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Dec 31, 69

Update On Net Neutrality

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But that doesn't mean there's no suspense left. Digital rights advocates are worried that the ruling might be too narrow to serve as a ringing endorsement of net neutrality. And Comcast is still clearly hoping that whatever order comes down has little impact on the company's practices.

Discover New Jersey

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My cousin who lives in New York State told me that she, her husband and child might move to New Jersey. I am not sure where she is planning to move, but I looked at the map of New Jersey and there are six regions: Gateway, Shore, Southern Shore, Atlantic City, Delaware River and Skylands.

There are miles and miles of beaches, 11 lighthouses, historic towns and byways, gambling and big city entertainment, family fun destinations, snowboarding and skiing, wineries, cultural centers, music venues and many places to get away from it all.

I entered the search phrase, Real Estate New Jersey, and found a site called RealEstate.com. This is a great website if you want the "street view" for homes in almost 1500 cities nationwide. You may also use the site for reference to find information on the costs of homes, weather patterns, crime statistics, length of commute to major city for over 22,000 cities across the United States. There are also several guides on buying and selling a home, financing, moving and home and garden.

I read that New Jersey is the most densely populated and the second wealthiest state in the nation due to some areas of New Jersey being part of the Greater Metropolitan areas of New York City and Philadelphia. My cousin and her family will be moving to a very central location if they wish to travel the eastern seaboard. One thing I did notice is that homes are expensive compared to Texas. The advanced search function had the division of $400,000 and under. In Texas, that would be $100,000 and under. Maybe my relatives have more money than I knew. I shall visit them when they move into their palatial new home.

Blog Your Blessing : Food for the Hungry

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Peace,
in the sense of the absence of war,
is of little value to someone
who is dying of hunger or cold.

It will not remove the pain
of torture inflicted on a
prisoner of conscience.

It does not comfort those who have lost their
loved ones in floods caused by senseless
deforestation in a neighboring country.

Peace can only last where human rights
are respected, where people are fed,
and where individuals and nations are free.

-- The XIVth Dalai Lama

The Blue Panther Experience is host for Blog Your Blessings Sunday. Visit the blog, grab the blogroll code, add it to your blog, and leave a comment on Blue Panther Experience. Next Sunday, post your blessing. We are of all faiths, creeds and races, so everyone is welcome. Join us on Sunday as we blog our blessings.

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Have You Made the Change to Vista?

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I was in a real comfort zone with Windows XP and did not want to learn a new operating system. I have used all the Windows operating systems and before that, DOS, so I know technology improves as it advances. I finally took the big step with my newest laptop and installed Windows Vista. There are some differences between Windows XP and Windows Vista that you will notice right off the bat.

Windows Interface

The Windows Aero interface, with live icons and the flip three-dimensional feature is definitely different than the XP interface. Hover on a diminished window on the task bar and live icons show you what is running in that window. In Windows Vista, when you are in a folder, the sidebar shows you other folders that you may toggle using 3D flip or ALT+TAB.

The START menu in Vista is much more streamlined than Windows XP. The integrated search feature in the START menu is more robust than the one in Windows XP. You may search for files or applications by typing the first few letters of the name in the search box.

Windows Vista has a feature where users access the computer but may not access critical applications and administrative functions. This feature keeps busy hands from changing your settings or deleting necessary components of the operating system. I found this feature the hardest to get used to. I kept looking for hardware profiles and such that you find in Windows XP.

Windows Security

In Windows Vista, the parental controls let you limit the programs, the websites and the hours users may access the computer and view the documents and the sites users have accessed. This is especially helpful as children become teenagers and learn to clear cache, history and cookies.

Windows Vista has two firewalls, the standard firewall found on Windows XP and another one that has advanced features and filters outgoing as well as incoming data. This is helpful if you have an open port of which you are unaware and someone is listening.

New Broadband Router and Modem

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I was using an old Linksys router and Westel modem linked to an old eMachine running Windows ME for managing my DSL Internet assess. It had gotten where I spent more time trying to access the Internet than I did on it! Last week, I spent five hours trying to troubleshoot my home network. I would call my telephone company who supply the DSL and the modem and they would try a few things and then tell me to call Linksys.

Finally, I just asked the telephone company if they had a DSL modem and wireless router that did not have to be linked by Ethernet cables to each other and to a computer to work. Yahoo! For $4 extra a month, I now have a small combination modem/router that sits on my nightstand and works perfectly. I packed up that old router, modem and two eMachines and they are on their way to Goodwill.

