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New Resource: Glyconutrients

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

With the new path I’m slowly moving down along, naturally I’m looking for new information for vitamins to make sure I’m getting all of the nutrients that I need throughout the day. I know to drink about 8 glasses of water, I know to only eat food in moderation and a multi-vitamin without fish oil because of my severe allergy (hard to find) is something I take on a regular basis. I came across some new information today on something called: glyconutrients.

I had to do a bit of reading to find out exactly what it was but a quick break down would be:

Glyconutrients refers to mixtures of polysaccharides, such as exudate tree gums and high molecular weight aloe vera extracts containing fermentable dietary fiber and plant extracts, as well as simple sugars or starch. Identifies the contents of Ambrotose, as “a glyconutritional dietary supplement ingredient consisting of a blend of monosaccharides, or sugar molecules.” In the marketing literature, these sugars are said to be the following eight simple sugars: Xylose, Fucose, Galactose, Glucose, Mannose, N-acetylgalactosamine, N-acetylglucosamine, and N-acetylneuraminic acid.

Now according to glycoinformation.com, There are a wide number of health issues and concerns, which scientists have begun to link or believe, may be related to a deficiency of Glyconutrients. It is a good idea to speak with your primary care doctor, they maybe able to tell you if your medical concerns are in any way related to a lack of Glyconutrients or tell you if taking a supplement of Glyconutrients is right for you. As with any supplement, it is best to get a doctor’s OK before adding it to your daily routine. Glyconutrients are an important and necessary part of your cellular structure and seeing to it that you have the proper amount in your body is part of maintaining good health. Consider speaking with your doctor about whether or not a Glyconutrients supplement is right for you.

I’m not quite sure if this is the way I’m going to go, being on a diet I’d like to get rid of the sugar content in my body. You don’t need sugar to live, there are natural sources out there like fruit and even some vegetables I hear.

But for those whom are far more health conscious than I am, I say looking into some more information about the topic, glycoinformation.com has quite a few resources in regards to it, as well as a blog with even more information.

Drug Rehabilitation Network

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

I recently came across a Drug Rehabilitation website that housed some pretty valuable information. drugrehabilitationnetwork.com is probably the most comprehensive drug rehab referral site of it’s kind. They don’t offer you a facility to park yourself at for 30 days, they give you an honest review of OTHER programs/centers so that you can compare them based on your needs, or your loved ones needs naturally. They’re considered to be one of the best resources on the internet for drug rehabilitation and after looking through their site, I have to agree.

They do not accept money from their advertisers which is why they can give you an honest assessment of each drug/alcohol rehab and treatment center they have listed in their database. Registration for this site is free. Once you register you can then go through their links database to other rehabilitation resources on the Internet. For someone just getting out of rehab you can consider this part of your 12-step program where you’re continuing to work on your recovery. Anyone knows that it’s a long and windy road when you’re recovering and thanks to resources like these, it more than likely isn’t going to be such a bumpy one.

SEO Effect Software

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

If you’re looking to drive more customers to your business, seoeffect.com has created a Search engine optimization SEO software. SEO Effect draws enormous attention. You’ll attract more visitors, more interest, more conversion, more business, and more sales. If you can handle the attention than this is the script for you.

They offer a free trial, I signed up and created a free account. Their prices range from $69 to $269. In wanting to learn more about the program I signed up for, I went to load the free account section and found myself looking at a 404 page. The rest of their navigation seems to work but it would be nice to know what the free account looks like. I had a little bit of trouble navigating around their database. At this point I’m unsure if anything is actually being done with my site.

To get past all of that, however, I found myself looking at the SEO Glossary. They list a long page of commonly used words on the internet in regards to search engines and other programs that webmasters use on a regular basis. Another option that they want you to look into is handbook search engine optimization however, the site isn’t in English so I doubt it would be much help to anyone.

While the site is fairly easy on the eyes and the navigation is standard in one place, I’m not overly confident that this company could help me as far as marketing is concerned. I’m sure they have a great idea and maybe their clients have even had some success in the past but I don’t personally see the point in spending $269 a year promising me more ‘attention’ when they claim to be professionals at this and are only a PR5 themselves. I was already a PR5 before I changed my website title. Now I’m just waiting for things to push back up again. I don’t believe this company will do that for me but maybe someone else will have some luck.

