Archive for December 18th, 2007

December 18, 2007: 10:40 pm: adminMiscellaneous

One of the common complaints by bushwhackers of the faxless no credit check payday advance industry likes to underline the APR conventionally levied upon short term payday advance loans that can swell up to huge sums.

The Annual Percentage Rate or “APR” is merely a simple metrics expounding the effective interest a borrowing customer will be paying brought forward to a full year. This gives people an accepted groundwork for determining which financial solution displays a higher versus a lower overall expense to the borrower, embracing ancillary costs that might be saddled on.Doubtlessly the annual interest factor may be considered a versatile blueprint applicable to financial investments covering a minimum of twelve months .However, as far as it concerns short term payday cash advances the lending rates are evidently hardly suitable.

Rather, let’s compare a payday advance to hailing a taxicab home from the airport. Let’s say it will cost you forty dollars to drive home by taxi. Sure, forty dollars can be called anything but peanuts to have to pay for riding home however very many people do it for the simple reason that it is convenient and it services a specific demand. Sure, we all know that there’s an alternative: hire a car for an entire day for only forty dollars including as many miles as we need to.

Ok, now let’s say we do just that— i.e. rent a car and drive 400 miles during the day we’ve hired it. Of coursethe backers of APR would probably assert that everyone should annualize these figures to get a meaningful comparison… So we’ll take this taxi price (to wit: $2 per mile times 400 miles) which tallies up to $800. The annualized equal of the car rental option via our taxi hire equals $40/$800. Now, you and I know that car hire of ours was by no means the best option for us, even considering how much more expensive the rate of interest p.a. would have been in this case.

And exactly the same applies to short term payday loans. Payday loans are restricted to two weeks only, they’re not annual loan arrangements. The obviously high annualized lending rate doesn’t make a lot of sense in view of the fact that this specific kind of loan doesn’t last for one year. The interest rate charge tallies as close to 15 - 25% for the loan. That no credit history check payday loan is a premium option you should not go for without appraising all viable alternate possibilities.

Indeed they can be a tremendous help when trying to survive a financial exigency. Yet they are not implied as a replacement of intermediate or long-term financial solutions. Find more information about where to get a payday advance here.

: 1:38 pm: adminMiscellaneous

“Those people who think they can do something and those who think they can’t are both right.” - Henry Ford

What ever the mind can conceive and believe the mind can achieve.

Here are the basic principles and steppingstones to change your life.

The starting point to all success is having a positive attitude.

Your attitude is going to play a large part in becoming successful in whatever you wish to achieve. It’s the passion in your life that is necessary to achieve your dreams.

When you’re at work and someone else gets a promotion that you felt like you deserved or somebody gets a new car are you happy for them or does it make you jealous? How often do you wish harmful thoughts to people around you? Do you lust for and covet the material possessions of others? These are signs of a negative personality and require extreme change.

“If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting”. - Stephen Covey

Mary is very lonely and often spends most of her time at home alone. Friends and family suggest that she should get out more often to meet other people. Mary feels this is useless. I have tried to meet new people. No one really could like me. People are all mean and want something from me.

These thoughts have the power to control your environment and your emotions. Thinking negative thoughts about certain situation will change the way we look at certain things. Soon you will see that if you can change the way you look at certain things (in a negative way) the things around you will soon change into a positive way.

There may be mean and selfish people in our world. There may even be people who dislike you and don’t ever want to get to know you. Not every body will fit that description. By assuming that everyone doesn’t like you, you are building a wall that often prevent you from having what we crave the most out of life” Love and Affection”. We all need to be cared for and wanted.

“Happiness can be defined in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and the ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually” - Stephen Covey

Let’s say for example someone gets a promotion at your work and instead of looking at it negatively, like they got the promotion that you deserved. You should look at the situation with a positive outlook. It’s all about how you choose to let these events effect you.

1) There could be good reason why you didn’t get the promotion.

2) Working as a team at my company may be the choice they made benefits the Company and therefore benefits me.

3) There could be a better position opening later.

4) I wanted this job very much, but it went to someone with more experience.