Ahhhhh . . . technology. I love it when it works.

Applicant Tracking Made Simple

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In this economy, a company that advertises job openings or a recruiter that solicits clients is inundated with applications, resumes, cover letters, letters of interest, reference letters, emails and telephone calls. How do you manage this data? You must manage Applicant Tracking if your company is to have the best candidate for the position..

Resume Direct is an Applicant Tracking System by HRMDirect. Convert your current application into an online version and capture the information you need and convert it into data automatically. Access this data from any computer with a web browser. In fact, keep all your applicant files online, easily accessible to all the top decision makers.

Due to the overwhelming number of applications received per opening, your company may want to implement prescreening questionnaires to verify skill sets and desired personality characteristics. Applicants may complete online skill and behavioral tests as part of the application process. Once you have identified potential candidates, you may also have background checks run on them.

Resume Direct provides much more than just Applicant Tracking. It will also simplify your EEO reporting procedures in compliance with guidelines for Internet recruiting; organize your applicant data into a database that you may use for supplemental hiring, report generation, litigation defense and more.

Interested? You may try ResumeDirect free for 30 days. This is totally a win-win situation.

Blog Your Blessing : Relaxation

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Visit Gaiam Life by clicking the picture above. Naturopathic physician, wellness coach and triathlete James Rouse guides you in relaxing. Two minutes to change your state of mind, reduce stress and gain control over your thinking. Not a bad investment of your time, eh?


The Blue Panther Experience is host for Blog Your Blessings Sunday. Visit the blog, grab the blogroll code, add it to your blog, and leave a comment on Blue Panther Experience. Next Sunday, post your blessing. We are of all faiths, creeds and races, so everyone is welcome. Join us on Sunday as we blog our blessings.

Start Tracking Conversations in Twitter Land

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Do you use twitter? Are you making the best use of this conversational tool?

New Twitter Tools to Use

Summize Conversational Search - Summize searches for, tracks and displays conversations on Twitter, FriendFeed and Plurk. Just enter a search term, key word or name to find the latest buzz. While you are there, add Summize search engine to your browser.


TweetDeck (beta) - TweetDeck is an application that allows you to organize tweets into discrete topics or group specific columns in a local database. One column contains all your tweets. By using the GROUP, SEARCH and REPLIES buttons, you may add columns. Twitter offline and TweetDeck stores the messages and sends them when you connect to the Internet. This is an Adobe Air application, so you will be directed to download that application.

New Updated Fast Dropping List

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If you were using the fast dropping list on Tysblog or UnpredictableLife, chetan at Blog-O-Ninja has created a new list that he has updated and promises to keep updated as websites change and leave Entrecard. To be on the list, your blog must load quickly and it is a good idea to add the widget to above the "fold" of your blog (no scrolling needed).



chetan is very helpful and assists users who have problems using his list. This is a generous offer. If this idea of fast dropping appeals to you, please click this link: New Entrecard Bookmark And Dropping List | Blog-O-Ninja and follow his directions. Leave your URL and he will add your blog to future updates.

Brad's Technorati Experiment

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Give And Go - Technorati Authority Increase Anyone? | Brad Blogging

1. Copy The List Below into Blog Post.
   
2. Add Your Link To The List (below).
   
3. Comment On This Post So The List is Updated With Your Link
4. Watch Your Authority Sky-Rocket..
   

*?Copy Here - Technorati Authority?*
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Blog Your Blessing : Good Health

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The Biggest Entrecard Contest - Yet!

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A huge Entrecard Contest was announced on July 5 on the Entrecard blog. The brain and the organizational skills behind this contest is Fantasy Baseball blog.

I just want one huge EC prize! The 10,000ec will do just fine. I would love to hold my own contest and 10K credits would be great. Check out the prizes below and get your entry in before the contest ends in 14 days from yesterday.

