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Should I Eat Lobster and Shrimp

2012-03-09T14:58:00.000-08:00

High cholesterol has long been associated with such foods as lobster and shrimp, which is why many people worried about their cholesterol have given them up, but these shellfish may actually contribute to healthy total cholesterol levels
A build up of plaque in the arteries presents cause for concern, which is why maintaining low LDL cholesterol levels, or bad cholesterol levels, and high HDL cholesterol levels, or good cholesterol levels, is important
Studies have shown that eating a heart healthy diet with both shrimp and lobster, in moderation, can help lower cholesterol

Even if you haven’t heard the news from your physician, you’ve probably learned that cholesterol is an important factor in heart health. You want low levels of LDL (low-density lipoproteins) and high levels of HDL (high-density lipoproteins) in your blood because this is the formula that will reduce the risks of developing the build-up of plaque in the arteries. This knowledge may open up plenty of other questions, however. For example, one cholesterol question is whether or not lobster and shrimp are good food choices.

Lobster and Shrimp for Good Health

For long periods of time, physicians were recommending that shrimp was a bad food choice, especially for people at risk of developing heart disease. That’s because shrimp contains two-thirds of the recommended daily allowance of cholesterol a person should consume. However, a study from the mid-1990s found differently. According to researchers at Harvard University, eating a heart healthy diet including shrimp did raise overall cholesterol levels. The explanation is that shrimp does raise LDL levels but also increases HDL because of the fish oils it contains. The two increases cancel each other out which means no net increase in cholesterol levels. However, that would not be the case if you eat fried shrimp which also contains a high level of saturated fat. Just focus on grilled or steamed shrimp. Lay off the rich sauces, too.

But are both lobster and shrimp good for cholesterol levels? Even though many types of shellfish have been considered off-limits by physicians, the research above has changed the minds of most of them today. Even so, lobster was never one of the worse choices. A serving of three ounces of lobster is low in saturated fat and calories and is actually one of the lowest in terms of cholesterol with only 61 milligrams compared to 80 mg for baked crab and 166 mg for fifteen large shrimp.

Other Foods that Naturally Lower Cholesterol

While lobster and shrimp are good choices, especially if you are looking for low-fat but high-protein foods, there are also other foods that can be good for your cholesterol. Take oatmeal, for example. Oatmeal is high in soluble fiber which has been proven to lower LDL levels. Eating one bowl every morning can make a big improvement in your overall numbers.

Eating about two ounces of walnuts daily instead of some type of high fat protein can also reduce your LDL levels by about 12 percent. Of course, if you’re consuming these nuts you need to be careful because they are so high in fat and calories. Eating them in moderation, however, is a wise decision for your heart.

If you want to add some type of oil to your diet without increasing your saturated fat intake, the best choice is olive oil. In fact, you could even drizzle a little over your lobster and shrimp. Consuming two tablespoons of olive oil a day can help lower your LDL levels. Plus, olive oil is high in antioxidants which have their own health benefits.

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Alternative Cancer Solutions

2011-05-18T02:52:00.000-07:00

We found that our adjunctive therapy potentiates the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiotherapy against cancer cells, while decreasing the negative effects on healthy cells, which tends to produce fewer unwanted side effects. That chemotherapy is said, when used as sole treatment for advanced-stage disease, is the best palliative. A study published in December 2004 in the British journal, reported "Clinical Oncology", that most adult malignancies, chemotherapy was minimally effective in increasing survival at 5 years.

At the Institute, most cancer patients require two to three infusions per week, at least during the first 1-2 months. This will require you have an intravenous line placed (such as a PIC line or central line) that can last for at least a few months. Our intravenous infusions consist of not only vitamin C, but also other antioxidants such as intravenous vitamin E and alpha lipoic acid. These antioxidants work synergistically and increase the effectiveness of vitamin C. multiple oral medications, injections, supplements should be taken daily, with the goal being to cut so many ways to the growth of the cancer as possible. Chemotherapy and / or radiation, if indicated, may be administered locally or through periodic visits to the oncologist of his choice. Laboratory and imaging studies will be carried out before starting treatment and periodically to follow the progression or regression of disease.

ALTERNATIVE CANCER SOLUTION

Web Traffic Analysis and Implement

2011-04-12T13:08:00.000-07:00

What is Web traffic

Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. It is a large portion of Internet traffic. This is determined by the number of visitors and the number of pages they visit. Sites monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic to see which parts or pages of their site are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as one specific page being viewed mostly by people in a particular country. There are many ways to monitor this traffic and the gathered data is used to help structure sites, highlight security problems or indicate a potential lack of bandwidth — not all web traffic is welcome.

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Some companies offer advertising schemes that, in return for increased web traffic (visitors), pay for screen space on the site. Sites also often aim to increase their web traffic through inclusion on search engines and through Search engine optimization.

HiStats.com is a website stats/tracking provider this service is free and very popular, Histats claims that it has tracks more than a million websites for its user. TechPatel also uses Histats to track the stats. Let me come to topic directly, when I was implementing the HiStats code on TechPatel I came across problem that wordpress don’t run javascript, so I was not able to run the Histats tracking code. After a long search I came around a plugin called “HTML Javascript Adder”. Using this plugin you can add the respective javascript code to your blog.
Just download and install the plugin from:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/html-javascript-adder/

Now activate it, goto appearance menu goto widgets, now in widgets select the HTML Javascript Adder plugin and add the appropriate code and this should work fine.
By Bhaveek Patel from techpatel

Do share your experience by commenting here.

Increase Blog Traffic By SEO

2011-04-09T09:47:00.000-07:00

A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optimization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided. So, rather than charging $400 an hour to give advice on the subject, I thought it would be valuable to share many of the most common pieces of advice here on the blog (business part of Rand fights with open source Rand, but loses, as usual).

Choose the Right Blog Software (or Custom Build)

The right blog CMS makes a big difference. If you want to set yourself apart, I recommend creating a custom blog solution - one that can be completely customized to your users. In most cases, WordPress, Blogger, MovableType or Typepad will suffice, but building from scratch allows you to be very creative with functionality and formatting. The best CMS is something that's easy for the writer(s) to use and brings together the features that allow the blog to flourish. Think about how you want comments, archiving, sub-pages, categorization, multiple feeds and user accounts to operate in order to narrow down your choices. OpenSourceCMS is a very good tool to help you select a software if you go that route.

Host Your Blog Directly on Your Domain

Hosting your blog on a different domain from your primary site is one of the worst mistakes you can make. A blog on your domain can attract links, attention, publicity, trust and search rankings - by keeping the blog on a separate domain, you shoot yourself in the foot. From worst to best, your options are - Hosted (on a solution like Blogspot or Wordpress), on a unique domain (at least you can 301 it in the future), on a subdomain (these can be treated as unique from the primary domain by the engines) and as a sub-section of the primary domain (in a subfolder or page - this is the best solution).

Write Title Tags with Two Audiences in Mind

First and foremost, you're writing a title tag for the people who will visit your site or have a subscription to your feed. Title tags that are short, snappy, on-topic and catchy are imperative. You also want to think about search engines when you title your posts, since the engines can help to drive traffic to your blog. A great way to do this is to write the post and the title first, then run a few searches at Overture, WordTracker & KeywordDiscovery to see if there is a phrasing or ordering that can better help you to target "searched for" terms.

Participate at Related Forums & Blogs

Whatever industry or niche you're in, there are bloggers, forums and an online community that's already active. Depending on the specificity of your focus, you may need to think one or two levels broader than your own content to find a large community, but with the size of the participatory web today, even the highly specialized content areas receive attention. A great way to find out who these people are is to use Technorati to conduct searches, then sort by number of links (authority). Del.icio.us tags are also very useful in this process, as are straight searches at the engines (Ask.com's blog search in particular is of very good quality).

Tag Your Content

Technorati is the first place that you should be tagging posts. I actually recommend having the tags right on your page, pointing to the Technorati searches that you're targeting. There are other good places to ping - del.icio.us and Flickr being the two most obvious (the only other one is Blogmarks, which is much smaller). Tagging content can also be valuable to help give you a "bump" towards getting traffic from big sites like Reddit, Digg & StumbleUpon (which requires that you download the toolbar, but trust me - it's worth it). You DO NOT want to submit every post to these sites, but that one out of twenty (see tactic #18) is worth your while.

Launch Without Comments (and Add Them Later)

There's something sad about a blog with 0 comments on every post. It feels dead, empty and unpopular. Luckily, there's an easy solution - don't offer the ability to post comments on the blog and no one will know that you only get 20 uniques a day. Once you're upwards of 100 RSS subscribers and/or 750 unique visitors per day, you can open up the comments and see light activity. Comments are often how tech-savvy new visitors judge the popularity of a site (and thus, its worth), so play to your strengths and keep your obscurity private.

Don't Jump on the Bandwagon

Some memes are worthy of being talked about by every blogger in the space, but most aren't. Just because there's huge news in your industry or niche DOES NOT mean you need to be covering it, or even mentioning it (though it can be valuable to link to it as an aside, just to integrate a shared experience into your unique content). Many of the best blogs online DO talk about the big trends - this is because they're already popular, established and are counted on to be a source of news for the community. If you're launching a new blog, you need to show people in your space that you can offer something unique, different and valuable - not just the same story from your point of view. This is less important in spaces where there are very few bloggers and little online coverage and much more in spaces that are overwhelmed with blogs (like search, or anything else tech-related).

Link Intelligently

When you link out in your blog posts, use convention where applicable and creativity when warranted, but be aware of how the links you serve are part of the content you provide. Not every issue you discuss or site you mention needs a link, but there's a fine line between overlinking and underlinking. The best advice I can give is to think of the post from the standpoint of a relatively uninformed reader. If you mention Wikipedia, everyone is familiar and no link is required. If you mention a specific page at Wikipedia, a link is necessary and important. Also, be aware that quoting other bloggers or online sources (or even discussing their ideas) without linking to them is considered bad etiquette and can earn you scorn that could cost you links from those sources in the future. It's almost always better to be over-generous with links than under-generous. And link condoms? Only use them when you're linking to something you find truly distasteful or have serious apprehension about.

