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Just an Intro !

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Well, I started this website in 2006 to practise my web designing skills. Since then i have been going through a lot of unwanted things in my life. I got tired of maintaining this website and finally jumped on Wordpress. So here it is. New layout and with all new content. I dont know from where to start. I dont know if i should repeat my past events of life here. But here i am speaking about my time of my life. Well, I have completed my graduation and have started to work on Photoshop and Flash. Its morning for now as i write and have to leave in few hours to work. I will be adding a lot of things and articles in here. So yeah keep surfing and keep blogging !

How to Improve your Memory

A very good article on Memory.

How memory works/ Why we forget
Forgetting is normal and necessary. Your brain is bombarded with millions of bits of
information every day. All of this information could not possibly be stored, nor is it
important enough to remember for any length of time. The mind decides what
information is unimportant and immediately disregards it. What your mind remembers is
what you need to function. There are strategies to use that will increase your ability to
remember important information.

Types of Memory
Sensory Memory – We are constantly processing information gathered through
our senses. Through selective attention, your mind determines what of the huge
amount of incoming information is important and ignores the rest. When you concentrate
on your professor’s lecture or the discussion that is going on you use selective attention
to deem this information important. Although sensory information is only kept in your
mind a few seconds, by concentrating on a certain piece of information, you can transfer
it to your short-term memory.

Short-Term Memory – Information in your short-term memory lasts only about a
minute. When you meet someone and they tell you their name, chances are, an hour
later, you won’t remember their name. By reciting and rehearsing information like
names, lists or phone numbers, you can increase your retention of the information.
Short-term memory is limited, however. The average number of items you can keep in
short-term memory is seven. To remember larger amounts of information you must
group it into common themes, memorize “chunks” of information at once, or use other
strategies to improve retention.

Long-Term Memory – Once information is moved to long-term memory, it is
integrated with existing information. If this integration is not successfully done, the
information may get “lost” and will be harder to recall. Long-term memory is like a giant
warehouse full of file cabinets. You take information you know and you place it in
existing “files.” If there is no existing file and you do not create one by integrating like
information, the information may be more difficult to recall.

The 3 R’s of Memory
Reception – Be attentive and observant. This will help you receive important
information more easily. Engage all of your senses. Look at the professor, listen to the
lecture and discussion, and take notes. Ask questions if you aren’t clear about
something. If you don’t understand, you won’t be able to remember. Survey before
reading the material. If you know what the selection is about before reading, you will be
more attentive to the information.

Retention – Make a conscious effort to remember what is being said. If you set
goals for your performance and motivate yourself this will give you the incentive to
remember. Become an active reader by highlighting and marking your text. Review
your notes frequently to increase your retention. Recite your notes aloud when
possible. By using both your visual and auditory senses, you will increase your retention
rate. Do all your homework when it is assigned. Using information in and out of the
classroom will help you remember it better. See the list of Memory Aids for tips on
improving your memory.

Recollection – Organize your material before the test. Group tests, summaries,
and notes according to chapters and similar topics. Make a list of important topics and
what you should know about them. The week before the test set up a block of time (2-3
hours) to thoroughly review the information. Remember to take breaks when studying!
During the test visualize your diagrams and flashcards to help remember the
information. Use practice tests to study. Anticipate possible test questions and make up
your own test or look at old tests if they are available from the professor.
Memory Aids

Mnemonics – rhymes, sayings or phrases that repeat or codify the information you’re
trying to remember.

HOMES – an acronym that stands for the first letter of each of the five Great Lakes
Fall Back, Spring Ahead – this phrase helps you remember Daylight Savings Time
Thirty days hath September… - this jingle helps you remember how many days there are
in each of the twelve months.

Associate – Relate the information you’re trying to remember to something you already
know. To help remember the three stages of memory (reception, retention, and
recollection) you can associate the mind with a computer. By recalling the computer’s
three processes (input, storage, and output) you will be able to remember the stages of
memory.

Visualize – Drawing out pictures and diagrams makes the information easier to recall by
visualizing the drawing while taking the test. When memorizing the names of bones in
the body, draw a human skeleton and label the bones. During the test, visualize the
skeleton and you will be able to remember the names.

Flashcards – Write key words or terms that you need to know on one side of an index
card. Write the explanation or definition on the other side of the card. Carry these cards
with you and review them as often as possible.

Increasing Traffic.

How to Increase Traffic - Just my personal experience.

Here are some technics and links for you which can increase traffic to your website. They all provide you with the unique visitors. However these visitors wont really surf your website on their own will but still you will atleast get more and more unique hits to your website and who knows may be some of those millions of users out there will find your site very usefull or pretty interesting ? So if you can just sign up for all of them so that u increase the possibilities of your site getting many unique visitors. Well, its just all about traffic you know. Once your site kind of gets pretty wellknown with a high traffic on it then you wont have to worry about pulling visitors to your site. Its not really a big deal though. But yeah if you are using your websites for something big and serious then this wont really help or benifit you that much, but yeah if you just want to pull visitors to your blogs or personal websites like this then you can sign up for all and thats it, you will get thousands of hits every month.