Review: Discount Safety Gear

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

When asked to review a site, typically the first thing I look towards is site design. Is the template setup in a way that’s easy to read. Is the site easy to navigate through. Do the colors blend well together and don’t come off as blinding. Then I begin to poke through the actual content of a site. Typically some will say that the content is more important than the layout. To some degree this is true but 90% of the time if you load a site and it’s close to impossible to read anything then naturally you’re not going to stay there for very long, no matter what the resource.

I was asked to write a review on discountsafetygear.com. They offer everything from Hard Hats to Safety Goggles. The bulk of their website is setup in .html format and as someone who uses PHP exclusively I don’t quite understand the reason behind it but I’m not here to look at how the webmaster coded it, but what the final outcome is.

Visually the site is rather appealing. With the size of the text and the initial format of the page I can tell that the owners took Web 2.0 into consideration. It’s very easy to navigate through the page as well. The information listed on the sidebar is easy to read and easy on the eyes as well. I like their New Product section, I’m a sucker for new and interesting gear. There are a few sections where there’s the black and white construction tape and while I can understand the reason behind it, on the sidebar behind the title text there really isn’t much need for it. It makes it a little it hard to read but that could also just be my monitor. By the looks of it the site is fairly CSS heavy but it’s also designed with tables and that honestly doesn’t make much sense to me. I say switch completely to divs, search engines seem to like that a little better.

Considering Baby is prone to some form of self-damage (walking, bending, whichever) I naturally found myself searching through the First Aid Kits. The Home and Personal kits seemed interesting but for some reason I was drawn to the construction section. This is probably because I grew up in a family full of construction workers and knowing the contents of these kits by heart, I kind of wanted to see what an un-used one looked like – if this makes any sense of course. The kit that interests me the most is naturally going to be the most expensive – but this is my taste. I know in regards to safety that it’s important to have everything you’d ever need, even if it’s things you don’t think you’d need. This, of course, is based on the fact that my mother was assistant chief of EMS and always had a bag filled with things.

All in all it’s a fairly decent site and a great resource for safety gear that I’d recommend to anyone, no matter what you happen to be looking for.

Psychics and Tarot Readings

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

I’ve done a lot of reading into the supernatural world. I’ve done a little research on Tarot and Psychic Readings and the more I read into it, the more I’m intrigued by it. Kay has seen a Psychic on more than one occasion and she strongly believes that there are powers out there that we don’t realize on a day-to-day basis. She believes that our lives are predetermined and that there are ghosts floating around her, mainly her mother. I have no doubt in my mind that she is because I’m almost certain that Joe is floating around me. There’s always that breeze or shooting star out of no where to ease my mind.

I came across lovepsychics.com.au which is a Australian Love Psychic. The site could use a little bit of work, a lot of work actually, but that’s just the designer in me talking. The real purpose of the site is to target you to their phone number. They cost $5 per minute and I assume if you truly believe that there are higher powers that can be tapped into it would be worth the cost. Try them out if you wish, maybe you’ll learn something. They also do Tarot readings, I believe.

ThePiggyBanker.com

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

There’s a site called thepiggybanker.com where they offer you the Highest CD Rates, the Best money market rates, savings, credit cards and bank promotions. One of their featured savings accounts is FNBO Direct because they offer a 6.00% APY Savings rate on all balances until September 28, 2007. It’s one of the highest rates available for both CD and savings accounts.

ThePiggyBanker.com is currently running a $50 blog giveaway. To enter, all you have to do is write a post about it. It’s really quite simple. Just visit their site for the best CD rates, savings accounts, money market, credit card deals and bank promotions. They’ve a pretty valuable resource – I spent quite some time surfing around the site to learn more about some credit cards and accounts they’ve featured in their articles – you should check them out.

Chat Rooms

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

I know people who for years have remained active in chat rooms. Everything from your basic AOL rooms to your world-based Yahoo chat rooms. There’s a newer site on the ‘net that offers free chat rooms. It’s called wireclub.com.