Invite Guest Bloggers

Asking a well known personality in your niche to contribute a short blog on their subject of expertise is a great way to grow the value and reach of your blog. You not only flatter the person by acknowledging their celebrity, you nearly guarantee yourself a link or at least an association with a brand that can earn you readers. Just be sure that you really are getting a quality post from someone that's as close to universally popular and admired as possible (unless you want to start playing the drama linkbait game, which I personally abhor). If you're already somewhat popular, it can often be valuable to look outside your space and bring in guest authors who have a very unique angle or subject matter to help spice up your focus. One note about guest bloggers - make sure they agree to have their work edited by you before it's posted. A disagreement on this subject after the fact can have negative ramifications.

Eschew Advertising (Until You're Popular)

I hate AdSense on blogs. Usually, I ignore it, but I also cast a sharp eye towards the quality of the posts and professionalism of the content when I see AdSense. That's not to say that contextual advertising can't work well in some blogs, but it needs to be well integrated into the design and layout to help defer criticism. Don't get me wrong - it's unfair to judge a blog by its cover (or, in this case, its ads), but spend a lot of time surfing blogs and you'll have the same impression - low quality blogs run AdSense and many high quality ones don't. I always recommend that whether personal or professional, you wait until your blog has achieved a level of success before you start advertising. Ads, whether they're sponsorships, banners, contextual or other, tend to have a direct, negative impact on the number of readers who subscribe, add to favorites and link - you definitely don't want that limitation while you're still trying to get established.

Go Beyond Text in Your Posts

Blogs that contain nothing but line after line of text are more difficult to read and less consistently interesting than those that offer images, interactive elements, the occasional multimedia content and some clever charts & graphs. Even if you're having a tough time with non-text content, think about how you can format the text using blockquotes, indentation, bullet points, etc. to create a more visually appealing and digestible block of content.

Cover Topics that Need Attention

In every niche, there are certain topics and questions that are frequently asked or pondered, but rarely have definitive answers. While this recommendation applies to nearly every content-based site, it's particularly easy to leverage with a blog. If everyone in the online Nascar forums is wondering about the components and cost of an average Nascar vehicle - give it to them. If the online stock trading industry is rife with questions about the best performing stocks after a terrorist threat, your path is clear. Spend the time and effort to research, document and deliver and you're virtually guaranteed link-worthy content that will attract new visitors and subscribers.

Pay Attention to Your Analytics

Visitor tracking software can tell you which posts your audience likes best, which ones don't get viewed and how the search engines are delivering traffic. Use these clues to react and improve your strategies. Feedburner is great for RSS and I'm a personal fan of Indextools. Consider adding action tracking to your blog, so you can see what sources of traffic are bringing the best quality visitors (in terms of time spent on the site, # of page views, etc). I particularly like having the "register" link tagged for analytics so I can see what percentage of visitors from each source is interested enough to want to leave a comment or create an account.

Use a Human Voice

Charisma is a valuable quality, both online and off. Through a blog, it's most often judged by the voice you present to your users. People like empathy, compassion, authority and honesty. Keep these in the forefront of your mind when writing and you'll be in a good position to succeed. It's also critical that you maintain a level of humility in your blogging and stick to your roots. When users start to feel that a blog is taking itself too seriously or losing the characteristics that made it unique, they start to seek new places for content. We've certainly made mistakes (even recently) that have cost us some fans - be cautious to control not only what you say, but how you say it. Lastly - if there's a hot button issue that has you posting emotionally, temper it by letting the post sit in draft mode for an hour or two, re-reading it and considering any revisions. With the advent of feeds, once you publish, there's no going back.

Archive Effectively

The best archives are carefully organized into subjects and date ranges. For search traffic (particularly long tail terms), it can be best to offer the full content of every post in a category on the archive pages, but from a usability standpoint, just linking to each post is far better (possibly with a very short snippet). Balance these two issues and make the decision based on your goals. A last note on archiving - pagination in blogging can be harmful to search traffic, rather than beneficial (as you provide constantly changing, duplicate content pages). Pagination is great for users who scroll to the bottom and want to see more, though, so consider putting a "noindex" in the meta tag or in the robots.txt file to keep spiders where they belong - in the well-organized archive system.

Implement Smart URLs

The best URL structure for blogs is, in my opinion, as short as possible while still containing enough information to make an educated guess about the content you'll find on the page. I don't like the 10 hyphen, lengthy blog titles that are the byproduct of many CMS plugins, but they are certainly better than any dynamic parameters in the URL. Yes - I know I'm not walking the talk here, and hopefully it's something we can fix in the near future. To those who say that one dynamic parameter in the URL doesn't hurt, I'd take issue - just re-writing a ?ID=450 to /450 has improved search traffic considerably on several blogs we've worked with.

Reveal as Much as Possible

The blogosphere is in love with the idea of an open source world on the web. Sharing vast stores of what might ordinarily be considered private information is the rule, rather than the exception. If you can offer content that's usually private - trade secrets, pricing, contract issues, and even the occasional harmless rumor, your blog can benefit. Make a decision about what's off-limits and how far you can go and then push right up to that limit in order to see the best possible effects. Your community will reward you with links and traffic.

Only One Post in Twenty Can Be Linkbait

Not every post is worthy of making it to the top of Digg, Del.icio.us/popular or even a mention at some other blogs in your space. Trying to over-market every post you write will result in pushback and ultimately lead to negative opinions about your efforts. The less popular your blog is, the harder it will be to build excitement around a post, but the process of linkbait has always been trial and error - build, test, refine and re-build. Keep creating great ideas and bolstering them with lots of solid, everyday content and you'll eventually be big enough to where one out of every 20-40 posts really does become linkbait.

Make Effective Use of High Traffic Days

If you do have linkbait, whether by design or by accident, make sure to capitalize. When you hit the front page of Digg, Reddit, Boing Boing, or, on a smaller scale, attract a couple hundred visitors from a bigger blog or site in your space, you need to put your best foot forward. Make sure to follow up on a high traffic time period with 2-3 high quality posts that show off your skills as a writer, your depth of understanding and let visitors know that this is content they should be sticking around to see more of. Nothing kills the potential linkbait "bump" faster than a blog whose content doesn't update for 48 hours after they've received a huge influx of visitors.

Create Expectations and Fulfill Them

When you're writing for your audience, your content focus, post timing and areas of interest will all become associated with your personal style. If you vary widely from that style, you risk alienating folks who've come to know you and rely on you for specific data. Thus, if you build a blog around the idea of being an analytical expert in your field, don't ignore the latest release of industry figures only to chat about an emotional issue - deliver what your readers expect of you and crunch the numbers. This applies equally well to post frequency - if your blog regularly churns out 2 posts a day, having two weeks with only 4 posts is going to have an adverse impact on traffic. That's not to say you can't take a vacation, but you need to schedule it wisely and be prepared to lose RSS subscribers and regulars. It's not fair, but it's the truth. We lose visitors every time I attend an SES conference and drop to one post every two days (note - guest bloggers and time-release posts can help here, too).

Build a Brand

Possibly one of the most important aspects of all in blogging is brand-building. As Zefrank noted, to be a great brand, you need to be a brand that people want to associate themselves with and a brand that people feel they derive value from being a member. Exclusivity, insider jokes, emails with regulars, the occasional cat post and references to your previous experiences can be off putting for new readers, but they're solid gold for keeping your loyal base feeling good about their brand experience with you. Be careful to stick to your brand - once you have a definition that people like and are comfortable with, it's very hard to break that mold without severe repercussions. If you're building a new blog, or building a low-traffic one, I highly recommend writing down the goals of your brand and the attributes of its identity to help remind you as you write.

Best of luck to all you bloggers out there. It's an increasingly crowded field to play in, but these strategies should help to give you an edge over the competition. As always, if you've got additions or disagreements, I'd love to hear them.

Source: seomoz.org

Breast cancer classification

2011-04-07T12:05:00.000-07:00

Breast cancers can be classified by different schemata. Every aspect influences treatment response and prognosis. Description of a breast cancer would optimally include multiple classification aspects, as well as other findings, such as signs found on physical exam. Classification aspects include stage (TNM), pathology, grade, receptor status, and the presence or absence of genes as determined by DNA testing:
Stage. The TNM classification for breast cancer is based on the size of the tumor (T), whether or not the tumor has spread to the lymph nodes (N) in the armpits, and whether the tumor has metastasized (M) (i.e. spread to a more distant part of the body). Larger size, nodal spread, and metastasis have a larger stage number and a worse prognosis.

The main stages are:
Stage 0 is a pre-cancerous or marker condition, either ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) or lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS).
Stages 1–3 are defined as 'early' cancer with a good prognosis.
Stage 4 is defined as 'advanced' and/or 'metastatic' cancer with a poor prognosis.
Histopathology. Breast cancer is usually classified primarily by its histological appearance. Most breast cancers are derived from the epithelium lining the ducts or lobules, and these cancers are classified as ductal or lobular carcinoma. Carcinoma in situ is growth of low grade cancerous or precancerous cells in particular tissue compartment such as the mammary duct without invasion of the surrounding tissue. In contrast, invasive carcinoma does not confine itself to the initial tissue compartment and invades the surrounding tissue.
Grade (Bloom-Richardson grade). When cells become differentiated, they take different shapes and forms to function as part of an organ. Cancerous cells lose that differentiation. In cancer grading, tumor cells are generally classified as well differentiated (low grade), moderately differentiated (intermediate grade), and poorly differentiated (high grade). Poorly differentiated cancers have a worse prognosis.
Receptor status. Cells have receptors on their surface and in their cytoplasm and nucleus. Chemical messengers such as hormones bind to these receptors, and this causes changes in the cell. Breast cancer cells may or may not have three important receptors: estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and HER2/neu.
ER+ cancer cells depend on estrogen for their growth, so they can be treated with drugs to block estrogen effects (e.g. tamoxifen), and generally have a better prognosis.
HER2+ breast cancer had a worse prognosis, but HER2+ cancer cells respond to drugs such as the monoclonal antibody, trastuzumab, (in combination with conventional chemotherapy) and this has improved the prognosis significantly. Cells with none of these receptors are called basal-like or triple negative.
DNA assays of various types including DNA microarrays have compared normal cells to breast cancer cells. The specific changes in a particular breast cancer can be used to classify the cancer in several ways, and may assist in choosing the most effective treatment for that DNA type.

