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<title>10 Incredibly Interesting Things to Do Online Just to Unwind</title>
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<![CDATA[<p>This is the first in a series of articles, which will focus on fun and interesting things to do on the Internet. The websites and activities must be incredibly interesting and rather unique to qualify for one of the articles in this series. So, prepare to unwind your mind and have a little fun at the same time.</p>
<ol><li><a href="http://www.digitalfilms.com" target="_blank">
<h3>Digital Films</h3>
</a>
Let your creative juices flow at DigitalFilms.com as you prepare to produce your very own digital movie that you can email or share with your friends and family. Choose your own background scene, characters, animated actions, dialog, introduction and ending credits and everything that you will need to produce your own digital film for free. Let your creativity shine online and share your creation with the world.
</li><li><a href="http://www.foodfighting.com" target="_blank">
<h3>Food Fighting</h3>
</a>
Start a food fight online among your family and friends by throwing virtual food at them via email. Simply select the type of food you wish to toss their way from red ripe tomatoes to cream pies without having to clean up any mess. This concept is simple, but fun when more people get involved.
</li><li><a href="http://www.strangereports.com" target="_blank">
<h3>Strange Reports</h3>
</a>
We all know someone who likes playing practical jokes and pranks on unsuspecting people. Now get ready for some sweet payback by creating a virtual prank with their name written all over it. Send a fake news report with your victim named as the sole suspect that the police are looking for via email. You create the news report using the tools that StrangeReports.com provides and then you simply forward the report to your victim's email address and let the fun begin.
</li><li><a href="http://www.bored.com/foldmoney/index.htm" target="_blank">
<h3>Folding U.S. Paper Money</h3>
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After stumbling across this interesting money folding activity on Bored.com, I knew that this one activity that would blow your mind. You can fold U.S. paper money using the techniques shown on this website to see the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on fire or you can see Osama in The Pentagon and so, much more by simply folding your money correctly. This exercise will blow your mind. I promise.
</li><li><a href="http://rinkworks.com/dialect" target="_blank">
<h3>The Dialectizer</h3>
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This website lets visitors convert any English text into several comic dialects from Pig Latin to Redneck and several other dialects. Simply type the URL of any website written in the English language, select the dialect of your choice, and then click Dialectize, so you can see your favorite websites converted into the language that you selected.
</li><li><a href="http://www.bored.com/caveofmagic/index.html" target="_blank">
<h3>Cave of Magic</h3>
</a>
Originally I had my doubts about this mind control magic trick, but admittedly it blew my mind, because it worked. Cave of Magic is a card trick that guides visitors through a series of short exercises, before it has you pick a single card, and then Simeon (your guide) mysteriously reads your mind and picks the card that you have selected. It's wild, weird and most importantly, it really works.
</li><li><a href="http://www.crazyimages.com" target="_blank">
<h3>Crazy Images</h3>
</a>
This is a must see website that offers its visitors a wide selection of amazing interactive activities that will keep you busily entertained for hours. Choose from image menu an activity that you want to see, and then using your mouse take control making the images change right before your eyes. Hidden within some of the images are nuggets of treasures that will reveal more websites and activities that will blow your mind. I'll leave finding these Easter Eggs embedded within some of the activities on this website up to you to discover, because it is part of the fun.
</li><li><a href="http://bored.com/tellfortunes/index.htm" target="_blank">
<h3>Fortune Teller</h3>
</a>
Just for fun, let's see what your fortune has in store for your future. You can choose from nine different kinds of readings that are each focused on a different aspect of your life. Similar to tarot card readings, but using a regular deck of playing cards these readings are pretty dare accurate.
</li><li><a href="http://www.bored.com/matchage/index.php" target="_blank">
<h3>Match Age</h3>
</a>
Try to accurately guess the real ages of the people shown on this site using only the photograph that the user has provided or upload your own photo and let other people try to guess your age. This is an extremely addictive activity, so you might want to avoid visiting this site until you have more free time available.
</li><li><a href="http://www.getmakeovers.com" target="_blank">
<h3>Get MakeOvers</h3>
</a>
