Take a Better Photo: 10 Easy Tips

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1.
Look your subject in the eye

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2.
Use a plain background

Distracting background




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3.
Use flash outdoors

If the person is within five feet, use the fill-flash mode; beyond five feet, the full-power mode may be required.

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4.
Move in close

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5.
Move it from the middle

Bring your picture to life by simply moving your subject away from the middle of your picture.

Boring







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6.
Lock the focus

Most auto-focus cameras focus on whatever is in the center of the picture.

If you don't want a blurred picture, you'll need to first lock the focus with the subject in the middle and then recompose the picture so the subject is away from the middle.

Subject not in focus







Better

7.
Know your flash's range

The number one flash mistake is taking pictures beyond the flash's range.

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8.
Watch the light

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9.
Take some vertical pictures

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10.
Be a picture director

Boring







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33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity

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Nuke it! The most efficient way to get through a task is
to delete it. If it doesn’t need to be done, get it off your to do list.

Daily goals. Without a clear focus, it’s too easy to
succumb to distractions. Set targets for each day in advance. Decide
what you’ll do; then do it.

Worst first. To defeat procrastination learn to tackle
your most unpleasant task first thing in the morning instead of delaying it
until later in the day. This small victory will set the tone for a very
productive day.

Peak times. Identify your peak cycles of productivity,
and schedule your most important tasks for those times. Work on minor
tasks during your non-peak times.

No-comm zones. Allocate uninterruptible blocks of time
for solo work where you must concentrate. Schedule light,
interruptible tasks for your open-comm periods and more challenging projects for
your no-comm periods.

Mini-milestones.

Timeboxing.

Batching.

Early bird.

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71 Things You Can Do

Stop watching television.

Stop eating fast food.

Stop eating pizza and fried foods.

Stop driving places that you could easily walk to.

Read at least 1 book a month.

Take classes in what interests you or your vocation.

Work enough to support yourself, and if needed get a new job or second job to make enough to support yourself. Never stick with a job that doesn't pay enough to support yourself no matter how much you work.

Pay off your debts and don't go in debt. You can pay off your debts if you avoid needless expenses, such as cable, overpriced clothes, impractical decorations, unhealthy snacks, jewelry, etcetera.

Don't buy a car on finance, and don't buy an expensive car if a cheaper one that works is available.

Wake up early, and get all your work done as quickly as possible. That includes household chores, as well as your employment.

Drink alcohol less or quit.

Do drugs less or quit.

Don't smoke cigarettes.

Don't eat foods with high fructose corn syrup.

Don't drink soda.

The 10 Best Places To Find How-To Videos

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The 10 Best Places To Find How-To Videos

Once upon a time, how-to guides were all about numbered lists and badly-drawn diagrams. Now those guides have gone multimedia, with a slew of new sites offering video how-tos from the users themselves. Here are 10 of the best.

1. VideoJug: VideoJug mixes user generated clips with professionally made content. Videos are accompanied by a text version, and you can download clips to your iPod or PSP. This UK-based site is receiving a lot of hype from the British press.

2. Sclipo carries a remix of the YouTube tagline: “Broadcast your skills”. The European startup provides how-to guides in English and Spanish.

3. Sutree: Sutree is a video aggregator that pulls in videos from sites like YouTube and Metacafe. Clips are picked by users and approved by moderators. There are no user profiles or playlists, making it a fairly lightweight offering.

5 Pressure Points To Relieve Body Discomforts15,395 Views

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(A) Heavenly Pillar

Relieves stress, over exhaustion, insomnia, heaviness in the head, eyestrain, stiff necks, swollen eyes, and sore throats.

(B) Heavenly Rejuvenation

Relieves nervous tension and stiff necks; increases resistance to colds and flu. It is also good for the lungs.

(C) Crooked Marsh

Relieves nervous stomach, anxiety, arm pain, elbow pain, and chest discomfort.

(D) Inner Gate

Relieves nausea, anxiety, palpitations, and wrist pain.

(E) Spirit Gate

Relieves emotional imbalances, fear, nervousness, anxiety, and forgetfulness.

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Feeling The Pressure?

Treat stress at the source. Feel calm and relaxed in just 15 min.