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Breast cancer (malignant breast neoplasm)

2011-04-07T12:01:00.000-07:00

Breast cancer (malignant breast neoplasm) is cancer originating from breast tissue, most commonly from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk Cancers originating from ducts are known as ductal carcinomas; those originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas.

The size, stage, rate of growth, and other characteristics of the tumor determine the kinds of treatment. Treatment may include surgery, drugs (hormonal therapy and chemotherapy), radiation and/or immunotherapy. Surgical removal of the tumor provides the single largest benefit, with surgery alone being capable of producing a cure in many cases. To somewhat increase the likelihood of long-term disease-free survival, several chemotherapy regimens are commonly given in addition to surgery. Most forms of chemotherapy kill cells that are dividing rapidly anywhere in the body, and as a result cause temporary hair loss and digestive disturbances. Radiation may be added to kill any cancer cells in the breast that were missed by the surgery, which usually extends survival somewhat, although radiation exposure to the heart may cause heart failure in the future. Some breast cancers are sensitive to hormones such as estrogen and/or progesterone, which makes it possible to treat them by blocking the effects of these hormones.

Prognosis and survival rate varies greatly depending on cancer type and staging. With best treatment and dependent on staging, 5-year relative survival varies from 98% to 23, with an overall survival rate of 85%.

Worldwide, breast cancer comprises 22.9% of all non-melanoma skin cancers in women. In 2008, breast cancer caused 458,503 deaths worldwide (13.7% of cancer deaths in women). Breast cancer is more than 100 times more common in women than breast cancer in men, although males tend to have poorer outcomes due to delays in diagnosis.

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Make Money Easy Way

2011-04-03T11:30:00.000-07:00

This Is The Most Easy way To Make Money.

Here is a guide to earn decent money online with the help of Mediafire and Fileserve

Fileserve ia a filehost site like rapidshare, Hotfile and megaupload which pays you for no. of downloads of your uploaded content.

This is a BASIC and VERY simple Guide.
The BEST part is that no matter What your Upload Speed is. It takes the same time for everyone. Why? becouse we use remote upload here . How ? Explained below -

Step-1

Getting What’s REQUIRED!
Click here to register

Once signing up is done lets move to remote uploading.

What is Remote uploading ?

When there is a transfer of data from a remote system to another remote system, the process is called “remote uploading”. This is used by some online file hosting services .
it doesn’t use a bit of your bandwidth and uploads 100z mb of data in seconds

Remote uploading from Mediafire to Fileserve –>

1) Open mediafire link which you want to remote upload on Fileserve. e.g,
http://www.mediafire.com/?vfhs83fpw0uw7dc
2) Right click on ” click here to start download ” & select ” copy link location ” as explained in image below -
3) Once done you’ll get a url which will look like this -

http://download171.mediafire.com/97yyob1fgheg/vfhs83fpw0uw7dc/Httyd.2010.DVDScr_mediafiremoviez.com.mkv.001

4) now open your Fileserve account and select upload option -
5) select Remote upload from there and paste your copied link location there like this -
6) Click on upload and the links will be added n queue, after a few seconds the files will be uploaded and you can see them listed on your My Files page

7) To get the links of the files you just need to select them and Fileserve will provide you with the links to the files
You are done with remote uploading from mediafire to Fileserve

8) So this is how you can upload from mediafire and other forums to your Fileserve account but just uploading is not worth of earning, you’ll have to make people download your stuff and for that you should post your uploaded links in various forums
here is a list of main forums which i suggest you to start -

Increase Pagerank PR Fast

2011-04-01T13:17:00.000-07:00

The PageRank of a website is determined largely by the importance, or popularity, of the site based on the PageRank of the sites linking back to it. You must take advantage of quality backlinks to increase the PageRank of your site.

What are backlinks?

Plain and simple, backlinks are links that point back to your site. They are links you have exchanged with or received from other sites, as well as links placed strategically by you in forum posts, blog posts and comments, and the resource box of submitted articles. The submission of your site to website directories also provides backlinks that are highly favored by search engines.

Ideally these links, especially those placed in your forum signature and resource box of published articles (see my related article “Your Signature – An Internet Marketing Goldmine”), will contain keywords in the text of the link to create “anchor text.” Placing keywords in the text of the link anchors your keyword(s) to your url rather than anchoring “Click here” or your website name to your url. Not only do you have a backlink to your site, you have created a link of higher quality that includes the keywords you are targeting in your overall marketing campaign.

Why do I need backlinks?

The number of quality backlinks linking to a site is one of the main criteria used by Google and other search engines to rank and place websites.

you need backlinks to attract the robots that determine the importance of your website. The value of your page, your website, in the eyes of Google’s robot lies in the number and quality of the links that it finds from other sites to yours. As the number of other popular, high-ranking sites find your site worth linking to grows, your popularity goes up along with your position in the search results.

In addition, links placed in posts to forums and blogs and the resource box of published articles have the potential of being seen and followed by thousands of visitors every day. If the forums, blogs, and article directories have high page ranks, you have more than just a link for visitors to follow, you have a quality link that will serve to increase your page rank as well as your traffic.

What are quality backlinks?

Quality backlinks are links from websites that have a higher page rank than your site, links from websites that have content or purpose related to your site (also known as relevance), links that include anchored text, and links that are built naturally over time, not a sudden increase in links just for the sake of having a high number of links.

Google has made it very clear that the importance of a site in the eyes of Googlebot is greatly influenced by the number and importance of the pages linking to it. In order to increase your PageRank, your website’s importance in the eyes of search engines, seek out links from higher-ranking sites that have related content, include anchored text in your signature for forum and blog posts as well as your resource box in articles, and let links build naturally over time. These practices will be a valuable part of your overall marketing strategy.

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50 New Best CSS Techniques, Tutorials and Tools

2010-10-14T13:34:00.000-07:00

CSS Techniques

Now Playing: transitions and animations with CSS
Tim Van Damme showcases a fairly simple CSS design that uses transitions, animations and subtle hover-effects to produce an engaging user experience. Also, notice the use of favicons as background-images for attribute selectors. Unfortunately, the demo works best in Webkit-browsers, but it degrades gracefully in other modern browsers. Unfortunately, we didn’t find the documentation of the technique.

CSS3 range slider, checkbox + radio button
A demo of HTML input elements made with CSS3. They include realistic range sliders, checkboxes and radio buttons. The designer used minimal markup, no JavaScript and no images. Downside: there is a ton of messy CSS3 code, and Safari renders the page best. Chrome is close, but the 3D perspective doesn’t quite work.

CSS3 Media Queries
CSS2 allows you to specify stylesheet for specific media type such as screen or print. Now CSS3 makes it even more efficient by adding media queries. You can add expressions to media type to check for certain conditions and apply different stylesheets. For example, you can have one stylesheet for large displays and a different stylesheet specifically for mobile devices. It is quite powerful because it allows you to tailor to different resolutions and devices without changing the content. Continue on this post to read the tutorial and see some websites that make good use of media queries.

Proportional leading with CSS3 Media Queries
A fluid layout should be responsive to the width of the columns of text. This problem, of proportional leading, is what holds many designers back from adopting fluid layouts. In this article, Andy Clarke explains how you can achieve proportional leading for your typography using CSS3 Media Queries.

Responsive Web Design
This article by Ethan Marcotte explains how to use fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries to create elegant user experiences with responsive web design. Check out the demo — of course, don’t forget to resize the browser window.

Popout Details on Hover with CSS
This tutorial describes a technique that presents details of a content item on hover. The solution is quite simple and uses position: relative and z-index to achieve the effect.

CSS3 Border-Radius and Rounded Avatars
Trent Walton came up with a clever technique to create rounded images (in this case, rounded avatars) with the border-radius property. The solution is simple: create a frame class for your image, and give it a border. Then, round both the frame and image with the border-radius property, and you’re done: a simple technique with no additional images or scripts — just an extra line of code. You may want to check Tim Van Damme’s similar CSS technique, too.

CSS3 Rounded Image With jQuery
“The other day I was trying to style CSS3 border-radius to image element and I realized that Firefox doesn’t display border-radius on images. Then I figured a way to work around it — wrap a span tag around with the original image as a background-image.”

The Simpler CSS Grid
Why restrict your layout so that it can fit into this 960gs? A grid is supposed to help you in design, not to limit your creativity. The 978 grid is not just about increasing the page width, but to loosen the gutter space, so users can read it more comfortably.

Correcting Orphans with CSS Overflow
When typesetting, designers try to avoid leaving just one or a few words hanging on a line at the end of a paragraph. Doing so is considered poor typography because it leaves too much white space between paragraphs and interrupts the reader’s eye movement (see the example below). A simple typographic solution is to rework the line by adding indented paragraph endings. But the problem is particularly annoying when aligning a paragraph next to an image that exceeds the paragraph’s height. Soh Tanaka has come up with a simple and quick solution to this problem with CSS.

