The Content Blender


May 4, 2008

Customize Your Google News to Stay Ahead of the Competition

Filed under: The WWW — admin @ 6:07 pm

Personalize Your Page Now

Go to Google.com and just above the search box you’ll see the text link titled ‘News’. Click this to get a standard news format featuring World News, Weather, Sports and the usual fare.

Let’s assume for a moment that you are a realtor who specializes in Virginia Beach, VA real estate. Click on, ‘edit this personalized page’ in the upper right-hand corner and enter the keywords for the news you want delivered to your personalized news page. You might choose Virginia Beach Real Estate, Virginia Mortgage, Virginia Fore Closures, Virginia HUD Properties and Home Interest Rates.

Presto! You now have a customize news page that delivers current and breaking Virginia real estate related news to your browser at a glance.

As a web designer and SEO developer I stay on top of what’s happening with the major search engines and the hi-tech sectors.
I set my Google news page to display news for SEO, (Search Engine Optimization), Sci/Tech, Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com and Top Stories.

Let’s presume you are a Virginia attorney, you could set your Google news page to; US Supreme Court, Virginia Appellate Court, Virginia Beach Local Courts, Crime Busters and so on.

Depending on your career track or what interests you the most, you can personalize your Google news page for virtually any person, place or thing!

It’s a great way to stay at the tip-top of what’s happening, while it happens!

See a screen-capture of my Google News page !

Rick Vidallon - EzineArticles Expert Author

About the Author
http://www.visionefx.net - Visionefx President Ricardo Vidallon has been in the creative business of advertising, cable broadcast, animation and the World Wide Web for more than two decades. His work has been featured on the Christian Broadcasting Network, Inc., Fox News and NBC Entertainment. His career track in Web consultancy includes the global companies of Reynolds and Reynolds, CMGI Solutions, and Automark, Inc.

The Magic Diet Book

Filed under: The Medical Way — admin @ 12:25 pm

A glut of new diet books hit the shelves every year and we buy
them in our millions.

Every book is full of promises that this will be the only diet
book you’ll ever need, the answer to your prayers. But there you
are again, just a few weeks or months later buying another diet
book, hoping that this one has the true magic formula that will
help you lose weight and stay slim forever.

But actually there is no magic formula in any of those books,
there never will be. You are the only one that has the magic
formula - the desire, the determination and the ability to take
action.

Many of those diet books would work if you could bring yourself
to follow the “easy” food plans in them. Many of the exercise
programs would tone and slim your body if you could drag
yourself to the gym to do the routines or even get yourself out
of bed in the morning early enough for a toning session at home.

But that is so very hard to do. They ask too much, too suddenly
for ordinary mortals. We know in our heart of hearts that those
diets work, and that it is we who do not. But we continue to buy
the books because we are buying not just a book but hope when we
hand over our cash.

Instead of pretending that you have a will of iron and are
likely to turn your life upside down this time (despite evidence
to the contrary from the past goodness-know-how-many attempts)
why not just select any of the books you already have from your
shelves and work out what you can do to make a start towards
implementing the plan.

Success does not have to happen in a day. But making small
changes one after the other brings about huge success. It gives
you the chance to adapt bit by bit to a healthier lifestyle.

On the other hand, if the lifestyles in the books do not appeal
as a way of living forever then that’s another story. Diet books
generally offer a quick fix rather than an attractive way of
life (quick fixes are what give us the hope and sell the book
after all).

In that case, why not design your own healthier lifestyle - one
you’re prepared to live with forever and put that in place step
by step? Create your very own magic diet and exercise plan that
will work for you for life and keep you slim permanently.

Copyright 2006, Janice Elizabeth Small