Growing Younger

Retired PE teacher Johanna Quaas, from Leipzig, Germany, is the world’s oldest gymnast.
Aged 86, she only began training in her fifties — but has won 11 major championships.

Johanna Quaas, 86, from Leipzig only began to train at gymnastics in her 50s and is now recognised as the world's Oldest Gymnast. In the last 30 years Johanna has won 11 major championships. To keep in shape for competition, Joanna has a strict exercise regime that involves a combination of gym workouts, running, and yoga. Johanna says that it's 'a great feeling to be in the Guinness World Records book. I hope the record inspires others to realise it's never too late to try something new.'

The Tallest Dog

GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2013

Just look at the size of this dog. Zeus is a 3-year-old Great Dane from Michigan and measures an incredible 111.8 cm (44 in) from foot to withers: the same size as a donkey. Standing on hind legs, Zeus stretches to 7 ft 4 in and towers over his owner Denise Doorlag. Denise said: 'Zeus is an awesome dog,' says owner Denise. 'The only downside is that everything costs more; the food, medicines, transport. We had to get a van to be able to transport him, and if he steps on your foot- he leaves bruises.'
Zeus breaks the record of previous record-breaking pooch Giant George, who is 1-inch shorter, which makes Zeus the tallest dog ever recorded in history.

Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger now in the UK!

Earlier this year, Google launched the Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger in the US and added new enhancements in June. A lot of positive results and promising feedback has been received, and Google has announced last week that this gadget is now available to Blogger users in the UK!

To refresh your memory, Google Affiliate Ads for Blogger is a gadget that makes it easy for Blogger users to insert an affiliate ad into a blog post and earn a commission when someone clicks the link and makes a purchase on the advertiser’s site.

Here is a quick refresher video for you:




I you are a Blogger user, here’s how to get started:

Find your house in High-Res Satelight and 45 degree Aerial Imagery

Google Maps gets more awesome by the day. Earlier this week, the service started rolling out stunning underwater imagery- if you will, a seaview mode. Now Google took to the Google Maps blog to announces the inclusion of more high resolution images including a major build-out of 45-degree images.

This update brings a lot of new data to the mapping service. Google Maps and Earth now features 17 cities and 112 countries and regions with high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery. In addition, 51 cities can now be viewed in a 45-degree mode including 37 cities in the US and 14 abroad (full list below). It’s never been easier to burn a little time and escape from your cubical to a far away land.
Google constantly rolls out updates to its services but it seems this week has featured more news than usual.

Google Earth and Maps update images of cities with high-res and 45 degree aerial imagery

Google have refreshed the high resolution aerial and satellite imagery for many places around the world, and released some new 45 degree imagery as well.

 

Below is the full list of places with new or updated imagery from Google. Have fun exploring the new sites!
Cities with new high resolution 45° imagery:
United States: Ames, IA; Anderson, IN; Billings, MT; Bloomington, IL; Carmel Valley, CA; Cedar Rapids, IA; Coeur d’Alene, ID; Corvallis, OR; Danville, IL; Dayton, OH; Detroit, MI; Dubuque, IA; Elizabethtown, KY; Enid, OK; Florence, SC; Grand Forks, ND; Great Falls, MT; Gulfport, MS; Hartford, CT; Kankakee, IL; Kenosha, WI; Lafayette, IN; Lancaster, CA; Lansing, MI; Lewiston, ID; Los Banos, CA; Madison, WI; Medford, OR; Michigan City, IN; Olympia, WA; Pocatello, ID; Sheboygan, WI; Sioux City, IA; Sioux Falls, SD; South Bend, IN; Terre Haute, IN; Utica, NY.

International:
Angers, France; Clermont-Ferrand, France;

How to remove "Ad not by this site" malware

If you’re seeing ads on Wikipedia, your computer is probably infected with malware.
Once in a while you are seeing a lot more ads on most websites you visit, and the ads are what can be defined as not “family-friendly”. If you see “ads not by this site” below the ads in small gray font, then this post can help you fix it. I’m not sure if it is a virus or a spyware, but its just something you don’t want. This same issue show more ads on Facebook and it displays “ads not by Facebook”. It’s pretty simple to fix this.

The usual advice you receive on the web is to install Ad Blocker Plus

HAPPY 14TH BIRTHDAY GOOGLE

Google, on Thursday, celebrated its 14th birthday with an animated doodle.

The doodle is designed in the form of a chocolate cake with fourteen candles lit on it. The words Google appears in brown on the cake. All the 14 candles are in Google colours - green, yellow, blue and red.

Popular Article Directories - A Snapshot

Article Directories

Squidoo	The Free Library	Ezine Articles
PR: 7 Alexa: 186	PR: 7 Alexa: 2,541	PR: 6 Alexa: 98
Hubpages	Articles Base	Buzzle
PR: 6 Alexa: 176	PR: 6 Alexa: 307	PR: 6 Alexa: 513
Helium	Article City

Article Marketing the right way

Article marketing is a type of advertising in which businesses write short articles about themselves, their company or their field of expertise as a marketing strategy. A primary style for the articles includes a bio box and byline (collectively known as the resource box) about the business.

Article marketing is one of the most common methods employed by marketers to drive traffic to their sites because it’s very simple and can even be outsourced for a small fee. It is mainly done via article directories. Article directories with good web page ranks receive a lot of site visitors and may be considered authority sites by search engines, leading to high traffic. These directories then give PageRank to the author's website and in addition send traffic from readers. Even though many article directories have been ‘slapped’ by Google and it’s not as easy to get a first page ranking with a single article anymore, article directories are still a useful medium to drive a lot of traffic to your blog.