Apple-like Retina Effect With jQuery
This tutorial explain how you can recreate the effect displayed on the image below, using jQuery and CSS.

How to create a kick-ass CSS3 progress bar
New features introduced in CSS3 allows developers to create stunning visual effects: this post exaplains how you can create a fancy progress bar using CSS3 and jQuery, without Flash or images.

CSS pseudo-element Solar System using semantic HTML
This is a complete reworking of another author’s basic reproduction of the classic model of our solar system using CSS. By using pseudo-elements (again) I wanted to reproduce as much as possible without presentational HTML and JavaScript. In addition, by hooking into HTML microdata I’ve put together a rough scale model of the solar system that demonstrates some further uses of CSS generated content.

Advanced Columns using the :nth-child(N)
Imagine this task: you have to display product listings as columns laid out in a zig zag pattern. The first instinct is to split each section into its own list, but if the site is running on a CMS, all products had to be spit out in one giant list. Given this scenario, you can use pseudo-selectors :nth-child(N) and a bit of jQuery to help with IE support.

Lost World’s Fairs
Trent Walton explains the workflow and design techniques used to create the Lost World’s Fairs website to celebrate the launch of Internet Explorer 9. The result is truly remarkable.

New Twitter Design with CSS and JQuery.
This post explains the techniques used by Twitter’s new web interface and re-creates its interactivity using CSS and jQuery.

Europe, CSS & jQuery clickable map
CSS converts a simple list of countries into the fully clickable map. Works with disabled style sheets and JavaScript, as well as on mobile devices. A simple code does not require Flash Player or other plug-ins!

Simple Tooltip w/ jQuery & CSS
There are a lot of tooltip plugins out there, but not many of them explain what exactly goes on in the logic of a tooltip. I would like to share how I’ve created mine today, and am also open to any critiques and suggestions for those jQuery ninjas out there. Lets take a look.

Super Cool CSS Flip Effect with Webkit Animation
Webkit support some fancy transform and animation effects that can really spice up the web experiences for users with Safari or Chrome browsers. Here’s a quick look at how the rotateY property can produce a flip effect, and how it can be used to create a Transformers themed top trumps design.

CSS3 Border Images for Beautiful, Flexible Boxes
The CSS3 buzz is in full swing, and many of CSS3′s most useful properties are receiving a fair bit of attention. Properties like border-radius, text-shadow, custom gradients, and even CSS3 transitions have been shown to be quite practical, resolving real-world design issues with minimal markup and maintainable code.

Animated wicked CSS3 3D bar chart
Create a beautiful 3D bar chart. But instead of creating a “stacked” one, several bars are placed under each other. When hovering, the animation shows and the bar grows to the appropriate size.

CSS Border Tricks
Since I released my new redesigned blog, a lot of people have asked me how I styled the pressed effect on my category navigation. I would like to share some simple border style tricks to get various effects for your next project.

The Background Trick With CSS
This page provides links to a couple of examples for the trick used on Design Made In Germany 5 where a couple of layers are used and the middle layer has a fixed background, while other layers have absolute positioning. The visual effect is unique and interesting. Unfortunately, the explanations are in German, but the demos are self-explanatory.

Footnotes With CSS
in their simplest implementation — using sup tags and linking within the page — footnotes aren’t very user-friendly. They interrupt the experience, requiring the user to click the link, read the information and then return to the page with the browser’s “Back” button.” Lukas Mathis has come up with an elegant solution to improve this user experience: his jQuery script shows the content of footnotes as soon as the user indicates that they are interested in it — i.e. when they move the cursor over the footnote symbol.

Why and how to create Microsoft Office Minibar with jQuery and CSS3
Although many will argue that Microsoft products are an example of a good design, Minibar was one of design refreshments that came out with the Office 2007. It is a variation of a toolbar that exposes context-related functionality. In case of MS Word, context is a text selection. Since Minibar always pops up near the mouse pointer it enables users to quickly perform actions related to a selection.

CSS image replacement with pseudo-elements (NIR)
An accessible image replacement method using pseudo-elements and generated-content. This method works with images and/or CSS off; works with semi-transparent images; doesn’t hide text from screen-readers or search engines; and provides fallback for IE6 and IE7.

Diagonal CSS Sprites – Aaron Barker
So you’ve got your sprite created, and it’s working great. 30+ icons in one image, and major HTTP connections saved. You have made your little corner of the interwebs a little happier and faster. Steve Souders would be proud.

Sneak — Fixing the background ‘bleed’
I recently came up with an issue in Safari where the background colour of an element seemed to “bleed’ through the edge of the corners when applying both borders and a border-radius (see the image above). I then found a solution, and it came in the form of the -webkit-background-clip property.

Zebra-striping rows and columns
Zebra-striping tables is certainly not a new thing; it has been done and discussed for years. They (allegedly) aid usability in reading tabular data by offering the user a coloured means of separating and differentiating rows from one another. We can create zebra-stripes using the nth-of-type selector — but we can apply it not only to rows but also columns.

Feature Table Design
“I ran into the feature table design and I was inspired to try and replicate it. First in Photoshop, then in HTML/CSS. Recreating cool stuff you find on the web is definitely an excise I recommend (a few days after, I read this – couldn’t agree more). As these exercises typically do, it lead me down some interesting paths.”

ShineTime – A jQuery & CSS3 Gallery With Animated Shine Effects
This article shows how you can create an animated Shine Effect with jQuery & CSS3 and then use it to create your very own Shiny Gallery ‘ShineTime’. This effect is useful in making your user interface elements look like they’re a real polaroid photo (or made of glass) and the best part is, it’s not that difficult to achieve.

The Mac-style Skype Application Menu with CSS3 and jQuery
This tutorial re-creates the Skype application menu in the web browser. The final design mimics not the full layout — only the menu where all your friends are listed. For the nifty layout CSS3 is used and jQuery is used for the extra functionality.

Further Interesting Techniques

Object-oriented CSS
All the resources you need to get started are linked from the left navigation. Start by downloading the base files. Exercises one and two can be completed in Firebug if you are comfortable with it. Then you can download the finished file at the beginning of Exercise 3.

clearfix Reloaded +
clearfix and overflow:hidden may be the two most popular techniques to clear floats without structural markup. This short article is about enhancing the first method and shedding some light on the real meaning of the second.
CSS3 text-shadow and box-shadow trick
All browsers that support the CSS text-shadow and box-shadow properties also support the new CSS3 RGBa syntax. Which means you can safely combine them today. That’s handy, because it means no worrying about matching a precise hex colour shadow to a specific hex colour background. Instead just let the browser blend.
Data theft with CSS
Mozilla has released security updates to Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 that include defenses for an old, little-known, but serious security hole: cross-site data theft using CSS. These defenses have a small but significant chance of breaking websites that rely on “quirks mode” rendering and use a server in another DNS domain (e.g. a CDN) for their style sheets.
Show Markup in CSS Comments
“Let’s say you are creating a CSS file for a modular bit of a webpage. Perhaps you are the type that separates your CSS files into bits like header.css, sidebar.css, footer.css, etc. I just ran across an idea I thought was rather clever where you include the basic markup you will be styling as a comment at the top of your CSS file.”

How to Micro-Optimize Your CSS
Minification shrinks file size significantly, by as much as 30% or more (depending on input code). This size-reduction is the net result of numerous micro-optimization techniques applied to your stylesheet. By learning these techniques and integrating them into your coding practice, you’ll create better-optimized CSS during the development process. Sharper skills, cleaner code, faster downloads — it’s a “win-win” for everyone.

Transparent Borders with background-clip
Have you ever seen an element on a page with transparent borders? I think Facebook originally popularized it giving birth to lightbox plugins like Facebox. I don’t think Facebook sports the look anymore, but it’s still rather neat.

Showing and hiding content with CSS 3
One very common feature is the expanding/collapsing or shown/hidden box, whether this is a tabbed interface, a content “tray” on the side that can be slid out and then put away again, or a complex tree menu with expanding/collapsing sub-menus. Generally, these features are implemented via JavaScript, however using CSS3 it is possible to create such content using only HTML and CSS — no JavaScript required.
CSS for Blockin’ Stuff
If you want to use user stylesheets, ad blockers, flash blockers, or whatever else, more power to you. Here are some CSS projects intended for blockin’ stuff.

CSS Tools and Services

ProCSSor: Advanced CSS Prettifier
This online tool allows you to submit your CSS (either copy and paste the code, upload the file or point to a URL) and choose your formatting options. You can save options and reuse them every time you run code through ProCSSor. You can separate properties and selectors across multiple lines, indent up to four levels with either the space bar or tab key and even sort properties. The tool also has a “Columnize” mode, which groups elements into columns, making for a more elegant style sheet; you need to deactivate “Fail-safe mode” to use it.

Selectivizr – CSS3 selectors for IE 6-8
selectivizr is a JavaScript utility that emulates CSS3 pseudo-classes and attribute selectors in Internet Explorer 6-8. Simply include the script in your pages and selectivizr will do the rest. Selectivizr adds support for 19 CSS3 pseudo-classes, 2 pseudo-elements and every attribute selector to older versions of IE. It can also fix a few of the browsers native selector implementations.

CSS Desk
CSSDesk is an online HTML/CSS sandbox. The tool allows you too experiment with CSS online, see the results live, and share your code with others. You may want to check Rendera , too.

The Square Grid
A quite simple CSS framework that is based on 35 equal-width columns. It aims to cut down on development time and help you create well-structured websites. The total width of the grid is 994 pixels – which the majority of modern monitors support. You can use the grid in a variety of columns: 18, 12, 9, 6, 4, 3 and 2. The pack contains sketch sheets for printing (PDF), design layout templates for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator and source code files with explanations.

Instant Blueprint
Instant Blueprint allows you to quickly create a web project framework with valid HTML/XHTML and CSS in only a matter of seconds, allowing you to get your project up and running faster. You may want to check Project Deploy, too.

