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Goji For Good Health

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I received an email from my sister that she has not been well recently. Well, being all alone in USA is not easy. I have however, heard of many health benefits of the Goji Berries and wondered if she has tried them before. A few of my friends have been drinking Goji Juice daily and they tell me that they feel so energetic and I think it is because of the high levels of antioxidants in the berries. I believe Gogi berries have the highest level of antioxidants compared to other fruits.

Also, I have read up on Goji berries in various articles. According tor research, people who eat Goji berries or drink its juice daily live longer in general and rarely suffer from common modern life ailments like high blood pressure and diabetes and even prevent serious illnesses like heart diseases and cancer.

Since Goji berry is this good, I would rather add it to my diet than suffer from all sorts of sickness later down the road in life. My friends have told me that the juice is sweet and very tasty to drink. I think I will get some for myself as well and convince my sister that the Goji is always better than taking medicine!

WordPress Issues

When Free Isn’t Always Good

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A couple of weeks ago, I received the “good” news that my webhost is not taking in any more subscription. That means my hosting is FREE. My hosting reseller is a small time company set up by two internet friends and they do not have too many customers and since profit is slight, they decided to do away with the fees.

HOWEVER, that seems like bad news to me.

Since this is free hosting, that effectively means that I do longer have technical support from my webhost, except to “seek” for the assistance of good Samaritans from the forum. This is what I do not like because the problems get unaddressed and the solutions are slow in coming.

I am such a noob and have had problems understanding WordPress since the beginning that I would rather pay people to get my technical problems sorted and sorted fast too.

Free hosting is good only for people who are experienced in hosting their own blog or website and I am certainly far from experienced. I don’t know. Am I asking too much if I require help with the technical side of my hosting. I think not but since this is now free, I don’t think I could even so much as send in an S.O.S.

Free isn’t always good :(

Computing & Internet

Share Large Files With DriveWay

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In the course of work, I have to send large files, chunks of them and always find it troublesome to break up my files and then teach my recipient how to join them up again. And sometimes they tell me there’s an error and I would have to resend. I just find it a total hassle but I did not have a solution for it until a friend recommended DriveWay.

I have tried it and I must say it is so user-friendly I wonder why no one thought of this before! Finally, I could upload and send my files up to 500MB seamlessly without a problem; there’s no download storage limit or download limit.

Typically email programs do not support such a file size and even if they say they do, if you have tried using it, you will notice that your file is “stuck” forever and would not go through.

Moreover, DriveWay has this feature which allows sharing of documents where we could access them easily OR edit them. With emailing, we would have to download the file to our computer, edit and resend but DriveWay just eliminated the redundancy and allows editing text documents right on their widget. Awesome 😀

Computing & Internet

Twitter

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Although I have known of Twitter for a long time, I did not see a need to register for an account. I see no point in letting the world know what I am doing up to the minute especially when nothing interesting ever happens to me anyway.

Today, I was playing with my phone when I discovered that now, Fring supports MSN and also Twitter. Well, I did not see that previously.

I am thinking now that perhaps I should get a Twitter account just so that I could make the full use of my programme, device and my 3G subscription.

I wonder if there’s anyone who would be interested in what I have to say in Twitter. I know that it will be something lame like “I am sleeping”, “I just woke up”, “I am in the toilet.” Bla bla bla

Or would I be polluting Twitter world?

Computing & Internet

Hassle-free Online BackUp

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I know I said that I would get my data on the computer backed-up but I keep procrastinating and then forgotten all about it until my friend asked me if I have found a good online backup service. OOPS!

He told me about IDrive-E’s encrypted Basic online backup that would certainly meet me requirements of FREE service, secure and 99.99% up time that comes with 2GB of storage space. That is awesome news and 2GB is more than enough to meet my needs!

According to my friend, if I do require more space, I could upgrade my account to an unlimited plan and it would only cost me $4.95 per month and subscribing for one year would only be $49.95, two months free!

My friend said that since I have so much junk data on my computer, I should back up early and frequent, especially those that keep changing through the day. He told me that I could run the back up program in the background while I would and IDrive-E would back up my frequently changing data at almost real time. This will save me the hassle of backing up at the end of the day, every day. Yay!

Computing & Internet

DeWitt’s Media’s Contextual Contest

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Woohooo I just came across this contest by DeWitt’s Media from my feed, yes, I subscribe to their feed, and I am very eager to participate. I would love to WIN this contextual contest worth anything from $200 to $1000. I have so many websites I do not know which to submit.

However, I would love to win this and have relevant websites linking to me FOR FREE. Yes it could happen IF I win. I hope I will. I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed.

If I do win, it means that I do not have to work my butt off trying to network and leave comments on other blogs or practically beg people to give me a one sided link so that my Page Rank could raise just a little bit.

The other day, I asked if the Google Page Rank is here yet … I think it has come and gone. Well, IF I win, I hope to be able to raise a point OR TWO in the next round 😀

Computing & Internet

Bored? Chat Online At WireClub!

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I just received an SMS text from a friend complaining that she is bored! I told her to get online but she says that she can only surf to so many sites. But I told her that she could also chat with her buddies or log in to a chat room and get to know some strangers.

She said she has no idea where to go to so I went search for interesting chat rooms for her. You see, I can be considered an old hand at chatting online and know almost all the cool chat rooms to hang around, though that is supposed to be my secret!

Anyway, I told her about WireClub where she could register for an account and chat away! It is free, so why not take full advantage of all the features like joining a chat room, starting one or send private messages to other members.

WireClub is different from other chatting sites because it does not only host chat rooms but it is a chat network where communities of people from all over the world could get together online and arrange to get together offline. This is a place where members get to share their thoughts in chat rooms and in blogs. Yes, members are provided with free blogs as well! How cool could that be?

I bet that after my friend has tried out WireClub, I would no longer hear her complaining of boredom!