Archive for October 11th, 2007

October 11, 2007: 10:52 pm: adminArts & Crafts

Racks and racks of bookmarks ranging from funny to inspirational are available in most bookstores. But for a truly unique bookmark, make your own from a treasured digital photo.

This idea came from my wife, who wanted to give something meaningful to the ladies in her group she met with regularly. She and her friends love reading books, so the bookmark idea sprung in her mind. After a few minutes of searching our digital photo database, we found the perfect image from a rare Valentine’s Day snowfall in Dallas.

Tools you will need

If you have a digital camera then you are half way there to having all the tools you need to create your very own bookmarks. The other half is a digital photo editing software such as Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0.

More specifically, here are the tools you need, some of them optional:

  1. Digital photo from which to create the bookmark. This image could be from a digital camera or scanned in from a traditional photo.
  2. Digital photo editing software. This is required to trim (crop) a narrow strip from your original photo to make the narrow bookmark.
  3. If you have a photo printer capable of printing on 4″ x 6″ photo paper, then you can print the bookmarks at home. Use the thickest photo paper you can find for a sturdy bookmark.
  4. If you do not have a photo printer, you can prepare the bookmark image using the same steps and have it developed at a photo lab.
  5. Paper cutter. The final photo will contain two bookmarks, so you need a way to cut it in half. We found that an inexpensive plastic paper cutter made for scrapbook enthusiasts works well for this task.

Selecting the image

This step is completely up to your own taste. Select a photo and perform any necessary editing to your satisfaction. My wife selected the photo below and requested that I add a Bible verse for inspiration.

See photos here.

In the original picture she was walking our dog, which I removed with the “stamp” feature in PhotoShop Elements. I also converted the photo to black and white.
Your photo may be fine as is, so don’t feel like you have to do any modifications.

Preparing the image

Now for the trickiest part of the procedure. Don’t be intimidated—it only seems tricky the first time.

The goal is to select a narrow portion of the original image so that two will fit on a single 4″ x 6″ print, including borders.
Ours looked like this:

See photos here.

I will give you the general steps and you can apply them to your specific photo editing software.

OK, so there is a little bit of math involved. If that completely turns you off, you may still achieve good results eyeballing your project, but the numbers below will give you an exact fit.

  1. Create a new blank image (or canvas) in the proportions of a 4″ x 6″ vertical print.

    For example, if you intend to print at 300 ppi (pixels per inch), then the dimensions of the new image needs to be 1200 x 1800 pixels.
    I arrived at these number by multiplying 4″ by 300 and 6″ by 300.

  2. Divide the total number of pixels in the width of the image by two.

    Using my numbers above, that would give us 600 pixels.

  3. Determine the number of pixels you need for the border.

    Be sure to leave a generous border to mask slight imperfections in your final cut.
    We used 30 pixels all around.

  4. Double the border pixels because you will have borders on the left and the right side.

    This gives us a total of 60 pixels for the borders for one of the bookmarks.

  5. Now subtract the border from the half width to get the width of the actual bookmark image.

    In my case that leaves 600 - 60 = 540 pixels.

  6. Then subtract the border from the total height of the image.

    The same math for the height gives us 1800 - 60 = 1740 pixels.

  7. Now select a section of your original image in the proportions calculated above.

    My bookmark proportions are 540 pixels wide by 1740 pixels tall.

  8. Copy and paste the selection into your new image to take up the left side, leaving space for the border.
  9. Paste another copy of the same image on the right side, again leaving space for borders.

The result is a single 4″ x 6″ vertical image containing two bookmarks.
For larger bookmarks, you can print on 5″ x 7″ photo paper and re-calculate the dimensions using the technique above.

Print the image

Now that the image has been prepared, you can do one of two things. If you have your own digital photo printer, just print, wait for the ink to dry, and cut.

If you do not have a printer, save the image in JPEG format and take or upload to a photo lab. When you get your order back, cut it in half and you are done.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charles Kerekes is an amateur photographer and maintains the Flying Sam Digital Photo Guide (http://FlyingSamPhoto.com) web site to help others find fun and unique digital photo finishing products and services.

: 9:35 pm: adminMiscellaneous

Diamond jewelry is the ultimate adornment for a woman or even a man. It is something which takes us beyond the realm of time. Diamond jewelry is a timeless classic adornment, which can never go out of style and will always be looked up amongst all kinds of jewelry.

In buying diamond jewelry it is important to keep some factors in mind. The diamond history, diamond shape (Diamonds come in more shapes than any other gem. Diamond jewelry with spectacular center pieces are available in round, emerald cut, heart, marquise, oval, pear, princess, radiant, and trillion. Diamonds as accents are usually found in small round shapes and baguettes. Popular earrings are usually round or princess cut, though some may come in fancier shapes),

Diamond settings (such as bar, bezel, channel, chevron, invisible, pave, and prongs), diamond carats (The unit used to measure the size and weight of loose diamonds), diamond clarity (Clarity is the clearness of a diamond. The most valued diamonds are the clearest. When shopping for a diamond, look for diamonds with grades from FL to SI2. Stones from VS1 to S2 are the best value because they are lower in price without too many inclusions.)

