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Health – Benefits of Drinking Water

 Health benefits of drinking water daily is important that every persons should know about. No matter everything we do,  how small and inconsequential an action it might be – is related to water. Studies have result varying recommendations over the years, your water needs depends on many factors i.e. your health, where you live and your physical activity. In this articles we will cover some great health benefits of drinking water.

  • Maintain the young looking skin

You will always look younger when your skin is properly hydrated. Water helps to moisturize skin, replenish skin tissues, and increase the elasticity in your skin.

  • Combats dehydration

Water is a wonder drug dealing dehydration. Drinking of 8-12 glass water in a day regulates body temperature and replaces the essential electrolytes lost due to excessive sweating.

  • Metabolism

Water improves metabolism that is another reason why it helps a person with weight loss. There are other foods that helps boost your metabolism like probiotics for example, but filtered water is easily available and cost is equal to nothing.

  • Removal of Toxins
  • Drinking enough water helps your body flush out toxins, lessening this job for your kidneys and liver.

  • Ease joint and back pain

Studies are continuing to show positive results about the benefits of water on our bodies. It is noted that drinking of 8 to 12 glasses daily can ease back and joint pain. The statistic most often quoted is “80% of sufferers” find some relief in their aches. That is a significant percentage.

  • Prevent against seasonal illness

Seasonal illness is quite common; water can help you to be strong enough to fight from seasonal illnesses. It can save you from a heart attack and kidney stones. Water improves our immune system and drinking water with two drops of lemon juice is quite beneficial. It can also save you from various diseases such as rheumatism and arthritis.

  • Lose weight

Drinking water help us lose weight because it flushes down the by-products of fat breakdown. Drinking water reduces hunger, it’s an effective appetite suppressant so you’ll eat less. Plus, water has zero calories. 

  • Liver and Kidney Flush

Adequate amounts of water in the body aids in the excretion of body wastes and toxins by flushing the liver and kidneys. Individuals suffering from kidney stones can benefit from drinking 8 daily glasses of water as it helps to dissolve calcium in the urine.

Optimize single blog post for SEO

The definition of term “SEO”, what is SEO? Well, it’s abbreviation of Search Engine Optimization, that refers to optimize  website or blog for search engines, to make websites and blogs compatible with search engines.

To compliant your blog post SEO friendly post, you need to optimize the important parts of your blog post. We can break a blog post in 6 parts which are mojor parts of a blog post in all blogging platforms i.e. WordPress etc…

  1. Title and keyword section
  2. Description or first paragraph of post
  3. Post body and writings skills
  4. Label or tags
  5. The URL and post address
  6. The Backlinks and hierarchy

1. Title and keyword section of blog post.

The title is an important part of  a blog post, it’s just like a front end, that a searcher and search engine look first. The title of a blog post must contain keywords of  post body. These keyword should be identical and blog body content related. You must use a single keyword at least two times in your title. You can research for dense title keywords with the help of several tools like Google AdwordExternal keyword tool.

2. Description and first paragraph of blog post.

The description is the second important part of  post. Because it is also indexed in search enginequeries. A blogger must setup every post a unique description tag, but it is hard and time consuming task. The easiest way of writing description, write it in first paragraph of  post. If you write keywords in post first paragraph, it will work like description tags for you post. Again keywords should well researched, dense and content related. I suggest the blogger should try to use vast keywords in blog posts.

3. Post body and writing skills.

To make your post as SEO friendly post you have to write the post with SEO tricks in your mind. If you write entire post grammatically well and use keywords at least 5 to 10 times in each article, so your doing great a job.  Try to be natural in this section.

4. Label or tags.

Labels are also important part. If you willing to make your blog post SEO compatible, give it the right label or tags for example if you write a post on “Tips about driving” so you can give it label like “Safe Driving Tips” or “Driving Safety Tips”.

5. The URL and post address.

URL address is a point gaining part for SEO. In other words the URL (post address) should contain the keywords in it. The  WordPress bloggers are no need to worry about this part, because WordPress and many other  CMS/ blog engines contain the automatic function, that turns your post title in URL address, so WordPress bloggers don’t worry about URL and they should concentrate to write best title.

