The Flying Machine

Flying was a big thing when we were boys. Charles Lindbergh didn't cross the Atlantic until May of 1927. My older siblings were all living when he did it.

It took Lindbergh thirty-three and one half-hours to travel the 3,500 to Paris. He was the first to fly the Atlantic alone. (Some years ago I was on the Concord. It took us less than 3 hours to get to New York from London.)

Kids that could afford them wore Lindbergh hats with goggles in the winter. Charlie wore such a hat with goggles when he made the flight described in the poem that follows. I wonder if Charlie thought himself another Charles Lindbergh. (Charlie and his father died in a car crash some years ago.)

Men had dreamed of crossing the Atlantic. My Uncle Tom was in England feeling sorry for his loneliness when he had a dream. He saw a single individual fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Lindbergh was the man that made that dream come true.

Because of Lindbergh's opposition to our participation in World War II, he was not allowed to make an official contribution to the war effort. He was not officially allowed to fly missions. However, he saved lives and improved air operations in the Pacific.

One contribution he made was extending the flying range of the P-38. He knew how to conserve fuel.

Read about his amazing flight at: http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/paris.asp

I hope you enjoy this poem:

Flying Machine by Taylor Jones
Monday, July 26, 1999 (revised November 3, 2005)

We gathered at Charlie's house,

With hammers and orange crates,

To built a half-sized airplane

With supper flying traits.

This supper duper flying machine

I knew could never fly.

With all that weight and Charlie

It would never hit the sky!

An airplane made from orange crates?

They thought the wood was light.

Surely with cloth coverings,

There would be a successful flight.

I said, "I may be younger than you guys are,

But I'm not a stupid jerk!

That thing won't fly and you will die"

They said, "You stupid little twerp!"

I was bad and they were mad,

No work they'd let me do.

If Dad could get his car off the blocks

I could have gone to the zoo.

They finished the plane and said,

"Now that's a thing of beauty!

Let's get this thing up on the garage,

Charlie, the pilot can do his duty."

I said, "If Charlie

Gets into that thing.

His brain is

Smaller than a cooty."

I'd never saw anything fall so fast,

It didn't fly with expected grace.

Charlie face had lost its smile,

Nothing but a grimace,

As the flimsy mass met the earth,

Or the other way around,

The great airship shattered to pieces

As Charlie hit the ground.

To my surprise, Charlie survived,

With cuts, abrasions and bruises.

"That was quite a flight," he said.

"But the landing tore my britches."

The others quite agreed

That a great flight had occurred

Despite the shattered wood.

I said, "Your minds are really blurred!"

They went into the club house,

But they wouldn't let me in.

I said, "Go have your meeting.

Your heads are full of tin!"

Copyright©John T. Jones, Ph.D. 1999-2005

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Broadband on the Go

A leading mobile phone company has discovered that less than half of us are bothered about having access to the internet whilst we are out and about away from home.

Although the number of people who want broadband on the go has risen since last year, there are still only 44 per cent of the 2000 people questioned who believe that we should have access to the internet anywhere in the UK. This means that there are 56 per cent of people who seem to be happy with the current situation which is to be unconnected whilst on the move.

The 2000 polled were also asked to name the locations that they would like to have mobile broadband internet working. Out of those, 44 per cent said that they would like to have access to the internet whilst they were out in their back garden, 32 per cent said they would choose their holiday destination and 8 per cent of people said that they would want it working in their local pub.

The leading mobile phone company have said that they are finding more and more of their customers are internet fans, stating that one in four of their new customers is a mobile broadband customer.

The company have said that the popularity of mobile internet is rising and that it is now beginning to hit the mainstream. They have customers who want to be able to be connected whilst they are in their garden, at the office or in the park and the mobile phone packages they offer are enabling people to do just that.

The company also said that their packages offer good value in a competitive market and they expect to quadruple the amount of mobile internet customers that they have at the moment during 2008.

If you are interested in joining the mobile internet craze then it is perhaps worth looking into prices and you may also want to compare broadband deals to make sure that you are getting the one that is the best for you and your needs.

The 2000 polled were also asked to name the locations that they would like to have mobile broadband internet working.

A leading mobile phone company has said that one in four of their new customers is a mobile broadband customer.

You may want to compare broadband deals to make sure that you are getting the one that is the best for you and your needs.

R10Cipher From Arten Science - Encryption at Its Best

Software doesn't always have to be complicated and, contrary to popular belief, it doesn't always have to be what I categorise as "bloat-ware". Very rarely an application comes along that does exactly what it says on the box.

Most folks with an internet account also have an email account and many of these make use of public mail services such as Google, Yahoo or Hotmail.

While it's great to have access to public services like this, sometimes you want to send information that's a little more sensitive than the rest. Maybe you have started a new bank account and want to have easy access to the new details. Perhaps you want to send confidential information that you need to have centralised access to.

Security suddenly becomes very important and you need to have a way of keeping this safe from prying eyes or unexpected account access.

With this in mind I found myself engaged in a long-term search for an application capable of encrypting text or on the odd occasion a file. The application had to be cross-platform (able to work on a PC as well as a Macintosh), it had to have a small footprint (absolutely not bloat-ware) and it had to be portable (i.e., it would fit on a USB stick).

It took a long time of finding likely products and trying them out only find that they failed the test on some part of my criteria. The most frequent reason for failure was the way some of these programs insisted in spreading code components throughout the operating system (like Ivy crawling up the side of a house). I found it infuriating and quite pointless to see how such a straight forward application could be made to destabilise other programs and take up huge amounts of disk space for such a small return in functionality.

Then I came across R10Cipher, an application that proves 64bit encryption for both plain text and files.

I had missed it in most searches because of the awful name. It may have seemed smart to mimic the company name in the product title (R10Cipher is made by Artenscience) but I still get caught off guard when searching for it my applications or my downloads storage area.

That said the product itself was like a breath of fresh air. It's simple (so simple it doesn't need an installer), it's effective and it's cross-platform. It ticks all the boxes and is easy to use.

As mentioned, there's no installer. On a Windows computer you simply unzip the downloaded archive, create a new R10Cipher folder in Program Files and copy the contents over. Create a shortcut on the desktop and your good to go!

The trail period seems unlimited, though you do have to put up with a "Trial" banner on the desktop while the application is running. The other major selling point is the price, it only costs £18:00 per seat (it's a UK based company) and there are very reasonable rates on volume pricing.

Working R10Cipher couldn't be easier. When you start the application you see a screen with five main areas, though in practice you will probably only use three of them. Perhaps the best way to illustrate it's use is to give an example.

Let's say I have just been working on a staff performance review. I want to send this home to work on later but it's confidential and I don't want any chance of it getting into the wrong hands.

I start by completing the report.

Once completed, I use copy and paste to transfer the text into the "Clear text" window of R10Cipher.

Finally, I add my "Shared Secret". This can be any kind of password or passphrase and you will use it at the "other end" to decrypt your message. As with all passwords, the longer and more complex the better. One feature I liked here was the ability to check the "Show" box so you can make sure that what you thought you had typed matched what actually went in the box. Your encrypted message is no use if you go to decrypt just to find that you slipped on the keyboard and now have no idea what was used for a Shared Secret!

Click on the "Encrypt" button and you are presented with a satisfyingly jumbled collection of gibberish. Now all you do is copy the encrypted gibberish into the body of your email message and send it on it's way. R10Cipher helps again by including a button called "Clipboard", so bypassing the need for copy and paste.

Once you get to your personal account all you have to do is reverse this process by copying the gibberish into the "Cipher Text" window, enter the Shared Secret and click on "Decrypt" to convert the gibberish back to the original text. Simple!

Let's see how R10Cipher handles the old programming favourite "Hello World!".

Unencrypted text = "Hello World!"

Encrypted text = "OmOgL2jSVvaSmPVh"

You can monitor the process of encryption in the "R10Cipher Events Feedback" window, but to be honest the encryption process is so fast that all your likely to see here is "Starting" and "Finished".

The R10Cipher interface includes some helpful functions by way of the toolset at the top of the application. The "Email" button, for example, will start your default email program and place the encrypted text in the message body ready for your to send. You just have to add the Recipient and Subject information.

File encryption is just as straight forward. Just drag and drop the file to encrypt into the "File Encryption Area", provide the Shared Secret and click on the "Batch" button. Your file will be encrypted and the extension ".r10Enc" will be added thereby identifying the file. I'm not so happy with this latter feature because I don't like to identify the file and thereby tell any prospective hacker what application He/She should use to crack the file. I prefer my encrypted content to be completely anonymous. It does appear that, once encrypted, you can remove the file extension and just leave it as an unknown.

If you drag that same unknown file into the "File Encryption Area", provide the Shared Secret and hit "Decrypt File" it does appear that R10Cipher recognises the file as one of it's own, because it asks you to name the file and then dutifully decrypts the contents.