5) This doesn’t mean I’m not a good employee.

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power”.- Alan Cohen

Let’s take a situation that seems to happen to most people. While at work you’re walking through the hallways and you look into the office and see Paul standing there. You proceed to say ‘Hi Paul how is it going’. He looks at you as if he has never met you. You met Paul at the company picnic about three months ago. You sat next to him and talked about his favorite football teams for a couple of hours.

You could react in two ways to this situation:

Your negative reaction would be to think what kind of an arrogant jerk is this guy.
Who does this guy think he is? Wow I go out of my way to say hi to this guy and he acts like he’s never seen me before.

You’re positive reaction would be to think “Humm I wonder if he might have forgotten my name”. Maybe he just got a call from someone with some bad news. Paul could be in a stressful environment and therefore not thinking clearly.

Feel free to assume but often there is a reason for someone’s negative behaviors that will explain their actions. I’m not saying this is acceptable behavior.
People’s reactions often are the product of your reaction to them if you look at Paul and say.

“What a Jerk here I am trying to be nice to him and he acts like he doesn’t even know me”.
Paul’s: reaction will be something like “Who the Heck does that person think he is talking to me like that”. And the conversation will continue to get hostile. NOT GOOD

If your reaction is a positive reaction to the conversation an goes like:” Hi Paul and he looks like he is never seen you before and he reacts with a negative attitude. You then reply with ‘Hi Paul it’s me Jerry remember from the picnic’ said enthusiastically. Most people will reply to this with a positive response. Now let’s say that they reply with a negative response. It’s up to you to continue the conversation or politely disengage by saying something positive like ‘I’m sorry Paul my name is Jerry we sat together at the picnic and talked about Football, do you remember. If he remembers that could start a positive conversation If not then excuse yourself politely and walk away.

You will soon see a positive change in negative thinking personalities if you persist with a positive attitude and continue to be kind and caring to them. Most of these people live in a protective shell of doubt and anxiety but by chipping away constantly with kindness this shell can be lowered or removed. Try it tomorrow with someone you have problems with.

Whatever you think just happened try not to have a negative opinion. Think Positive .

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.” - William James

A positive mental attitude has a definiteness of purpose.

We translate into reality the thoughts that appear in our minds if they are good thoughts that is what our lives will become if they are negative thoughts that is what our minds will see.

There is something you can give away all the time and it doesn’t cost any money. You can give this away every day and never run out of them. Most people don’t realize they have an endless supply of them. “Smiles” Start Giving Them Away.

Try a little experiment on the people around you. Start smiling at people you see during the day. Make note of their reactions while smiling at them. You will find that most people smile back and might even say hello. The next day continue the experiment by saying “Hello” with a smile.

I have went through most of my life with a smile on my face as a matter of fact when I was in the eighth grade my metal shop teacher made up a nickname for me and Started calling me ‘Smiley’. Soon most of the other kids in the class started to call me Smiley. They said it in a negative way as if they were making fun of me. I took the named Smiley in the only way I knew how to in a positive way. My metal shop teacher probably never realized the impact that the named Smiley would have on my life and the lives of others.

“Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down”. - Jimmy Durante

A positive mental attitude is associated with:

Unconditional love, joy, happiness, courage, strength, helpfulness, compassion, freedom, mercy, forgiveness, diplomacy, tact, poise, purity, perfection, self-discipline, morality, hope, life, spiritual bliss, humility, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, intelligence, divine love, beauty, harmony and creativity.

A destructive negative attitude is associated with;

Anger, fear, hate, resentment, bitterness, selfishness, depression, sadness, pride, sulking,
Stupidity, narrow-minds, ignorance, negligence, discord, self-pity, lack of self-control, immorality, discouragement, loneliness, vanity, perversions, evil, injustice, intolerance, hardness of heart, cruelty.

I’m sure you can add to the list with many more. Try to keep a positive mental attitude an soon you notice a negative change in your attitude or of those around you. When you start to see negativity around you visualize something positive or funny. As time goes on you will form anchors in your mind to break up the negative attitudes from those around you

I often use humor in an uncomfortable environment to break any tension that is developing among the people I am around. I will tell a joke, poke fun at something they said, make up a quick story or change the conversation. This might upset a few but for the most part it takes the wind out of the person creating the negativity.

