Monday, March 26, 2012

Do you know who are the ten (10) Most Evil People In History?

Evil lurks in all parts of the world and although some people might enjoy watching the gruesome movies filled with depictions of disgustful horrific acts that people might commit to other people, they truly might be appalled by witnessing something of the sort in their real life. You must be wondering why there is a need to make people understand what they do and don’t really feel; this article is actually an endeavor to bring forth 10 of the truly evil people that really existed in this very world where we all live.

Somehow, somewhere there is a person who is living in a home just like us but the difference is that he has traded his soul to the devil himself and the weird part is that you might never notice or believe this fact simply from the look of his face.  So if you are really ready for the true horrors of life, then read on.

Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler, both take the first position together as there is no answer to the debate that who is more evil than the other. During their rule, both had taken such political and economic decisions that directly led to the death of tens of millions of people resulting in Genocide. The whole world is witness to their inhuman atrocities.

Vlad Tepes also known as Vlad the Impaler was a prince of Wallachia in the 15th century. One of his pastimes was to kill people through severe punishments. The one punishment that is most associated with him is impaling. He had a horse tied to the victim’s legs and then a blunt stake was forced inside and that too very slowly so that he died painfully. He was interested in having nails hammered into heads or boiling a person alive besides having them blinded, mutilated and burned.

The person who takes the third position in the list of most evil people is none other than Delphine LaLaurie. What makes it more depressing and evil is that she is a woman – a gender not so commonly associated with psychopathic behavior; but when it is, it leaves an even deeper effect. She was a socialite of sorts but a really sadistic one in her nature. Due to the torturous acts that she carried out with her servants, two of them made a cry for help by lighting a big fire in her kitchen, to the response of which firefighters had come. What they were horrified to see was what lay in the attic – disgustingly mutilated bodies of other servants chained to the wall or a floor. She had even attempted to disfigure a servant and reattach her limbs so she looked like a crab.

Next in the list is Ivan IV of Russia (Ivan the Terrible) who had once ordered his soliders to build a wall around the city of Novgorod, once he found out that the people of the city might be planning to turn to Poland. The wall was built to prevent the people from escaping and each day hundreds of people were gathered in front of him and his son to be tortured and killed. What makes him really evil is that he was as brutal to his own family members as well because he had beat up his own daughter in law for questionable clothing and had even killed his own son over a heated argument.

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At number five, we have the Countess Elizabeth Bathory who had caused so much bloodshed that she is remembered in folklore as the one who bathed in blood of her victims. Over a long period of twenty five years, she escaped being caught for the infamous serial killing murdering over hundreds of peasant girls who had been summoned to the castle for a well-paid job but were found missing later on. One of such stories reached King Mathias II, who then sent looking for those girls at her castle and indeed they found several bodies, some of them dead, some dying and some tortured and mutilated.

Pol Pot has also earned notoriety in history because of his tyrannical rule from 1976 to 1979. Not only did he impose extreme communism which made all the city workers to work in group farms resulting in slave labor and malnutrition leading to their death, he also ordered mass executions and that too with hammers and spades to save ammunition. Almost one third of the entire population of Cambodia was killed during that time.

 

Ilse Koch, also called the Bitch of Buchenwald, is next. Although it is not determined for certain who was more evil, she or her husband Karl Koch, a Nazi. Taking lives of people in camps was something she did for pleasure for a long time. She was notorious for walking around the camps without her clothing and had every single man killed who even looked at her. A rumor also tells about having two inmates killed because they had similar tattoos on their backs and she wanted to make lampshades out of them. In the end however she took her own life, either out of pleasure or guilt, we will never know.

Another Nazi Bitch was Irma Grese, who was put in charge of almost 30,000 female prisoners in the concentration camps; she was also the perfect candidate for the job as she fulfilled her every sadistic desire of torturing those females. Not only were they made meal-sport for hungry dogs, but were beaten, tortured, sexually harassed and shot to give her pleasure. And if that wasn’t enough to satiate her desires, she randomly picked prisoners for the gas chamber.