R10Cipher isn't without its little peculiarities. Perhaps the most annoying function is the "Speak" facility. Click on this and your computers speakers will burst into life and read (if possible) the contents of the Clear Text window. While this may prove useful to some, the one thing that caught me each time was the application announcing unexpectedly "Encryption Complete!". I'll admit that it nearly scared me witless the first time it happened. On the Macintosh I have seen instanced where you turn this 'feature' off only to have it carry on announcing regardless.

R10Cipher is clearly a live project for it's developer judging by the number of updates. I have been using this application since version 2.x and it is regularly updated.

The developer/author of R10Cipher, and the owner of Arten Science, is Steve Cholerton. Over the years I have found that Steve is very open to comment and, as with many small development houses, is very hands on. His Artenscience.co.uk website currently sports a certificate from the 2009 UK IT Industry Awards of which R10Cipher was a Technology Excellence finalist.

I have to say that I am not the least bit surprised given what a superb application this is. It should take pride of place in any Internet user's toolbox.

Brian McClue is an IT Professional with a special interest cross-platform functionality and a keen dislike of bloat-ware (software that takes up huge computer resource for very little tangible benefit). He is the owner http://www.themetopia.net, a personal website dedicated to reviews, photography and other interesting themes.

My New Lesson in "Fighting Evil"

We have all sat through the Dirty Harry movies, the Chuck Norris movies, the "Goodguys vs. the Badguys", with the Goodguys usually winning as a result of some heroic act. We Americans grow up watching these stories, we read about similar incidents in storybooks, history books, comic books, even the cartoons show us that in order to fight evil, you must fight it with force.

Well, as a typical American boy, I grew up having learned that "lesson", that you must fight for what you believe in, you must fight evil, you must destroy it, punch it, kick it, shoot it, destroy it in any way possible. During my lifetime, I did what I was capable of - fighting evil in whatever tiny ways I could. In most of my encounters, I could never figure out why the laws and circumstances were always on the side of the Badguys when it came to real life - quite the opposite as in the movies. It's common knowledge that there are, and have always been, problems in the world. There has always been greed, and pathological lust for power; and those who are afflicted by such defects are almost always the ones who aspire to positions of power. There have always been the greedy and the ruthless being in power, while the rest of the subjects survive in any way they can - some such situations being worse than others, but all basically the same. Those who do not succeed at attaining such positions inflict their damage in other ways.

We have had our share of heroes in history, the ones who ride in out of nowhere, annihilate a few Badguys, then ride off into the sunset. More often than not, those brave souls have died in battle. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with fighting evil if you are cabaple, in fact, I wish there were more such people, especially in today's environment, where lawlessness is a direct result of laws being put in place by those who seek to dominate the world. The sad fact is, though, that it is more difficult nowadays to be such a person, as they will usually end up in court, in jail, or murdered at the hands of some hired nutcase who can, and have been, easily be groomed to be the scapegoat.

All this being said, just recently, I came across an opportunity to volunteer my services at a school/church/orphanage. This is a place where 400 kids live, get schooled, and learn about the life and beliefs of "San Francisco", as he is known here in Peru, or St. Francis, as we Americans know him as. These are kids whose parents cannot take care of them, or who have been abandoned somehow. The conditions at this "Franciscano Capuchino" are dire - especially by American standards. For the record, I'm not giving the actual name of the school, as I don't want this to sound like a solicitation or any sort of advertising.

The buildings are falling apart, the plumbing barely works, there are holes in the roof, and the food is barely enough to keep them from starving to death. They have one source of income, they bake and sell a Peruvian pastry called "Paneton", it's a sweetbread with pieces of fruit mixed in it. Being that I'm new there, and won't actually be starting my sports programs until after the first of the year, I don't know all the details, but I do know this after taking a tour of the place, it is a mess, and the kids have barely enough to survive. Over the years, the school has been able to acquire a few things. They have a woodworking shop, with a small handful of tools, where they teach the students woodworking skills, and they have an automotive shop of sorts, where they teach them basics of auto mechanics. There is a small gym with a few weight machines, three basketball/soccer courts, a cafeteria, classrooms, the sleeping area, and a little store that sells water, sodas, little snacks and a few necessities - for the public to shop at; this brings in a tiny supplement to the income to help with expenses.

With all of this, these kids are learning about life, they are being prepared to live in the reality that is Peru. They are very polite and respectful. They are learning how to survive. What prompted me to talk about this is that I started to think about what I have to offer these unbelievably poor children. I was thinking about the fact that not only will I be teaching them the mechanics of the various sports, but I will teach them sportsmanship, fair play, respect, ethics, and how all of these things relate to real life - it's just the way I do it. Yesterday while I was talking with my wife about all of this, it hit me. After all these years of "fighting", I finally realized that the way for me to (try to) better the world is to teach young people virtues, teach them how to be decent. The full grown adults who lie, cheat, steal, and murder, there is nothing I can do to stop them or change them (people have been telling me this for years, but I never believed it), seems the only thing to do is wait until they are dead and buried, and do my best to replace them with people who have some sense of respect, decency, honesty, and who will respect, and even love, the environment.

What I do at the school will not be so big, there are about 400 kids there, and I will only be working with a few of them - the ones who choose to take part in my sports programs. My wife will be doing something similar, she will be presenting (after the holidays) her ideas about conducting some creative classes. She is looking forward to this every bit as much as I am. This is all very new to me. I'm the guy who has spent most of his life in America, wondering how things got to be so messed up. I could never figure out how there could be such blatant trickery in just about every aspect of society as we know it, and even worse, why people just seemed to be ok with it. When I see Anderson Cooper's programs, showing what humans are capable of - the slaughtering of all the beautiful animals of the world - for their (the humans') greed, their lust, and whatever other strange reasons that I will never understand, I feel such rage and sorrow.

When I see people dying because they don't have food, I feel the same rage, the same sorrow, and horrible sadness. I can't begin to imagine what is must feel like for parents to watch their children die because they could not get enough food to feed them. When I watched that one African boy take his bucket to the sewer to get water for him and his family to drink, well, I guess I don't need to tell you. I have often wondered what happens to the billions of dollars that people from all over the world have donated to "Charities", that are supposed to be feeding and caring for these starving people - with all those billions, why are so many still starving, and still dying so needlessly??

Well, I've spend most of my adult life - besides trying to survive myself - causing myself such grief thinking about these things. Well, now I'm in a third world country, because my wife is Peruvian. I never, in a millions years, thought I'd end up here, but well, I guess the universe is smarter than I am, and maybe now I can be of some good to the world, and maybe I might even learn a thing or two from those poor Indian kids. The new head priest of the School/Orphanage is a friend of my wife, that's how I was introduced to him, and to the school. I'll do what I'm capable of doing for those kids, how ever little it might be. I don't have money to offer them, all I have is me, and the few skills that I have. I hope you will take this in the spirit that it is meant, which is to share with you my new lesson. I've not always been the most together guy, I've been somewhat selfish, and I've often wondered, "What the hell did I do to deserve this???". Hopefully now, I've found a better and more effective way to "fight" evil, I'll keep you posted. Well, goodnight all, talk to you another time.

Lee K. Jones
fidlin@hotmail.com

Search For a Person For Free

Have you ever gotten online to search for a person, address, or phone number of that person? There are many available options and search engines to choose from and almost all of them say they are free people searches.

Well I have found that there are very few that actually give you free search results. I guess they don't lie when they advertise a free search, but very few actually offer a free search along with free results. It is very irritating to get online and search for a person and it brings up names but no information and the sites ask you to pay for the results you want.

I found a search engine here recently called Zabba People Search and I was very impressed with it. I have used several different search engines to search for people, and unfortunately I have even paid to get the results because I needed them at the time. This free person search site I found was a very nice site.

A lot of times when I write reviews on subjects like this I have a couple of downfalls for the subject, but in this case I really don't. The site was very user friendly and it gave me all of the general information I needed for free.

When I hit the search button I was expecting the same situation that has happened in every other free person search engine. I was expecting to get a list of names of all the people in the particular area I was searching and get no other information. To my surprise, all I had to do was sign up and I actually got free results.

Zabba People Search actually offers background checks, searches by phone number, and search by social security number. Although, these services are not free like the general name search they are very affordable and very useful. This site has everything you would need to do a complete free person search, along with a couple of other options that would allow you to go further into the search for a small cost.

Need to find a person fast and do not want to pay for results? If so click here to get free search results! If you are looking for a site similar to the Acme People Search engine I mentioned earlier Click here!

The Science of Satellite Internet

You may have heard of the third option that is satellite Internet. It is often times seen as a welcome alternative to DSL or cable Internet providers. You may know the basic operation of satellite Internet-namely that an orbiting satellite sends signals to your home computer. However, have you ever really stopped to consider the science of satellite Internet and how this technology is possible?

