What is Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a form of digital currency, created
 and held electronically. No one controls it. Bitcoins aren’t printed, like dollars or euros – they’re produced by people, and increasingly businesses, running computers all around the world, using software that solves mathematical problems.

It’s the first example of a growing category of money known as cryptocurrency.

What makes it different from normal currencies?

Bitcoin can be used to buy things electronically. In that sense, it’s like conventional dollars, euros, or yen, which are also traded digitally.

However, bitcoin’s most important characteristic, and the thing that makes it different to conventional money, is that it is decentralized. No single institution controls the bitcoin network. This puts some people at ease, because it means that a large bank can’t control their money.

Who created it?

A software developer called Satoshi Nakamoto proposed bitcoin, which was an electronic payment system based on mathematical proof. The idea was to produce a currency independent of any central authority, transferable electronically, more or less instantly, with very low transaction fees.

Who prints it?

No one. This currency isn’t physically printed in the shadows by a central bank, unaccountable to the population, and making its own rules. Those banks can simply produce more money to cover the national debt, thus devaluing their currency.

Instead, bitcoin is created digitally, by a community of people that anyone can join. Bitcoins are ‘mined’, using computing power in a distributed network.

This network also processes transactionsmade with the virtual currency, effectively making bitcoin its own payment network.

So you can’t churn out unlimited bitcoins?

That’s right. The bitcoin protocol – the rules that make bitcoin work – say that only 21 million bitcoins can ever be created by miners. However, these coins can be divided into smaller parts (the smallest divisible amount is one hundred millionth of a bitcoin and is called a ‘Satoshi’, after the founder of bitcoin).

What is bitcoin based on?

Conventional currency has been based on gold or silver. Theoretically, you knew that if you handed over a dollar at the bank, you could get some gold back (although this didn’t actually work in practice). But bitcoin isn’t based on gold; it’s based on mathematics.

Around the world, people are using software programs that follow a mathematical formula to produce bitcoins. The mathematical formula is freely available, so that anyone can check it.

The software is also open source, meaning that anyone can look at it to make sure that it does what it is supposed to.

What are its characteristics?

Bitcoin has several important features that set it apart from government-backed currencies.

1. It's decentralized

The bitcoin network isn’t controlled by one central authority. Every machine that mines bitcoin and processes transactions makes up a part of the network, and the machines work together. That means that, in theory, one central authority can’t tinker with monetary policy and cause a meltdown – or simply decide to take people’s bitcoins away from them, as the Central European Bank decided to do in Cyprus in early 2013. And if some part of the network goes offline for some reason, the money keeps on flowing.

2. It's easy to set up

Conventional banks make you jump through hoops simply to open a bank account. Setting up merchant accounts for payment is another Kafkaesque task, beset by bureaucracy. However, you can set up a bitcoin address in seconds, no questions asked, and with no fees payable.

3. It's anonymous

Well, kind of. Users can hold multiple bitcoin addresses, and they aren’t linked to names, addresses, or other personally identifying information. However…

4. It's completely transparent

…bitcoin stores details of every single transaction that ever happened in the network in a huge version of a general ledger, called the blockchain. The blockchaintells all.

If you have a publicly used bitcoin address, anyone can tell how many bitcoins are stored at that address. They just don’t know that it’s yours.

There are measures that people can take to make their activities more opaque on the bitcoin network, though, such as not using the same bitcoin addresses consistently, and not transferring lots of bitcoin to a single address.

5. Transaction fees are miniscule

Your bank may charge you a £10 fee for international transfers. Bitcoin doesn’t.

6. It’s fast

You can send money anywhere and it will arrive minutes later, as soon as the bitcoin network processes the payment.

7. It’s non-repudiable

When your bitcoins are sent, there’s no getting them back, unless the recipient returns them to you. They’re gone forever.

So, bitcoin has a lot going for it, in theory. But how does it work, in practice? Read more to find out how bitcoins are mined, what happens when a bitcoin transaction occurs, and how the network keeps track of everything.

