According to research by the Melbourne Institute, Australian households` finances are much better now than they were three months ago, news.com.au reports.The Institute found that 47% of Australian households found they were able to save part of their income (a slight increase on three months earlier), and there were fewer households running into debt and/or using up their savings.The research also found that households from New South Wales were more likely to get into debt, and that households in Victoria were more likely to `make ends meet`.The improvement of household finances in Australia could influence what the future may hold…

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This is Day 12 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
So you’ve listened to my sales pitch about Facebook advertising and you’ve taken the time to define your company’s target market. Hopefully this wasn’t the first time that you’ve defined your target market, otherwise you are in serious trouble So the first thing you want to do is head over to the ads creation page. If you haven’t already created your page then you most definitely want to have it set up by now since we will be integrating our…

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Phishing is an illegal activity where sensitive information, such as usernames and passwords, are acquired. Facebook and other social networking sites are frequently targeted. Phishing attacks can steal private information, such as login credentials or credit card numbers.
The latest generation web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 come with built in phishing protection but this is not enough. Various solutions were offered, including running anti-spyware software, disabling plugins, and so forth but  It would not prevent all. If the problem was caused by ISP’s DNS server,  you can use OpenDNS to help prevent things like this.…

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In our previous publication, we touched on the subject of-stroke diesel engines.http:www.free-engineering.comfwezine.htm . Today, we askwhy we choose to use -strokes? As you might remember, for a -stroke engine, the piston has tomove up, and then down to complete one cycle of the engine. Inthose strokes of the piston, the crankshaft will have turned revolution. In those strokes of the piston the engine has alsocompleted stages of the combustion cycle – air intake,compression, combustion and exhaust.Now, compare that with a -stroke engine. The piston moving downwill complete the air intake stroke. When it moves up again, thepiston completes the…

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If you’re a developer you’ll know that one of the most important things to making efficient code is to reduce your code’s dependency on SQL queries. Rather than running 1,000 SQL “INSERT” queries for 1,000 individual items for example, it’s better to batch those items into a single “INSERT” statement. There are other methods that can be used to improve query performance as well including general query batching in which multiple queries are batched into a single request.

Last night Facebook announced a pretty cool upgrade which is FQL.multiquery. The service enables developers to batch multiple queries into a single…

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When you choose a wallpaper using the standard method (selecting a background on the desktop tab, in the properties window), Windows converts this image to a huge .bmp file (even if you selected a .jpg). Then instead of having a nice 220K wallpaper, you get a 3,15MB wallpaper. To get rid of this, try using active desktop’s web capabilities, like this: 1. Right click on your desktop and select “properties”, then select the “desktop” tab.2. Click on “Customize Desktop”.3. Select the “Web” tab and click on “New…”4. Browse for your favorite image and click OK when you are done.5. Make…

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A cool tip to move your favorites list, because there is no any option to copy it. But using a method you can create a printable HTML document. To create this HTML list, first open Internet Explorer. Here go to File option then you will find here option Import and Export, to run the Import/Export wizard Click here then Next. Here you can select what to import and export, Select Export Favorites option then click Next button. Next you will get option which folder you want to export. You can select the top folder Favorites or just a specific…

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