6. The Backlinks and hierarchy.

The Backlinks are Backbone of  blog post. If you do all the things described above well in you post but forget about backlinks you can make your post SEO post but, you have to wait for some months to letsearch engines to find your post and even though it won’t work well. If you want to see the results of your hard work faster then do conscious about backlinks.

The discussion is not closed here, there are several methods, tips and tricks to make your post an SEO post. I welcome you to share your techniques or identify if  I forgot any important stuff.

Please don’t feel hesitation if you have any question about this topic.

Health – Tips to Control Blood Pressure

Lifestyle plays an important role in treating high blood pressure. Becoming an active participant in your health care management will help you maintain acceptable blood pressure readings. High blood pressure also referred as “silent killer”. If you don’t care your high blood pressure then it may cause serious health problems like kidney problems, hearts failure, blindness, and heart attacks.

You need to make sure your blood pressure is under 140/90 mm Hg. If your upper pressure limit (systolic pressure) is over 140, ask your doctor what you can do to lower it.

You can take some rest to low your blood pressure.

Take your medicine regularly if prescribed, and talk to your doctor if have questions.

Take your physical activity everyday such as walk. The time limit of your moderate activity must be 30 minutes.

Do not drink alcohol and smoking causes your blood pressure to elevate because of the stimulants in the cigarette smoke.

Eat more fruits, vegetables, grains, and low-fat dairy foods.

Read nutrition labels. You can find sodium in almost all packaged foods. Remember eat low salt foods to help to control the level of your blood pressure.

Make the diet plan; it will help you to reduce your wait. Do not put up the lot of weight in a very short time.

Blood pressure rises during period of anger and stress. Learn relaxation techniques during stress or anger.

WordPress: How to open comment author URL’s in new window

If you setup wordpress blog, you noticed if you click on URL’s in comments, the URL will open in same window. This is default behavior of WordPress and unfortunately most WordPress don’t support to change this behavior. This situation could annoy for many bloggers as they don’t like the site visitor leave their site for comment author site.

Follow steps below to setup to open comment author URL in new web browser window:

  • Logon to WordPress Admin area (i.e. http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin)
  • Go to Appearance >> Editor >>
  • Search for “functions.php” file
  • Click on file to open and paste the code as below at the bottom of “functions.php” file (before php closing tag “?>”)

 

// Make comment author link URL open in new window

function comment_author_link_window()

{

    global $comment;

    $url = get_comment_author_url();

    $author = get_comment_author();

    if ( empty( $url ) || ‘http://’ == $url )

        $return = $author;

    else

        $return = “<a href=’$url’ rel=’external nofollow’ target=’_blank’>$author</a>”;

    return $return;

}

add_filter(‘get_comment_author_link’, ‘comment_author_link_window’);

 

References:     http://www.studiograsshopper.ch/code-snippets/open-comment-author-link-in-new-window/

        http://mywebmastertips.com/importance-making-wordpress-author-comment-urls-open-in-new-window-and-the-code-to-make-it-happen/

