Friday, October 29, 2010

Insulated hot tub covers for sale.

The youngsters of these days are versatile and adventurous. They don’t depend on skilled labour any more. For fixing household items like leaking taps, replacing hot tub cover, pruning over grown trees and even installing a new geyser, they do it on their own with the help of ‘do-it-yourself’ books and ‘how-to’ videos in Youtube.

My son shares an apartment with four friends who all work in the same company. He lives in a city that is mostly cold throughout the year. The gated community in which their apartment is located has all the modern amenities like heated swimming pool, SPA club, gym and other workouts.

My son and his friends recently saved substantial money to their residential association by making three new spa covers on their own and painting the hot tub covers that made them heroes overnight.

This five-man army is a respected bunch of young corporate employees that are invited for dinner by other residents of the colony every now and then.

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Anti virus scan by 36 aniti virus engines.

I like the honesty of VirScan.org, a free virus scanning service for individual files and folders. Yes, it is not an anti virus solution for your PC. It does not check all the drives in your PC for viruses, trojans, malaware etc.

Vir Scan will however scans for all the above in files that you upload to them.

Why would anyone wish to upload a file from their PC to be scanned for security leaks?
There are times when we find that our anti virus software has just expired but we need to urgently download an application or information from the Internet. At such times, we can simply send the files to Vir Scan and get the files checked for viruses and malaware.

You can upload files up to the size of 20 MB.
Vir Scan lets it scanned by several anti virus programs in its database. It literally employs 36 anti virus software.

However, it does not guarantee the cleanliness. Quite frank-right?
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

How to Post to Your Blog with Word 2010?

While I am personally not using Word 2010, I am sure that there are many bloggers who already relocated to this text editor platform. So, the question for those who use it: do you know that it is possible to write and publish a blog post using the same application you are using for anything else?

Device Magazine provides detailed review of this new Word feature I would like to present today.

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It makes perfect sense that Microsoft should want their users to employ Word for all word processing tasks, not just the ones that take place on documents stored on their PC or laptop.

Microsoft have become more and more aware of the wider uses for their Office applications in recent years, and have even released an online version of Office which is free to use for domestic users and offers the ability to save work in the cloud.

Writing a blog post with Word 2010 is nothing more but an extension of this. You are probably thinking "so I can write a blog with Word, but I can do that anyway and paste it in" but this method allows you to connect Word directly to the blog software, removing the need for any desktop or browser based blog editors like Scribefire, and dispensing with any problems with Word formatting causing problems with the display of your blog post.

Write a Blog Post with Word 2010

You can easily create a new Word document for your post and have it ready to publish to your blog in minutes. There are several blog platforms supported by Word 2010:
  • Windows Live Spaces
  • Blogger
  • SharePoint blog
  • Community Server
  • TypePad
  • WordPress
…and if you don’t use any of these, you can enter manual configuration options by choosing “Other”.

To set this up, create a new document in Word 2010 (File > New) and choose Blog post under Available Templates.

You will then be prompted to setup an account – here you should choose from one of the options as listed above. For instance, if you're using a WordPress blog, you will be prompted to enter the Blog Post URL for the XMLRPC.php script that manages links from third party apps like Word. You will see something like this:
http://<Enter your blog URL here>/xmlrpc.php

If you use a private WordPress blog, simply enter the URL as instructed, and then add your username and password. Many WordPress users have blogs hosted at www.wordpress.com – they should enter
http://<blog account name>.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php

For Blogger and TypePad accounts you need only enter your username and password, while SharePoint blogs require just the URL. Windows Live Spaces blogs require the space name and your “secret word”, while Community Server requires a special URL similar to that shown above (to the “metablog.ashx” script) as well as a username and password. Once you have configured the account for your blog, you’re ready to start posting!

Publish Your Blog with Word 2010

With your blog linked up to Word, you can then proceed to write a new post. Using the Blog Post and Insert tabs, you can visit the Home page, choose a Category for your blog, apply text formatting (if supported by your blog) and insert Tables, Pictures and Clip Art, Hyperlinks and other media options.

A few useful blog platform tools are missing, however – there is now way, for example, to split your post so that only a small portion of it appears on your blog’s home page. This would need to be added manually in your blog admin screen. Similarly, tags and labels cannot be added, but other than this, you can use Word as a great alternative to tools like Scribefire or your blogs own admin screen.

One word of warning: when your blog account username and password are used by from Word, they may not be encrypted. This will be down to the authentication method used by your blogging platform, so make sure you make regular backups of your blog and that you don’t employ a username and password that you might also use for other purposes.