HTML5 Boilerplate
HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site. You get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on. You may want to check HTML5 Reset, too.

HTML5 Starter Pack
A a very basic HTML5 starter pack with a clean and ordered directory structure that will fit for most projects. The pack contains the most common files (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), as well as a basic Photoshop web design template, again with a group’s structure that would fit for most projects.

PrimerCSS
Primer undercoats your CSS by pulling out all of your classes and id’s and placing them into a starter stylesheet. Paste your HTML in to get started.

Hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries
These hardboiled CSS3 Media Queries are empty placeholders for targeting the devices and attributes that you may be interested in making responsive designs for. The stylesheet covers smartphones in portrait and landscape modes, iPads, iPhone and large screens.

Grid Generator
This tool allows you treate your own custom CSS grids. You can select base unit, number of columns, column width, gutter width and margins and download PNG as well as a CSS source code.

Baseline framework
Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system.

Gridulator
Gridulator is a quick and easy grid calculator for web designers and developers. You can choose the overall width and number of columns, select the column width and gutter width and download the PNG of the grid.

Dust-Me Selectors
Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors. It extracts all the selectors from all the stylesheets on the page you’re viewing, then analyzes that page to see which of those selectors are not used. The data is then stored so that when testing subsequent pages, selectors can be crossed off the list as they’re encountered.

zen-coding – Project Hosting on Google Code
Zen Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any other structured code format) coding and editing. The core of this plugin is a powerful abbreviation engine which allows you to expand expressions — similar to CSS selectors — into HTML code.

Turbine
Turbine is a collection of PHP-powered tools that are designed to decrease CSS development time. It includes packing, gzipping and automatic minification of multiple style files, “CSS variables”, selector aliases as well as nested css selectors and OOP-like inheritance, extensions and templating features.

CSS Usage
CSS Coverage is an extension for Firebug which allows you to scan multiple pages of your site to see which CSS rules are actually used in your site.

CSS Reloader
CSS Reloader is a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, that allows you to reload all the CSS of any site without you have to reload the page itself. The goal for this browser extension is to enable developers to become more productive.

CSS Frame Generator
This tool returns corresponding CSS in a line-by-line way indented with spaces to reflect XHTML structure — each selector and all of its properties and values in one line. This may be a bit strange for you at the beginning, but if you get used to it you’ll find it much better. It’s essential to use a predefined properties order, such as this one:

Switch CSS
Switch is a full featured, production ready CSS preprocessor. It runs under Apache with mod_python, or as an environment-agnostic command line tool.

CSS Tools: Diagnostic CSS
Validation is great, but it won’t catch everything. For example, if you have a link where you forgot to add a URL value to the href attribute, the validator won’t complain. The syntax is valid, even if it’s a broken experience. Similarly, the validator will be happy to let through empty class and id values.

IE Print Protector – ieCSS
IE Print Protector is a piece of javascript that allows you to print HTML5 pages in Internet Explorer. IE Print Protector helps IE render HTML5 elements correctly, both on screen and in print.

CSS reset, CSS framework, Toucan CSS reset
It is a reset stylesheet. Unlike Meyer’s or YUI’s, it not only removes the default styling of HTML elements, but also rebuilds the new generic rules for the typography, headings, paragraphs, lists, forms, tables etc. It’s light-weight, flexible and browser-friendly.

PHP CSS Browser Selector
CSS Browser Selector is a very small javascript with just one line php function which empower CSS selectors. It gives you the ability to write specific CSS code for each operating system and each browser.

CSS3Machine for iPad
CSS3Machine makes the most advanced CSS3 styles simple. Easily create stunning gradients, drop-shadows, and 3D transforms. CSS3Machine also builds, edits, and exports WebKit animations.

minify
Minify is a PHP5 app that helps you follow several of Yahoo!’s Rules for High Performance Web Sites. It combines multiple CSS or Javascript files, removes unnecessary whitespace and comments, and serves them with gzip encoding and optimal client-side cache headers.

Modernizr
Modernizr adds classes to the element which allow you to target specific browser functionality in your stylesheet. You don’t actually need to write any Javascript to use it.

Spritebaker: Easy Base64 encoding for designers
This free tool parses your CSS and returns a copy with all external media “baked” right into it as Base64 encoded datasets. The number of time consuming http-requests on your website is decreased significantly, resulting in a massive speed-boost (server-side gzip-compression must be enabled).

My DebugBar
IETester is a free application that allows you to have the rendering and JavaScript engines of IE9 preview, IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE at the same time.

Less Framework 2
This framework is a CSS framework for cross-device layouts. The framework has a minimal set of features, and does away with things like predefined classes. All it really contains are a set of media-queries, typography presets aligned to a 24 px baseline grid and a grid, with its column sizes noted down within CSS comments. You can select what features you want to have in your framework files, and the tool will provide you with a zipped archive right away. Note that this framework isn’t related with LESS CSS, another framework that extends CSS with variables, mixins, operations and nested rules.

Last Click

Never Mind the Bullets
HTML5 is coming to modern browsers, and developers are already pushing its limits. To this end, Microsoft has created an online comic to show off HTML5/CSS3’s features (SVG background, JavaScript acceleration, etc.) as they function on IE9. It’s a fully interactive experience, complete with animations and other features that were until now possibly only with JavaScript or Flash.

The comic is a Western in a fairly traditional comic-book style, but with a lot of extras. It’s viewable in other browsers, but not as fully as with all of the features built into IE9. There’s also a feature that lets you create your own comic strip using the same characters. We never thought we’d say these words, but the website is actually best viewed in Internet Explorer 9.

From:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/10/12/50-new-useful-css-techniques-tutorials-and-tools/

Basic SEO Tips for your Blog

2010-10-14T13:20:00.000-07:00

Today, I am going to tell about that part of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) process, which an normal blogger does not know of, or tends to forget while building her blog. Normally, if you are using WordPress as Ur blogging platform, a bit of SEO is already done for you, thanks to the WP development team. But here are some very important basic points that you should remember while running your blog. Let us start from the basics and move on to some advanced techniques

Title Tag
You should never ignore the importance of your <title> tag. The keywords for your blog/website should be included in the title tag and the length of the title tag should fall between 60-90 characters. The search engine spiders always look through your titles while looking for relevant content. In WordPress, the title tag is usually formed by the name of your blog which can be found in Options menu of the wp-admin section.
URL Keywords
Make sure that your keywords are also prominent in your blog links. WordPress saves you from the hard work by providing custom permalink feature, which allows you to choose the suitable link structure as per your requirements.
Keywords in Heading Tags
This is another place where your keywords play a major role. When using WordPress, these tags are commonly used in the post titles (<h2> tags). Remember that your post content should also have those particular keywords that you used in these titles.
Keywords in Image Tags
When using images in your documents or posts, always specify the alt text for the same. Search Engine spiders cannot see the images but they can index their textual descriptions specified in the <alt> tags. This process is also used for validation purposes.
Using Keywords in the Inbound Links
When your blog gets linked from external websites, make sure to use the exact keywords in the anchor text of the inbound links that you want your website to rank for, in the popular search engines. For example, if I want my website to rank for the search term “WordPress Themes”, I will use these words in the anchor text of my inbound links.
Using Keyword Synonyms
Sometimes the search engines look for synonyms of the search terms, so it will be a good idea to optimize your blog/website for the synonyms of your keywords as well.
Keyword Density
Make sure that the keywords that you use in your document or posts are of the right quantity and not overused. For your major keywords, the density should not be more than 7% of the total text.
Linking from Related websites
Inbound links are counted to be healthier if they are coming from similar sites. It basically shows that the competing websites in your niche have voted for your site and this in turn makes your website famous in the relevant community.
Inbound Links from Different IP Addresses
Although there is a lot of controversy on this topic, but some search engines like MSN and Yahoo count multiple links from the same IP as a single link. So, it is always beneficial for you to get inbound links from multiple IP addresses.
Aging Inbound Links
The older your inbound links, the better it is for your website. Just make sure you do not get many inbound links at a single point of time because that will alert the search engines and make them think that you are buying links, which is a no-no nowadays.
Broken Links
Keep checking the links on your website regularly to see if they do not point to resources which are no longer there. If you have broken links, search engines will devalue your website rapidly.
Using Sitemaps
If your website/blog has an accessible sitemap, all your pages will get indexed by the search engines very quickly. You can also submit the sitemap for your website at Google Webmaster Tools.
Using Robots.txt
If you ban search bots from accessing a considerable part of your website by using the robots.txt file, this might affect the unbanned part of your website as well. So, use it wisely.

How to enable or disable the windows firewall in windows 7 ?

2010-01-16T07:55:00.000-08:00

A firewall is a software or hardware base solution to
filter the incoming and outgoing traffic of your
computer or network. All the entering or leaving traffic
from your computer pass through the firewall, which
inspect the all types of traffic and either allow or
deny the traffic depending upon the firewall settings.
Microsoft includes the built-in firewall feature in all
latest windows operating systems like windows XP, Vista
and now in windows 7.

Follow the given steps to configure built-in firewall in
windows 7:

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into
your computer with administrative rights.

First click on Start button and then click on Control
Panel option.

Now in Control Panel click on

"System
and Security" link to go next.

On next page, you can see the firewall link "Windows
Firewall", Click on this link to configure the firewall.

There are many options on the left side panel of this
page regarding firewall configurations under "Allow a program or feature through Windows
Firewall",
For example

Change notification settings

Turn Windows Firewall on or off

Restore defaults

Advanced settings

On the right side panel, you can see the two types of
link for firewall settings, For example

Home or Work (Private) networks

Public networks

Now in left side panel, click on Change
notification settings to customize the firewall
settings.

By default windows firewall is on for both private and
public network, here you can turn off the default

firewall policies.

