If 10 years ago I asked you how many times you participate in online auctions, you wouldn’t take my question seriously. Now auction sites such as eBay have been around for over a decade and many of us have accounts with them and actively use them.

JewelryAuction.us

There are plenty of active auctions sites online now and not all of these sites are the same. There are many different types of online auction sites. Some specialize in only one type of product, some require special registration, some even require you to pay per each bid.

Bidz.com is one of the popular (if not the most popular) jewelry auction sites around. Based on my personal experience, I find them to be a legit source of purchasing brand name and expensive jewelry online. Although I wouldn’t say that their site is perfect, I had a pleasant experience with them.

Participating in an online auction, like any auction, requires time, research and a little bit of luck. One must first do background research on the website to make sure it is secure and trust worthy. Then one must pick the right auction and start making the right bids which can get frustrating.

I have developed a website that acts as the tool to help with monitoring, researching and selecting the right auction online. By archiving all previous auctions on the jewelry auction site bidz.com, JewelryAuction.us can provide anyone with historical prices on all jewelry auctions. You now have the ability to browse and search for all jewelry products to see the different prices for which that product was sold for. All products are categorized by product title, brand, price and material. For example you can browse by popular brand names including Faberge, Tag Heuer, Di Modolo, Concord, Gianni Versace, Vera Wang, Fred, Bulgari, Hermes, Fendi, Ebel, Gucci or by material Amethyst Jewelry, Aquamarine Jewelry, Citrine Jewelry, Diamond Jewelry, Emerald Jewelry, Garnet Jewelry, Gold Jewelry, Metallic Jewelry, Opal Jewelry, Pearl Jewelry, Peridot Jewelry, Ruby Jewelry, Sapphire Jewelry, Silver Jewelry, Tanzanite Jewelry, Topaz Jewelry.

Not too long ago Google released a new Beta service called Google Public DNS.
DNS stands for Domain Name System. Everytime you make a new request to reach a server, for example to when you’re browsing a website, your computer attempts to resolve the domain name that you’re trying to reach.

The DNS protocol is an important part of the web’s infrastructure, serving as the Internet’s phone book: every time you visit a website, your computer performs a DNS lookup. Complex pages often require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading, so your computer may be performing hundreds of lookups a day.

This simply means that your computer is inquiring about the IP address of that domain name in order to connect to it.

By using Google’s DNS servers you can potentially decrease the time it takes to resolve a domain name and essentially connect to any website faster!

To use Google DNS servers and while already knowing how to modify your DNS server settings, go ahead and change them to the following:

Primary: 8.8.8.8
Secondary: 8.8.4.4

If you need help or for more detailed information about all this, visit Using Google Public DNS page here

Poverty, violence, abuse, over-population, and disease are just some of today’s many problems.

Almost all of our problems are inversely proportional to our levels of education. In order to treat the cause of these problems we need to empower people with education.

Educated people, and educated nations, are thus empowered to transcend a life of mere survival. Educated people and educated nations are empowered to help themselves.

As technology advances the ways of acquiring information drastically change.

Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia® has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference web sites, attracting around 65 million visitors monthly as of 2009.

Yahoo!® launched Yahoo! Answers in July 2005 and as of October 2009 it claims 179 million users worldwide with over 1 billion questions and answers.

I foresee that in the near future, e-Learning will be incorporated in all educational institutions worldwide.

Imagine a free, self-organizing, growing repository of the entire world’s factual knowledge, at every level of education.

Imagine an online video education resource where anyone could submit a virtual lesson on any subject in their own language.

Every individual with an Internet connection can potentially access this rich, empowering world of knowledge. From basic language and numeracy, through to different languages, through to advanced theoretical physics, everyone can learn.

HigherUp.com is my gift to this world; A website that brings about a true global enlightenment.

YORK is the title of a compilation of various house, progressive house and electro house tracks.
I put together this mix while preparing for a series of parties for my leaving to New York. Hence the title YORK.
The first album (YORK 1) includes some major hits of the summer of 2009.
My friends and I had a great time with these electrifying, blood pumping, amazing tracks as we celebrated life and each others company.
Now I have decided to publish YORK on SARMADI to share with the rest of the world.

I hope you enjoy it as much as my friends and I do

TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry, demos several of his tools that are built to help the world interact with the dynamic data. His new invention, the SixthSense device, includes a mouth dropping, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop” which allows the every-day user to view computer generated projections onto pretty much any surface.

In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he’ll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

When discussing the evolution of technology and more specifically the technological advancements and progression throughout the recent years, one of the highly recommended books is The Singularity is Near by Dr. Ray Kurzweil. In his book,  Kurzweil attempts to “give a glimpse of what awaits us in the near future”. Ray has made some very accurate predictions while anticipating complete technological singularity by the year 2045 . However for his conclusion to be true, the following four postulates must be correct.

1. Acceptance and striving for the idea of living forever
2. The law of accelerating returns
3. An objective measurement of cerebral processing power
4. Sufficient medical advancements

In February 2009, Kurzweil, in cooperation with Google and the NASA Ames Research Center, announced the creation of Singularity University. The University’s self-described mission is to “assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges”.

Singularity University (SU) is an interdisciplinary university whose mission is to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies in order to address humanity’s grand challenges. With the support of a broad range of leaders in academia, business and government, SU hopes to stimulate groundbreaking, disruptive thinking and solutions aimed at solving some of the planet’s most pressing challenges. SU is based at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley.

