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How to Know Whether an Email is a Fake or Not

September 5, 2019

A few nights ago I received an email from "2CO" asking me to update my personal data. The sender did not forget to insert a link to log in, too.

Following are the steps that I have usually taken to discover whether an email came from a rightful person / company or a swindler:

Position the mouse pointer above the link provided by the sender (PLEASE DO NOT CLICK IT!). See on the status bar wherever the URL that appears is genuine.

If you use Outlook Express, in the message list, select the suspected message. click "File", and then click "Properties". Click "Details" to see the email headers.

Notice the "Return-path" part, where you will see the sender's original email address. Notice the domain name (eg … @ xyzdomain.com). Now you can guess with more confidence that it is a real or fake email.

If you have ever received an email from an autoresponder, you might have noticed that the "Return-path" part contained the domain name of the autoresponder (eg …. @ abc.getresponse.com) although the email address looked like from another domain.

If you are still not sure, do the same with the original email which you had previously received (the one from the right person / company) for comparison. If the header of the original email on the "Return-path" part reads "Return-path:", while on the suspected email the reading is "Return-path:", youought to be suspicious that the second is a fake email !

If you want, you can also notice other parts of the header such as "Received-from" and "Message-id". But, please do not be influenced by the "from" part. It is the part that is usually used to manipulate you.

Additionally, please conceive that an organization which is always cautious about malicious abuses, such as 2CO, ClickBank, etc, will seriously send a link to you to click in the email. As I have experienced personally, if the company has something to inform me, they kindly ask me to log-in to my account (there is no link to click).

Dispatching a faked up email can be done very easily by anyone who possesses a little knowledge about programming (php, etc).

I hope this tip will be useful for you. …

Pornography Addiction-Who Is Hurt?

July 28, 2019

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We get home from work and want to wind down, so we turn on the pornograph (computer) and visit our favorite sites. Soon, we do not even remember the struggles of work. Afterwards, we're relaxed, calm. To chase away that twinge of guilt, we tell ourselves, "How could this natural bodily function hurt anyone?" This article will reveal, in very frank language, how pornography addiction hurts everyone in your life, including you.

Pornography Hurts Your Marriage: OK "significant other" for you who are not married. Sexual intuition is one of the factors that distinguish a committed relationship from, say, an affair. Although, pornography initially triggers an increase in sexual activity, it is anything but intimate. It was not attraction to our partner that generated the contact, but a need to gratify the desires built up by viewing others. Forgive me for being blunt, but this turns our mate into little more than a tool for masturbation. Even more sad is the fact that, over time, our mate becomes the least favorite tool, since the other options place fewer expectations or demands on us. This is more than a weakened relationship, it is infidelity as severe as adultery, the affair being, in this case, with yourself. But, pornography addiction hurts more than our marriage, it hurts our children, too.

Porn Hurts Your Children: It amazes me how many adults are in denial about this one. First of all, if things are not right in your marriage, I think you'd agree that affects your children. If we're addicted to porn, no matter how carefully we hide it, the marriage relationship problems will spill over to our children. Not only that, if we're sharing computers with the kids, they can pull up the cache and see what we saw. If we're sharing an internet connection, we have the same address, so they receive spam based on our internet habits. If you're using pornography magazines, they have seen them … you think they're not in your secret places when you're not around? Because pornography changes how we see people, we can not hide our thoughts from the kids. What you do speaks so loud, they can not hear what you say. They see how much attention we pay to underwear commercials on TV. They see where we're looking at people's bodies. They begin to form their values from ours.

A friend was hurt and angry when his 16-year-old daughter left home and, for 18 months, slept with every male she could get her hands on. While I was counseling her, it almost seemed she was bragging about her sexual popularity. Her Dad was angry at the world, but, having known him for years, I knew the problem was closer to home. You see, for most of the time she was growing up, he had the Playboy bunny logo (rabbit's head) on his keychain, dangling from the steering column everywhere he blew her. By this, and probably other signals, Dad communicated to his daughter what …

Large-Scale Data Processing Frameworks – What Is Apache Spark?