To allow the default or recommended settings either
click on the Use recommended settings button

on the right pane or click on the Restore default link
on the left side panel.

Here click on the Restore default button and a restore
defaults confirmation message will be

opened, Click on
Yes button.

But if you are a expert user then you can use the
Advance Settings link on left side panel to

configure the advance firewall settings for inbound and
outbound traffic according to your need.

Click on the Inbound Rules link in the left side panel.
You can see here a list of all Inbound Rules

is displayed. On clicking an enabled rule, a list of
actions is shown in the Actions Pane.

Click on Disable Rule to disable the selected rule. You
can also Cut, Copy and Delete the rule.

Same here Outbound Rules for outgoing traffic.

Easy way to download your favorite online videos

2010-01-16T07:46:00.000-08:00

Looking for an easy way to download your favorite online videos? Firefox, in combination with the right add-ons, make the process a snap. Downloading videos can be much more convenient than watching videos online, because you do not have to navigate through several pages to find a video you are looking for.
Downloading also gives you the option to burn a video to DVD and watch it on your television, if you so choose.

To start downloading videos the easy way, you need to get the Firefox web browser. Chances are that you may already use Firefox, but if not, you can get it here. It is available for PC, Mac, and Linux so there should be no operating system issues. Just save it to your computer, run the installer, and launch Firefox after installation is complete.

With Firefox open and running, click tools from the top menu and select Add-ons from the drop down menu. This will open up a pop-up window displaying your Firefox Add-on preferences.
Select the tab titled Get Add-ons. You should see a search box located in the upper-left portion of this tab. Type the words “video downloadhelper” into the search box and hit enter.
The add-on that we are looking for should be the first one listed, but if not, the add-on can be identified as having the title “Video DownloadHelper” with a blue, yellow, and red ball icon.
After you have found the add-on, click the Add to Firefox button. On the next screen, click the install button. Click the restart Firefox button to complete the install and reopen Firefox.

That’s all you need to get the videos. Now, it’s time to find a video that you want to download. Navigate over to YouTube or another video site and find a video. Make sure that you are on the exact page of the video and that the video is playing. For convenience, here is a good video if you can’t find one that you want to save.

Upon visiting the video page, you may have noticed something different than usual. The Video DownloadHelper icon appears directly to the left of the YouTube video title.
Click the arrow located to the right of the button to bring up the download options menu. There are several convenient options to choose from. Consider using the Download and Convert option, which lets you download a YouTube video in a certain format.
By default, Video DownloadHelper saves videos as FLVs. However, if you use a certain video player such as Windows Media Player or Quicktime, you may want to save videos as WMVs or MPEGs.
If you are getting a video from a site other than YouTube, you may not see the Video DownloadHelper icon near the title of the video. If this happens, you can use the icon located directly to the left of the Firefox URL bar.

The Video DownloadHelper add-on has one last very convenient feature that can give you some great ideas for video sites to check out. Click the DownloadHelper icon, located to the left of the Firefox URL bar.
Be sure to just click the icon, do not click the drop down arrow. This should open a pop-up window with a list of several video sites. Click on a video site that you are interested in and click the Check site button. This will open up a new tab in Firefox giving you a description of the site along with ratings and reviews.

That’s pretty much it! Now you can download videos from YouTube, Hulu, Facebook, or any other video site! Enjoy!

How to open office 2007 files into Office 2003?

2010-01-16T07:45:00.000-08:00

Today tip will help you to resolve the
compatibility issues between the Office 2003 and Office 2007. Because
all programs in office 2003 used the old file extensions for its
different programs. For example Word 2003 saved files with extension
.doc, Excel 2003 with .xls and PowerPoint with .ppt. but on the other
office 2007 used the new file extensions for its different programs.
For example Word 2007 saved files with extension .docx, Excel 2007 with
.xlsx and PowerPoint with .pptx. Now the problem is that when you will
try to open office 2007 files into office 2003 and you will not open the
file due to compatibility issues between both office versions.
Microsoft provides a free compatibility pack to convert office 2007
documents to the office 2003 format. There are many third party free
converter are available but here we are using Microsoft office
compatibility pack.

Follow the given steps to download free Microsoft compatibility
pack and install it.

To use this feature, you will need to be logged into your computer
with administrative rights.

Visit the following link to download
the Microsoft compatibility pack:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

When you have downloaded the file, double click on
FileFormatConverter.exe file to start the installation.

Now here it’s simply a
case of pretending you’ve read the license terms and clicking continue.

Now click on Ok button to complete the
installation.

Once the process is done, you can enjoy opening .docx files on Word
2003.

5 Dating Rules you Should Never Break

2010-01-13T02:38:00.000-08:00

No one said dating was easy, but follow these five rules and you'll enjoy a richer experience as a single person.

by eHarmony Staff
When it comes to your love life, do you wish there was a rule book? While The Rules are so last century, a new dating handbook has yet to be created in the new millennium.

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So how do you know the dos and don’ts of dating? The truth is there are no hard and fast rules, but the following guidelines should help you navigate the tricky terrain known as your dating life.

Rule #1: Listen to Your Gut

Whether you’re on a date, communicating with someone you meet online, or flirting with a cutie you meet in the flesh, it’s important to pay attention and listen to your gut. If a potential date’s actions or words set off an internal alarm system, you owe it to yourself to pay attention and act accordingly. These alarms can be both good and bad. For example, if you’ve met someone online and they seem interesting, then you talk to them on the phone and they sound completely different (in a negative way), you may decide not to meet them in person. A positive example would be if you were on a date with someone and they seemed nervous but well intentioned, your gut might tell you to give them a second chance. By going on a second date, you’ll gain a better understanding of who they really are and if you’d like to see them again.

Rule #2: Pay Attention to Red Flags

Like those internal alarms that alert you to your gut feelings, you also have an alarm system to alert you to red flags. Oftentimes this alarm system is turned way down. As a result, we often ignore red flags and find ourselves getting involved with inappropriate partners because we’re not paying attention. To become a truly successful single in the new millennium, you owe it to yourself to become a red flag specialist. That means paying attention to red flags as they are presented to you on dates. An example of a red flag would be if you found yourself on a date with someone who could not stop talking about their ex. They may be a fantastic person, and eventually make a great partner, but right now they’re not ready. Your job is to pay attention to that red flag and not pursue them.

Rule #3: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

During the course of your dating life you will most likely find yourself on a date with someone whose actions speak much louder than their words. Maybe they’re attentive and chivalrous to you, but treat the waiter, bartender, and/or valet poorly. Or maybe they claim they’re ready for a long-term relationship, but their wandering eye tells you otherwise. To get the most out of your dating life, it’s important to understand that actions speak louder than words. When someone’s actions are contrary to their words, this is not only a red flag, it’s gut-check time. By paying attention and screening out potential partners whose actions don’t match their words, you cut down on wasted dating time and make it that much easier to attract potential partners worth your time and energy.

Rule #4: Don’t Play Games

Successful singles know what goes around comes around. They also know the importance of being honest and well-intentioned with the people they date. As a successful single, you owe it to yourself and the individuals you date not to play games. Call when you say you’re going to call. Do what you say you’re going to do, and be honest when the other person asks if you’d like to go out again. If you don’t want to see them again, say so in a kind and considerate way. By being honest and letting them down easy, you avoid playing games. Expect the same in return. If you don’t get it, don’t play games by taking that out on the next person you date.

Rule #5: Know When to Say “Game Over”

Just as you should not play dating games, you will want to avoid getting played. Like it or not, there are plenty of players on the dating scene. It’s up to you to know the signs of the player, know their game, and be confident enough to say “game over.” Here’s how to spot a player: When they approach, they’ll take you off guard with a backhanded compliment/insult along the lines of “you’re too cute to be wearing that” or “I’d buy you a drink, but you probably wouldn’t talk to me.” These tactics are known as The Game. The player’s motive is to take you off guard so that you’re on the defensive and try to make up for it by engaging in their game. The problem is, these players aren’t genuine. Instead of falling for their tactics, simply smile, say “game over,” and walk (better yet, run!) away.

While there are no hard and fast dating rules, there are definitely guidelines to follow to make your dating life more enjoyable. By listening to your gut, paying attention to red flags, and understanding that actions speak louder than words, you cut down on wasted dating time. In doing so, you not only avoid getting played, but you also greatly increase your chances of relationship success.
By eharmony

How To Make Online Dating Simple

2010-01-13T02:10:00.000-08:00

How To Make Online Dating Simple

Online dating is supposed to be easy, but some dating websites are making it more complex that it needs to be. Instead of helping you find your perfect match, they make you sift through thousands upon thousands of profiles of people you'd never want to meet.

Fortunately, the relationship experts at eHarmony are here to help. They've developed a sophisticated Compatibility Matching System that allows people to easily connect with their most compatible partners.
How does it work? Believe it or not, the answer is science. Researchers at eHarmony studied successful married couples and discovered the characteristics that led to the couples' overall happiness. Using this data, they created their relationship questionnaire, an in-depth survey that analyzes a person's most important characteristics based on 29 dimensions of compatibility like: beliefs, values, temperament, curiosity and intellect.
The questionnaire is straightforward. There are no right or wrong answers. It's simply a fun way to let eHarmony know who you are and what you're looking for in an ideal mate. The information is kept completely confidential.
What happens next?
After you've completed the questionnaire, eHarmony's Compatibility Matching System performs a comprehensive search and matches you with like-minded people who share your most important qualities and characteristics.
"We're not looking for clones," one of eHarmony's founders says. "Our models emphasize similarities in personality and in values. If you have someone who's Type A and real hard charging, (we) put them with someone else like that."
Most dating websites only care about your first date, but eHarmony wants to ensure that you and your partner are able to build a happy, healthy long-term relationship based on compatability.
"It's much easier for people to relate if they don't have to negotiate all these differences," the founder says. "It's fairly common that differences can initially be appealing, but they're not so cute after two years."
Everyone dreams of finding their perfect match. Luckily, eHarmony is making it a reality. According to Harris Interactive Research, on average, 236 eHarmony members marry every day. If you feel like you're missing out, don't worry-now is a great time to get started.
The relationship experts at eHarmony will take you step-by-step through the entire process. They want to help you find that perfect match and create the happy long-term relationship you've always wanted.
How to use eHarmony

The relationship experts at eHarmony will take you step-by-step through the entire process. They want to help you find that perfect match and create the happy long-term relationship you've always wanted.
Take the relationship questionnaire for yourself Click here to start now.

