If you are looking for a new 4G wireless Internet provider, you expect a few things from the company. When you are researching the companies that can provide you with stellar service, make sure that you consider all of the following. Find a company that you can trust and that can offer everything that follows.
Speed
When you have a mobile device, you want to be able to access the web as quickly as possible. This means that you do not want to wait for pages to download, and you don’t want to have to wait to send or receive your emails. If you have applications, such as a GPS, which you use with the mobile device, you want to make sure that the data gets to your phone as quickly as possible.
Find a company that offers speeds that are faster than the current 3G networks. You might be surprised, but you can find some providers that offer access that is three times faster than the 3G networks. You will even be able to download music and movies while you are on the go, something that was unheard of only a few years ago.
Coverage
Coverage is a huge factor for those who travel around their community and to other cities. You want to find a provider that will be able to offer coverage in all of the places that you go. Choose a company that will expand as well, so that the coverage will grow even wider. The larger companies will often have better coverage than the smaller companies have, but it is important that you check out their sites thoroughly so you can see all of the areas that they cover.
Dependability
The last thing you want is a provider whose network is unreliable. You do not want to have the network fail when you are in the middle of sending an important document or when you are trying to download a movie. Research the dependability of the company’s services before you choose them to be your provider.
Ease of Use
Most people do not have a deep and technical understanding of the devices and services that these companies offer. It is important that you find a service that is easy to use and that you will have no trouble understanding. While you want to find companies that offer easy to install and use software and devices, you also want to find a company that offers support for those times that you have questions.
A Good Price
This is an important factor for many people. Check to see how much the company charges for its service, but do not let the price tag be the only factor that you consider. If a company charges slightly more, you should double check their services and coverage. If they offer a substantial amount of services or coverage over the other providers, you will likely find that they are worth the extra amount.
written by: Laura Williamson, site: http://www.articledashboard.com/Article/What-Do-You-Want-From-a-4G-Wireless-Internet-Provider-/1351121
Shutter Island
Release Date:
February 19th, 2010
Studio:
Paramount Pictures
Rating: R
The film, based on the novel “Shutter Island” by Dennis Lehane, is an atmospheric psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane. It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Shutter Island’s Ashecliffe Hospital. He’d been gunning for an assignment on the island for reasons of his own — but before long he wonders whether he hasn’t been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister.
Teddy’s code-breaking skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals “escape” in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues proliferate, Teddy begins to doubt everything — his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.
The Ghost Writer
Release Date:
February 19th, 2010
Studio:
Summit Entertainment
Rating: PG-13
When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agent assures him it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start—not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang’s long-term aide, died in an unfortunate accident.
The Ghost flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, to an oceanfront house on an island off the U.S. Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA—a war crime. The controversy brings reporters and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang is staying with his wife, Ruth, and his personal assistant (and mistress), Amelia. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA—and that somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind. Was Lang in the service of the American intelligence agency while he was prime minister? And was The Ghost’s predecessor murdered because of the appalling truth he uncovered?
Resonating with topical themes, this atmospheric and suspenseful political thriller is a story of deceit and betrayal on every level— sexual, political and literary. In a world in which nothing, and no one, is as it seems, The Ghost quickly discovers that the past can be deadly—and that history is decided by whoever stays alive to write it.
Happy Tears
Release Date:
February 19th, 2010
Studio:
Roadside Attractions
Rating: R
Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their seventy something-year-old father Joe (Rip Torn). Dutiful daughters returning to the house they grew up in, Jayne and Laura are forced to take a closer look at their own not-so-perfect lives while dodging childhood memories. Laura suspects that Joe needs full-time care, but Jayne refuses to believe that their father’s condition is that serious. Jayne’s compulsion to escape reality only increases Laura’s attempts to yank her back down to earth. Meanwhile, Joe still sings and plays the blues on his prized guitar, and the lively widower even has a new “ladyfriend,” shameless and sassy Shelly (Ellen Barkin). But as the visible moments of their father’s impending senility increase, the family dynamics spiral out of control. Tensions flare as the close sisters must also juggle their own very different lives – Laura’s busy environmentalist work schedule and mother of three small children, and Jayne, desperate to finally have a baby with her workaholic art-dealing husband Jackson (Christian Camargo). Their adventures back home are not without magic, mischief and mayhem, and even a search for buried treasure in the backyard! In the end, any tears that Jayne and Laura might shed will be happy ones.