July 23, 2019

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Apache Spark is the latest data processing framework from open source. It is a large-scale data processing engine that will most likely replace Hadoop’s MapReduce. Apache Spark and Scala are inseparable terms in the sense that the easiest way to begin using Spark is via the Scala shell. But it also offers support for Java and python. The framework was produced in UC Berkeley’s AMP Lab in 2009. So far there is a big group of four hundred developers from more than fifty companies building on Spark. It is clearly a huge investment.

A brief description

Apache Spark is a general use cluster computing framework that is also very quick and able to produce very high APIs. In memory, the system executes programs up to 100 times quicker than Hadoop’s MapReduce. On disk, it runs 10 times quicker than MapReduce. Spark comes with many sample programs written in Java, Python and Scala. The system is also made to support a set of other high-level functions: interactive SQL and NoSQL, MLlib(for machine learning), GraphX(for processing graphs) structured data processing and streaming. Spark introduces a fault tolerant abstraction for in-memory cluster computing called Resilient distributed datasets (RDD). This is a form of restricted distributed shared memory. When working with spark, what we want is to have concise API for users as well as work on large datasets. In this scenario many scripting languages does not fit but Scala has that capability because of its statically typed nature.

Usage tips

As a developer who is eager to use Apache Spark for bulk data processing or other activities, you should learn how to use it first. The latest documentation on how to use Apache Spark, including the programming guide, can be found on the official project website. You need to download a README file first, and then follow simple set up instructions. It is advisable to download a pre-built package to avoid building it from scratch. Those who choose to build Spark and Scala will have to use Apache Maven. Note that a configuration guide is also downloadable. Remember to check out the examples directory, which displays many sample examples that you can run.

Requirements

Spark is built for Windows, Linux and Mac Operating Systems. You can run it locally on a single computer as long as you have an already installed java on your system Path. The system will run on Scala 2.10, Java 6+ and Python 2.6+.

Spark and Hadoop

The two large-scale data processing engines are interrelated. Spark depends on Hadoop’s core library to interact with HDFS and also uses most of its storage systems. Hadoop has been available for long and different versions of it have been released. So you have to create Spark against the same sort of Hadoop that your cluster runs. The main innovation behind Spark was to introduce an in-memory caching abstraction. This makes Spark ideal for workloads where multiple operations access the same input data.

Users can instruct Spark to cache input data sets in …

How Conversational Hypnosis Works

July 6, 2019

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Conversational Hypnosis is a model based on Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP) a combination of language, communication and personal
change. Conversational Hypnosis is the process of putting your subject in a
trance state characterized by extreme suggestibility, relaxation and
heightened imagination. It's not really like sleep, because the subject is
alert the whole time. It is most often compared to daydreaming, or the
feeling of "losing yourself" in a book or movie. Fully conscious, but you
tune out most of the stimuli around you. You focus intentionally on the subject
at hand, to the near exclusion of any other thought.

Here are some of the fundamentals you need to understand ..
First of all hypnosis is a special, altered state of awareness in which a
person becomes more suggestible. The ideas that the hypnotist gives that
person bypass normal conscious thinking and influence him / her directly at
the unconscious level.

Well when I talk about the unconscious mind which is also referred to as
unconscious mind or non-conscious mind but they are all the same. This part
of the mind stores your emotions, feelings, hopes, dreams, it is the
source of your automatic behaviors from your heartbeat to your habits.

When you crave for chocolates or feel like listening to a particular song
it is an automatic action is not it. Like when you are engrossed in a
particular thoughts your subconscious mind is so consumed that your normal
senses do not participate at without your special will. Like while you are
driving singing that song .. You do not notice the things you are passing
by.

Another commercial instance is when you choose to buy a particular brand
of toothpaste over other without knowing the real difference between them,
that is when your subconscious mind is at play.
The only factor of hypnotizing a person (consider you are actually
hypnotizing the mind) is simple: "Fixed attention and bypassing the
critical factor (rational thinking) "
Once you are able to attain this state in your subject you can start
planting suggestions inside their mind directly. Our mind has it's own
natural defenses varying man to man, we will learn how our defenses are
being put off guard.

Fixate attention (fixed attention) means to concentrate it narrowing down
your awareness to a single point.This can be done in many ways which has
been changing with time and development in this area. Traditionally
hypnotists use lights or finger and rhythmic chanting. Out of the many
methods the simplest one is to engage your subject to some
'non-intelligent' activities. Like rhythmic drumming, rhythmic chanting of
mantra, or engaging them in a boring lecture.The objective is to induce a
kind of hypnotic trance getting all the attention from an open mind and
turning off the intellect.Then the unconscious mind is affected to
bypass the guards.

