I first heard of VirtualBox because of a story on Digg. So I looked into it.
VirtualBox is an interesting piece of software and virtual machines are a great way to add extra machines without having more hardware. Recently I’ve been looking into setting up a few virtual machines just to toy around with. Different Linux distros on the same machine would be a nice trick for this. And being as there are few good solutions in the virtual machine market, VirtualBox should be a nice competitor for VM Ware.
Most importantly, it’s FREE.
Water1) 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population.)
2) In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger.
3) Even MILD dehydration will slow down one’s metabolism as 3%.
4) One glass of water will shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.
5) Lack of water, the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
6) Preliminary research indicates that 8-10 glasses of Water a day could significantly ease back and joint pain For up to 80% of sufferers.
7) A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
Drinking 5 glasses of water daily decreases the risk of colon cancer by 45%, plus it can slash the risk of breast cancer by 79%., and one is 50% less likely to develop bladder cancer.
Are you drinking the amount of water you should every day?
COKE1) In many states the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.
2) You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days.
3) To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the “real thing” sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous China.
4) To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: rub the bumper with a rumpled-up piece of Reynolds wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
5) To clean corrosion from car battery terminals: Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.
6) To loosen a rusted bolt: Apply a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.
7) To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before ham is finished, remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for a sumptuous brown gravy.
To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of Coke into the load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.
1) The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. It will dissolve a nail in about four days. Phosphoric Acid also leaches calcium from bones and is a major contributor to the rising increase of osteoporosis.
2) To carry Coca-Cola syrup! (the concentrate) the commercial trucks must use a hazardous Material place cards reserved for highly corrosive materials.
3) The distributors of Coke have been using it to clean engines of the trucks for about 20 years!
DumbLittleMan.com doesn’t seem so dumb in their great tips of how to be, and stay, organized.
Personally, I have found putting everything away now is the best way to stay organized. Also, developing routines is pivotal. Putting my keys, (lack of wallet) three main cards, cash, and my shoes in the same place every day. Never looking for these every day saves time and headaches.
Recently, I decided it was no more wallet for me.
Web Worker Daily posted Your Wallet May Literally Be a Pain in the Tush which not only vindicates my decision to not carry a wallet, but gives me medical proof I’m better for it.
Take that wallet carriers!
Finally, someone created a way to circumvent the standard Google themes with Custom iGoogle Skins.
I cannot wait to see what the user community cranks out for these babies!
Dark by Bonstio is currently my favorite.
Install and Enjoy!
is a great resource and an article they just published outlines 10 Social Media Optimization Tips.
As a blogger, or for anyone else,
these are great tips.
In brief the list of 10 tips are as follows:
Currently, I am actively pursuing:
Ultimately, every blogger and social media-ite should be attempting all 10. When you’re just getting started though, don’t overwhelm yourself. Start with what you can and build up.
You cannot “Know your audience” if you don’t have an audience. But, you can know what audience you want to attract and build toward that end from the beginning.
I already talked about the OpenMoko in a previous article touting Linux MPX over Microsoft’s Surface.
Wired dubbed this sexy little device the $300 Linux-Powered ‘iPhone Killer’ and I hope they are right.
The iPhone is sexy and Apple produced, but like every Microsoft product, it is proprietary and limited.
The OpenMoko is designed to be exactly what it’s name implies, OPEN. The website reads “Opt for the Neo Advanced kit and we’ll give you a special screwdriver (the Neo cracker) and plastic guitar pick to make opening this device even easier. Go ahead, open your Neo. Make our day.“
Originally the Cingular 8125′s and it’s older brothers caught my eye because of their PocketPC OS being so versatile versus BlackBerry’s and Palm’s propritary software.
Now OpenMoko has my eye, and my heart.
Fortunately, it will not have my wallet until it is released, in October this year.
The base version of the NEO sells for $300. It has a 2.8″ VGA touch screen, a micro SD card slot, a USB port and 2.5G GSM quad band capability.
I’m sure nearly everyone has seen Robert Scoble Doing the Shuffle with 600+ RSS feeds.
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is great, and I’m a huge fan plus user.
However, in the beginning I watched 3, now I watch nearly 100 RSS feeds.
Those first three were PodCast pages so I did not have to check back regularly for updates, which did save me time. Now I spend a minimum of 1 hour each day going through my feed list.
I use Google Reader, and utilize the Trends feature to make sure I don’t keep anything I no longer read. Yet still I have to wonder if I’m really saving time using RSS.
Personally, staying in touch and on top of tech news is a top priority. Eschewing television, newspapers, and “real life” news for only the techie. RSS is supposed to be a great technology to SAVE you time. Keep that in mind Scoble, and everyone else.
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We all need good Online Backup. (So use Mozy.com)
If you do not currently have an online backup solution, you need to look into it immediately.
I used to think I did not care if I lost my data, and you might currently share that opinion. Then a fatal hard drive crash occured, which wiped out over 100 gig of information. The only backups I had were over 6 months old, and held on over a dozen CD’s. It was nearly impossible to recover, and I’ve backed up my data ever since.
If you own your own business, you CANNOT AFFORD to lose data, and doing a constant backup of your files online is one of the most affordable, and best ways to go.
IDrive-E provides encrypted online backups for FREE up to 2GB. Unlimited storage will cost $4.95/month. It is easy to use, fast and secure.
As a web designer, data backups of my files, and client’s files, are crucial. Don’t wish you had backed up later. At least take the time to fill 2gig worth of important files on IDrive’s free, and secure, servers.
No one ever cares when things go wrong, it’s when the solidified waste hits the oscillating device that people start freaking out.