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15 Ways to Get Your Blog Comments Noticed

Gloson — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 09:37:45 +0000

I have recently guest posted an article on 15 ways to get your blog comments noticed on http://sem-group.net. I hope you’ll enjoy it!

It’s my 3rd guest post so far. I’m looking to writing more guest posts soon!

To view it, click here => 15 ways to get your blog comments noticed. I hope you’ll enjoy my guest post!

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30 Quality Articles to Read

Gloson — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:11:51 +0000

They are millions and millions of sites on the web (In fact, about 1 blog is created every 1-3 seconds)… Well, I have read many articles from different sites, and have picked out some very good ones I thought you might like to read.

Well, here they are.

I hope you will find those articles useful and interesting and benefit from them.

See you soon!

What You MUST Do With Important Files on Your Computer

Gloson — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:47:27 +0000

Back them up

Yes. It is that simple, and as important.

The thing you must do after an important file appears on your computer is to back them up.

Why

The main reason why backing up files is very, very important is because if that important file is lost, you can’t get it back. And usually, important files are the files that has been put time and effort into. You don’t want to waste all that effort, do you?

The Internet

Well, in my opinion, the Internet is the safest place to store your files.

Email
You could store it in your email. First, click on compose mail. Then attach the important file to your mail. Then, send it.. to yourself! It is safe there and you can download it anytime you want.

DriveHQ
You can use DriveHQ as an online backing up device. The free version has a storage space of 1GB. There are paid versions, too. DriveHQ also has FTP, which means you can upload your files using an FTP Client. In fact, it also has its very own client.

Zipping the file
If the file is too big and you can’t upload it, you can zip it.

If you are looking for a zipping client, you should use 7-zip. Even DailyBlogTips says 7-zip is better than Winzip. (Psst. It is free)

When you don’t have an Internet connection

At least make a copy of it
If you have no time to do those, at least make a copy of it! It is much better than not making any backups at all. If something goes wrong with the file, you can use the copy.

Put another copy of it into a flash drive
Actually, this is safer than just making a copy of it. It’s because if your hard drive crashes, you still have it in your flash drive.

If you back your files up (the more backups, the safer), you can feel confident about the files. Anything could happen to your computer, such as viruses, and stuff. If anything happens to your computer, at least the important file, which has been put a lot of effort, is safe.

How To Remember Phone Numbers 2

Gloson — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:50:00 +0000

I have already shared with you a method to remember phone numbers.

However, there are a lot of people who says that the method didn’t work for them as that method does not apply to everyone.

In this post, I’ll share with you another method to remember phone numbers. I think this method would work for more people, because it is simpler.

It is called the sound method.

Sound Method

In this method, you create stories out of the rhymes of the numbers. If you noticed, each number’s rhyme is unique.

Here are some examples of the rhymes.

0 – Hero (or you can replace 0 with nil – bill)
1 – Bun (or you can replace it with ‘want’, as it has a similar sound)
2 – Shoe
3 – Tree
4 – Door
5 – Hive
6 – Sticks
7 – Heaven
8 – Ate
9 – Line
10 – Hen

You can create more rhymes out of the numbers.

(It is ok to rhyme the numbers with their word form (‘2’ = ‘two’), as long as you can remember it.)

If you want it easier to remember, do not use a word that rhymes with a number if the number is not included. This is because it would be confusing.

For example, change ‘I want (1) to (2) go to (2) heaven (7)’ with ‘I want (1) go heaven (7)’, or not the number ’17′ would sound like ’1227′.

It would also be easier to remember if the story is kept simple.

If the story is fun, absurd, or funny, it would be easy to remember (That’s our brain). –

If an ant disturbed you while you are having lunch, you certainly won’t remember anything about that. But if a pink elephant came and disturbed you while you are having lunch, you would probably remember the date, what did it do, what time was it, and what food you ate.

This is an example of how to remember 26317246

Two (2) sticks (6) in a tree (3) want (1) go heaven (7) too (2), for (4) they are sick (6).

This is an example of how to remember 23182938

Two (2) trees (3) want (1) eat (8). They were too (2) skinny like lines (9). So, the skinny trees (3) ate (8).

This is an example of how to remember 04351286

Zero (0) cents for (4) tree (3) candies! High five (5)! I want (1) to (2) eat (8)! But I became sick (6).

Of course. They were tree candies!

This is an example of how to remember 83927416

In gate (8), is tree (3). It’s mine (9). I got it from heaven (7). In there, millions of doors (4). I wanted (1) go into them. Instead saw drums and played them with sticks (6).

This is another example (76837192)

Seven (7) sticks (6) ate (8) a tree (3) in heaven (7). They’ve eaten one (1) pine (9), too (2).

This is another example (98321673)

The pine(9)apples ate (8) it’s own tree (3)! Two (2) little ones (1) seek (6) for help from heaven (7), and heaven resurrected the tree (3).

This is another example (89531232) (Okay, okay, this is the last one. Sorry. It was so fun making all those stories )

He ate (8) nine (9) hives (5) that he got from tree (3). Because of this, one (1) boy cried. Two (2) other trees (3), too (2).

This method would also enhance your creativity.

P.S. If you recite the story after you created it, it would be easier to remember.

So, is this method working for you?

If not, maybe you could try the number story method instead.

How To Remember Phone Numbers

Gloson — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:14:06 +0000

You were in the park. While jogging, you bumped into an old friend of yours. You were soon chatting happily. In the chat, your friend tried to give you his phone number so you could call him… But the problem was you left your cell phone in the car and you didn’t have a pen and paper.

This post will teach you how to temporarily remember phone numbers in situations like above.

Here’s the method I always use when I want to remember phone numbers.

Number Stories

In this method, you have to create stories out of the numbers. All you have to do is to choose a thing that looks like the shape of the numbers (e.g. 2 = swan). Then, create a story using the sequence of the phone numbers.

These are the ones I often use.

0 – egg
1 – pencil
2 – swan
3 – ear/heart
4 – sailboat
5 – hook
6 – pipe (for smoking)
7 – walking stick/gun/candy cane
8 – snowman/sunglasses
9 – tadpole/balloon
10 – baseball
13 – Bee (the number looks like a ‘B’)
100 – Spear piercing two eggs

If you think you would prefer another thing to represent a number, you can use yours.

Here is an example of the story used to remember 80023987:

One day, a snowwoman (8) lays two eggs (00), which looks like the ones of a swan (2), which has a good heart (3). The heart looks like a balloon (9) made out of candy which was made by a silly clown snowman (8) which loves to eat candy cane (7).

Here is another example (62937581):

There is a pipe (6) which is used by a dirty swan (2), who can’t fly, so he rides on a fat balloon (9), which is shaped like a yellow heart (3). Suddenly, it is burst by an angry walking stick (7), which is unfortunately hooked by a hook (5), which is used for fishing by a joyful snowman (8), who loves to write stories using a magic pencil (1).

Ask your friend to recite the phone number slowly, so that you have enough time to create a story. But you have to create it fast though, you don’t want your friend to repeat the numbers again and again.

Remember – the story can be anything, as long as you can remember it. For some reason, funny or absurd things are easier to remember than normal ones. So, use adjectives to describe them.

If you want to remember it for a long time, you would have to recite the story. But if you do not want to remember it for a long time, you can write it down and do not need to remember it anymore, when you have a pen and paper or a phone.

Besides having to remember the phone number, using this method would also enhance your creativity.

Sometimes, you would find it hard to remember, but hey, at least you can still remember it!

If this method is not working for you, you could create your own method.