Sunday, July 31, 2011

Google Plus 8 Quick Tips and Tricks

Google Plus (aka Google+), Google's new social network, might offer the right mix of sharing and privacy to woo you away from your Facebook account. If you don't know how to use it, though, it's just a confusing mess of circles and contacts. So we've assembled a few tips to help you get started.

The Top 10 Best Waterfalls of the World

Best Waterfalls of the World

10. SUTHERLAND FALLS [Fiordland, New Zealand]

Sutherland Falls is New Zealand's mightiest waterfall.
In a country that holds a special place in our hearts, this gorgeous 580m waterfall is easily New Zealand's most spectacular waterfall and makes our list. Given its remote location deep in the wild and beautiful Fiordland National Park (also a World Heritage Area), it's one of many highlights of the Milford Track - said to be one of the finest walks in the world.

Google Pagerank

Here are some facts about page ranks that a webmaster should keep in mind. The sites do not have a page rank, pages have. PageRank to some level is link referral program. The page "A" ranks higher when it gets referred by another page "B", however just the number of referrals or links is not enough for a page to rank high.

Pyramids

The stereotypical vision of the Egyptian Pyramids are large mountain like brown piles of stone uprooting from the desert having a rough contour. Though when first constructed around 2500 BC.

Having Success with the Ladies

1. Confidence is key. Without confidence, you're doomed to fail at attracting women. If you don't have confidence in yourself, then fake it for a bit. After a while, you'll find that faking it won't be necessary anymore. Have faith in yourself, that's what confidence mean.

Habits That Make You Happier

No.10 Make daily lists/updates of short-term and long-term goals

In 1932, an Austrian psychiatrist named W. Beran Wolfe summed up his life philosophy by saying, “If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden, or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert.” Turns out, Wolfe was right.

Amazing Inventions

10. Self-Inflating Tires

One of the things that causes us a great deal of annoyance is the sight of a flat tire just as when we have an urgent task at hand, right? Well, its time these worries were brought to an end. Coda Development has already come up with a tire design that is self-inflating.

Smiley

The smiley face, a yellow button with a smile and two dots representing eyes was invented by Harvey Ball in 1963 for Worcester, Massachusetts based insurance firm State Mutual Life Assurance. Though there was an attempt to trademark the image, it fell into the public domain before that could be accomplished.

Countries With The Largest Population

10. Japan (127,156,000)

At just over 127 million Japan is the country with the tenth biggest total population. It is an island nation off of the east coast of Asia, and is one of the most developed nations on the planet. As a result the population growth rate is now negative, meaning that the Japanese population is now shrinking in size due to low births and a relatively high death rate due to an elderly population.

Healthy Eating Tips

1. Eat Plenty of fresh food

Take a look at the proportion of fresh food that you eat. It should comprise at least half of your total diet. Processed and refined foods are usually high in sugar, salt, preservatives, chemicals, additives, saturated fat and trans fats. These are just not good for you, whereas fresh food contains the nutrients that you need.

Fitness

We all know that our minds and bodies are inexorably linked. Our mental and physical health requires that we spend reasonable amount of time on a daily basis focused on our physical and mental well-being. What follows are seven fitness tips that you can use to strengthen your body which in turn will help strengthen your mind.

Brain

Making sense of the brain's mind-boggling complexity isn't easy. What we do know is that it's the organ that makes us human, giving people the capacity for art, language, moral judgments, and rational thought. It's also responsible for each individual's personality, memories, movements, and how we sense the world.

Titanic Falling Apart

Slipping beneath the waves on April 15, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic famously disappeared from view until 1985, when it was rediscovered on the bottom of the North Atlantic (pictures of Titanic's rediscovery).

Earthquakes

Earthquakes, also called temblors, can be so tremendously destructive, it’s hard to imagine they occur by the thousands every day around the world, usually in the form of small tremors.

Volcanoes

Volcanoes are awesome manifestations of the fiery power contained deep within the Earth. These formations are essentially vents on the Earth's surface where molten rock, debris, and gases from the planet's interior are emitted.

Polar Bear Swim Record

A female polar bear swam for a record-breaking nine days straight, traversing 426 miles (687 kilometers) of water—equivalent to the distance between Washington, D.C., and Boston, a new study says.

Global Warming

Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.

Top 10 Beaches

Earth's Atmosphere

Protective Buffer

The Earth's atmosphere is more than just the air we breathe. It's also a buffer that keeps us from being peppered by meteorites, a screen against deadly radiation, and the reason radio waves can be bounced for long distances around the planet.

Inside the Earth

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun.

DID SOMEONE SAY PHOTOGRAPHY ISN'T ART...???

PHOTOGRAPHY

DID SOMEONE SAY PHOTOGRAPHY ISN'T ART...???

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Awesome pictures

Awesome pictures and awesome effects!!!

Natural Mirror

Skyscraper in China

Architects Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture drafted Wuhan Greenland Center for Chinese city of Wuhan. The tower is 606 meters high place on its 119 floors of offices, luxury apartments and even a five-star hotel. To build a skyscraper planned for five years.

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Amazing optical illusion

An amazing optical illusion placed in a small town in the Alps, created by an artist named Felice Varini

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TRANSPARENT AIR PLANE

Airbus has unveiled a futuristic concept for a transparent plane that may be everyday air transport in 2050.

Google is impacting our lives and our brains.

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The Internet has changed our everyday lives, but a new study asserts that it has also changed the way our brains work. To put it simply, as long as we know where to find information, we are less likely to remember it. In a study dubbed "The Google Effect," by a team led by psychologist Betsy Sparrow of Columbia University, it is said that we are less likely to remember information, when we know where to find it instead.

