Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz Biography

Name : Cameron Diaz
Date of Birth : August 30, 1972
Place of Birth : San Diego, Calif., USA
Sign : Virgo
Height : 5' 9''
Hair : Blond
Eyes : Blue
Education : High school
Occupation : Actress / Model
Companion : Jared Leto
Sister : Chimene

Cameron Diaz Detailed Biography
Cameron Diaz was sixteen when she got her big break in life. She was at a Hollywood party when she ended up speaking to, and eventually dating, a fashion photographer who landed her a modelling contract with the Elite Modelling Agency within a week of knowing her. She went to Japan with another young model (15) to further her modelling career shortly afterwards.For five years afterwards she travelled from country to country and fashion capital to fashion capital. From Paris to Morocco to Milan and even to Australia and eventually hooked up with boyfriend Carlos De La Torre whom she stayed with for five years in a Hollywood apartment.By the time she landed herself a role in the film The Mask, starring comedian Jim Carrey, she was already an accomplished actress appearing in commercials for Calvin Klein, Levi's, and Coca-Cola as well as being on magazines such as Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She was 21 and had much experience in the modelling world. However, she had begun to feel that there was more in her future than just modelling and she eventually decided to turn from modelling to acting. She initially got a small role in the movie but got bored “practising with the choreographer so that he knows the steps he gonna teach the real girl who gets the job? The director, Charles Russell, who realised what she felt, managed to convince the producers at New Line Cinema to give her the female lead role and so she launched her acting career.A month into the production of the movie she discovered the scale of the movie and got an ulcer realising the pressure set upon her according to the success of the motion picture. After this experience, and a case where she injured herself in training for the film Mortal Kombat, studios became wary of taking her on and so fate would have it that she returned to the world of big time modelling and independent films.

Holden Efijy - Car

(from Holden Press Release) EFIJY is a radical custom coupe shape boasting V8 Supercar power under the bonnet, Chevrolet Corvette underbody and state-of-the-art automotive technology throughout. The ‘Soprano Purple’ paintwork highlights its curvaceous 5.2-metre body, reinterpreting the classic design cues of the iconic 1953 FJ Holden.The technology matches the larger-than-life design cues with a 480-kilowatt, supercharged six-litre V8 engine, air-adjustable shock absorbers, touch control LCD screen and fan-cooled LED headlamps.A long-term dream for Chief Designer Richard Ferlazzo, the EFIJY concept was developed as a collaboration with suppliers which reduced impact on the company’s heavy work schedule and ensured the highest possible quality result for the showcar. The car is not intended for production

Apple's iPhone is finally out!!

Apple's eagerly awaited and (grossly) over-hyped iPhone has finally arrived as promised on the 29th of June, 2007. Love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. The iPhone will hit Indian shores in early 2008 though, insiders say that it could be as early as as November 2007.

Unofficially though, you can get the iPhone pretty soon from the grey markets of National Bazar or Majestic Area in Bangalore for around Rs. 30,000. Since the phone is locked i.e. Apple has tied up for an exclusive tie up with AT&T, you can get it unlocked for anything between Rs. 1,000 to Rs. 1,500 to make it work with any GSM network in India.

Needless to say, entertainment companies have come out with special iPhone ready trailers and movies. A wide collection of downloadable media items.

The large screen of the iPhone means you can thoroughly enjoy videos/movies and hopefully this one factor should itself drive sales here in India. I for one just can't wait to get my hands on the iPhone. The phone it too cool to be ignored. Do let me know what you think about the iPhone, whether you would buy one or not and more importantly, what would you do with the awesome multimedia capabilities of the iPhone in the comments.

Use Windows Vista On / Off Feature :: Much easier than the laborious Install / Uninstall Programs

In the older versions of Windows like XP / 2000, to turn a feature OFF you had to Uninstall it completely from your computer. But in Windows Vista the features remain stored on your hard disk, so you can turn them back ON if you want to. Turning off a feature does not uninstall the feature, and it does not reduce the amount of hard disk space used by Windows features.

You can access this very cool utility via Control Panel, Uninstall or Change a Program, and in the left hand side menu, "Turn Windows features on or off". You will get an UAC prompt and that's about it [Screenshot Below - Click to Enlarge].



From this cool interface you can switch ON / OFF some popular services like the Microsoft Message Queue Server, Print Services, Remote Differential Compression, ActiveX Installer Service, to the Games, to the Indexing Service, Internet Information Service, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0, Removable Storage Management, RIP Listener, Simple TCPIP Services, SNP Feature, Windows DFS Replications Service, Windows Fax and Scan, Tablet PC Optional Components, Telnet Client, Telnet Server, TFTP Client, Windows Meeting Place and Windows Process Activation Service.

