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Forget Banners And Pop-Ups – Future ads on the Net will be smarter

May 29, 2007 – 3:47 am

Source – Star InTech, Tuesday 29 May 2007

Advertisements on the Web will be smarter and even more targeted in the near future. Microsoft Corp CEO, Steve Balmer believes there will be no more “dumb adverts” such as banners and pop-ups. Instead, advertisements on the Web will target each individual user with what he or she is interested in, and that would be even better than what is experienced now.

Currently, advertisements on the Web are tied in to Internet search technologies; whenever a user searches for a particular subject or topic, advertisements on a similar or related service or product are displayed on the results page.

These online advertisements can also be made to take into account a user’s geographical location, but future ones may even be also able to recognise a user’s sex, age group, like and dislikes, or his or her spending pattern.

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PC And IT Tips (Pack #2)

May 24, 2007 – 3:02 am

1. Quick Access To System Info

Ever wondered what the Break key on the upper center portion of your keyboard is useful for?

Try this nifty shortcut – press the Windows key plus the Break key to bring up the System Properties control panel, which reveals useful info about your PC.

If you want to acces the tabs without using the mouse, a couple of presses of the Ctrl+Tab keys will take you through the various tabs.

2. Separate Your Tabs

Web browsing with the Firefox browser is a breeze thanks to the introductions of tabs. However, visiting too many website can make it hassle to sort through the many open tabs.

Separate Tabs (https://addons.mozila.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4913) is a useful Firefox extension that can help you keep your tabs organised when you are viewing multiple webpages.

Tabs can be grouped automatically by domain or you can manually organise them.

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Girl, Nine, Ticked Off For Messing With Cops

May 23, 2007 – 3:50 am

News from Berlin

A 9 year old German girl was so upset about having to tidy her room. So she put up a sign in her window urging passers-by to call police for help.

Pedestrians in the central city of Braunschweig saw the girl crying in the window, holding up a sign saying “Help! Please call the police!”.

Quickly alerted, officers rushed to the scene to discover the girl had argued with her mother about tidying her room and enlisted her two-year-old brother’s aid to attract attention.

“The room looked like a battlefield.” said a spokesmen for local police.

Police officers told the girl to tidy her room and when they came back 2 hours later to check, it was all clean up. And the mother and daughter had made up too.

From The Star, Wednesday 23 May 2007.

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PC And IT Tips (Pack #1)

May 23, 2007 – 1:42 am

1. Boost Game Performance

You have finally gotten your hands on the latest videogame – only to find that it slows down and skips frames on your desktop or notebook PC.

Even with the latest graphics card, videogame engines can sometimes have trouble rendering shadows in a resource-friendly way. Disable in-game shadows for a performance boost.

If that doesn’t work, try lowering the resolution to 1,024 x 768 pixels from 1,280 x 1,024 pixels will usually make your game run smoother.

You can also disable the antialiasing, both in-game or on your graphics card from the Control Panel. Changes from the Control Panel will override in-game settings. In addition, you should try to patch or update your videogame to the latest version.

2. A Card Dedicated To Graphics

Computers need a certain amount of memory to process and display the graphics on the monitor. On some computers, this memory comes out of the main overall system memory for the whole machine and is referred to as “integrated” or “shared” graphics memory. A discrete graphics card, or on the other hand, is usually a separate unit that plugs into the computer’s motherboard and features its own memory dedicated solely to video and graphics processing. These cards are typically more expensive, but offer more robust performance for graphics-intensive games and digital video – New York Times Special Features

3. Resize Recycle Bin

By Default Windows XP reserve 10% of your hard disk for the Recycle Bin. With today’s huge hard disks, that translates tp a lot of space. For example, on a 200GB hard disk, that works out to 20GB.

Fortunately, you can change this percentage by right clicking on the Recycle Bin icon and selecting Properties. From there you can choose to configure the percentage used by all drives indipendently or globally.

4. Counting Words

Need to know how many words, characters, paragraphs, or lines there are in a Microsoft Word document?
-Just run the Word Count command from the Tools menu in Word.

If yoi are only interested in one portion of a document, just select the text you want to analyse and word will only perform a count on the selection.

5. Tools For Editing Videos

Windows Movie Maker, included free with most recent versions of the Windows operating system, is a basic video-editing program that lets you create your own digital movies and photo slideshows. If you find you’ve outgrown ts abilities and want to move on to a program with more features, there are plenty to choose from.

Several video editing programs aimed at home user don’t cost a lot. Some options for Windows include Adobe Primiere Elements (www.adobe.com) and Ulead Video Studio (www.ulead.com/vs). You can download a free 30-day trial version of either program.

Pinnacle Studio (www.pinnaclesys.com) is another home video editing program that is worth considering. – New York Times News Service.

