HEADACHE? EAT FISH!
Eat plenty of fish — fish oil helps prevent headaches.
So does ginger, which reduces inflammation and pain.

HAVE FEVER? EAT YOGURT!
Eat lots of yogurt before pollen season.
Also-eat honey from your area (local region) daily.

TO PREVENT STROKE DRINK TEA!
Prevent buildup of fatty deposits on artery walls with regular doses of tea. (actually, tea suppresses my appetite and keeps the pounds from invading….Green tea is great for our immune system)!

INSOMNIA (CAN’T SLEEP?) HONEY!
Use honey as a tranquilizer and sedative.

ASTHMA? EAT ONIONS!!!!
Eating onions helps ease constriction of bronchial tubes. (when I was young, my mother would make onion packs to place on our chest, helped the respiratory ailments and actually made us breathe better).

ARTHRITIS? EAT FISH, TOO!!
Salmon, tuna, mackerel and sardines actually prevent arthritis. (fish has omega oils, good for our immune system)

UPSET STOMACH? BANANAS – GINGER!!!!!
Bananas will settle an upset stomach.
Ginger will cure morning sickness and nausea.

BLADDER INFECTION? DRINK CRANBERRY JUICE!!!!
High-acid cranberry juice controls harmful bacteria.

BONE PROBLEMS? EAT PINEAPPLE!!!
Bone fractures and osteoporosis can be prevented by the manganese in pineapple.

PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME? EAT CORNFLAKES!!!!
Women can ward off the effects of PMS with cornflakes, which help reduce depression, anxiety and fatigue.

MEMORY PROBLEMS? EAT OYSTERS!
Oysters help improve your mental functioning by supplying much-needed zinc.

COLDS? EAT GARLIC!
Clear up that stuffy head with garlic. (remember, garlic lowers cholesterol, too.)

COUGHING? USE RED PEPPERS!!
A substance similar to that found in the cough syrups is found in hot red pepper. Use red (cayenne) pepper with caution-it can irritate your tummy.

BREAST CANCER? EAT Wheat, bran and cabbage
Helps to maintain estrogen at healthy levels.

LUNG CANCER? EAT DARK GREEN AND ORANGE AND VEGGIES!!!
A good antidote is beta carotene, a form of Vitamin A found in dark green and orange vegetables.

ULCERS? EAT CABBAGE ALSO!!!
Cabbage contains chemicals that help heal both gastric and duodenal ulcers.

DIARRHEA? EAT APPLES!
Grate an apple with its skin, let it turn brown and eat it to cure this condition. (Bananas are good for this ailment)

CLOGGED ARTERIES? EAT AVOCADO!
Mono unsaturated fat in avocados lowers cholesterol.

HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? EAT CELERY AND OLIVE OIL!!!
Olive oil has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Celery contains a chemical that lowers pressure too.

BLOOD SUGAR IMBALANCE? EAT BROCCOLI AND PEANUTS!!!
The chromium in broccoli and peanuts helps regulate insulin and blood sugar.

Kiwi: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, Vitamin E &fiber. It’s Vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

Apple: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants &flavonoids which enhances the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

Strawberry: Protective fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits &protects the body from cancer causing, blood vessels clogging free radicals. (Actually, any berry is good for you..they’re high in anti-oxidants and they actually keep us young………blueberries are the best and very versatile in the health field……..they get rid of all the free-radicals that invade our bodies)

Orange: Sweetest medicine. Taking 2 – 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer.

Watermelon: Coolest Thirst Quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione which helps boost our immune system.  They are also a key source of lycopene – the cancer fighting oxidant.  Other nutrients
found in watermelon are Vitamin C &Potassium. (watermelon also has natural substances [natural SPF sources] that keep our skin healthy, protecting our skin from those darn suv rays)

Guava &Papaya: Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber which helps prevent constipation.

Papaya is rich in carotene, this is good for your eyes. (also good for gas and indigestion)

Tomatoes are very good as a preventative measure for men, keeps those prostrate problems from invading their bodies

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Health

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What is the definition of Mistress?

Someone between the Mister and Mattress

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Do u know the meaning of WIFE?

Husband: Without Information Fighting Everytime.

Wife: With Idiot For Ever !!!”

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What’s the difference between stress, tension and panic?

Stress is when wife is pregnant,

Tension is when girlfriend is pregnant,

and Panic is when both are pregnant.

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Teacher: Do you know the importance of a period?

Kid: Yeah, once my sister said she has missed one, my mom fainted, dad got a heart attack & our driver ran away.

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A woman asks a man who is traveling with six children, “Are all these kids yours?”

The man replies, “No, I work in a condom factory and these are customer complaints”.

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A young boy asks his Dad, “What is the difference between confident and confidential.

Dad says, “You are my son, I’m confident about that. Your friend over there is also my son, that’s confidential!”

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Fun & Humor

A good sms i got today (from Alee):

For those who are single on 14th Feb as I am

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Happy Independence Day….

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Fun & Humor

The new year has started and seems like it’s starting well for me. Things look lot more promising. With regards to Internet, from SEO, SERPS etc I am now moving to PPV and wondering, how did I miss this in 2009.

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Internet Marketing

EASY

is to judge the mistakes of others.

is to hurt someone who loves you.

is to set rules.

is to dream every night.

is to say we love.

is to make mistakes.

DIFFICULT

is to recognize our own mistakes.

is to heal the wound.

is to follow them.

is to fight for a dream.

is to show it every day.

very hard to learn from them.

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Inspirational Wisdom Inspirational Wisdom

Insurance is by nature a contract between two parties, whereby one party called the insurer undertakes to pay the other party called the insured, a fixed amount of money on the happening of a certain event, in exchange for a fixed amount called premium.