Entrecard Credit Prizes

Fantasy Baseball - 10,000ec : Q3-n - 5000ec : Øblog - 4000ec : Evil Woobie - 3000ec ; Turnip of Power - 1001ec : Celebrity Pictures - 1000ec : Evil Entrecard Kid! - 1000ec : Modern Glam - 1000ec : Dot Com Mogul - 1000ec : Blabberwocky - 1000ec : Looking For Scoop - 1000ec : Eyespi20.com - 1000ec : Travelin? Show - 1000ec : The Hypnotist - 1000ec : Diet Pulpit - 1000ec : The Realtor - 500ec : Romelo - 500ec : WebATBP.com - 500ec : Inspire Emotion - 500ec : Sue Doe-Nim - 500ec : Thailand Land of Smiles - 500ec : FitnessLifeClub - 500ec :Lisa Cooking - 500ec : JunkieYard Dot Com - 500ec : Movie Reviews - 500ec

Other Prizes

Aerten Art - A painting : ImpNERD - 125×125 ad for a month : PoemsofQuotes - A poem about the winner?s topic : Eyespi20.com - A custom made 125×125 card : Diet Pulpit - One week ad spot : JunkieYard Dot Com - Three blogroll links. : The Hypnotist - A hypnotic audio

How to Enter

Write about this contest on your blog, mentioning the one prize you want to win. Leave a comment with the link to your blog post on this blog post. 1 Entry

Write about this contest on your blog, mentioning the one prize you want to win and copy all of the sponsors. Then leave a comment on this blog post with the link of your blog post. 2 Entries

Endorphin Improves Efficacy of Scent Marketing

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Believe it or not, the latest media is a delivery system for scent. If you wish to see the beginnings of scent marketing, you may want to read Wall Street Journal Leads Readers by the Nose and 2007 Might Be "The Year of the Scent" on this blog, Advertising for Success.


From the AdAge.com website:

This week's first international conference on scent marketing drew attendees from 20 countries . . . Scent World Conference also showcased an amazing array of technologies for dispensing, embedding and transmitting smells in spaces as small as supermarket product packages and as large as entire sports stadiums.

Calculated Conspicuous Consumption

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We want to rent a car for a week over the July 4 holiday and go to the beach. We would love to drive down to the coast in a convertible.

I was visiting the Advantage car rental website and noticed that they are offering up to a 50 percent discount on Luxury and Convertible car rentals.

2008 Black Bentley GTC Convertible

Blog Your Blessing : Conjunto Music

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PerformanceClicks? PPC Solutions

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As online spending has slowed, it is now more important than ever that you market your brand, products and services on the Internet. Did you know that 71 percent of consumers start their Internet shopping spree at a search engine?

Network Solutions has an answer to advertising and it is PerformanceClicks? pay per click advertising, one proven method of search engine marketing. Pay per click advertising puts your brand in front of wired customers who are looking to buy.

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Relay for Life at The Ben Spark

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Allison and Ben Spark are walking in the Relay for Life on June 27 and 28. They are each trying to raise $250 in donations for the American Cancer Society.

To encourage donations, Ben Spark is offering bribes, I mean incentives, I mean options and they include Entrecard credits and advertising, of course.

Ben Spark's blogs are highly trafficked. They may be PR 3, but they were higher before the G00gle hammer hit our blogs.


Here are the Incentives to Donate a Tax Deductible Contribution to the Fight Against Cancer

$10 donation - 1,500 Entrecard Credits and will display your EC card (or other 125x125 pixel ad) on The Wired Kayaker for 1 month and include a link to your blog in a thank you post on The BenSpark.

$25 donation -5,000 Entrecard Credits and will display your EC card (or other 125x125 pixel ad) on Google is Not God (PR3) for 2 months and include a link to your blog in a thank you post on The BenSpark.

$50 donation - 7,500 Entrecard Credits and will display your EC (or other 125x125 pixel ad) on The BenSpark (PR3) for 3 months and include a link to your blog in a thank you post on The BenSpark.

$100 donation -15,000 Entrecard Credits and will display your EC (or other 125x125 pixel ad) on Read to me Dad for 6 months and include a link to your blog in a thank you post on The BenSpark.

$150+ donation - 25,000 Entrecard Credits, a review of your blog on The BenSpark, will display of your EC card (or other 125x125 pixel ad) on all four of his blogs for 6 months and include a link to your blog in a thank you post on The BenSpark.

Here are Links to The Blogs:
The BenSpark
The WiredKayaker
Google is Not God
Daddy Read to Me

If you decide you wish to donate, just go to Ben Spark's Personal Page for the Relay for Life or to Allison Spark's Personal Page for the Relay for Life. After leaving the donation, list your name and blog address on the Fundraising Honor Roll. Then write Ben an e-mail at benspark @ benspark dot com with your EC e-mail address, your EC card or another 125X125 card that you want displayed and the link for that image.

