Saturday, August 30, 2008

Antivirus Resources

New computer viruses are being created everyday by cyber criminals who are working hard towards achieving their aim. In order to mitigate the damage from possible virus attacks, backing up of important files containing data or programs or both should be carried out periodically. Now, these articles explains how to guard yourself from virus attacks and keep yourself updated on the latest news and outbreaks. Also these links will help you in selecting the best antivirus softwares that suits your requirements best.


Monday, August 25, 2008

Works Of The Skull Lover

This brilliant 18 year old journalism student has a long way to go. He has a serious attraction toward psychology and creative writing. Likes to stay fit, and workout regularly. A mysterious loner!. He has been blogging for more than 6 years and is an author who likes to write fiction and poetry. Some of his works are below.

Get Healthy With Mark Hess

Mark Hess is a small business owner and creator of the web site Run Pain Free. Org which is dedicated to providing people of all ages and physical mobility with information on the importance and benefits of daily stretching. Increase flexibility, prevent injury, increase circulation, and treat plantar fasciitis. He has some wonderful articles published online. Take a look at them even if you are not a sportsperson or an exercise enthusiast.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

The Amazing Theyyams Of Kerala

Theyyam is a centuries old ritual that takes place only in small villages in the northern part of the Kerala, i.e. Kasargod, Kannur, Waynad and Calicut which were form part of Malabar districts of former Madras Presidency. Theyyam is one of the most outstanding ancient dance forms of Kerala. It is a very fascinating ritual performed for centuries by certain lower caste people of northern Kerala. This folk art form is also called as Thirayattom which is performed in Kavus or village temples. The theyyam or kolam (a form or shape) represent mythological, divine or heroic characters. There are nearly 400 theyyams in northern Kerala.

Theyyam is performed by male members of particular castes only. Theyyam performers are from exclusively ex-untouchables castes like Malayan, Pulayan, Vannan, Anjoottan, Munnuttan, Velan, Chungathan, Koppalan, and Maylion. During the performance, however a low caste performer becomes God and hence could interact with and have power over the high-ranking priests and leaders of the village. In this way theyyam represent a complete reversal of the social caste structure.

Theyyam dance has its roots in ancient tribal culture of Kerala dating back to the Dravidian age. It lays great importance to worship heroes and ancestral spirits. Theyyam is a wonderful amalgamation of dance, mime and music. Chenda, Veekku, Elathalam, and Kurumkuzhal (Bugle) are the musical instruments used in theyyam. Season of theyyam continues for six months beginning from the Malayalam month of Thulam (October-November) and continues till Edavam (May-June). Most of the theyyams are held in between Korapuzha of Calicut district and Chandragiripuzha of Kasargod district of northern Kerala.
Go here for a huge collection of theyyam photos. These photos are free for you to use anywhere on your blogs and sites. You are free to modify, crop, alter, remove the watermarks, put your own watermarks, or do anything to these photos.





Till now theyyam is a popular performing art. It is rich in culture and is essentially a dance festival. It has its roots in the area of north Kerala and even in Karnataka. There are numbers of studies conducted in relation to theyyam. But there are no such attempts were made to study theyyam in the perspective of tourism. So it has got great importance to view how theyyam closely interconnected with tourism. If theyyam is correlated with tourism it is will be an acclaimed initiation for the development of tourism in north Kerala.

Monday, July 28, 2008

Nixxie

Nixxie is the UK's first contextual advertising company that offers publishers a variety of ad formats. You can increase your website's revenues by providing users with relevant and revenue generative ads just like with adsense.



Although participation pre-requirement does not mention any minimum traffic to your blog or site, there are a few things that may dissuade a small time publisher from applying. Nixxie requires websites now contain Terms and Conditions of use. The Terms for the applying site should be well thought out and clearly displayed. Also there must be clear company information in an ‘About Us’ section, along with a method of contact via email or phone, ideally in a separate ‘Contact Us’ page.

Your site or blog must be approved by the administration before you can start placing their ads on your web pages.

They have a neat site and interface but lacks a proper FAQ section and I could not find payment details anywhere on the site. Have a look only if you are really looking for an adsense alternative and if you are willing to explore.

