Nexus 10

iPad 4th-gen

Galaxy Note 10.1

Kindle Fire HD 8.9

 
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Healthy Lifestyle Tip: Know Your Danger Zone

No matter how serious you are about watching your weight, practicing portion control and maintaining good eating habits, it’s easy to find yourself in certain situations that can really test your willpower. Here are some common “danger zones” to watch out for when you’re trying to stick to a healthy, calorie controlled eating plan.

Feeding in Front of the TV

The problem with eating in front of the TV is that you’re not giving your meal or snack your full attention. Realistically, though, if you’re alone, you might want the TV for company. If you are going to watch TV and eat, prepare your meal fully and portion it out. Simply stop once you’ve eaten what’s on your plate, stop.

Weekend Indulgences

We always talk about how not to overeat at the party, but the day after can be just as challenging. People rationalize by saying, “I’m already overeating, so I’ll wait until Monday to resume my good eating habits.” It’s fine to overindulge for an evening, but start back on your eating plan with portion control immediately afterwards.

Dining-Out Diet Disasters

Never arrive at the table famished. It’s really hard to maintain good eating habits and have portion control when you’re starving. To avoid overeating, have a few carrots or almonds before you leave.

Vacation Eating

A good way to avoid overeating while on vacation is to decide each morning which of your three meals will be your special one. Keep it to one indulgent meal a day, not three.

Meals on the Go

Pack healthy meals and exert portion control on snacks when you’re traveling.

Emotional Snacking

Some people find themselves overeating when they’re upset or under stress. If you’re having an emotional time, the solution is to be conscious of how your eating habits are affected. Keep a food journal to help you see the portion sizes you’re eating. Another trick is to do something fun that doesn’t involve food to distract you from your worries.

Eating on the Job

When you’re really busy at work, you tend to eat quickly and not pay attention to portions or calories. Again, the key to portion control is to plan ahead. Pack lunches and snacks the night before that will fill you up during the day.

Sleep-induced Hunger

When you’re overtired, it’s easy to eat mindlessly, and before you know it, you’re eating 1,000 extra calories. One solution is to take a nap rather than reach for another cookie. If it’s late at night and you’re about to overeat, go to bed instead of wandering into the kitchen.

Source: Everydayhealth.com

Not too long ago we reported on some cool new tech that Google was supposedly working on in their secret and experimental labs. That tech was then called “Google Goggles” although now they are calling it “Project Glass.” They haven’t shared any product details or release time-line, but they have several pics of people wearing a potential version of the high-tech glasses. The final design may end up different. They also released the video above, that is supposed to demonstrate what they eventually intend the product to do. The tech is pretty slick, and if they can pull it off, it could just change the way we view and interact in the world. In fact, it would not be too far-fetched to say that “Project Glass” shows that Apple isn’t the only innovative company that can come up with ideas and designs that can change the world. Kudos to Google and their engineers!

Check out the video and share your thoughts.

Google launched a petition.  Wikipedia voted to shut itself off.  Senators’ websites went down just from the sheer surge of voters trying to write them.   NYC and SF geeks had protests that packed city blocks.

You made history today: nothing like this has ever happened before.  Tech companies and users teamed up.  Tens of millions of people who make the internet what it is joined together to defend their freedoms.  The free network defended itself.  Whatever you call it, the bottom line is clear: from today forward, it will be much harder to mess up the internet. 

 The really crazy part?  We might even win.

Approaching Monday’s crucial Senate vote there are now 35 Senators publicly opposing PIPA.  Last week there were 5.   And it just takes just 41 solid “no” votes to permanently stall PIPA (and SOPA) in the Senate.  What seemed like miles away a few weeks ago is now within reach. 

