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Working from home

2012-12-28T12:41:00.001-08:00

Lot of people nowadays are searching for ways to earn by working from home. If you do a simple search on the internet then you will find lots of site who give various options and give lots of false promise. Some even say you will be a millionaire in next few years by working from home (Great isn't it?).

Working from home is not an option if below is true for you:

You want to be a millionaire or a rich person in next few years.
You want to leave your regular job and want to work form home full time.

But yes if you want to earn some cash to pay your bills or need money for pocket expenses then working from home could be an option.

There are few genuine websites which can help you make money from home. Note: Don't go for websites which asks you for money before working for them.

Here are few options for you:-

1) If you have some specific skills like Programming Language,content writing etc. then you can work as a freelancer.

There are lot of websites where you can register for free and apply for suitable freelancing jobs.

Some of the top freelancing websites are: -

2) If you are a non-technical person then check out this great site from Amazon . Mturk or Amazon Mechanical Turk is a leader in work from home jobs. This site can help you earn some decent money. Click here to start making money now.

3) Selling items in Amazon or Ebay is also another way to earn some money. There could be lot of items in your home which you are not using and want to get rid of. For example, an old mobile phone, mixer grinder, toys etc.

You can also sell new items. If you know of anyone who can sell you items in a bulk at cheap price then you can buy those items and then sell it on Amazon for little higher price. This will help you to make some profit.

4) Writing blogs or blogging is also another way. Some popular sites where you can start writing blogs are Blogger,Wordpress and Bravenet etc.

Personally, I prefer Blogger more than any other as you can easily display Ads by setting up an Adsense account. Its easy and seamless.

5) Take part in online surveys or do website reviews. This is also a good way to earn some money.

Hope this helps...Happy money making :-)

10 Must see places in the world

2012-02-07T23:49:00.000-08:00

If you love to travel and fond of mother nature then here are the list of places you should never miss.

1. Virunga Volcanoes

Africa's Green and Fiery Heart

Perhaps nowhere
 on Earth is the dual creative and destructive nature of volcanoes more 
evident than in central Africa’s Virunga Volcanoes Massif. Straddling the borders between Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the eight-volcano chain is one of Earth’s most active volcanic regions and a veritable salad bowl for mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, elephants, and other wildlife. Landscapes in all three countries conjure visions of both Eden and hell.

In Congo, the swirling plume of the active Nyiragongo Volcano (above) beckons. Check on the security situation in the troubled country before going, but those who make the steep five-hour hike up Nyiragongo are rewarded with heady vistas of the world’s largest lava lake. Spend the night on the rim to fully experience the crater’s fiery light and sound spectacle.

2. Costa Brava Coast

Tossa de Mar

Tossa de Mar is perched on the Mediterranean in Catalonia, a province in
 northeastern Spain. The Costa Brava coastal region is a popular tourist
 destination, thanks to its moderate climate, beautiful beaches, and 
charming towns.

The best activities to do among many others are camping Costa Brava and bike tour. If you are looking for holiday trips, the experience of going to Portbou to La Bisbal within the region of Costa Brava is splendid.

A tip for the travellers is to start your 
ride right on the border of the country of Spain and France in Portbou, 
the small fishing town that can be found in between these two countries.
 There are many visitors come to Portbou because the sunshine is too 
good to sense and more affordable in prices when you compare in France.

3. Guatemala

Modern Maya World

Every year countless travelers visit the ruins of once great Mayan cities: Chichén Itzá (Mexico), Tikal (Guatemala), Caracol (Belize), and Copán (Honduras). The pyramids and stelae are well worth seeing, especially at jungle-shrouded Tikal (above), but here’s the thing: Maya civilization isn’t long gone. Its apogee may have passed, but millions of Maya people and their culture remain alive and well, most vibrantly in Guatemala’s Western Highlands.

The most alluring place in Maya Guatemala is Chichicastenango, a walkable town about three hours by road from Guatemala City where more than 95 percent of the people are indigenous. Each Thursday and Sunday, Maya vendors carry their goods on their backs at dawn to Chichi’s market, selling brilliantly hued textiles, fearsome wooden masks, golden and purple maize, necklaces, and produce arranged in Escher-like patterns. Smoke from grills perfumes the narrow aisles, and so many women briskly pat stone-ground tortillas into shape that it sounds like a standing ovation.

4. Iceland

Harmonic Convergence

Dusk falls on a primeval landscape on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula. A final relic from the world’s last ice age, this North Atlantic island nation is a world of knife-cut valleys, gargantuan fjords, monumental cliffs, black-sand beaches, thundering waterfalls, and silent white glaciers. Recent volcanic eruptions remind us that Iceland is still a country in the making, with changed landscapes that even Icelanders continue to discover.

Three years of financial recovery have made Iceland more affordable, with consumer prices now largely pegged to the euro. The country’s return to a humbler attitude stems from a thousand-year-old tradition of self-reliance—a tradition that has preserved one of the world’s oldest living languages and harnessed some of the cleanest energy on Earth.

