Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The Treatment and Prevention of Cervical Cancer « Updated Information on Stuff

An article on the the prevention and treatment of cervical cancer. Send this out to women you know between the ages of 45-55, since they are in the highest group that gets diagnosed with cancer of the cervix.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Is Bing Dropping?

I've noticed a little drop off in Bing traffic in the last couple of weeks. Is that because they are losing market share, or because people are outside getting the last little bit of yard work done before winter hits?

Cervical Cancer Treatment Centers

Just read an article over at hubpages that talked about cancer survival rates and treatment centers for cervical cancer. If you know someone who has this type of cancer, you should send them the link. Cervical Cancer Treatment Centers

Friday, October 30, 2009

Payday Loan Brick and Mortar Stores Versus Online Payday Loans

Payday loans have become a quick and hassle free way of borrowing money. With the wide spread of broadband Internet, online payday loan sites have turned out to be a reliable and more comfortable alternative to the traditional stores.

Availability and range of choices
There are probably a handful of payday loan stores in your area (unless you live in a really large city, where you might have a few dozens). Distances no longer matter with online payday loan sites; you will have equal access to all services available, whether you live in Seattle or Houston. And the more choices you have, the higher the chances that you come across an offer that suits your needs: simply shop around the thousands of offers out there and you will find the right one.

The comfort
You can apply to online payday loans from the comfort of your home. The money is a few clicks away – no need to drive to the other side of the town, spend hours in traffic and be tied to their work hours. Feel like applying at 2AM? On the lunch break? On Saturday evening, when you know you will be gone on vacation for the whole next week? Go for it.

Verification process
With brick and mortar payday loan stores, you will most likely be asked for an identity card. When applying online, however, you will probably be asked to enter your social security number and fax them a copy of your ID. The requirements vary from store to store, but common sense says that they somehow have to make sure that it’s really you who are applying and not someone impersonating you. Identity theft is a serious threat to everyone’s safety and should be treated as such. Therefore, online stores verify there customers more thoroughly, require more documents to be faxed in (or scanned and emailed) and are likely to phone verify each subscription. Hence, the online application process can be a bit more cumbersome than going to a brick and mortar store.

The costs
Last, but not least, online payday loan services have the advantage of lower operating expenses. Unlike brick and mortar stores, they have lower overheads related to rent and utilities, sales personnel and office space. They don’t print and distribute flyers, in fact hardly ever advertise offline, and all these translate into lower commissions for the end user.

Experts believe that traditional stores who don’t have an Internet presence will soon be driven out of business by their online competitors. These websites already control a large share of the market, have bigger revenues, bigger profits (due to lower expenses) and can afford to invest in researching and providing better products for their customers. Traditional stores can only focus on small regions, will pay fortunes to open a branch in another area and generally have a hard time entering other markets, hence they will have to make way for the online competitors who have country-wide reach.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

SMS Explained

Short message service (SMS) is a text messaging service that enables you to send and receive short e-mails via your cell phones. SMS is similar to e-mail in that messages are stored at SMS centers and then forwarded to your cell phone whenever it's available. SMS messages are usually limited to 160 characters in length.

You also can use your e-mail software to send SMS text messages to mobile phone users from your desktop e-mail client. To do this you'll need to know the correct domain to send the e-mail to as well as the recipient's cell phone number. As an example, if you wanted to send a text message to a friend who is a Sprint PCS customer, you would format the address as cellphonenumber@ messaging.sprintpcs.com.

Your e-mail server can find the messaging.sprintpcs.com server on the Internet and send your e-mail to it. The messaging server forwards the e-mail to your friend's phone as a text message. Here are the messaging addresses for some of the larger cellular carriers:

- Nextel: nmiibei@messaging.nextel.com

- Cingular: number@mobile.mycingular.com

- T-Mobile (USA): number@tmomail.net

- Virgin Mobile (USA): number@vmobl.com

- AT&T wireless: number@mobile.att.net

- Verizon wireless: number@vtext.com

- Verizon (formerly Air touch): number@airtouchpaging.com

Generally, you are allowed about 20 characters for the "from" line and 160 characters total for the entire message, including the heading. Some carriers allow more and some less,- you'll have to check the carrier's Web site for message size.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Replacement Basement Windows

Replacement Basement Windows

small article about choosing replacement basement windows. Nothing special, just something i thought I'd note....