Summers come with their own set of problems, especially for those who have sensitive skin. Even if you feel you don’t have any problem after going out in sun, you are mistaken. The damage is done to exposed part of the skin and you may not notice it immediately. Apart from skin damage, there are other problems like headache, fatigue and other symptoms seen after several hours of spending time outside in summers. So here are ten tips for you to keep yourself fit and fine in these summers:

1. Buy sunglasses that block UV rays if you don’t have already and wear them whenever you go out. Your eyes can easily be damaged if exposed to UV rays. Also if not directly exposed, looking at objects reflecting sunlight for long (road, buildings and everything) causes eye strain and even headache. Sunglasses are fashionable too, so hit the store and choose the one which looks good on your face. Information about UV rays protection is mentioned on the sunglasses tag.

2. Wear fabric that breath. Some fabrics restrict air passage and you should avoid these. If you wear, you will sweat more. Light colored clothes will absorb less heat and reflect more, so these summers make light colors your favorite colors!

3. Rely less on those 24 hours deodorant and take bath. Use good quality shampoo and soap.

4. When going out, drink water and also carry water bottle. When returned, don’t drink chilled water from fridge but some fresh water, you may add a little cold water if you want.

5. In summers hand and feat sweat a lot, so you may want to carry a tissue paper with you always and keep hanky for rare occasions when you can’t use a tissue paper. When you reach home, before you step on your bed or touch that TV remote, wash your feet’s and hands. This will not only wash away most of the germs but also cool you down. When your body temperature becomes normal, take shower if needed.

6. When you are out of house and need refreshment, drink fresh fruit juice instead of fizzy drinks. If you don’t get fresh fruit juice then packaged juice is fine too. One more point I would like to add, if you are not in a mood of drinking fruit juice then don’t drink just because it’s said it’s good for you, pick your favorite fizzy drink this time and enjoy it, really I mean it here. You can always eat raw fruit or take fruit juice at some other time when you are in mood of it. Lemonade is a good refresher too. If you are really very exhausted then you should have glucose.

7. Both your home and your car AC should not be set too cold. Keeping AC at most 25 deg (I keep at 27). Apart from saving electricity, this is good for your health too. When you move out of a room that was air conditioned and temperature was set too low, your body faces a sharp change in temperature which is not good for your health. This does not mean at all that you switch off the AC and start sweating, enjoy the luxury of AC but within limits of your body tolerance. Also don’t forget to use sleep mode at night!

8. If you follow above tips then you should not have any summer related skin problems, but in case you get skin rashes or other minor summer related skin problems then applying normal talcum powder helps a lot better than most of the fancy products available in market.

9. Most people might not want to get tanned in summers so for them using a god quality sunscreen lotion (choose nothing below SPF 26) before going out in sun is a must. However, nothing is better than protecting yourself from direct sunlight, wear hat, travel in car or carry an umbrella. Using sunscreen lotion adds to the protection from sun. Don’t hesitate to consult a dermatologist for advice on any type of skin problem that don’t get easily solved using home remedies.

10. People who have white patches on skin (Vitiligo) should not go out in mid day when sunlight is at extreme, and if it’s really necessary then one should wear clothes covering all parts of body, especially those effected with Vitiligo. However taking sunbath in morning and evening when sunlight is not strong is found to be effective in reducing white patches size. More info on Vitiligo here.

Let’s face it, advertising your website using just CPC may give you a boost in number of visitors but these will be just a bulk of visitors who saw your ad, found it fancy enough to click and then went away to other website. What you actually need to do is make your website strong and worthy on the net. Since search engines are the main source of what I call ‘working’ visitors who will actually benefit you, you need to tell the search engine how much important and useful your website is. SEO Link Building Strategies are the way to go to this. In simple language what it means is that you build up links pointing to your website and its particular pages with certain keywords carefully and strategically chosen by SEO’s. These links are obviously from those sites which belong to the genre of your website. Getting link backs from quality websites and choosing keywords is best left to expert search engine optimizers.

Suppose you have a website which sells ball pens. You need to attract students as well as corporate buyers who will buy pens in bulk for their office stationary. This means you need to get links from both educational websites which will be visited by students as well as those which deal with ball pens or other kind of stationary items. Search engine counts each quality back link and increase your website rank accordingly. Higher ranked website will be ranked higher in search results too. Other than link building, your website will also need to be optimized for better search engine crawling. This is again done by SEO’s who will set proper keywords, alt tags, page description and many such things in the code of your website.