Blood Into Wine
Release Date:
February 18th, 2010
Studio:
SemiRebellious Films
Rating: NR
Maynard James Keenan is known as the front man for Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer. In the mid-1990’s, on a whim, the reclusive rock star left Los Angeles and moved to an Arizona ghost town (population 300). A wine enthusiast, Keenan began to envision a world class wine region on the Verde Valley’s craggy slopes and with wine mentor Eric Glomski (former David Bruce winemaker and current owner of the award-winning Page Springs Cellars), Keenan began the long road to bringing credibility and notoriety to Caduceus and Arizona Stronghold Vineyards amidst wine industry prejudice and the harsh Arizona terrain. Take a look inside the life of one of rock music’s most mysterious figures.
Celine: Through the Eyes of the World
Release Date:
Studio:
Sony Pictures Releasing
Rating: NR
Celine Dion, the international superstar and best-selling female artist of all time, has toured around the world and back again, and now, Sony Pictures Releasing’s special programming division, The Hot Ticket, will let audiences follow her everywhere. “Celine: Through the Eyes of the World” will bring Celine Dion’s 2008-2009 Taking Chances World Tour to theaters. This special motion picture event gives Dion fans who attended the extremely popular tour – which placed Dion second only to Madonna in ticket sales in 2008 – another chance to experience the magical event, this time from a vantage point unparalleled by any ticket.
Defendor
Release Date:
February 19th, 2010
Studio:
Sony Pictures Darius Films
Rating: R
A comedy centered around three characters: an everyday guy who comes to believe he’s a superhero, his psychiatrist, and the teenager he befriends.
Blood Done Sign My Name
Release Date:
February 19th, 2010
Studio:
Paladin
Rating:
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the acquittal.
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Web browsers frequently update their releases to perform better than the competition. Mozilla Firefox is one of the best when it comes to giving a quality milestone build. I checked out the latest beta version (Firefox 3.6b4) so we could learn about the features that will be coming soon.
The first eye catching feature is its support for the web Open Font Format or WOFF. In Firefox 3.5 they included support for linking to TrueType and OpenType fonts.
Over these two popular font formats, WOFF has two main advantages: it is compressed so it will load quickly and it contains meta information that allows developers to see where the font came from. In theory, this will open up a wider range of font options for web designers.
The beta version also has improved handling of embedded native videos using the <video> tag. Users will be able to right click any supported video and click “Full Screen”
to view the video in full screen.
The other new features focus on performance improvements. Now it can handle multiple JavaScript scripts running asynchronously. It also starts quicker and the overall responsiveness is faster perhaps due to the improved JavaScript engine.
Other new features in this release of Firefox include the follow:
- Support for the new HTML5 markup language
- Support for lightweight themes
- Support for hiding the menu bar automatically
- Built-in support for Personas (change theme with one click)
With more than 140 bug fixes this should be a more stable release than the current 3.5 version. As an added stability feature, it will alert users of out of date plugins. There is also a change on how extensions are integrated to prevent crashes due to bad code.
To try the latest Firefox 3.6 Beta, get the installer from www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-beta.html.
source:http://helpdeskgeek.com/product-reviews/firefox-3-6-beta-features/
by: bcarigtan
Hard to Swallow: Do You Really Need Eight Glasses of Water Every Day?
For years we’ve been admonished to chug eight glasses of water a day–for our skin, for our weight, for general good health. But–surprise!–experts say that advice might not hold water.
Talk about a drinking problem.
