In this digital age, internet makes our life a lot easier than before. It has given us many things for free like email service, information and much more stuff. With every good thing, there are some bad things associated. In case of internet, security is a problem. If you computer is not connected to internet, its safe like a locker but as soon as you connect to internet, its open to world. Anyone with a little knowledge of networking and hacking can get into your system from any part of the world and steal your data. Trusted Internet connection is only available with those sites who use digital certificate and secure socket layer on servers but not every site has this feature. Sites with https link are secured and you know not every site you browse have that “s” after http. So people are looking into your system is a problem, ok but there is one more and that is as soon as you connect to internet, several applications try to access internet by connecting to some server. Now trusted applications are fine but you never know when an unknown and harmful piece of program (Trojan) connects to net and cause disaster in your computer. Simple and effective protection to this entire problem is to use a good antivirus and firewall. Some people don’t give importance to firewall but it’s a must have thing for every computer connected to internet. I personally use Comodo firewall which is very effective in keeping your computer safe from hack attempts and any kind of intrusion. The firewall learns with time and asks you every time it finds an unknown application trying to access internet, if you find it fishy, you can simply block it. All hack attempts are effectively blocked by Comodo firewall giving you peace of mind. For personal use, this firewall is free and I recommend every home user to try it.

There are some very popular video sharing sites and we all know its name. There is no need to tell that but if you are interested in sports related videos and you search for keyword say hockey or some other sport then you will get all the videos which may have hockey in keyword. This is a big problem. I came to know about a site called SportsVids which is a video sharing site. It looks very nicely designed, easy to signup and you can start uploading your videos within seconds. Easy to join here means they don’t ask you to fill up a form which takes your whole screen and ask you for several funny verification methods. Your account gets approved instantly. I found sports vids site easy to navigate and uploading sports videos was a breeze. Not only uploading but watching online sports videos is smooth and does not take much time to buffer. There are number of sports clips available on this site and since every minute someone is uploading a cool video, you will have fresh videos to see every time you visit the site. They are also running a contest in which you have to invite people to this cool site and the more people you invite, more points you get and at last the member with most points will get prize. Prizes are new xBox 3360, tickets to Michigan vs. Penn State and $100 Gift Certificate from Dick’s Sporting Goods. Here’s my link if you would like to signup: http://sportsvids.com/index.php?contest=TWpZMg==

Most of the time I look on my phone to see a missed call and I see an unknown number. If the phone number is in my phone directory, it will show the name instead of number and I will call back that person but just a phone number means the number is not in my phone directory. Till now I used to clear up the missed call details but still think for sometime that who called me and why. But now I can trace a phone number from phoneinfotracer.com website and know who called me. Isn’t this amazing! All I have to do is enter the phone number and the name and address of the person called me is displayed. The number you enter to see details is not saved anywhere on website server and no record is kept so its 100% confidential. Its also very useful when someone is disturbing you over phone and you want to complain against him, you can provide more information in your complain. There are many other uses of this great service in our day to day life and I am sure you will find it very useful.

Everyone is now aware of the Ultimate Flirting Championship going on and it’s really fun to play. If you haven’t played it then I’ll recommend you to try it just now. If you have your own blog or website then you can grab the widget from Extreme Style by VO5 page and you can have the whole game available on your site and offer the chance to play to your visitors on your own site! Talking about flirting, it’s not necessary to always approach to girl and speak special lines. Non verbal flirt can also work very well. All one has to do is give a perfect facial expression. It usually comes with a natural looking smile on your face. Honestly speaking, if you are not able to give a natural smile then its better not to smile at all. But as always, I have a solution to this problem also. What you can do is read jokes at home when you are free and when you look at girl, try to remember any one of that joke and there will be a smile on your face. Now don’t recall any really funny joke, otherwise you may burst into laughter and girl may think that you are joker. See below the photo and this is the maximum smile you can have on face. Yes this smile is also created on face naturally by recalling joke. The smile can let the girl know that you are interested in her and this is very important. Rest depends on the mood of the girl, so always smile when you look at a girl in good mood, otherwise just pass by and try your luck on other girls.

There are rumors since many days that soft drink mountain dew contains pig fat. Now this is really disgusting but as its one of my favorite soft drink, I enquired about this matter. So this pig thing came in? you should have seen that Dew is a yellow colored drink and the substance used for giving this color is Yellow 5 which is chemically a mix of trisodium 5-hydroxy-1-(4-sulfonatophenyl) (4-sulfonatophenylazo)-H-pyrazole-3-carboxylate and subsidiary color matters together with sodium chloride and/or sodium sulfate as the principal uncolored components. So you found any pig here? Certainly not! Yellow 5 is derived from coal tar, not pig. So where is the pig? Actually the color yellow or just any color is also called pigment (recall green pigment chlorophyll in leaves we studied in school) so some uneducated people thought it as something associated with pig. How sad, God help these people, don’t know how they survive. Other rumors like drinking dew (yellow 5) will make you infertile are bull shit. It’s approved by FDA and not only in Dew; yellow 5 is widely used in coloring many food items since years.

I found this funny video on YouTube few days back about sproutwells and trust me it’s so funny that I was bound to share it with you. If I were to be a vegetable, I would be potato because I like potatoes very much. It’s a versatile vegetable and it taste good in every dish. Watch the video till end and show it to your friends too, I hope you will enjoy and your friends also. Also try to eat more vegetables as they are healthy and contains vitamins, minerals etc, as you can see in the above animated video where spinach is given a cartoon character showing them as typical housewife and even children’s look like spinach leaf, spinach is very good for you but most of the time children don’ like it. It contains iron and vitamin A.