Satellite Internet does not require a phone connection to work, which makes it available throughout the world, whether you live in a suburban neighborhood close to the city or a rural area in the boondocks. Instead, the satellite company uses a satellite dish for two-way data communications. The two-way communication refers to both upload and download; this is what you do whenever you submit or receive text or graphical information. The upload speed measures about 1/10 of the 500 kbps download speed. The speed of satellite Internet connections are comparable to that of terrestrial Internet and far superior to that of dial up.

Two-way satellite Internet includes some important equipment such as a home satellite dish, which measures about 2'x3', two modems (one for uplink and one for downlink) and coaxial cables that help facilitate communication between dish and modem. Now bear in mind that satellite Internet does require a modem for operation. It's just not the same type of modem configuration that traditional DSL, dial up or cable modems use.

Homeowners or apartment dwellers that hope for optimal performance should give their home satellite dish a clear view of the southern sky, since the satellite in orbit will be located over the equator area. This means that satellite Internet may not be available in some cluttered locations that have lots of greenery and other obstructions. For example, some apartment complexes feature lots of trees and plants to complement their garden theme, and may even have sunken levels of landscaped ground. If a clear view of the southern sky is not available, optimal performance from the satellite Internet connection will be difficult.

Two-way satellite Internet will be operating via Internet Protocol multicasting technology. This refers to a process of communication that allows as many as 5,000 channels to be served at the exact same time by one orbiting satellite. The multicasting unit will send data from one point to the next, and onward simultaneously. This data will be transmitted quickly via compressed format. Why? Compression reduces the size of the data and requires less bandwidth. This type of multicasting is not available with terrestrial Internet providers, since they have bandwidth limitations that prevent this colossal of an achievement.

Bear in mind that this article refers to traditional satellite two-way Internet. There are some satellite services that actually offer a sort of hybrid service, where you use a traditional dial-up or cable modem connection for uploading content to the Internet. In this case, the satellite data downlink operates like a terrestrial link, but the satellite is used for transmitting data to your computer, just as you would operate a satellite-based PPV feature. Most companies offer a two-way connection with no need of a cable or dial up connection.

As America's leading satellite internet service provider, Hughes Net delivers broadband speeds up to 50x faster than dial-up. Hughes Net internet service is available anywhere in the contiguous U.S. and with lease options and free standard installation, getting started is easy and affordable.

Run a Reverse Phone Lookup Free With Yahoo!

Most turn to Google first when they are searching for just about anything, but many of the other search engines can be just as valuable when you want to find out who has been calling you. When that mysterious number seems to want to remain a mystery, there are other places you can look. The search engines all look for and index information differently, and that means that one might have something that the other ones did not find or did not display for you.

You can try a general search of Yahoo! to see what comes up. This can work, and this can also leave you with thousands of results that are impossible to go through. You can try putting the number in quotes, or you can try to have a plus sign between the sections of the phone number with no spaces. You could do "555-555-1234", 555+555+1234, or even just 5555551234 to see if any of those combinations come up with something that looks like it might be a match to the number you have in your hands.

When that is not working, or is turning frustrating, you can try to use the advanced search that Yahoo! has to offer. Here you can be very precise about what you want to come up when you add your information. This can be useful when you are searching for something very specific, and that includes telephone numbers. You may get a hit that ends up telling you who owns a number without having to search much further for more information.

If you are having problems with the advanced search, you may have to think that Yahoo! simply doesn't have the information that you need. You can try the general search again, but you probably won't come up with much. Don't let that frustrate you completely in your search for the origin of a phone number, however. Just remember it was a free and good first step in your quest for information. Yahoo! is a great search engine, but like the others there is some information they just can't find (or it just may not be there to find to begin with).

Steven Cowen writes informative articles about reverse phone traces, phone number lookups, and privacy. You can find more information at his website [http://www.whoownsthisphonenumber.com]

Viral Marketing Tips 101

Viral Marketing Overview

What is viral marketing and how can you use it to build and expand your business?

Viral marketing is a marketing concept designed to market your business, service or product, exponentially, without your involvement, once it's been put in place. One of the earliest viral marketing campaigns on the internet was Hotmail. A pretty successful viral marketing campaign, don't you think? Hotmail's viral marketing campaign was quite simple. They included a little text blurb, with link, at the bottom of every email that was sent from the Hotmail email service that asked people to sign up for their own email account.

Any type of marketing that is designed to encourage people to pass along the message can be considered viral. It's a marketing campaign that grows via word of mouth. Another example that you see used a lot in the internet marketing niche is that of special reports in PDF format or simple software tools that people can use.

Internet marketers even encourage these reports or programs to be passed along by allowing people to "brand" them. In other words, they can include their affiliate links for any product sales that might result from these free viral marketing tools or reports and they will get a commission for each of these sales. Obviously, a monetary incentive like this will motivate people to pass along the software, game, report, etc. to others to check out.

The concept of viral marketing is that if people like the content they will pass it on to their friends and family, whether a cool flash game, funny video, amusing story etc., which one may pass on to another. Included in the viral "product" is information about the company, a specific product, etc., usually with a link to a web site.

Viral marketing has become a popular means of advertising and marketing because it can be a no cost or very low cost way of marketing and when you hit on a winner, like Hotmail, your business can explode almost overnight.

Using Viral Marketing for Your Business

A successful viral marketing campaign will create in instant buzz about your business, not to mention more customers and sales. With a little ingenuity and imagination, plus some incentives or prizes, you can reach out to a great number of people and announce your existence.

All you need is an idea that people would want to pass along to their friends and family.

Gregg Gillies has been running a successful online fitness business for four years as well as mentoring students for over two years on how to build their very own Internet businessess. He teaches the basics such as business planning, niche selection, and setting up a web site, right through to advanced techniques like creating your own products, building your list, and building your own internet empire that creates automatic income. Check out his free report "Learn How To Quickly And Easily Launch Your Own Profit Pulling Online Business ASAP, On A Shoe String Budget… That Runs On Auto-Pilot And Earns You A Six-Figure Income!" at http://www.internetprofitmethod.com

Telephone Reverse Lookup? The Best Method Available to Search Cell Phone Numbers - Check it Out!

Want to find a way to check who has been calling you? In this short article I will give you some information about using a reverse telephone lookup service and give my recommendation on the best one to use.

Now that large numbers of people use cell phones exclusively lots of people receive more calls from mobile phones than they do from home phones. This makes life more convenient for some and poses difficulties for others. It makes it harder to find out who has called. Telecommunications providers don't reveal their customers readily which gives them a sense of privacy, knowing it is somewhat troublesome to trace who called.

There are times that people come across during life where it is imperative to find who has been called or who has been calling. You know some of them. Mysterious numbers on your mates mobile phone. Numbers you find suspicious on your children's mobile phone bill. Harassing or repetitively annoying calls. The list can go on and on.

Fortunately, there are services that provide reverse telephone lookups. It is really simple when you know where to look. You just type in the number in a search box hit search and find out if the information is available. If the database has access to the report you need then you will be directed on how to retrieve it and it only takes a minute.

You no longer have to question who has called your children or spouse , or who they have been talking to. You can find out quickly by using the power of these huge databases. Reverse Phone Detective has one of the largest. Take action so you will know.

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My Third Interview with Jose Caliente

My Third Interview with Jose Caliente by John T. Jones, Ph.D.

Jose Caliente and I met again at the Restaurante Mexicana per usual. I said, "Jose, I think that desperation, confusion, and moronitis have sunk the efficiency of the Congress of the United States of America. The Great Seal of the United States of America creaks whenever a congressman or congress woman walks on it."

Jose said, "There is no such word as moronitis."

I said, "There is jaundice, hepatitis, and now moronitis."

He said, "I know what it means but there is no such word. You can't catch stupidity."

I said, "That's another thing they've got in the Congress, stupiditis."

Jose said, "If you were up culturally, you would not use such words, let alone invent them."

I said, "Jose I've added your new word and my new word to my computer spell-checker dictionary. What I've done, I've done. I'm not much for being socially correct. A lot of the old words that were direct and not confusing have been almost eliminated by the Socially Impaired."

Jose said, "Why don't we go into the restaurant. Maybe you'll cool down."

I said, "That's what the Congress needs to do, COOL DOWN!"

He said, "Let's eat!"

After Jose finished a few beers and his tamales I asked, "How's your new job cleaning the Oval Office?"

"Lost it!"

I was devastated!

My dreams were gone of President Bush accidentally dropping a secret note on the floor or leavening a CIA report on his desk for Jose to pick up and give to me so that I could tell the American people WHAT IS GOING ON!

Jose said, "There was a note left on the President's desk the last night before I got bumped by Mohammad Hussein."

I said, "You got bumped by a Moslem? A Moslem works in the White House?"

Jose said, "Sure! He was hired the day before I was and wanted my job so he bumped me. I clean Vice President Cheney's office now. Same shift."

I said, "Wasn't the President worried about this?"

"About what?"

"About a Moslem cleaning up his office?"

Jose said, "What could he say? The press secretary said that he he looked okay to him."

I gave up. I said, "What about the note?"

Jose handed me the note and this is what it said:

"Daddy, stop taking your self so seriously!

