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  • 7 Tips For Bringing Your Online Store To Your Customers
    “I’m amazed at this! I put very little effort into this online business, and already I’m making over $14000 a month!”

    We’ve all heard these testimonials in ads for “starting your online business”. We are offered a “turnkey” website already designed and filled with widgets to sell on the web.

    The ads lead us to believe that hordes of customers will flock to our site, wallets in hand, ready to avoid the downtown mobs. We’re promised an overnight fortune with little or...
  • Do Cats Think?
    I don’t know why I thought I could get away with it.

    When my cat “Bear” jumped onto my lap expecting his morning petting session, I wondered if THIS time I could get away with reading the newspaper while giving him a few off-hand, preoccupied strokes.

    “Heh, heh”, I thought. “I’ll start by giving him my full attention but then I’ll sneak my paper in when he’s not looking.” I “chucked” him under the chin while stroking him from head to tail, and he began rolling in ecstas...
  • 12 Ways To Tell If That Internet Chat Partner Is A Scammer, Part 2
    “I’d like to bring up another subject, dear”, types the chat girl of your dreams.

    “What’s that?” you respond.

    “You know how I said my father died a few years ago, and my mom lives in Nigeria?”

    “Yes,” you respond, remembering her story. It had touched your heart, you have to admit. This poor girl seemed to have had a very difficult life.

    “And, you know how it’s good for people to help others who are not as fortunate as they are?”

    You take the bait. “Yes, I kn...
  • Giving A Digital Camera To A First Time User: 5 Ways To Make Sure It Will Be Loved And Appreciated
    Ted decided to give his mother, age 67, a digital camera for her birthday. She had been snapping pictures of the kids and the rest of the family for decades with her old Brownie. Amazingly, it still worked even though it occasionally produced double exposures…pictures on top of pictures…because it no longer advanced the film properly.

    She looked delighted with her present. After Ted inserted the memory card, she snapped a few pictures.

    “It’ll never run out of film, Mom,...
  • Dealing With The “Monsters From The ID”: 9 Techniques For Overcoming Panic Attacks By Communicating With The Unconscious Mind
    "Monsters from the Id, John."

    Dr. C.X. Ostrow clutched the arm of Commander John J. Adams in the 1955 science fiction movie “Forbidden Planet” and stared at him feverishly.

    "Morbius was too close to the problem. He didn't see that when the Krell machine gave the Conscious Mind a boost, it also boosted the Id that lies in the Unconscious. It is where the mass of formless, bestial impulses develop..."

    Anyone who saw “Forbidden Planet” would never forget it as the first...
  • Dancing Online: How To Use Visual Chats For More Effective Online Dating
    Craig gazed at Susan sipping her latte. She looked back with curious expectation.

    He had met her in a grocery store checkout line, and they'd immediately hit it off ... so well, in fact that he'd suggested a "get acquainted" date at Starbucks.

    "I'm really glad you came," he said, “I brought something that will help you get to know me better.” He removed his resume from its manila folder and handed it to her

    It was packed with information about himself: his height,...
  • 14 Causes Of Tinnitus That Homeopathic Remedies Can't Cure
    The high pitched squeal inside Dan's head sounded like a dentist's drill searching for a back molar. There was no way of shutting it off. The invisible drill screeched night and day, and the only time he couldn't hear it was when he was asleep. At times it was so loud he thought everybody he knew would hear it, but his coworkers and friends were oblivious. The shriek of the invisible drill was just for him -- and him alone.

    He was the only one who heard it -- and the only...
  • 9 Reasons For Adopting A Senior Cat – And 6 Reasons For Not Adopting A Kitten
    He leaped out of the cage and grabbed me around the shoulders. My shock quickly turned into amazement. He hadn't sunk his claws into me! My thought was, "This cat definitely knows good manners. Somebody has worked with him." I looked at the ticket on the cage door. It read, "Morgan, male, age 14."

    Age 14? I hesitated. That was pretty old. I put him back in the cage and walked around the shelter, looking the other cats over. There were many nice ones, as well as a few kitte...
  • 5 Materials And Technologies That Just Might Eliminate Digital Camera Shutter Delay
    Bob pushed the shutter release button and…NOTHING HAPPENED. The football passed into his son's hands and the actual photo he took was one of a cheerleader's pom-pom. Bob missed the touchdown too. He resisted an insane urge to slam the camera to the ground and jump on it.

    This was his first digital camera, and Bob had just experienced an unpleasant surprise. He had used film cameras all his life, but when his Yashica went into the shop a friend loaned him a digital camera. ...
  • 6 Serious Article Writing Deficiencies, And 6 Ways You Can Fix Them
    As a writer and editor of The Digital Camera Zone, I spend hours every day scouring the ezine barns for articles to put in front of an information hungry public.

    I definitely find a lot of articles, all right. They number in the thousands. Because I need content to feed a voracious audience, I select as many as I can even though I’m often not really happy with many of them.

    ”Why,” I can hear you ask, “do you publish articles that you are not happy with?”

    Well, the an...
  • "Phishing" On The "Pharm": How Thieves Combine Two Techniques To Steal Your Identity
    Bob squinted at the email and began to read:

    “Dear eBay User, as part of our security measures, eBay Inc. has developed a security program against fraudulent attempts and account thefts. Therefore, our system requires further account verification…”

    Security Measures. A threat to suspend his account to prevent “fraudulent activity”. The email went on to say that there were “procedural safeguards with federal regulations to protect the information you provide for us.”

    ...

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