Diamond color (Diamonds that are colorless or near colorless are the most prized.) And diamond cut (The diamond cut determines the brilliance of the diamonds. If a diamond is poorly cut, the light is lost through the sides and bottom of the diamond and there will be no radiance)

Diamonds are more commonly found in certain shapes; baguette, emerald, heart, marquise, oval, pear, princess, radiant, round and trillion. The most popular diamond shape has been the round brilliant because people believed it to be an “ideal cut” that displayed the most brilliance and sparkle in a diamond. The design also allows it to hide flaws and imperfections. However, new technology has made other shapes just as brilliant, such as the princess cut and trilliant cut. Today, there is no such thing as an “ideal cut” when it comes to diamond jewelry.

In diamond jewelry, the diamonds are set in different kinds of settings. Some of these kinds of settings commonly used in diamond jewelry are-

- Bar: Metal bars hold the loose diamonds in a channel-like setting.

- Bezel: The metal is formed to fit around the diamond, cupping it into place.

- Channel: A row of small diamond stones are set in a groove in the diamond rings.

- Chevron: V-shaped prongs that usually hold a marquise or princess-cut diamond for solitaire style rings.

- Invisible: Diamond set in a groove without visible prongs.

- Pave: Tiny stones are embedded to look like the piece is paved with loose diamonds.

- Prong: Several prongs hold the diamonds to let light pass through without interference.

Though diamond jewelry is made of diamonds, which is one of strongest materials on earth, a hard blow can cause the diamond to chip. If proper care is taken then the diamond jewelry can last a lifetime. To clean diamond jewelry, use water and a little bit of ammonia with a gentle brush while being careful of the metal. Also keep it away from lotion, perspiration and other household cleaners. These items can dull the surface of the stones. Store your diamond jewelry separated with paper or bags, so they do not scratch or dull each other. It’s also wise to keep the diamond jewelry in its original velvet box.

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: 8:48 pm: adminHardware Stuff

Long gone are the days when incoming calls were indicated only by mechanical bell ringing or annoying warbling electronic sounds. The portable cellular phones of today are essentially mini computers and they are able to utilize a portion of that processing power to generate interesting and attention grabbing ringtones. Cell phone ringtones have come a long way, and modern phones are capable of producing full spectrum digital sound.

Monophonic ringtones were the first ringtone technology to be universally available on cellular phones. While more realistic cell phone audio technologies have recently become available, monophonic ringtones are still popular due to their relative simplicity and wide availability. This article will discuss several ways to load and create your own monophonic ringtones.

Monophonic ringtones are simply sequences of individual notes played successively; only two values are required to completely specify the tone–the frequency (or pitch) and the duration. A number of simple languages have been developed to describe monophonic ringtones. Probably the most popular of the monophonic ringtones description languages is Ringing Tone Text Transfer Language (RTTTL) developed by Nokia.

You can compose your own monophonic ringtones or download them for free or for a fee from the internet. Regardless of how you obtain your monophonic ringtones, they need to be loaded into your phone. There are three basic ways to load monophonic ringtones, though the exact method will vary by phone. Be sure to consult your phone’s documentation for the exact procedures. Some phones allow you to load tones using a data cable or infrared link. Some cell phones can load monophonic ringtones that are sent via Short Message Service (SMS) messaging. A simple but laborious way to load monophonic ringtones is to key them in directly if the phone features some sort of composer service.

Monophonic ringtones are still popular despite their simplicity when compared with some of the other ringtone technologies available. Their ease of use and almost universal availability make monophonic ringtones a popular choice for many cellular phone users.

Ringtones are available for download from a wide variety of online web sites and are typically free or, more usually, available for a small fee.

Craig Thornburrow is an Author and Business Owner - You can find ringtones and free ringtones online at http://www.RingtonesVault.com

: 3:19 pm: adminThe Technology Way

Competitive and fast are two terms that are applicable to the
world of computers. Constantly changing and evolving computer
systems bring many advantages to the users and techies alike.
The race for supremacy between the yet to be launched Vista
(scheduled for 2006) and Mac OSX Tiger began in 2003 with
Microsoft’s announcements of plans for an integrated desktop
search functionality in Windows Vista.

While opinions vary and are really personal choices in many
ways, the following sums up the functionalities between Vista
and Tiger.