"Stop sleeping in that Commander-in-Chief jacket the military gave you! It gives mama the creeps!

"Stop playing Hail to the Chief over and over again through your Samsung® PO0105 headset when on the treadmill!

"You've got to let up, Daddy, OR--You'll go crazy!"

I said to Jose, "I'm glad the President is at least getting some family support! What about the Congress, Jose? Those knot heads are misusing government! Don't they have an obligation to do what is right for the country?"

Jose said, "You expect too much from the Congress. There is no humility over there so there can be no compromise. You were just hit with that Rx drug plan. You know that they are not only incompetent but that they hate you."

I said, "You found my website and you've been reading my articles, haven't you?"

Jose said, "I though you would be interested in the discarded memo that I found in Cheney's office last night. It was next to the shredder. You catch the check and I'll get it out of my shoe."

I said, "Now, we are getting somewhere!"

In the street Jose gave me the memo. He said, "Don't read it now, IDIOT! Wait until you are in your car."

I was again ecstatic!

A discarded memo that was found in Cheney's office!

It could be about the war.

It could be about the failure of the President's Social Security plan.

It could be about the torture chamber in the White House basement that the President doesn't know about. It could be--

I jumped into my car and read the note. This is what it said:

Gotcha!

The End

copyright©John T. Jones, Ph.D. 2005

John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com), a retired college professor and business executive, Former editor of an international engineering magazine. To learn more about Wealthy Affiliate University go to his info site. If you desire a flagpole to Fly Old Glory, go to the business site.

More info: http://www.InternetBusinessToolCenter.com

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10 Ways to Stop Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, AOL, and EarthLink from Stealing Money from Your Business

How many of you are still using Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, AOL or EarthLink to send email on behalf of your business? How many of you are actually paying both AOL and EarthLink every month to send email to your prospects and current customers? Did you know that every time you send an email using these services you are literally allowing them to take money away from your business? Please don't get me wrong, I too have used and still use some of these services but I never use them for my business. I use my business email address (jeffb@2thenextlevel.com) for communication, correspondence and marketing. The minute I hit "send," not only do I get to put my company name in someone's email box but I also give them a way to get back to my website for additional information on my company--and the possibility of a sale.

Your email address has become a major form of both marketing and branding. So much so that when you send it out to multiple people in the form of an offer you have for your goods or services your company name could be read by millions. So, why would you allow Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, AOL or EarthLink to get all the credit. These email services already have millions upon millions of customers. Yet you have been letting them take precious marketing and branding dollars right out of your pocket. Every time you send that email you're giving them a free marketing opportunity to your prospects and customers. Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, AOL and Earthlink all love it when you decide to start a business and use their email address. It does not matter if you choose a name like mybusinessname@aol.com, you are still giving AOL the ultimate way to market their service.

Ok so now you know what you should not do. Now here are the steps involved in what you should do.

Step 1: Go quickly to a website like proemailaddress.com and register a domain name for your business. If you can't get your exact business name try and get the domain name of what you specialize in: ex. Wesellrestaurants.com, or how your product delivers performance: ex. Thechaindrive.com

Step 2: In doing the search and then registration of a domain name, try your best to get a ".com" name. ".com" is still the most popular and the most recognized. If you cannot get ".com" go for ".net" and last but not least, ".biz".

Step 3: Get an email package that will supply you with at least 5 email addresses to start. Get more if you have more people in your company, but 5 email addresses are enough for most small businesses.

Step 4: The two most important email addresses are yourname@yourbusiness.com and info@yourbusiness.com. yourname@yourbusiness.com should go on every marketing piece you give out. This includes your business card, brochure, letterhead and fax coversheet. Try not to put yourname@yourbusiness.com on your website. Use info@yourbusiness.com for this purpose instead. This info email will be your catch-all email address. This will cut down on the amount of spam you would receive at yourname@yourbusiness.

Step 5: Send a change of email address letter informing all your customers that have been using your old Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, AOL, and EarthLink that you now have a new email address and the old one will no longer be in use. One of the best ways to do this is to use a service like Plaxo.com. Plaxo.com will help you send out the latest information on you and your business via email.

Step 6: Use the auto response or vacation response feature on your old Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, AOL, and EarthLink email to inform those that are still sending email to you that you have changed your email address to yourname@yourbusinessname.com Make sure you inform them that they should now use your new yourname@yourbusinessname.com email from now on and that your old email address will only be checked once a week for the next 30 days.

Step 7: Create a signature line at the end of your new yourname@yourbusinessname.com again informing those who had your Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, AOL, and EarthLink of your new email address and to update their spam filters with the change.

Step 8: If you are having problems in keeping up with your email list and want to send out broadcast emails more efficiently, consider using a third party email distribution service like Constant Contact or Broadcast Email Expert.

Step 9: Use the message on your voicemail to remind those that call you that you now have a new email address and/or website. Give them a choice to leave a message or send an email to your new email address.

Step 10: Finally for those of you who use AOL and EarthLink you may decide to cancel these accounts so you can save money. Since Yahoo, MSN, and Hotmail are free you may decided to keep these accounts--but again you should not use them for business purposes. Keep these email accounts for personal use only, and bring more money to your business by bringing more people to your website using
"yourname@yourbusinessname.com"

Jeffrey Alexander Brathwaite, aka "JB" is an Internet Technology Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Broadcast Email Expert. JB prides himself on helping small to medium size businesses that are frustrated with dealing with the Internet. If you are having problems trying to deal with Email marketing and distribution, Search Engine marketing or just getting your own website off the ground the right way. Please go to our website http://www.2thenextlevel.com

Reverse Email Lookup Services

Though reverse phone lookups have been available on the Internet for some time, there has not always been a way to pair an unknown email address with the person behind it. Anyone can go to a number of online phone number search sites and do a reverse lookup with only a phone number. Reverse email lookup services are less well known, and not as complete as a phonebook, even an online one.

There are many reasons for this. People have been known to create accounts and forget the password, or not use it often, especially if they have multiple email accounts. If this account should be compromised in some way, even if you do find out who the owner is, it may not be the current owner. Another issue is people do not register for email accounts with their full names, or even their real names.

Of course, you could always go to your favorite search engine and type in an email address. You may get lucky and get an accurate hit on someone's Amazon profile, or a name on a blog, but again, if they do not associate their real identity with that email address on those sites, you may not get very far.

Do not be discouraged by this however. Email providers such as Hotmail, Yahoo, Lycos, Gmail, Verizon, and others, often have directories for their users. The user, however, does have the option to not be in the directory, and must usually opt-out to do so. So if the person you are looking for is in the directory, problem solved.

If it is not so easy for you, there are companies and groups who offer premium lookups, not just for email, but for phone, and by name. If all you have is an email address though, they can work with that too. The reason they can find it when you cannot? Data mining. They have taken the time and effort and resources to compile information from public sources, sites that have email information as well as relating information to the email owner including phone number, and sometimes address.

Credible premium services for reverse email lookups will let you type in the email address for free, and give you some kind of information related to the person, at times the city and state of residence, or something to let you know that they have a person they've found that is connected with the address. From there, you can choose to buy a fuller report containing identification of the person, and multiple ways to contact or identify them.

Be wary of any service that asks for money up front without any proof that it can deliver what they promise. Always look for a reverse email lookup service that will let you at least type in the email and get some kind of result before committing to payment.

To get a list of the best reverse e-mail lookup services visit my site at Reverse Email Lookup

Reverse Phone White Pages - The Key to Easy Reverse Phone Number Lookups

How do the reverse phone white pages work? The process is a simple, and requires just a few minutes time. To start your look up you just need to enter the area code and phone number in the search box. Hit the enter key, and you will learn within a few seconds if information is available on your searched phone number.

If the information is available, you will then need to pay a small fee. The nice part about using these reverse white pages is that you are only charged after you know for sure the information you need is available in their database. And, chances are very good that the information will be available because these directories contain close to 99% of all phone numbers. This includes cell phone, unlisted, pager, toll free and business phone numbers.

The companies who advertise free reverse phone white pages are deceiving. These companies are only free because they only have publicly listed phone numbers in the database. This means that unless the number you are searching belongs to a public landline phone carrier; you will be out of luck. With so many millions of people using cell phones and unlisted numbers these days, it is rare to calls that are found in a public, free directory. It is always an option to start your search with the free directories. If you don't find what you need, you can then move on to the reliable reverse lookup phone number directories that will charge a small fee for access to their expansive databases and second-to-none customer service.

This is my #1 Recommended Reverse Phone White Pages Directory. It offers outstanding quality and utility and should satisfy all of your needs. Click Here to get started.

The Perfect Revenge For Prank Phone Callers

Your cell phone rings. You answer: "Hello, how are you doin'?"

The other line speaks up: "Is this Dana Marshall?"

You say, "Oh yes, that's me. May I know your name, please? And how may I help you."

Other line: "No need to know my name. I just really wanted to make fun of you...."