On the one hand, it seems that more people than ever are drinking heavily: College students bring bottles into classrooms; office workers nip from jugs all day long. Many of us are like Gerri Johnson, a 56-year-old kindergarten teacher living in Manhattan Beach, who says, “I carry a bottle of water throughout the day, and I’m always drinking. It flushes out my body, and it’s good for my skin.”
At the same time, some nutritionists insist that half the country is walking around dehydrated. We drink too much coffee, tea and sodas containing caffeine, which prompts the body to lose water, they say; and when we are dehydrated, we don’t know enough to drink.
Can it be so? Should healthy adults really be stalking the water cooler to protect themselves from creeping dehydration?
Not at all, doctors say. “The notion that there is widespread dehydration has no basis in medical fact,” says Dr. Robert Alpern, dean of the medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.
Doctors from a wide range of specialties agree: By all evidence, we are a well-hydrated nation. Furthermore, they say, the current infatuation with water as an all-purpose health potion–tonic for the skin, key to weight loss–is a blend of fashion and fiction and very little science.
Consider that first commandment of good health: Drink at least eight 8-ounce glasses of water a day. This unquestioned rule is itself a question mark. Most nutritionists have no idea where it comes from. “I can’t even tell you that,” says Barbara Rolls, a nutrition researcher at Pennsylvania State University, “and I’ve written a book on water.”
Some say the number was derived from fluid intake measurements taken decades ago among hospital patients on IVs; others say it’s less a measure of what people need than a convenient reference point, especially for those who are prone to dehydration, such as many elderly people.
Kidney specialists do agree on one thing, however: that the 8-by-8 rule is a gross overestimate of any required minimum. To replace daily losses of water, an average-sized adult with healthy kidneys sitting in a temperate climate needs no more than one liter of fluid, according to Jurgen Schnermann, a kidney physiologist at the National Institutes of Health.
One liter is the equivalent of about four 8-ounce glasses. According to most estimates, that’s roughly the amount of water most Americans get in solid food. In short, though doctors don’t recommend it, many of us could cover our bare-minimum daily water needs without drinking anything during the day.
“Whenever I go to the airport I see all these people carrying around bottles of water, and I wonder, ‘What’s behind this?’ ” says Schnermann. “Certainly not science.”
Try confusion. The way it’s almost always stated, in books, magazines and newspapers, the 8-by-8 rule specifically discounts caffeinated beverages, such as coffee. This is flat wrong. Caffeine does cause a loss of water, but only a fraction of what you’re adding by drinking the beverage. In people who don’t regularly consume caffeine, for example, researchers say that a cup of java actually adds about two-thirds the amount of hydrating fluid that’s in a cup of water.
That is to say, one cup of coffee equals about two-thirds a cup of water–if you’re not a regular caffeine drinker.
Regular coffee and tea drinkers become accustomed to caffeine and lose little, if any, fluid. In a study published in the October issue of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, researchers at the Center for Human Nutrition in Omaha measured how different combinations of water, coffee and caffeinated sodas affected the hydration status of 18 healthy adults who drink caffeinated beverages routinely.
“We found no significant differences at all,” says nutritionist Ann Grandjean, the study’s lead author. “The purpose of the study was to find out if caffeine is dehydrating in healthy people who are drinking normal amounts of it. It is not.”
The same goes for tea, juice, milk and caffeinated sodas: One glass provides about the same amount of hydrating fluid as a glass of water. The only common drinks that produce a net loss of fluids are those containing alcohol–and usually it takes more than one of those to cause noticeable dehydration, doctors say.
Do the Math: We’re Drinking Plenty
Now, take a close look at a survey released this May by the International Bottled Water Assn. Based on interviews with 2,818 adults in 14 U.S. cities, the association concluded that “although an overwhelming majority of Americans know that drinking water enhances health, most don’t drink as much per day as they should.”