Hypnosis changes the way we think, hypnosis actually manipulates the way
we think about a particular thing. Like in case of you choosing a particular
toothpaste over the other one …

SEO – Using Your Website Statistics To Help Choose The Right Keywords

June 8, 2019

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There are literally thousands of tools that are available on the market to help you choose keywords to optimize your Web Pages, but one of the most underutilized tools that you should be using is your web logs. Your web log is the key to telling you who and how people are finding your website. It will also tell you if there are new trends in which people are actually finding your website by keywords or phrases that you may not needarily have optimized for.

All internet marketing and search engine experts will tell you that if you are not in the top 5 records of any search engine results then you are simply not going to get any traffic. This has a certain element of truth to it but is not totally correct. In fact we have had a couple of WebPages recently that were not optimized for any specific keywords or phrases, but these pages have been pulling 50 hits a day, leading to sales even though it was on the 95th page of the search engine results.

To pull 50 hits a day off a keyword on the 95th page obviously prompted my interest and this is the point that I want to bring to your attention. The only reason that we were able to find this out was that we have the ability to review our own web logs. Let me explain how this works …

Every time you visit a website you leave a small piece of information that the website owner can in fact collect. The information you leave behind includes the page you visited, your IP number and a series of raw data that includes the website that referred you to the site, your browser, the language you are using, the operating system you are using, session details, character set etc. As the website owner you are able to collect this information and use it to help you focus your site or identify that your search engine optimization program is working.

For example, if a person goes to the Google search engine and searches on the term "car detailing", when the person clicks on the link in that search result to your website, the website that they goto will see in the Raw Data the following :

http://www.google.com.sg/search?hl=en&q=car+detailing&btnG=Search&meta=

The HTTP Referer in the example above is the Google Singapore website and the search was done in English. You can tell this by the en after the question mark. After the q it tells you that the search term was "car detailing".

What you should be doing on a daily basis is to look in your web logs and to look at who is referring people to your website. For example if you find a keyword or phrase that people are using at Google, MSN or Yahoo to get to your site that you have not optimized for, then you need to first do a search on those search engines using those keywords to …

Online Affiliated Marketing

April 27, 2019

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Online Affiliate Marketing is a revenue sharing venture between a website owner and an online merchant. The website owner will place advertisements on his websites to either help sell the merchant’s products or to send potential customers to the merchant’s website, all in exchange for a share of the profits.

Affiliate Marketing Program

An affiliate marketing program is sometimes called an affiliate program, but also may be referred to as a pay-for-performance program or an associate program. An affiliate program is a marketing tool for the e-business that operates it, called merchant or advertiser and a source of revenue for the e-business that participates in it, called an affiliate or associate or publisher.

There are three ways to earn money through affiliate marketing:

1) Pay per Click or Cost-per-click affiliate programs: Every time a potential customer leaves the affiliate website by “clicking” on the link leading to the merchant’s website, a certain amount of money is deposited in the affiliate’s account. This amount can be pennies or dollars depending on the product and amount of the commission.

2) Pay per Lead or Cost-per-lead affiliate programs: The merchant pays the affiliate a set fee for each visitor who clicks through and takes and action at the merchant’s site, such as completing an online survey, registering at the site, or opting-in to receive e-mail.

3) Pay per Sale or Cost-per-sale affiliate programs: Every time a sale is made as a result of advertising on the affiliate’s website, a percentage, or commission, is deposited into the affiliate’s account.

The Amazon Story

The world’s biggest bookstore has one of the most successful examples of an affiliate program (called their associate program). Amazon now has well over 1 million affiliates! That is over 1 million websites actively promoting their products every single second of every single day. Amazon generates over 40% of its revenue through its affiliates program. That is over $3 billion in revenue every single year! As another (somewhat humble by comparison) example, Zeald generates over 50% of its revenue using its own unique affiliates program. Admittedly, not quite billions of dollars but that is definitely millions of dollars of revenue every single year.

Thousands of diverse e-businesses operate affiliate programs: E.g. barnes&nobale, dell,1-800-flowers, rackspace managed hosting etc.

