with divorce and death of a loved one. But it isn''t the only job-related worry that can kill you. The persistent fear of losing a job, which is particularly prevalent in the current economic climate, can produce similar stress and ill health.

The solution:

It''s not easy to recover after losing your job, but health experts say the effects of such a tribulation can be mitigated by smart behavior. One of the most important things someone struggling with a job loss can do is invest in their own well-being.

6. Burning the midnight oil: Working overtime or working late

Those working 10 to 11 hours a day (compared with the traditional seven-hour British workday) were as much as 60 percent more likely to suffer heart disease or die prematurely than those working regular hours.

The solution:

Given the current economic climate, it may be hard for many workers to say 'no thanks' to overtime for the sake of their health. Still, it may be in your best interest to explore ways to exercise more control over your schedule, such as flex time.

7. Risky workplace: When occupational hazards expose you to danger

Occupational health hazards, sometimes caused by exposures to dangers not visible to the naked eye, can shorten lives.

The solution:

For some jobs, the exposure to potentially dangerous situations or environments is simply a fact of life. The important thing is to adhere to all recommended health and safety practices for your profession-whether that means donning a dust mask or other protective gear if you are in a construction or carpentry role, to practicing proper safety measures if you work with or around dangerous substances.

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Wednesday 20 October 2010

How to Prevent Acne? (Facial Scars)

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