The change in Gardening: Is it a positive one?

Gardening has changed a lot in the past decade. There were innovations in horticulture including the planting styles. Of all that is happening here, where do we expect this to end up in?

A recent article from telegraph, signifies the changes in gardening in Europe over past decade. Plants do not give you fruits, flowers, or medicinal leaves – the innovation in gardening has enabled them to decorate your house and make it much beautiful naturally.

Apart from decoration, the increase in awareness of environmental pollution has many people towards planting trees or plants around their surroundings. I am not sure how much it will help us to retain the ozone layer, but something is always better than nothing.

I have covered decoration and anti-pollution aspects of the plants. Plants can also give you to provide fruits and vegetables (reminding you). So many people are even cultivating plants that fall under this category. The recent recession that hit our economy might have taught you how/why to save money. When you have a vegetable/fruit garden in your backyard, you can cut spending on buying vegetables/fruits. It also gives you a kind of emotional pleasure when you are cooking the vegetables of your garden.

Yours Is An Offline Hobby Or Online Hobby?

It is no doubt that technology has made us a little lazier than ever. Apart from laziness, technology is also creating virtual barriers in human relationship.

Tech gadgets like Internet, mobiles, iPhones, computers, laptops, social networks have made communications much easier between person to person. In the recent times, they slowly have developed a tech syndrome in human beings that makes them totally dependent on their gadgets for even a small thing like making an addition or remembering a friend’s mobile number.

Most of the children are not involving themselves in physical activities as much as they like to play video games, or watching videos online compared to playing soccer/ baseball. A recent study from Sequent partners says that adults spend an average of three hours per day with computer screens and a drastic 8 1/2 hours with TV screens. Lets calculate that you have 24 hours a day. You spent 8 hours on sleeping and 9 hours on media screens – there is very little left to schedule or do any other things.

Another observation is that hobbies or leisure activities like painting, playing music, and many more are rare to find among children. Instead, you can find all these are performed online without any physical exertion, which does not stimulate especially on young minds effectively.

Using Ham Passwords For Filtering

Systems using “ham” passwords ask unrecognized senders to include in their mail messages a password that distinguishes the message as a ham (good) message. Quiet often the email address and the ham password would be described on a web page while the “ham” would be included in the “subject” line of an email address. Ham passwords combined with filtering systems, counter the risk that a filtering system will accidentally identify a ham message as a spam message.

Some mail services allow a user to append a +tag qualifier to their e-mail address (e.g., jimuser+tag@example.com). The text of tag can be used to apply filtering. The text of the tag can also be used to help a user figure out which organization "leaked" the user's email address to a spammer. However, some mail servers refuse to send mail to a user on another system because the local part of the address contains the (+) sign. Disposable email addresses are supported by several email services including Runbox(plus and hyphen),Google Mail (plus),Yahoo Mail Plus (hyphen) and Fastmail(plus).

Most Common Types Of Junk Mails

To understand the kinds of problems that junk mail leads to, its first important to know what is commonly advertised by the UCE. Recipients and system administrators repost copies of UCE in order to help notify the Internet community the places from which these UCEs originate and the various kinds of the UCEs that are on the Internet. One would find that very few marketers advertise their products via UCE means. In contrast to that, the most commonly seen UCEs advertise

• Chain letters.
• Pyramid schemes such as Multi Level Marketing or MLM.
• Other “Get Wealthy” or “Double Your Money” Schemes.
• Offering free phone sex lines or advertisements for pornographic web sites.
• Software that collects email addresses and sends UCE.
• Bulk email services for sending UCE.
• Stock options for unknown start up companies.
• Ancient health products and remedies.
• Illegal and pirated software (“Warez”).

Rules And Tools To Filter Junk Email

Starting with Outlook 98, you may use either the Organize pane or the Rules Wizard to make use of the built in junk mail processing feature. However, by putting wanted senders in the junk mail folders and not ignoring items sent with no “From” address can be lead to unsatisfactory results. While Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007, include the Junk Email folder, the end user cannot update it, since Microsoft releases regular updates for it. Since few spammers reuse addresses and the blocked lists are also of limited size, the technique of adding addresses to the blocked lists doesn't work.

The following explains how the Outlook has blocked and safe lists work.

Outlook 2003's Safe and Blocked Sender's lists: The maximum capacity of the safe and blocked lists in Outlook should not exceed 2000 addresses since the maximum size of the lists is 512K and Outlook alerts you once the limit is reached. Older versions have a larger capacity and hence Outlook may crash while trying to import them. The limit on the number of addresses is a means of improving performance. The lists are downloaded when the users synchronize with the Exchange mailbox. This limit could be adjusted by making the necessary changes in the required registry key.