Also, you maybe interested to know List of Services that you don't need in Windows Vista to make it work faster.

Luxury Bus

Luxury Bus, more images after the break...

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Mount Rushmore

Mount Rushmore near Keystone, South Dakota, is a monumental granite sculpture located within the United States Presidential Memorial that represents the first 150 years of the history of the United States of America with 60-foot (18 m) sculptures of the heads of former U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. The entire memorial covers 1,278 acres (5.17 km²), and is 5,725 feet (1,745 m) above sea level. It is managed by the National Park Service, a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior. The memorial attracts approximately 2 million people annually.

Known to the Lakota Sioux as Six Grandfathers, the mountain was renamed after Charles E. Rushmore, a prominent New York lawyer, during an expedition in 1885. At first, the project of carving Rushmore was undertaken to increase tourism in the Black Hills region of South Dakota. After long negotiations involving a Congressional delegation and President Calvin Coolidge, the project received Congressional approval. The carving started in 1927 and ended in 1941 with a few injuries and no deaths.

Rushmore Facts:

• Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began drilling into the 5,725-foot mountain in 1927, at the age of 60.
• Creation of the Shrine of Democracy took 14 years and cost a mere $1 million.
• Rushmore's granite faces tower 5,500 feet above sea level.
• The carvings on Mount Rushmore are scaled to men who would stand 465 feet tall.
• Each head on Mt. Rushmore is as tall as a six-story building.
• More that 800 million pounds of stone were removed from Mount Rushmore while carving the presidents.
• Each president's face is as tall as the entire Great Sphinx of Egypt, measuring 60 feet from the chin to the top of the head.
• The president's noses are 20 feet long, each mouth 18 feet wide and the eyes are 11 feet across.
• The workers had to climb 506 steps daily to get to the top of Mount Rushmore.

nCleaner :: A Powerful Freeware System Cleaner with over 90 Functionalities

nCleaner is a system cleaner that allows you to clean both your system and applications, free more disk space, boost your system's speed and get more stability and privacy protection. It contains an advanced system and application cleaner with over 90 cleaning items available, a Registry Cleaner, a Tweak Manager, an advanced Startup Manager, a Junk Finder, a Free Space Shredder, a System Resource Monitor, a System Adviser, supports logging and statistics as well as advanced Scheduling.

This very cool Freeware also offers memory management, advanced schedule options, real time system resources monitoring, system tweak manger, startup manager, loging options, automatic updater, plugin options, custom clean, advanced statistics and many other features.

The List of Endless features of nCleaner are as follows:

• Clean over 80 Windows system and applications items (locations) + over 100 application plugins, making your system faster, more stable and protecting your privacy.
• Clean your registry and fix Windows errors.
• Monitor your system resources to maintain a certain amount of free disk space and optimize memory usage.
• Monitor you system using the System Advisor and correct critical Windows errors.
• Optimize system memory usage.
• Protect your privacy by shredding all deleted clean items (using professional algorithms), so they cannot be recovered using specialized recovery software.
• Add custom files and folders to be cleaned on each system clean.
• Choose which cookies you want to keep and which you want removed.
• Shred free space on all hard disks and partitions, so that previous deleted files cannot be recovered using specialized recovery software.
• Tweak your system to protect your privacy by enabling or disabling hidden Windows features that could have allowed intruders on your system.
• Tweak your system to make it faster and stable by disabling unnecessary features and services and recover resources.
• Use predefined Tweak profiles to enable the best Tweak configurations.
• Use the advanced Startup Manager to see ALL objects launched at startup including services and system objects.
• This powerful module allows you to spot hidden viruses or unwanted applications and disable them.
• Use the advanced Startup Manager to save a list file with all objects that are launched at startup.
• Find unnecessary files on your system (backup files, log files, invalid shortcuts and many other) and remove them.
• You can also add your own files you want to scan for and remove.
• Schedule cleans at startup, shutdown, on browser close at specific time based intervals.
• Maintain log file with all actions and the time when they occurred.
• Maintain advanced statistics on how you use nCleaner and its effect.
• Choose one of 4 shredding algorithms for best privacy protection or clean speed.
• Password protect key, sensitive features in the application while still allowing cleaning the system.
• Clean your Windows Vista based system.
• Manage system Services. Disable, start, stop Services.

Click here to Download nCleaner from the Official Website.