1. Vista has a completely redesigned look and feel; it is
aesthetic, functional, and exciting according to industry
sources. Mac Tiger on the other hand was always famous for its
technology and aesthetics which are clean and clutter free. In
fact, many of the visual effects that Vista has like translucent
icons, high resolution, and animation effects have been integral
to Tiger for more than four years.

2. Vista is yet to resolve problems caused by underlying
windows, while Tiger has fine tuned the bleed caused by windows
beneath the surface ones.

3. The 128 x 128 pixel icons of Tiger have better rendition and
clearer resolution than the 32 x 32 or 64 x 64 pixel icons of
Vista. However one will only know whether Vista will have
resolution independent vector graphics once the final version
comes to the market.

4. Both Vista and Tiger have closely similar desk top search
functions. The only immediate difference is that in Tiger the
filtering becomes operational only after creation of a Smart
Folder or using the shortcut keys. The Virtual Folder of Vista
is identical to the Smart Folder of Tiger.

5. Vista has next generation features, where the system has
enough inbuilt intelligence that organizes data. This fine tunes
any searches that need to be done. In comparison to this, the
Tiger has an old fashioned system with no specials.

6. Vista supports meta data processing while with Tiger meta
data can be created or edited only by using document processing
applications.

7. Vista permits users to visually locate files while Tiger does
not. Image previews in Tiger are turned off by default.

8. As far as security is concerned the Tiger is by far superior
to Vista. Since the Tiger user base is small the number of
hackers and attackers are fewer as compared to Windows.

9. User accounts and log ins are safer in the Tiger system and
Microsoft plans to incorporate similar systems in Vista to
strengthen security.

10. Vista has new systems similar to Tiger that will enable
users to assert parental locks or blocks. Parental controls help
limit computer usage by children protecting them from several
dangers.

11. Security in Vista includes inbuilt protection against rogue
attacks, malware, spyware, adware and so on. In the case of
Tiger its security system has remained secure and unbreached.
Whether Vista will earn the same distinction will be known only
after it comes into use.

12. Both Vista and Tiger have great networking features making
both immensely usable both at home and in businesses. The Tiger
is simpler while Vista is a bit more complex to use.

13. The hibernation mode works instantly in Tiger and Vista is
also trying to match its facilities.

While the above draws tentative comparisons between the two
systems a true evaluation can only be made once Vista is
released in its completed version and comes into use.

About the Author: Paul Wilson is a freelance writer for
http://www.1888SoftwareDownloads.com, the premier website to
find Free Software Downloads including free anti-virus software,
free spyware detection software, free toolbars, free chat
software and more. He also freelances for
http://www.1888FreeOnlineGames.com

: 2:16 pm: adminThe Technology Way

In this new digital high tech computer age slideshows/slide shows/photomontages/photo montages/video albums are becoming very popular. But I have found when I do a web search I get multiple titles. So what’s the difference between a slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album? After doing some research of my own, dictionary searches and web site reviews, I have come to this ultimate mind numbing conclusion – are you ready? – There is no difference in the name! I know that this may be a cause of disagreement between many, but I dare you to do the same research. Ultimately, I believe that you too will come to the conclusion that whether you call it slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album they are all one and the same. However, a bit of trivia for you, I have discovered that in the Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, the only one word or phrase of these five that can be found is “photomontage”.

So, if there is no difference in the name is there a difference in the product? The truth is whether you order a slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album the difference is only with the company. Every slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album creating company has their own individualized way of creating what I will call a slideshow production. - You can replace the word “slideshow” with “slide show”, “photomontage”, “photo montage”, or “video album”. It’s really a personal decision. And it is highly possible that as I am writing this article a new word or phrase is being created at this very moment to replace any of the above five words. Such as… moving pictures, pictures in motion, memories in motion (that one kind of makes you dizzy) albums that move, photo movements (there’s a phrase that will really move you!) – You try. I give you five minutes to come up with some of your own phrases. Go ahead be creative!

So what’s my point here, or do I really have one? I guess the point is this. When you are doing a web search for – are you ready, here we go again - slideshows, slide shows, photomontages, photo montages, or video albums – type in each of these different keywords separately each time you do a web search and you will have more choices because each keyword will bring up a new search and ultimately a new company that you haven’t seen before. In addition, try using specific key words. If you are planning a wedding place the word “wedding” or “wedding reception” before any of the above words. Do the same thing with a graduation slideshow, birthday slideshow, anniversary slideshow, reunion slideshow, memorial slideshow, or so on. You can also add words after the keywords listed above such as “production” or “productions” (yes, adding an ‘s’ makes a difference). And why let Google be your only search engine. Try other search engines such as my favorite MSN. You will get more choices because each search engine has their own way of categorizing web sites.