Top paying adsense keywords

Don't ask me how much each of the following keywords are bidded for by the AdWords players. The amount keeps changing depending on the competition.

However, the basic price may not go down drastically. I know a couple of my online gurus who are adept at weaving blog posts and articles around high paying and less competitive keywords and milk the Google advertisers to their heart content.

I somehow lack the technique. Whenever I tried to write a high paying keyword blog post, my natural writing style always interfered and I end up scrapping the blog post.

So, how about you? Are you comfortable in using high paying AdWords? If so, pick from the list below after finding out how much each can get you approximately.

* best student loan
* refinance house
* voice conference software
* mesothelioma victims
*student loan consolidation
* asbestos attorneys
* liposuction Beverly Hills
* air ambulance

Breezy ideas for mew homes.

As the moving day to my new apartment is nearing, we have been discussing over myriad home interior decoration details. While we have agreed on most of the requirements, some issues are indecisive because of difference of choices.

For example, my son out rightly rejected my preference for Casablanca fans because they are too big. I too realized the sense in it and opted for medium sized fans and that settled the issue, at least temporarily.

However, before another disagreement arises, I ordered four medium sized Casablanca fans with remote control device.

Another long dream of mine is to place beautiful and unique candle holders in all the corners of the apartment for which I have already bought small stands. I bought six pieces Dale Tiffany (look at the picture) candle holders.


Is it not lovely?

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Saturday, October 23, 2010

One pound a day!

Have you noticed the slogan “Lose one pound a day” that is being flashed in the anti obesity circle? Weight loss pills review sites are quick to grab the ads, put them on their website with a slight twist hat says, “Lose 30 ponds in 30 days” and inviting feedback from users of this miracle diet pill.

Shall we consider as one addition that is more valid is made to the short list of effective diet pills? I think there is a general euphoria in the obese circle that finally, a true weight loss product has arrived in ‘Clinicallix’ without any bad side effects.

I only wish the good results were sustained for years to come. The fat loss industry really needs something truly valuable to serve the needs of over-weight people.

Have we all not seen many weight loss pills fade way into oblivion for reasons that include harmful side effects and ineffectiveness?

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Freeware Blog Editor from Firefox Browser



Deepest Sender is a blogging client that runs inside popular browsers Firefox, SeaMonkey, and XULRunner.

So, Deepest Sender is a blogging client for Firefox-based applications. What does this mean? Well, it means that instead of having to go to the Update page on LiveJournal/WordPress/Blogger/whatever, or loading up a separate client program, all you have to do is hit Ctrl+\, or click the button in your toolbar, and you can start posting.

Advantages over using update pages:
* Multiple accounts - You can have multiple accounts in Deepest Sender, and quickly switch between them.
* WYSIWYG - An integrated mini-HTML editor, with countless hacks implemented to get it to function as well and as neatly as possible. You can also switch between that and source view, or preview mode. No more typing countless <li> tags!
* Sidebars! You can load up Deepest Sender in the Mozilla/Firefox sidebar, and post from there.
* Drag and drop - select part of a page, drag it onto DS, and it's there!
* Music detection - if you have Foxy Tunes installed, or are running Windows and are using a plugin for your media player that is compatible with the Windows Media Player blogging plugin, then you can have music automatically detected for you. If you can get your player to write song details to a text file, then DS can detect the current music from that, too.
* Spellchecking - if you're running Firefox 2 or SeaMonkey with spellcheck installed, you can spellcheck your entries!
* Crash recovery - if Mozilla/Firefox crashes while you were halfway through typing up a huge entry, don't worry! When you next load Deepest Sender up, it'll try and recover as much of your post as possible.
* Load and save drafts - want to come back to something later? Save it as a draft, then get to work on another post. You can load it back up later.
* Easily edit posts - instead of poking through LiveJournal's edit system, just hit Ctrl+Shift+H, and use the calendar to find the post you were after, load it up, and edit it. If you're using other blogging protocols, you can easily search through the last 15 posts.
* Offline mode - Can't connect? Well, type away at your post, then load Deepest Sender at a later time when you can connect to your server!

Advantages over other clients:
* Easy installation - go to the Deepest Sender site (or Mozilla update), click install, restart your browser, and start posting! Even if you're on a computer account that doesn't have administrative priveliges (on Firefox)!
* Small download - how many other blogging clients are under 300KB?
* Cross-platform - Deepest Sender will run on any OS that Firefox will run on. Type up posts at work on your Windows computer, then come home and type up more posts on your Linux box - using the same program!

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Latest software release: 0.9.3 (June 2, 2010).


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