Using Outlook's Blocked and Safe Sender's lists: Since it takes time to tinker around with the filters, Microsoft believes that the user should not spend too much time with them. While adding email, addresses to the lists that send spam would result in a long list of addresses that may never be used again. If one spends time, each day adding addresses to his blocked sender's lists it only means that he has to update his anti spam filters.

Built-in Rules Method: Outlook's filtering techniques for adult-content and junk mail filtering are based on a specific list of email addresses and an internal list of terms. There are steps to automatically move or delete E-mail messages based on content, sender, making an exception to your filtered content list, changing the destination folder to junk messages, adult-content messages.

Rules to Counter eMail Spam

To block out messages in an efficient manner, Microsoft allows one to create a set of rules that create a set of anti-spam filters. A rule can be considered to be a macro triggered by a set of conditions. Outlook can delete a message, flag it, print it or use it for launching an application among the very many capabilities that it possesses. Outlook applies the rules to the messages it receives as well as the messages it sends. The rule capability extends unto the mail server only if it is an Exchange server in which case it informs you, if the rule applies to your system only. The rules wizard lets you create rules from the scratch or from existing messages with variables already in place.

Sue's low maintenance method for filtering spam:
The last four rules in the Rules Wizard make sure that undesired messages not sent directly to me are sent to a Junk Mail Folder. They are designed to handle mailing lists. When one receives the first message from any new mailing list that he has subscribed to, the header is examined to figure out whether the From or To address is the one that distinguishes the distribution list; which is not very difficult. Then, he should right-click and choose Add to Contacts to add the address to his Contacts folder. There are a few specific rules to move messages from a few specific distribution lists into their own folders.

Items sent TO or FROM other lists are caught by these two rules and retained in the inbox.

• Rule#1 - Pre-Junk FROM: Apply this rule after the message arrives from people or distribution list (select distribution list addresses from the address book), then move it to the Inbox folder and finally stop processing more rules.
• Rule #2 - Pre-Junk TO: Apply this rule after the message arrives to people or distribution list (select distribution list addresses from the address book), then move it to the Inbox folder and finally stop processing more rules. The following rule applies to mail sent to any of your email addresses. These addresses are also added in Contacts. This rule works better than those that are created with those sent to me directly or where my name is present in conditions.
• Rule #3 - Pre-Junk TO ME: Apply this rule after the message arrives to people or distribution list (select my own personal email addresses from the PAB or Contacts) then move it to the Inbox folder and finally stop processing more rules.
• Rule #4 - Move to Junkmail folder: Move it to the Junkmail folder except if my name is present in the To or Cc box.

What is eMail Spam?

Email spam commonly known as junk e-mail, is a part of spam that involves nearly similar messages sent to numerous recipients by e-mail. It is commonly known as Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE). Spam definitions usually include the aspects that email is unsolicited and sent in bulk. UCE refers to Unsolicited Commercial Email.

It has exponentially grown from the early 1990s to nearly about 100 billion messages a day. It has caused quite a lot of annoyance, confusion, and frustration among many email users. The total number of spam has leveled off recently with the growth not being exponential. Better filtering techniques have caused a lot of reduction for spam received. Botnets, which are a network of compromised computers, are used to send about 80% of the spam in the world. The cost of the spam is mostly born by the recipient.

Email addresses are collected from chat rooms, newsgroups, websites, and viruses, which harvest user's address books, and are sold to other spammers. Much of the spam is directed to invalid e-mail addresses. ISPs, which have won legal battles over the spammers, haven’t been able to recover the damages caused to them though. Spam averages 94% of all email sent in the world today.

Make Your Home Allergy Proof

Various allergies are triggered by mold, dust and pet dander. Therefore, it is very much important for us to keep our home clean and tidy.

You can easily remove the allergens from your home by practicing some simple steps. It takes some time and effort to remove allergens. You have to stick to a goal, develop routines and cleaning strategies to overcome the allergens.

While cleaning your house,

• Wear high quality dust mask.
• Wear junky clothes and wash them immediately after use in hot water.
• Always wear plastic gloves.
• Use a wet cloth to avoid the dust to spread in the air.
• Use High Efficiency Particulate Arrestance (HEPA) filtered vacuum cleaner.
• After cleaning, take bathe.
• Never use feather duster; it stirs up the dust in the air.
• If you have floor carpets, vacuum them regularly, in fact daily.
• Make sure that there is no moisture in your home. This causes the mold to grow.
• Clean your pets regularly. Pet dander is one of the most dangerous allergen.
• An allergic person should be more careful while cleaning a house.