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People In Need :: Heart Warming Paper Ads at Cannes

The Ads below are some Heart Warming Paper Ads at Cannes this year. These Ads won the silver lions in Outdoor Category at Cannes. The Ad was created for the organization People In Need Charity and was created by a well known agency Saatchi & Saatchi. Truly Heart Warming!!

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Sunglasses 24 euro - access to water 8 euro

Pint of beer 4,50 euro - 50 liters of fresh water 1,50 euro

Aftershave 35 euro, basic home 6,50 euro

Handbag 32 euro - Food for a week 4 euro

More Details about this Ad:

Type Of Entry: PRODUCT & SERVICE
Category: Fundraising & Appeals
Title: SUNGLASSES
Advertiser/Client: CORDAID
Product/Service: PEOPLE IN NEED CHARITY
Entrant Company, City: SAATCHI & SAATCHI, Amstelveen
Country: THE NETHERLANDS
Advertising Agency, City: SAATCHI & SAATCHI, Amstelveen
Country: THE NETHERLANDS
Creative Director: Magnus Olsson
Copywriter: Saatchi/Saatchi Tribe
Art Director: Saatchi/Saatchi tribe (Tim Bishop)
Photographer: Calle Stolze
Producer: Jan Willem Wiesenekker
Account Supervisor: Ard Krak
Advertiser's Supervisor: Alexandra van Nieuwenhuyzen

Honey Honey (Salman Video)

Most famous Buildings

Fuji Sankei Building in Tokyo

"Dancing House"

Here's a building that should really get your attention when walking pass it. The Dancing House is considered as one of the more real controversial buildings in Prague. The DH was actually designed by a great architect from California, which only proves that he had done some type of hallucinogen while designing it. More after the break...

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Online Learning - Demystified

You may be wondering what to expect from a web-based class or an online learning course. This article is to demystify some of the misconceptions of Online Learning and how you can make effective use of the same. Online classes are not all that different from regular classes. You'll have an instructor and classmates, and will interact with them during the semester. You'll have homework and participate in class activities. In some ways, the experience will seem very familiar to you.

Still, online classes are different from regular classes in some important ways. You don't have to drive to campus and fight for a parking space, because you won't be meeting in a classroom at a regular time and place. Communication with your instructor and other students will take place online, not in person. Without an instructor reminding you what is due in class each week, you'll have more responsibility for your own learning. You will need basic computing skills and convenient access to the Internet.

The skills you need most to be a successful online learner are the same ones you use in any class: preparation, organization and self-discipline. The difference is in how you apply them.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets gets a cool new Interface

If you now sign in to Google Docs & Spreadsheets you'll be pleasantly suprised to see a cool new Interface. The brand new interface lets you create personal folders, and drag your online documents and spreadsheets into them - which I consider is a very cool feature. Also you'll notice on the left-hand side, a list of all the people you are collaborating with; click on any name to see all the files you're working on with them.

The main takeaway from the new and improved interface is that you're able to organize and manage all the documents created by you, no matter if they were made in collaboration with somebody or just by you on your own. Also the ability to create your own folders to sort the documents, flag them with a star or move to trash to remove a file from the listings is a very sought after feature that has been implemented I guess.

BTW, if you want to use Google Docs & Spreadsheets, you can access it for free with your Google account.

Here's a cool screenshot from the new interface [Click to Enlarge]

Best Search Results for the Ready-To-Buy Consumer

Dishwashers sprays water all over the dishes and when you open it the water quits spraying and usually the water is hot, so that's why there's steam. Dishwashers are supposed to be used to sterilize dishes, but not wash them, so at least rinse them off before putting them in the dishwasher, or else it will spray food all over the dishes which you are trying to get clean.
Dishwashers normally shut off if the door is opened.

If not, you would have had water flying all over. The arms you see when you look inside have holes that spray water over the surface of the dishes. These spin and clean by pressure and the soap you use. Water temperatures vary but are usually around 130 degrees.Different dishwashers do it slightly different but functionlity remains same.

Frigidaire Dishwashers will come with a drain hose and mounting hardware, and you need to supply a water line, and power cord to complete the installation.


Generally we visit sites for product research, that provide reviews on the products, specially reviews from people that actually own the product.Compare similar products', features, price(if you have a price range), brands. If we don't like the product after physically inspecting the item, we start the whole process again from the beginning.

Since results got from search engines are not pertaining to specific local stores with specific products consumers are looking for we have to begin search cycle again.

Solution is to visit Frigidaire Dishwashers which delivers local search results that combine very specific product information with very specific locality information. Krillion delivers search results category by category in major appliances like: refrigerators, ovens, ranges, washers and dryers, and dishwashers.