Top 4 Foods To Boost Your Memory

2010-01-13T02:02:00.000-08:00

While nothing beats a good sleep for enhancing your memory, the foods that you choose to include in your diet also play a role in how your memory functions. Many pay attention to their diets in terms of whether it’ll help them build muscle or lose fat, but they neglect to think of how food can improve memory.

In addition to eating memory foods, proper meal size plays a big role in how well your memory functions. Too little food will cause you to be distracted by hunger, while too much food will make you want to sleep. Incorporating the right memory foods and proper portion sizes will give you maximum results.

Here are some of the memory foods that you should incorporate into your diet to reap the benefits of memory enhancement.
Salmon
On the protein front, one of the best sources is salmon, as it is a good source of omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential for brain function and development. Studies have suggested that supplementing with DHA, which is found in fish oil, is beneficial for the development and maintenance of memory performance.

Other memory foods that contain high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids include flaxseed, walnut, salmon, soybean, halibut, shrimp, snapper, tofu, scallop, and winter squash.
Sunflower seeds
Nuts have been highly touted as a great way to get healthy fats into your diet, but many people forget that seeds fall into this category too. Sunflower seeds are a rich source of vitamin E, with one ounce providing 30% of your total daily intake. Vitamin E is one of the primary antioxidants that helps decrease the decline of memory as you age, making it one nutrient you’ll want to be sure to consume.

Other sources of vitamin E include wheat germ oil, dry almond, safflower oil, hazelnut, peanut butter, spinach, broccoli, kiwi, and mango.

Add these memory foods to your grocery list too

Blueberries
While all berries provide a number of health-related benefits, blueberries in particular are a memory-boosting powerhouse. They are considered a memory food because they contain a phytochemical that is especially important in reversing the age-related decline of memory, while having a positive influence on spatial working memory.

In addition to this, blueberries rank low on the glycemic index scale, making them a good fruit choice if you are trying to control your blood sugar level.
Lean beef
Including moderate portions of lean beef in your diet is beneficial in enhancing your memory because of its iron content. While most men get enough iron in their diet, those who are on a strict diet and are sticking mostly to chicken, egg whites and fish as sources of protein may be running a bit low.

Iron deficiency can have a big impact on brain function and impair learning abilities, eventually putting you at an increased risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease. So, be sure you aren’t cutting out good sources of iron from your diet -- even if you’re striving for maximum fat loss.
don’t forget…
If enhancing your memory is a concern for you, be sure you’re making these foods a regular part of your daily meal plan. Not only will you be benefiting your body, but your brain will thank you for it too.

Resources:
Chen, JJ. et al. (2008) Fish oil supplementation of control and (n-3) fatty acid-deficient male rats enhances reference and working memory performance and increases brain regional docosahexaenoic acid levels. J Nutr. Jun;138(6):1165-71.
Devi, SA., Kiran, TR. (2004) Regional responses in antioxidant system to exercise training and dietary vitamin E in aging rat brains. Neurobiol Aging. Apr;25(4):501-8.
Butler, LT. et al. (2008) Blueberry-induced changes in spatial working memory may correlate with changes in hippocampal CREB phsophorylation and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels. Free Radic Biol. Med. Aug 1;45(3):295-305.
Youdim, MB. (2008) Brain iron deficiency and excess; cognitive impairment and neurodegenration with involvement of striatum and hippocampus. Neurotox Res. Aug; 14(10):45-56.
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How to Make Your PC as Fast as the Day you Bought It

2010-01-13T01:51:00.000-08:00

How to Make Your PC as Fast as the Day you Bought It

One of the most frustrating things in life is a slow computer.
Every few years, we buy an expensive new PC and love how fast it starts up, runs programs, and loads web sites. Inevitably, though it starts to slow down, until eventually we are pulling our hair out waiting for it to do routine tasks.

Why is this? It turns out the answer is actually quite simple and you don't even need to be "technical" to understand the causes and solutions.
The good news, it's not the computer hardware that's the problem. In most cases the hardware you have is perfectly capable of being restored to its original glory and kept in fast running condition with minimal effort.
Rather, the problem lies with changes that occur to the PC's software. The 2 most common causes of slowdown (along with easy solutions) are:
Registry errors - the most common problem
Every time you (or your kids) load a program, game or file, your PC's software registery is updated with new instructions needed to operate that item. However, when the item is removed, these instructions usually remain on your PC. Every time you run your computer it tries to execute these instructions but, because the related program can't be found, it causes a registry error. Your PC is doing a lot more work than it should be and the result is a significantly slower computer.
One of the best ways to manage this is with a neat little tool from a Seattle based company called the Advanced Registry Optimizer (ARO5 for short). This program scans, identifies and fixes registry errors - resulting in a computer that's a lot more like it was when you first bought it. On top of the amazing results it offers, it's so easy to install and use that it was recently given a coveted 4-star award by CNET's editorial staff.
You can now get a free working version of the software which will quickly scan your entire PC and identify all of the registry errors that may be bogging it down. The free version eliminates the first 20 errors and if you have more errors that you want to clean-up or want to set the program to run on a regular basis (recommended) you can easily upgrade to the full version for just $29.95. After that registry errors will no longer be a problem.
To get the free version simply click here.
Spyware and viruses
Spyware and viruses are software programs that are loaded on your computer without your knowledge or permission. They have various purposes, including:

Changing the default search engine in your browser
Tracking your web surfing habits and showing you targeted advertising
Using your email program to send out spam to other email addresses
Stealing your personal information

Most spyware and viruses get onto our computers through files that we download from the internet or as attachments to emails. They tend to take up a lot of computing power and as a result will significantly slow down the computer.
The simple rule of thumb to follow is to never download any free software programs from companies you do not know and trust, especially screensavers, emoticons and the like. In addition, you should never open any attachment to an email unless you are 100% certain you know and trust the sender. In addition, make sure you have a good anti-virus / spyware removal software running at all times.
Follow the above advice and your PC should stay fast and safe.

Download Videos From Any Site The Easy Way

2010-01-12T13:21:00.000-08:00

3 Ways to Get Rid of Viruses, Spyware and Malware

2010-01-12T13:15:00.000-08:00

Viruses, spyware, malware, etc… they all suck. They slow down your computer, corrupt your files, illegally steal your info, and more.
You have probably seen those commercials advertising a website that will give a free scan and magically clean your computer as well as make it 20x faster. Well, those websites that they are advertising will scan your computer, that part is true.
However, the heavy majority of them will charge a fee to get rid of all of the errors found in the scan… And none of them will make your computer 20x faster.

Basically, those commercials use a simple antivirus scanner/remover. There is far better software out there that is available to you for free. By following this article, you will without a doubt, be able to remove any type of virus, spyware, or malware from your computer.
But, first things first, you need to understand that viruses and other computer threats come in several degrees. So, method 1 might not necessarily remove a virus from your computer. If not, one of the following methods will.

Method 1 – Perform A System Restore

System restores are a good way to get rid of light malware and spyware programs. They require no downloading of any software and can be performed directly by Windows.
System restores work best if you catch the intrusion right away. But, you do not want to do a system restore if you believe that you have had malware, spyware, or viruses on your computer for any significant amount of time.
This could cause you to lose files, applications, or data. To do a system restore in Windows, navigate to the control panel using the path Start > Control Panel. Click the Recovery icon located within the Control Panel and hit the Open System Restore button on the next screen.
The rest of the process is very straightforward as the Windows Wizard will guide your through it.

Method 2 – Scans

There are thousands of different programs out there in the spyware/virus removal category, many of which are free. The thing to remember is that different virus removal programs will bring different results; and none of them are 100% completely accurate.
For example, you can scan your computer with one virus removal program, remove the viruses… then turn around a scan your computer with a different program, which will catch even more viruses that the first program didn’t pick up.
However, you do not want to stack tons of virus removal programs on top of each other. Doing so can actually throw off effectiveness. One good antivirus scanner should be enough.
We recommend Microsoft Security Essentials . Aside from the virus scanner, it is also wise to use a spyware and malware scanner. Two great choices that you can check out are Adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy.

Method 3 – Clean Install

A clean install is not the most fun thing to do. However, a clean install is the one guaranteed way to get rid of viruses, spyware, and malware. It’s simple… when you do a clean install, you are deleting everything on your hard drive. Thus, no more viruses.
Most of the time, viruses will not infect items like pictures, text documents, videos, or MP3 files. If step 2 (scan), is not working for you, more than likely the virus is in your computer’s registry. This is good because you can backup all of your pictures, documents, etc… before doing the clean install. That way you will not lose anything important.

The most common way to backup files is by using an external hard drive, flash drive, or burning DVDs. Doing a clean install is not at all as hard as it may seem, it’s just time consuming because you have to wait for Windows to copy itself to your hard drive.

How to Create a Group, Event, and Fan Page on Facebook

2010-01-12T13:09:00.000-08:00

Aside from having your own basic Facebook page, you also have the option of creating groups, events, and fan pages. Each option has its advantages and disadvantages and is better suited for some things than others. Below, is the process for creating groups, events, and fan pages on Facebook.