It will be better if you read Nixxie's publisher requirements page first to determine whether you want to apply for the program or not.

Also compare them with other Google Adsense alternatives.


Sunday, July 13, 2008

The Cleanest Clover!

In his school days Cleanclover was more interested in general science, English, moral science and essay writing. He loved to write essays as it was compulsory in the school and he gradually developed the liking for writing. His sole intention is to provide the reader knowledge, know-how, tips, ideas, facts etc on various topics which are interesting. Check out my friend Cleanclover's various interesting articles below.

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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Music Of The Funky DJ

"If you have good taste, you will love my stuff. And if you don't, then take out a pencil cause school is in session! I'm spreading The Funktual Revolution one HUB at a time! Proceed Directly To My Hubs. Exhilarating Entertainment Awaits You. My advice on Movies and Music is incomparable and yet...completely free." - Says The DJ, an old school hip-hop DJ who lives for the funk!

Some of his heroes are George Carlin, Noam Chomsky, Eric Bogosian, Douglas Adams, Jeff Bridges, Sly Stone, Mike Doughty, My Dad Jim Freund, The Flash, Green Lantern, Apache Chief & Hawkman.

He writes regularly at HP and is very active on the forums too.

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Visiting Sir Dent


I had been a fan of Sir Dent for quite some time now. I admire his writings. He is a carpenter who lives in southern West Virginia. He likes to write poetry, short stories, how to articles but mostly writes devotionals and Bible Studies. He also likes to write about religion sometimes comparing other beliefs to Christianity. SirDent is married and has an 11 year old son who loves playing Little League Baseball. Time to pay him a visit! Check out his favorites below:







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Friday, April 11, 2008

How To Search The Web Anonymously

As you might have guessed it already, the title indicates just that. "Search Google Anonymously". I have seen proxies being used to surf the net anonymously. But this is the first time I am coming across a concept which offers anonymous search on the web.

Actually I stumbled across this site a couple of weeks back. They have this search feature which will help you search google anonymously. This search site claims that when you make a search on Google, your ip address, the time, and what you searched for is stored in their database forever. They also claim that this information can be used in a court of law against you. I really do not know whether there is any truth behind it. But I guess its a possibility. According to this site Google will willingly allow authorities to consult their database.

I have tested their search features on site and it returned with exactly the same results as Google's. One of the plus points I noticed is that the results were devoid of ads as you can see in the screen shots below.

They have a two hour documentary video explaining the dangers of searching on Google, which is pretty convincing.

When you search on Google through this search site, it is Googlonymous that goes on Google and does the search for you. The only ip address that Google will see, is the ip address of the server of Googlonymous. It seems that they do not keep any record of who searched for what, so that it, is completely impossible to retrieve your identity. You can search for whatever you want without a care in the world, 100% anonymously. Click HERE if you care to have a look and watch the video!

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    A new validation method by Google could reduce earnings for websites, publishers and blogs. A publisher or website or blog earns money when a visitor click on the Google adsense ads placed in it. Google...

  • Google Search Tips!

    How do you have more fun when searching? Simply: become a better searcher. Here are some syntax basics as well as advanced tricks or bits of trivia for searching with Google.com:A quote/ phrase search can be...

  • The Disappearing Google Logo, a Magic!

    Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke Here’s a magic trick to surprise your friends with. What they will see is this: you are at the...

  • The Safest Way To Make Money Online!

    Before starting here at Hubpages around 19 weeks ago, I was quite active at some discussion forums, some of which really paid me well. In between I tried my hand in paid to click programs and paid to read...

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    I’m not too sure if it actually works for everyone but I do think that it’ll definitely make your ads blend in better with text and media. This Adsense hack works by removing the ‘Advertise...

  • The PageRank 100 Incident!

    It was an incident, Google later said – a mere wrong “0” deeply hidden in the code of the ranking algorithm, triggered at completely improbable circumstances, a bug so exotic and rare one could say it...

  • Is Google Really Sexist?

    Now, this not going to be funny for any ladies who are going to try this! Type in "She invented" in the google search box. See the results and tell me if google is really a sexist or not!! Now DID I REALLY...