Yes, firefox is already pretty damn fast but did you know that you can tweak it and improve the speed even more?

That's the beauty of this program being open source.
Here's what you do:
In the URL bar, type “about:config” and press enter. This will bring up the configuration “menu” where you can change the parameters of Firefox.

Note that these are what I’ve found to REALLY speed up my Firefox significantly - and these settings seem to be common among everybody else as well. But these settings are optimized for broadband connections - I mean with as much concurrent requests we’re going to open up with pipelining… lol… you’d better have a big connection.

Double Click on the following settins and put in the numbers below - for the true / false booleans - they’ll change when you double click.

Code:
browser.tabs.showSingleWindowModePrefs – true
network.http.max-connections – 48
network.http.max-connections-per-server – 16
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy – 8
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server – 4
network.http.pipelining – true
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests – 100
network.http.proxy.pipelining – true
network.http.request.timeout – 300


One more thing… Right-click somewhere on that screen and add a NEW -> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0”. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. Since you’re broadband - it shouldn’t have to wait.

Now you should notice you’re loading pages MUCH faster now!

We hear it all the time?lose weight for your health. Few people however, realize the extent to which this is critical to their physical well-being and ultimately their life expectancy.

In January 2003, the Journal of the American Medical Association featured a study finding that obesity appears to lessen life expectancy, especially among young adults. The researchers compared Body-Mass Index (BMI) to longevity and found a correlation between premature death and higher BMIs. For example, a 20-year-old white male, 5'10" weighing 288 pounds with a BMI of greater than 40 was estimated to lose 13 years of his life as a result of obesity.Jamie McManus, M.D., F.A.A.F.P. and author of "Your Personal Guide to Wellness" notes that while this study referenced extreme levels of obesity, there are still millions of overweight people in developed countries with a life expectancy rate that is three to five years less than their healthy-weight counterparts. She also estimates that there are 600,000 obesity related deaths each year in America.

Just how does obesity shorten our lifespan? The answer to this question is complex, yet there is a clear link between obesity and the development of cancer. An extensive study conducted by the American Cancer Institute involving 750,000 people showed that obesity significantly increased the risk of cancer developing in the following organs: breast, colon, ovaries, uterus, pancreas, kidneys and gallbladder.

Michael Thun, MD, vice-president of epidemiology and surveillance research for the American Cancer Society (ACS) says one reason obesity may raise cancer risk is because fat cells produce a form of estrogen called estradiol that promotes rapid division of cells, increasing chances of a random genetic error while cells are replicating, which can lead to cancer. In addition, fat centered around the abdomen may increase insulin and insulin-like growth factors in the blood, which may increase cancer risk.

"Women who are obese after menopause have a 50% higher relative risk of breast cancer," notes Thun, "and obese men have a 40% higher relative risk of colon cancer?. Gallbladder and endometrial cancer risks are five times higher for obese individuals".There is evidence that cancer rates in developed countries are increasing at 5 to 15 times faster than developing countries. A major contributor to this alarming reality has proven to be diet. In populations where the diet consists mostly of fresh fruit and vegetables and whole grains - in contrast to the typical Western diet of fatty meats, refined flours, oils and sugars - the risk of cancer is much lower.

The interaction of diet and the development of cancer is an active field of research and Dr David Heber, M.D., Ph.D. and author of "What Color is Your Diet", says "It appears that diet has its most significant effects after the cancer has already formed, acting to inhibit or stimulate the growth of that cancer". At the risk of oversimplifying a complex set of interactions, the typical Western diet that leads to obesity may actually act to stimulate the growth of cancer cells.It is never too late to improve your health through healthful eating and adopting a more health-giving lifestyle. Here are simple steps to follow which can make an immediate improvement to your health and vitality.

1. Check your Body Mass Index (BMI) to determine if weight has become health risk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60% of Americans are overweight, defined as having a BMI (a ratio of height to weight) over 25. Of those, nearly half (27%) qualify as obese, with a body mass index of 30 or more. In 1980, just 15% of Americans were considered obese. You can check your BMI at the website below.

2. Match your diet to your body's requirements. If you eat and drink more calories than your body requires you will put on weight. Learn to control calories and portion sizes, make recipes leaner, and eat infrequently from fast food restaurants. Also learn how to snack with healthful choices.

3. Color your diet with a large variety of colorful, cancer-fighting fruit and vegetables. There are seven different color ranges of both fruit and vegetables and by choosing between 5 to 9 daily serves from a wide range of fruit and vegetables, we are extending our consumption of cancer (and other disease) fighting nutrients.