Watch ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 Live Streaming

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ICC World Cup Schedule

Date Local GMT PST Match Details Venue
Feb 19, 2011 14:30 08:30 13:30 Group B : Bangladesh vs India, 1st ODI Day Night MatchDay Night Match Mirpur
Feb 20, 2011 09:30 04:00 09:00 Group A : New Zealand vs Kenya, 2nd ODI - Day Night Match Chennai
Feb 20, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Sri Lanka vs Canada, 3rd ODI Day Night MatchDay Night Match Hambantota
Feb 21, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Australia vs Zimbabwe, 4th ODI Day Night MatchDay Night Match Ahmedabad
Feb 22, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : England vs Netherlands, 5th ODI Day Night MatchDay Night Match Nagpur
Feb 23, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Pakistan vs Kenya, 6th ODI Day Night Match Hambantota
Feb 24, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : South Africa vs West Indies, 7th ODI Day Night Match Delhi
Feb 25, 2011 09:30 03:30 08:30 Group B : Bangladesh vs Ireland, 8th ODI Mirpur
Feb 25, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Australia vs New Zealand, 9th ODI Day Night Match Nagpur
Feb 26, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, 10th ODI Day Night Match Colombo
Feb 27, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : India vs England, 11th ODI Day Night Match Bangalore
Feb 28, 2011 09:30 04:00 09:00 Group A : Canada vs Zimbabwe, 12th ODI Nagpur
Feb 28, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : West Indies vs Netherlands, 13th ODI Day Night Match Delhi
Mar 1, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Sri Lanka vs Kenya, 14th ODI Day Night Match Colombo
Mar 2, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : England vs Ireland, 15th ODI Day Night Match Bangalore
Mar 3, 2011 09:30 04:00 09:00 Group B : South Africa vs Netherlands, 16th ODI Mohali
Mar 3, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Pakistan vs Canada, 17th ODI Day Night Match Colombo
Mar 4, 2011 09:30 04:00 09:00 Group A : New Zealand vs Zimbabwe, 18th ODI Ahmedabad
Mar 4, 2011 14:30 08:30 13:30 Group B : Bangladesh vs West Indies, 19th ODI Day Night Match Mirpur
Mar 5, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Australia vs Sri Lanka, 20th ODI Day Night Match Colombo
Mar 6, 2011 09:30 04:00 09:00 Group B : South Africa vs England, 21st ODI Chennai
Mar 6, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : India vs Ireland, 22nd ODI Day Night Match Bangalore
Mar 7, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Canada vs Kenya, 23rd ODI Day Night Match Delhi
Mar 8, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Pakistan vs New Zealand, 24th ODI Day Night Match Kandy
Mar 9, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : India vs Netherlands, 25th ODI Day Night Match Delhi
Mar 10, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe, 26th ODI Day Night Match Kandy
Mar 11, 2011 09:30 04:00 09:00 Group B : West Indies vs Ireland, 27th ODI Mohali
Mar 11, 2011 14:30 08:30 13:30 Group B : Bangladesh vs England, 28th ODI Day Night Match Chittagong
Mar 12, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : India vs South Africa, 29th ODI Day Night Match Nagpur
Mar 13, 2011 09:30 04:00 09:00 Group A : New Zealand vs Canada, 30th ODI Mumbai
Mar 13, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Australia vs Kenya, 31st ODI Day Night Match Bangalore
Mar 14, 2011 09:30 03:30 08:30 Group B : Bangladesh vs Netherlands, 32nd ODI Chittagong
Mar 14, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Pakistan vs Zimbabwe, 33rd ODI Day Night Match Kandy
Mar 15, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : South Africa vs Ireland, 34th ODI Day Night Match Kolkata
Mar 16, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Australia vs Canada, 35th ODI Day Night Match Bangalore
Mar 17, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : England vs West Indies, 36th ODI Day Night Match Chennai
Mar 18, 2011 09:30 04:00 09:00 Group A : Ireland vs Netherlands, 37th ODI Kolkata
Mar 18, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Sri Lanka vs New Zealand, 38th ODI Day Night Match Mumbai
Mar 19, 2011 09:30 03:30 08:30 Group B : Bangladesh vs South Africa, 39th ODI Mirpur
Mar 19, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group A : Pakistan vs Australia, 40th ODI Day Night Match Colombo
Mar 20, 2011 09:30 04:00 09:00 Group A : Zimbabwe vs Kenya, 41st ODI Kolkata
Mar 20, 2011 14:30 09:00 14:00 Group B : India vs West Indies, 42nd ODI Day Night Match Chennai
Mar 23, 2011 14:30 09:30 14:30 TBC vs TBC, 1st Quarter Final ODI Day Night Match Mirpur
Mar 24, 2011 14:30 10:00 15:00 TBC vs TBC, 2nd Quarter Final ODI Day Night Match Colombo
Mar 25, 2011 14:30 09:30 14:30 TBC vs TBC, 3rd Quarter Final ODI Day Night Match Mirpur
Mar 26, 2011 14:30 10:00 15:00 TBC vs TBC, 4th Quarter Final ODI Day Night Match Ahmedabad
Mar 29, 2011 14:30 10:00 15:00 TBC vs TBC, 1st Semi Final ODI Day Night Match Colombo
Mar 30, 2011 14:30 10:00 15:00 TBC vs TBC, 2nd Semi Final ODI Day Night Match Mohali
Apr 2, 2011 14:30 10:00 15:00 TBC vs TBC, The Final ODI Day Night Match Mumbai

Is Google eBookstore bigger best?