After you’ve found a new company view their samples. In this way you will be able to decide which company offers more of what you are looking for in a slideshow, slide show, photomontage, photo montage, or video album. And finally look not only at the price but also at the package. What do you get for the price you are willing to pay? And is the company willing to work with you in creating your own package with your own needs? The more willing a company is to satisfy your individual needs, the happier you will be with the end results. And as with anything in life, the same rule of thumb applies with slideshows, slide shows, photomontages, photo montages, or video albums – you get what you pay for! If the price seems too good to be true, it usually is! Keep in mind that your memories are unique and should be treated as such so stay away from the ‘cookie-cutter” slideshow presentations and look for something unique and creative. Sands of Time Multimedia Creations - experience the difference!

Sandra Clukey, lead slideshow creator for Sands of Time Multimedia Creations, has years of experience and an intense passion for turning still pictures into beautiful, sentimental slideshow video albums for people everywhere! http://sandsoftimemultimediacreations.com/ See her “12 Steps to a Successful Slideshow Production” http://sandsoftimemultimediacreations.com/articles/12Steps.htm View some of her samples: http://sandsoftimemultimediacreations.com/index-1.html Experience the difference!

: 12:39 pm: adminArts & Crafts

Want to make soap as a gift for your party guests? Here are some simple tips for making soap gifts and favors:

1. There are literally hundreds of different ingredients that can be used for soap making. Basically, you will need the following - soap chips or soap base, essential or fragrance oil for scent, and colorants. You will also need a soap mold and a pot to melt the soap in.

2. The easiest way to make soap is to take an already made bar of soap and melt it down. The bar will already have all the ingredients you need in it. You can then pour the soap into a mold of your choice or shape it as desired. Or you can use a cookie cutter or knife to shape it while it is still warm.

3. If you are using raw ingredients, simply pour and mix them in the mold of your choice.

4. Heating - Make sure to heat the soap slowly to prevent combustion or degradation of smell. 130°F - 155°F is a good general range, although there are slight variations depending on what ingredients you use. Try not to leave the soap unattended for long periods of time while heating.

5. Scent - You won’t need too much fragrance oil to scent your soap because scented oil is generally highly concentrated and strong. 0.5-1oz of oil is sufficient to scent a whole pound of soap. The amount you use will depend on the strength of the oil, which varies based on the scent. Mix the oil in with the soap while heating.

6. Coloring - Once again, you will probably not need to much coloring agent. Add a few drops at a time and watch the color change.

7. Mold selection - You can select molds that are themed to your occasion or just use a standard bar mold. For weddings, angels, hearts, and wedding cakes are popular shapes. For baby showers, baby carriages, bottles, and Disney characters are some common themes. The soap can also be carved. If you use a standard bar mold, you can still add personalized themed tags.

8. Finishing touches - After your soap is made, seal it inside a cellophane bag, organza bag, or gift box. Add a favor charms, personalized tag, and message and you have a nice favor for your guest.

Generally, you will want soaps that are 1oz - 3oz in size. These gifts will be used by your guests and are a simple, but effective way to say thank you.

Criss White is a professional web writer on baby and new mother topics for baby and pregnancy websites. See Baby Shower Soap Favors for more soap favor ideas and Make Your Own Baby Shower Favors for other related baby shower supplies.

Note: If you find this article useful, you may reprint it on your website, e-zine, or in your newsletter as long as the credits and resource box remain in tact and the hyperlinks are active.

: 11:08 am: adminMiscellaneous

Topic - love-erotic culinary, - will probably cause someone’s open protest. Someone will shrug his shoulders, grinning: well, what’s the connection between kitchen and erotic? However, probably there will be some ones (and they will be in majority), who will treat such an unusual kitchen conversation with an evident interest. Let’s be glad for them, as the information they will receive will be useful for them for sure.

It will help to bring a freshness of sensations in a usual family mode, create an atmosphere of soul peace in a house, make a man and a woman partners not only in bed, during short moments of intimate closeness, but also in kitchen, where a big part of family life takes place. Such culinary serves as a base of family relations, as it teaches a husband and a wife to remain attractive and sexually active, regardless of age and life troubles.
However, every of you will be able to assure in this in practice. But let’s start from theory.

The first country, where a system of cooking food in a so-called love style was developed, is considered to be India. Indian cooks were the first ones who noticed that a taste of sexual secretions depends on a taste of food. They paid a huge attention to scents, as, to their opinion, scent of food influenced body smell a lot, and the last, in it’s turn, stroke the keynote of love games.

Agree, it’s quite a logic conclusion. A heavy smell of body, caused by heavy food, not suitable to sexual needs, will hardly awaken sexual attraction. That’s why, dear married couples, if you want to be always desired, appraise critically what you eat, and if necessary, introduce proper amendments into your ration.

Fried food, especially in deep fat, affects a person negatively. Unfortunately, nowadays this is the most popular way of food treatment. Fats are heated up to 200 C and form carcinogenic substances.