I have personally signed up here and thats why you can sign up too without any questions or doubts because thats how i get traffic to this website. You can trust me, its all free.

• http://www.LotsMoreHits.com?refid=12178
• http://trafficechoes.com?r=64443
• http://superhitspro.com/signup.php?ref=6
• http://www.autosurf.org/?wid=mayurms

Link Exchange

If you are a beginner web designer or if you are having your own personal website or blogs and if you want to increase traffic to your website then the following web sites are the best for you to exchange your links with them. They are all free and you can increase traffic on your site if you submit your site in all the directories. You can also search on google for free web directories for exchanging your links. The following sites are the one where i personally registered and some of them are the best.

Submitting your site to the open web directories is a good idea to maximum number of hits to your site. You can exchange your links with some other related websites so that you both are benifited from the link exchange. If you want to submit your link on my personal website then you an submit it, but it must be your personal website or blog and a link back is neccessary.

If you want to earn money online from your website then you must exchange links and submit your website to other link exchange programs and become and Affiliate. The more you exchange or submit your site the more you will become famous and get hits to your site. Which in return will make you generate even more revenues. There are several ideas available on internet on how you can earn money from your personal website. You can start your own internet marketing services just like mine. The income is not high in such things but you can earn a good amount of money doing nothing but just sit and update your site regularly.

Links

• www.linkreferral.com
• www.reviewback.com
• www.adgridwork.com
• www.link2me.com
• www.linkdir.co.uk
• www.linkalizer.com

One more idea i can give you is to make few more sites with the same content. All you have to do is to copy and pastethe same content into other site. Example, u can create a blog or few webpages on freewebs, googlepages, anglefire and other such sites. Then you can put your own adds on those sites. But it will be good if you own a paid personal website like this one, which is mine and not a free one. Then you can attract traffic from those visitors who are surfing your other sites. So you see ? Like that you will be increasing ur possibilities of getting more traffic on your particula website from others that you have created. So thats one of the good way.

All you have to do is to provide services to others on internet. Its always hard to start but it begins slowly and later as you increase your services and as you keep exchanging links and once your site becomes well known amongst people around the world, they will be bound to visit it regularly to see updates. I personally have been trying to do this and have been partially successfull. Once i achieve a 100% success i will be publising it here and sharing it with you all. Its not a big deal though. Because all we have to do it “nothing” and just keep minding our own business and keep updating our websites with more new things in it.

By far i have subscribed to like so many websites and submitted my link to many other websites and search engines. Its a good way to do the marketing of our website. I usually opt for the free programs rather than paying for something we are not sure for. Well, no big deal. When it comes to me i just search for some free websites to do this job for me.

How to keep your computer clean.

To make sure that your computer is clean and free from unwanted cookies, worms, trojans, adwares & spyware, the least and the most basic things that you can do is to perform the following three things. I myself have an experience of working on internet for 3 years most of the hours a day, so i have found many such things in the computer that needs the user’s attention and clean up. On this page, in the following article i will be telling you what measures to take and what softwares to use according to me. I have tried my best to make it easy for everyone to understand including the beginners and those who are not much into computers, and such issues.

Following are the few of the things that i noticed as i went using the internet.

• With a high speed cable internet connection, the computer is immune to almost all the virus, trojans and worms and other malicious softwares.
• The first place for the trojans, whenever they enter the computer is “Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5″. most of the Trojan Downloaders, worm and other malicious programs can be found in this folder. I got to know this from the antivirus i used. It showed that path whenever anything harmfull was detected in my computer.
• The cookies folder can also keep harmfull adwares and high priority tracking cookies that can track all your internet activities including your personal information like credit card details and passwords.

To clean up your computer, just perform the following three simple things. But “DONT FORGET TO READ THE IMPORTANT NOTE BELOW

Step one.

Right click on the task bar of your computer - click on properties - then a window with a title “taskbar and start menu properties” will appear on the screen, on that - click on start menu tab - click on the customize button - then a window with a title “customize start menu” will appear, on that - click the button “clear list” - then go to the other tab which says “Advanced”, on that - click the button “clear list” - Then click on ok buttons on both the windows to close it.

Step two.

Click on start menu - Right click on the internet explorer - click on Internet Properties - then a window with a title “Internet Properties” will appear on the screen, on that - simply click the three buttons “Delete Cookies”, “Delete Files” and “Delete History”. Click on the ok and yes buttons on all the message boxes that it shows whenever you click on those three buttons.

Step three.

• Click on start menu - click on run - In the text feild type %temp% and click the button open.
• A window will open showing lot of files of many formats. All those files are useless. Select all the files by pressing “Ctrl + A” and delete all those files by pressing “Shift + delete” buttons.
• Then go back by simply clicking “backspace” button on your keyboard.
• There you will find a folder “Temporary Internet Files”. Double click on it and go inside that folder and there you will find one more folder “Content.IE5″. In that folder you will find many folders, all those folders are useless and they might contain trojans or other malicious programs. (Not all the time in all cases, though)
• There may be an index.dat file in the folder “Content.IE5″ or may be not.
• Select all the sub folders in the folder “Content.IE5″ but keep the index.dat file if it exists in it and delete all those folders by clicking “Shift + delete” keys.
• Now you have cleared most of the unwanted things from your computer that may even cause harm to your computer. You even freed many space from your C Drive. However, read the following note carefully. It has things that you might come across while performing the above three steps.