Affiliate Programs as a Marketing Tool

The two major Advantages to merchant

1. Tie marketing effort directly to a lead or sales.

2. The merchant pays only for results.

The two major Advantages to affiliate

1. Additional source of revenue for affiliate who also sells products/services

2. Primary source of revenue for affiliate who offers entertainment or information

Two Approaches to Operating a Successful Affiliate Marketing

1. Acquire a huge and affiliate membership. e.g. The Amazon associates programs have over 1 million members as diverse as:

– RVPart – Sells parts for recreational vehicles and motor homes.

– Dilbert – Site for view cartoons, play games, send electronic greeting cards etc

– Books for Managers – Site for business reviews and lists of the currant …

Why Success is a Science

April 22, 2019

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My studies of the highly successful prove that they continually achieve their results by doing "certain things in a certain way." I have also found that "like causes produce like effects." Therefore, if you and I consistently employ the same thought processes and actions of these highly-successful individuals, we must produce the same results. This is why success is an absolute science. If you apply the principles (thoughts and actions) of peak performers, you will accelerate your sales and life results far beyond your current level of achievement. Put it to the test.

In his best-selling book, Psychocybernetics , Dr. Maxwell Maltz talks about our daily actions being the direct result of our habits. Since your actions are the cause of your results, it is fair to assume that your habits are what absolutely create the results you obtain. Habits are the things you and I do naturally and automatically, without thinking. These habits have been conditioned at a very early age and are now collected in our unconscious mind. According to Maltz, if you want to change your results, you must begin to form new habits. In other words, you must change the things you do automatically.

Your current thinking regarding your abilities, your product and your industry is habitual – and we call that programming. This programming is buried in your unconscious mind, and it drives your behavior on a daily basis.

These programs, or mindset, came from outside sources and we often accept them without question. Many times our mindset contains lack and limitation because a parent, teacher, coach, or another person person we desired wanted to protect us from disappointment. They told us to "be realistic," "do not expect too much," "life is hard" and many other disempowering beliefs. The moment you accept their programs, they drive your behavior and often limit your results. Following are the first steps in building the habits of a top sales performer. Habits that will drive massive action and create incredible results!

Set a clear and measurable goal. Make it one that you are excited about accomplishing. The human spirit will not invest itself in mediocrity – so if you want to succeed in exceeding limiting habits, your goal must create passion! As you set your goal, two things are important: it must be specific and measurable. Write "I am making $ 70,000" versus "I want to make more money." When your goal is measurable you will know exactly when it is accomplished.
Write your goal in the present tense. This will cause you to fully associate to the achievement of your goal. Your unconscious mind is totally deductive, and therefore, it accepts anything that your conscious mind gives it without question. Consequently, correct phrasing is imperative. Write your goal as "I am so happy that I earn a minimum of $ 70,000 per year" versus "I want to earn $ 70,000 per year." Write your goal as if you already have it right now.
Write your goal every single

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DISH Network HDTV Programming – HD Programs and Service Guide

March 21, 2019

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Of the two major satellite TV providers – DISH Network and DIRECTV – DISH Network has the most HDTV (high definition TV) programming, and they're adding new HD programs to their service all the time. So what's on DISH Network HDTV? Let's find out …

DISH Network HDTV Packages

DISH Network currently offers four different HDTV packages. They are:

The Bronze package – 30 HD channels plus 75 regular satellite TV channels for $ 29.99 a month.

The Silver package – 30 HD channels plus 230 regular satellite TV channels, including 60 Sirius satellite radio channels for $ 39.99 a month. (Note: This package is $ 29.99 for the first 10 months only and $ 39.99 thereafter.)

Gold package – 30 HD channels plus 318 regular satellite TV channels, including 60 Sirius satellite radio channels for $ 49.99 a month.

Platinum package – 30 HD channels plus 350 regular satellite TV channels, including 60 Sirius satellite radio channels and 31 movie channels for $ 79.99 a month.

The DISH Network HD channels included in each package are: Animania HD, Discovery HD, ESPN HD, ESPN2 HD, Equator HD, Film Fest, Food Network HD, FU, Gallery HD, Gameplay, Guy TV HD, HD News, HDNet, HDNet Movies, HGTV, Majestic HD, Monsters HD, National Geographic, Rave HD, Rush HD, TNT in HD, Treasure HD, Ultra HD, Universal HD, and World Cinema.

