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I had heard some things about Ares Destiny and it was only a matter of time before my browser found its way to the related site. I am a bit of a file sharing nut, you see, and I really love trying out the latest versions of Ares. I especially love to try them out when they are free. There’s no harm in that, is there? Well yes, actually, it appears there is.

Off I went to the site and had a look around. It’s nice, and I was instantly ferried towards the conclusions that this was a good piece of software. The file was soon on my computer and, shock and awe, the thing installed first time with no problems. So far so good. I was impressed.

The Ares Destiny software is kind of new looking and while it isn’t a world beater there are some good features. Some bits are mediocre but you have to take the rough with the smooth!

The reality of the situation hit home when I got 12 popups over a five minute period. I knew I had some adware on my system and on further investigation I found that it was Dealio, a piece of electronic vermin that I had heard of before. Deeper investigation led me to the conclusion that the Ares Destiny installation had introduced it to the system.

Keep away from Ares Destiny!

Nobu just released a new inwall touchscreen computer that will be shipping by mid-December. The unit features a 1.0GHz fanless Intel processor, a revolutionary 4GB solid state disk drive.

Here is an excerp from the folks from Nobu:

The new 8″ panel is a fully functional inwall touchscreen PC with all necessary input/output ports to control any subsystem or automation hardware in your home or office. Our goal with the new design is to satisfy a large demand for a smaller inwall touchpanel as well as to create the most robust, powerful, and visually appealing touchscreen computer on the planet. We designed the N8 without a fan because we wanted to eliminate noise and also to eliminate possible points of failure which is also why we will offer the high performance industrial Embedded Disk Card (iEDC) hard drive as an alternative to a standard 5400RMP hard drive. The N8 touchscreen PC will have a fanless 1.0 GHz Intel Celeron M processor. The N8 will be available with Windows XP Professional. We can also sell the N8 without an operating system for special applications.

It was not very long since that I would have referred to myself as Ares Vista download virgin: for whatever reason I had never felt the need to download Ares Vista. Now, I am pleased to say, I am a paid up member of the non-virgin club.

Because I didn’t know a thing about filesharing, and indeed I didn’t know where to start to download Ares Vista, I did a search on the trusty old Internet. I came up trumps when I discovered the Official Ares Vista site.

The Official Ares Vista site actually provided me with all the information I could conceivably want from their excellent news section – forthright and entertaining to a fault! – to their FAQs and tutorials section. Their FAQs instantly answered a question I had about making Ares Vista play nicely with Windows Vista, so that’s a bonus point right there! The reviews of the different versions of Ares Vista available are the gold standard of the industry. Definitely required reading if you want to download Ares Vista.

Whether you’re looking to download Ares Vista or just to pass some of your very valuable time doing something interesting and important, there is always something there for you to take a look at on Official Ares Vista.

It could easily be said that Sarah Palin is too conservative to become the Vice President of the United States. It could also be said that in standing behind her convictions with the energy that she does is a rare quality that should be celebrated and harnessed.

Sarah Palin’s views on some subject will certainly not gain her friends from certain areas of the community. She is against same-sex marriage, for instance. Her faith is strong, she is an active member of her local church, and she believes that creationism should be taught in schools.

Sarah Palin is a self confessed bible holding hockey mom but is also definitely a pragmatist. In today’s world of energy crises Palin’s support of the exploration of her native Alaska for natural resources seems like a breath of fresh air.

Abortion is a topic that has stirred plenty of animosity towards Sarah Palin but she maintains that it should not be allowed except in cases where the mother’s life is in danger.

Sarah Palin is an amazing woman with rock solid convictions. She will not be moved from her position. Take the Bridge to Nowhere episode: in those situations her dogged determination have certainly won her support from many corners.

The internet is a great place on which to find information. Search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Altavista really make finding what you want really easy. What they can also do, unfortunately, is give unlimited platforms to unlimited numbers of people who want to write absolute rubbish. There is no regulation on the Internet and you have no idea as to the veracity of what you are reading and anyone with an agenda can spread lies and rumors.

When you’re looking for unbiased information on a viable home business opportunity like Wealth Masters International, for instance, you might type the Wealth Masters International key phrase into Google. Google will then give you thousands – if not millions – of pages all about Wealth Masters International. How do you know which is genuine?

You can’t, I’m afraid. But you can trust your gut feeling. If something seems just too positive or just too negative then you might be onto a fake; there’s simply no way of knowing.

The only way to be sure that you won’t be ripped off is to i) take everything that you read with a huge pinch of salt; and ii) do a lot of research: there is some reliable information out there regarding Wealth Masters International! Find it!