I did some surfing around the site and found a few rooms of interest. The cool thing about this site is it’s kind of an ‘all-in-one’. You can also host a blog here, it’s also known for being a free dating site. It’s, to some degree, a newer twist on a myspace kind of a site. You can talk with other members, browse profiles, create friends lists, view picture galleries and blog. It’s completely free so if you’re looking to get involved with a new up and coming site, check out wireclub.com.

There are many social networking sites popping up around the internet, some of them look really interesting while a few of them are most likely going to be belly up sometime in the next year. Based on how popular and active wireclub.com seems to be at the moment, it’s safe to say this site may be around for a while. Sign up today, get yourself into something good from the get go, it’s kind of cool when you can be considered one of the senior members on a site, depending on how popular it gets of course.

I found it!

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I was finally able to find a calorie counter, strike that, I was able to find a free calorie counter. This makes dieting a lot easier for me. I don’t see myself joining programs like Weight Watchers or Jenny Craig or anything else that requires money that I don’t have just to get advice that’s readily available to anyone with a computer for free. There are many different kinds of diets, calorie counting, carbohydrate counting, no sugar, low sugar – blah blah blah. I’m sticking with calorie intake because I know how many calories I should eat during the day and then how many I need to burn off in order to lose 2-3lbs a week.

The site I found, myfitnesspal.com, is a completely free website that houses a calorie counter. They’ll teach you the nutritional contents of what you’re eating and how you can make better food choices. They’ll never ask you for a credit card, so don’t think that this is only some kind of a free trial. The site is here for you to bookmark and reference back to every time you’re trying to figure out the calorie count of your daily foods.

The History of Backup

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I came across a cool link today that I wanted to share: The History of Backup. Computer data back up is a fast developing field. New trends and solutions appear, backup methods and technologies become more complex. Need complete knowledge of backup technology, related features and methods? A look at this history will definitely help.

Backup is the activity of copying files or databases so that their additional copies may be restored in case of data loss. Running a web hosting company, I know the importance of RAID configurations on my servers. This way if I happen to have trouble with something and it winds up being deleted, I know I have at least two copies of it to restore so the client is able to save important files without worry. It’s a lot easier to configure a backup system than one may think. This article shows you many methods to help make your backups much easier.

I do the same for my servers as I do for myself. While I have an external hard drive to save everything, I also have a partition on one of my servers that only I can access so I’m sure to have the files no matter what happens. It’s saving one file in two or more places to insure that it can’t be lost. Backing up your computer, especially when you’re running servers, is very important and something everyone should consider doing.

I hate coming across sites where people complain that they’d lost everything. It’s very simple to have a second resource setup so that you don’t lose everything. Windows frequently has to be installed throughout the life of your computer, anyone knows this, having an external hard drive or two internals setup in RAID formation can make all the difference. While you’ll still have to setup Windows and maybe even reinstall all of your programs – you still have all of your files there and those are obviously the more important factor here.

Try reading through The History of Backup, you’d be surprised at what you learn.

Shopping with limited time.

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

I have a few birthday’s coming up that I need to shop for, it’s really got me in a rush to get some money together. A few of them aren’t really that important to me so a few cheap gifts is really as far as they’re going to go. The rest, however, require a little bit of work. Kay’s birthday is the beginning of June, my father’s birthday is towards the end of June and my sister’s is only three days after his. I know in order to get things together for them I’m going to have to save up about $600. I figure $200 each, at most, is pretty reasonable. I tend to go overboard on things so that’s where that price tag came from. I also have to factor in that a few weeks later is my anniversary so I have to look into two gift ideas for men and then even more ideas for the two women. I was thinking of getting Baby one of those cool Digital picture frames like I spoke about a few weeks ago but he doesn’t take as many pictures these days as he used to. I don’t really know what to do.

I came across designergifts.com, it’s a new gift store from onlinestores.com which is a leading online retailer with several other stores. There’s a lot of different kinds of gifts available. Gifts for men, women, children and babies. There are even seasonal items and regular birthday gifts. They’ve got low prices and equally low shipping costs. Any order over $75 is free shipping, which I think is pretty cool. The site’s also pretty easy to navigate around as well.