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How To Relevancy Hack Facebook To Get Cheaper Traffic & Leads

Facebook is one of the biggest advertising networks on the planet with over one billion people on it. In addition to the network size, it also offers some of the best targeting options among advertising networks to narrow in on your ideal target.
With this advanced targeting, Facebook is rapidly becoming a go-to advertising channel for marketers as well as small business owners. Due to that uptick in advertisers coming on board, Facebook is also rapidly becoming more and more competitive.
As this happens, cost per clicks go up while click through rates go down. It can lead to expensive campaigns that fail miserably if you don’t know what your doing or you don’t follow Facebook’s best practices. Specifically their best practices around their Relevance Score.

What Is Facebook’s Relevance Score?

To put it in terms those familiar with Google AdWords would understand, Facebook’s Relevance Score is similar to Google’s Quality Score. It’s a measure of the user experience your ad and landing page delivers to a Facebook user who has clicked through.

For example, if that Facebook user clicks through your ad to your landing page on a mobile phone and they’re met with a broken page that can’t be used on mobile, they’ll almost immediately leave the page. Facebook will look at this data and determine that for mobile traffic, your ad is less relevant that another ad that delivers a perfectly mobile optimized landing page. Similarly if someone clicks through to your landing page and they spend five minutes browsing, Facebook will see that as a positive user experience and thus more relevant than a competitor’s page where the time on site is under five minutes.

How Can I Up My Relevance Score?

Boosting the Relevance Score of any of your campaigns and ads is relatively simple; focus on delivering value and a great user experience. But to dive deeper, here are the major three factors to increasing your Relevance Score:

• Time On Site

The longer someone spends on your website, the better the user experience must be. People have a low tolerance for websites that don’t function, especially websites that don’t work on mobile. If you can get your time on site to increase, your Relevance Score will increase as well.

• Pages Viewed

If people like your site and like your content, they’ll likely have a look around for more. It’s the same principle of teaching what you know and delivering value, if you do it, people will want more.

• Click Through Rate

This directly relates back to your ad copy and images, if they resonate with the target audience, your click through rate will increase. If the ad copy and images is also relevant to what you have on the landing page, your time on site will also increase.

How Do I Hack Relevance Score on Facebook?

Good question, but here’s another: what do you spend most of your time online doing?
Chances are, the answer is reading content. For most that’s reading blogs or articles that are of interest.
You can use this behavior to relevancy hack Facebook into giving you a better Relevance Score. If you have a high Relevance Score on that content, and that content is directly related to your main opt-in offer, wouldn’t those people who viewed the content be interested in your opt-in offer?
The answer is yes, in case you were wondering.
Now to the steps you need to hack Facebook’s Relevance Score to acquire lower cost leads that are more likely to turn into customers

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Step One: Create Content That’s Relevant To Your Opt-in Offer

We’re going to use content as a way to increase Facebook’s Relevance Score, but at the same time you can use it as a qualifier to make sure you are sending pre-qualified traffic over to your opt-in offer. Our example here is an article pre-disposing pastors, priests and other church leaders to the idea of building a mobile app for their congregation. The result will be higher relevancy on the offer page, a lower cost per acquired lead on that page and a better engagement rate after opt-in due to that relevance.

Step Two: Setup Facebook’s Retargeting Pixel On Your Content Page

When you have your content ready on your blog, website or on a landing page, you’ll want to make sure you have Facebook’s pixel setup to build an audience of people who come to read that content. Even better, if you use something like Connectio to build an audience of people who have spent over 60 seconds on the page reading. This audience will be used to run a retargeting campaign and drive traffic to your opt-in page with your offer or lead magnet.

Step Three: Run Ads To Your Content

Now that you have your content ready and Facebook is building an audience based on who comes to that content, you’re ready to begin driving traffic. This is a simple process, just use the main feature image of your content page, the headline and a small paragraph introducing what your content covers for the ad. The aim with this campaign is to get a $0.05 – $0.30 cost per click and capture 60 – 80% of that traffic in the Facebook audience created of people who viewed the content.