NOTE 1

While performing step three, you might not be able to delete some of the files and folders. Simply neglect those files and folders and delete rest of the files and folders. To oversome thise “cannot delete file or folder” issue, read the following note carefully.

NOTE 2

All the above mentioned steps can be performed after you use your computer and internet on it. But you perform above steps after using the computer and internet on it, then sometimes you may not be able to delete some of the unwanted files and folders from that location mentioned above. This happens because some of the add clients from the websites you just visited are still active in your computer. So it is always better to perform these steps in the beginning as soon as you start your computer. That is, when you restart your computer or start the computer another time.

When it comes to which Anti-Virus to use, i personally use the latest free version of AVG. Everyone must use firewall on their computers to prevent unwanted access to your computer. Firewalls also prevents unwanted packets to reach your computer. I personally use the Zone Alarm free version. Which, according to me is the best free firewall ever. These two softwares prevents your computer from virus, trojans, unwanted access and worms and other harmfull things from ruining your computer.

Meditation

Meditation for Beginners. Type : Mindfull Meditation

To begin with, first i am going to explain few things about Meditation in the simplest possible way and then tell you how i meditate. I am writing this articles for the beginners so that you can get to know what is the least thing that you can do to meditate and trust me, it works. Well, for meditating its not really that compulsary to sit in a pose. All you need to do is just be comfortable because Meditation is all about relaxing, removing all the thoughts from the mind and just concentrating. To boost your concentration and increase your mental ability. Meditation can be the cure for almost all the psychological issues if done seriously with discipline. You must do it regularly to be that disciplined. Meditating is not really a big deal as i said its not that compulsary to sit in the pose and take some time out specially for meditating. If you are serious about it and want to take some time specially for Meditation then you can do it all. As this article is focused on the beginners you dont have to do all those things but this is that you can do the least to begin with.

This is how i Meditate : At night when i am on my bed, before sleeping as soon as i lay on the bed i try not to think of anything. After few minutes i get somewhat control on my thoughts and i am in a position to not to think of anything else. For you it must be not that easy but you can try your best. Then i just try to feel my breathing and try to get calm as much as i can even while laying on the bed. Well while laying you must make sure you are feeling comfortable, i take my both the hands below my head. Then all i do it try to concentrate on my forhead. Actually if you try concentrating you will feel how deep you are concentrating. You can say that its some kind of a range. Sometimes when i do that i concentrate to much which sometiems even hurts. But being normal and concentrating lightly and just calmly is better and good. Well, the most important things while meditating is you just have to remove thoughts and calm yourself, focus on your breathing and try to relax as much as possible. If you try to relax your entire body you will even get a feeling of little numbness over your body and sometimes even feel your heart beating and those pulses. Dont worry, its not a big deal as big as it sounds. If you try to do this regularly then you will see how calm you feel during your daily activities.

This type of meditation is usually known as Mindfull Meditation. I hope you know the two basic types, they are Concentration and Mindfull. In Mindfull Meditation which is what i have explained here, Focus and Awareness is must. All you are doing is trying to focus and become aware of your mental activities. I have used word “concentration” above just so that the beginners gets the basic or the least idea what exactly to do. Its all about being aware of your mind with no thoughts and try to focus on your mind and breathing. In mindfull meditation you can even focus on external things like the sound around you, whatever is going around you but with no other thoughts in your mind but just being aware of each and everything around. But at first its pretty good enough to just focus on your mind and create some self awareness mentally. I mostly focus on my breathing and mind.

Calmness is must during our awakened life which even makes us feel confident about ourself. If prevent us from doing any stupid mistakes because due to meditating practise our minds are calm with unwanted, stupid, useless thoughts. This above proces is the best because you see anyone can do it because its just right before you sleep while laying on bed. You dont have to take any time and just make it a big issue and read lot of meditating books and search on internet. Trust me, i am writing this article because thats what i personally do and obviously that shows how much it really works.

I have a panic disorder and i cannot really afford the expensive treatement and those medicines so i try to do this and it has helped me a lot to some extend. However, i still take medicines but not in the way as prescibed by my psychiatrist due to expenses. It had made me so calm and “i literraly can feel how my mind and me is calm during my daily activities”. Actually i am a worst day dreamer and this is the BEST idea to get rid of tis serious day dreaming problems. Thats why i can see the effect. If you are a day dreamer and always in your own fantasy world which is fake and where you are not suppose to be during your awakeneed life then this is what you must do. Even, if you get lot os stupid unwanted thoughts then this is what you can do to help yourself. It will help you to get control over your panic attack, if you have a panic disorder. All meditation do is help us get some control over our mind and bain which is highly unstable. Missions of thoughts just comes in our brain and goes and we dont even get to know. Meditation helps in controling that.

If you think something is missing or should be added then you can Edit it and send me the Edited copy by mail mayur@moonlightms.com