The walk is this weekend. Please go over and donate whatever you have to spare. This is an excellent cause and the Entrecard credits and advertising make it a wonderful deal for you. It is what you call a win-win situation.

Recovering Photographs Deleted in Error

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I will never forget the time that I copied all the photographs in the My Pictures folder to a CD. I labeled the CD and then I deleted the originals. Guess what? The CD did not work. Four years of my life and my family--GONE.

If this ever happens to you, remember Photo Nose? Photo Image Recovery Software. You may download and install the PhotoNose program. If you will be recovering photographs from a memory card or camera, attach it to your computer. When the program opens, select the drive or the device you wish scanned. Then let the program run.

It took 2 hours to scan my computer hard drive and 16 minutes to scan my camera's memory card. The program makes at least two passes to recover your photographs. Thumbnails of the photographs appear with a little check box next to them. You select the photographs you wish to recover and push the next button. If you have a license, the photographs magically appear. Otherwise you will be directed to purchase the software.

The standard version of PhotoNose, which will recover images that are jpeg, bmp, tiff, rif and gif formats, costs $29.95. The professional version of PhotoNose is $49.95 and will recover the following image file types: jpeg, bmp, tiff, rif, gif, Cannon (crw, cr2), Kodak (dcr), Minolta (mrw), Nikon (nef), Fuji (raf), Sigma (x3f), Pentax (pef) and Sony (srf). The professional version will also recover the following audio file types: wav, mid, mp3 and mp4; and the following video formats: mpg, mov, avi, asf, mp4.

So if you deleted your wedding, baptism, anniversary or graduation photographs, let PhotoNose "sniff" them out and recover them. No one will ever know that you deleted them!

Celtophilia Limerick Contest

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The blog Celtophilia is having a limerick contest. Some of the limericks are bawdy, some haunting and some are just too funny! Stop by and read and vote for your favorites until 12 pm on June 30.

Learn About Live Video Streaming

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Explore the World of Online Streaming Video. Take a look at sites like Ustream.tv, QIK.com, BlogTV, Stickam, and more. Learn about equipment, sets, and how to create a memorable broadcast with little to no budget. Discover how to distribute and re-purpose video content online.

Blog Your Blessing : Blessing Bags

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For some reason, I became accustomed to using debit and credit cards for all purchases. I never missed having money until I had to drive by a homeless person on the side of the road. As I drove by, I thought about where I would be without faith, family and friends. I wondered what Jesus would think of me driving by without stopping. That evening I went to the store, purchased some food, and made up bags of food.

I call them blessing bags:

1. canned meat


2. package of crackers and cheese (or peanut butter)


3. granola bar


4. bottle of water


5. box of raisins


6. can/cup of fruit


7. napkin, plastic utensils, salt & pepper


8. prayer card

Out Spottt and No 125 Exchange

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I have taken the Spottt box and the 125 Exchange box off this blog. I was trying each for a few months as detailed in these previous posts: Spottt and 125 Exchange. After a few months, I have decided it is not worth the blog sidebar space.

The problems with both programs were the same:

• No way to determine where your advertisement had being shown.
• No way to select blogs on which you would like your advertisement to be shown.
• A click-through rate of .1% for both programs for all advertisements and displays.
• Low caliber of some advertisements displayed on my blog.
• Slowing of blog load time.

10K ECs on July 4 via impNERD!

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impNERD is holding a July 4th contest and he is giving away 10,000 Entrecard credits to one (1) lucky winner. This is a big prize, worth at least $40. I would LOVE to win those credits!

How to enter:

1. Post a photo of yourself or a pet looking like a nerd on your blog (no link required): 2 entries

2. Draw a picture of what you think an imp nerd looks like. Can be any style. Post on your blog (no link required): 2 entries

3. Post a story on your blog about your favorite 4th of July story (non-USAians can choose any holiday!): 1 entry

4. Post an article with a link back to the contest: 1 entry

5. Post an article with a link back to any impNERD.com page: 1 entry

Visit impNERD today and tell him CyberCelt send you.

Out of Touch for Awhile

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I have some health issues and will be away for a day or so to see what I can find out at the hospital.

What About Brazil : 10,000 EC Giveaway

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