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With digital cameras, capturing a “Kodak Moment” has never been
so easy… and so hard.

It’s never been so easy because with our digital cameras we can
basically snap away like madmen with a machine gun and see right
there and then whether we’ve captured the moment.

But it’s also never been so difficult because of the annoying
thing known as “shutter lag.”

Shutter lag is a digital phenomenon, and refers to the time
between the moment that you hit the button to take the picture
and the moment that the camera actually captures the image. Lag
time can reach nearly 2 seconds! That’s like an eternity when
trying to capture a moment. I mean I’ve seen my children go from
laughing to crying in that amount of time!

On film cameras there really isn’t any lag, but on many digital
models (though not the more expensive SLRs), the lag is
considerable. Considerable enough to mean the difference of
capturing the moment and not.

The truth is, as much experimenting as you want to do and as
much as you want to spend on equipment, taking pictures is all
about capturing moments. Miss the moment and it doesn’t matter
what kind of camera you have.

I once went to a friend’s to see his wedding pictures. He showed
me the pictures shot by a professional using the best camera,
flash, lighting system and other equipment. Then he showed by
the pictures taken by friends and family with disposal cameras
and average digital cameras. Though the professional took better
quality pictures, the friends caught much better moments.

I’ll take a captured moment over quality any time. I recently
went to a birthday party with my children. My youngest daughter
was having a blast, smile painted on her face. I kept trying to
take pictures of her, but when I looked at the screen, all I was
left with was an arm or wisp of hair as she had moved away by
the time the camera captured (or missed) the moment.

I believe without a doubt the #1 Rule in photography is Get the
Shot. So what to do about this pesky shutter lag problem.

Digital cameras work by first pressing the shutter button half
way to focus and then fully depressing to take the picture.

What you can do is if you know you are getting read to take a
picture is:

1. Turn off all automatic features like red-eye reduction 2.
Focus on your subject a couple of seconds before you know you
want to take the picture, wait for your Kodak moment, and then
take the picture.

Use a bit of imagination when planning dates. Every other guy who has hit on her asked her out to dinner or the movies, or both.

Boring. And expensive. And little opportunity to talk.

The first date is about checking each other out - seeing if there is enough there to take things further. If you plan on doing a few of these and you don’t have money to burn, do something that gives you maximum interaction time at low cost, like a country walk, a trip to the beach, or just a cup of tea at a cool cafe.

Make sure you get to know your home patch really well. Find a quiet cafe or two to hang out in and get to know the regulars and the owner, so when you take a woman there you have some friendly faces around and people who know your name. She will subconsciously notice that people know and like you. It helps her to feel safe with you.

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Scott Holland is the author of “How to Overcome Shyness and Find the Woman of Your Dreams”. See http://www.dreamwoman.co.uk for details and free download: Six Myths About Women and Sex - and why they are all wrong!

What makes a man appealling? Is it his dashing good looks? Is it
his rock-hard pecs and abs of steel? Or is it his smile and his
personality that takes the top plum? In a society where everyone
seems aesthetically astute, it’s difficult to validate this
question for sure. Sexiness is a very subjective matter and is
very relative at that. It holds inconsonant views from each
individual just as everyone squabbles over tastes in clothes and
food. Hence, a universal answer to this blown-up question is an
illusion. Nonetheless, having met men from all walks of life
with radical tastes and personalities, I think I can provide
authentic down-to-earth revelations regarding this subject.

So what makes a man sexy? Take your whiffs off the following:

1. Masculinity

There is more to a man than his firm butt and washboard abs.
True, what a woman first notices is his anatomical assets but
what lingers in her mind is not all that. It’s his inherent
masculinity. It’s in the way he languidly struts across the room
with a show of adequacy and grace and the way he flashes the
glint in his eyes that ultimately creates the spark. It’s also
in the manner that he moves and talks that keeps women’s eyes
riveted at him. Being masculine does not merely suggest
flaunting a large build or a protective quality but having this
natural instinctive masculine self to trigger women’s
instinctive feelings of attraction.