So far women have taken up most of the ranking space, and this spot is taken by Katherine Knight who was notoriously known for her destructive relationships. She had a history of murdering and mentally and physically torturing her husbands. One of the stories that are related to her is of how brutally she murdered her husband John Charles Thomas Price. After he had filed against her in the court, she killed him by stabbing 37 times, rupturing vital organs with a butcher knife, then took off his skin and hung it outside the home. She also cooked and baked the rest of his body parts for meal.

Shiro Ishii takes this last and final place in our list; however he cannot be considered any less than the other contenders. A microbiologist general of the Japanese army, he conducted several inhuman and torturous experiments on thousands of prisoners to develop something fruitful for biological warfare. Some of the things he committed were injecting humans with diseases just to see how they develop, female prisoners were raped and gonorrhea and syphilis was intentionally passed into them, their body organs were frozen and thawed for study.


Sunday, March 25, 2012

Home Business Tips: How Import Your Contacts into Gmail (davidlim, david, lim, Apple, iPhone 4S, auckland)

Possibly the most annoying aspect of moving into any new web mail home is bringing all your family, friends, and business contacts along with you. The average end user has almost been trained not to expect any sort of import utility, instead sighing and settling in for an evening of data entry.

Gmail, as with most post-1990s web mail applications worth their salt, provides the facility for importing all those contacts in just a few clicks; just how many depends on where you're exporting them from. Gmail accepts only one format: comma-separated values (CSV). Thankfully, CSV is about as low a common denominator as you could wish for; Yahoo! Address Book, Outlook, Outlook Express, Mac OS X Address Book (with a little help from a free application), Excel, and many other applications, web or otherwise, speak CSV.

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Gmail's Help documentation on the subject of importing contacts is sure to keep up with the needs of its users, so keep an eye on "How do I import addresses into my Contacts list?" (http://gmail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=8301).

Anatomy of a Contacts CSV

First, a quick tour of a typical contacts CSV file as consumed by Gmail's import tool.

CSV files, as the name suggests, are little more than garden-variety text files in which data is listed one record per line, each field separated by (you guessed it!) a comma. The simplest of all contacts.csv files might then look something like this:

name,email Rael Dornfest,rael@oreilly.com Tara Calishain,tara@researchbuzz.com ...

The first line lists field names, in this case name and email address. Each line thereafter is a single person or entity (business, organization, etc.) in your contacts list with a corresponding name and email address.

Gmail accepts various formats of contact entry, recognizing some of the more common fields such as name, email address, phone, birthday, etc. Here's a slightly more detailed contacts.csv:

first name,last name,email address,phone Rael,Dornfest,rael@oreilly.com,(212) 555-1212 Tara,Calishain,tara@researchbuzz.com, (212) 555-1213 ...

Notice that name is split into first and last name fields, email is called emailaddress, and there's a phone field too.

Unless you're going to be using Gmail as your main contacts database—and I can't quite see why you would—you don't need to import any more than name and email address (something akin to the first contacts.csv example) to find it useful.

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In fact, at the time of this writing, Gmail does little with fields beyond name and email address but shove them into a Notes field.

Feed CSV to Gmail

Assuming that you have a CSV file to work with (if you don't, read on to the sections below for some guidance), importing is a snap.

From the main Gmail screen in your web browser, click the Contacts link () found at the bottom of the menu on the left side of the page.

Figure 1. Clicking the Contacts link gets you to your Gmail contacts

The Contacts page opens, listing all of (or none of, if you don't yet have any) your existing Gmail contacts. These may have been entered by hand, gleaned from incoming and outgoing mail, or imported at some earlier date. Click the Import Contacts link link at the top right of the page.

Click the Browse... (or equivalent) button when prompted to do so, as shown in and find your CSV file on your computer's hard drive. (Just what this looks like depends on your operating system and browser, but essentially you're just choosing a file much like you would from any application.) Click the Import Contacts button and—Bob's your uncle (that's "tada!" for my American readers)—you should see a confirmation that all went to plan and you've imported some number of contacts into your Gmail address book.

Figure 2. Finding that CSV file

Click the Return to Contacts link and you'll see your now fully stocked contacts list. shows mine, after importing the second sample CSV at the beginning of this hack.

Figure 3. Feeding that CSV file to Gmail

Delete any number of contacts by clicking their associated checkboxes and clicking the Delete Selected button. Edit a contact by clicking the appropriate [edit] link. Or type in a contact or three by hand using the Add Contact link.