Remember this quote “Things always seem to turn out best for those people who can make the best out of the way things turn out”.

Greg Vanden Berge has been involved in personal success for over 35 years. He has educated himself through everything you can think of almost :) He has written a top selling book http://startlivingyourdreamstoday.com and is currently working on creative ways to educate people on how to become suceesful in business. http://100moneymakers.com

: 9:58 am: adminHardware Stuff

The car audio amplifier… its soul purpose is to take a low level signal from the source unit and transform it into a high level signal for activating the loudspeakers.

Amplifiers range in power from about twenty watts per channel to over one thousand watts per channel. Would you believe that the prices range anywhere from fifty dollars to several thousand dollars depending on features, power output and quality! Amplifiers range from one channel of output to as many as eight channels. The most common amplifiers are currently two and four channel models.

Amplifier Power Ratings
Power amplifiers also have “optional equipment”. These features include built-in active crossovers, equalizers, signal processing and speaker level inputs. When shopping for an amplifier consider that all power ratings are not created equal. The only true measure of an amplifier’s power is its continuous power rating or R.M.S. rating ( or root mean square) and refers to the average power output of the amplifiers. Some of the low-quality brands will exaggerate or even outright lie about the power output of their amplifiers which is a good reason to stick with the well known manufacturers.

Car Amplifier Quality: Also keep in mind the quality of the amplifier. A
generally good indication of quality build and the power
output is the size and the weight of the amplifier itself.
Better quality amplifiers will usually have a heavier and
larger heatsink versus a low quality amplifier of the same
power rating.

However there are many top quality amplifiers that do not follow this rule.

Blaupunkt makes a line of amplifiers that have a plastic shell. Because of the high efficiency design of those amplifiers a heavy heatsink is not required. Also a good indication of an amplifier’s true output is the size of the fuse used.

Use your head when buying and keep in mind the brand’s reputation for quality.

If you find yourself on a budget or lack space for many components then the economical thing to do is buy a multi-channel amplifier with the built in features and processors that you desire. By minimizing the number of components the chance of noise entering into the system is lessened.

Some features and aspects of amplifiers to consider are:

Bridgeable: This feature allows a pair of amplifier power
channels to be combined into one channel of greater power.
This is usually used for driving a subwoofer although it
will work with any other type of speaker as well

Channels: The more channels an amplifier has the greater
the installation flexibility it will have. Especially in
terms of options, future add-ons and upgrades.

Class: This refers to the way the amplifier operates. The
three types that are most likely to be encountered are A,
A/B, and D. Class A amplifiers are the least efficient in
terms of power consumption, staying on continually, but
also have better sound in general than A/B amplifiers. They
are very rare in car audio. Class A/B amplifiers are more
efficient than the class A design and are the most common
type. Almost all amplifiers in the car audio market are of
the A/B design. Class D amplifiers are usually reserved for
high power subwoofer amplifiers and can reach efficiencies
in the 80%+ range. This design can therefore be smaller,
uses less current and produces less heat than the other
classes.

Connectors: This is the method of attachment used for
wires that are connected to the amplifier, including
speaker and power wires. The most common kind is the screw terminal strip. This is a series of screw connectors that can be removed and replaced without compromising the
amplifier. The other main type of attachment is the “Molex”
type connector. This method involves a wire harness that
plugs into the amplifier after the power and speaker
connections have been made with a crimp or solder
connection. If the amplifier is installed in more than one
system these wires can get pretty short over time and
become more difficult and even dangerous to work with. A
variation on the two is a harness that the power and
speaker wires screw into. Then the harness plugs into the
amplifier. This is probably the most convenient of all
connections.

Crossover/Filter: A built in crossover can be useful,
especially if it is many frequencies of adjustment. A
filter is a crossover that only affects one channel, not
actually splitting frequencies but simply reducing a range
of them.

