Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Cancer-Proof Your Body
Recent research reveals 8 stealth strategies to keep the killer at bay. It's time to raise your carcinogen shields -- and your overall health -- using these smart anti-C moves.
Read the Men's Health article.
Monday, September 17, 2007
10 killer ways to feel like a million bucks (even if your bank account says otherwise)
Not convinced yet? There are plenty of studies tying health to wealth (and vice versa), on a national and a personal level. Rest assured, though, this isn't The Secret. If you really want to know a secret, here's one: thinking good thoughts about the universe will only make you more disappointed when they don't come true. But that's another thought for another post. Instead, here are some tried and true suggestions for feeling better.
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100 Tips to Improve Your Life
While not specific to creative professionals, the list includes tips that are likely to boost overall effectiveness and the impact you are able to make with your ideas. For this reason, I re-post the list and encourage you to browse...
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Thursday, September 13, 2007
US Health Insurance Costs Rise Nearly Twice as Fast as Pay
The cost of health insurance in the United States climbed nearly twice as fast as wages in the first half of 2007, with family coverage costing employers around 1,000 dollars (714 euros) a month, a poll showed Wednesday.
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Dollar Hits All-Time Low Against Euro
The U.S. dollar hit a record low against the euro and was lower against other major currencies in European trading Wednesday morning.
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Bottle makes dirty water drinkable in seconds
Military chiefs are excited because the bottles, which can distill either 4,000 litres or 6,000 litres without changing the filter. The bottle can clean up any water - including fecal matter - using a filter that cuts out anything longer than 15 nanometres, which means that viruses can be filtered out without the use of chemicals.
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'Wing' Portable Windmill Charges Cellphones and Laptops Outdoors!
How great would it be to have your own personal wind turbine that you can carrying around with you outdoors? The portable, umbrella-like 'Wing' personal windmill produces enough electricity to power cell phones, laptops, and lamps, and can be used for camping, road trips, or in developing rural areas with no access to an electricity grid.
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Top 10 Freeware Software Nobody Knows About - But Should
It's a shame when a great program is not heard about by most people - especially when it's free. Here are the top 10 freeware software that many people still haven't tried, but definitely should.
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7 Things You Can Do Today to Prepare for Retirement
"Confession time: I didn’t start planning my retirement when I was young. I didn’t give it much thought, because when you’re in your 20s, retirement seems like something you can worry about much later."
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Turn Your Windows PC into a Media Center Powerhouse On the Cheap
After installing a $70 capture card in your computer and a bit of freeware third-party software, you've got all the tools you need to record television shows on your PC's built-in Media Center, extend that Media Center to your Xbox 360, schedule recordings and stream TV over the internet.
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Super-Easy Ubuntu Setup From Windows - For Windows Users Eager To Try Linux
Wubi is an Ubuntu installer for Windows that lets you install and uninstall Ubuntu from a Windows desktop. Ubuntu is installed within a file in the Windows file system, this file is seen by Ubuntu as a real hard disk. That way the hard drive does not have to be repartitioned before the Ubuntu installation.
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7 Stupid Thinking Errors You Probably Make
The brain isn’t a flawless piece of machinery. Although it is powerful and comes in an easy to carry container, it has it’s weaknesses. A field in psychology which studies these errors, known as biases. Although you can’t upgrade your mental hardware, noticing these biases can clue you into possible mistakes.
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Cellular freedom: bill would cut early termination fees, hidden charges
Introduced late last week to the US Senate, the Cell Phone Empowerment Act of 2007 would force cellular carriers to provide detailed coverage data while making it easier for consumers to opt out of their cellular contracts.
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Apple Sells 1 Millionth iPhone
Seventy four days out from launch, Apple has has sold 1 million iPhones.
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7 Reasons the 21st Century is Making You Miserable
Scientists call it the Naked Photo Test, and it works like this: say a photo turns up of you nakedly doing something that would shame you and your family for generations. Bestiality, perhaps. Ask yourself how many people in your life you would trust with that photo. If you're like the rest of us, you probably have at most two.
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Fix a Frozen System with the Magic SysRq Keys
You finally got your Linux environment to crash. Ctrl+Alt+Backspace does nothing, nor do the F-keys. So you reach for the power button. STOP! Using the power button to reboot usually causes more problems than it solves. The Linux kernel includes a secret method of restarting your PC should it ever stop doing it’s job.
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40+ Free Windows Apps For You
This post is the part 2 of my earlier post 20 Open Source Windows Apps For You, i got lot of feedback for that post and my readers suggested some excellent programs to be included in that list. So here i am listing all those programs which i have missed in my earlier post. Do check the earlier one for the complete software list. The list is in rand
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Heavy Internet users unplugged by US cable company
Cable Internet and entertainment provider Comcast "has punished some transgressors by cutting off their Internet service, arguing that excessive downloaders hog Internet capacity and slow down the network for other customers," the Washington Post reported.
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Religious Leaders Accept Science, Pray for Solution to Global Warming
Religious leaders from all over the world met at the mouth of a melting glacier in Greenland today to say a silent prayer for the planet, appealing to mankind to address the impact that humanity is having on life on Earth. Science and Religion in Agreement? "I don't think we have any differences on this," says Cardinal Thomas McCarrick.
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Monday, September 03, 2007
Harvard releases innovative P2P video software
Internet television more complete than ever. The serverless Tribler software combines BitTorrent, YouTube, and LiveLeak, VLC player, codecs, and intelligent taste recognition into one understandable package. Scientifically, Tribler introduces a download economy beyond tit-for-tat: P2P sharing becomes P2P trading on a bandwidth market. Win/Mac/Linux
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Papers Please: Arrested At Circuit City
"Today I was arrested by the Brooklyn, Ohio police department. It all started when I refused to show my receipt to the loss prevention employee at Circuit City, and it ended when a police officer arrested me for refusing to provide my driver's license."
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Magnetic refrigerator that needs no electricity
A group of researchers at the Technical University of Denmark’s project laboratory in Risø have discovered a cooling method that uses magnetic materials instead of electricity. The invention will allow for refrigerators to replace existing electric refrigerators in homes and businesses with a fully environmentally friendly power source.
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Vista users in Swedish community can't get online
An entire section of Swedes are apparently going without simply because they're using Windows Vista. According a local newspaper, Vista users in Lund can't connect to the internet due to a "bug" that prevents Vista from playing nice with their Linux-based ISP.
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The Linux Vault, "The Linux Wikipedia"
The Linux Vault is a new wiki project founded with the mission of creating a centralized GNU/Linux information website. It has been just created, so we are begging everybody to take part of it and make it the place for writing guides, HOW-TO's, configurations, administration tips, tricks, tweaks or whatever else related to the GNU/Linux system.
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Why Americans Became a Nation of Consumers Instead of Citizens
IT’S Labor Day weekend, so let’s talk about labor. Around 140 million people are employed in the United States. They are engaged in work like governing, manufacturing, health care providing, retailing and researching. This gigantic army of laborers, argues Robert B. Reich, has morphed into a nation of consumers and investors, rather than Citizens.
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