Now that’s Patriotism!

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

The one thing you can’t escape in Delmarva is American Pride, there are American Flags hanging up on all kinds of Outdoor Flagpoles. They’re attached to houses, smack dab in the middle of the front yard, hanging off the roof – you name the location and I’m sure there’s a flag there. I know that you can basically pick up US Flags anywhere but people around here only go to special places to insure they’re getting a top quality product, I only know this because I’ve asked them about it. A few actually pointed me to united-states-flag.com so you could imagine my surprise when I found out I was to review this site for a sponsor.

I found the site very easy to navigate but I’m noticing some trouble as far as cross-browser compatibility is concerned. It’s also a small bit on the dull-side considering this site was created to bring together patriots from all over America to show off their pride. I expected it to be a bit more complex than just a simple logo and some links. It’s designed in a very easy-to-navigate way so I guess that’s all that matters. They sell everything from US Flags, Flagpoles, Small Flags, Car Flags, State Flags, Pins, Patches and Decals, Patriotic Decoration, Flag Display Cases, Custom Flags and so much more. There’s even a section on Flag Etiquette and Care. I’d say it’s a valuable resource for anyone looking to show off their American Pride.

Choose your colors wisely…

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

ades-capturing-colors.png It’s rare when I come across a webmaster resource that makes me drool in excitement. There are thousands of programs out there to help webmasters get things done a little bit easier but there are very few that do everything they say they’re going to do without any hidden programs to install with it that will eat up your hard drive. Just this morning I came across a Color Picker software. It’s like having the eye drop/color chooser from Photoshop without having to boot Photoshop. It allows you to capture colors anywhere on the screen with a single click of the mouse and the really cool thing is you can instantly place these colors into HTML, RGB, C++, Visual Basic or even Delphi color codes. There’s even a color library where you can store your colors, change your colors and convert one color to another. With a right-click of the mouse you can even access the last 10 captured colors. It makes it very easy for you if you’re designing a template that requires specific colors and you have to refer to them often. It’s safe to say that Ades, the designer of this program is really going somewhere. This program only uses 1.4mb of disk space, and it’s excellently priced at $9.90. There’s a free trial if you’re interested in testing it out before you download it but I downloaded the trial myself and I have to say – I’ll be making this purchase very soon. It makes life very easy for me, even if you aren’t a designer and just like using random colors on word documents and chat programs – this would be a valuable resource for you as well.

Try it out, you may wind up purchasing it too.

World Travel: Ecuador

Thursday, May 17th, 2007

lagunaquilotoa.jpg I have a pretty bad head cold, Baby won’t fess up to the fact that he was the one who gave it to me. I’m seriously considering shipping him off to the Galapagos Islands because of it. It’s not like he’d completely hate it though. Doing some surfing around TheEcuaTraveler.com I came up with some pretty interesting travel links. There’s some fairly decent Spanish schools down there, plenty of scenery and the site itself is very well put together. It was a little hard for me to navigate at first, I couldn’t really tell which was a Google ad and which was actual content. Once I figured it out, however, their travel destinations are pretty gorgeous.

One that stood out for me was the Laguna Quilotoa. A quick description of it had me kind of interested in learning more.

Laguna Quilotoa is a beautiful volcanic-crater lake located about 35km west of Latacunga. The Laguna is about one mile in diameter and its amazing green color changes throughout the day as the sunlight hits it from different directions. On clear mornings the Ilinizas can be seen to the north and Cotopaxi to the east.

I’d say it’s a destination worth checking out, for future world travel of course.

OOOH! I want that!

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

There are many places in the world that I’ve always been interested in traveling to. Out of those places, there is really only one that I would be willing to live in. Hawaii is an amazing series of islands that makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside it’s unreal. Based on recent real estate reports, Hawaii real estate is booming right now. Kauai real estate is very popular and for a rather valid reason. The island is absolutely gorgeous and most of the homes for sale right now are within only a few miles, and less, of an ocean view. If anyone has ever seen the beautiful crystal blue waters of Hawaii, you’d understand my yearning to get there.