Now, any time you start typing a known contact's name into the To, Cc, or Bcc field of a new message, Gmail will autocomplete it for you. No need to remember that cousin Adam is  or Auntie Joan is .

Hopping out of Hotmail

There are a couple ways to hop out of Hotmail with your contacts in tow. The first goes by way of Outlook Express or Outlook and the second using a touch of copy-and-paste, as suggested by the Gmail team in their online Help documentation.

Moving from .Mac

The Mac OS X Address Book only exports to something called vCard, which is understood by many contacts applications, but not by Gmail.

Thankfully, someone's written a magical little app to help. AddressBookToCSV (http://homepage.mac.com/kenferry/software.html#AddressBookToCSV; freeware) slurps up all of your contacts—name and email address only, which is nicer to my mind than uploading a slew of data unnecessary for your Gmailing needs—out of Address Book and spits them into a CSV file that you can feed to Gmail. Download the app, mount the .dmg on your desktop, and run it right from there, as shown in . (If you'll likely use it again and again, go ahead and drag it into your Applications/Utilities folder.)

Figure 13. AddressBookToCSV exports Address Book names and email addresses to CSV

When prompted to do so, choose a place to save the contacts.csv file and click the Save button. Close the application using Command-Q (it doesn't do so by itself when done).

Feed contacts.csv to Gmail as usual.

2012 Tech Review: Deploying Gmail as your Powerful Business Tool (david, lim, auckland, davidlim, gmail, email, hotmail, address0212640000)

Should you use Gmail for your business? For a long time my answer was “No.” After all, having an email with @gmail.com on the end isn’t especially professional, especially if you’ve already set up your own website domain and want your customers to see you as something like my.name@mycompanyname.com or such.
What’s more you don’t want to change your email address and confuse/irritate all your contacts. But I was wrong and I’m now convinced that Gmail is a much better business option than Outlook or any other desktop email application. So let’s look first at what Gmail is and why it’s so good, then about how to use it with your own domain name or existing email account.
Gmail is email in the "cloud." All your email is accessed and stored online and you get to it through your web browser on any computer anywhere, even your cell phone. You’d be surprised just how convenient this is when you’re no longer tied to that laptop you drag everywhere. And with virtually unending storage you never fill up your hard drive – or lose it all to a virus or when it crashes (and it seems like there’s always a crash just before you buy a new computer).

"But what if I don’t have an internet connection and need to get to my email?" Good question. That usually happens to me when I’m in the car and need to get to those driving directions a client sent me. The answer is to enable the Gmail "offline" feature which automatically stores duplicates of all your emails – and your calendar – on your hard drive. Problem solved!
Now about that pesky gmail.com email address. Yes, when you set up Gmail you will have to establish a personal gmail account and gmail.com email. But if you go to the settings/general/accounts menu you can add any existing email addresses – like the ones associated with your website – into your Gmail account. Once you’ve set this up – and it's easy – you can send all your emails via Gmail using your business email address. To receive business emails into your gmail account just go to your email provider and set up email forwarding to your gmail address.
If you’re a very small business of one or a few people this should work great for you. If your business is a bit larger and you want all your employees on gmail but on one system, Google offers Google Apps – a more sophisticated offering that comes in both free and paid versions. We’ll look at Apps in a later segment but for now, give Google’s Gmail a try – bet you will not be disaapointed!
  

2012: The Ultimate Gmail Apps and Plug-ins for Running a Business (business, tools, tips, davidlim, 0212640000)

Gmail has been popular with small businesses because it’s easy, affordable and has a lot of functionality. But you really aren’t getting everything you can out of Gmail until you start taking advantage of some of the many third-party apps that make Gmail even more powerful. Some Gmail apps require a download; others plug into the Web version.