4. Eat lean protein with every meal. Protein provides a powerful signal to the brain providing a longer sense of fullness. The right source of protein is essential to controlling your hunger with fewer calories and necessary to maintain your lean muscle mass. Choices of protein should be flavored soy shakes with fruit; the white meat of chicken and turkey, seafood such as shrimps, prawns scallops and lobster and ocean fish or vegetarians may prefer soy based meat substitutes.

5. Rev up your metabolism with activity. If you want to enjoy a lifetime of well-being, exercise is a key ingredient. Colleen Doyle, MS, RD, director of nutrition and physical activity for the American Cancer Society (ACS), says adults should do something for 30 minutes each day that takes as much effort as a brisk walk. Children should be active for an hour each day. We are more likely to develop habits around things we enjoy, so seek activities which you enjoy doing. It is also helpful to build physical activity into your daily routine: use the stairs instead of the escalator or lift at work, park your car in the parking bay furthest from the super marketing and don't use the remote control to change TV channels.

6. Get support to ensure you develop a healthful eating plan and reach your goal weight. Whilst a small percentage of people possess the discipline to lose weight, many obese people have developed strong thoughts and habits concerning the food they eat. In order to establish new habits, most people respond well to some form of consistent encouragement and coaching. A study, "Effects of Internet Behavioral Counseling on Weight Loss in Adults at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes" shows that participants who had the support of weight loss coaching lost more weight than those who didn't. The study concluded that the support of a weight loss coach can significantly improve weight loss results.

Being overweight or obese has been identified next to smoking, as the most preventable major risk to developing cancer. Even small weight losses have been shown to have beneficial health effects. So it's never to late to start and you can never be too young or too old to be concerned about your health and do something about achieving a more healthy weight.

The current "frenzy" over VoIP seems to focused mostly on BroadBand phones and their predicted replacement of landline phone calls as we know it.

But that's just the obvious action on the surface.

VoIP technology is & can be much more than that. And company R&D is gearing up in unprecedented ways to prepare for that surprising leap in expectation.

Notice I said expectation.

Seems the old business model in Telco was that whatever the companies came up with is what the consumer would take.

The companies drove the market & what was in it...including any technology "advancements" and their application, distribution, etc.

Remember.....we had dial-up internet....then DSL, cable, & satellite access. Now WiFi & soon reliable WiMax deployment.

We had high cpm PSTN / POTS residential phone calls....then we had bundled local/LD.... then flat rate LD. Now Broadband phone (VoIP).

We had bulky analog cell phones then digital/PCS, text messaging, and now sleek video cellular.

But that is old world thinking.

The reason is 2 fold....

First....VoIP technology (note I didn't say VoIP "phone") stands to afford unprecedented advancements and capabilities yet to be seen. The potential is boggling.

Second....the old business model was that whatever companies came up with consumers would


accept. The companies drove what was available & came to market.

No more...now consumers are dictating to companies "we want this now come up with it".

That's a drastic change in thinking that companies must now deal with. Those that do will be better positioned to capture what markets are created by consumer demand...vice the old approach of markets being created by what companies developed and released. And the foundation of this new consumer driven demand will likely be based on VoIP (and I believe wireless) technology.

That aside, I'd really like to see what you think of this shift in product development and market control to consumer "vision" vice company "idea" driven....fueled by the possibilities surrounding VoIP and wireless. We've seen....or soon will....a host of Gee Whiz break throughs & possibilities focused heavily on multi-media & data (both residential & business). What do you think the future holds?

About the Author

Michael is the owner of FreedomFire Communications http://ld.net/mscprez and http://DS3-Bandwidth.com .......delivering choices to both residential and business consumers for voice and data broadband services. Michael also authors BroadBand Nation http://BroadBand-Nation.blogspot.com where you're always welcome to to drop in and catch up on the latest BroadBand news, tips, and ramblings for the masses.

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Title: 4 Ways to Prevent the Number One Women’s Health Problem
Author: Julie Lenz
URL: http://www.pcoscoach.com
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Author's Email: Julie@pcoscoach.com
Article Category: Health, Women’s Health, Heart

4 Ways to Prevent the Number One Women’s Health Problem
by Julie Lenz

What disease kills more American women than any other?

If you answered anything except heart disease then you must read this article. According to the American Heart Association heart disease and stroke are the No. 1 and No. 3 killers of women. They are two of the many cardiovascular diseases that kill nearly 500,000 women each year. That’s more than the next seven causes of death combined, including all forms of cancer. But there are steps you can take to protect yourself.