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Student Gangster Blogger Held In HK

May 21, 2007 – 2:46 am

Extracted from The Star, Monday 21 May 2007

A 14-year-old Hong Kong schoolboy has been arrested for claiming to be a triad gangster on an Internet journal. The boy was arrested at his home on Saturday after allegedly setting up a blog and identifying himself as a member of one of the city’s notorious trad gangs.

Police monitored the blog set up in December last year which gave details of how he had been involved in a fight against a rival triad gang. The case is the first Internet-related case of its kind in Hong Kong, a city in which claiming membership of triad gang is a criminal offence.

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Man killed women to sell their corpses

May 19, 2007 – 7:03 am

This is in China……

Chinese police have arrested a corpse trader who killed six women so he could sell their bodies for superstitious “weddings of the dead”. The man identified as Song, was part of a network supplying “ghost brides” to families seeking afterlife spouses for their dead sons. Arranged marriages for the dead are an ancient tradition in part of China. Although the custom declined after the communist took power in 1949, it is said to have made a comeback in rural areas.

Song said that he started selling bodies in 1998. His initial attempt at grave-robbing failed when he was caught by police and jailed for two years. Then, starting last year, he allegedly lured four women with learning difficulties to remote areas on his bicycle, then strangled them. He allegedly found the two other victims by recruiting the as housekeepers.

He was quoted as saying, “Killing people and selling their bodies was easier than stealing bodies from graves.” Each corpse earned him £200 to £265. His motive was to make enough money to built up a dog-breeding business.

Comment: People can do anything if they only think about money…..

-Extract from The Star, Saturday 19 May 2007 -

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More Japanese working to death than ever

May 18, 2007 – 1:33 am

This is what I read Today from The Star (Friday 18 May 2007)

The Fact:
Some 355 workers fell severely ill or died from overwork in the year to March, the highest figure on record and 7.6% up from previous year. Of the total, 147 people died, many from strokes and heart attacks.

Death from overwork grew so common during Japan’s post-World War II economic miracle that a word was coined for it, karoshi.

This is despite Japan government campaign to ease the country’s notorious office hours. The government has tried to address the problem by promoting telecommuting and encouraging workers to take a leave.

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New Hotmail goes live

May 17, 2007 – 8:57 am

The latest version of Microsoft’s free web-based e-mail is now widely available to the public in 36 languages.

Window Live Hotmail, which officially became available last Monday, spot a new look and feature similar to Microsoft’s desktop-based Outlook program, including the ability to drag and drop messages into folders.

Microsoft also said it improved the spam and fraud protection features in the online e-mail service.

Microsoft said more than 280 million people worldwide use the old MSN Hotmail service. The company has rebranded a mish-mash of websites and programs using the “Live” name, but kept the Hotmail brand in this case to avoid confusing existing users, Microsoft said in a February blog post.

The makeover, which includes 2GB of data storage and built-in instant messaging, brings Live Hotmail in line with offerings from competitors, Yahoo! and Google.

Microsoft also said a mobile version of Live Hotmail is available. -AP

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The Rockefeller Files -Discover The Most Important Secret To Wealth

February 13, 2007 – 1:53 am

The Rockefeller Files by Keith Wellman and Eric Rockefeller

The Rockefeller Files - Report

I just finish reading this free report title ‘The Rockefeller Files’. This is a free report that is highly motivational, and will challenge you to look at why you may not be succeeding online.

What can I say!!!……..Completely blew my mind.

The presentation of this report (in my opinion), is more like provocation, but for me, I take it positively…….sometimes we need a slap on a face to realize that something need to be change.

Even though the writer is known as Internet Marketer but I personally will not categorize it under Internet Marketing, but it will put it under Motivation and Self Development.

My conclusion, this is a very good report and I enjoy reading it and I hope you too are going to enjoy reading this Report.

The information in this report is truly priceless.

Click Here to download and read this report, FREE.

More interesting, Keith Wellman and Eric Rockefeller decided it was so important to introduce to the internet marketing community that they decided to also pay on two tiers to tell others to download and read it.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

Yazid

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New Adsense Tracking Software from Matt Callen…..I tell you…this is cool stuff

November 10, 2006 – 7:28 am

I recieved an e-mail from Matt Callen this morning. He is now come out with a new Adsense Tracking Software……and I tell you, this software is great. The installation….you can watch the video and it’s very helpfull. To setup this software was easy….thanks to very clear instructions in the demo video.

Actually, this AdSense tracking software originally created solely for his personal use.

It’s no secret that there’s a lot of money to be made with AdSense – but there’s also a lot of money to be lost……IF you don’t know some vital stats.

This software will give you those stats and more. Anyone can benefit from the stuff added to this software.

I bought Matt software before…. HyperVRE and it help me a lot mainly for my content rich website. And now come another great software from him.

Now I’m using 2 software from Matt mainly for my Adsense Base website: HyperVRE and the new AdSpyTracker

I know I will enjoy it….

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