Regardless, if you find yourself spending a lot of your workday in Gmail, check out these apps that will make your Gmail experience even richer:

Rapportive: Rapportive kills the annoyance of sorting through windows to look up your contacts on social media while you are in Gmail. The browser plug-in saves you the hassle of having to remember who the person who emailed you is and instead looks them up on LinkedIn and Twitter – within your Gmail tab. I use it to quickly place the names and faces of the people who email me, since I’m often out meeting new potential partners for my business and get a lot of emails from our customers. Having the person’s context right there can really speed up responding to an email. You can even follow, reply to and retweet people on Twitter all within your Gmail. Rapportive is a free service.
  ScanDrop for Mac: (Full disclosure, this is our app.) We built this Mac scanner software to make it easier to scan and share paper via email. It connects many, many desktop scanners directly with Gmail (and other cloud storage options) and makes sharing easy by giving you the ability scan, preview and attach the PDF, look up a contact’s email address, and send an email all without having to open a browser. While we were building ScanDrop we heard from small business customers that they were using Gmail to store and sort documents, since it has seven times the storage capacity as Google Docs. So we added a scan and email-to-yourself option that lets you add Gmail labels for easier storage of PDFs within your own Gmail account. Currently ScanDrop costs $9.99 in the Mac App Store, although we are working on a free version.

Courteous.ly: Courteous.ly lets your contacts see how much email you are sorting through at the moment so they can be courteous about interrupting you with additional emails. Basically, the free service displays either how many unread emails you have or how many emails you have in your Gmail inbox so your contacts can get an idea of how busy you are. Courteous.ly will help your contacts manage expectations about when they might hear back from you, and it also helps them choose the best time to reach you. This is a free service.

HotSpot Shield: If you use Gmail from outside the U.S. then you may need a service like HotSpot Shield. This software lets you log into Gmail from countries that block it with a firewall, such as China. Hotspot Shield does this by creating a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop or iPhone and HotSpot Shield’s Internet gateway.  This prevents snoopers, hackers and ISPs from viewing your Web browsing activities, instant messages, downloads, credit card information or anything else you send over the network – even on public Wi-Fi. So, if you are doing a lot of work for your business on random Wi-Fi networks, you may want free software like this on your computer.

Active Inbox: Active Inbox is for business owners who manage projects or their business from within email – and who are finding their inboxes are out of control. The plug-in allows you to organize emails by project and flag an email chain by status, such as “Waiting on a Reply.”  You can also tag emails for immediate action or mark them so that you remember to deal with them later. Active Inbox also recalls your previous emails with a contact inside your Gmail window for quick reference — no need to open a new browser tab. There is both a free and premium version of Active Inbox.

Please share with me on your effort and result about using Gmail as your business tool.  If you have somethign new or some area which my posting had not covered, please let me on Twitter

Why excellent gmail signature – important tool for your business! davidlim, auckland, iPhone, repair

Use of emails for business communication is increasingly becoming popular.  You can be one business owner who might be using same email address for your personal or business/ professional communication.  There are several tools on the internet that you can use to generate good looking signatures for your webmails.  In this blog post I will introduce you to one such browser extension that does the same amazingly well. This FREE extension works flawlessly with following webmails -

  1. AOL
  2. Gmail
  3. Yahoo mail
  4. Hotmail

This plugin/ extension is by the name Wisestamp and works with google chrome , mozilla firefox browsers.  The video demo below  shows how to install and customize the plugin for your gmail / google aps mail using firefox.

Observe the video and share it with others too!!

 

This is how your use Gmail as your business email and it works! davidlim, Auckland

Using Gmail As Your Business Email
I’ve been using Gmail to handle my business email for the past few years and I’m really happy about the decision. When you use Gmail to handle your business correspondence it doesn’t mean you have an email such as yourbusiness@gmail.com; you can easily use something like yourname@yourdomain.com. The email will come to and go from your personal email, it’s just that you will be using the friendly Gmail interface to manage your email. Some of the benefits of using Gmail as your business email are:

You can set up multiple email accounts for your partners and employees under a common link: http://mail.yourdomain.com, with their own logins and passwords.

You can keep archiving the messages forever, since every email account begins with 6GB of memory that keeps on increasing.

You can either use the web interface, or use an email client like Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird to manage emails. I’ve decided to use the web interface as my wife is helping me manage my projects and correspondence and we will be accessing the same email account from different computers.


Setting up Gmail as your business email
It is difficult or easy, depending on how comfortable you are changing your hosting setup. The steps involve (I’m assuming you have a domain hosted somewhere):

Signup at Google Apps and then create the email account (if you don’t create the email account now you may lose your crucial emails once the email start arriving at the new server).

