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There are many people around today who purport that they have the ultimate way of helping one to lose weight and get fit. However, there is one lady who has a proven track record of helping people to lose weight and lead healthier life styles and that is Jillian Michaels. In fact she has developed a weight loss program that has changed many people’s lives that have chosen to participate in the NBC show “The Biggest Loser”.

However, this is a program that is not for the faint hearted as you will see when you watch Jillian putting the contestants on the show through it.

The weight loss program that Jillian Michaels has devised is made up of three parts and below we take a look at what these are.

1. Self - Although many people will use other reasons for wanting to lose weight with this particular program Jillian shows that the only way to succeed is deciding that you want to lose weight for yourself and no one else.

It is through this program that you will learn how to make changes to your lifestyle and the way you behave in order that you can achieve your weight loss goals.

This is achieved by you learning to develop clear specific goals for yourself and to help you stay focused on these you will be able to log on and go to the daily message board or chat with others who are working to lose weight. Read the rest of this entry »

Palm is set to preview this week its latest incarnation of mobile operating system — Nova — in a bid to re-ignite the company as a smartphone leader. Latest developments say that Palm will also release a new device that runs Nova as well. The unveiling is expected during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2009, which starts on Thursday, January 8 in Las Vegas.

We have information from a trusted source that the latest Palm smartphone running the Nova operating system will be launched Thursday. The new phone will have a full QWERTY keyboard that will slide down under a portrait-oriented touchscreen. We’ll have a mock-up shortly.

The new operating system is described as “amazing” and there will be a full software bazaar on launch. It will have media playback functions along with standard Palm calendar, email, and contact functionality.

As expected, the phone is described as “iPhone-like” and will probably be sourced by HTC like the Palm Pro. The official Palm announcement should happen this Thursday at CES.

British police may remotely hack into personal computers and e-mail without warrant

Britain’s Home Office will allow police to remotely hack into anyone’s computer without a warrant. From the Times:

The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room.Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.

The move follows a green light from the European Union, and also permits British police to access U.K. residents’ computers at the behest of investigators from other countries. This could allow the British to conduct searches on behalf of local agencies bound by more restrictive policies, sharing the results back with them.

Folks have been talking in the U.K about this, and I think their opinion sums up why no-one there takes this sort of thing seriously. Americans assume a level of competence in bureaucracy, no matter how disorganized its visible operations. The British, however, believe their civil service and police are institutionally stupid, barely capable of executing their basic functions. So the Brits simply can’t take seriously the idea that assigning police more powers will affect much of anything.

2009 will be another year where internet browsers will compete for market share.

The past year has seen some exciting changes in the browser market with at least one new player giving the market a shake and an old competitor still battling away with its latest release.

In theory the browser market is commoditised. There is not much money to be made from building a new browser, no matter how good it is. At least that is the theory. But the past year has shown that the browser wars are still in full swing. It’s just that now the stakes are even higher and even non-traditional browser makers are getting in on the act.

A few months ago we got a taste of that as Google released beta versions of its Chrome browser. Although it only worked on Windows machines at launch time, Chrome quickly made its presence felt. Within days of its release there were reports of webmasters seeing more than 2% of their traffic coming from Chrome users and the W3C now pins Chrome’s market share at 3.1%. Which is impressive in a market where after years of competing Opera Software has just 2.3% market share.

It also good news for Google, who clearly is hoping that building a browser optimised for its own online applications will make it a worthy competitor against the likes of Microsoft who has been a little slow coming to market with an online offering.

Microsoft, on the other hand, looks unlikely to release its latest browser, Internet Explorer 8, before the second quarter of 2009. Although it has been in beta for the best part of the year, Microsoft now says that a final beta will be issued in the early part of 2009.

Unfortunately, this could be a little too late for Microsoft. Its competitors are getting stronger by the day and by early 2009, Chrome will be out of beta, Firefox will have racked up millions of new users and Opera will have released its version 10 browser.

If you frequently visit any part of Asia such as China, Singapore, Korea, you will already know that they have got a number of dual sim card mobiles, made by their own native brand.

But what we have got here is one by LG, called the LG KS660, its the latest dual sim phone from LG which runs on a tri-band network.

This handset allows users to have both their business and personal lines concurrently on a single device without having to switch sim cards. This function is also ideal for backpackers or travellers.

The KS660 has a 3.0-inch WQVGA (240×400) TFT touch-screen display with feedback, 5.0-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash, and video recording (720×480), 50MB internal memory, microSDHC slot and integrated accelerometer.

The phone will hit China, Russia and few more places by early 2009. If you’re in Europe or the US, you’ll still need to wait abit, no idea for how long though!

Mozilla’s Firefox browser has also surpassed 20 percent market share for the first time.

And Google certainly isn’t reluctant to kick Microsoft while it’s down, as it now automatically recommends that Gmail users running IE6 switch to Firefox or Google’s own Chrome browser (apparently Google is hoping that those users don’t realize that IE7 exists or that IE8 is on the way).

I’m sure the Microsoft dudes are starting to get a bit frantic about the slippage in IE’s market share, and I fully expect IE8 to get nearly as glamorous a launch as Windows 7 in order to try to win back some of those Firefox and Chrome converts.

For those of you included in that group of disenchanted IE users, what would it take to bring you back? Adblock Plus for IE? Or would that just be polishing a turd?

The best thing your car would have is the car stereo that has iPod compatibility. The only thing that is change from the old models is the plug-in to dock-in that will swallow your iPod and protect it. It is amazing to know that most cars nowadays have new features like LCD monitors, lightings and enhanced sounds.