If you’re just looking for a vacation home, than the Big Island real estate is really the place to look. The homes aren’t that large but they’re only in the $80,000 range. You don’t need to own a multi million dollar home to live in Hawaii, sites like hawaiilife.com prove this.

I did some surfing around this site and I found it to be fairly interesting. HawaiiLife.com is a Hawaii real estate search engine that maps all of the available properties for sale through the Hawaii MLS using Google maps. In June 2007 they’ll be adding Maui and Oahu to their listings. I’d say it’s a site worth checking out. It’s nicely designed, they offer very valuable information, as well as aerial views of the home through Google Maps, it’s not a bad idea to keep it as a resource for your next look into Hawaii real estate.

Paid Blogging … and you.

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

I get a lot of mixed comments in regards to paid blogging. Right now there are bloggers tapped into at least 15 paid-to-blog websites and they’re all making a solid full time income every single month, top earners around the ‘net have brought in over $20,000 in the last six months, that’s $40,000 a year. Not many people can do that from home. A lot of paid bloggers are stay at home moms, they typically use their money to help with the bills. There are a lot of college students looking to make some money considering their class schedules don’t allow time for anything more than a part time job, if that.

If you wish to monetize your blog, there’s really nothing wrong with it. Yes, there are people who go a little overboard with posts. I’ve noticed people spewing completely unimportant/useless entries in between their paid posts just to make it look as though they have an active life. While I do post regularly (depending on time, at least) I make it a point to talk about things that are actually happening around me. I’m not spewing garbage for the sake of filling in the 50 word minimum between entries.

Some may argue that paid blogging is based on bias opinion. Frankly, if I don’t like a product I’m not going to take the offer just to get some cash for it. There are many offers on every paid-to-blog site I’m involved with that I’ve completely over-looked because their topics were uninteresting to me. Yes, there are people who post just to post and this isn’t anything that I’m going to deny – but it’s not just about making money. Users (before paid-blogging) spoke about products, recommending items to many people throughout the years. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being paid for it. That’s exactly what advertising is meant for.

Looking for the perfect cellphone?

Friday, May 11th, 2007

No matter who you are or how much money you make, you most likely have a cell phone. Just because you don’t have a month-to-month plan (pre-paid) doesn’t mean that you aren’t a valued customer for companies like Nextel, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile.

It’s easy to get your hands on cell phones, and finding sites with resources about these phones is also pretty easy as well. Any information that you could possibly be looking for, you can find on sites like wirefly.com. They offer many different phones and many different companies, Nextel phones, Sprint cell phones, Verizon, T-mobile, it doesn’t matter who you’re interested in going through. They give you all of the resources you need so that you can go out and choose the best phone for you.

I’m personally a fan of T-Mobile, while Verizon has a few more areas of coverage (in NY at least), T-mobile works very well for me down here in Delmarva too. They offer very cool phones with your plans. The one I can say I want the most is the Sidekick. I know it seems kind of ‘old-school’ but it’s also a pretty solid little phone, especially if you’re heavy into text messaging – the pull out keyboard really makes it easier to type.

My sister has mainly had Nextel phones, but they’ve also merged with Sprint?Ǭ† so either one of them is basically like going through the same company. They offer you many different phones, the majority of which offer push-to-talk because it seems that walkie-talkies (while they cost more monthly) are really a bit more effective – especially for those who don’t really like spending much time on the phone. I think, safety wise, having a push-to-talk phone is much better while driving. You don’t have to hold it up to your ear and since most people hold their phones up to their mouths on speakerphone anyway – it just seems like an ok thing to do. Even though in the long run I prefer the people driving around me to have a headset.

Blue tooth headsets are pretty popular, I’m not sure why more people don’t have them. Wirefly.com offers free blue tooth headsets with some of the phones phones ordered through them. They’ve also got cash-back rebates, deals on upgrades, free shipping, and a huge database of phones and plans that you can search through to make sure all of your needs have been met. It’s a pretty nifty site, you should check it out.