A friend of mine and I decided that the time was right try Salvia. We’d heard enough about it on various radio shows, TV programs and in loads of newspapers and magazines. The simple fact that it was an unknown quantity made it all the more attractive to us. We found a decent supplier of Salvia on the Web and bought a modestly sized portion.

I tried smoking the Salvia first as I have a little more experience in hallucinogenic drugs than my friend. Plus she was, I think, a little scared.

I went into a daydream almost instantly. A strange calm feeling entered me. I thought of the lines from the poem Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep:

“I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn’s rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush”

And all of these feelings came to me at once. The morning hush, the gentle rain, sunlight on ripened grain. Then, inexplicable, an almighty swift uplifting rush. Uplifting really is the right word, as I felt my self falling quickly upwards.

My friend was sober through all of this and she managed to stop me from doing too much damage to myself as I flailed around on the floor. Strange stuff, this Salvia. Well worth the a try, though!

Sex isn’t a subject that normally springs to mind when I’m thinking about self help books, so when I heard the two subjects mentioned together during a meal I was fortunate enough to attend, I sat up and listened. Apparently, said the voice (I’m not sure who it was), Chapter 11 of Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich is all about sex.

You can imagine my interest as I rushed home to pick up my (very dusty) copy of Think and Grow Rich (completely unread, I’m afraid to say) and flicked through the chapters. There it was: “The Mystery of Sex Transmutation: The Tenth Step Towards Riches”. Wow. I had had Think and Grow Rich for nearly a year and I didn’t notice that chapter.

I believe it takes a particular mindset to read this type of book and I don’t mind admitting that I hadn’t had it before. Upon flicking through the “sex” chapter (actually, it’s not that focused on sex!) I noticed that Think and Grow Rich had some really interesting things to say. I managed to finish the remainder of the book in an two afternoon’s readings. I’ve re-read it a few times since and every time it gets me somewhere new.

Owning an iPhone is a tiring business. Everyone wants to see and play with it. You’ve barely got time to fiddle with it yourself! You’ve got to keep up with your friends in having the latest apps on the phone and, now, you’ve got to make sure you’ve got the right iPhone accessories to make it that more interesting.

There are a lot of iPhone accessories available in the shops now – some from Apple and others coming from various third party providers. Some of these third party offerings are ingenious, some well designed; others are mediocre and simply a bad idea. All are interesting.

The most ‘useful’ iPhone accessories are arguably the most boring. The iPhone cover and car adapters, the screen protector. These are all really useful but they do not really ignite any spark of enthusiasm from jealous relatives and friends.

More interesting are top of the iPhone accessories like the Bose headphones. Not only do they look cool, they’re going to give you the clearest reproduction of any music you’ve got on your iPhone. They are top of the range, and this means they’re a little expensive, but it’s all worth it when you hear them singing out!

Free music downloads. Now there is a term that has been scaring pretty much the whole of the music industry witless for quite some time. And with good reason, too: free music downloads account for appreciably more of the market share of music acquisitions than by CDs or even paid-for downloads. With new companies embracing the free music downloads model and offering users access to huge catalogues of music – all completely free – the record-cut-sell model is looking a little antiquated.

Bands and musicians have started to realize in which direction the future lies, and groups such as Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and Coldplay are leading the charge in offering free music downloads to their beloved fans. “This,” said Trent Reznor of the Nails’ decision to provide their album for free, “is a thank you for all the support over the years”. Fair enough.

The fact that these big names – and Sony is, unbelievably, one of them – are moving to embrace the new model just shows how compelling the arguments for it have become. The alternative is to sit and stagnate which many companies are still doing. The time will come when stagnation will not be an option; only moving forward or collapsing will be left.

Google’s Android mobile phone platform was released recently with perhaps slightly less of a splash than the Internet search and advertising giant would have hoped for.

The so called gPhone – actually a T Mobile G1 device that runs the Google Android platform – is a nice piece of kit. It has a full QWERTY keyboard with a trackball; it has access to all the Google applications that you would need; it is a good phone. All these things might well work in its favor. But there is one really big problem: it is just nowhere near as sexy as the iPhone.

Maybe Google were not going for sexy – if they weren’t then they definitely succeeded – because they just felt that competing with Apple in this area was going to be too difficult. If they are going for the market that sees the iPhone as a young person’s gadget then perhaps, in time, they will see a decent pickup. But people who want a gadget will have an iPhone; people who don’t want a gadget won’t want a fancy phone that does anything other than lets you communicate with people. Is the gPhone aiming at a market that doesn’t exist yet?

This isn’t a bad phone but I’m not sure that Google have got the marketing pitch just right yet.