Have you been considering changing the natural color of your hair or getting a new hairstyle, but are a little nervous about what the changes might do to your look, then before you do anything too extreme checkout this website first. You can upload your photo and change your hairstyle, makeup, glasses, and many other things until you discover the best new look for you and before you actually do anything to yourself in real life. This is a really useful website as well as a lot of fun to unwind while using.</li></ol><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webupon.com%2FWeb-Talk%2F10-Incredibly-Interesting-Things-to-Do-Online-Just-to-Unwind.166473"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webupon.com%2FWeb-Talk%2F10-Incredibly-Interesting-Things-to-Do-Online-Just-to-Unwind.166473" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:43:05 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Effective Ways to Increase Visitors to Your Triond Post</title>
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<![CDATA[<p>As you know <a href="http://www.triond.com" target="_blank">Triond </a>had help us to increase the visitors to our post by recommending us to bookmark the post we had done or digg and stumbleupon. There are many sites we can bookmark with the help through Triond website.</p>
<p>Actually there is another way to promote our post in Triond. And it is much easier and more effective than bookmarking. It is by using feed URL. Feed is some sort of the latest update of your content in certain website or blog. It update automatically whenever you got new contents. If you understand well what it is, you will knew that, this will make all your marketing through the internet much easier than before. So I suggest you use Feed for all your content in all website, blog and others. If you recently read from Triond wordpress site <a href="http://triond.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/rss-feeds-on-content-sites/" target="_blank">here</a>, you can see that, there is a feed URL to our post in Triond.</p>
<p>For example, I got some pictures uploaded in Triond, when I click at my name which is under the title of the pictures (by <a href="http://www.picable.com/feed/w/35509" target="_blank">ksoleh</a>), it will show all the pictures that I have uploaded. Try click at the <a href="http://www.picable.com/feed/w/35509" target="_blank">Subscribe by RSS</a> there. You will see feed post made by me. Copy the feed URL there and put the URL at RSS submission. You can search RSS submission through <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">Google</a>.</p>
<p>If you can see now, actually you can do a lot with the Feed URL there and make your life much easier than before to tell people about your content in Triond.</p>
<p>Here are some examples:</p>
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<h3>Link the Feed URL at your blog.</h3>
&amp;nbsp;For example in <a href="http://www.blogspot.com" target="_blank">Blogspot</a>, you can add a &amp;ldquo;Feed&amp;rdquo; page element at your Blogspot and enter your Triond Feed URL there. Remember, your Picable Feed and your Authspot Feed are different, so you might well want to add two or three page element at your blog to tell everyone about your post in Triond by using the Feed element and your Feed URL there.</li>
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<h3>If you can ask your friend to subscribe by email, it will be better.</h3>
&amp;nbsp;Every time you got new post in Triond, whether it is in Authspot or Picable or Cooknote, your friend will notice your new post. This is very effective if you got so many friends subscribing your Feed URL. Through email. Remember, they have to subscribe each of it, Authspot, Picable and others to receive update of your post in different sites.</li>
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<h3>Thirdly is like in the Instruction above.</h3>
Just submit to as many RSS submission as you can. You can search through Google where to submit the URL Feed.</li>
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<h3>This is the best way.</h3>
If you got <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/ " target="_blank">Mybloglog</a>, you actually can create a Triond site there and submit your Feed URL there. Who knows, if you got many contacts and friends in Mybloglog, you might well get a lot of visitor to your post in Triond as they would see your recent post through Mybloglog </li>
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<p>That's all folks. Till then, keep in touch to my post.</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webupon.com%2FMarketing%2FEffective-Ways-to-Increase-Visitors-to-Your-Triond-Post.145835"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webupon.com%2FMarketing%2FEffective-Ways-to-Increase-Visitors-to-Your-Triond-Post.145835" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:51:59 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>What is a Top-level Domain Name?</title>
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<![CDATA[<p>A Top-Level Domain Name (TLD) is the often seen "com", "org" or "edu" that occurs after the final dot in every web address. And these TLDs make all the difference to internet users.</p>
<p>If Internet users hit the wrong TLD they are bound to end up on the wrong website as many web addresses may share the same secondary-domain name. But how does this pose a problem? The problem arises when the secondary-domain name, that is, the name that lies between the two dots in the example, (www.example.com) are the same. If the secondary domain names are the same, then the TLD has to be specific to locate the right site.</p>
 
