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Almost all of us are addicted to the mobile phones these days. Mobile phones have become a part of our lives and we feel uncomfortable in any case if we forget to take them with us. Actually they have made a sub culture as I feel. With the rapid evolution of the mobile phones, we are having mobiles with sophisticated snap and video compatible cameras and internet access. In the technology perspective, they are very good. But my personal opinion is that these camera phones are affecting our personal lives in a great way. Please note that this is my personal opinion and I will explain it in this post. You are warmly welcome to discuss this.

I have seen many images and videos taken from mobile phones on the internet. Some of them are very interesting and fascinating. But most of them are filled with pornographically fabricated material. Truly speaking, most of them are porn videos of women and girls. Some of them might have known about that their videos and photos are distributed in the internet and some might not. Most of them will be embarrassed after knowing this and they will find it difficult to live in their society. The saddest thing is that most of them trust the person who captured those videos or pictures. But those capturing people sell them on the internet.

It is very hard to express all my ideas on this topic as I live in a different society and follow a different culture compared to the most western countries. These things are normal in those countries. But in many countries, these things have made many problems and many incidents happened in my country also. If these kinds of videos or pictures are published in my country, the people in those and the people who took those will be drawn to the public attention and most probably all of them are humiliated.

It is ok to keep anyone’s life as he or she wishes. But as they don’t care much, they get into trouble when these kinds of things happened. It is ok to capture your moments to video and pictures. But you must be careful about their privacy. If the privacy is gone, then you will get in to trouble. Others can use these to black mail you or make money, which will definitely ruin your whole life.

I don’t say that camera phones are always useless. They are being used for many important purposes like news reporting. What I want to impress is that you must always be careful about the privacy of your videos and images which will not affect your personal life.

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I’m working on an Adobe® Flex® project these days. Therefore I had to do some study on Flex and its technology. As far as I found out, web design and application world has welcomed the Flex technology warmly and websites built using Flex are gaining popularity day by day. Therefore I thought to write this post on Flex and its impact on the web design world.

Actually Flex is not only for web applications. It can be used to develop desktop applications which are using web services. Adobe® Flex® technology is a client side technology. It communicates with the server side using web services. As this article is for the general people, I won’t talk about technology very much here. The final outcome of a web site built with Flex is a .swf file (in simple, a Flash animation). Within that, we can do everything like we do in an ordinary web application. For an example, we can add text boxes, combo boxes, buttons, lists, grids etc. Actually the latest Flex version (3) supports almost all the components available in the HTML and many new features.

A development language called “Action Script” is used to manipulate these component values and communicate with the server side. Apart from all the technology aspects, Flex supports us to add more Flash effects to the whole web application while doing complicated data manipulation. In ordinary websites, we use Flash animations for some limited purposes like advertising, buttons and we couldn’t use the whole space easily. Flex helps to overcome this. Therefore the website owners are thinking to migrate to Flex as it gives a better look and feel, And also, a good functionality.

Within few years I’m pretty sure that many of the websites in the internet will be ones built with Flex. But I still don’t have an idea about how this will affect the Google ranking and how the Google and other search engine spiders will crawl in the Flex built web sites. I hope to find about it and post a blog post on it in the future.

Everyone who maintains a website is desperately finding ways to drive traffic into their websites. There are many paid and free internet traffic generation services. But I found a service which is more effective compared to others. It is called as Buzzfuse .

It is free to register and all you have to do is enter your email address. Then you will receive a confirmation link and all you have to do is to follow the steps mentioned. Buzzfuse use a new way of marketing your product (article, image, video, song etc.). They start with letting your friends to know about it and then if it is good, it will be ranked according to the popularity. Then it will go to the friends of those friends. This is a very good viral marketing strategy and you can get more traffic to your web site. If your product is really interesting and worthy, you will also earn money. Why don’t you have a trial with Buzzfuse and recover the truth. You will definitely love it.

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Most of us waste some money to pay the computer repair centers to repair our computers or upgrade them. I normally do it by myself. And I can guarantee you that it is a simple thing once you learn it. I’m writing this post to inform you about a great book that which teaches you how to repair or upgrade your computer by yourself. It is not free and you will have to pay few dollars. But it is worth more than that. Only the ebook version is available for this book. Here is the link to that book’s website. I checked the website and it seems quite OK. They also provide some sample chapters before you buy the original book. I recommend you not to buy it if you are not satisfied with the content in the sample chapters.

It seemed a very good book for me as it describes everything from the scratch. The way that the author has written the book is interesting and clear. As it is not a freely distributable book, I can’t give it to you freely which I would love to do. But I can assure you that the amount you pay for that book is not a waste of money but a save of money in your future repairs and upgrades of your computer.