5. New Zealand

Lake Tekapo

A violent struggle created this world, according to Maori mythology: Indigenous New Zealanders say Sky Father and Earth Mother were ripped from each other’s arms to make room for mountains, forests, and oceans. Around Rotorua, a Maori heartland and home of the mineral-rimmed Champagne Pool (above), it’s easy to believe the struggle continues, as the eerie landscape bubbles and churns like some primordial stew. Geysers erupt, mud boils, and steam seeps from cliffs and sidewalks, leaving a sulfurous scent in the air.

In a land where adrenaline lovers ride rockets suspended on wires and roll downhill inside giant plastic balls, biking seems one of the saner ways to plunge into a landscape that compels exploration: hot springs, glaciers, rain forests, and volcanoes, encircled by nearly 10,000 miles of coastline, packed into a country barely bigger than Colorado. New Zealand is made for journeys, physical and spiritual.

6. Machu Pichu



Trekker's paradise


When the explorer Hiram Bingham III encountered Machu Picchu in 1911, he was looking for a different
 city, known as Vilcabamba. This was a hidden capital to which the Inca 
had escaped after the Spanish conquistadors arrived in 1532. Over time 
it became famous as the legendary Lost City of the Inca. Bingham spent 
most of his life arguing that Machu Picchu and Vilcabamba were one and 
the same, a theory that wasn’t proved wrong until after his death in 
1956. (The real Vilcabamba is now believed to have been built in the 
jungle about 50 miles west of Machu Picchu.) Recent research has cast 
doubt on whether Machu Picchu had ever been forgotten at all. When 
Bingham arrived, three families of farmers were living at the site.


For visitors conditioned to the explanatory signs at national parks, one
 of the strangest things about Machu Picchu is that the site provides 
virtually no information about the ruins. (This lack does have one 
advantage—the ruins remain uncluttered.) The excellent Museo de Sitio 
Manuel Chávez Ballón ($8 entry) fills in many of the blanks about how 
and why Machu Picchu was built (displays are in English and Spanish), 
and why the Inca chose such an extraordinary natural location for the 
citadel. First you have to find the museum, though. It’s inconveniently 
tucked at the end of a long dirt road near the base of Machu Picchu, 
about a 30-minute walk from the town of Aguas Calientes. 

7. The Great wall of China

A wonder 

China’s iconic Great Wall, actually a 
network of fortifications rather than a single structure, is the product
 of countless labors over a period of some two thousand years. Qin Shi 
Huang took the remnants of truly ancient fortifications, walls, and 
earthworks begun in the fifth century B.C. and linked them into a 
unified wall circa 220 B.C. as part of a massive project to protect 
China against marauding barbarians from the north.

By
 the time construction on most of the stone-and-brick Great Wall, with 
its turrets and watchtowers, was completed during the Ming dynasty 
(1368-1644) the chang cheng had become the world’s largest human-made object.

A
 recent government mapping project revealed that the entire Great Wall 
structure spans some 5,500 miles (8,850 kilometers) from the Korean 
border west into the Gobi desert. Of that total 3,889 miles (6,259 
kilometers) were actual wall, while 223 miles (359 kilometers) were 
trenches and (1,387 miles) 2,232 kilometers were natural defensive 
barriers, like rivers or steep hills, incorporated into the system.

Though
 new sections of the wall have recently been uncovered, several sections
 of the structure have vanished during the past half century or so. Mao 
Zedong himself encouraged destruction of parts of the wall and reuse of 
its materials in the 1950s, and rural farmers still make use of the 
wall’s earth and stone for practical purposes.

Some
 50 percent of the original ancient structure has already disappeared, 
and perhaps another 30 percent lies crumbling into ruins—even as Chinese
 and international organizations struggle to preserve what remains of 
this unique treasure.

9. Lavaux Vineyard Terraces, Switzerland

A true honeymoon spot

The Lavaux Vineyard Terraces blanket the lower mountain slopes along the northern shores of Lake Geneva. Each autumn, the 2,050 acres of ancient vineyards—established by Benedictine and Cistercian monks in the 11th century and protected as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2007—attract hikers who walk and taste their way along the 21-mile Grand Traversée de Lavaux from Ouchy in Lausanne to Chateau de Chillon Castle. Yellow arrows mark the main path, which leads though working vineyards (Chasselas is the region’s predominant wine grape variety) and medieval villages, facilitating frequent refueling stops at local wine cellars, pubs, and restaurants. Saturdays through October 15, the Lavaux Panoramic wine tasting tourist train rolls—on tires, not tracks—through the villages of Chardonne, Chexbres, Rivaz, and St-Saphorin. A crisscross network of public and private railways makes it easy to explore the entire Lavaux region on foot or by bike. Or, if you’re up to the challenge, join the thousands of runners expected for the Lausanne Marathon on October 30, which follows the shore road between Lake Geneva and the terraced hillsides.