I'd bet a thousand bucks that this ranks among the top problems of cell phone users these days. What is this problem called? It is called PRANK CALLERS.

All right, getting rid of a prank caller can be pretty easy - at least, for the moment. All you have to do when a prank caller contacts you is to simply hit on the "End Call" button. Or, if the fellow is really insistent, then you just switch off your cell phone. That may sound pretty simple, but is solving the problem of prank callers really just as easy as that? When can a prank caller really pose problems for the cell phone user? And, what is the most effective way to get this over with?

When Prank Callers Can Be A Real Problem

Before proceeding to this talk on prank callers, here is one piece of advice I think I ought to give to those who commonly encounter this problem: since it's called a prank call, just treat it just as you would any prank (otherwise known as practical jokes) - with laughter.

Now, here's the question: what if this happens practically every minute of everyday, and it's hindering you from getting about your duties or it's simply taking out the fun out of your life? Well, if that is so, here are your options:

• Report it to the authorities. This may require you to submit papers, go to court hearings, and help out in the investigation. The glitch: aside from the fact that it may be costly it's also pretty much a hassle, especially if your days are always full.


• Ask your friends, family, or co-workers if they know anyone who uses the number of that prank caller. The question: so, what if your legitimate contacts don't know? Do you go to a radio station and ask listeners who own that number?


• Make use of reverse phone scan or phone lookup technologies. This is something that requires you to just prop in front of a computer with Internet connection, log on to a reverse phone scan site, and look up the mobile phone number in question.

The Best Deal: Enroll In A Reverse Phone Scan Membership Site

When you log on to websites such as the Reverse Phone Detective or the Reverse Records Lookup sites, you are enabled to do the following:

• Point out who the prank caller is


• Check where the prank caller is located


• Get to know if he is actually just a friend who, indeed, "just want to have fun"

It's just easy. All you have to do is sign up for an account with this site, and you get access to all of these features. It works not just for those who encounter prank callers, but for those people who have other uses for cell phone numbers as well.

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Tips For Sending Online Text Messages

These days we are getting more and more dependent on our cell phones and sending text messages to each other and the trend is likely to continue. With all the benefits that comes with sending text messages people like you and me are not likely to stop doing anything that help us in our every day life.

When popularity grows more and more services are coming available on the market and often these new services help us improve our life and time management even further. One of these new services includes the ability for you to send text sms messages online and from your computer.

The process of sending a text message online can be done through the social networking site Facebook. People are always using their cell phones in order to surf their Facebook pages. The person you are sending the message to has to have an SMS gateway carrier server. Hotmail, vtext and Sprint all have SMS messaging address to which you can send a text message. If you do not get the address correct, you will be wasting your time so make sure you save your message as often as possible.

There are also free websites out there such as txt2day.com in order to get access of online text messaging whether you are talking about the rural portions of Kentucky or the rural portions of California for example.

Nextel, U.S. Cellular and Alltel are companies who have all jumped on the bandwagon and have set up free systems which you can use for online text messages. Given that so many phone companies already have this option the amount of access to the online texting option within North America has been expanded. In order to make sure people know enough about this technology and the promise it holds, we need to keep people like Mark Warner in Congress because he was one of the early founders of Nextel who really understands where the technology of the mobile phone is going.

It is important that you understand the word limits involved with the texting process and the rules that have been set out by your particular phone company. The process of sending a text message online is very similar to sending a general e-mail, once you have your message typed up and on the correct server you can then hit the send button.

Are you one of those that jump on trends like sending online messages early or are you one of those that usually wait a bit longer until you try new things. When it comes to sending txt messages online from your computer there really is not any reason why you should wait any longer before you try it. The ability to use this technology will have a positive impact on your life.

When you get used to text messages you will not be able to live without them. Take action now and read these free tips on how you can send text messages online and improve your life with cell phone text messages.

What is Email Lookup?

Email is still rising in popularity and has become the standard way of communicating with the people. It's an easy way to share information like document files in the intra office business communication. With this trend, it's not a surprise that lookup of email is gaining popularity. Most people go for email address search than researching for an email address. They think that this is a time consuming process.

Email lookup is not the same as email search and it's a time saving process. Using the email search engines and social websites, people search for email address. It may fetch you good results in some cases whereas in some cases it bends you a lot. You may be irritated in finding out your best friends email ID. Nowadays people maintain privacy to their mail address and don't like them to be listed in search sites. In such cases researching through email lookup is a helping hand.

The email provider maintains several databases to store enormous information about millions of people. When searching for an email ID, the search engines searches for these available information in the databases. This is a heavy burden for search sites. The reverse email lookup can actually be incredibly fast and easy where in a single database all the information is maintained. Instead of spending hours in searching for your beloved friends and sweet hearts you can gather their email address in just matter of moments. While you may result in a hit or miss in search engines or social sites, the email lookup will give good results for you. Thus email address search have been made easier through email lookup.

For more information go to, Email Finder.

Letterman Trashes Lindsay Lohan

It's important for great writers (and hack writers like me) to know what is going on in the world. To do that I sometimes check the popularity of keywords on the Internet.

The first thing you learn when you are looking at the popularity of keywords is this: Internet users are in two major groups, teenagers and sex-fiend morons.

Some experts say that these are not subgroups but one group, teenage-sex-fiend morons.

I disagree with that. How would I separate my grandkids from the sex-fiend morons?

Kids love music. I saw a kid the other day lying on the grass at our town park. He was sound asleep but his radio was blurting out what kids in our town call music. He had a little sign around his neck. It was hanging from a gold chain and was beautifully engraved in mahogany. The sign said, "I Love Lindsay Lohan."

The son was out but at this time of the year the ground is pretty cold. There was a large slab of cardboard by the swimming pool. I dragged it to where he was snoozing, and with a little shifting and grunting, I got him on the cardboard. To my surprise he said, "Thanks Mister!" Then he went back to sleep.

I decided that I would check on this Lindsay Lohan. After all, she was near the top of the keyword list. She is even above Pamela Anderson, a perpetual keyword list-hog.

At this point I would like to digress and write about Pamela. However, a writer must take control of himself, so I'll resist that urge.

I had never heard of Lindsay Lohan. She probably passed right by me as I snoozed in front of the television set. I decided to do what I always do when I need extremely important knowledge. I placed the name in the search box provided by my friend Mr. Google®. Up popped some sites!

I went to the Official Site. I wanted first-hand information.

The official site is: http://www.llrocks.com. There was a lovely shot of Lindsay Lohan. Her blue eyes and auburn hair would put any teenage boy into a twigajam (if not that, her cleavage). A twigajam is what teenage boys get into when they are very excited. You can add "twigajam" to your dictionary too.

At the official site I learned that Lindsay Lohan was not a goddess that popped out of a cherry blossom. She was born like everybody else. In fact she was born in New York City to showbiz parents just in time to get on the Dave Letterman Show.

Her mother was a Radio City Music Hall Rockette.

Her father is what you call a financier.

She has siblings too, so she is definably human.

Like many of our divas, she was a model, a cute little redhead. She acted too, a childhood prodigy. That's about what it says at her official site.

I learned at this point in her biography that I must have seen her many times on television.

She starred in Jell-O® ads with Bill Crosby, Incorporated.

That's when she hit the big time. She played "GARBAGE" on the Dave Letterman Show. (The site hints that is why within weeks, Letterman left NBC for CBS. Maybe Lindsay's dad had some financial interest in NBC. You never know!)

Anyway, Lindsay was so good at playing D-train garbage that she soon had many acting roles.

In September, 2002, Lindsay fulfilled her dream to be a singer.

That's what she does now.

And we have to give David Letterman some credit!

copyright©John T. Jones, Ph.D. 2005

John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com), a retired college professor and business executive, Former editor of an international engineering magazine. To learn more about Wealthy Affiliate University go to his info site. If you desire a flagpole to Fly Old Glory, go to the business site.

More info: http://www.InternetBusinessToolCenter.com

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Computer Skills Checklist

Our local computer club is back in session this fall and we have an eager group of new participants. Sometimes when you are learning to use the computer, you aren't sure what there is to know. In fact, you may not want or need to learn everything. I like to hand out a computer skills checklist that I've created. Then people can pick and choose which of the things on the list they are interested in pursuing. I thought you might like to use the checklist as well, so I've included it below.