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Will Proton Be Successful In Competing Sedan?

It is probably known fact that Proton has entered into electric car market after seeing the tremendous response for the Tesla’a Sedan. But will be it a potential competitor for the Sedan? And will releasing the car much before Tesla - will help it lead the market? Or teaming up with a Malaysian-based Detroit Electric will help it enhance its pressure over Tesla?

All these questions aroused in my mind when Proton announced its release of an all-electric family car into the market. Proton has got into the market after a good amount of survey and research on the electric car market in the US. It says US electric car market is expected to be as big as 120,000 cars a year. It says the demand is similar with the Europe market too. It has analyzed to capture an initial market of 40,000 cars.

With this confidence, it projects to sell around 270,000 electric cars by 2013 in countries all around the world.

The price of the cars seems to be more tempting than that of Tesla’s. Proton cars were announced to range between US$23,000 to US$26,000 for the city range model and US$28,000 to US$33,000 for the extended range model. Tesla’s Model-S Sedan is priced at $57,400 ($49,900 after tax credits).

How to Grow Strawberries in Your Garden

I love to eat strawberries. I grow them in my garden. There is no comparison in taste between one you brought from shop, and one from your garden. You can grow these plants in hanging pots, and containers as well as in soil. Different types of the strawberries are available. Choose the most appropriate one, according to the soil.

June bearing strawberry is a single crop plant, and can bear strawberries in about two to three weeks in spring. It is feasible to enjoy the taste of these strawberries in any season. Everbearing strawberries produce crop for two to three times in a growing season, and day neutral strawberry produces through out the full season like from spring, summer, and a fall. Day neutral strawberry is available in small.

Grow strawberry plant in a sandy type soil with full of organic matter, and ph level should be from 5.8 to 6.2. It is better to plant them in spring. Gardener should take little care while growing the strawberries. Timely watering is very important for growing healthy strawberry crop.

Why blogging is necessary for business?

Blogging has created a revolution in the web world to a great extent. The features like personal writing, instant publishing system, easy updates and simple maintenance made blogs popular. Businesses find blogs as a potential tool to represent their organization in a positive mode. Many others treat blog as an efficient tool to communicate with their customers and employees.

The following are some of the reasons for why blogging is necessary for business –

Friendly approach
Blogs are proved as a good medium to communicate with netizens. Using blogs, businesses can inform about their products and services, announce their innovations, achievements, and upcoming events, etc. When businesses use blogs for these purposes, it appears as a sociable message, rather than a company brochure.

Internal blogging
Blogs created to share information within the employees of the organization are called internal blogs. Internal blogs help management to be in good contact with the employees. Thus, internal blogs help to create a healthy relation between management and employees.

Influence the visitors
Blogs are visited by millions of readers every day. Thus, blogging has a great potential to help the organizations in educating their customers, employees, or investors and drive them towards some positive environment. Many companies are successfully running such blogs, like Google, General Motors, etc. This in turn helps to enhance their business opportunities.

Customer relationships
Blogs are an excellent medium for the businesses to communicate with their customers. Blogging can help businesses to reach their customers efficiently and get feedbacks, tips and reviews from them. This creates a genuine environment for a healthy relationship between the organization and customers.

Recruiting tool
Using blogs for recruiting has not gained substantial progress yet. But, there is a lot of scope for the blogs to help businesses in recruiting potential candidates. Blogs can also help businesses to engage with candidates who are passionate to work for them.

Many businesses have used blogs successfully in maintaining good communication with the customers and other stake holders. Blogs helped them to build a healthy relationship between management and employees. Corporate blogging is rapidly gaining popularity and the days are not so far for it to become essential as a website for a professional company.

Using Natural Cures for Everyday Health Issues

We usually call the natural cures for everyday health issues as Grandma’s remedies. These remedies cure our problems without using medications.

• To stop baby’s hiccups: Add little bit of sugar on your finger will stop hiccups because he starts sucking sugar. If it is for elders, just scare them.
• If you suffer from cold, take hot water and intake the vapor by closing yourself under-a-blanket. Just take a hot water shower.
• Headache: Most common problem suffered by most of us. Just take a brisk walk, this helps in increasing blood circulation and relaxes you. Take a hot bath, this relaxes your muscles.
• Headache due to dehydration: Just take at least six to eight glasses of water a day. Sit in dark room and avoid bright lights, this helps in reducing the stress in your body. Press your fleshy area between thumb and forefinger, will also help you in overcoming the headache.

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