Sign into your hosting account control panel and go to the section where you can manage your email and there, try to find how you can change the MX records. This link has all the procedure explained.

The changes may take up to 48 hours to propagate throughout the Internet and till then you will keep on receiving your email through your current mail server. As soon as your MX records changes are properly propagated, your will be able to go to http://mail.yourdomain.com and manage your email using Gmail.

It may sound a bit doubtful, using a free service for your business email, but it doesn’t make a difference because you will still be using your old email, just with added Gmail features.

 

Top Ten (10) tips for using Gmail for your business! davidlim, auckland, new zealand

Working with a lot of small business owners who have moved their email over to Google Apps, we’ve found that many started out managing their work email through their personal @gmail.com accounts. So, in honor of National Small Busines Week and the estimated 27.2 million small businesses in America, we wanted to share some tips we’ve picked up from them (and other people at Google) on how to get the most out of using Gmail at work. 
1. Get a Gmail account at your own domain (e.g. michelle@yourdomain.com) with Google Apps. Google Apps is a suite of communication and collaboration tools, including Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs, which run on your own domain, so instead of using your @gmail.com email address, you (and other employees) can have email addresses @yourdomain.com. Using a customized email address can help build an identity around your business and make you look more professional along the way.
2. Add a custom signature to the bottom of your email messages. Email signatures are automatically inserted at the bottom of every message you send, and can be a great place to add your title, contact information, and even the latest news from your company. Just go to Settings at the top of your inbox and enter your signature text in the box at the bottom.

3. Manage multiple email accounts from a single interface. If you’re like a lot of business owners, you probably regularly receive email in several different accounts. By centralizing your correspondence in Gmail, you’ll be able to keep track of it all more easily. To do this, either forward your other email addresses to your main Gmail account or route them there using Gmail’s Mail Fetcher, which downloads messages via POP from up to five other accounts. To set it up, visit the Account and Import Tabunder Settings.
 
4. Set up custom “From” addresses. This feature allows you to send messages from Gmail with one of your other email addresses listed as the sender. Once you set it up, you can choose the address you want to reply from while composing messages in the "From:" address drop down. This too is under Settings on the Account and Import tab.
5. Embrace labels. Folders are familiar, especially when it comes to work email. If you want to organize your emails in a similar way, make sure you’re using Gmail labels.Combined with filters, they can be a powerful tool to manage your mail. Create labels for projects, vendors, customers, weekly reports, launches, to-do’s -- the list goes on. You can also add custom colors to your labels, order them based on priority, and search the contents of specific labels. And don’t forget that you can drag messages into labels, just like you can with folders.
6. Use chat and video chat to communicate with colleagues, or provide real-time customer support. 
No matter where everyone is located, you can communicate in real-time as though you were in the same room with video chat or just chat via voice or text. Try using "Reply by Chat" at the bottom of each message if you want to reach the sender quickly. To add video chat capabilities to Gmail, all you need is this small plugin and a webcam.

7. Keep track of your to-do’s with Tasks. 
You spend a lot of time in your inbox, so why not keep track of what you have to do there too? Task allows you to create multiple lists, add notes to each task, assign due dates, and get the satisfaction of checking off completed items.

8. Use offline Gmail anytime you're not online. Despite having Internet access almost everywhere, work may take you to places where you just can’t get online. Turn on offline Gmail from the offline tab under Settings and Gmail will download a local cache of your mail which synchronizes with Gmail's servers while you’re connected. When you lose connectivity, Gmail automatically switches to offline mode, so you can continue to work, and your replies are automatically sent the next time Gmail detects a connection.
9. Create canned responses and quickly reply to common questions. When it comes to emailing at work, you’re probably used to sending out weekly reports, or answering the same questions from customers or colleagues multiple times. That’s where canned responses can save precious time: turn on this feature in Gmail Labs, compose your response once, save it, then use it over and over again.

10. Make sure you have the right Bob before hitting send. If you’ve ever accidentally sent a personal email to the wrong co-worker, or emailed your internal meeting notes to an external contact, then you'll want to turn on "Got the wrong Bob?" from the Labs tab under setting. Based on the groups of people you email most often, Gmail will try to flag when you've accidentally included the wrong person.

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