Monthly Archives: January 2007

Shut up and talk to me!

You communicate everyday, but did it ever occur to you that words are only a tiny part of your “speech”? A UCLA study revealed that up to 93 percent of communication effectiveness is determined by nonverbal cues. Another study indicated that the impact of a performance was determined 7 percent by the words used, 38 [...]

What makes people click?

There is a new kind of social site project invading the blogosphere these days: the 2000 bloggers list, initiated by Tino from www.trade-pals.com. The list counts already 1246 bloggers and includes many well-known figures of the virtual world.
Another blogger, Steven Aitchinson, from Change your thoughts, started an interesting experiment, for which he needs input from [...]

Do you know who reads your blog?

Do you have a blog? If you do, then I’m sure that you know how many visitors you have. There are so many free tools which measure traffic, that it is hard to believe that you did not grab at least one and put it at work on your blog. For instance, on this blog [...]

I love you, advertising

We all have an idea of what good advertising is. My idea of good advertising is not necessarily identical to your idea or to his idea, or to her idea. Nevertheless, you probably agree that a good ad should catch your attention; otherwise you don’t even notice it. Then it has to advertise something you [...]

AGLOCO Tip No 2: Early members get more

This post is the second in the series “AGLOCO Tips and Tricks”. Tip No 1 was Members get online shopping commissions. If you haven’t heard about AGLOCO yet, you can find some info here.
AGLOCO pays its members in company shares. The Simmons Report makes a calculation, and the conclusion is that one member is worth [...]

AGLOCO Tip No 1: members get online shopping commissions

It is quite a while since I’ve been writing about AGLOCO on this blog. You may wonder what AGLOCO has to do with AllTipsAndTricks. So I decided to start a mini-series of posts called “AGLOCO Tips and Tricks”.
AGLOCO Tip No 1:
If you are an online shopper, then this is for you. AGLOCO officials say that [...]

The unexpected solution to a sluggish PC problem

How many Windows XP users have experienced at least once an unexplainable slowing down of their computer? Maybe too many! What was the solution? Reinstalling the operating system. But in my case, this did not work.
Let me tell you the whole story: one year ago, I noticed that my system started to act very sluggish, [...]

Amazing cat clicker training results

What is clicker training
Clicker training is a positive-reinforcement-based system of training. Animals are more likely to repeat a behavior which resulted in pleasure. The clicker is used to create a bridge connection between the desired behavior and the reward. So clicker trainers provide consequences desired by their animal in exchange for actions or behaviors desired [...]

World’s smallest desktop computer

Did you ever think you’d go crazy because of all the wires coming out of your computer, and spreading all over the place? Well, then maybe you didn’t meet Jack PC, the fully managed computer that perfectly fits in your wall socket.
Integrated into a standard LAN jack, Jack PC is operating in a Server-Based-Computing environment. [...]

10 reasons to leash train your cat

Many cats owners keep their cats indoors all the time. Even cat breeders recommend that, but everybody ignores the sad, long looks an indoor cat is throwing at the windows. Still there is hope for the poor little kittens longing for the fresh air outside their home: going out in a leash. If you ever [...]