1. Get your cholesterol tested every year. Many women don’t know they have high cholesterol. They assume that heart disease is a man’s problem. Even many doctors don’t realize the risk that women have of heart disease so they fail to suggest testing.

2. Increase your weekly exercise. We now know that as little as 10 minutes of exercise three times a week can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. Walk the dog a little bit longer each day. Get your heart pumping by dancing to your favorite music
while you clean the house. Walk during your lunch hour instead of eating at your desk.

3. Eat more fruits and veggies. Fruits and vegetables are low in fat and high in fiber. They contain heart healthy nutrients. Leafy greens


are particularly healthy. Orange juice is high in folic acid, a nutrient known to protect the heart and prevent
birth defects. Add one vegetable or fruit to every meal and you will likely double your current intake. You can make it easier by keeping prepared vegetables in the refrigerator to throw into a salad or munch on for snacks.

4. Learn about polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). PCOS affects as many as 5-10% of all women. It is one of the most common endocrine disorders and is one of the most common causes of infertility. PCOS is a cluster of symptoms that can include: unexplained weight gain or difficulty losing weight, depression or mood swings, painful or irregular periods, absent periods,
acne, hair loss, unexpected hair growth (face, arms, stomach, etc.), infertility, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and more. Untreated PCOS can lead to serious health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and endometrial cancer. Protecting your heart is easier than you might think and it will reward you every moment of every day. Take care of yourself. You are worth it!

What are Google Adwords?
When you go to Google and search on a topic, you will see listings down the left side of the page, with a white background.Google Ads are the listings that appear down the right hand side of the page under "Sponsored Links".
Sometimes there will be a listing at the top of the page which has a blue background. If there is a listing at the top, this website owner is paying more for their Google Ad than anyone else on the right hand side.

How does it work?
As the title suggests, the ads are sponsored, i.e. paid for, so every time someone clicks on those sponsored links,the advertiser will pay a certain amount. The advertiser will determine what amount that is, but the higher the "pay per click" amount, the higher up on the search they will be found. So for example, if I had a tractor sale website, I might want to be found under "cheap tractors". I will then decide how much I am prepared to pay per click. The more I pay, the higher up I will be. The higher up you are on the search, the more clicks you are more likely to get and as a result - hopefully more sales.The amount you pay is completely up to you, but you will be competing with your competitors to get to the top!So if you attempt to get to the top under a popular search term (such as "car insurance") you will have to pay an awful lot - perhaps up to $2 per click!!!

How to choose the Price of your Google Ads:
If you owned a tractor engine website and you know that you make £100 per tractor engine sale and the website tends to convert 1 in 500 visitors, your ads should really not pay more than 20 cents per click, because 500 clicks will cost you $100, but should make $100. Ideally your Pay per Click (PPC) will be around 15 cents or less.

Using Google Ads with Affiliate Marketing:
You will find many e-books and websites promoting how you can make money using Google Adwords. These books will explain how Google Adwords work and then explain how you can use affiliate marketing alongside Google Adwords.
I can sum many of these e-books up quite quickly using the same example...
If the tractor company offers affiliates $50 for every sale they make, then you could simply set up Google ads under key words such as "cheap tractor engines" at 5 cents per click and hope to convert 1 in 500 visitors, if the affiliate pays $50 per sale, then it would cost you $25 for the ads, but you would make $50, so your profit would be $25 profit for simply placing an affiliate ad.
As long as this affiliate relationship continues and the conversion remains constant, then this would create an"automated income stream"for you. You may have heard this term banded all over the place, especially with get rich quick schemes, and this is a true way to generate an automatic income stream. With Google Ads, you don't even need a website to generate
money, but it is likely that to be accepted by a company into their affiliate program - you will need a website!?!?

Google Adwords Summary:
The trick to creating an "automated income stream" is finding a niche in a market.The trick is to find the cheap keywords that no-one else is bidding on, and that will generate sales from your affiliates.Whilst there are lots of e-books providing some good advice - they will never give you this information because if they find a niche marketing opportunity, I really don't you think they'd be publishing it for all to see, do you?

Tips to getting started with Adwords and Affiliate programs:
If you fancy giving this a try to make some money, take a few hours out of your day, sit down with a pen and paper.Start a table by writing along the top a list of your affiliates that you would like to promote and jot below it, the commission that they would pay for each sale.Now visit Overture Keywords Search (This tools shows you how many searches were made last month on keywords)Right down a list of words below the affiliates name that you think people would look for on searches which might not be that popular. It will then show you how many searches were made under those words that you have chosen. Make a note of it.Now go to the Google search page and key in the words you have just looked at.What you should be looking for is a page with none or only 1 or 2 Google ads on the right hand side.It is likely that you will have to repeat this quite a few times before you find one with no or only a couple of ads.
Don’t forget – hundreds, if not thousands of people are already doing this, so you need to think outside the box.