We can say easily that fried food is contra-indicated to erotic mystery. In India any food, having a strong smell of fried, is considered to be harmful for sexual games. Such food creates an excess of slime, contributes to adiposity, tiredness, heaviness. As a result, when time comes to a love game, it is not accompanied by trembling and excitement, and turns into a usual satisfaction of physiologic needs.

According to Indian culinary traditions, taste of food affects not only sensations, but also affects Spirit on a thin level. One combination of gustatory senses may cause delight and eroticism, and another – irritability and anger. Advantage of Indian cuisine is in freshness and natural foods, practical absence of preservatives, dye stuffs, various artificial additions, conditioners of taste and other inventions of civilization. Fresh natural products, subjected to minimal temperature treatment, are wholesome not only for health, but also for love.

Chinese cooks are real trendsetters in erotic culinary, they eat exotic food, to our views. They do like bird-nest, stuffed eggs, fermented (black and looking like paste) chicken eggs. And a dish “Dragon’s fight” is cooked of snake, frog and tiger.

Of course, we should not necessarily obtain such products for a family meal. Nevertheless, you can take something from Chinese cuisine. Why not paying more attention to decoration of dishes? You know, food, decorated in a cranky way (say, cookie, baked in the form of woman’s lips, breast, nates) will attract attention for sure. Such culinary specialities will cause a gust of emotions, awaken imagination and fancy, tune to a proper sexual mood.

An idea of ritual dinner, ruling in Chinese cuisine, will be useful too, and, first of all, an idea of famous Chinese tea-drinking. This prolonged ritual contributes not only to rest, peace, removal of stresses, but also to rallying of all members of a meal, strengthening of a family.
Since log ago, only men cook in China. Men-cooks are good judges of erotic cooking, like nobody else.

By the way, in China, having a thousand-year erotic culture, there was a special cook-erotic in an emperor’s staff. He cooked food, which allowed emperor to contact with hundreds of concubines constantly. It’s known, that one of potions was cooked of antlers. Ground antlers were poured with honey and vodka, extracted on a special sort of wild cherry. Then 40 sorts of herbs and spices were added. A Chinese emperor drank such drink before entering harem. Servants of harem watched closely that emperor satisfied all the concubines (presumably, about 30 ones daily). Erotic power allowed to judge whether he’s able to rule a country.

Certain food products have great impact on male and female sexuality. Products, bringing stimulant beginning, can be divided into 3 general groups: animal, vegetable and mineral. They are used either separately, or in combination, considering a concrete person’s gustatory addictions.
Eggs of different birds are in the first group (chicken, goose, quail), milk (especially goat one), game (hazel grouses, quails), genitals of animals, mussels, oysters, caviar. Among exotic products of animal origin, antlers, musk gland, whale ambergris, rhinoceros horn have stimulant effect. Animals should be young and healthy, then all these remedies will be efficient.

Second, more numerous group, includes ginger root, fennel, ginseng root, mushrooms, black beans, some sorts of onion, pumpkin, carrot, rhubarb, figs, almond, pistachio and cedar nuts, fir seeds, sesame seed, cinnamon, nutmeg, saffron, some sorts of poignant pepper, raisins, walnuts, honey, millet, orange seeds, pomegranates. All plants should be ob high quality and gathered in a certain time.

It’s known that sexual hormones are formed in organism under enough quantity of “vitamins of reproduction” A and E. They are contained in animal fats, chicken eggs, cod-liver, carrot. Vitamins of group B provide efficient conductivity of impulses through nerves, what is extremely important for sexual excitement process. They are contained in cereals and legumes, potato, dairy products, meat and fish dishes. Vitamin C contributes to normalization of blood circulation and affects genitals condition beneficially. Citruses are especially rich in vitamin C (oranges, lemons, grapefruits).

If meat, then only on a “pillow”
There’s an opinion that a man becomes a real sexual giant in bed, if you feed him to satiety with meat beforehand. This myth was invented by women, who did not know peculiarities of male physiology. On the contrary, meat is some kind of narcotic, after which a man becomes weaker and loses self-control. After hearty supper, rich in meat dishes, he does not need sex already. His organism is tuned on other task’s fulfillment: he should digest heavy meat food, what leads a man to drowse and apathy. This does not mean that meat food should be completely excluded from erotic culinary. On no account: you know, meat is a strong source of energy. We offer you to bring to minimum unwanted affect of meat food on male potency through a special culinary trick: cook meat on a vegetable “pillow”.

Cutlets can be cooked this way especially well. You can add any vegetables, herbs and spices in minced meat. Meat food requires a special dish to be served up, so that a cooked dish would be not only tasty, but also appetizing, showy. For example, you can pour London broil or meat chop with cognac and burn before serving up. The effect is striking!
Earthenware crockery is very comfortable for cooking of meat dishes. Firstly, meat is not fried in them, but stewed in an oven. Secondly, you can interleave it with various vegetables in several layers.