General Computer Info:
* Know the parts of a computer
* Know what to look for in a new computer
* Check your system's specs, see how much room is left on your hard drive
* Turn the computer off and on
* Change views
* Changing power options, such as standby and hibernate
* Know how to install and remove software
* Know how to add a hardware device, such as a printer or camera
* Know what peripherals are
* Safely remove an external device, such as a flash drive
* Copy data or pictures to a flash drive
* Create a shortcut icon on the desktop
* Arrange desktop icons
* Create a folder
* Change the name of a folder or file
* Empty or retrieve from the recycle bin
* Burn a cd or dvd
* Use virus protection
* Change the background
* Change the screensaver, even use your own photo
* Manipulate windows: minimize, maximize, close, drag, resize
* Find a file
* Do a backup to a cd or external hard drive
* Perform a defrag
* Update windows

The Mouse:
* Mouse controls: left click, right click, scroll, drag
* Change mouse options
* Play solitaire to practice mouse movements

Accessories:
* Use the calculator
* Set the clock
* Use the help files
* Use Wordpad and Notepad
* Type capital letters
* Type numbers
* When to use notepad instead of Word
* Use the paint program
* Chat on Messenger, send a file, even play a game
* Use Moviemaker

Word:
* Know what Word Wrap is and when to hit enter instead
* Select text by dragging or clicking
* Copy text
* Delete text
* Use undo and redo
* Use shortcuts such as control C and control V
* Align left, right, or center
* Change font type and size
* Change font colour
* Type special characters such as copyright symbol
* Use bold, italics, and underline
* Use numbering and bullets
* Insert date
* Indent
* Change line spacing
* Create a letterhead
* Use Wordart function
* Add columns
* Insert a table
* Use the paint brush tool
* Use spelling and grammar check
* Insert pictures and move them over
* Wrap text around graphics
* Use print preview
* Change margins
* Using Save and Save As
* Create a database and sort files alphabetically
* Create a newsletter
* Create address labels
* Perform a mail merge
* Create a flyer or greeting card
* Print your work: all of it or just specific pages
* Email from Word
* Add a signature to the Word email

Email:
* Create and send an email
* Use the Drafts folder
* Use CC and BCC
* Don't shout
* Add a signature
* Receive an email and read it
* Reply and reply all, when to use each
* Forward an email
* Request a read receipt
* Save email on your computer as a text file, save photo attachments
* Virus scan an attachment and then open it
* Add an email address to your accounts in Outlook Express
* Create folders to organize received emails
* Send an email with an attachment
* Send an email to a group (first create the group)
* Set your email options, such as empty deleted items
* Block senders
* Add new contacts
* Add senders to your address book
* Create a webmail account, such as hotmail or gmail

Internet:
* Get onto the Internet
* Know what a URL is and the different extensions, such as.com
* Use hyperlinks
* Go back to a website
* Save or print an image from a webpage using Google Images
* Switch between Internet windows
* Bookmark favourite sites
* Shop online
* Play games online
* Do research online
* Bank online
* Read a PDF file, save it
* Find driving directions to a specific location
* Listen to a podcast
* Watch a youtube video
* Upload your own youtube video
* Shop or browse on ebay (even sell)
* Know what a blog is
* Create a free blog
* Create a simple free website
* Have a Skype conversation
* Upload songs from your computer to an mp3 player

Photos and Graphics:
* Connect a digital camera and download photos to computer
* Manipulate pictures and photos
* Select more than one photo at a time, using either the Shift or Control key (when to use which)
* Rename images

Which of the above list are you interested in learning? What have I missed?

Join Carol Bremner, a computer loving member of the gray generation. Her websites, http://www.creativehomecomputing.com and http://www.motivatedtolearn.com promote computer literacy for the over 50 crowd.

Is Microsoft's Kinect Strategy a Bit of a Hit Or a Bit of a Miss?

The Video games market is currently expanding into many different segments thanks to the Nintendo Wii, no longer is gaming targeted towards the 13-40 Male consumer. There is the 60+ elderly market who love to get active by playing Wii bowling or the 30-50 range that are losing weight by using Nintendo Peripheral's such as Wii fit. Both Sony and Microsoft must applaud Nintendo for expanding a previously narrow market.

With Nintendo monopolising these market segments Microsoft and Sony have been quick to react. Microsoft is introducing a camera that can track your body movements without the need to hold anything in your hand whilst Sony are going down a similar path to Nintendo by offering motion controllers. So what's the deal with 'Kinect'? Who is it targeted at? And how on earth will they provide competition to the extremely popular Nintendo Wii? This article will aim to answer these questions.

There is no doubt that Microsoft are after the casual market. This newly developed market has massive potential and is worth millions to Microsoft. Microsoft revealed the Kinect brand at E3 this year and for the first time ever it was broadcast in Times Square for everyone to see. Furthermore, they commissioned a show by the exquisite Cirque du Soleil to show of Kinect which was also broadcasted on MTV. These communication channels are not commonly used in the video game industry to show of new hardware. By broadcasting their E3 press conference live via time square it indicates that they want Kinect to entice the casual gamer into the Xbox experience.

However, is this right group to target? The marketing manager of Xbox recently said "I think we know that hardcore gamers will be the first to go out and buy it, as they are with any product". This statement underlines their intentions to push Kinect onto the hardcore gamer but the thing is none of the software for Kinect will appeal to them. Casual games such as Kinect sports or Kinectimals will never a system seller for the hardcore gamer. In fact until Microsoft release a Kinect game that the hardcore can get excited about then the chances are they will hold of the purchase. Microsoft built its brand on offering a hardcore experience and it might be unwise to neglect them.

The pricing of Kinect has become a hot talking point in recent weeks. Although not confirmed it has been widely regarded that the price of Kinect will be around $150. Compared to the Nintendo Wii ($180) the value of Kinect could seem very poor. Why would the consumer who currently own a Nintendo Wii depart with a significant amount of money to purchase a peripheral that is essential a very similar product? Microsoft needs to create a value proposition that warrants the $150 price tag and controller free gaming could be the answer. The unique selling point of Kinect is the fact that they offer a way of interacting with a game without the need to hold anything in your hands, this is something Nintendo Wii and playstation move don't offer. Microsoft must therefore highlight this advantage when advertising this piece of hardware.

In fact by looking at Microsoft's marketing strategy you could see why they are charging $150. They have to penetrate the market and get the casual market to take notice of this new product. Microsoft have already spent a huge amount on marketing Kinect through the Cirque du Soleil show and by displaying Kinect in various Macy stores. Make no doubt about it they paid through the nose to do so. Marketing of Kinect is set to increase as they creep towards the release date and therefore costs will increase. Microsoft will aim to recuperate this cost and therefore will set the price as high as $150 however it is doubtful that they will make a profit on every unit sold as according to 'Develop' it is costing Microsoft $150 to manufacture the Kinect camera.

The casual market is here to stay and its going to grow and grow. Microsoft are entering a market in which they are determined to gain significant market share, they are in this for the long term. Kinect is just the beginning for Microsoft. It is expected to be bundled with the Xbox slim when it launches in order for Microsoft to get Kinect into homes across the world. Microsoft will initially want to focus on market share rather than profit so expect Kinect's price to decrease and decrease quickly. Kinect or maybe an upgraded version will be bundled into the next generation of Xbox console because this will force the consumer to use it.

Consumers are more likely to see the value of Kinect and therefore use it if it becomes bundled in with the console rather than just on its own. Microsoft have a massive opportunity with Kinect and if sales are slow in the first year don't expect Microsoft to drop Kinect. It is here to stay and if they do it right it could become a huge success just like the Nintendo Wii. Microsoft's core customer is the hardcore gamer and they should not ignore them. Nintendo have currently realised their mistake of neglecting their hardcore consumer and rectified the issue by announcing numerous hardcore friendly titles. If Microsoft can maintain that balance then they could satisfy the hardcore whilst becoming a big player in the lucrative casual market.

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That Which is Not

At a time when 700 people are applying for one janitorial position; or where over a thousand people show up to apply for 35 fire fighter positions; where people are losing their jobs, homes, retirements and minds; or where used-to-be billionaires are now millionaires, to say that times are tough or that we are in a recession (a global recession), will be an understatement.

So, we can lose it all in a moment. This is why we can not trust in riches, which the Bible rightfully calls, 'uncertain.

In fact, there's no better time to glorify God than in tough times. When people can see you go through difficult times, while demonstrating the abounding and unfathomable peace of God and His unspeakable joy. This is why Apostle Paul said that he had learned in whatever state or condition he found himself to be content; and because he was content, he could do all things through Christ, whether full or hungry, rich or poor (Philippians 4:11-13).

While it sounds good to be recession-proof, it is not biblical. By the way, you don't have to be recession-proof to be who God called you to be or do what He told you to do. So, for a preacher to talk about being recession proof is hogwash! It's just another scam to rid people of whatever money they have left. I mean, even the preacher talking about being recession proof, I believe, has been affected by the recession, especially as it relates to giving, since some of his members or viewers have lost their jobs, and as such don't have tithes, offerings or donations to give to his ministry. This is why he wants the little money you have left, to make up for lost donations.

Speaking of giving...the other day, I was flipping through the channels and came upon Daystar Television Network's 2009 Spring Share-a-Thon (indeed, it is a share-a-ton!), and heard Joni and Marcus Lamb (the founders of Daystar), along with Mike Murdock, asking the viewers to pledge $58 for 12 months. Why $58? So that the people may receive, wait for this, the 58 blessings of the Bible! Huh? Are you kidding me?