Yet, according to the association’s own numbers, Americans say they drink an average of 6.1 glasses of water, 3.7 servings of soda or sports drinks, 3.2 of coffee and tea, 1.9 of juice, 1.7 of milk, and one alcoholic drink each day.
All told, after subtracting the alcoholic drink, that’s a sopping 15 glasses of hydrating fluids, well above the already exaggerated “minimum.” And it doesn’t even include the three or four glasses contained in solid food.
What do we do with all this excess water? Ask any water junkie who’s tried to sit through a movie lately: We run to the bathroom.
For some people, drinking plenty of water is a very good idea. As we age, for example, many of us grow less sensitive to losses of body water and don’t drink when we should. Developing a water habit is a good precaution against dehydration. In addition, researchers have good evidence that people who develop kidney stones can lower their risk of further problems by drinking more fluids. “Those are the only patients we would tell to drink more water,” says Alpern.
But there are also people for whom guzzling water is dangerous. According to Dr. Gary Robertson, who studies water metabolism at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, these are patients whose bodies have trouble eliminating fluids–for example, those with diabetes who are taking anti-diuretic hormone, or ADH, which prevents the body from losing water. “The excess water cannot be excreted,” he says, “and the result is water intoxication, which produces symptoms ranging from mild headache to confusion, coma, seizures and occasionally even death.”
Increasingly, says Robertson, doctors are prescribing ADH for conditions such as nocturia, a persistent need to urinate at night, which ruins sleep in many elderly people; and bed-wetting, in both older adults and children. He’s aware of one case already in which a diabetic woman taking ADH died of water intoxication after following the advice of an article discussing the health benefits of water.
Of course, if you’re healthy, and you’re laboring over the stair machine, playing basketball, or even gardening in a hot, dry climate, you’re going to need a lot more than a liter to keep you hydrated. But you hardly need a nutritionist or a doctor to tell you that.
“You’re dying of thirst,” says Alpern. “The thirst mechanism is one of the most powerful and sensitive of all the body’s regulatory processes.”
Thirst Is Your Best Indicator
Robertson says that this mechanism almost always kicks in when we’ve lost between 1% and 2% of body water. “There’s no evidence that this 1 to 2% decrease is harmful in any way,” he says. “Thus, there is really no need to ‘prevent’ this slight decrease in body water by drinking a specified amount in the absence of thirst.”
What if you’re sweating and for some reason don’t or can’t drink? That’s when the body will begin to squeeze water from its own tissues, including the brain and the skin. And that’s why you may get a headache when dehydrated, and why your skin can look ragged and dry. A tall, cool glass of water or soda or iced tea will soothe your head and revive your skin, in most cases, doctors say–but only if you’re dehydrated to start with.
“If you’re a normally hydrated person, like you or me,” says Dr. David Rish, a dermatologist in Beverly Hills, “then drinking extra water is not going to do anything for your skin. If your skin is dry, and you’re hydrated, the best thing to do is apply lotion.”
Using Water as a Diet Aid
Perhaps most cruelly of all, there’s no good evidence that drinking water significantly curbs appetite. “I think that’s mostly an invention of the diet industry,” says Carolyn Katzin, a nutritionist in Brentwood who runs the American Cancer Society’s nutrition program in California. “A better way to get water is in fruits and vegetables.”
A couple of liters of drinking water certainly fill the stomach, researchers say. But you’re just as hungry shortly thereafter; and once all that water flows under the bridge, you tend to eat as many calories as you would have without guzzling.
Barbara Rolls, the Pennsylvania State researcher, says water can help you eat fewer calories–as long as it’s cooked into food. In a 1999 study, Rolls tallied how many calories 24 healthy adult women ate when served a lunch of chicken and rice. When the chicken and rice were prepared as a casserole and served with a glass of water, the women consumed an average of 392 calories each. When the rice, chicken and water were cooked together into a soup, the women ate an average of only 289 calories each. “And they did not make up for those calories by eating more at dinner,” says Rolls.