Every day – a surprise
Cuisine should be various. You should not allow the same food appearing in it every day. Use various seasonings, sauces, spices, which can add an aroma of newness even to the most usual food. Say, why not adding dried apricots and raisins to a usual boiled buckwheat once, and slightly fried onion and walnuts – another time? In short, try, invent!

A real cook’s skill is in his ability to cook something original of usual products. For example, a usual apple pie will cause lots of new sensations, if it will be with a surprise. You may use several sweet peas, added to pastry. The one who finds such surprise, will become a “master” in a bed-room in a coming night of love. The more often married couple will arrange such culinary performances, the more inventiveness, fantasy and merriment they will show while doing this, the stronger their love passion will flame up.

Full stomach and sex are incompatible
Don’t allow gluttony while meal. Supper should not be bountiful. On East they observe the following rule: in order not to overeat, you should fill half of your stomach with food, quarter – water or other liquid, and quarter should be empty, to control breathing.

The following advices will also help to avoid overeating. It’s better to start meal with some liquid: fresh tea, herb extract. Then vegetables and then – meat dish. It’s desirable to finish meal with raw vegetables, fruits, roots, but not liquid (it was in the beginning) and fat high-calorie sweets.

Raw and sour vegetables, herbs, roots, natural dairy produce (milk, skim cotton cheese, lang, cheese) should be on your table at any season.
Short period of hunger can have stimulant effect under condition that it is used with moderation and carefulness. It’s known that vegetarian food can stimulate erotic desire. Indeed, it’s important to combine vegetable food with meditation, philosophy and good mood.

Love drink to your own receipt

Erotic games are impossible without wine. It relaxes, removes stress, and muffles uneasiness. However, don’t misuse alcohol while meal before intimate relations. Learn cooking light drinks of fruits and herbs, rising mood and increasing sexual activity.

If you want to feel real love bliss, aura and mystery, then you should not drink strong drinks – vodka, cognac, rum, gin. Create a receipt of your own love drink, which should not be stringer than 10-15 degrees, otherwise it will stupefy you.

Include beer in your arsenal of love imperial drinks. Japanese researchers consider it to be a God’s drink. It can be extracted on spices, herbs and leaves, like wine.

First rest, then food
When your man comes home from work, try to distract his thoughts from food somehow. Make him relax, forget about his problems, rise his mood, burn a fire of passions in him, and only after this prelude invite him to meal. Remember that a man in good mood is a pledge of full value sex, which will be able to bring satisfaction and pleasure to both husband and wife.

Men, to a gas-stove!
You are so tired after work and will hardly cook something with joy and happiness, and good mood is very important for cooking. So, allow your man to cook for yourself.

Many connoisseurs of culinary art consider that men always show more imagination and creation in kitchen, that’s why dishes they cook distinguish themselves with more delicacy and piquancy, whereas women can cook traditional food better.

A man is always improvising, cook not according to a cook-book. He’s quick, movable, energetic, merry and active on kitchen. It’s such a pleasure watching him. But helping him or although inspiring with your presence and praising will be even better. The main is that you never should lash your man for unfortunate cooking. This will dispel his entire further wish to cook.

Stewed beef “Forest games”
Beef – 100g, red bilberry – 0,5 glass, melted butter – 1 table spoon, 1 onion, tomato paste – 1 tea-spoon, flour, meat broth or water, bay leaf, pepper, salt to your liking.

Slice meat and fry in melted butter till forming of ruddy crust. Add tomato paste, crumbled up onion, salt and pepper and fry for 7-10 minutes more, then add flour. Pour meat broth or water, put red bilberry and bay leaf and stew till readiness.

Salad “Beet bacchanalia”
1 beet, dry peppermint – 1 tea spoon, 1 onion, 1 table spoon of skim cotton cheese.

Peel off beet and grate. Grind dry peppermint. Chop onion into small particles. Mix vegetables with cotton cheese and serve up. If you can, decorate with leaves of raspberry, currant, nettle, dandelion flowers. Such salad leads to weight loss and good sexual state.

Salad “Dolce Vita”
Sweet red cayenne – 6 pods, chopped nettle leaves – 4 table spoons, 1 carrot, chopped green of mint – 1 table spoon, vegetable oil – 4 table spoons, lemon juice – 1 table spoon, salt, ground black pepper to your liking.

Cut cayenne in straws, chop nettle in small particles, grate carrot. Mix products, add salt, pepper, lemon juice and vegetable oil. Pour with chopped green of mint.

Drink “Soul song”
Dry red wine – 1 glass, buttermilk – 0,5 glass, honey - 1 tea-spoon, grated beet – 1 tea-spoon, dry mint – 1 tea-spoon.