Once you gained the knowledge and practice, who knows may be you can start your own computer repair and upgrade service which will earn you some extra money. So have a visit and explore about it. The website of that book guarantees the followings.

• Over 100 color illustrations
  This book has over 100 illustrations to help you identify parts, procedures, and fixes
• Over 300 pages of information
  300 pages packed full of information on the different things that you can repair, replace, upgrade, or optimize for the best performance of your computer.
• How to Upgrade your computer components
  How to go about upgrading the different components of your computer, from the power supply to the motherboard and beyond.
• How to repair different components of your computer.
  Step by step instructions on what can be repaired and what has to be replaced and how to do the task. From the hard drive to memory to the power supply. What to look for when replacing a component.
• How to troubleshoot your computer errors
  A list of troubleshooting techniques and individual component troubleshooting. Step by step instructions on what to look for when the computer has a problem.
• Terms/Glossary
  A glossary of terms and what they mean to the everyday user/business person. From the basic computer to the advanced terms used everyday by ‘techs’
• Optimize your Computer
  Tips and instructions on how to make your computer faster than the day it was first turned on.
• Laptops - Care and Repair
  Laptops require a different approach to repair than desk tops because all the components are packed into a very small tight space. This portion of the book is all about laptop repair and care to keep it functional years after the warranty has ran out.
• Backup your data
  A special section that will assist you in how to decide where to back up your data, when to back up your data, and how often to back up your data.
• Anti-Virus protection
  Do you have anti-virus protection? This section explains how viruses got started and what you need to do to protect one of your most valuable resources - YOUR DATA.
• Disaster Recovery - Hard drive images
  All big corporations hire departments full of ‘techs’ and ‘programmers’ to protect their data and prepare for a disaster. The last thing they want is to loose business because their data is gone. You need to know how to protect your data and how to make an image of your hard drives. The reason for making an image of your hard drive is if you have a catastrophic failure of your computer system you can recover it faster with an image than doing a complete reinstall of the Operating system and all your software.
• How to’s section
  Over thirty different subjects covered in the how to section from creating a boot floppy to why you need to have the Windows Firewall service running when you are on the road.
• Hiding your computer from hackers/thieves/criminals
  This section will assist you with setting up your router, once the router is properly configured then the criminals of the World cannot see your computer. A properly configured router will keep viruses and trojans from calling ‘home’ and sending all your personal or business information to the criminals.

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I received an email regarding that I have won a lottery. I have added the whole email below. The email has been sent from an email address ending “uklottery.co.uk”. I checked for the website. I typed www.uklottery.co.uk and I was taken to a parked domain which is on the sale. Then I searched through in the internet using the search phrase as

“UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS

The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England REF No: UK/9420X2/68 BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369 (Customer Services)”

The first result I saw was an warning about a scam. Following is the email I received.

UK NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS

The Marina Offices, St Peters Yacht Basin, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 1HX England REF No: UK/9420X2/68 BATCH No: 074/05/ZY369 (Customer Services)

GOVERNMENT ACCREDITED LICENSED!!

FROM: THE UK NATIONAL LOTTERY.WINNING NOTICE FOR CATEGORY \\\\\\\”A\\\\\\\”

WINNER BONUS LOTTERY PROMOTION PRIZE AWARDS WINNINGNOTIFICATION

Dear Lucky Winner

This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash prize of 1,450,000 (One million,Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds sterling) held on the 9th March, 2008 in London Uk.The selection process was carried out through random selection in our computerized email election system(ess) from a database of over 210,000 email addresses drawn from which you were selected.

The UK. Lottery is approved by the British Gaming Board. To begin the processing of your prize you are to contact our fiduaciary claims department for more infomation as regards procedures to claim your prize.

Name: Mr. Michael Field

Email:unl.claimsdepartment@hotmail.com

Tel:+44 7031 966 287

Contact him by sending him with the underlisted informations:

(1)FULL NAME

(2)FULL ADDRESS

(3)NATIONALITY.

(4)DATE OF BIRTH

(5)OCCUPATION

(6)WINNING EMAIL

(7)TELEPHONE NUMBER

(8)DATE OF WINNING NOTIFICATION

(9)SEX

(10)TOTAL AMOUNT WON

(11)MARITAL STATUE

(12)COUNTRY OF ORIGIN AND RESIDENT

Sincerely,

Mrs.

You will receive these kinds of emails and sometimes you will get in to trouble by responding them without further investigation. If you receive these kinds of emails, stating that a huge offer is awaiting for you, always do some internet search, which will save your hardly earned money.