Step Four: Retarget The Audience You’ve Created Towards Your Offer

With everything underway and an audience being built on Facebook, it’s time to turn that audience into leads. You’ll create the campaign in the same way you would if you were driving cold traffic to the opt-in landing page, but instead of adding all your targeting, you’ll be using the Facebook audience you are building. The result of retargeting people who are already interested in content relating to your opt-in offer is a cost per click of $0.35 – $1.00 as opposed to a cost per click of $1.00 – $3.00, which is average. In addition, you’ll see conversion rate improvements of 30% – 50% depending on just how relevant the content is to the opt-in page offer. If you do a bit of math with this relevancy hack, the Relevance Score improvement can result in a +50% reduction in your cost per lead and cost per click, while also seeing an improvement on your conversion rates.
This was our result in the hyper-niche market of church pastors (12,000 total across Canada, US and UK targeting):

While the cost per click is high, the conversion rate is 66.67% and going strong.

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How to Get Google Adsense Approval With A New Blog

Google AdSense is one of the best ad networks to monetize a website or a blog. It is 90% better than any other CPC advertising programs. It offers the publishers the highest CTR for every web page. The publishers could make lots of revenue daily from Google Adsense. Every new webmaster has a dream to monetize his website with this ad network. But unfortunately, many of them fail. Adsense has introduced some strict rules and requirements. It seems hard to get Adsense approval for our own blog.  But, we know impossible is nothing.
The good news is “Getting Approval of Google AdSense with a New Blog is Now Really Easy”, if you follow some basic rules from the starting of your blog. When I first tried, I failed to get approval. But, following these rules, now I have an approved AdSense account. Thinking about this topic, I made a decision to share the basic rules of AdSense.

 

First Ready Your Blog Before Applying for Adsense:

Adsense moderators always approve those blogs whose have met up the requirements. First of all, you should make your blog ready for this process. Check first if your blog considers these requirements. Now, there are some initial basic requirements announced by AdSense team, and there are some known hacks and tricks that work. For example, on this official page it’s mentioned that for countries like China & India, publishers need to own the site for minimum 6 months, which is not a thumb-rule. Many Indian bloggers have got approval with one-month-old domain. The only thing which really matter here is “Quality”. Let’s look at factors which will make your blog AdSense ready:

 Write High-Quality Contents:

A writing proverb “Content is King” helps you understand this requirement. A high-quality blog is identified with the high-quality contents. Great contents mean unique, decorated, stated and clear concerted content. Some black hat webmasters say, copy paste content only between 100-200 words is enough. But, I may assure him that his journey to Adsense will be certainly finished. I think, how a blog post or content could be only between 100-200 words? In my judgment, it is not possible to completely describe a topic within 100-200 words. And if copy paste content is enough, anybody can declare him as a blogger. Please keep in mind, Google AdSense doesn’t approve blogs with copy pasted copyright content. A well-optimized blog post should be 100% unique and above 500-600 words

 Optimize Blog Post with Meta Tags and Make It Search Engine Friendly:

Optimize your unique blog post with Meta Title and Description Tag. The meta tags describe what the content is about to the crawler bots. It is not possible for AdSense editorial board to check every single website that has applied to get AdSsense approval. So, positively they will use their crawler bots. The bots will check for every footprint on your blog.  That’s why you should make sure; you have specified these tags with appropriate information.
Please keep in mind that your Meta Title should be between 69 characters (including spaces), and Meta Description should be between 156 characters (including spaces).

Have Sufficient Contents or Posts:

You must lead sufficient contents or posts on every page and category. In total, you should have 15-30 blog posts on your whole blog. This is not an official declaration. But, I recommend everybody to at least have it. So, you should have at least 3-4 posts in every category, tag and page. Google Adsense told that we must have sufficient contents in every single web page. So, we should add contents in all pages and categories. There shouldn’t be any blank page without any content. And these posts have to pass the minimum length of 500-600 words as it is the best blog post length. The more you increase the length, the more you go towards to get Google Adsense approval.

Blog Domain Must Old At least 6 Months:

As I mentioned above, in certain countries like India and China, there is a requirement for 6 months for the domain to apply for AdSense. Here is official statement from AdSense team:

In some locations, including China and India, we require publishers to have owned their sites for 6 months. We’ve taken this step to ensure the quality of our advertising network and protect the interests of our advertisers and existing publishers.

