As you know, when productivity is concerned every single second counts. Blogging requires the repetitive task of writing your e-mail address several times at different forums or when writing comments on other colleagues blog posts. The same is true with your passwords. After doing this several times a day, it gets kind of boring and annoying—plus it absorbs time.

While surfing the web late yesterday, I found a nice little Firefox Add-on which tackles this irritating problem. It’s called Paste Email. Despite its name, Paste Email developed by Chuck Baker, allows you to paste any of up to 16 different short text notes you find yourself typing frequently. It was originally conceived as a quick way to paste your email address but has well grown beyond that.

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As the popularity of digital cameras increases, the quality of color photographs will be more closely scrutinized. For example; colors will have to be displayed the way there were meant to be, meaning, bright, rich and full of life.

I know that some photographers are disappointed with the quality of color pictures on the web. One of these photographers recently wrote in his personal blog, “One thing that has always irritated me about looking at pictures on the web is that browsers don’t seem to display photographs properly. And by ‘photographs’ I really mean ‘colors’.

“I spend a lot of time tweaking pictures in Photoshop, but when I upload them to my Flickr account and look at them in Firefox 2 the colors aren’t the same — they’re more washed out, dull, and lifeless. It’s a subtle thing, but annoying nonetheless.”

Fortunately there is a way to enhance the way colors look on your monitor. It’s called “color management” or “color profile support”.

Color Management is a standard technique defined by the International Color Consortium to ensure consistent color presentation for images no matter if they are displayed on paper, a computer monitor, an LCD TV set, fabric or any other media.

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Sometimes in life, there are opposite ways to obtain exactly the same result. The picture below depicts this statement better than words.

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Flock, the Firefox-based browser with a social flavor, has been awarded a Webby, one of the best reputed Internet awards, in the Social Networking category.

This year marked the 12th annual Webby Awards ceremony. They received over 10,000 nominations from more than 60 countries worldwide. The Webbys have long been recognized as a very special acknowledgement of the companies that are leading in key areas of excellence and innovation. Past Webby Award winners have included: Amazon.com, eBay, Yahoo!, iTunes, Google, NPR, Salon Magazine, Evite, Meetup, Wikipedia, Flickr, PBS, and The Onion.

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After reading the statistics provided by Net Applications for the month of April 2008, I was really disappointed at Mozilla's Firefox performance. I tried to find a logical reason for the dramatic drop, but couldn't find any. I searched all over the Internet to find a clue, but no joy. Something really strange had happened to the momentum gained by Firefox. Those numbers were all wrong.

Today, I found out that Net Applications had a mistake in their figures. According to Computerworld Networking and Internet, "An 'extremely large' marketing campaign among a small number of sites that targeted only users of IE was responsible for the aberrant numbers, said Vince Vizzaccaro, the executive vice president of marketing at Net Applications." Vizzaccaro would not name the company that owns the sites that ran the IE-only marketing campaign, but did say that it was "totally unrelated to anything with Vista, Microsoft or Windows."

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Mother’s Day is right around the corner. It will be celebrated next Sunday, May 11th. I would like to clarify that not all countries celebrate Mother’s Day on this date.

Mothers Day is celebrated in several country across the globe though the month and date on which Mother’s Day is celebrated in different countries varies. Most countries celebrate Mothers Day on second Sunday in the Month of May.

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The indentation in the middle of the area between the nose and the upper lip has a name. It's called the philtrum (Greek philtron, from philein, "to love; to kiss"); also known as the "infranasal depression", is the vertical groove in the upper lip, formed where the nasomedial and maxillary processes meet during embryonic development.

The philtrum allows humans to express a much larger range of lip motions that would otherwise be impossible, which enhances vocal and non-verbal communication.

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I remember when I was 23 years old. My body was like a perfect mean machine. There was nothing I couldn’t do with it, be it jump, run, wrestle, swim, etc. You name it, I could do it with flying colors. I thought myself as an indestructible Superman who feared no green Kryptonite. As I aged gradually, I got wiser and understood that this machine would some day reach the end of the line.

The following poem describes very well the fact that there will be a time when the journey will be all over. At this moment, I can’t recall the author’s name of this touching piece of literature, or where I stumbled into it. I apologize in advance for not giving credit to its author.

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Today Steve Ballmer is busy crashing chairs against his office walls. After working like a madman to reach a deal with Yahoo, there was no white smoke after the negotiations ended.

The hottest story in the technological corridors, is that Microsoft is withdrawing its offer for Yahoo after talks between the two companies broke down on Saturday.

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The latest story that has been covered by all the major media players is the soaring food prices and the scarcity of food around the globe.