StressEraser.com

Best hardware product award

http://www.telematicsjournal.com/content/newsfeed/10265.html

List of best metro areas

http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/288942607549156.php

US best high school

http://www1.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,2545,TCP_16736_5547852,00.html

Best Mom/ Daughter movies

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/5/11/bestMotherdaughterMoviesAndAFewExceptions

Best hairstyle award

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=50814

500 top songs performed in 10 nights

http://encore.celebrityaccess.com/?encoreId=75&articleId=21470

South Korean building largest solar installtion

http://www.insidegreentech.com/node/1149

Top 10 activities in Hawaii

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=250982

Top 10 golf course

http://www.idahostatesman.com/104/story/83151.html

Holland in top 10 competitive countries

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2007/05/holland_in_competitive_country.php

Top 10 'ouch points' of business meeting

http://hr.blr.com/news.aspx?id=75881

Best baseball song?

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/05/10/062025.php

Which education is the best?

http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=20792

The most personal device

http://networks.silicon.com/mobile/0,39024665,39167078,00.htm

Most UK ad complaints in 2006

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a93ehJ7vdMgg&refer=uk

The best dog training sites online

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=26720

More Ways to improve your Body Language

1. Relax your shoulders. Do not raise them.
2. Communicate without touching.
3. Do not lean.
4. Keep busy. Stop watching people.
5. Do not loiter.
6. Be pleasant.
7. Do not act as if people are watching you. (Note: Studies had shown that our body language speaks are more truer than our spoken language. )
8. Do not bend your elbow while walking. Walk as if your arm comes in one whole piece.
9. Do not chew gum.
10. Do not prim others (adjust another's collar, hair, tie, etc.) Tell them "your collar needs adjusting")
11. Do not flirt.

18 ways to improve your body language

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1. Don’t cross your arms or legs –

2. Have eye contact, but don’t stare

3. Don’t be afraid to take up some space

4. Relax your shoulders

5. Nod when they are talking

6. Don’t slouch, sit up straight

7. Lean, but not too much –

8. Smile and laugh

9. Don’t touch your face

10. Keep you head up.

11. Slow down a bit

12. Don’t fidget

13. Use your hands more confidently

14. Lower your drink

15. Realise where you spine ends

16. Don’t stand too close

17. Mirror

18. Keep a good attitude

Top picks: Aquapolis Tokyo

http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/tokyo/top-picks-aquapolis-tokyo-247409.php

Mud therapy

Mud when covered on the skin helps absorb toxins and impurities.
Mud therapy also helps increase the immune system, reduces blood pressure, and increases circulation.

An Interesting Mud is the Moor Mud
"Moor Mud Therapy / Treatment: Formed more than 30,000 years ago, Moor Mud is a complete nourishing matter containing over 800 plants with at least 380 having known medicinal value. Treatments re-mineralize, hydrate & exfoliate the skin leaving it with a vital, healthy glow."

I had used the whole line, mouthwash, lotion, body wrap, and all. One thing that amazed me is that it seems to have a very long shelf life, in spite of the fact, i was told, 100% pure without any preservatives.

Top 40 Spas

http://spas.about.com/cs/topspas/index.htm

12 Popular Wikis that actually ‘WORK’

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We all love wikipedia: it’s comprehensive, 100% user-edited (aka wiki-style), up-to-date, rather objective, and totally free. It’s a perfect wiki-powered system. While it’s by far the most popular one, it’s not the only wiki-style website that ‘works’. There are plenty of other successful wikis, focused on specific areas i.e, book summaries, cooking, HowTo’s and even ‘bullshit’. So, here you go, popular wikis that have something to offer.

(1) Wikipedia - all-favorite, biggest online encyclopedia

(2) WikiTravel - world-wide travel guide, covers destination guides, hotels and resorts

(3) WikiHow - ‘How-To’ manuals for the problems of everyday life. (‘HowTo’s: Hack a Coke Machine, Get Six Pack Abs, How to choose a Debt Management program, etc.)

(4) WikiBooks - huge collection of user-edited, open-content textbooks and guides. (Textbooks: Chess guide, Learn French … )

(5) CookBookWiki - recipes and cooking related wiki. Sections include: dishes, recipes, cuisines and channels

Google Docs and Spreadsheets can do the job of a wiki. It also has its own link. And it is quite easy to open and edit. You can create a template by copying the html from blogger.com site.

WikiSpaces - free wiki but with a limit.

Other wikis:

Wikiqoute. Wikibooks, Wikinews, and Wikiversity.

Trivia: the first wiki was called Wikiwikiweb.