Distortion: This is often given as T.H.D. or total
harmonic distortion. It is the measure of how much an
amplifier will change a signal from the input signal it is
given. Figures below 0.1% are negligible and will not be
heard. Usually the figure can be in the 3% range without
being heard but virtually all high quality amplifiers will
have a T.H.D. below 0.1%.

Efficiency: This is the ratio of of power input (from the
battery) to power output (to the speakers). A 100 watt
amplifier with an efficiency of 50% would take in 200 watts of power from the battery and output 100 watts of power to
the speakers. The other 100 watts of power would be wasted
as heat. The higher the efficiency of an amplifier the
better.

Power Output: The rated power output of an amplifier
should be given into a four ohm load, all channels driven
from twenty to twenty thousand hertz (20Hz-20kHz). Keep in mind that while the low end amplifiers are exaggerated in
their power output, many high end amplifiers are under-
rated in their power output. These are sometimes called
“cheater amps” because they allow a car audio competitor to
compete in a lower power class while in reality having a
larger amplifier. This under-rating can be three times less
than the actual power output.

Power Supply: The two most common types are the IC chip and the MOSFET supply. The IC chip is what is used in most source units (head units) and are only capable of roducing about twenty watts per channel. MOSFET is the more common design and has a smoother sound than the chip design.

Pre-amp Inputs: This is a set of jacks (usually RCA jacks)
that will accept a low level pre-amp signal from a source
or processing unit.

Pre-amp Outputs: This is a set of jacks (usually RCA
jacks) that pass on a low level pre-amp signal to another
amplifier or processing unit. These will sometimes be filtered outputs.

Separate Gain Controls: This allows the gain of each
channel of the amplifier to be set independently of the
other(s).

Speaker Level Inputs: For source units that do not have
pre-amp level RCA outputs this feature may be used to take
the signal from the speaker leads of the source unit. The
signal will not be as clean as a pre-amp level output but
will be adequate for most factory upgrade applications.

Stability: The measure of how low of an impedance load an amplifier can handle (in ohms). Any good quality amplifier
will be two ohm stable while a rare few will go as low as a
quarter of an ohm. Ideally an amplifier should double its
power each time the load is halved. For example, a one
hundred watt amplifier (into a four ohm load) should
produce two hundred watts into a two ohm load and so on.
This is most useful when running multiple speakers off of a
single amplifier or in sound off competitions that are
classed by total power output.

Tri-Mode Output: This feature is available under different
names but is the ability of an amplifier to run a stereo
pair of speakers and a mono subwoofer (or center channel)
from only two channels of the amplifier. Personally, I
would not recommend doing this. Instead buy a good quality
four channel amplifier and bridge two of the channels for
the subwoofer.

Tube Amplifiers: These are the least common amplifiers and are also the most expensive. Rather than the traditional
solid state components they use old fashioned vacuum tubes. They are said to produce a warmer sound and a moother midrange than solid state designs. For most systems the standard design will be more desirable.

Armed with this knowledge, you should now be able to make an informed decision on your amplifier purchase. Interested in more amplifier articles? Check out Putting the “BOOM…BOOM…BOOM” into your system.

Enjoy!

George Steiner

www.1car-audio.com

George and Judy Steiner from North Carolina have unsuccessfully maneuvered through the teenage eons with their two daughters. The countless boyfriends with modified auto stereo systems broadcasting bone-jarring bass, little room to sit due to the electronic gagets and non-existant trunks, experiences we could have done without!

: 2:37 am: adminThe Technology Way

There are various accessories that could help operating a computer easier. The mouse is just an example of an accessory which makes navigation simple with just one click. However, most of these accessories have short “lifespan” and can be considered disposable. This is when the accessories can become bothersome.

What are you to do, when in the middle of an important document, your mouse decides to “die”? Would you worry? Would you panic and run to the nearest store? What if it’s night time and the stores are closed and you are rushing up your work?