I love to read, I pretty much read everything I get my hands on, including my morning cereal box. Google EBook

I have books on my iPod Touch, my iPad, my laptop and my phone, believe it or not, I think I’d still also enjoy having an eReader. I know I’m probably not the norm, but there are probably a few people out there just like me.

Enough folks like me, that the new Google eBookstore might just be a good thing. Touting themselves as having the largest digital bookstore in the world,

the Google eBookstore is a bit different in a few ways. First, unlike Amazon, Google sells books that come in various formats and can be read on almost any device, from the iPad to your netbook or smartphone… but uh-oh, not on your Kindle.

Second, The Google eBookstore might just be bigger than it’s competitors, with over 3 million books available with many of them free and hundreds of thousands of titles for sale. The options are certainly extensive. Cheaper? Maybe not, but it certainly seems like a generous selection.

Lastly, Google also offers a Google eBooks Web Reader, where you can buy, store and read Google eBooks in the cloud allowing you access to your ebooks like you would your messages in Gmail, using a free account with unlimited ebooks storage.

Not everybody needs all this, but I believe its better to have and not need, you know what I mean? But if you have a Kindle, then never mind.

The Google eBookstore is open now, at  www.books.google.com

Source: Google eBooks

Novell acquired by Attachmate

Novell has announced that it has agreed to a merger proposition from the Attachmate Corporation, an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital and Thoma Bravo, for $2.2 billion (£1.25 billion). The company also confirmed that it will also be selling certain, as yet undisclosed, IP assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium organised by the Microsoft Corporation for $450 million (£282 million) in cash.

Attachmate says that it plans to operate Novell as two business units: Novel and SUSE and to join these with Attachmate and NetIQ, its other holdings. The completion of the acquisition is still subject to the usual regulatory conditions and to the approval of the stockholders.

Novell President and CEO Ron Hovsepian said of the merger, “After a thorough review of a broad range of alternatives to enhance stockholder value, our Board of Directors concluded that the best available alternative was the combination of a merger with Attachmate Corporation and a sale of certain intellectual property assets to the consortium”.

Discussing the news, Attachmate Corporation Chairman and CEO Jeff Hawn said, “… The addition of Novell to our Attachmate and NetIQ businesses will enhance the spectrum of solutions we can offer to customers. We fully support Novell’s commitment to its customers and we look forward to continuing to invest for the benefit of Novell’s customers and partners”.

The news of the acquisition comes nearly two months after reported acquisition delays over legacy assets. During the past year, a number of private equity firms were expected to bid for Novell’s non-Linux business, which includes the Netware and identity management units, but were apparently unwilling to pay the price Novell was asking. There had been a number of further rejected bids for Novell in its entirety since it rejected a unsolicited $2Bn bid from the Elliot Associateshedge fund and said it was considering its options. (trk)

Facebook and Skype exploring partnership

Facebook and Skype

Facebook and Skype

Social networking website Facebook and Internet telephone company Skype are in talks to establish a partnership that is aimed at integrating their communication services, Wall Street Journal said, citing a person familiar with the situation. Under the proposed partnership, Facebook users would be able to sign into Skype through their Facebook Connect accounts, the Journal said. Once signed in, the users would be able to send text messages, voice chat and video chat with their Facebook friends from within Skype, according to the paper.
The integrated functions are built into Skype’s 5.0 version, which is expected to be released in the next few weeks, the person told the paper.
Enabling Skype’s voice and video chat on Facebook would be a “logical progression” to the partnership, the person told the paper. Facebook and Skype could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters. (Reuters)

Social networking website Facebook and Internet telephone company Skype are in talks to establish a partnership that is aimed at integrating their communication services, Wall Street Journal said, citing a person familiar with the situation. Under the proposed partnership, Facebook users would be able to sign into Skype through their Facebook Connect accounts, the Journal said. Once signed in, the users would be able to send text messages, voice chat and video chat with their Facebook friends from within Skype, according to the paper.
The integrated functions are built into Skype’s 5.0 version, which is expected to be released in the next few weeks, the person told the paper.
Enabling Skype’s voice and video chat on Facebook would be a “logical progression” to the partnership, the person told the paper. Facebook and Skype could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters.