Some blog domain could get approved having less old than six months. Even, I got my Adsense account with just two-month-old domain. Can you imagine? But, the average domain age for certain geo-location should be six months.

Apply Using Root Domain:

You should always apply using the root domain like yourdomain.com. Not blog.yourdomain.com.

Be Serious to Choose Content Images:

Google Adsense doesn’t approve blogs if they lead to copyrighted contents. Copyrighted means the things that have been copied from others directory without their permission. And we make fault every time when choosing an image. Some people just go to an image directory, take their suitable images and upload these on their blogs. Did they ever check if they have permission to use these? The really sad news is that, most of the webmasters who fail to get Adsense because of this copyrighted law. And this is really caused by copyrighted images. Here are guides which will help you to find images for free:

Lead a Nice design and Blog Structure:

Blog structure is the basic structure of your blog. So, make sure that you have a nice looking header, content area, sidebar, footer, etc. Always think if the visitors will like the structure. If people like it, Adsense would definitely like it. The first impression of any blog comes with blog design, and you can take advantage of any professional looking templates (free or paid), and use it on your blog.

Check if Your Blog is Not Blocked by Google:

Be sure that, your blog is not blocked by Google. Because Adsense will check your blog statistics on their search engine. Don’t know how to check it? Just search for “site:yourdomain.com” on Google. If you find out search results, your blog is not blocked. But, if you not, it is blocked.

Don’t Have Adsense Prohibited Content:

Adsense has directly told that, sites with adult contents, copyrighted contents, drug alcohol-related contents, hacking cracking contents, violent contents, weapons related contents and other illegal contents will not be approved.

Visitors Are Not a Factor for Approval Yet:

For getting Adsense approved, visitors are not a factor. Because you will get approved depending on your blog quality. It is sure that the Adsense moderator will never check for visitor count. So, don’t worry about visitors. But, for generating revenues, you must have enough visitors.
Here is one video where Harsh talked about getting AdSense approval:

Applying for Google Adsense:

If you follow all the above mentioned tips, you are most likely to get your AdSense application approval at first go.
Do let me know if you have any particular question related to AdSense approval, and I would love to answer them. If you enjoyed reading this article, don’t forget to share it on Facebook and Google plus.

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Best CPM Advertising Networks for Bloggers: 2016 Edition

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Do you have a high traffic website or are you looking to monetize the footer of your website with CPM Ads?  I have compiled a list of the best CPM ad networks that a publisher like you can join & start earning money.

What are CPM ads?

CPM (Cost per Thousand Impressions) based advertisements are a great way to earn income with your blog. CPM advertising pays you according to the amount of impressions received on an advertisement.

An “impression” means a single instance of an advertisement appearing on your website. This means that even if your readers are not clicking on your blog’s ads, with CPM ads, you can still be paid.

Note: To ensure a better income from CPM ads, be sure to place them in prominent positions on your site.

You might find CPM ads very appealing, but they work best for bloggers who get a high volume of traffic. If you are driving traffic in the area of thousands of visitors per day, then you can get a good amount of money from CPM Ads.

Most CPM networks pay $1 to $10 per one thousand impressions (depending upon various factors).

If you are interested in making money through CPM ads, here are 5 CPM advertising programs which you should consider.

Best CPM ads Networks of 2016: Editor’s choice

1. AdsOptimal

AdsOptimal is a popular advertising network for all website types, including new blogs.

They offer CPM ads, CPC ads & conversion based ads. Based out of San Francisco & started in 2012, this company has become a popular choice among webmasters. Many of you might not have heard of this network, but it’s good to know that they are a partner with Google AdSense, DoubleClick, and Criteo (to name a few).

Things to note:

The approval process usually takes about two days.

You can get paid via PayPal or check.

The minimum payout is only $50 & they offer a free signing bonus of up to $15.

($15 is given to a site which is of high quality; $10 is guaranteed for other sites.)

2. Amazon CPM Ads

Amazon seems to be coming up with all the possible monetization solutions for publishers.

Right now Amazon CPM Ads are only for selected Amazon affiliates. If you already have an Amazon Associates account, you can login to your account to see if you have the Amazon CPM option or not.