Mix beet with mint, pour with buttermilk and heat till boiling, then remove from fire at once and leave for 20-30 minutes. Filter extract and mix with wine, heat and serve up hot, adding honey. Such drink can be cooked with white wine too.

Liqueur “Love bliss”
Vodka – 1 glass, water – 0,5 glass, rowan-berry – 0,5 glass.

Wash rowan-berry carefully, smash to pieces, pour with boiling water and leave for 40 minutes. Then pour off liquid, mix with vodka and leave for day-and-night. Serve up cool.

Mushroom pudding
Fresh mushrooms – 400 g, 1 onion, 300 g of white bread, 0,5 glass of milk, 2 eggs, butter, flour, grated cheese, pepper, salt to your liking.

Peel off fresh mushrooms, wash, cut in small particles. Cut onion and fry in oil, add mushrooms, salt, pepper and stew covered till readiness. Soak bread in milk. Separate whites from yolks and whisk. When mushrooms are ready, mix them with soaked bread, yolks and beaten whites. Put this mass in a mould, oiled and poured with flour, put mould in a dish with water and stew on a water bath on a gas-stove or in an oven for 40-50 minutes. Serve up, pouring with grated cheese.

Salad “Honeymoon”
1 radish, 1 table-spoon of honey.

Wash peeled off radish carefully, cut off core, crush with a knife, mix with honey and fill in hollow with this honey mixture. Leave for 24 hours under room temperature, until juice is exuded. Then eat honey mixture like a salad. You can drink juice exuded separately or pour honey mixture with it.

Vinaigrette “God’s grace”
Small fresh mackerel, 2 beets, 2 potatoes, 1 carrot, 1 onion, mayonnaise or vegetable oil – 2 table-spoons, salt.

Here’s an example of cooking food on a vegetable ‘pillow”. Cleanse mackerel and cut to pieces together with bones. Cut vegetables in small circles. Put a layer of beet on a bottom of a saucepan, then carrot, then pieces of mackerel, on top potato and onion. Put ready vinaigrette on a plate. Add vegetable oil or mayonnaise in broth and pour vinaigrette with it.

Drink “Female secret”
Cognac – 2 table-spoons, dry mint leaves – 1 tea-spoon, dry flowers of calendula – 1 tea-spoon, dry leaves of dog-rose – 1 tea-spoon, water – 3 glasses, caraway – on a knife’s edge.

Pour the whole mixture of dry herbs in boiling water, boil again, remove from fire quickly and leave for 20-25 minutes. Pour off broth, add cognac. Drink it warm. Mince the body that is left after broth, mix with equal quantity of honey and serve up with tea instead on jam.

Many Eastern lords used an ancient receipt, which prolonged male sexual activity. Boil duck eggs, peel off, prick in several places and put in an extract of vodka with anise-tree, cinnamon, ginger, sweet pepper, parsley and dill for 2 hours. Eat on the eve and during sexual games.

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: 10:34 am: adminLiving With Software

MS PowerPoint is a universal utility for public presentation. Its multimedia features make it possible to delivers a rich – content, high-interactive presentation no matter for business purpose or entertaining. Macromedia Flash is one of the most popular software in the industry, the advanced streaming technology make the Flash file smaller and easy to distribute online. With converting PowerPoint to Flash, combining both merits of PowerPoint and Flash, you can make your presentation more accessible to others.

Converting PowerPoint to Flash for Quick Publishing and Easily Distribution

1) Greater Accessibility
Once converted to Flash a PowerPoint presentation can be easily viewed in any Internet browser. Internet Explorer, Mesilla, Netscape, Safari, Opera, and more. As more than 98% of all browsers have already installed the Flash plug-in, you will not be required to install any special software.

2) Compatibility
In Flash your PowerPoint presentation can be watched by everyone having a computer, not just by people on PCs. Macs, Linux, Solaris, HP, SGI workstations, PDAs (, Pocket PCs)
And handheld PCs (with an integrated Flash player) can now all watch your PowerPoint presentation.

3) Reduced Files Size
Flash conversion can reduce drastically the size of a PowerPoint presentation up to 1/10th of the original file size.

4) Sound Integration
Flash files can also integrate audio tracks, including music and voice-overs.

5) Display Resolution
Flash files can be played at virtually any resolution and/or screen size, making this file format the idle vehicle to distribute presentations across a large number of diversified display devices.

6) Internet Distribution
Distributing PowerPoint files on the Internet for other people to see is easier said than done. Not everyone has PowerPoint installed on his PC. But once you upload a Flash file to any server, forum, discussion group, anyone can watch it.

7) More Distribution Options
Flash, for the many of the reasons listed above is also an ideal format for distributing PowerPoint presentations on CD-ROMs. It allows multi-platform compatibility while providing a lean and performing file that can integrate audio and video and can be displayed on all kinds of different displays and resolutions.