2. Smile

A natural sweet smile is one of the greatest attraction of a
man. It exudes an aura of congeniality and establishes charisma
presence. It also breaks a woman’s resistance and communicates
hidden messages without any verbal language. This is why a man
who is generous with his smile is guaranteed to maintain a
women-magnet profile!

3. Eye contact

A man who knows how to have eye contact is a man who knows how
to communicate. Women just like men are absolute attention
seekers. They want men to listen and to take heed of the things
they say. Thereupon, they demand affirmation. Eye contact is a
way of ratifying. It makes a woman feel sufficiently attended to
and cared for. Eye contact makes women feel so extremely special
that they tend to sometimes melt right on the spot.

4. Confidence

Confidence makes a man. There’s just something about the appeal
of wealth and power that women can’t resist. Antithetical to how
most people view it, giving off that commanding vibe isn’t
always dependent on one’s bank account. Men can actually take on
that aura of authority just by moving through life with an air
of self-assurance and a boost of self-esteem.

5. Aromatic sense

If a man is a making of a heartthrob onscreen and is a hunk on a
ramp but stinks, he definitely goes down the cutthroat world. No
woman likes a man who smells a bit too ripe like he just spent
24 hours locked in the bathroom. If a man looks good and smells
even better, women are bound to swarm around him.

6. Sense of Style

Some men just don’t seem the type to go with the fashion trend.
But it does not mean that they are passe. Some just have their
own personal preferences and resist the lure of punked-up
garments. Actually, it’s not the clothes that make a man sexy.
It’s how he carries his apparel with confidence and ease that
does. Clothes don’t entice women, it’s the man that makes those
clothes look good in him that wiles them.

7. Communication skills

Intellect is a factor in today’s attraction equation. We are in
such a competitive world that anyone without it is immediately
slighted. But intellect without communication skills is not an
attractive product. Conversational skills are necessary for any
man to win the tilt. He must know when and how to start up a
conversation and carry it on ’til it tapers off. He should not
patronize women and is not so full of himself. It is believed
that if a man is able to stimulate a woman’s brain juices in a
conversation, it is likely that he can stimulate her other
juices as well.

8. Sensitivity

Sensitivity is sexy but too much sensitivity is feminity. So
where do we draw the line? When we talk about sensitivity on the
right scale, it means having a sense of empathy, confidentiality
and trust rolled into one. When a woman confides something, a
man’s initial reaction is to help her find a solution or fix it
himself. This is not sensitivity. When a woman expresses her
feelings, she just needs an ear to insorb the steam out of her
being. A sexy man sees this through and gets women everytime. 9.
Sense of Humor

Laughter releases chemicals that create a sense of well-being,
which is a wonderful turn-on. A man equipped with a good sense
of humor automatically wins his points on the sexy scale with
women. With the mighty use of his expression and wits combined,
he becomes an addiction that women just can’t get enough of.
Women think that if he can evoke them with laughter in public,
chances are he can also make them giggle in bed.

10. Oddity

Extrinsic and intrinsic personal abilities and traits that are
considered unique and superior by a woman’s biology and also by
the society to which she identifies with are, to varying
extents, very charming to the female species. If a man has the
gift of music or have potential fancy footwork or simply has art
at his fingertips, he can charm his way anywhere. A mysterious
facade that keeps her intrigued and guessing is also deemed
bewitching. But a man’s resistance to a woman’s seduction is
considered the prime. It’s effects are naturally ingrained into
the “sex” part of a woman’s brain that it drives her motors
purring all the time.

What makes a man sexy is but everything about him and even
more. Whether it be on the surface or skin deep, it’s just a
matter of projection. Every man is sexy in their own ways. They
just have to feel that in themselves so the seething sexiness
comes out of them naturally.

© 2005 Rachelle Arlin Credo. All rights reserved.

Dear Candace,

My girlfriend and I recently split up. I called her a few days ago and she said that it was over and that she did not want to discuss it with me anymore, that I had gotten on her nerves to the point where she didn’t see any point in communicating with me, ever. I told her I was completely devastated and depressed. She said, “I know, but that happens to people everyday and you need to act like an adult for once.”