The first thing you need to do is create your site list.

It can consist of just one site, or if you own multiple sites you can list them too.

They also support a “passback” feature, which means if the ads don’t match your minimum CPM guarantee, your fall back ads will display.

Currently supported sizes are 728×90, 160×600, 300×250, and 300×600.

3. PropellerAds

This is another great eCPM ad network that you can try in 2016.

They offer an ad for all screen types which makes it a popular choice for various webmasters while multiple payment options make PropellerAds an idle choice for bloggers around the globe.

Getting started with PropellerAds is easy as your account will be created immediately. After that, you just need to add your domain & verify ownership.

4. Conversant Media

Conversant is a popular name in the advertising industry.

They offer monetization for websites, mobile optimized sites & also mobile apps. They are the same company behind the popular affiliate network called Commission Junction & one of the more reliable CPM based ad networks.

About the Conversant CPM program:

They require 3,000 impressions per month for your site to be accepted.

Like PropellerAds, they also have a wide range of different sizes and types of advertisements.

The minimum payout is $25

They pay through paper check and PayPal.

This is a really good alternative for those who can’t get into other ad networks due to high traffic requirements.

5. Exponential (Formerly Tribal Fusion)

The downside with Exponential is they require a minimum of 500,000 unique users per month. When I checked out their site requirements for publishers, I found it to be very strict for upcoming bloggers.

But the great thing about them is the quality of CPM ads. They are one of the best in the advertising industry.

They offer high impact ads such as Rising Star ad formats and pre-roll ads with 55% of revenue going to their publishers.

Aside from that, their minimum payout is $50 (in net revenue) and payment is Net45.

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21 Mobile Apps to Make You Smarter & Productive

1  Forest

I love this app and that’s the reason I am informing you about Forest app first. Forest is an app that helps me to stay away from my smartphone and stay focused on my work.

Whenever I want to concentrate, I plant a seed in Forest. In the next 30 minutes, this small seed will gradually grow into a big tree. However, if I cannot resist the temptation and leave this app to check Facebook or play a game, my little cute tree will wither away.

2  Productivity Challenge Timer

One of the thing I’ve realized on the path of becoming better every day is that a man expands its strength only by challenging himself. The work what he does out of his comfort zone grows all dimensions of his personality — patience, sincerity, self-discipline, willpower, focus, and self-confidence.

As Patch Adams said, ‘You’ve got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what you want, you realize that all there is left then is time management. You will manage your time to achieve your goals because you clearly know what you’re trying to achieve in your life.’

Now don’t wait for the right moment. Install Productivity Challenge Timer and start planning, whether you are ready or not, to make your life awesome.

3  Pocket 

Whenever I find any article or link to read, I just save it to Pocket mobile app. It’ll sync across my phone, tablet, and computer so I can come back to it whenever and wherever I’d like, even when I am offline.

Now, I can read everything in Pocket in a clean, easy-to-view layout that’s free of distractions. “Pocket mobile app makes subway reading possible. No longer do your lingering pages refresh mid-commute, leaving you staring at a blank, hopeless screen that cannot connect to the Internet.” – Slate.

4  Buffer

Buffer is the easiest way to share on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn. I schedule my updates to post at optimal times, whether I’m around or not. Buffer has a lot of my time by posting my content automatically.

So build up a queue of awesome content to share with your friends and followers, and follow-up on your posts with Buffer’s straightforward analytics to see which posts performed best.

5  Kindle  

Often people have asked me what advice should I give them to play big every day. I ask them to read books. Whenever I want advice I pick up the book and read it. Reading books not only solve my doubts but also expand my consciousness to a new level. And once the mind is stretched it cannot come to its earlier state. 

Do you know you have Kindle app for Android & iOS which is free & stores all your books?

I always carry a book with me wherever I go. In case, if I forget, this app helps me to continue my journey in improving myself and become a better person.

The alternate mobile app for Kindle is Moon-Reader.

6  Feedly 

A single place to read all the news you rely on to think, learn, and keep ahead.

Feedly allows me to organize all my favorite publications, podcastsand YouTube channels into collections. It’s one among those mobile apps that helps me to discover new sources.