It's unique Krillion Localization Engine™ that scours the Web to find, integrate and present actionable local search results for the ready-to-buy consumer.It also provides search results for national brands that are sold by national and regional “big box” retailers.

What do the Number Codes inside the "Recycling Triangle" really mean?

Have you ever wondered what the number codes inside the "Recycling triangle" on the bottoms of plastic containers indicate? Well, it tells you the material that the container is made from.

The codes and materials are:

1 - Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET)
2 - High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
3 - Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
4 - Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
5 - Polypropylene (PP)
6 - Polystyrene (PS)
7 - Other Plastics

The material in which it is made of actually determines how recycling may occur. For instance, many recycling operations will not accept Code 7 material, because the wide variety of plastics makes recycling difficult.

Plastics coded 1 and 2 are recycled the most (Ref 2). Other less recyclable plastics are polyvinyl chloride (PVC - code 3), low-density polyethylene (LDPE code 4), polypropylene (PP - code 5), polystyrene (PS - code 6) and any other plastic (code 7).

What is Bandwidth Stealing all about? - Don't Even Think About It

There are many "don't steal my bandwidth" pages on the web. They are often long winded and hard for the novice or even the experienced web designer to understand. "Don't Even Think About It"(This article) is short and to the point. You will know what stealing bandwidth is in the 3 short minutes it takes you to read this article that is written without any sugar-coating at all.

What is Bandwidth Stealing really?

There are many forms of bandwidth stealing on the web today. However, the bandwidth theft I am focusing on here is image/graphic stealing, and is the bandwidth theft that occurs the most online. It occurs when you find an image you like and you want on your site. And you...

1. Are too low on income to have server space of your own to use -and/or-
2. Are too lazy to upload the image to your own server -and/or-
3. Are uneducated about the crime you are committing -or all of the above-

So is it a Crime?
Yes, it is a crime. The person whose site the image is on that you are linking to for the source of the image is paying to display their image on your site.

First of all, the image belongs to them, not you. What right do you have to say; "Oh, wouldn't this look great on my site?" and just copy the image URL and use it on your site. You have no right at all. It is not your graphic. Even if it is a very common graphic, for example a bullet or an arrow, and you have seen it on many sites. The operative word here is "on." Get it? It is on a site. That site owner is paying one way or another to have that graphic displayed on the web. Perhaps they pay a monthly fee. Perhaps, they use a 'free' web service, however, they have limits on the amount of bandwidth they are allowed to use. By linking to the graphic, YOU have STOLEN from them one way or another.

Secondly, if it is an original graphic that the site owner designed themself(ves), and you link to the source of the graphic to be displayed on your site, you are not only stealing the bandwidth, you are now plagiarizing their work too.

It seems a big culprit these days are the "community" type websites (MSN Groups, Yahoogroups and a few blogs too are a fine examples). A person can easily set up a little web site lickety-split - and it's even faster when you link to the source of the graphics you have seen on the web & like rather than uploading them in YOUR space. Not to mention writing to the owner of the graphic and asking their permission first. People do this because it is a fast and cheap way to put something up quickly. In doing this, you are stealing!

One other area that is festering boil for bandwidth stealing are the Bulletin Boards that offer the members an ability to have a cutesy little icon next to their name. People remember that cute little picture of a dancing potato they saw on a web site and link to the image source for their member icon. Now, the site owner who's dancing potato graphic you are linking to is looking through their server logs and sees a whooping 205,152 hits to this one little graphic. "What the heck," they say in disbelief! Or, they get a notice from their 'free' web site host telling them that they have exceeded their allowable bandwidth for the month and their site will be shut off OR they have to pay extra money to keep it up.

Bottom line, if you want to use a graphic on your site, you must do these things: write to the site owner of the graphic that you would like to use on your site. •>ASK<•, I repeat ASK them if you can use that graphic on your site. If they say yes, then thank them and be certain to thank them in the credits of your site. If they say no, swear a bit under your breath but under no circumstances do you link to the graphic thinking that "I'm not really using it on my site.. since it is not on my server. Leave it alone and go find something else instead.

Does this text make you angry or are you grinning ear to ear? If you are feeling angry, you are one of those snatch and grab people who take what they want and say the heck with the rules. If you are smiling ear to ear, you are a site owner who is glad to see the text you have just read. It is in plain English and not sugar coated in any way.

A warning: Many site owners (including me) can track down and pinpoint exactly where their images are being used on other sites. When that happens, you will be in trouble. If you are new to the web, take the advice of this article as your first lesson and don't forget it.

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