SameShow PowerPoint to Flash Converter Can does:

SameShow is a powerful utility to convert PowerPoint presentations into Flash Slideshow with audio, video, transitions and animations, while making your presentation become more accessible, ubiquitous and easily distributable. With this amazing tool, not only all the original components in PowerPoint will be kept intact, but also many features such as voiceover and flash graphics can be added to customize your PowerPoint and make it more interactive and personalized. The smaller, securer converted Flash file enables you to email it to your friends or just post it on Internet sharing with other people in a breeze.

1. Very Easy to Use, no Flash Experience Required.
2. Custom Flash Player Meets You Practical Requirements.
3. Unique Two Conversion Modes.
4. Keep All PowerPoint Effects in the Output Flash file.
5. Reduce the Size of PowerPoint Files Drastically and Distribute it Easily.
6. Audio Narration, Attachment Supported, Flash Integration.

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: 9:33 am: adminThe Technology Way

Ever watch Popeye the Sailor Man cartoons? All on his own, Popeye could do quite a lot. He could walk and talk and sing and smoke his pipe. But when it came time to deal with his nemesis, Brutus, Popeye just wasn’t up to the task.

Not until he ate his spinach, that is. And suddenly, good old Popeye could do even more than before. That’s when things always got exciting, and, suddenly, handling Brutus was no problem.

That’s what plug-ins are like.

Just like Popeye all on his own, a browser can do quite a lot. It can display webpages and work with special languages like Javascript. But when it comes time to deal with other special things like audio or video or Flash content or Portable Document Files (PDFs), well, browsers often aren’t up to the task.

Not until they’re equipped with some plug-ins, that is. And suddenly, your good old browser can do even more than before. That’s when the Internet can get even more exciting.

You see, the plug-ins are like little bits of software that work with your browser so it can display even more kinds of content than just plain old webpages.

Unlike Popeye’s spinach, the plug-ins are usually made available for FREE. How come the plug-ins are free? Because the money gets made selling the software that creates the content that the plug-ins are for.

For example, Macromedia makes a software program called Flash. You have to buy the software to make Flash-based content that you can put up on the Internet. But for someone to view your Flash-based content, they’ll need to go to the Macromedia website and download the Flash plug-in. Then their browser will be able to display Flash content. And since Macromedia wants to sell lots of their Flash software to developers, they make the plug-in free to the general public so that it’s easy to view Flash-based content.

And that’s why plug-ins are like Popeye’s spinach.

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: 7:03 am: adminMiscellaneous

Vibrators, we all know what they are but to be honest only a few
of us know how to use one. When I first stated in the adult
industry I was overwhelmed b the various types and there uses
After all a vibrator is a vibrator Wright?

Well no there not. A vibrator can come in many shapes and sizes
and some designed to specifically stimulate certain intimate
areas of our body’s men and woman alike. That’s Wright men
there’s vibrators our there for you to.

There are many different ways to use a vibrator, it is
impossible to list them all because it lies up to the
imagination! Be creative and let your imagination run wild.
Explore your sexuality to its full extent. However I will share
with you some tips that will ensure a completely satisfying and
pleasurable experience

The first and most important factor in a pleasurable experience
is proper lubrication. Always use a water based personal
lubricant with your vibrator for comfort and that slippery feel.
Natural lubrication is often not enough and that could cause
discomfort. A great lubrication is Super Silk which will not
stain and water based.

A recent study showed that the majority of woman do not enjoy
there vibrators simply because they relied on there own natural
lubrication and did not us a personal lubricant. Always make
sure your personal lubricant is water based because silicone
lubricant will ruin silicone vibrators, silicone lubricants will
ruin silicone vibrators so pay lose attention to the
manufactures requirement.

You can use a vibrator in more ways than you probably know.
Using a vibrator with you partner as foreplay is a great way to
add stimulation. Some prefer full vaginal penetration while some
prefer a gentle massage of the genital area. Used correctly can
result in heighten pleasure and a more intense orgasm. You can
use a vibrator anally if you wash it with sex toy cleaner first
before inserting it into the vagina. It is always best to stay
on the safe side and buy anal toys for anal use only and keep
your vibrator for vaginal use only.

Remember always use a recommended sex toy cleaner before and
after use.

A Few Tips:

- Never share a vibrator unless you put a condom on it first

- For best results use a water based lubricant. Silicone
lubricants can damage silicone vibrators.

- Use a rabbit vibrator upside down, meaning use the clitoral
stimulator ‘rabbit ears’ to stimulate your anus, another
erogenous!

- Experiment! Use your vibrator a massager during foreplay.

- Visit this Sex Toy shop http://www.satisfaction247.co.uk for a
great selection of vibrators