7  Rescue Time 

‘Where my day went?’ is the question I had often asked myself before going to bed every night. I was disappointed with my work.

I began procrastinating…

..The productivity level dropped.

Then, one day, I found this mobile app while surfing the internet. And that was the day when I stopped asking, ‘Where my day went?’

Rescue Time is an accurate automatic time tracking of mobile apps. It reports voice call time, tells where the website time is spent, informs historical productivity reports to see the progress and provides privacy options to choose what I care about.

Above all, this app helped me in knowing, ‘Where my day went?’ 

8  Best Motivational Stories 

Without motivation we cannot do anything in life. Whatever we have achieved in our life is only because of the motivation. I recall reading somewhere, ‘The first thirty minutes of your day defines your whole day.’

After getting up in the morning, I directly open a self-help book and read a few pages, or else I open my mobile and read motivational stories. The words I read clean my mind from thousands of thoughts and help me to focus on important tasks first. Driven by the words, I start my day tremendously and finish the work that plays a significant role in my goal of becoming better every day.

There are a lot of mobile apps on the web that provides best motivational stories. I’ve installed this: 100+ Motivational Stories. 

9  Brilliant Quotes 

Brilliant Quotes app is a collection of over 3600 carefully hand-picked quotes from more than 260 people.

It contains sayings from philosophers, writers, spiritual thinkers and other great minds whose brilliant words inspired many human beings. See it for yourself, download it now and get inspired every day!

• 31 Inspirational Quotes to Transform Your Life

10  Todoist 

To achieve big in life, you need to be armed with big plans. A plan is just an exercise if you cannot accomplish your goal. Every night, before going to bed I make sure that I am going to use the next day to its full. I create a list of my goals so that I am going to maximize my potential the next day.

Todoist mobile app helps me to keep track of my most important projects or to just remember to pay my room rent and other expenditures. The similar app to Todoist is Google Keep.

11  Dashlane Password manager

Dashlane Password Manager allows me to keep track of passwords and personal info that I use across the web.  I have safely stored all my passwords, credit cards, IDs and more in one safe place.

Now, within a few seconds, I can login to any of my accounts and save my time.

12   7 Week Habit

Scientists believe the sweet spot for developing a habit is right around 7 weeks, so once you have completed 49 days straight with little failure, you can be sure you’ll have developed a positive habit, broken a bad habit or completed a goal.

7 Weeks is the easiest way to make and break habits. Based on Charles Duhigg’s bestselling book, “The Power of Habit,” 7 Week Habit mobile app creates an ultra-simple strategy of completing one day of your habit or goal at a time.

Every day that you complete successfully marks the day as complete. Each day you complete your task and it gets you one step closer to not only making or breaking a new habit but also to increase your motivation, willpower, and discipline too.

13  Swiftkey Keyboard

SwiftKey Keyboard uses artificial intelligence to automatically learn my writing style, including the emoji, the words that matter to me and how I like to type.

Swiftkey Keyboard is an effective mobile app for you because:

1. It kills your typos
2. Type faster with A.I.-powered predictions
3. Simply swipe-to-type with SwiftKey Flow
4. Autocorrect that actually works
5. Always learning your slang, nicknames, and phrases
6. Teach the autocorrect your quirks from your online accounts

14  Merriam-Webster 

As a writer, my only important work is to spend my time in reading and filling my mind with concise words. Gone are the days when writers travel with dictionary kept in the pocket. Now, it’s an age where we don’t have time to find something. We don’t have patience. We want everything ready-made.

I’ve tried so many other mobile apps, and they didn’t work like I wanted them to. This mobile app is smoother than other mobile apps and offers voice search – to let me look up a word without having to spell it – along with synonyms, antonyms, example sentences and more. It’s a great tool for reference, education, and vocabulary building.

15  Evernote  

From everything we get ideas. Ideas are the delusion if we do not act upon it. Every day, we get so many thoughts that if we pick one idea and act upon it, we can change our life.

Success is also nothing but a random number of tries given to our ideas. Only one idea can change our life. So I recommend people to always carry a journal with them. If you are also like so many people who cannot handle diary or journal, then Evernote is designed for you.

