www.dmoz.org/  (PR8)

www.lii.org/ (PR8)

www.jayde.com/ (PR4)

http://directory.webtoolhub.com/ (PR4)

www.mavicanet.com/ (PR5)

www.illumirate.com/ (PR5)

Please note that the PR information and rates may change in the near future. This list has been provided on the current status of these web directories.

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Used Ottawa - A free local classified site with excellent search and browse features. You can search in any of the available 7 major categories. Subcategories make the search narrower. Originally from Canada, this site is growing fast globally and the memberbase is getting stronger with many people stumbling on this site looking for used stuff. Major categories included are buy or sell, cars and vehicles, pets, housing and real estate, jobs and services.

USFeeads.com – USFreeads actually posts ads from several different countries, so the name is a little misleading. Ads are free, ads with photos have a small fee. The site has information on how to write quality ads. The keyword alert feature allows USFeeads to notify you of ads similar to your ads, as they are being posted.

Craigslist.com – Leader and the oldest in the classified industry, you can be sure to find what you’re looking for in a localized format. For the everyday household items, Craigslist is a great tool to use to obtain items and services that you desire. Craigslist hosts more than 450 cities in 50 countries.

All these classified sites provide excellent service to their members and are free of charge. You do not have to pay any fees and you can upload pictures on these classified sites. All of them give equally good exposure to your for sale items as well as provide user friendly interface to search your wanted items.

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We all know by now that soda (aka “pop” in some areas) is one of the most evil things you can put in your body … the nasty chemicals, the gut-fattening high fructose corn syrup, and a myriad of health problems caused by this carbonated cocktail worshiped by those that don’t care about their health or body.

Surprisingly, many people falsely believe that “diet” soda is in some way a good thing for losing body fat. In fact, I hear people all the time proudly state that they eat so healthy and only drink diet soda.

So let’s set the record straight…

There is NOTHING even remotely healthy about drinking diet soda. In fact, I’ve even seen several studies that showed dedicated diet soda drinkers got even FATTER than their regular soda drinking counterparts.

Here’s some findings from an 8-year University of Texas study that I had read…

An excerpt from the study author:

“What didn’t surprise us was that total soft drink use was linked to overweight and obesity,” Fowler tells WebMD. “What was surprising was when we looked at people only drinking diet soft drinks, their risk of obesity was even higher.”

“There was a 41 percent increase in risk of being overweight for every can or bottle of diet soft drink a person consumes each day,” Fowler says.

Ok, as if we didn’t already know how bad regular soda was for us, and now they’re showing us studies that diet soda makes us even fatter than the already bad stuff!

There’s a lot of complicating factors as to why this occurs…

One reason is that the artificial sweeteners in diet sodas create a negative hormonal response in the body that increases fat storing hormone production and increases cravings for more sweets and refined carbohydrates in the time period after consuming the diet drink.

Another reason is that people may subconsciously think that because they are drinking a diet soda, that gives them more leeway to eat more of everything else, hence consuming more calories overall.

I’ve said this all along, but the bottom line is that if you’re serious about your health and body, soda of any kind (and artificial sweeteners in anything for that matter!) should be avoided at all times, except for very rare occasions when you can’t avoid them.

So what is a good alternative to diet sodas?

The best alternatives are good old water with lemon or unsweetened iced teas … you have plenty of options with teas – green, white, black, oolong, red … be creative in making your iced teas and you’ll enjoy it more. Plus you’ll get a more diverse array of antioxidants.

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What is registry and why do you need registry cleaners?

Every Microsoft Windows Operating System has a central database system called registry that stores all the options and settings for your PC. This is one of the most important part of Windows since it stores everything from your desktop screen saver to your browser homepage. Because almost everything gets stored in the registry, they can get corrupted over period of time. Signs that your registry is corrupted are computer freezing, frequent crashes, dreaded blue screens and computer errors. Therefore, it is very important that you scan your registry errors and repair them.

Most popular registry cleaners

• RegistryFix. This registry cleaner can clean and repair the windows registry quickly and safely. It makes it very easy to repair the complex database behind Windows registry. At under $30, it is quite affordable. Compare that with the high hourly rates of technician who will also simply run a registry cleaning programs for you. Download the RegistryFix Registry Cleaner.
• RegAce. This registry cleaner and PC Optimizer cleans the windows registry efficiently stopping the PC crashing and computer errors, increasing computer speed and extremely easy to use. Great navigation tools guide on where you need to click to get the PC clean up started. You won’t need an expensive “technician” to help you with registry cleaning if you need to use RegAce. Download the RegAce Registry Cleaner.
• RegistryEasy. An unpopular but one of the best available registry cleaners available in the market. On the start up, it starts with high performance scan that identifies duplicate files, invalid keys, fonts, shortcuts and much more. After these registry entries are cleaned a computer performance increases tremendously. It optimizes your system, cleans history and gets you to start afresh. The user interface is extremely easy to follow and the entire process runs very smoothly. Download the RegistryEasy Registry Cleaner.