Now you tell me, how does giving $58 dollars for 12 months give someone the 58 blessings of the Bible? As if the American dollar is the currency of heaven! Is that how to interpret the Bible? $58 for 58 blessings!

Yet, you had people calling in to pledge $58 for 12 months. If only these people could just stop and ask, "Why American dollars and not some other currency, especially those weak currencies of the world, like the Indian Rupee, the Nigerian Naira, the Ghanaian Cedi, the Russian Rouble, or even the Japanese Yen, etc.?" Since they claim to broadcast around the world. I mean, I get the 58 part, because I want the 58 blessings, but why dollars? Why can't I send you 58 Naira, 58 Rupees, 58 Roubles, etc.?

Perhaps like me, you are wondering if there are 58 blessings in the Bible. Let me say, upfront, "Negative!" There is no such thing as 58 blessings in the Bible. That was a scam someone (Mike Murdock) concocted to rid you of your money. How do I know? I researched it. Like you, I wanted to know.

Since there is no such thing as 58 blessings in the Bible, out of curiosity I decided to do some more digging to find out what the 58 blessings are as touted by Mike Murdock and his disciples. I found an e-book, titled, The Blessing Bible, authored by, you guessed who, Mike Murdock! I didn't buy the e-book, because I had better things to do with my money, than make a spiritual con-artist richer. But I found this website,

Needless to say, most of the so-called verses had nothing to do with blessings. And some of those that did could not be applied to us, because God was not talking to us. Rather, most of the verses are scriptures taken totally out of context just to come up with a money-making scheme. The verses ranged from the ridiculous to the misused. To give you an idea, here are some of the ridiculous scriptures for the 58 blessings of the Bible:

I was glad when they said to me,

"Let us go into the house of the LORD." - Psalm 122:1

As for the Almighty, we cannot find Him;

He is excellent in power,

In judgment and abundant justice;

He does not oppress. - Job 37:23

Your mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens;

Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. - Psalm 36:5

To further prove that this $58 for 58 blessings thing is all a scam taken from the same playbook of prosperity preachers, I wrote in another article about Paula White's TBN telethon appearance, a few years ago. In the article titled:

For instance, just recently, Paula White at a TBN telethon, read Psalm 66:12, to ask the viewers to call in to pledge $66.12 for the next 12 months to help support TBN, so that they can get the blessing of Psalm 66:12! My goodness! How do these people come up with these scams? Ah! How are they able to sleep at night? Don't they have a conscience?

By the way, just in case you are wondering what Psalm 66:12 says...it says

You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; but You brought us out to rich fulfillment

I don't know if you noticed the similarity between the amounts TBN asked its viewers to pledge for 12 months, few years ago, and how much Daystar, is asking its viewers to pledge this year -- $66.12 for 12 months and $58 for 12 months respectively. If you noticed, it's somewhere in the $50-$70 range; something that seems affordable to a lot of people. But when spread out in a year, it's in the $700-$800 range. Pretty slick, won't you say!

But while all these so-called preachers are searching the scriptures looking for scriptures to manipulate, wondering what their next scam would be, they ignore such scriptures where Jesus said, "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal..." (Matthew 6:19) Why? Because both the earth and the treasures you store in it will not only corrupt but pass away. Or where Apostle Paul admonished us saying, "If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth." (Colossians 3:1-2) Why? Because the things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal (2 Corinthians 4:18).

Anyway, while I may not be able to convince these false preachers to desist from their wicked and evil ways, at least I should be able to warn you of their exploits. But more importantly to remind you not to set your eyes on that which is not.

Remember...

For riches [are] not forever, nor does a crown [endure] to all generations.

-- Proverbs 27:24

As he came from his mother's womb, naked shall he return, to go as he came; and he shall take nothing from his labor which he may carry away in his hand. And this also [is] a severe evil-- Just exactly as he came, so shall he go. And what profit has he who has labored for the wind? -- Ecclesiastes 5:15-16

As the Psalmist says:

It is better to trust in the LORD

Than to put confidence in man.

It is better to trust in the LORD

Than to put confidence in princes. -- Psalm 118:8-9

Why not put all your trust in Him today?

Selling anointing oils, with a list of the scriptures with the 58 blessings of the Bible. Actually, the website has an anointing oil called, "HIS 58 Covenant Blessings Anointing Oil!" Go figure!Does It Take Money to Spread the Gospel? I noted how Ms. White misused scriptures to raise money. Here is an excerpt from the article:

And even if there were 58 blessings in the Bible, do you think that you could buy God's blessings simply by just sending $58?

In fact, according to news reports, financial markets around the world lost a whopping $50 trillion, in 2008 alone! $50 trillion in one year! That is, trillion with a 'T!' That is money that just vanished, evaporated literally from people's investments, retirements, etc.! Just gone, perhaps, with the wind!

"This is by far the most serious crisis to hit the world economy since the Great Depression. While this crisis originated in the USA and some European countries, by now no region or country is insulated. I am afraid things may get worse before they get better," Asian Development Bank (ADB) president, Haruhiko Kuroda said.

But such confounding news about the global economy, while staggering, only brings to mind, the age-old truth of God's Word, especially concerning riches or wealth.

God, in His Word, through the wisest and richest man that ever lived, King Solomon, said:

Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away like an eagle toward heaven. -- Proverbs 23:5

When Solomon, in the verse above, referred to riches as 'that which is not,' he was referring to riches as 'that which barely exists;' or 'that which is fleeting;' or 'that which soon dissipates' or 'that which is not dependable;' or 'that which is here today, but gone tomorrow;' or 'that which literally disappears in thin air,' etc. So if riches barely exist, why be surprised when they vanish? Riches are like illusions -- now you see, now you don't.

To us Christians, the grim global economic news is not surprising to us, at least it should not be. Yes, it may not be like anything many of us have seen or experienced before in our lifetime. Yet, the Bible always told us about money, and what our attitudes should be towards it.

Therefore, more than anything, the current economic crisis, while on one hand, confirms what we've always known about the Bible, as the true and immutable Word of God, on another hand, it should remind us and convince us why we ought not to trust in uncertain riches. And it's very easy to trust in riches, even when we think or say that we are trusting in the Lord.

We all have the tendency to trust in riches, especially when we think that it is safe. Whatever safe means. But when you think about it there are no safe riches. And certainly no safe investments! Really! Not CDs, not bonds, not savings, not gold, or even stuffing money under the mattress! That's why Apostle Paul told Timothy:

Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

-- 1 Timothy 6:17

Yet, we all go to bed at night thinking that our money is where we think it is. But is it really? For all we know, it could be in someone else's personal bank account, while we think it is working and earning interest for us. After all, all we go by is some monthly paper or electronic statement. But we all know how that goes, thanks to Bernie Madoff. He was sending his clients falsified statements, while he was diverting their money elsewhere. By the way, just in case you don't know, Bernie Madoff is an investment manager who pleaded guilty of swindling his clients of over $50 billion.

Now, the question that begs asking is this, "If the Bible says that wealth is 'that which is not,' or 'uncertain,' why then are so many so-called preachers spending an inordinate amount of time preaching about prosperity? Why are so many preachers encouraging their members to keep grabbing more and more of that which is not?" "Why are we Christians so fixated on it?" Why, like Solomon put it in another proverb, are we laboring for the wind? (Ecclesiastes 5:16)

So, another thing this whole economic crisis has done is burst the prosperity bubble - pop! It let the air out of all the naming and claiming, blabbing and grabbing mess going on in many churches today.

But then, just when you wonder, "What are they going to preach now?" Like the great spiritual scam artists these preachers are they always come up with something, some slogan or catchy phrase to keep their victims captive.

My wife told me that, while flipping channels, she heard a preacher on TV talking about being recession proof. Yes, that's the new buzz phrase. Well, maybe not a new phrase, since this is not the first recession. But it's becoming popular again. To which I ask, "How can anybody be recession proof?" You'd have to be dead to be recession proof! Even if you've not lost money in the Market or lost your job, some way, somehow you have been affected directly or indirectly by the recession.

Just because you haven't lost your job, retirement or investment doesn't make you recession-proof. It just means that it hasn't affected you yet. If the recession lingers, chances are, it will affect you. And if it doesn't affect you, that doesn't mean that you have some special favor with God or that determines your high level of spirituality. Because whether you have or don't have you are still His. God does not only get glory when we have, but especially when we don't have.

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Find Out Who a Email Address Belongs to - You Can Quickly Get a Spammers Name and Address

Spam is an everyday occurrence for people who have email. You do not even have to open them up anymore to recognize that they are spam. They fill up your email so fast that it becomes irritating and annoying. Some emails you receive are from friends and family, but you must wade through the spam to find them. If you want to find out who a spammers email address belongs to then you then your will want to use a tool called the reverse email lookup.

Someone may be harassing you by phone and there are sites to find out who the name is behind the number. Just like these, there are sites that you can use to find out just who the email address belongs to. The worst kind of emails are the ones that are threatening and scary.