The United Nations Food Program has described soaring food prices as a “silent tsunami” that threatens to plunge more than 100 million people from every continent into poverty. Protests, strikes and riots have erupted in developing countries around the world after dramatic rises in the prices of wheat, rice, corn, oils and other essential foods that have made it difficult for poor people to make ends meet.

Young children, who can face life-long health problems from undernourishment, as well as pregnant and nursing mothers, are among the most vulnerable groups in developing countries, where food crises also stand to trigger political unrest.

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At a small age, children can ask the most deep and philosophical questions to their parents. Some of these questions will leave a parent speechless. This is one example of such a question asked by a small girl to her mother.

As the rat race continues to determine which is the most beautiful of them all, it's interesting to appreciate which of the big guys is attracting more users. To obtain this market share information, I relied on Net Applications which, in my opinion, is the best valid source available.

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In an effort to crush every possible bug detected, the Mozilla Team has come up with a security and stability upgrade 2.0.0.14 for mail client Thunderbird.

This latest patch fixes two moderate security vulnerabilities.

Thunderbird users are encouraged to update by clicking Check for Updates… in Thunderbird’s Help menu, or wait for the update prompt in the next 48 hours. If you decide to upgrade your software manually, please click here to download the security patch.

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What did the gangster’s son tell his dad when he failed his examination?
---”Dad, they questioned me for 3 hours, but I never told them anything!“

What’s the difference between people who pray in church and those who pray in casinos?
The ones in the casinos are serious.

When I was young I used to pray for a bike, then I realized that God doesn’t work that way, so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness.

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Before the 2001 inauguration of George Bush, he was invited to a get-acquainted tour of the White House. After drinking several glasses of iced tea, he asked Bill Clinton if he could use his personal bathroom.

When he entered Clinton’s private toilet, he was astonished to see that President Clinton had a solid gold urinal.

That afternoon, George told his wife, Laura, about the urinal. “Just think,” he said, “when I am president, I could have a gold urinal too. But I wouldn’t do something that self indulgent!”

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Lately I’m getting interested in the origin of words in the English language. It’s part of my language training program which gets more and more fascinating as I dig in. This post will be about the word “blackmail”.

For those of you who are studying English as a second language, let me say that blackmail has nothing to do with a Post Office or mailing letters inside black envelopes. The literal meaning of the word is misleading.

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It was Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), who once said that uncontrolled population growth could lead to global famine. He regarded ideals of future human improvement with skepticism, considering that throughout history a segment of every human population seemed relegated to poverty. He explained this phenomenon by pointing out that population growth generally preceded expansion of the population’s resources, in particular the primary resource of food.

To give a mathematical perspective to his observations, Malthus proposed the idea that population, if unchecked, increases at a geometric rate (i.e., 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc.), whereas the food-supply grows at an arithmetic rate (i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc.).

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Normally we only live and die once. That’s the normal human being life cycle. However, there are extremely rare cases where a person will defy death more than once and live to tell the story. One of these these uncommon “cheaters of death” is Roy Cleveland Sullivan who defied death seven times and survived to tell us what happened.

Roy was was a U.S. park ranger in Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. He was hit by lightning on seven different occasions and survived all of them. In his lifetime he was called “The Human Lightning Rod” as a nickname.

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Shortly after the topple of General Manuel A. Noriega’s regime—Panama ex-strong man—the name Panama was immediately associated with Noriega and drugs. Nobody wanted to come to Panama to visit, live or invest and the tourist industry was in shambles. The Panama government knew it had to act promptly to give Panama a new face.

With the financial aid and technical support from OEA (Organization of American States), Panama designed a Tourist Master Plan for a period of ten years. This would be a scientific approach to develop a solid tourist industry in this Middle America tropical country. The plan was a total success. Panama is currently one of the hottest tourist spots in the region. There is a permanent flock of elder Americans flying South to Panama searching for a milder climate and a safe haven from tropical hurricanes. Panama has a comfortable warm climate with cool ocean breezes and no hurricanes.

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Puns are used in the American culture to have fun. If you are new to the English language, I’m afraid you won’t laugh much, since words used in puns do not have a literal meaning. You must be familiar with the colloquial speaking of the English language to understand the amusing meaning of the pun.

You may ask; what is a pun? A pun is a variety of a usually humorous play on words involving the multiple meanings of an expression, or two expressions that sound similar. Many English teachers agree that “the ability to make and understand puns is the highest level of language development”.

An example of a specialized pun is an antanaclasis. What is that? An antanaclasis is a pun in which a word is repeated with a different meaning each time. For example: “Your argument is sound, nothing but sound”. (Benjamin Franklin, cited by Corbett 1971 482 ) or ”If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.”—Vince Lombardi.

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