Have you ever wanted to know, what’s the earth’s people are getting busy lately? Hmm, according to a report from Google Inc, in the past 7 days, the following terms are increasingly searched in Google.

Top ten
1. masters leaderboard 
2. yuri gagarin
3. grand national 2011
4. grand national
5. government shutdown 2011
6. government shutdown
7. masters
8. ipl
9. onpe
10. 地震

As you see, most of the world is wasting time on sport, while some others interested in the past and the space history (Yuri Gagarin), and the remaining part is interested in government businesses. Lastly, I’m too lazy to use Google translate to learn the meaning of the 10th search and comment on it. so if you give a damn, just use google translate.

Does EFX Bracelet really work ?

It has been 2 days since I bought it. If you ask me Do I feel any different? Like I’m charged with super powers, super flexible, like one of the fantastic four, or I am in perfect balance as Kung Fu Panda ? Unfortunately, not. I don’t feel any different apart from I feel like I paid through the nose. I paid nearly 40 bucks for a silicon piece.

EFX Chronicles

Day 1;

Slept at 1:00 am and woke up at 6:00 am in the morning, I felt a bit tired which is contrast to what seller told me, “you’ll wake up completely refreshed”. Throughout the day I felt normal, not much energetic. At the end of the day I slept at 11:30 pm.

Day 2;

Today I woke up at 9:00 am in the morning, so I was late to work. Couldn’t wake up at 6:00 am. I feel totally worn out, exhausted, man! I feel like a hammered sh*t. This thing is like draining my life energy since I’ve worn it. It gathered lots of dust around itself and sticked to my wrist, can’t take it out, I am doomed like the scorpion king but without the super powers. In the gym workout I lifted half of the normal weight I usually lift, It’s like I’m weakening. I started to worry, seriously. The thing was suppose to increase physical abilities, in contrast it’s turning me into a bag of potato. Fortunately I was able to take it off before the end of the day. Believe me, I feel much more better, the thing didn’t even cause to a placebo effect, I’m not mentioning that it’s not working, in contrary It is working but in the reverse direction, it had some serious negative effects on me, and I barely found the strength to remove it from my wrist before it completely fused itself to my arm. Lucky me.

Don’t expect a silicon piece to turn you into a super human, if it would really works, why do they sell it to you for a cost of a dinner ? Or Why do you buy it, even if you know it’s not going to work for you? (just like me).

The answer is blowing in the wind : curiosity.

Hi! Dear visitors, unfortunately we have just learned that Apple will not release any device in WWDC this June. So there will not be iPhone 5 or iPad 3, we do not know that what exactly Apple is planning. Apple will only demonstrate some future plans for iOS and Max OS X, so the conference will only present some software features.The main audience for this conference is most likely the developers, and all the seats are sold out.

As we know that, Verizon users just said hello to iPhone 4 in this February. Is apple afraid to frustrate Verizon users by announcing a new iPhone just after 5 months ? Usually Apple announces a new iPhone at WWDC in June since 2007, what can be a reason to break this habit ? May be not to make Verizon user angry, may be not. But all we know is that this elevated the expectations for iPhone 5. Like in the iPhone 3GS case, angry crowd can not tolerate minor changes and features.

Nowadays, dozens of rumors points out some real interesting clues. According to rumors, iPhone 5 will have a bigger screen, A5 processor (dual core), new cloud services, may be an 8 mega-pixel camera and iOS 5. Also it is probable that the existing chassis of iPhone 4 will be used without no change. As a result we will just have an improved iPhone 4 or namely iPhone 4S. By the way, with all the rumors going on NFC, it is a long long long story, we don’t expect NFC support in iPhone 5. For these reasons, we can be sure that there are no logical reasons to switch iPhone 5 from iPhone 4, and iPhone 4 users will probably not buy iPhone 5. I don’t usually prefer middle models, I generally look for a big reason to switch to a new model, since paying lots of money to a device that doesn’t meet my expectations makes me feel like a fool.

Google webmaster tools was first announced in the year of 2005 (summer). Beginning from that date, it has been 6 years now, and maybe millions of web sites has been utilizing this service, and most them has started using it from the very beginning. But why do people care about this? The answer is quite simple, if you want to be indexed in a higher rank in Google, you have to care about what Google thinks about your site. Google webmaster tools is the Google way of telling the site owners about how they are doing. Webmaster tools offers some quite valuable information that no one else can do. Sitemap status, Search queries, Keywords, Internal links, External links,  Crawl errors, HTML suggestions and many more. If you are still not registered your site with Google webmaster tools, now go and do it. The rest of this article will help to readers who has been already using Google webmaster tools (at least for 2 months and more.)