It is a hazard for the driver to have so many cables near him while driving. It may bother you while driving, may knock off your iPod when you accidentally pull some wirings. In the saddest thing is when you left your iPod inside the car, the case is theft, it may be tempting to others eyes. So this new built car stereo will keep your iPod safe and make your car organized.

I presume this is the reason why Fusion produced the CA-IP500, which will factually ingest your entire iPod. This will enable the iPod playlist to be broadcasted all the way through your car’s stereo system, and you will be able to control it via the simple CA-IP500’s controls, which bear a resemblance to iPod controls.

Additional features contain a dot-matrix OLED display, AM/FM tuner, 7-band equalizer, SRS Wos sound shaping, and it has a security features so merely the driver is the only able to access his or her iPod. And to add up, the CA-IP500 can also top up the battery of your iPod when it docks inside.

Since its launch, Google’s new web browser, Google Chrome, has been applauded for its lightweight look and feel and for the speed of its JavaScript engine. Although the browser still lacks support for things like RSS and browser add-ons, the company has already ripped off the beta label, a move that was probably made in preparation for Google’s upcoming bundling deals with PC manufacturers.

Despite Chrome’s popularity, there are some of us who are a bit uncomfortable with giving Google yet another avenue to track our user data. Luckily, we have several options which can be used to protect our privacy while still enjoying this slick new web browser.

Chrome Privacy Guard was the first tool to automatically delete the unique Client ID that Google assigns to your Chrome installation. With this tool, that ID is automatically deleted before each run of Chrome. To use Chrome Privacy Guard, you launch an executable file ChromePrivacyGuard.exe instead of launching the browser itself. The tool cans the “Local State” file inside the Chrome directory and removes all information regarding the Client ID. It then automatically starts Chrome.

Like Privacy Guard, UnChrome also removes your unique ID from the browser, instead replacing it with a null value. This is a bit more convenient because UnChrome only needs to be run once. After you download and run the tool, you will see a pop-up advertisement for the developer’s other applications, but again, it’s only a one-time thing. Afterwards, your browser will forever have the unique ID removed.

Iron is a fork of Chrome’s Chromium core, the open source project behind Google Chrome. Developed by a German software company SRWare, Iron goes even further than the above tools to protect your privacy. Where the other tools simply remove the unique ID from Google’s version of the Chrome browser, Iron is actually its own, separate browser. In addition to removing the unique ID, Iron also makes sure that no user-specific info is sent to Google, including crash reports. When you enter in a URL incorrectly, Iron does not present any alternative error messages like Chrome does. Finally, Iron does not come bundled with the Google Updater tool, which checks with Google to see if there are any new updates for the Google products you have installed.

Do you use any of these tools to protect your privacy? If so, share your experiences or your preferences in the comments.

Owning the newest high tech gadget gives you a chance to impress friends, and even strangers. They’ll think you’re the “James Bond” of the local set when you pull out your latest high tech gadgets.

If you’re considering purchasing a high tech gadget for a friend or loved one, there are some important things you should keep in mind.

Tips for purchasing high tech gadgets

1. The fact a gadget is high tech means it’s very new. Lots of new gadgets end up not being popular for a variety of reasons. People might think they’re too complicated, or don’t have useful features. If a new high tech gadget doesn’t have a lot of reviews and a big base of fans, maybe you should steer clear until more guidance is available.
2. New hight tech gadgets tend to be expensive. You have to pay to be on the cutting edge of technology. Often you can wait six months and get the same gadget at a much lower price. Unless there’s a real need for most gadgets, you can generally shop for a cheaper price or wait until overall unit prices get cheaper.
3. High tech gadgets have bugs. Make sure the product you’re considering buying works well. There’s no point in buying someone a gift that turns out to be junk.
4. There are tons of high tech gadgets for sale. Don’t just buy your gadget lover the first gadget that comes along. Feel free to shop and buy them just the right, personalized gift. Match the high tech gadget with the person you’re giving the gift to.
5. Use technology to make your high tech gadget shopping easier. Sign up for RSS feeds, use search engines, and keep abreast of the latest in technological developments. The world of gadgetry is getting bigger daily, so you need to use a technological advantage to sort the data.

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You’d think with the outbreak of the latest Internet browser war, companies like Microsoft and Mozilla would be doing everything possible to make their products competitive.

Microsoft announced that a flaw in Internet Explorer (IE) allowed hackers to redirected users to websites that would download malicious software designed to steal personal information such as user names and passwords onto users’ home computers.

Not surprisingly, the error was listed as critical, which resulted in some security companies calling for a boycott of IE until Microsoft released a patch to fix the flaw. I’ve never been a big fan of IE. In fact, I’ll only use it when I’m forced to, so I smugly sat there and gloated, confident that as a Firefox user I didn’t have to put up with the spreading panic.

Then karma turned around and bit me in the rear. Turns out earlier in the week Mozilla, the company that makes Firefox, issued a patch that fixed six critical flaws. Then Bit9, a US-based company that monitors security flaws, released a report of what it considers the top ten most vulnerable programmes.

Sitting at the top of the list was Firefox. IE didn’t even appear on the list. I was initially sceptical about Bit9’s results, but they make a good point. They based their report on a number of factors, including the number of critical bugs in the software, its overall popularity, and - here are the kickers - how easily updatable and supported the software was. Bottom line, IE is supported and patched by Micro-soft. Read the rest of this entry »