“This is really the way the body is engineered to get water–in food, in soup, in fruits and vegetables, which are almost all water,” says UCLA psychologist William McCarthy, who’s also director of science at the Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica. “When we get water in this food matrix, it stays with us for a while. Whereas when we drink liquid water, it goes right through the body. I see all these people carrying around their water bottles like talismans to protect them from disease and weight gain. Well, lots of that water is going into the stomach–and right out.”
Not that it’s doing any mischief in healthy adults along the way. “You know, I get patients in my office all the time, saying, ‘I’ve been real good, doc, I’m drinking seven glasses of water a day,’ ” says Alpern. “And I leave them alone. It’s certainly not doing them any harm, and it’s a lot better than other habits they could have.”
So relax, doctors say. Forget the diet books. And listen to your own body. Says Ann Grandjean: “Look, if you’re running to the bathroom so much it seems like you can’t get any work done, you’re drinking too much. And if you’re going less than four times a day, you’re probably drinking too little.”
Source:Water Benefits
Watch out the best new cars in 2010!!!
2010 marks our fourth annual Best New Cars list — my picks for the best new and redesigned cars for the 2010 model year. A dozen cars made the cut for 2010; here they are, in alphabetical order.
1. Audi A5 Cabriolet
Making a good convertible isn’t easy, which is why its so pleasing to see a drop-top like the Audi A5 — one that gets it almost 100% right. From its fast-opening soft top to its sprightly, fuel-efficient engine to its well-sorted chassis, the A5 is everything a modern-day convertible should be — practical, fun to drive, and reasonably affordable, at least by luxury-convertible standards. A brilliant car through and through.
2. Audi S4
The new S4 represents Audi’s attempt to tone down the car to better compete with less-expensive rivals like the Lexus IS350 and Mercedes C350. How well it does that is up for debate, but a sizeable price cut has transformed the S4 into one of the best performance buys on the market. The new supercharged V6 makes it quicker than the old V8-powered S4, while an outstanding suspension and Quattro all-wheel-drive makes it quicker in the corners than many of its 400+ hp rivals. There’s even an optional trick rear differential will make it as tail-happy as a rear-wheel-drive car. And the best news of all: You can put one in your driveway for well under $50k.
3. Buick LaCrosse
I used to think that restoring the Buick nameplate to relevance would be only slightly easier than raising the dead — but having driven the 2010 LaCrosse, I have no doubt that General Motors can pull it off. The LaCrosse gets it right where many of its Japanese competitors get it wrong: Bold, beautiful styling, an interior that combines luxury and style, a suspension that delivers a smooth, quiet ride with responsive handling, and an infotainment package that’s among the best in the business. There’s nothing remotely old-fashioned about the 2010 Buick LaCrosse except the price — the LaCrosse delivers good ol’ fashioned American value.
4. Chevrolet Camaro
There are two reasons the Camaro is on this list. First is value: 300 hp for $23,000 and 426 hp (from a proper Corvette-sourced V8, no less) for $31,000. That may well be the best bang-for-the-buck in automotive history. Second is the fact that most automakers position “halo cars” like the Camaro at the top of their lineup, but Chevy didn’t do that with the Camaro. You can argue that the interior is a little cheap and the feature lineup a little sparse, but by keeping the price down, Chevrolet has ensured that most people who want a Camaro can put one in their driveway, rather than just on their desktop wallpaper. Chevy, we are grateful.
5. Ford Fusion Hybrid
The Fusion H.ybrid has been a long time coming, but it’s been worth the wait. The Fusion Hybrid gets the best fuel economy of any mid-size hybrid sedan, topping the Toyota Camry Hybrid and Nissan Altima Hybrid by a sizable margin. It’s hybrid drivetrain is superior in driveability as well as efficiency, and its customizable dash display is innovative and entertaining. When you add in options like SYNC voice control for your iPod and phone and navigation like SIRIUS Travel Link, it’s clear that Ford has the technology edge. The Fusion Hybrid may not have been the first mid-size hybrid sedan, but it’s definitely the best.
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