Rather than demonstrating Google webmaster tools in this article, I would tell you how to use it to increase your traffic. I assume you are already familiar with it. First you have to know How successful you are with your objectives? I mean is your site really getting attention with keywords you want it to be? Or Are you successful in your niche? There is a quite simple way of checking this. First create a list of keywords you think your site is successful on them. It shouldn’t have to be a long list, just quickly pick 5-10 keywords or queries. Now, from the left menu click on “Your site on the web” > “Search queries”. Now you should be seeing a long list depending on your content. The most popular keyword is shown in the first row, the less popular ones follows it second, third and goes on. What do you think now? Does the list you have created match the actual list ? If it matches, and your impressions are decent, then you are successful and know what you are doing.

Generally, it is really hard to get ranked higher in some keywords, since there are always lots of competitors with higher page ranks. Google prefers them and lists them in the higher places. Assuming that the list you have created differs the list on the Google and you are getting low impressions on the keywords you are targetting and on the other hand you are getting decent impressions on the unexpected keywords. Now what you are thinking? Although it seems to be a failure, you can use this information to your advantage. This is Google way of saying, “You should be concentrating on these keywords, not these ones!”.

Secondly, under the bold written “Search queries” (in the top of the page), there should be a link “Top pages”. Now click on it. You will see that which pages on your site are most popular and which are less, which are getting more page views and which are getting less. Similar to keywords, you should again use this information to your advantage, you should focus on the content that you are successful at it, like in the real life situations. By this way you will not be wasting your time to create content that you are not successful with. Instead you can set your focus on the content which is probably help you more in your goals. This is not changing your niche, this is tweaking/optimizing it.

Click on the “Links to your site” from the left menu. You should be seeing a list of sites that links to your site. If you don’t see any sites, you should do some link-building, seriously. You might be surprised with this list, this a reflection of your site’s success. If your site is successful, then it is referenced by others. Links by others are valuable, because Google uses them to determine your page rank. If a site with higher page rank than yours links to you, then your page rank will probably increase, as a consequence your site will take higher places in the search results.

Now click on the link “Subscriber stats”. Your feeds may not be indexed by Google, in this case you should submit your feeds as sitemaps. This is very useful, Google indexes your last minute updates by this feed sitemaps. Lastly navigate to “Diagnostics”>”HTML suggestions”. This one is also useful, which gives suggestions about Meta description, Title tags and Non-indexable content. Following the suggestions showed here, helps Google to index your site better and more. These are just valuable information to know.

Remember to check other links like “Lab”, which gives you an idea about your site’s performance (page load times), may be it needs to be optimized, do check it and always check if your sitemaps have errors. The main idea is to focus on the content that you are successful.

So recently did you notice something new in Facebook? In January 2011, Facebook announced the  “Sponsored Stories”. Apparently it is now being running. If one of your friend likes some product, Facebook will show the advertisement along with your friend’s name. Do you see the danger ? If your answer is NO, let me explain.

If you liked some product that has been shown in your Facebook page, this means that Facebook may use YOUR NAME to advertise that product. Is it ethical ? I don’t know, but it seems a bit worrying and uncomfortable. If you feel so, you should double check your account settings, and apart from Facebook, third party advertisers may use your name and information to advertise, this is a threat and now that’s annoying.

I don’t have an ethics or privacy obsession but I believe that many of you will object to this idea, having your name displayed along with absurd or inappropriate ads. This is not the first time that we had our goodwill abused, many of the companies collect our personal information from cell phone numbers to email addresses to sell them to third party advertisers or to send their advertisements.

So, if want to prevent this, Go to Account Setting > Facebook Ads tab then choose the followings:

Now maybe your name is safe now, maybe not! But also you may want to know that what data you have put to Facebook, now again go to Account Settings, scroll down to the bottom of the page, You will see “Download Your Information”, next to it ,click the link “learn more”, and in the next page, you can proceed to download, note that it will take some time, Facebook will gather all the information that belongs to you. Note that all the data you have shared belongs to Facebook, read the terms of conditions. Being aware of your rights, can prevent headaches in the future. We all deserve respect for our privacy.

I wanted to share my experience about Hosting in this article, which may give you some idea and decide which option is suitable for you. I just tried to keep it clear and simple, but the subject is a big one, so I ended up having the following. I hope it provides you a basic insight. Grab some beverage and go on reading.

If you are a new into the world of Web, you start with a free host which provides limited amount of space and a simple interface to manage your site, and they put ads on your site/blog in return as a cost for this free service. It is a perfect way to discover the world. However, as your site grows bigger and get some attention from people, you start to need a paid hosting, which offers considerable amount of space, no ads, increased service quality such as access speed, server availability and service up-time.