Now, you can write, collect and capture ideas as searchable notes, notebooks and drafts. Remember success is a random number of tries given to our ideas. Don’t miss any vital thought, and show a masterpiece to the world by working upon your tremendous ideas.

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16  YouTube

If you cannot read books then listen to the audios or videos of your area of interest. I’ve doubled the use of YouTube mobile app after its feature of saving videos. Now, whenever I find Wi-Fi around me, I save the lectures and speeches of professionals in my mobile. Then, I watch them in my free time.

Not only watching videos help me to triple my potential but also enhances my speaking and listening skills. I highly recommend you to take advantage of this new feature of saving videos in your YouTube mobile app to boost your productivity. 

17  Night Screen 

Now we are working for hours in front of displays to complete our projects within the time limit. So, it is very important to establish the viewing condition that minimizes stress to our eyes. 

If you won’t adjust the brightness of your device, you may suffer from headaches, dry eyes and even blurred vision. Once you have established good viewing condition you can do your work faster and sooner. This mobile app is made up to adjust the brightness of your device. Download it now! For other platforms, you can use F.lux

18  Snowball 

Snowball allows me to get things done without opening a million mobile apps. Snowball takes all the stuff from all the apps on my phone and puts it in one place.

It offers a unified inbox from where I can reply to messages from Facebook, WhatsApp, Email, Messenger and more.

This mobile app also helped me in avoiding the annoying messages by hiding them.

19  Deep Breathing 

Everything is written in our breaths.

90 percent of the impurities in the system are thrown out of the body through the breath. Remember worries and tensions block the flow of thoughts.

The breathing pattern is different for one who is depressed, unhappy, anxious and tense.

Deep breathing is essential to take control over your emotions — anger, mindless speech, anxiety… If emotions are controlled then life is controlled. Deep breathing for ten minutes opens all the doors of your mind to receive ideas. Deep breathing is linked to silence which is necessary to tread down the road of spirituality.  

20  Dropbox 

Backing up your important files and documents is necessary for you because there are a number of ways files or documents can be lost unexpectedly — Virus infection, physical damage, theft, accidently deleted…

Files you keep in Dropbox are safely backed up and you can get to them from all your devices. It’s easy to send large files to anyone, even if they don’t have a Dropbox account.

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21  Stumble Upon 

Welcome to the most powerful way to discover your favorite content. Simply tell what you’re interested in and Stumble Upon serve up the perfect mix of photos, videos, entertaining articles, quotes, news, art, memes, travel tips and much more from around the web.

1. Follow your friends and share your discoveries
2. Create lists of your favorite topics and follow other lists to find more content you love
3. Blaze through the best of the web at lightning speed
4. Share your discoveries via Facebook, Twitter, Email, and SMS
5. Download for free

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How To Watch 3D Movies At Home On PC/Laptop

We know the amount of excitement we all have before going to watch watch a 3D movie in malls. Whether it is a horror movie, animated movie, action movie or a sci-fi movie. We just love to watch 3D movies. But it is not possible to watch a 3D movie in Theater every time. Sometimes we can have budget problem, other times we do not have time to arrange to watch 3D movies. So what is the solution to this serious issue? Just let go of the movie you were excited so much about? Nope. I got a very simple and easy solution for this issue for you guys. In this solution you can easily watch 3D movies at home without any expensive gear. to watch 3D movie on your laptop, you need 3D movie you wish to watch, 3D glasses and your laptop and you are ready to go! Now you will ask from where can I get these 3D glasses man. Sit back, Relax and Read the full article for solution on to watch 3d movies on PC without any problem.

The Steps: 

Okay, so you've decided to try this out. Here's what to do!

1. Getting/designing your pair of Anaglyph 3D glasses!

         Anaglyph glasses have different colours for each eye. Although several combinations are available, we'll stick to the traditional type, i.e. Red for the Left Eye, Blue for the Right.

         If you can find it at your local glasses' shop, that'll be great! With some old magazines, they used to give a pair of anaglyph glasses on a card frame. See if you got one. I got one when I was a child with some Jurassic Park book - lost it because it wasn't much use back then. Did give me the idea though.