• Avoid common words – there’s little point in looking at “car insurance”, look for niche areas such as “Ford insurance”.

• Look for misspellings, people will clearly bid on “car insurance”, but if someone typed “carinsurance”, this would require a separate bid with Google ads, so look for misspellings – this is a great way to be found on the first page.

• Think differently – if you were looking for a particular item, what other words might you use.When you do find some keywords that relate well to your affiliate and that no-one is bidding on - place your Google ads as cheaply as possible and fingers crossed!

I’m willing to bet that 99% of websites are dedicated to making someone, somewhere, some money.I’m sure if you checked every website you went to, you would find someone somewhere trying to make money from your visit. It could be through a direct product or service, or it could be through adverts and promotions,you could even have made someone some money by simply visiting that site.Perhaps you are a little bit like I was 12 months ago?You would like to make money on the internet, but other than buying and selling stuff on eBay, you are not really sure what else to do. You may have even tried several of those “get rich quick” schemes and maybe tried to sell others products on your own website, but my guess is, you have had limited success.I cannot give you a step by step guide on how to make a million dollars on the internet. There are many websites that claim they can show you how to make thousands of dollars a day and retire in a month, but after trying a handful of them – it’s all complete crap and I would strongly recommend that you save yourself your time and money, as most of them are a complete scam!Yet again,there are a few trust worthy that I have come across who bring could give you good insight like ShoeMoney,ArunTheAce,JohnChow etc.However, if you would like to make an easy few bucks, I did find a few cool ways of exploiting the internet to get some quick cash wins on the internet and this is all explained below.

First of all…

Work at Home Schemes: Exposed
Have you seen these kinds of ads before?

• Earn up to $1000 a day just inputting Data into online forms

• Get paid to hundreds to Complete Surveys!

• Earn $200,000 in 12 months!

• Spare a few hours a day to fill in a few envelopes and earn $500 a week!

• Great Work at Home opportunity - earn £200 a day.
We'd all love these ads to be true, but sadly most of these turn out to be bogus and not worth the paper they are written on. I’m sure there are legitimate companies out there that will offer you work if you want it, but unfortunately, we never found one and the ones that we did try, all turn out to be bogus and will happily take money off you under false pretenses.

Data Entry Job: Exposed

We applied for a Home Based Data Entry job and forked out $50 for so-called "training materials".These "training materials" were sent by email automatically and it was a simple guide showing us how to place free ads online which were exactly like the one we had responded to - this is the so-called "Data Entry". The people that then responded to my ads, would pay me $50 for the same "training materials" that I had received and they would then be doing the same job as me. If you look at some Free Job sites, you will probably find hundreds of these on there - because the majority have fallen foul of this con and are just trying to get their money back from some other poor person.

Get paid to send and receive envelopes/emails: Exposed

The job ad said we would be paid for sending and receiving envelopes. Up to $10 for each envelope sent/received. We applied for this one because the start up pack costs $100, so we thought the content must be quality. We did receive a pack in the post, but was bitterly disappointed to receive an envelope containing adverts for the same job we had applied for. The job asked us to promote through various methods the same job that we applied for and the $10 would be from paid by them for responses we sent to them. This is a lot like the Data Entry position, but this time much worse – as you only get 10% of the money the other company earned. Needless to say, I complained and tried to get my money back, but with no joy!

Get Paid to Complete Surveys: Exposed

We looked at this one and to be honest, there is no scam involved, but the promises of earning $50/hr etc fall very short of the mark. I have completed around about 25 surveys, my emails are now bombarded by companies marketing their products and I have only ever received $20. If you have some spare time, why not, but $50 per hour - please!!!

Earn $200,000 in 12 months!

Once again, should you be skeptical? Absolutely!

If you type in “Make Money on Google”, you will find a host of these companies promising you the world.In a number of cases they will baffle you with lots of jargon and tell you that you can create an automated income stream and that you can earn thousands a week. Strangely enough though, you have to buy something off them first - guess what? In most cases it’s an e book!We have looked at a few of these Get Rich Quick plans and in our experiences, whilst they do offer some good advice, they don't really give you enough information to earn the millions that they claim, but they do generally point towards you buying more e books or spending more money on other pieces of software, which they have an affiliation with.Don't get me wrong, the content in many of these e books is pretty good and you can learn quite a bit, and another great thing is that they do tend to offer you money back guarantees, but don’t be fooled by their devilish claims – it’s highly unlikely that you will earn $200,000 in 12 months.My recommendation to 99% of people would be to give them all a miss!