Paid hosting services can be divided into 3 different groups:

• Shared Hosting
• Virtual Private Server
• Dedicated Server

 Shared Hosting

Shared Hosting is the most suitable option for beginners. Why? Because you do not need to consider installing a Web Server, a Database Server and a PHP/ASP extension. You will have a ftp access to server, to upload,delete and modify your web site files, and also you will have a database account associated with this hosting account. There are not very complicated setup procedures to make your site working, all you need to copy your files to your root hosting directory and setup database connections if you are running a website which uses a database (Like WordPress). On the other hand there are some disadvantages with this kind of hosting plan.

For instance, introductory shared hosting plans support only single domain, which means that you can’t host multiple sites under single hosting plan, this is a huge disadvantage. Many people don’t bind to single site, they have several maybe many. But if you are willing to pay more for shared hosting like twice the price, they let you to host multiple web sites. But again this will cause you a lot of headaches. Why? I have started with shared hosting to blogging, as I started to have some traffic, I started to get warning mails from the hosting company, nagging about my sites use extra resources, so the overall quality of the other sites on the server are decreasing. Even they closed my account for this reason. So I recommend you to stay away from such shared hosting plans, unless you are a beginner with a single site, and minimal traffic.

So here are a list of advantages/disadvantages. Recently I was using MediaTemple, Grid service (which is a shared hosting plan), and I was paying $20 for this service, what is worst is that you have a so called GPU limit (1000 GPUs per month), which is amount of processing time allocated to you per month, if you overuse/excess this amount you are charged for extra bucks, most of the time I was paying extra $15-20 for the excessive usage. I was paying a total of $30-40 for a shared hosting and I told myself, this is B.S, I had to move on a VPS or something… Before than that I was using GoDaddy’s shared hosting plan, which was even worst, because they suspended my hosting account several times for overuse (they don’t allow even the smallest spikes in the traffic, this means to bye bye to digg or other social media, that can drive instant traffic to your site), meaning that all my sites were down for days, so this caused me hundreds of dollars, hundreds of visitors, and loss of prestige. Currently I am using Netdirekt’s VPS service. Paying 25 €uros, I’ll tell you later that this price is really optimal, if you compare performance, quality, limits and availability.

Advantages

• Easy to manage
• Considerably cheaper than VPS or Dedicated (starting from $3 per month)
• Ready for deployment (Generally no initial setup)
• Ready-to-use control panels (Varies among the hosting companies)
• Built-in statistics tracking

Disdvantages

• Limited amount of resource allocated to you. (small amount of drive space, max num of 20-25 databases and other such limits)
• Extra charges applied or Account is suspended  for over use of resources.
• No customization on the server, you have to stick what is installed.
• Can’t handle traffic spikes, (Even if they say it can, it CAN’T, they will be charging you with extra cash, this is not handling)
• Risk of losing your visitors as well as your prestige. (When your account is suspended, it may take days to fix the so called “problem”, so think about it, your sites will show, forbidden, 404 and etc.. for days)

Virtual Private Server

Don’t let the word “Virtual” bring you down, focus on the part “Private Server”, yes there is a sharing principle in this but you can’t pass the borders. What if you overuse, or overload it? Simply, you just affect your own availability, meaning that, all your websites hosted on this VPS will have a decreased service quality, you can only damage yourself.! Not the others… So think about a real hardware that is divided in to 4 VPS, and resources are allocated that no one can use others. This is not much different than dedicated server in the user perspective, not in the underlying hardware. Because in dedicated server, you are the only user of that hardware, and likely to have more processing power/capability.

Virtual Private Servers are offered in a broad range of choices. Only variance is in the prices, higher price is for to offer a ready system (everything is pre-installed) out of the box. Apache, PHP, MySQL are already installed, typically such system is called “LAMP”. Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP the fantastic four. So if don’t want to struggle anything, and you want everything to be ready, this may be the option. But if you ask me, If you don’t want to struggle anything, then why do you want to have a VPS? You may still go on using shared hosting by paying extra cash for extra resources. In my opinion,  just go for a from-scratch option, so by this way you may spend some money on extra hardware, such as instead of having 1GB RAM, you may have 2GB RAM. You just make an initial amount of effort for installing and setting up everything to have a running system. After all, you will be paying a lot less for every month than out-of-the-box system. Also you will be learning Linux, isn’t it awesome ?

Let’s compare VPS with a shared hosting account. In VPS, the most important thing is that you are the administrator (root) of the whole system. You have a shell access to do everything. You can install anything you want, you are the responsible for choosing the software. This may be an advantage if you are an experienced user.  You decide on everything. You can use all the available limit of the system. Probably you will not be facing with risk of suspended account or paying extra money. (If you want to earn some cash, so why the heck you will pay extra for a limited service.). Briefly you own that machine, do what you want with it. But as in always, power comes with responsibilities, don’t forget to schedule some auto-backup mechanism, because the company will not be offering any backups (unless you request so and pay more), you are responsible for any data loss, they are only responsible for hardware failures. Also another subject is Security. You are also responsible to secure whole system, and being aware of what’s going on. Besides these disadvantages, there is another advantage, generally the bandwidth limits are much more that shared ones, also the bandwidth is a lot bigger than the shared ones. Companies allows you to install different kinds of Linux distros, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, Slackware and etc.. So you can choose your own flavor.