Top 10 Most Beautiful Buildings in The World by 2011

Here we are telling you about the top 10 most beautiful buildings of the world by 2011. You might be seeing some of them for the first time. Well the list goes from here.

Women and diamonds! No doubt every woman wants to have the best diamond which suits her the most and be the part of her when she gets ready. Every diamond is rare, but here we have the list of top 10 most expensive diamonds from all over the world.

Tired of going to gymnasium daily and want to get rid of teasing comments of elder brother? Running on the jogging track seems to be a toughest job on earth to do? No worries guys as I am going to guide you through some of the natural ways to reduce your weight.

This post is about highest number of teenage pregnancies country wise. Teen pregnancies refer to those females who have not reached their 20^th birthday when their pregnancy is ended.

This April 15 Would be the 99th anniversary of Titanic, It does not need any introduction but Titanic has been part of so many lives for almost 100 years now, There is no other cruise ship to gain as much interest as Titanic has got, In this post i will share some fascinating facts and myths regarding sinking of the ‘unsinkable’ ship. Before the maiden voyage in April 1912 Titanic was labeled ‘Unsinkable’, Lets read 10 interesting facts about Titanic that you might not know.

Ever since the dreadful incident of 9/11, the rate of terrorism has escalated manifold across the globe and nearly every other country seems to be the victim of this menace. Initially there were two big terrorist organizations namely: Al-Qaeda and Taliban but at present many more have emerged out of nowhere and established strongholds in many areas.

Those people who have to buy laptop this year, we have this perfect post for you about the top 10 best laptops to buy in the year 2011. This era is the era of technology; you will find it really difficult to search for a perfect notebook for you. Your budget and required specs can have so many laptops under it that you will find it very difficult to do a proper Laptop hunt.

Since the launch of Android OS, technology has taken a revolutionary turn especially the smartphones department, and since there has been a horse race between the leading companies to secure the top spot. Companies like HTC, Motorola and Samsung being the leader of smartphones have thus delivered some of the coolest and awesome smartphones that runs Android OS and had satisfied their customers in every aspect. So here are some of the best smartphones in business that runs Android OS

Top 10 Facts About Nuclear Energy

1.There are 104 commercial nuclear power plants producing 20 percent of all electricity and over 70 percent of the emission-free electricity generated in the United States. They are located at 64 sites in 31 states.

Facts About Chickens

It is thought that the nearest relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex is a chicken.

A castrated male chickens is called a capon.

Poisoning is an avoidable public health problem that can happen to anyone, at any time or at any place. If not addressed on time it can cause grievous harm and even death. Poisoning is much more common than most people think. Read some of the facts on poisoning -

Facts About Silent Killer Diseases

1. 'Silent killer disease' are diseases that produces minimum or no symptoms and are capable of causing death if not treated.

2. Heart disease, hypertension and diabetes are major silent killer diseases.

Amazing Brain Facts

The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers far exceeding any of the silicon machines we have built to mimic it. - William F. Allman in Apprentices of Wonder. Inside the Neural Network Revolution, 1989.

Facts On Blindness

1. Globally, every five seconds, a person goes blind.

2. Nine out of every ten blind persons live in developing economies.

3. According to the National Health Policy document of the Government of India, 1983, “One of the basic human rights is the right to see”.

Cell Phone Safety Facts

1. Keep the handset if possible at least 2 to 7 inches away from your head or use loudspeaker mode. It decreases the transmission of electro-magnetic radiation to the brain significantly.

Top 10 Science Facts

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Science Facts

1. Fingernails grow four times faster than toenails

2. Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people

3. Science Fact-If you rub an onion on your foot – within 30 – 60 minutes you will be able to taste it this is because it travels through the blood stream

Facts about ozone holes

Term ozone hole refers to seasonal shrinkage of stratospheric ozone over Earth's polar regions.
The freons (CFC compounds) are the main destructive force behind the creation of ozone holes. It has to be said that CFCs were banned in most countries because of their negative impact on depletion of the ozone layer.

How does human activity affect Earth's ecosystems?

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Human activity affect Earth's ecosystems?

Humans, or to be more precise human activity, is the main reason for severe ongoing changes in many of Earth's ecosystems. This is not only because of the ever-growing climate change impact but also because human population is constantly growing, expanding into new areas and changing native ecosystems, sometimes even to the point of no recognition.

Where does the Earths heat come from?

Earths heat

Our planet's interior is still pretty much a mystery to scientists and all models of the inner Earth depend on indirect evidence. The widely accepted theory about the continuous flow of Earths heat is linked with the radioactive decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium in Earth's crust and mantle.

Top 10 Great Historical Warriors

Great Historical Warriors

10.Yanomami

The Ya̧nomamö warriors are a large population of indigenous Amerindian people in South America. They reside in the Amazon rainforest, among the hills that line the border between Brazil and Venezuela. Due to the remoteness of their residence, they had remained largely untouched by the outside world until the beginning of the 20th century. Historically, more than a third of the Ya̧nomamö males, on average, died from warfare.

10.Cold-Sweat it out

We have all done it – or at least seen others do it: covering up with extra blankets, sticking your head over a bowl of hot water – all in the hopes that we will sweat the cold out. Unfortunately, this does not work – it is completely ineffective. The only benefit this may have is to make you feel a little better (because it addresses the symptoms).

10.Food-Fortune Cookies

The fortune cookie food was invented in San Francisco in 1909, at the Japanese Tea Garden Restaurant. In 1916, Los Angeles noodle manufacturer David Jung claimed to be the inventor, but a San Francisco court ruled that Makoto Hagiwara, caretaker of Golden Gate Park’s Japanese Tea Garden, was the creator of the cookies, which he served to guests of the gardens. [Source]