<p>Just imagine trying to log on to the TNT Network for some Inside the NBA news by typing <a href="http://www.tnt.com" target="_blank">www.tnt.com</a> only to realise that typing the TLD “com” lands you on a website for a shipping and document service in the Netherlands! The correct TLD, however, for locating the website for the TNT Network is <a href="http://www.tnt.tv" target="_blank">www.tnt.tv</a>. So, we see here how the TLDs “com” and “tv” determine to which address you end up, much like a zip code locates the right address or a surname in a class registry to locate students with similar first names.</p>
 
<p>A TLD, therefore, finds the right website users intend, much like a teacher locates the right student in a class of many named John when she calls him by his surname.</p>
 
<h3>Brief History of Top-Level Domains Names (TLDs)</h3>
 
<p>The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) developed more than three dozen TLDs by 1985 and these TLDs were specific to uses, services and countries. TLDs specific to countries are called country code TLDs (ccTLDs). Examples of a ccTLDs are .ca, .uk and .us for Canada, United Kingdom and the United States respectively.</p>
 
<p>The uses and services outlined by the IANA in 1985 clearly show the way in which these TLDs were to be used and for the most part these regulations have been kept. Here are the ten common TLDs and their uses:</p>
 
<h3>10 Common Top-Level Domains Names (TLDs), their history and uses</h3>
 <ol> 
<li> 
<h3>.Com</h3>
This is by far the most popular TLD worldwide and one of the oldest. Launched in January 1985, the "com" is short for commercial and was originally intended for use by commercial businesses. Due to the popularity the Internet gained in the 1990's, the dot-com domain name is used for more than commercial purposes. </li>
 
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<h3>.Net</h3>
Like dot-com, dot-net was created in 1985. Dot-net is short for "network" and was intended for use by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Today, anyone can register a dot-net domain as it has become a second dot-com. </li>
 
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<h3>.Org</h3>
Established in January 1985, dot-org (organization) domain name was originally recommended for use by organizations and individuals. But due to its use as a domain name for non-profit organizations in the US and UK, it has become mostly associated with these bodies. It is also used by some US political parties, diplomatic missions and the French consulates in US and Canada. </li>
 
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<h3>.Gov</h3>
Established in January 1985 with an intended use among US government agencies, the dot-gov domain name remains exclusively available to US government agencies; other countries have to use their ccTLDs. Example, Australian government agencies use .gov.ar. </li>
 
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<h3>.Edu</h3>
The dot-edu (educational) domain name was established in January 1985 with an intended use among educational institutions worldwide. However, only US educational institutions have a strictly dot-edu domain name; other countries have to use a ccTLD. There are, however, some websites such as the Smithsonian Museum (www.si.edu) and the Montgomery Blair High School (www.mbhs.edu) that are registered with this domain name. </li>
 
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<h3>.Mil</h3>
Created in January 1985, the dot-mil domain name is exclusively intended for use by the US military. </li>
 
<li>
<h3>.Name</h3>
When the dot-name domain name was established in 2001, it was intended for use by individuals and personalities, both fictional and real. Its use has remained as such. </li>
 
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<h3>.Info</h3>
Established in 2001, the dot-info (information) domain name gained much popularity after September 11 when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) gave new transport routes on the newly created www.mta.info. Also, the rise in affiliate marketing has done much to raise the popularity of the dot-info domain name. </li>
 
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<h3>.Biz</h3>
The dot-biz (business) domain name was created in 2001. It is intended for businesses. </li>
 
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<h3>.Museum</h3>
The dot-museum domain name was born on October 20, 2001 and is exclusively available to museums. </li>
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<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:20:40 PST</pubDate></item>
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<title>Hyphens in Website URL - Effective?</title>
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<![CDATA[<p>
  In short: Hyphens are more search-engine friendly. If you want to receive top spots on Google, then a website URL of health-food-choices.com (for example) would be more efficient than healthfoodchoices.com.</p>

 
 <p>	A common question about SEO is this: “Are hyphens useful in your URL?” There are a few different views on this, but there is generally a consensus that hyphens are a good choice if you want high page rankings. Hyphens are used to separate keywords so that search engines can detect them. If you have a good, keyword rich URL and you want no confusion from search engines, then hyphens are good. </p>
 
 <p>Example: business-exchange.com is more readable by webcrawlers than businessexchange.com. There could be some confusion with the latter domain name, but the former is very clear. </p>
 
 <p>Hyphens are also good in subdomains. For example, a test conducted by webrankinfo.com showed this: </p>


<blockquote>The following URL: wagatukepo-sitynozfau-mazidipole_vukertalet.php contains 4 keywords separated by hyphens or underscores. Before we started our test we did search Google for each of these keywords: wagatukepo, sitynozfau, mazidipole and vukertalet and there were no Google results. Few days later once Google indexed our new URL we did the same search for each of these keywords.</blockquote>


 <p>Results: </p> 

<ul><li>wagatukepo: 1 Google result </li><li>
 sitynozfau: 1 Google result</li><li>
 mazidipole: No Google result </li><li>
 vukertalet: No Google result</li><li>

 mazidipole_vukertalet: 1 Google result</li></ul>
 <p>Conclusion: Google sees hyphens as dividers in URLs and ignores underscores</p><a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webupon.com%2FSearch-Engines%2FHyphens-in-Website-URL--Effective.50738"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.webupon.com%2FSearch-Engines%2FHyphens-in-Website-URL--Effective.50738" border="0"/></a>]]></description>
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