I just don’t understand what happened. I am so hurt and confused and lonely. I bought her flowers almost every week we dated and treated her like a princess. I cry and pray every day for her to return. How can I get my fairy tale back? ~ Jeff

“Greetings and blessings to you, precious one. What is attractive about a person is their character, their strengths, their goals, their beliefs. In some cases, it may be external things, and yet, for the most part, it is who they are and all of the richness they bring into the world and share with another. That is what you brought to this relationship in the first place. Who you became over time was a person who is in love with this other person, rather than a man of character, virtue, ideas, and goals. You lost who you were in the process of this relationship, and you lost what made you desirable to her in the first place.

“You have not done anything wrong or bad. This happens naturally for people in relationships when they are not strong and certain about who they are and about their character and strengths. Those become lost in the course of a relationship. For you, it would be best to allow your fairy tale to read onto the next page where it says, ‘And they lived happily ever after. The End.’ You close the book and say, ‘That was a nice story. God bless those characters.’ And you move on.

“Give thanks in your heart for having known this person and for having learned that in the course of falling deeply and wonderfully in love, you lose yourself. Then go about your life, without this person, rediscovering your strengths, your character, your virtues and goals. Focus on these and strengthen these. They are already instilled within you in a very deep way. Make contact with those things on the deepest level that you can, so that you bring them into the world and into your relationships, rather than bringing your neediness, your dependence, or your suffering, which came as a result of losing yourself in this relationship.

“Rediscover within you all of these things. You are the person that you want to get to know. When you feel strong and confident in who you are, bring that into the world and allow another relationship to unfold in your life, being mindful not to lose yourself in the process. It is not to be self-centered when you step into a relationship, but to continue to make yourself, your relationship with God, your family, your work, your goals, and your priorities as important as they truly are.

“You have everything within you that you need to accomplish this. It is only for you to make the decision and take the time to do this. Allow yourself to be motivated to maintain who you are and to allow your partner to maintain who they are so that the relationship becomes the blessing of the gifts that you each bring, knowing that you are stronger as a couple than the sum of your parts.

“Blessings to you on this happy venture. Amen.”

Inspired by A Course in Miracles, Candace Doyle has been hearing and sharing the Voice of the Holy Spirit within her as a discernible, conversational Voice for over 10 years. Her spiritual advice column, Advice From Within, shares this small, still Voice with others in their times of need. Candace and her husband, DavidPaul, are also the authors of The Journey That Never Was, a guide to hearing God’s Voice regardless of one’s faith, religion, or personal beliefs. For more information, please visit their website at http://www.rightmindedness.com

System File Checker is a great utility that is typically not utilized by the average Windows XP User. What it does is scan system files that are protected by Windows File Protection (by default Windows File Protection is enabled), and it checks to make sure that the protected files have not been altered. If it finds that a protected file has been altered, it will replace the file with the proper file.

If you are troubleshooting a windows problem or error, running the System File Checker, should be first check. The nice thing about the System File Checker is that it is a tool that isn’t as intrusive as doing a repair install or using the recovery console. Also, by design, it is utility that doesn’t hurt to run, in fact it is a utility that should be run even when there are no problems. System File Checker is meant to ensure that files that are critical to Windows to operate properly are not deleted, overwritten or altered in any way….typically 3rd party software or malicious virus attacks are the culprits.

Taking this a step further, I have incorporated running this utility regularly as a maintenance tool, even when I am not experiencing any problems.

You might be saying to yourself, ‘well, I haven’t experienced any viruses lately and I don’t think that any of the software on my computer has caused system files to be replaced and overall I my computer is running in tip top shape,…so I’m sure that my system files are fine and have not been replaced, renamed or altered.’