All these registry cleaners provide automatic backup features just in case something should go wrong.

In this time and era, when we need the most to contribute to save our environment and natural resources, Gray’s Guide to creating your own water filter couldn’t have come at a better time.

You will be surprised to find out how many impurities and hard elements reside in a natural water. These heavy metal elements like chlorine, fluorine and lead can be hazardous to the health, especially for children and pregnant women. Municipality lead water may contain many more elements that should be prevented from intake as much as possible.

Bottled water is adding to the plight to the waste management. As much as one would think of recycling the plastic, the facts can’t be ignored that the landfills are growing to enormous sizes and recycling rates remain dismally low. As suggested by some experts, these bottles should be washed and reused. Unfortunately, reusing plastic bottles may compromise the quality of water.

Gary Gray’s Guide to Making Water Filter at Home.

Few years ago, as I became aware of the contamination of the tap water I became highly conscious of my family drinking contaminated water that contained high levels of chlorine, fluorine and heavy metals. Studies also show it contains high level of lead or arsenic which could be extremely dangerous for children and pregnant women.

Why not bottled water?

After studying the surveys and studies, I decided to switch to bottled water. Every grocery trip I would bring home huge crates of bottled water, only to store them in my garage. Idea of recycling was in my mind, but disposing all that plastic into a landfill was something I was not comfortable with. And to top it all off, I later came to know that bottled water may not be safe after all as well. There is no guarantee that they do not contain all those heavy metals found in tap water.

Why homemade water filter?

I was desperately searching online for something safe to drink that my family could use. That’s when I found out about Gary Gray’s Guide to “Do It Yourself” Home Made Water Filter Guide. It explained very clearly what I would need to make my own homemade water filter, and how to assemble the parts.

It wasn’t long after that I started producing my own fresh, safe and pure water without wasting natural resources and storing the dangerous plastic. You can also make your own Fresh and Pure Water Filter at your home today.

Check out the guide here

Turn off the electronic gadgets if you are not sitting in that room – If you were leaving the room, you would turn off the television, fan but not the light bulb? Yes, you need light but not when you are not sitting there. Taking care of these small things will go a long way.

Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs – This small investment will go a long way. These bulbs are a great power saving investments.

Buy the Power Save Gadget – The gadget helps monitor the power supply to your house and uses the minimum that is needed.

You can also avoid the typical power waters like, 

• Keep the Air Conditioner at the minimum low or high temperature, just enough to keep you off the heat or the cold outside.
• Use the washing machine only when there is a full load of clothes.
• Switch off the computer monitor even when you take a one minute break.
• Remember, reducing your electricity bill is like saving power, thus helping the world save power for its future generations.

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Free Online Dating

A brand new website that I came across for free online dating is ProMatching. After digging around a little, I found some interesting features on the site. This website offers free online dating services in the US, Canada, Australia and UK for now. I think they should expand more. Maybe they are just testing the waters and see how it goes.

Now, about the features and functionality of Promatching. The website is a breath of fresh air with nice graphics, conveniently easy tabs to navigate around. Other dating sites I have been checking out have almost the same bland look, contents and same functionality. The basic search feature on the front page gives the capability to start searching as soon as you hit the site. You will get the results right away. You can also contact members for free but will need to register once in order to do so.

Downside of Promatching is that there are not many profiles posted. So, even if you do have to run the search, you may not get many results. That should change in the coming future, because there is a potential for dating sites that provide convenience to its members.

Online Dating has moved into the mainstream of love and romance. It can be an excellent way of meeting new people. Gone are the days when online dating sites were thought to be only used by desperate and aging people. Dating sites now cater to younger audience as well, since the web is secure and safe way to know all about the person, if used properly, and then proceeding ahead with the future plans of setting up the dates etc.

With nearly everyone jumping on the online dating wagon, there are more chances of you meeting someone on the online dating sites, as opposed to meeting someone traditional way. The more options you have to post your profile online, the more chances you have of meeting someone of your liking.

There is not much to say about Promatching. Only time will tell how they perform with so big players already in the dating industry. I may have to come back to this post again, and edit it after checking out the performance of this free online dating service.