 But don’t trust predictions.  The forces behind SOPA & PIPA (mostly movie companies) can make small changes to these bills until they know they have the votes to pass.  Members of Congress know SOPA & PIPA are unpopular, but they don’t understand why–so they’re easily duped by superficial changes.  The Senate returns next week, and the next few days are critical.  Here are two things to think about:

1. Plan on calling your Senator every day next week.  Pick up the phone each morning and call your Senators’ offices, until they vote “no” on cloture.  If your site participated today, consider running a “Call the Senate” link all next week.  

2. Tomorrow, drop in at your Senators’ district offices.  We don’t have a cool map widget to show you the offices nearest you (we’re too exhausted! any takers?).  So do it the old fashioned way: use Google, or the phonebook to find the address, and just walk in, say you oppose PIPA, and urge the Senator to vote “no” on cloture.  These drop-in visits make our spectacular online protests more tangible and credible.  

That’s it for now. Be proud and stay on it!

–Holmes, Tiffiniy, and the whole Fight for the Future team.

P.S. Huge credit goes to participants in the 11/16 American Censorship Day protest: Mozilla, 4chan, BoingBoing, Tumblr, TGWTG, and thousands of others.  That’s what got this ball rolling!  Reddit, both the community and the team behind it, you’re amazing.  And of course, thanks to the Wikimedians whose patient and inexorable pursuit of the right answer brought them to take world-changing action. Thanks to David S, David K, Cory D, and E Stark for bold action at critical times.

P.P.S. If you haven’t already, show this video to as many people as you can. It works! http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa/

You can download the extension from the Chrome web store and install it in your browser. It places an icon in the toolbar that looks like a vine with two leaves. Click on the icon and it provides four services, which can accept Publish Sync content – Facebook, Google+, Twitter and the lesser known Plurk (see image below). At the bottom of the drop down box are buttons for sharing the page you are currently viewing in the browser. You can share a link or Like it on Facebook or give it a +1 on Google+, which is the equivalent of a Facebook Like. You can also invite other Facebook friends to use the extension.

Set up the app by clicking on one of the four service buttons. You will either log into that service and authorize the app, or if already logged in, just allow Publish Sync access to your account by authorizing it. Then go to one of the services and type in an update you want posted. You will see below the box where you add the update check boxes for the other services. Select the ones you want to cross-post the update to and it sends them on to that service when you send out the post. Below is an example of how it looks on the Twitter site.

At the time I wrote this the Facebook integration was not working. I clicked on Facebook and the link opened a tab that said, “Please try again later.” I’m guessing it is either blocked or overloaded right now. Hopefully the developer will get this fixed or traffic will slow down making it possible again.

It would be nice if this extension allowed me to type a post in the address bar and click the button to cross-post to all the selected services. Other Twitter Chrome extensions let you do this so I know it is possible. I’d also like to be able to select some text on a web page and right-click it to post the text. This is also possible since Twitter’s Mac app adds this functionality not only to Chrome, but Safari and Firefox as well.

Joanna Shows, a business coach with business coaching firm ActionCOACH, says that she sees a solid business plan as the single most important step in laying the groundwork for future success. “The business plan is absolutely the breathing embodiment of the business,” she says, adding that a good business plan will provide space for flexibility while still setting parameters on heedless ambition. “Business is almost like a cattle field,” Shows continues. “You can roam all you want within the field, but once you hit the electric fence it is going to zap you.”

Going Light on the Marketing

Why do we need another social network when there is already facebook and twitter all over…

Take a look:

According to the official Gmail Blog, this new multi-call capability will let you put callers on hold with Gmail’s phone service, picking up another call at the same time. Too bad there’s no music on hold to entertain that first caller.

Also imitating conventional phone systems is call waiting, where you receive a notification of an incoming call, and then it’s up to you whether you’re going to answer it or not. The only limitation with this new capability is that you’re only allowed two outgoing calls to physical phones at the same time.

Best of all, U.S. and Canada calls using the Gmail phone and video system will be free through 2011, and all these new multi-line features work with Gmail’s phone, voice and video calls.

Courtesy of Mashable.com