Currently I am paying 25 €uros per month for a VPS from Netdirekt.de with the following properties:

CPU: 2.000 MHz
Ram: 2048 MB
HDD: 250 GB
Traffic: 5000 GB
OS: Debian Lenny

When you compare it with a shared hosting like MediaTemple ’s Grid Service which costs $20-40 per month to me. There is no logical reason stay with such service, so I have moved VPS. Now, I freely playing with it, adding new websites easily and without fear of overuse of resources. So following list will present you a big picture about VPS.

 Advantages

• Freedom (You are free to change everything, you are the administrator)
• Customized configuration and softwares (You decide what to install)
• No risk of suspended account
• No limits, you may wish to use all available limit
• Increased speed, quality and availability than shared hosting
• Higher efficiency (Cost/Performance proportion is higher than shared hosting)

Disdvantages

• Initial effort to make whole system running (If you prefer a scratch one, not a ready system out of the box)
• Hard to manage for inexperienced users (but you’ll get used to it, you’ll gain experience time after time, remember “Rome was not built in one day”)
• You are responsible for backup & maintenance.
• You are responsible for your system security. (Be careful! This is a tough task)

Dedicated Server

Dedicated Server is similar with VPS in usage, you have Linux system with shell access, so you have the same degree of freedom. But Dedicated Server differs in hardware aspect. Because you are the only owner of the underlying hardware, so you may modify the hardware configuration as well as software. So in future, you may consider expansion, adding memory, disk space and etc… But this all means extra cost but if you are running a big business (large scale), this option is more suitable for you, since you have possibility to modify the actual hardware, according to your needs.

The biggest disadvantage is the cost. There are broad range of choices, but even a slower Dedicated Server will cost too much money. If you are serious about your business and gaining a lot much (4x-5x times) than the amount you are paying, then it’s worth paying for Dedicated Server, else VPS is surely enough. All the advantages and disadvantages of VPS applies to Dedicated Server and plus the following ones.

Additional Advantages over VPS

• You may alter the hardware configuration (Future upgrades)
• You are the only owner of the hardware
• Proportionally higher performance, speed and bandwidth

Additional Disadvantages over VPS

• Since, you are the only owner, your responsibility increases, so you need to spend more time on periodic maintenance & backups.
• Increased cost.

Before ending this post, I want to clarify that I didn’t mean say one is better than the other, in some cases one is preferable among others. Briefly, If you are beginner, go with a shared hosting, but if you feel that you are growing and earning some money that can afford VPS, don’t wait for the hosting company to push you to pay more for resources, or suspend your account, just switch to a VPS, and introduce yourself some degree of freedom. If you have started to gain some serious amount of money, then you can call it as a business, so go for a Dedicated Server.

Have Fun!

Here is a complete project, which does primitive pattern recognition, it contains pretty enough information to make you grasp the subject. The network is based on the ‘network’ object, so it is a network build from bottom to top, we assign each significant property by hand.

Download Project

AND Gate
========
x=[0 0 1 1; 0 1 0 1];
t=[0 0 0 1];
net = newp(x,t);
net = train(net,x,t);
sim(net,[0;0]);
sim(net,[1;0]);
sim(net,[1;1]);
sim(net,[0;1]);

OR Gate
=======
x=[0 0 1 1; 0 1 0 1];
t=[0 0 0 1];
net = newp(x,t);
net = train(net,x,t);
sim(net,[0;0]);
sim(net,[1;0]);
sim(net,[1;1]);
sim(net,[0;1]);

“HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet \Services\UsbStor”

In the right pane, double click on the “Start” and type “4″ in the Value field. That’s all. If you want to enable ports just change the value to “3″.

1- One heaping tea spoon Nescafé.
2- 6 oz of water (177 ml) at 90-95 celcius.
3- Stir and enjoy.

Water quality is crucial, %99 of its is water. Water Temperature should be slightly less than boiling. Optionally you may add hot milk or creme. Please share your tips

http://wave.google.com

“music of ireland”

By the way how peaceful is the song from Ireland. You can search for your own country. If you are Johnie Walker, then search for bagpipes

“music of scotland”

Long live wiki, you little Mozart …

You may want to visit the site for details,

http://www.worldofmi.com

Query:

inurl:”nph-proxy.cgi” “Start browsing”

You may alternate this query to obtain different results. Critical keyword is “inurl” as you may have noticed. It searches the desired phrase in the urls. Play with it, you will be surprised.