ASP.Net Vulnerability Patch released: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-070


Vulnerability in ASP.NET Could Allow Information Disclosure (2418042)

Microsoft released ASP.net Vulnerability path through Download centre, for details please click here.

This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in ASP.NET. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could read data, such as the view state, which was encrypted by the server. This vulnerability can also be used for data tampering, which, if successfully exploited, could be used to decrypt and tamper with the data encrypted by the server. Microsoft .NET Framework versions prior to Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 are not affected by the file content disclosure portion of this vulnerability.

This security update is rated Important for all supported editions of ASP.NET except Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Service Pack 3. For more information, see the subsection,Affected and Non-Affected Software, in this section.

The security update addresses the vulnerability by additionally signing all data that is encrypted by ASP.NET. For more information about the vulnerability, see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) subsection for the specific vulnerability entry under the next section, Vulnerability Information.

This security update also addresses the vulnerability first described in Microsoft Security Advisory 2416728.

Recommendation. Microsoft recommends that customers apply the update at the earliest opportunity.

See also the section, Detection and Deployment Tools and Guidance, later in this bulletin.

Known Issues. Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2418042 documents the currently known issues that customers may experience when installing this security update. The article also documents recommended solutions for these issues.

The patch is available through Microsoft download centre

How to Get the most out of VLC Media Player for iPad

iPad Screenshot

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework, that plays most multimedias files and various streaming protocols. It is simple to use, yet very powerful and extendable.
VLC has all codecs built-in. It comes with support for nearly all codec there is. And what is more it can even play back the file or media if it is damaged! Missing or broken pieces are no stop to VLC, it plays all the video and audio information that’s still intact.

VLC has come to the iPad, adding playback support for media formats that were previously unplayable on Apple devices. Without hardware acceleration, however, you’re going to run into playback issues. Here are your best bets for optimal playback.



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Out of the starting gates, VLC Media Player for iPad is a little buggy, doesn’t play back HD content too well, but is still very, very welcome. The interface is pretty slick, and copying your media files through iTunes is simple enough. While some formats aren’t supported (RealMedia, FLV, etc.), many new ones are (AVI, MPG, MKV, etc.). Let’s take a look at getting your media files into VLC and which files it’ll handle best.

FLV screen_shot 1

Adding files is pretty straightforward. Hook your iPad up to iTunes, choose it from the sidebar, click the “Apps” tab, and scroll down to the “File Sharing” section. From there you can choose VLC and add files through drag-and-drop or the “Add…” button. As soon as you do, iTunes will start copying the files over to VLC and you’ll be able to use them immediately after it finishes.

The problems come when you start copying supported files and VLC crashes or simply can’t handle the work you’re throwing at it. This is a shortcoming of the iPad more than VLC, as the iPad is really only designed to play back MPEG4/H.264 encoded to Apple’s specifications. VLC doesn’t seem to take advantage of the iPad’s MPEG/H.264 hardware acceleration, and so HD files tend to be unwatchable and may cause crashes. VLC is, at least, kind enough to warn you when you’re trying to throw a file at it that your iPad can’t handle.

movie

Determining what you can play back well is a little difficult, since it’s mostly trial and error. VLC will let you know when it thinks you’re pushing the limits, but often files that it thinks it can play don’t look so great. So what do you do?

We’ve played around with VLC for iPad a bit and have found that most standard definition files work alright. For the most part, your best bet is standard definition AVI files using DiVX. Even at higher bit rates (about 2500kbps), DiVX AVIs seemed to play back smoothly and scrubbing wasn’t an issue. This is great news for BitTorrenters, as most TV shows are already encoded as DiVX AVI and are already optimal for iPad playback in VLC.

If you want HD on your iPad, VLC will get you half-way there. While 720p DiVX AVI video stuttered quite a bit, the same video encoded at about 3000kbps at 960×540 worked just fine. Since 960×540 is the recommended resolution for your iPad’s video anyway, it’s a good target for your HD content.

VLC is available now on iTunes, absolutely free. VLC Media Player

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