Well, think again…I have been using the System File Checker for a very long time, and to this day, I have NEVER had the utility not find anything. The way you can tell if the System File Checker finds a file on your system that has been replaced, deleted, or altered, is to run the utility without inserting your Windows XP Installation CD . If all of your files are good,…then you will not receive a prompt asking you to insert your Windows XP Installation CD…Here is how to run System File Checker…

Click Start, then Run , then type sfc /scannow then click OK

If you see a window pop up asking you to insert your Windows XP Installation CD, then the System File Checker utility has found a file on your system that has been replaced, deleted or altered….

Reasons To Run System File Checker :

If a service won’t start…
If Basic Windows Functions not working properly…
If a System File is Missing …
Program won’t start…
DLL File Missing or Corrupt…
If you are experiencing problems while in windows…
As a Maintenance Tool to Keep Windows Running Smoothly…

In conclusion, if you are troubleshooting, first try running the System File Checker. If you are not troubleshooting, I also urge you to run the System File Checker on a regular basis to keep Windows happy and running smoothly. After all, if Windows isn’t happy, where does that leave you?

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Anyone who has seen the movie’ Honey I shrunk the kids’ can imagine how useful compression can be. Compression, which has become anonymous with Zip files work
off the same idea only with a (add your joke here)’slightly’ different technology.
You will find a lot of data compression programs in use today and some are easier and have better features than others, so in this article I will talk about compression in general, but may through in a couple of examples for comparison.

The first thing you need to know is that there can be more than one compressed file; you can have an archive (a multiple of files). The main benefit of this is that the user can:
 Save valuable disk space
 Can send and receive files on the internet quicker
 Speeds up your processor
 Depending on the file compression program can reduce files as much as 90%

The user should also be aware that files can only be opened with the original compression program that compressed it. Think of this as a form of protection, if you will since this is like an encrypted file or archive. Adding a password is another way to insure files are safe from prying eyes and some compression programs let you do this at any level of compression or decompression with the associated commands (update,move,feshien,add). Only individual files can be password protected not whole archives.
Ever since the first personal computers (PC’s) came about people found how easy it is to load up there drives with programs and downloads that eat up much of there memory. That’s why developers created data compression programs in the first place, to free up hard drive space and increase processor speed.
There are a lot of data compression programs and they are not exactly alike because they use different data compression algorithms. One popular program, for example looks for repeating words or phrases and assigns them there own character or number value.

A lot of users don’t fully understand the more advanced features of their data compression programs so they are not really getting there full value. Syntax command lines are a good example of this confusion. There are four basic commands in syntax (the shape of a command line);
 Command: The task to be preformed like add, delete or update.
 Archive: the name of the archive.
 Switch or Option: lets user specify a file option like adding file directories for compression.
 File: name of file(s) to be processed.
A user can compress files four basic ways:
 Add files to archive - old files with same name are overwritten.
 Move files to archive - upon compression old files are deleted.
 Update files - makes sure you have the most recent file version.
 Freshen files - almost like update, seeks out the last modified file and adds it to archive.
The above commands have there basic functions but can do other things. Ex. the update & add commands can create and compress files and the Freshen command can create a new archive.
There are only a couple of data compression programs out there that give the user more than one compression method - PKZIP AND ARJ.
PKZIP has what they call an imploding method and a shrinking method; without going into great detail imploding uses less memory (90k), and is very through. This is the default setting. Shrinking is fast but uses a bit more memory (128k), works great for smaller files.
ARJ gives the user more options for data compression. It uses multiple settings (m1 to m4). This is a tradeoff of prosessing speed versus packing dentisy. There are 2 more options available here but test runs show no significant change in time or compression.
Even with experienced compression users, extracting compressed files with a newer version of a data compression program may prove difficult, so programmers created self extracting files (SFX) to enable beginners to easily use compressed files. This small program may be part of the original program or added after as a separate program.

I realize some of this may sound confusing and for that I apologize, and after all, people will compresses data using only the basic functions and be happy and content because it suits there present needs. In conclusion you can tell there are many options available when using any data compression program and it is well worth the time (got time on the week end?) and effort to learn some of the advanced features if you want to save some serious space on your hard drive.

Robert Hanania is a student of the internet, learning about home based businesses and computers. Robert is currently promoting his web sites. All are welcome to visit him at:
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