Although Singularity University is not an accredited four-year university, it intended to supplement traditional educational institutions. The University offers 10 different academic tracks:

1. Futures Studies and Forecasting
2. Policy, Law and Ethics
3. Finance and Entrepreneurship
4. Networks and Computing Systems
5. Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
6. Nanotechnology
7. Medicine, Neuroscience and Human Enhancement
8. AI, Robotics, and Cognitive Computing
9. Energy and Ecological Systems
10. Space and Physical Sciences

The Universities mission to achieve academic success is through collaboration of students with each other.  ”The biggest breakthroughs always come in the boundaries between the disciplines”, says Peter Diamandis.

Ray Kurzweil,Chancellor, Singularity University

We are now in the steep part of the exponential trajectory of information technologies in a broad variety of fields, including health, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence. It is only these accelerating technologies that have the scale to address the major challenges of humanity ranging from energy and the environment to disease and poverty. With its strong focus on interdisciplinary learning, Singularity University is poised to foster the leaders who will create a uniquely creative and productive future world.”

Live Psychiatry is a relatively recent start-up founded by me and a good friend of mine Dr. Omer Liran.

Live Psychiatry - Screenshot

In short, the mission of Live Psychiatry is to connect psychiatrists to people.

In today’s fast-paced global economy, professionals such as psychiatrists face several challenges:

1. How to effectively promote themselves online
2. How to find new patients
3. How to establish credibility
4. How to work effectively with a remote patient

Patients also face the following challenges:

1. How to learn more about psychiatry and psycho-pharmacology
2. How to find a local psychiatrists in their area
3. How to minimize the effort to qualify a psychiatrist
4. How to have a session with their psychiatrist without leaving their home or work

The Solution :  LivePsychiatry.com

From introduction to psychiatry to educational articles on mental health, psychiatric disorders, treatment modalities to a detailed knowledge-base of psycho-pharmacology, LivePsychiatry.com aims to educate and empower us with psychiatry news, updates and resources.

Find psychiatrists in your area using the step-by-step find a psychiatrist wizard or just browse the psychiatrist directory of 20,000+ nation-wide psychiatrists.

Got a question? Just post it on the Ask a Psychiatrist section of the site and psychiatrists will answer it for you.

Request an appointment with a psychiatrist and-or review your current psychiatrist to share your experience with others.

Comment on articles, psychiatrists, and psychiatry related news…

After all, Live Psychiatry is the premier end-user psychiatry website for psychiatrists and everyone online.

ASOT Episode 284 (2008 Yearmix) is by far one of my most favorite Trance mixes. Here we have some of the greatest tunes of 2008.
The mix is split into single tracks for your pleasure.
Thank you Armin

Enjoy

If you’re a fan of horror films you’re going to love this!
I watched this movie for the first time when I was about 10 years old.
I consider this to be one of the most horrifying Japanese tales.

Kwaidan – Woman of the Snow

Starring : Tatsuya Nakadai as Minokichi, Keiko Kishi as Yuki, the Snow Spirit Woman
Directed by : Masaki Kobayashi
Release Date: 1964
Runtime: 38 min

Kwaidan is a spooky classic from Japan. The 1964 film offers four short horror stories. In the second story shown on this page -The Woman of the Snow, a man has an other worldly experience when he watches a strange spirit woman arrive in snow storm and breathe ice on his friend…. (really nice blue lips too). The friend dies from freezing to death. She tells him never to reveal the tale to anyone. And then the story gets really weird. Cool stuff!

Part of what makes this film so special is the combination of wonderful cinematography – and a remarkable set design schema. The colors in this film are so hot – they might blow your monitor. Cannes Film Fesival winner in 1965 -Jury Special Prize, Nominated for an Oscar in 1966 for Best Foreign Language Film -Japan.

Enjoy

I use DomainTools.com (whois.sc) every day and today I want to show you the SEO Broswer Tool that they offer.

The shortcut to use the SEO Text Browser tool is:

http://whois.domaintools.com/seo-browser/?domain=YOURDOMAIN.COM

You simply type in the domain name of the site you want to check and you will see an area that says SEO Text Browser:

Domain Tools SEO Text Browser

The SEO Text Browser allows even the newest webmaster to easily view a detailed and customized list of tasks to fix. For experts that know what they are doing they use lynx or study the source code. The browser actually gives easy step by step instructions on how to improve the web page the user is surfing.

Once on this page, you will want to click the text area under the browser window. The following screen will then give you tips on what needs to be improved on your site to better help with SEO.

This page will show things like image size, links, meta and all other kinds of optimization tips that can help improve your SEO for your site.

Domain Tools SEO Text Browser - Expanded

Live Web Design (LiveWebDesign.net) has a score of 81% which I don’t think is bad. Should I improve that number, yes as I have seen scores as high as 99% on some SEO master’s sites but 81% is not bad.

In my opinion, it is very important for a website to have a high title, keyword and description relevancy scores.

A high title relevancy is most important as it increases your chances of establishing rankings for your keywords. Now I always say your websites title is used to attract visitors (clicks) when shown in search results, so be creative and make a note that at the end of the day, you are attracting real people and not just bots and spiders.

In most cases I recommend using SEO tools to discover relevant keywords of a page on a per page basis. What I mean by this is to simply use a tool that counts all the text content keywords of a web page and sort them by occurrence. This method often results in very highly relevant meta keywords and thus maximizes your keyword relevancy while using this SEO tool.

This tool is not 100% perfect and is in Beta, but I think for the white hat SEO people, it sure can be helpful. Heck, it’s even FREE! DomainTools offers a little more info on the SEO Text Browser here also.

If you were wondering which one of my websites has the 95+% score, it’s Addiction Treatments Online (view SEO Browser)