10. Banff National Park, Canada

Nature at its best

The first national park established in Canada, Banff National Park spans a region of unparalleled mountain scenery and is open year-round for wildlife viewing, sightseeing, and other outdoor activities.

Whether your fancy is glacial lakes, sandy beaches, rocky coasts, or lush forests, Canada has them all, in a national park system that’s one of the world’s best.

Nahanni National Park Reserve, Canada

Peace and Tranquility 

In the summer of 1928, American adventurer Fenley 
Hunter paddled up the South Nahanni River hoping to find a huge 
waterfall that seemed largely the stuff of Dene legend at the time. 
Hunter thought he would never make it. Halfway upstream he wrote: “The 
Nahanni is unknown and will remain so until another age brings a change 
in the conformation of these mountains. It is an impossible stream, and a
 stiff rapid is met on average every mile, and they seem countless.”

The
 subsequent decades have proved Hunter wrong. Multiday canoeing, 
kayaking, and rafting trips on the South Nahanni and to a lesser extent
 on the Flat and Little Nahanni Rivers are now the main attractions in 
Nahanni National Park Reserve.

source: http://travel.nationalgeographic.com

Top 5 Social Networking Sites

2012-02-05T09:20:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of Top 5 most popular social networking sites. This data is based on the research done on the keywords, ranks, reviews and internet traffic.

1) Facebook- As expected Facebook is undoubtedly the No.1 popular site. Facebook has 845 million monthly active users, 483 million daily active users, and 
over 425 million monthly active users using Facebook's mobile products. These guys are intelligent and know how to capture new market and capitalize on that. They are not leaving any stone unturned to stay on the No.1 spot.

2) Twitter- Twitter changed the concept of social networking. Here you can follow other people and will instantly know what they are updating. Lot of celebreties are member of this site. 

3) Linkedin- This site is for professionals. Though the targeted users of this site are less (Only professionals) but this site offers a lot. Almost all the big shots are in this site.

4) MySpace- Myspace came before facebook and is very popular in USA. However, facebook overtook Myspace very fast. Still Myspace is holding the No. 4 spot and looks like it will hold this spot for few more years in future.

5) GooglePlus- Google+ was launched in July 2011. It is callled as a rival of Facebook. However, it still has to do a lot to topple facebook from No.1 spot.

Aliens - case study

2012-02-03T04:46:00.000-08:00

Universe is so vast with millions of stars, planets and galaxies in it, isn't it foolishness to think that we are alone in this vast Universe?

Many scientists agree that there could be life in different forms in different planets. There are also arguments among scientific communities that Mars and one of the satellites orbiting Saturn called as Titan could be having water and more importantly life over or below the surface of these planets. If there is such a high probability of life in our solar system where we have only nine genuine planets then isn't it also possible that life could be there in other planets beyond our solar system?

What if life is present in other planets? Why have they not contacted us? 

Well there could be many reasons for this:

Life could be in different forms like in the form of bacteria, aquatic animals or in some other less intelligent forms. So in this case there is no way they can contact us.
In some planets life could be as intelligent as humans. In this case they may also be trying to reach us or they could be intelligent like us but less advanced than us (Imagine our society few hundred years back).
In some planets they could be thousand times more advanced and lot more intelligent than us. In this case there are very good chances that they have already visited us and are still visiting us.

 Now, lets focus on the third case and see if this is a genuine case. An intelligent and advanced life form will have some basic characteristic which could be as follows: - 

They may have already invented advanced robots, computers and technology (Like much discussed Nano technology) which is beyond our understanding.

They may have learned there lessons from wars or there civilization is so strong that no one else were able to defeat them.

They may have gained knowledge to live longer.

They may have strong telepathic, telekinetic intuitive abilities.
They may have gained deep understanding of the universe and beyond.

So if they are so advanced then definitely they would have tried to go beyond their planetary systems and would have been successful in communicating with other intelligent forms near to their planetary systems.

There is a possibility that earth is very very far from these planetary systems with advanced life forms. In this case they may be tracking us with some advance unmanned crafts like present day drones as it could be too costly for them to travel here themselves.

There is also a possibility of them visiting us in their physical forms (If they have found out that its worth). In this case they may have contacted some people and vouched them for secrecy as it may create social disturbance if revealed or they will reveal themselves when the time comes.

I am posting here some very good videos on UFOs. Please watch these and post your comments.

UFO's over London: -

How to make money online

2012-02-02T23:51:00.000-08:00

Wondering how to make money online? Here are some tips for you to start earning right away:-

1) Make a website or blog and make money from them. 
2) Become a freelancer and start writing articles, news. You can click on this link to become a freelancer travel adviser right away. 
3) Create videos and upload to video sharing sites and generate revenue from ads displayed on them. Check out Youtube's partner program. 


4) If you are good in teaching then start teaching online.
5) Blogging.
6) Sell products on ebay.
7) Design logos.
8) Flip website and domain.
9) Design T-shirts and customize other items.
10) Digital Scrap book templates.
11) Design MySpace backgrounds.
12) Review websites and get paid.