On your keyboard, immediately press CTRL + S simultaneously to save whatever it is you’re doing. That way, you don’t lose your work. This is a common and one of the most familiar tasks without using the mouse. If the mouse is not functioning and you need to do something important but you don’t have the time to repair the mouse or change it, you can actually still do your work even with just the keyboard around. Here are some key combinations you need to navigate your way through your PC sans the mouse:

Ctrl + O - to open a file or document

Ctrl + B - to use the “Bold” feature of fonts

Ctrl + I - to italize fonts

Ctrl + U - to underline texts in a document

Ctrl + X - to cut texts, cells, or icons from files

Ctrl + W - to close existing windows

Ctrl + R - to align document to the right

Ctrl + L - to align document to the left

Ctrl + E - to align document to the center (especially in Word Documents)

Ctrl + Z - to undo last action done in a document

Ctrl + Y - to redo last action done in a document

Shift F7 - to prompt the Thesaurus tool in a document

F7 - to prompt the spelling and grammar check tool in a document

F12 - or save as, to save same document with another filename or to another drive

Windows + D - shows desktop

Alt + Tab - switches you from one window to another

F5 - refreshes your browser when it seems to have stopped moving (when you are using the Internet)

Ctrl + Esc - prompts the “Start Menu” when you are using the old 101-key keyboard without the Windows keys on it.

F6 - enables you to change the URL on the address field when you are using the Internet.

Shift + Tab - when you need to go back to a previous cell (in a spreadsheet) or entry in a form (in the Internet)

Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert - to paste copied text to another document

Windows + F - when you need to find and open a file recently saved

Windows + Pause/Break - to directly open and view your system properties without going through the control panel windows

Windows + E - to directly open and view Windows Explorer without going though the Start Menu

Alt + F4 - to prompt shut down menu

When you get used to using these shortcuts, you will certainly be able to finish the task you are doing even without the mouse. And this ability will make you look like a computer whiz.

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: 1:19 am: adminThe Technology Way

Search Engine Optimization, is sorely misunderstood for the most part by Internet Marketers.

They think this is stuff for ‘geeks only’, but in reality, you should really LOVE these 3 words.

You see, a properly optimized website, is like a magnet to search engines and attracts Website visitors the same way moths are attracted to a light bulb on a dark night, and this sort of traffic that you get from the Search Engines is called “Organic Search Engine Traffic”.

Organic Search Engine Traffic is simply put, “Type-In Traffic”. People arrive at your website because they typed in a keyword or a phrase that is relevant to your website, and because your site was properly optimized, your site shows up in the first few positions of the search results and gets the click-thru from the searcher.

Your Basic SEO(Search Engine Optimization) works on these parameters. If you get just some of them right, You’ll be able to rank far better than Sites which are not using these parameters.

Keyword Density (How many times you should repeat your keywords on your pages)
Keyword Prominence (Where you should place your keywords on your pages)
Link Density
Link Prominence
Using h1 and h2 tags AND what they are
Using meta keywords AND what they are
The number of internal links on web page
The number of external links on web page
The age of website

Now You can use Free Tool like http://www.goodkeywords.com to analyze all of these parameters.

The main question is how to analyze. You know, In personal Development There is something Called Modeling. In which You model yourself from the Successful Man/Woman.

This is exactly what you need to do with Good Keywords. Use it to Analyzer your competition.

~ Check out the top 5 sites in Google for your keyword.
~ Open Good Keywords WebPage Explorer.
~ Input the URL for your competition
~ Here you’ll be able to see Different Views on that Webpage i.e. Text, HTML code, Keywords used etc.

Well this is exactly what you need. Now With other tools in Good Keywords you can check the site’s Link popularity. Try it, it’s one of the best tools around. Or what you can do is get this SEO tool.

Anyways lets start the process of SEO-ing Your Webpage

1. Put your main keyword, and secondary keywords in your Keywords Meta tag. No more than 7-8 keywords should be placed.
2. Put your Description loaded with secondary keyword and Main keywords in Description Meta Tag.
3. Put a Good descriptive Benefit with Keywords in your Title Tag.4. You can use any Keyword density your article/text allows you to.
5. Link to one of the good Site related to that article with your keywords in it.
6. Search for Link partners. Use your Main and Secondary keywords in Incoming Links.
7. Link back to your home page(if it’s not your Home page) with main keyword.

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