How to Create a Facebook Group

Who should use Facebook groups:
Facebook groups are used as a way for people to interact with each other within a more narrow spectrum, vs. using the entire Facebook community. Groups also differ from pages and events in that groups are aimed at promoting a specific cause. For example, if you wanted to create a campaign for AIDS awareness, groups would be your best option.

How To Create Facebook groups:
Start by logging in to your Facebook account. If you do not yet have one, you can sign up here.
Click “your name” on the top Facebook toolbar to go to your profile. From within your profile, click the Info tab to see your details. Look for the subsection that say’s groups and click the see all link, located on the far right of the heading.

Near the bottom of the see all page, you should see a button that say’s Create a Group, click it.

You should now be on the actual create a group page where you can fill out the details of your group. You will need to enter the following information: Group Name, Description, and Group type. You can also choose to enter optional information such as office, email, website, etc… if you so choose.

How to Create Events in Facebook

Who should use Facebook events:
Facebook events are best suited for people who want to let others know about one specific event. Events differ from groups and fan pages in that events are more temporary, and there is little interaction between members that “join an event”. Events offer members three main options: attending, maybe attending, and not attending. An example of an event topic would be: 5th Annual City Wide Barbecue.
How to Create Facebook Events:
Make sure that you are logged in to your Facebook account.
To create a new event, navigate to your events page by clicking the Info tab from your profile and selecting see all under events. If you want to jump straight to your events page, go ahead and click this link.
From the events page, click the +Create an Event button, located in the upper right corner of the screen.

The next couple of screens will automatically guide you through the process of creating an event. For the most part, you will need to set up a start and end time for your event, select privacy settings, add details, and decide on who to invite.

How to Create Facebok Fan Pages

Who should use Facebook fan pages:
Fan pages are best suited for representation of some kind. Representation could be anything from a business expanding their brand to Facebook so that they can communicate with customers, to a celebrity creating a fan pages so that they can keep in touch with their fans. All in all, fan pages should be used to create a following of some sort…
How to Create Facebook fan pages:
Make sure that you are logged in to your Facebook account.
The easiest way to navigate to the create a new page, page, is to click this link. The actual URL that you need to go to is http://www.facebook.com/pages/create.php. This should bring you directly to the fan page creator.
From here, you need to select a name for your page, and categorize it. When you are done, type in the security words and hit the create page button.

That’s all there is to it. Have fun creating your new Facebook groups, events, and pages…Enjoy!

How To Unlock Nokia N97 for Free

2010-01-08T14:28:00.000-08:00

Want to unlock a Nokia N97 for free? This article has instructions on how to unlock a Nokia N97 phone. You need an unlock code for your N97 before you can begin. You can get a free unlock code usually by calling your phone carrier’s support line. Your phone carrier will then request your Nokia N97’s IMEI number.

To get the IMEI number off your Nokia N97 just type: *#06#. If your phone carrier will not provide you with a free Nokia N97 unlock code, then read my other phone guide which shows other ways to get free Nokia unlock codes.

Once you have attained a free unlock code, you can begin unlocking your N97. The steps used below are based off the following two articles: How To Unlock A Nokia Phone and Guide To Unlock Nokia N97.

Nokia N97 Unlocked Phone with Touchscreen, 3g, 5 Mp Camera, A-gps, 32 Gb, Microsd Slot, and Integrated Ovi Applications--int'l Version

Warning: Entering 3 or more incorrect unlock codes on your Nokia N97 could permanently lock it!
How To Unlock Nokia N97 for Free

1. Type #PW+
2. Enter your N97’s 8-digit unlock code
3. Type +1#
4. Your Nokia N97 should say “SIM Restriction Off”

Nokia N97 Unlocked Phone with Touchscreen, 3g, 5 Mp Camera, A-gps, 32 Gb, Microsd Slot, and Integrated Ovi Applications--int'l Version

You should now have yourself a fully unlocked Nokia N97 mobile phone and you did it completely free! Most websites will tell you to go pay for a high priced unlock code. If the above instructions did not work on your phone or you want to learn more about unlocking SIM based phones,

Nokia N97 Unlocked Phone with Touchscreen, 3g, 5 Mp Camera, A-gps, 32 Gb, Microsd Slot, and Integrated Ovi Applications--int'l Version

Free Nokia Unlock Codes

2010-01-08T14:22:00.000-08:00

Need an unlock code for your Nokia phone? Many websites suggest paying for a Nokia unlock code, but with a little effort you can get yourself a completely free Nokia unlock code. Below I have provided a short list of ways you can attain an unlock code for your cell phone:

1. Call Your Phone Carrier’s Support Line – Many people overlook this option and simply dismiss it as improbable. Although some phone carriers will not give you a free unlock code, there are many that will including: T-Mobile and AT&T. If you tell them you are planning on traveling abroad with your phone they will be more likely to help you out. In addition, most phone carriers require that you have had a contract with them for more then 3 months before they will give you a free unlock code for your Nokia phone.

2. Unlock Code Generators – There are a tons of free unlock code generators that you can try using. Although not all of them will work with your particular phone model here is a few unlock code generators worth checking out: unlock.nokiafree.org or this Nokia DCT4 Unlock Code Generator.

3. Download Unlock Code Software – You could also try downloading some unlock software that will calculate an unlock code for your phone that will help to unlock it. Although using this method, may sometimes require a cable to plug into your Nokia cell phone.

Once you have your unlock code you will be well on your way to unlocking your phone. In fact, getting an unlock code for your cell phone is usually the hardest part! Once you do however, you can read these instructions to start unlocking your Nokia phone! If you know of any more ways to get a free unlock code or have a question, please comment below.

Nokia N900 Linux Maemo phone and mobile computer Full Technical Specifications

2010-01-08T13:51:00.000-08:00

Maemo is available on the Nokia N900 - a high-performance mobile computer with a powerful processor, large internal storage, and sharp touch-screen display

Nokia N900 phone and mobile computer: Technical Specifications:

Display	3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display 800 × 480 pixel resolution
Processor and 3D accelerator	TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz PowerVR SGX with OpenGL ES 2.0 support
Memory	Up to 1GB of application memory (256 MB RAM, 768 MB virtual memory)
Mass memory	32 GB internal storage Store up to 7000 MP3 songs or 40 hours of high-quality video Up to 16 GB of additional storage with an external microSD card
GPS and navigation	Integrated GPS, Assisted-GPS, and Cell-based receivers Pre-loaded Ovi Maps application Automatic geotagging

Nokia N900 chat full keyboard

Nokia N900 contact details

Nokia N900 front

Size and weight
Volume	Approx 113cc
Dimensions	110.9 × 59.8 × 18 (19.55 at thickest part) mm
Weight	Approx 181g
Keys and input method	Full QWERTY tactile keyboard Full QWERTY onscreen keyboard
Colour	Black
Operating frequency	Quad-band GSM EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 WCDMA 900/1700/2100 MHz
Data network	GPRS class A Multislot class 32 Maximum speed 107/64.2 kbps (DL/UL) EDGE class A Mmultislot class 32 Maximum speed 296/177.6 kbps (DL/UL) WCDMA 900/1700/2100 Maximum speed PS 384/384 kbps (DL/UL) HSPA 900/1700/2100 Maximum speed PS 10/2 Mbps (DL/UL) WLAN IEEE 802.11b/g
Call features	Integrated hands-free stereo speakers Call waiting, call hold, call divert Call timer Logging of dialed, received and missed calls Speed dialing via contact widget Virbrating alert (internal) Side volume keys Mute/unmute Contacts with images Conference calling with up to 3 participants Internet calling
Email & Messaging	Supported protocols: Mail for Exchange, IMAP, POP3, SMTP Support for email attachments Support for rich HTML SMS and Instant Messages as conversations Support for Nokia Messaging service Instant messaging and presence enhanced contacts Multiple number, email and Instant Messaging details per contact, contacts with images Support for assigning images to contacts
Web browsing	Maemo browser powered by Mozilla technology Adobe Flash™ 9.4 support Full screen browsing
Camera	5 megapixel camera (2584 × 1938 pixels) Image formats: JPEG CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens 3 × digital zoom Autofocus with assist light and two-stage capture key Dual LED flash Full-screen viewfinder Photo editor on device TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or WLAN/UPnP Landscape (horizontal) orientation Capture modes: Automatic, portrait, video, macro, landscape, action
Video	Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA) Video recording file format: .mp4; codec: MPEG-4 Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps Video playback file formats: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263
Music and audio playback	Maemo media player Music playback file formats: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a Built-in FM transmitter Ring tones: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR Digital stereo microphone DLNA
Personalisation	Background pictures Widgets on your desktops Intelligent contact shortcuts Shortcuts to your favourite websites Shortcuts to applications Themes
Operating system	Maemo 5 software on Linux
Applications	Maemo Browser Phone Conversations Contacts Camera Photos Media player Email Calendar Ovi Maps Clock Notes Calculator PDF reader File manager RSS reader Sketch Games Widgets Application manager for downloads
Gaming	Bounce Chess Mahjong
What´s in the box	Nokia N900 Nokia Battery (BL-5J) Nokia High Efficiency Charger (AC-10) Nokia Stereo Headset (WH-205) Video out cable (CA-75U) Nokia charger adaptor (CA-146C) Cleaning cloth
Language support	British English, American English, Canadian French, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Swedish, Russian
Connectivity	3.5mm AV connector TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable Micro-USB connector, High-Speed USB 2.0 Bluetooth v2.1 including support for stereo headsets Integrated FM transmitter Integrated GPS with A-GPS
Battery	BL-5J 1320mAh
Possible Price	~500 EUR / ~750 USD

Nokia N900 Unlocked Phone/Mobile Computer with 3.5-Inch Touchscreen, QWERTY, 5 MP Camera, Maemo Browser, 32 GB--U.S. Version with Full Warranty.

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