The sooner you get the help of SEO’s the better it will be for your website. All those websites proving back links to your website with time also have much more value thereby increasing your website value exponentially.

No it’s certainly not about fitting a rocket engine and blasting yourself to space. New freelancers or computer students who want to try the freelancer’s life and earn some money always come to me and ask how to begin? So here I write few tips on how you can begin your career as a freelancer without any hurdle.

1. Make friends – Talk to people who are good in those areas where you are weak. If you are weak in Java say for example then make friend who knows Java well. Now when you have friends like these, you are less likely to get stuck somewhere and you can take help of them. But don’t take advantage of them, if they do a considerable amount of work for you, pay them!

2. Get into a team – Search for a team/person already involved in such works which you intend to do, for example if you want to be a freelance web designer then you should look around for team who are in web design work. When you generally talk to them, these people will be least interested in you and here is how you can get their interest in you: it’s called clients. You can tell them that you can get them new clients or new projects only when they let you do some part of the work and get your share. You can show them your work and also let them know how much you know. Working with people often bring conflicts so make sure you make everything clear beforehand.

3. Make yourself a nice website – Make a portfolio website letting everyone on the web know who you are, where you are and what you do. This will bring you some work for sure.

4. Word of mouth – when you meet new people or even your family friends and relatives, let them know about your freelancing work and show them your latest creations if you can. This is one tip that can keep you busy with work for some time.

When you get enough experience of the market and your skills are well polished, you are ready to become a true freelancer and take up the next step to increase your earnings. This next step can be anything like getting a job in a company or even setting up your own company!

Health and fitness are two different words and when you go to gym, it’s up to you that you go there just to maintain a good health or do you also want to make your body fit and muscular looking. Years ago when I joined gym, I wanted to build muscles as I was thin guy. At gym I was supposed to do some fixed numbers of reps of different exercises which were always beyond my body limit. My trainer kept encouraging throughout the exercise session everyday to increase number of reps. However I learned that after sometime body adjust itself and I was able to increase my number of reps every week by one. Unfortunately I was told by gym trainer that increasing it just by one every week won’t help much and he told me about various types of supplements available. He warned me not to go for cheap ones but only take high quality supplements as cheap ones may show no effect on muscle growth or even prove harmful. The pink magic is one such high quality supplement for body builders which is recommended by many gym trainers around the world. I still remember those days of when I did not took any supplement and how much painful were the reps of bench-press. After taking supplement I was able to increase numbers of reps in bench-presses easily and add more weight every week. Within a year my body was totally changed and I was no more called a thin guy. Many friends at gym also told me about increase libido after using supplements. If you are going to gym, so take advice of your trainer or even a qualified physician about taking supplements and speedup the process of getting a good looking body.

When mobile phones were launched and they were considered a luxury to own, not only the prices of handsets were high but call rates were not easy on the pocket too. Only post paid connections were available in those days but after few years as soon as pre paid or pay as you go mobile phones were launched, suddenly mobile phones became much more affordable to own and use. Now when more people were buying phones, mobile companies started making phones in higher quantity and as a result prices of handsets came down. From what earlier was considered as luxury, has now become a necessity and you can see mobile phone in everyone’s hand. Enough of history, what I wanted to really tell was about some amazing pay as you go mobile phone offers on Phones 4u website. They are offering latest handsets from popular manufactures and option to choose from various mobile networks like O2, Vodafone, Orange to name few. If you are a particular brand follower like I am a Motorola fan and always look for Motorola phones when I need a new phone, you can browse the phone by brands so that you only see phones from your desired brand. This saves a lot of time and confusion when deciding which handset to buy. Phones 4u always leave me amazed by the variety of phones they have, I even spotted a JCB make phone on their website and it looked rock solid. I never knew JCB can make phones too as till now I have only seen cranes, earth movers and other heavy machines of JCB. Just like their heavy machines, their phone is also rough and tough military grade phone, totally water and dust proof!

Is it 1st April? No, then did RBI changed rules? No not at all. It’s called a silly mistake or maybe a crude joke and worse salts on still fresh wounds of Indian PayPal users. We all still remember how fast and easy it was to pay using PayPal. What I am talking about is about the resent mass sent email by PayPal to all its users about using PayPal to shop for mother’s day gift. Oh really can we do that? Obviously not as Indian PayPal users were well informed by PayPal long before that they cannot use their PayPal funds to make any purchase or even pay for any service. PayPal could have well avoided sending this mother’s day offer email to its Indian users but someone at their office clicking on that send email button did not bother to filter Indian account email Id’s.