Control your REM dreaming with Remee

For those of you who haven’t seenWaking Life, lucid dreaming is the ability to remain aware during the heavier REM sleep stages and exert a measure of control over dreams. Some people are able to do this naturally, but it is (at least theoretically) possible for anyone to train their mind to have some control over their dreams. Enter Remee, the sleep mask with an embedded Atmega168 processor and six programmable red LEDs. The device, which recently showed up on Kickstarter after 10 years of development by Duncan Frazier and Steve McGuigan. It was a huge success for the duo, bringing in $572,891 pledges — much more than their goal of $35,000.

The Remee mask is designed to be customizable while being as lightweight as possible. It closely resembles a traditional sleep mask, but it comes with several hardware additions. On the front, it has two light sensors that allow the Atmega168 processor to be programmed by holding the mask up to a computer screen (with the Remee settings website loaded). On the back, it has three red LEDs per eye, which is where the magic happens.

One of the biggest hurdles to lucid dreaming is being able to consciously realize that you are in a dream. What Remee does is activate its red lights in programmable patterns once it detects that you are in REM sleep. The light is not bright enough to wake you up, but just enough to pass through your eyelids and cause visual anomalies in your dreams. Then, during your dreaming, by noticing the anomalies in the distance, you can become aware that you are dreaming. After that, like Neo in The Matrix, can then exert control over the world that only exists in your mind.

True lucid dreaming will still take training and practice, but the Remee mask is a good tool to allow you to break through the veil and become aware during your dreams. It was a very successful Kickstater, but many likely still question whether or not the device is legit. Without having one in hand, I cannot say for sure, but I can vouch for lucid dreaming itself. Everyone’s mind is different, but it is a least plausible that the device could help someone become aware during their dreams.

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Adsense Layout Strategy To Get More Clicks

The number of clicks you get on your ads greatly depends on the way you layout your ads. Especially AdSense like content related advertisement programs will help you bring more revenues if you place your ads applying more thought.

Most of the people who hosts their blogs on blogspot platform, the prime traffic driver would be Google search and Yahoo Search. Most cases the link referred by a search engine would be pointing to a single blog post or article. And the link referred by most of the site referral or link exchange or blog roll would be to your blog home page. So we have to apply different ads layout strategy for your individual blog post or article page and for your blog home page.

Ads layout for individual blog article page: As the individual blog article page referred by search engines and RSS feed readers will drive users directly to your blog article, is only because of the referred content. In this case it is must that the ads should be adjacent or within the article content.

• You can put your AdSense code soon after the blog article heading and before the starting of the content.
• Also you can put one more AdSense code soon after the content got over.

Preferably, you can use the square ads in above two places. And in order to selectively place your ads in the above two locations, only for individual blog article you have to make use of the <ItemPage> and </ItemPage>tags around your AdSense code. This will make sure that the ads will be showed only for individual blog article page.

I feel text ads would bring more clicks compared to the image and video ads in this place. See the image below to have a clear picture on ads placement.


Ads layout for home page: You are aware that, link promotions, site referrals and your frequent blog readers would directly come to your home page.

• In order to serve ads for home page its always better to have long horizontal banner ad on top of the blog, this would attract the attention of user when he enters the blog and while closing the page.
• One more point you have to consider is that most of the internet users in this world are right-handed people, so they use to keep their mouse pointer on the right side of the while they are reading the articles. So it is always better to have a large vertical banner on the right side.

This can be selectively achieved by placing your ads between the<MainOrArchivePage> and </MainOrArchivePage> tags in the blogger old template. In this place also I feel text ads would bring more clicks compared to the image and video ads.This particular ad placement is evident from the ad layout in the Google search result.


Ads layout common to home page and individual page: Try to keep a large vertical banner on the right side and a long horizontal banner on top. Text ads would be preferred if you have more content oriented articles and image and video ads would be preferred where your blog niche is about offers, vehicles, gifts, real estates, FMCG and electronic goods.

If you find any better ad placement strategy, please feel free to share with us.

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How To Access And Control Desktop via Mobile

Have you ever dreamed of accessing and controlling your Desktop remotely with your Mobile?.
Now WebEx is here to materialize your dream. You can use WebEx PCNow 3.0 to access your
PC from any mobile device or PC from anywhere!!!. This comes with a very nominal fee per month.

But you can see that its features outweigh its fee.