The primary goal behind article marketing is to get search engine traffic to the article so that the author can strengthen their authority and influence within their field, while also leveraging that traffic for their own site(s). The key to article marketing is that the author should be providing value with their articles, not just promoting their site, products or services.

Innocence of Muslims - The Trailer and more

Innocence of Muslims is the Muhammad Movie by Sam Bacile that caused Muslims to kill United States ambassador, J Christopher Stevens. The anti Islam video claims Islam is a lie and Mohammed was a pedophile. Reviews of the Muhammad Film have ranged from "Disgusting" to "the riot laugh of the summer." All rights to Sam Becile or whoever made this film.

According to the New York Times’ The Lede blog, protests have been reported in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Nigeria, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Malaysia over this movie.

iPhone 5 : Samsung Galaxy SIII : Nokia Lumia 920 - How they stand back to back

Apple just announced its latest flagship smartphone and everyone is already wondering how it will fare against its high-profile competitors. The best-selling Galaxy S III is the leader of the droid gang, while the newly introduced Nokia Lumia 920 is seemingly the best that the WP8 camp will be able to offer.

Apple certainly managed to squeeze quite a lot of cool hardware under the hood of the super slim iPhone 5, but its competitors haven’t stood idle either. So is the iPhone 5 good enough to face those two behemoths in a fierce specs battle and come out victorious? Let's find out.

iPhone 5 : the biggest thing to happen to iPhone since iPhone

The Biggest Thing

The new YouTube App for iPhone and iPod touch

This is for the diehard YouTube fans out there who can’t get enough YouTube on their mobile devices. I’ve got some great news: starting tuesday, September 11, you can download the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPod touch from the App Store, bringing you more of the videos you love and more ways to share them with the people you care about.

YouTube engineers came up with this new app to give our iPhone and iPod touch users the best mobile experience on YouTube. Here’s what you’ll find:

Tens of thousands more videos: Watch official music videos like Taylor’s latest hit

Sell your iPhone now, and get iPhone 5

Let’s straighten it out first: no one knows anything for sure about the next iPhone, not even its name, though iPhone 5 is sure a good bet but it could be anything. There have been no official announcements from Apple. The best launch date report we have, September 12, is based on some (very good) guesswork.

However, here are some insights into the expected iPhone 5

Apple supplier has started manufacturing new handset

Sources in Apple's supply chain leak details

More leaks confirm that it WILL have a different connector

Device expected to launch in October

Could have slimmer screen with sensors built into glass

Behold all things have become new!!

If you are a blogger or an internet marketer who still uses the methods of the past few years, then you are living in a very ancient period in terms of changes and trends that are shaping how things get done on the internet. The fact is that even one week in the blogging sphere is a very long time and is more than enough to cause very significant changes on the internet.

That is the reason why Marshable, a blog dedicated to the latest tech news and start ups, is able to beat TechCrunch, who is a leader the tech news blog industry, in terms of unique pageviews. Marshable has recently overtaken TechCrunch in terms of traffic statistics despite TechCrunch's long-standing reputation. This is because in the internet world, things change really fast and those who refuse to adapt will surely be the losers.

TechCrunch became the first ever blog to reach 1 million subscribers which is proudly displayed on their Feedburner chicklet. It has been able to establish itself as the industry leader over the years, with the opinions of its founder Michael Arrington gaining attention over the tech world. They have the reputation of breaking out insider informations and deals such as Google's 1 billion plus acquisition of YouTube.

Who, how, where and what?

In one of my previous posts I stressed on the need to identify the problems of your visitors and help provide solutions to those problems. This strategy is ultimately very rewarding both to the visitor and to the site owner as well. You can only do this effectively if you are able to provide the right answer to the following questions:

Who are your visitors?

How do they landed on your site?

Where are they coming from?

What do they want?

All these for just 9.63 seconds

The 25 year old Jamaican sprinter, Usain Bolt has on Sunday August 5, 2012 sealed the legendary status as the fastest man in the world after finishing with a resounding victory in the men's 100m race at the London 2012 olympics. Usain Bolt clocked an olympic record of 9.63 seconds, the second fastest time in history, after his 9.58 seconds world record at Berlin at the World Championships in August 2009. Jamaican compatriot and training partner Yohan Blake, long tipped as Bolt's successor as the fastest man in the world, claimed silver after equalling his personal best of 9.75sec. American 2004 Olympic gold medallist Justin Gatlin completed his remarkable comeback from a four-year doping ban by taking the bronze medal in a personal best of 9.79sec.

The victory is so sweet and glorious for the athlete but only God knows the amount of training that went into the preparations for a performance that only lasts for 9.63 seconds.

It's simple and yet very powerful

In life the most important things come so simple and easy that we nearly always fail to recognize them and to employ their potential for our own benefits. It is therefore not surprising to come across folks who have done all that they learnt and know that matters and yet are unable to reap any result. It's so pathetic to see people, and even good friends you know, give up on great ideas that could have otherwise been the 'thing of the century' had the right things been done. I have friends who left their dreams midway because they have done almost everything they know but were not successful.

One field that this phenomenon is prevalent is the internet industry. Yeah I know this because that is what I do. Be it blogging, affiliate marketing, SEO or ads selling, thousands (or should I say billions) have put their hard work and precious time (and even scarce money) into this and that, here and there but no record of success.