Insurance doesn’t mean a protection from death, disability or any other mishap. It’s basically a protection against a financial loss, which can arise out of an unexpected event. By paying a small sum of money, a person can safeguard herself/himself and her/his family financially from an unfortunate event, like say, death of the earning member in a family.

So by essence insurance helps you in your risk management. The risk can arise in the form of accidents, fire, flood, theft, terror attacks (like the one we see on daily basis in Pakistan recently), some major illness, or even death.

The general perception of the common man regarding insurance is limited only to life insurance, and to some extent health or medical insurance. But risk management does not end here. Adequate amount of insurance in the form of life as well as non-life insurance is the right way to manage risks.

The different types of insurance products available to people are life insurance, health or medical insurance, vehicle insurance, home insurance, travel insurance, etc. Though a number of insurances are available today it is not necessary to buy all of them. But a few are must for risk management.

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Life Insurance Insurance, Life Assurance

How can I configure Apache to treat .html files as PHP?

This is very common issue faced by almost every developer at some point, recently I had it on my XAMPP setup (version 1.7.1). Other concerning details are:

###### ApacheFriends XAMPP (Basispaket) version 1.7.1 ######

+ Apache 2.2.11
+ MySQL 5.1.33 (Community Server)
+ PHP 5.2.9 + PEAR (Support for PHP 4 has been discontinued)

Solution:

I simply changed following line:

<FilesMatch “\.php$|\.php5$|\.php4$|\.php3$|\.phtml$|\.phpt$”>

to

<FilesMatch “\.php$|\.php5$|\.php4$|\.php3$|\.phtml$|\.phpt$|\.html$“>

in httpd-xampp.conf

and it worked great.

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PHP Apache, PHP, Tips, Web Development, XAMPP

So now you know what a landing page is? If you are not sure, it’s explained in the post What is a Landing Page?.

Lets start with the heat map:

I am not going to get in detail about what a webpage heatmap is, but for the time being, the red and the areas around red are more significant. These are the areas where a visitor pays more attentions, so our core stuff related to the action should be within these areas. Following tips will assist you in understanding how to use visitor heatmap  to create the ultimate lead capture landing page.

1. The Ad and your landing page should be relevant:
   Whatever you are offering in the ad, your landing page should clearly and boldly present that. Remember they only came to this page, because you promised something on your ad, which is relevant to what they actually looking for. And they expect that your landing page, would have more of it. Make sure your headline refers directly to the ad copy that drove the click.
2. Provide a clear call to action:
   This is the most important part, tell your visitor what they need to do. There is no set role for how many Call to Action buttons (or text) you use on a single page. 2 are good for a short landing page and 4-5 in a long landing page.
3. Focus on getting your visitors to do 1 thing:
   This point actually very closely related to the point number 2. Don’t confuse your visitor by suggesting many types of actions. Write whatever you like, but to the point. The key is to take your visitor to a point,  where they know, what they need to do.  Don’t make them guess or hunt around!
4. Start and end of the Page is the key: Most of the visitors would be reading the top and than scrolling down to the bottom to get a glimpse of what this is all about. Therefore the most important points should be at top and at the end.

I’ll be adding few more in couple of days, till than enjoy and if you like please share…

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Internet Marketing landing page, Online Marketing, SEO

In terms of internet marketing, a landing page is any page on a website where online visitors are sent specifically to prompt a certain action. It could be website’s home page or any page on the same site.  Now the question is what’s the difference between a regular/normal page and a landing web page (sometimes also called as lead capture page).

For the answer lets take an example, suppose you decided to create a  website that’ll offer a product giving an insite about how to drive free or no cost traffic to any given website. Now you set up a complete website with many pages, about features, benefits, advantages, FAQs about your product, testimonials, may be some sample stuff too and of course a home page. You think it’s ready and you start advertising it through different online marketing channels using text ads, banners etc.

You use some great keywords and style in your ads and you start getting visitors (note: you don’t have a landing page designed), so all of them are coming to your home page because you used the main URL in your ads. Wow, you get happy, loads of visitors. But after few days you start noticing that visitors are coming as of result of ads, but a very small portion, almost close to zero is actually buying the product. You had a great product and site, but you MISSED something.

Yep: A Carefully Designed Landing Page.

A page to boost the conversion rate…

A page to turn visitors into leads…

A page to get the job done…

Your landing pages should provide a customized sales pitch for the visitor. Ads usually drive targeted traffic, so you know who your visitors are and from where they are. Provide them what they are looking for in the most effective manner and your chances of engaging the visitor goes up, as should your conversion rate.

Next question, How to design a lead capture page that seal the deal?

As promised here is the answer: Tips to Create Effective Landing Page

regards…

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Internet Marketing internet, landing page, Online Marketing, SEO

Recently I was searching Official WordPress Plugins Repository. All I wanted was to:

Send a tweet to my twitter account when I post on my blog.

My search resulted in loads of pages of Twitter Plugins. After doing a bit of research, I ended up with:

Twitter Tools

“It’s a plugin that creates a complete integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account.”

What a simple and straight forward introduction. And in fact by nature this is pretty strong yet easy to use tool. Very flexible, almost everything is editable through an easily-accessible Twitter Tools Page. Type in your information, choose your preferences, and you are good to go.

Some of the important features are:

• Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
• Create a blog post from each of your tweets
• Create a daily or weekly digest post of your tweets
• Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
• Post a tweet from your sidebar
• Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)
• And much more

All of above functions are customizable, you can be turned them on or off at any time. I almost went with the default settings, as this pretty much what I wanted.

If you are aware anyother powerful twitter plugin for wordpress, please share with me through comments.

Thanx…

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Wordpress Blogging, Wordpress