I am sure you can experience the thrill of following features:

• Remote Desktop Control - You can access your PCs using a standard web browser, and work as if you were sitting right there.
• Mobile Access to Your Files and Folders - You can access files, photos, and documents stored on your remote computer from any mobile phone. Quickly share documents and pictures on the go.
• Mobile Organizer - Access your Outlook email, calendar and contacts from your mobile phone. Reply to emails, create appointments and quickly retrieve contact information when you need it.
• Mobile Skype™ - You can call or chat with Skype contacts even on mobile devices that are not supported by Skype mobile client.
• Mobile Search - If you have Google, Yahoo, Windows, or X1 desktop search installed on your computer, you can search your desktop from any mobile phone.
• Mobile Online Storage - 100MBs of free online storage allows you to automatically store important files and access them even when your computer is off-line.
• Copy and Paste - Copy and paste text between computers , simply and easily.
• Remote Printing - Print any document on your remote computer to a local printer. Instantly obtain a hard copy of any document living on your remote computer.
• File Transfer - Transfer files to and from your remote computer. If you travel and forget to bring a document, easily access your computer and transfer the file to your local computer.
• Security - It uses 128 Bit SSL so that all data transferred during a remote access session, from end to end, is totally secure and private.
• Remote Screen Blanking & Keyboard Locking - This prevents anyone at the remote location from tampering with your computer during a session. Your privacy and your remote access session are protected.
• Phone Authentication - This is a unique option that triggers a phone call from the network, requiring that an access code be entered via the phone's keypad to obtain access to the remote computer.
• Usage Activity Reports - You can view detailed records of your remote access sessions.

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How To Browse Blocked Websites In School

Favorite sites Facebook, Gmail, YouTube,or Yahoo are blocked at your school, college or at your work place, then you would rely mainly on web proxies.

The proxy sites not only allow you to unblock the blocked websites at your school, college and at work place, but also help you to browse anonymous on non blocked websites.
It would would be always better to use SSL based proxies. Also, use https browsing for your GMail, YouTube or Facebook if you access  them through proxies. This would prevent your GMail or Facebook account password get stolen.
SSL proxies which I had tried are,

ssl-proxy.my-addr.com
bingproxy.appspot.com

There are many sites that offer web proxy service for free. But there is a chance that even the proxy sites may get blocked if the network administrator notices your activity. Then you may have to ponder new proxies, may be once in few days!. I found one interesting site which lists some new random proxy sites. So you can rely on a new proxy site, even if existing proxy site is blocked.

flylsites.appspot.com/list

Add the list of other proxy sites in comments, if you have tried and found them useful.

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Adsense Reporting Extension For Google Chrome

AdSense reporting statistics for publishers can be easily accessed from your favorite web browser, Google Chrome.

Google AdSense team has launched a very useful Google Chrome extension for viewing the AdSense report instantly from Chrome web browser, the AdSense Publisher Toolbar.

Install the AdSense reporting extension for Chrome to get instant details about publishers AdSense earnings.
The AdSense Publisher Toolbar gives AdSense publishers two easy ways to access real-time information about their accounts and the ads served on their websites.
The extension popup view lets you find the following details at a glance:
. Account earnings summary (today, yesterday, this month, last month)
. Top 5 custom channels
. Top 5 URL channels
. Lifetime revenue

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How To Comment On Webpage Captured Photo In Facebook

It is simple to capture full length screenshot of a web page with an online service, that would help you share it with your colleagues and friends.

You can capture the screenshot in your desktop with Print Screen key and then pasting  with Paint  or Image Editing software. Its is very difficult to get a complete full length screenshot in this case. Also, its very difficult to add inline comments in the captured image for sharing with your friends and colleagues.
The complexities involved in sharing webpage screenshot with inline comments about articles and images is abstracted by Zurb team. They have a free online service to do this job for you.
Visit the bounceapp.com and enter the URL you would like to have the screenshot of.

After generating the screenshot of the URL, the website provides you an interface with which you can make inline comments and you can save it online to get a unique URL for your screenshots with comments. This unique URL can be shared with your friends and colleagues over the social networking sites like Facebook, Google+ and even in Twitter.com

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Notepad 7 With Ribbon Menu

The ribbon UI has transformed way in which Menu and Menu Items are arranged and presented in Microsoft Windows.

In windows 7 the WordPad and Paint comes with ribbon UI, but not in very useful Notepad application.
I came across the Notepad 7 which has the well accepted ribbon UI for menu and menu items. Its developed by sky4u team. Notepad 7 is very much like Microsoft Notepad, with MS Office 2007 and 2010 Look and Feel, and with same functionality as Microsoft Notepad.
The Notepad-7 works well on Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Microsoft Windows 7 and it is necessary to have Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 installed.
Download Notepad 7

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