Additional HD channels include: CBS HDTV, HBO HDTV, Showtime HD, Starz HD, and Dish on Demand PPV in HD.

DISH Network Satellite TV System

When you order DISH Network satellite TV service you get a free dish and four free receivers. Installation is included with the package, and your installer will even show you how to operate your new system.

Bottom Line

With HDTV you get a much sharper more lifelike picture than you get with regular satellite TV. You also get a wide-screen picture, like you see in movie theaters, and Dolby Digital audio that adds even more realism to your viewing experience.

If you want the clearest picture and the best sound possible when you watch satellite TV, then a DISH Network HDTV programming package is what you're looking for. …

The Advantages and Disadvantages of a Computer Work at Home Business

March 20, 2019

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There are many ways to work at home on your computer. If you are searching you may even feel overwhelmed right now. The key is to find the best opportunity to use your computer to make money working at home.

If you are good at selling you may want to consider starting a direct selling business. One problem with this business is that you are mostly paid on a commission basis, so you do not get paid unless you are able to sell.

If you are looking to get paid on a steady basis and still work at home your best option is a computer work at home business. There are a wide variety of businesses that you are able to choose from, such as designing websites, writing articles, affiliate marketing, etc.

You are obviously unable to have a work at home computer business without a computer. You need to go out and invest in a good computer that will have a great internet connection. This will cost you a little money but you will be able to recover the cost once you have found a computer work at home opportunity that will provide you with a steady income.

You can go online and begin finding all the opportunities of jobs online as soon as you get the equipment installed.

If you enjoy talking with people on the internet there are a lot of job opportunities for telecommunications. You can go online and begin searching through job sites and find many jobs that are available that involve secretarial work, programming, data entering, etc.

You have the freedom to work when you want which one of the largest advantages of working at home. You can work at your own pace and not worry what your boss is thinking. However, this freedom should only allow you to work when you want, but you should still set hours that you work everyday. Being too comfortable will be a bad thing that could destroy your business.

The advantages of having a computer work at home business boil down to you will have the freedom to work the hours you want, there are hundreds of options that you can choose from, and you will be able to have a steady income in no time at all.

The disadvantages involve you will have to be self-motivated and there will be a little bit of costs involved, but the advantages will be much more than the disadvantages. …

Dynamic Website Designing – In & Out

March 18, 2019

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The concept of having a dynamic website to enhance the efficiency of online marketing is not a new concept. It has evolved ever since the concept of online marketing began to hold a stronger grip. The main purpose of dynamic websites designing is to give merchants a better and a smoother way of marketing their products online.

There is not a massive visual difference in a dynamic or a static website. They look quite similar in appearance only until they are made to perform an action. A static webpage is unable to perform any action other than loading and unloading; where as a dynamic webpage is created with the aim of performing an action which will lead to another activity in the website.

Dynamic website designing is largely used in shopping cart portals, where the user is suppose to perform a number of tasks one after another. Websites that invite users to register with them as members or subscribe to newsletters and other month subscriptions also use dynamic website designing to create these pages.

Dynamic websites are usually database driven websites. Where the web designers initially have to add some necessary data into the server which, also can be updated from time to time. Dynamic website designing that is quite different from static website designing. The dynamic sites are typically built on ASP, PHP or JAVA languages to create the HTML pages that appear on the website. The coding of these pages is such that every time a user performances a task on the page, they automatically respond by showing the most relevant result which has been coded in the initial stage for the relevant user activities.

Dynamic website designing saves on a lot of website management time which, one would otherwise have to invest if it was not for the programming skill of the dynamic websites. Making changes in the dynamic web pages is also quite simple. All you need to do is make the change in the back end database which will hence forth begin to reflect on the website itself. These changes can be easily carried out by any person who has been authorized to edit the database. Websites that invite users to register with them as members or subscribe to newsletters and other month subscriptions also use dynamic website designing to create these pages. The programmers generally create a back end process protected by a security password. This is provided to the administrator who can sinceforth carry out the changes on his own.

Now a day's dynamic websites have become so popular that almost all web owners are making use of the technology to enhance the performance of their websites. …

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