Summary

The underlying theme for most of these sites is to help you part with your money.Remember, a lot of these websites are being advertised on the first page as sponsored ads, which means that they are paying to be on there. Common sense tells you that if they are paying to be found there – then they must be making money from visitors – i.e. YOU!

• Do yourself a favor – don’t waste your money on joining money making schemes!

Just because someone shows you pictures of money, nice cars, flash houses, it doesn’t mean to say that any of that will come true for you. If I show you lots of pictures of money – do you really think that makes any difference – they’re just conning you with their marketing gimmicks.

Hope you enjoyed it!

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It is obvious at this point that you have a website of your own for any purpose, be it for fun or for business.Well what ever your purpose may be, one of the most important need for your website is traffic.The website is useless unless people visit it.In order to to succeed at this there are many ways,here are few good points I think will be useful to gain web traffic.

(1) Blogs: There are a lot of blog sites you can choose from.To mention a few biggies like BlogSpot and WordPress.You can start out with one of these top listed blog sites.And make sure you blog is in your website and links to content page and keep it updated.Try updating the content often as search engines favor sites which update content often and which contain self made articles.By updating articles you can trigger interest in the reader and thereby increase web traffic.

(2) Content: This is by far the toughest part.Definitely very time consuming, but there are a lot of free articles which are available for free.Make sure that your article contains the right keyword and you can also add the website catch phrase at the bottom of every article.There are a lot of people in various fields who are in need of good content and they would start revisiting your website if they find interesting information,and information is definitely not subjective to any particular topic.Your content could be about anything.This is a very effective way to get one-way back links to your website.

(3) Online Directories: Directories are a collection of websites.There are plenty of directories out there to chose from.Choose a directory with heavy web traffic.I would definitely recommend Alexa.And also make it a point to submit your article using a Article Submission software as they help you increase you Page Rank by cresting one-way links to your site.

(4) Search Engine Optimized: This is a must do to improve your web traffic.Your web page must be search engine optimized i.e, your web page should be keyword driven.Choose a right and appropriate keyword for your website and make sure you use a lot of them in your articles too.Also try searching for spider simulation which are easily available online.These simulations will show show you how you can improve your page rank.

(5) Forums: Forums are a niche of like minded people.Be a part of active forums and try to meet like minded people.You can gain lot of information from their experience.Certain forums permit you to leave your link in your posts.When people read your article,there is very high chance of them visiting your website because they are also in the same industry.And search engines can also traverse these links and this will help you build a higher link popularity.

(6) Traffic Swap: There are certain website which entertain traffic swap.You can register in these kind of website for free and they help you gain traffic very quickly.there are two types of traffic swap,auto surf and manual surf.The manual surf are proffered as you are expected to view the sites and the more websites you view,the more more your web traffic grows.You can gain more of its advantages by joining many of these traffic swap websites and thereby multiply the advantage.

(7) Viral Advertisement: Viral Marketing in simpler terms is just mouth to mouth advertisement.And this is by far the best method to advertise your website.People have the tendency to believe almost instantly to those they are close to.And you can use this technique to advertise your website.Its as simple as telling your 5 friends about your web page asking them to spread it.If each of them carries out the process,you can stay assured that at the end of ten rounds,your traffic would be way over a million.

(8) E-Classifieds: Yes they actually do exist.Classifieds have found their way to the internet portal and are proving that they are a force we have to beckon,not just on the papers but also online.This is applicable only if you don't mind spending a few bucks.But once you get listed in certain popular classifieds like Craiglist,search engines are bound to notice your website.

(9) Reciprocate Links: This is one of the earliest and smooth strategies of all time.Well its just exchanging links with other webmasters.This way you can benefit from a different source of traffic and the other webmaster is also getting the same.This is a win-win scenario.But make sure that a relevance exists between you and your link partner.It would be better if your link partner has a good page.

(10) Pay Per Click: This is definitely for those who don't mind mind losing a few bucks for a higher purpose.Its a good way to increase web traffic to your website.All you have to do is find a good Pay Per Click engine like Google Adwords.And here you can buy ads from Google and set a keyword and also how much you will pay when someone clicks your add.This is a good way to increase web traffic to your website.

Hope these tips help you out in your internet adventure and thanks for reading.
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