<a href"http:www.doityourselfoptimization.com " target"blank" title"Link building software">Link Building Software<a> & Search Engine Optimization SEO is one of the biggest ‘grey areas’ in online marketing. It is full of jargon, confusion and misinterpretation – a common excuse for SEO consultants to charge a big amount of money to small businesses.I like making things easy, SEO included. So what I am going to do in this article is to go through some of the bare basics of SEO that you, as a small business owner, can implement into your website. This article is not intended for experienced SEO gurus and experts who always seem…
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Brad Pitt honored for humanitarian work in New Orleans
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actor Brad Pitt was honored on Thursday for his humanitarian work in helping rebuild hurricane-ravaged New Orleans at former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s philanthropic summit, the Clinton Global Initiative.Pitt was presented with a plaque from the U.S. Green Building Council which said the actor and his foundation “Make It Right” had created the “largest and greenest single-family community in the world.”"‘Make It Right’ has exceeded my expectations,” said Pitt who set up the foundation in 2007.”Our criteria from the beginning were at odds, to say the least. We demanded that these homes be sustainable, that they…
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Twin car bomb attacks kill 16 in NW Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Two car-bomb blasts killed at least 16 people in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, evidence militants still have power to strike despite the death of a top Talibancommander last month.A suicide bomber sitting in an explosives-laden car threw a hand-grenade toward a crowd of people in the main northwestern city of Peshawar before detonating about 100 kg of explosives in the vehicle.”Ten people have been killed and 71 wounded, five of them critically,” Sahibzada Anis, the top government administrator of the city told Reuters.The attack took place in the carpark of a commercial building close to a…
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Universal credit card in the palm of your hand
Do you remember the magnetic card spoofer in Terminator 2? It was a bit farfetched because apparently the device could be swiped through a reader and magically come up with working account numbers and pin numbers. We’re getting close to that kind of magic with [Jaroslaw's] card spoofer that is button-programmable.
Building off of a project that allows spoofing via an iPod and electromagnet, [Jaroslaw] wanted something that doesn’t require a computer to put together the card code. He accomplished this by interfacing a 20-button keyboard and a character LCD with an AVR ATmega168 microcontroller. Card codes can be…
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Choosing The Blog Software That’s Right For You
If you’ve been hearing all the buzz about blogging and want toknow what it is and how to get started, this article is for you.Here we will discuss what blogging is, what blog software you’llneed, and what you can do with it.What’s a blog?A weblog ‘ blog for short ‘ is a type of website. Blogs areunique from other static website in that they are usuallyupdated often. The main page of the site usually contains themost recent post or posts of the author or authors of thewebsite. Also, blogs often also allow readers to post theircomments directly to the site.All…
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DIY Lincoln welder conversion
[Fritz] built this 600 joule capacitive discharge spot welder in a case scavenged from a Lincoln plasma cutter. All of the circuitry was designed by [Fritz] and the schematics are available on his website. He has a few other welding related project also documented on his site that are worth checking out. While this isn’t the first homemade spot welder we have seen, it is definitely the first one with a case mod. If you are not up to the challenge of building one quite as complex as [Fritz]’s example, a microwave can be used as the donor appliance in simpler designs.
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Rotating Lego dock take two
Last week we saw a rotating iPhone dock built from Lego. This week we’re happy to put up another example of a dock made of these popular building blocks. Thank goodness this one takes into account all of the sudden jolts that our desk is prone to by incorporating shock absorbing springs. The design is very seek with a jazzy red scheme and a less-is-more attitude. We are a bit concerned about our expensive hand held falling out but then again that’s what the springs are for. Who can be the first to put together a step-by-step guide for…
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China Showers Gifts On Resources-Rich Timor
Dili’s gleaming new Presidential Palace and Foreign Ministry, gifts from China, stand in stark contrast to nearby burnt-out buildings and are symbols of how the energy-hungry superpower is growing closer to tiny, oil-rich East Timor.In the 10 years since the independence vote that led to a split from Indonesia, China has spent more than $53 million in aid to East Timor, also known as Timor Leste.While that is just a fraction of the $760 million in Australian government aid, China has raised its profile in dusty Dili in several other ways.It is building big and showing generosity such as its…
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Google Plans New Mirror For Cheaper Solar Power
Google Inc is disappointed with the lack of breakthrough investment ideas in the green technology sector but the company is working to develop its own new mirror technology that could reduce the cost of building solar thermal plants by a quarter or more.”We’ve been looking at very unusual materials for the mirrors both for the reflective surface as well as the substrate that the mirror is mounted on,” the company’s green energy czar Bill Weihl told Reuters GlobalClimate and Alternative Energy Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday.Google, known for its Internet search engine, in late 2007 said it would invest…
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Pakistan food stampede kills many
Reports say dozens more have been injured. The free flour was being handed out in a poor, congested neighbourhood of the city by a private group as part of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Pakistani TV showed distraught relatives arriving at a hospital where the injured had been taken. “The deaths were caused by suffocation and the stampede in one of the most congested localities of Khori Garden,” said Karachi police chief Waseem Ahmad, reports AFP news agency. President’s shock He said the man distributing the free flour had been detained because he had not given police prior notice.…
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After a brief, summer-long stretch of rising demand, steel prices are starting to decline, indicating that moves to increase production may have been too much too soon. Hot-rolled steel, a benchmark grade that typically is processed into cars, building structures or appliances, cost about $600 to $620 a metric ton in August. Now it can be had for about $550-$570 a ton, a drop of about 8%, according to World Steel Dynamics, a steel research firm. Steelmakers, with their exposure to a wide variety of end markets, from consumers to industrial users, are generally a leading indicator of economic…
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How to build a life-sized electronic game
We’re very impressed with [Steve's] Electronic Snowball Fight game. It consists of two life-sized players standing opposite of each other. Each can throw a snowball or duck, the object is to hit the other person and not get hit yourself. He’s utilized a lot of good building techniques that could be easily adapted to other types of game play.
For the outlines of the players, [Steve] took pictures of himself standing, ducking, and in a throwing motion. Each picture was used to generate an outline which was then stenciled onto some Masonite. He then drilled holes along the outline…