Maybe they are posting things online about you using their email address that are not very nice. It comes to the point that you must find out who this is that is stalking you and making your life a living hell. Doing a reverse search on the email can change all of that. Even if you cannot find much information on them, you can at least get their IP address from the header of the email.

On the other hand, using a reverse email lookup is much faster. Once you are on the site, all you have to do is put the email in the box they have provided. Hit search and within seconds, you will most likely get the first and last name of the person behind the email, the IP address, home address and the service provider.

This service is a easy way to track down who that annoying email address belongs to. Also if you are going to attempt to press charges against them, this a wealth of information to give to the police. Spamming has become a federal offense.

After checking to see who an email address belongs to with a couple different services here is my #1 recommended site for reverse email lookups. With this service you now have the means to find out who owns the email address your not sure of by Clicking Here

Is Spyware Threat Real?

Do you know that emails you get from unknown senders are treated as SPAM after running them through a SPAM control filter?

This filter can be in real time, this means it scans every email before forwarding it to the email client. The others are offline SPAM filters which are built-in the email clients like MS Outlook, Eudora or any other reliable program.

Have you ever thought why so many emails have started to drop in your mailbox from peoples you never met before? More and more people started pushing emails containing information about their products. This boomed up so much that the service providers like Hotmail, Yahoo , AOL, Google etc are still struggling to get rid or reduce the amount of SPAM entering a user inbox.

The same pattern is followed by the hackers. They introduce some kind of malicious code into an email and will push it across the internet to several emailing hosts which would later spread the same mail to almost every user's mailbox. Such emails are presented in an attractive way so that the user opens it on his/her computer and the malicious code triggers a reaction. Basically, you would send your personal/private information to the hacker.

Another way of hacking into inbox is via Spyware, which is done by installing a program on the user's machine without its own wish and starting to show up advertisements.

SpyNoMore protects your computer either at home or at work. The software does not take more than a minutes to install and has a very user friendly interface where you can configure it to record browsed websites. You can protect confidential content from any forms of adware, spyware, Trojans or key loggers.

SpyNoMore also protects your data from dangerous key loggers which can read your key hits and store them in a text file which would later be sent over to the hacker. Trojans are another form of data eaters which would act more like a key logger but at the same times can be programmed to trigger its effects at a schedule interval.

Trojans are very hard to detect and are the most dangerous threats to the users. No one can avoid to be hit by attackers, but with SpyNoMore you are protected as it would detect and block all attempts made to sneak to your computer.
SpyNoMore guards your identity and brings back your computer original performance. It represents a smart, intelligent and powerful spyware protection solution.

Ted Peterson writes for CoreDownload, a shareware archive where you can find utilities like SpyNoMore that will help you fight spyware.

What Are the Features of a Good Registry Cleaner Program?

Originally Microsoft used to supply in-built registry cleaners along with their computers. Regedit is the original software that was provided along with the Microsoft PC in the older versions. But this feature has been deleted in the versions after Windows 98. Though Microsoft provided tips and tools to edit your registry manually, much expertise was required to perform the task. So it is advisable to have a good registry cleaner software which will automatically perform the task.

If you go through the internet, you will hit upon a number of registry cleaner programs available in the market. These programs have improved a lot over the times and new and better versions keep coming into the market. So, before choosing a the software for your computer, you must ensure that it is the most efficient one for the version of Windows on your computer. You can do this by going through the reviews and discussion forums that deal with the topic.

Some of the main features that a good cleaner program must have are the following:

1.Startup Manager: This is a feature of a good registry cleaner program that handles the easy launching of the applications at the system start up. It also monitors and checks for the usability of the applications.

2.History Cleaner: This is another feature of a good registry cleaner program that deletes all entries related to your internet operations.

3.System Optimizer: This is yet another feature of a good registry cleaner that ensures the efficient optimization of Windows through the use of IE restorer and the memory tweaker.

4.Installer/Uninstaller Manager: This is a feature of a good registry cleaner program that ensures the efficient installing or un-installing of application on the system.

5.Redundant and Junk File Manager: This is a feature of a good registry cleaner that is responsible for the scanning and cleaning up of redundant and junk files and folders on your system.

6.Block Active X: This is a feature of a good registry cleaner that helps to manage the Active X control on your Windows. This feature blocks malicious controls from being installed on your computer.

7.Error Utilities: This is a feature of a good registry cleaner which helps to safeguard your system from freezing or crashing. It also helps to fix blue screen problems. It scans and detects Window system errors and also fixes those problems.

In short, a good registry cleaner program should be able to detect corrupt software installations and un-installations logs, outdated drivers, obsolete start up applications, changed or damaged hardware updates and redundant files left out by spyware or virus programs. Thus, a good registry cleaner will help in the efficient functioning of your computer.

Richard A. Woods is a Senior Computer Programmer and Analyst for the last 18 years. Find out which is the Best Registry Cleaner to get your computer working at top speed!

Different Types of International Email Scams

Sadly, email scams are quite common and falling victim to this fraud is a lot easier than most people think. Many of us like to believe that we are "smart" enough to detect false schemes, but sometimes it can be difficult to see through them. Therefore, the best way to protect yourself is to learn about the popular cons so you can detect them and either ignore or report them.

The following are diverse types of international emailing scams you need to watch out for...

Business opportunity - This type of deception usually promises significant income in exchange for non-time-consuming tasks and minimal money. In many cases this is just a disguised pyramid scheme.

Work-from-home - The opportunity to earn money without ever having to leave your home. Common jobs offered include craft assembly and stuffing envelopes. All you need to do is pay a small fee for the kit you need and you're all set. Reality - the item paid for either never arrives or the work you do will never meet the standards of the "employer".

Get something for free - A free item is offered and all one needs to do to claim it is sign up for a paid membership. Once they become a member they find that they don't qualify for the gratis gift until they can get others to join.

Credit repair scamming - This particular fraud targets people with bad credit ratings. They are promised that for an upfront fee their poor credit record will be wiped clean.

Other schemes also include, but are not limited to: chain letters, investment opportunities, guaranteed credit or loans on easy terms, etc.

Essentially, if you receive an e-mail from someone you don't know and it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Therefore, the best thing you can do is ignore these messages and delete them from your inbox without giving them a second thought. However, if you are receiving a lot of these scams, especially the same one over and over again, you may feel inclined to do more than hit the delete button and block the sender.

If you ever get this inclination, you should try finding out who is behind these vile schemes by looking up their electronic address in a free email search directory. With this investigation you may be able to find out who they are and other facts of interest.

How to Uninstall and Remove iTunes Completely From Your Computer?

Is iTunes not the right fit for you now since various similar music media are out there? Are you going nuts trying to uninstall iTunes these days? Are you driven mad when you fail to remove all the traces of the annoying software which prevent you to install the one you prefer? Anyway, it happened to me before when I used Apple. I am not sure how many means you have applied hoping to delete it. Here I just want to share with you my painstaking experience on how can I finally completely get rid of it with great satisfaction. Let's go!

Frequently used and the easiest method to uninstall iTunes

Like others who are not computer educated, I firstly tried the Control Panel on the PC to remove the application. Please follow the steps:

1. Quit iTunes.
2. Click Start, and hit Control Panel.
3. Find out Add/Remove Programs applet.
4. Click the Change or Remove Programs button on the top of the left list.
5. Scroll down the list and highlight this software, then click Remove to uninstall.
6. Restart your computer after this removal is finished.

After doing all these, I naively thought that I have finished the task and next I could install the one I like. Guess what? I got pop-ups telling me that it is not allowed to install the software because of some errors. Later, I knew the leftovers are the cause. Then let's continue.

How to remove iTunes from Mac OS X?

1. Quit all the programs you are running.
2. In the Finder, Click Go and then Applications.
3. Locate iTunes and drag it to the Trash.
4. Click Go-Utilities. (If Utilities is not available under Go, please choose Go-Go to Folder, and then type in / Applications/ Utilities/, then click Go)
5. Open Activity Monitor.
6. Locate and select iTunes Helper. Click Quit Process. Hit Quit when the dialog box comes up.
7. Quit Activity Monitor.
8. Open System Preferences.
9. Click View-Accounts and hit Login Items.
10. Search for iTunes Helper entry and select it, then click the "-" button to delete it from the list.
11. Quit System Preferences.
12. From the Finder, choose go-go to Folder.
13. Find out "/System/Library/Extensions" and then click Go.
14. Locate the file AppleMobileDevice.kext and drag it to the Trash.
15. Choose Go-Go to Folder.
16. Enter "Library/Receipts/" and then click Go.
17. Locate the file AppleMobileDeviceSupport.pkg and drag it to the Trash.
18. Empty the Trash. ITunes should be fully removed from your PC now.

The same as the time before, I thought it should be perfect after following those instructions, but again I was wrong. There are still some registries and useless files and profiles left. What the hell is going on with the program? Is it very complex for you? Want any ways easily to uninstall iTunes? Follow me!

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