         If you can NOT find it at the glasses' shop, no worries - for you can always tell the shopkeeper to make a customized one for you (like I did). Ask him to show you red and blue variants of sunglasses and choose a a nice red and blue shade. I'll drop some important tips below.

    i. Choose a lighter shade of blue. i.e. the blue colour should be more of a blend with a Cyan shade. 
    ii. Red should be deep and should necessarily be red - not brown/orange. 
    iii. Darkness level of both sides should not be mismatched. Both should allow relatively equal amount of light.

My anaglyph 3D glasses.

          Some people might tell you to use coloured markers over transparency slides to make these glasses.  Please don't do that or you'll break my heart. This method really sucks! (but yes, you're guessing right; I tried this first :P  )

2. Getting a 3D movie
          Choose a movie of your choice and download it. The only tip I'm giving here is to check if the movie name carries a 1080p - 3D tag in the name. Imagine the pain of downloading a movie and finding it wasn't 3D at all ;) Open up the file you downloaded in VLC/Windows Media Player. If it shows two separate sections showing a nearly identical video, then you're on the right track. It should look something like this:

(Click to enlarge - side by side 3D shows up like this in ordinary media players)

         I highly recommend using "IMAX Under the Sea 3D" when you're trying this. This one has a really cool 3D depth effect which you might not find in many other movies. 

3. Getting a 3D Player

         Ordinary media players do not play 3D movies as they should be played for being viewed. They will show up something like the screenshot in the previous step.

         You'll need to download a player that can run these side-by-side 3D files as Anaglyph. 

I now recommend you to use KM Player for playing 3D movies. Load your side by side movie in it and press the 3D button at the bottom left.

4. Open up the 3D file in the player 

We're almost there!

         Open up the 3D movie in KM Player or Stereoscopic Player. 

In KM Player, you will need to use the 3D button at the bottom left. Right click on the player window and choose Red/Green Color or Red/Green Dubious.

For Stereoscopic player, you'll see a box asking how you'd like it to play. Choose Side-by-Side; Right Image first. 

         For best results, click View, scroll to Viewing method > Anaglyph and choose Half-colour anaglyph Red-Cyan.

I recommend half-colour anaglyph for best results.

In case the video seems stretched, simply click view, scroll to aspect ratio and change it to half-width or half-height. 

That's it! :) You can now watch the video in 3D wearing your glasses. Without the glasses, your video should look something like this:

5. Setting up your display to minimize colour changes while watching the movie

         Anaglyph glasses spoil the colours, no denying that. However, I discovered you can easily tweak your display and minimize/eliminate this problem :) Most computers have an Intel processor have the Intel Graphics Panel that you can use for this purpose. (Making up a 3D profile for these settings in the Graphics Panel will save you from the trouble of setting these values again every time)

1. For Intel users, Right-click desktop > Graphics Properties > Colour Enhancement.  (Others have their own graphics panels in which the settings below can be similarly used)
2. With "All Colours"option selected, take the saturation to around 20. 
3. Take contrast to 52.



All colours = 20, Contrast = 52

4. Now choose "Blue" in the colour option and take the saturation for this colour all the way back to zero. (Depending on your display colour tone, you might wanna set blue according to your need. i.e. cooler/bluish colour tone means you may take blue to a couple of points more negative.)

Blue = Back to zero - other colours stay put.

With these values selected, coupled with the "Half-colour anaglyph Red-Cyan" in the above step; the colours will be just fine! :)

Some more pointers:

• If you're wear glasses for distant vision, keep them on as well over the 3D glasses. You'll need them for optimal results and focus.
• To view 3D on your TV, output the video via laptop with the above parameters set. Alternatively you can convert a side-by-side 3D movie to Anaglyph using Xilisoft Video Converter and play it on your TV.
•  You can convert a non-3D movie to 3D via Xilisoft video converter but the effects may not be very pleasing in this case. In this case, choose a high 3D depth, left side of the side-by-side video for right eye and right side for the left eye.

3D TEST

If you followed the tutorial above and want to try out your glasses, take a look at the following picture. If you see a clear image and feel a perception of depth, you did it right :) 

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