Donate used car for charity

Are you interested in social service? Are you planning to give a hand in improving the conditions of the society by any means? A lot of Americans sell their old used cars at very cheap rates just because they want to get rid of it. For those, who are having problem with this, I have good news for you. You can donate your car to some organization and get the tax exemption on the price of the car evaluated by them. This will help you in paying less tax on your income. The car donation organization is a well organized social organization.

You can either call them or donate the car online or they themselves come to you and pick the car from you without any charges. After taking the car, they evaluate your car and fix a price for it. They do sell that car for a certain price, after that they will send you the forms which can be used as tax reduction forms. If your car is more than $500, then you will get two forms. They have a toll free number to which you can dial at any time and get your information cleared. Make sure you've read through the official IRS information on vehicle donations before donating your car to charity.

You may have doubt, how is your donation going to help the needy people. This organization uses the money that they get by selling the cars that they get from various donors to activated missionaries. This is a nonprofit Christian ministry working with dedicated missionaries and human service agencies to meet the spiritual and material needs of people from all walks of life, regardless of age, gender, faith or nationality. These missionaries actively participate in many backward countries where people don’t have access to their basic needs. Some of them don’t have enough money to eat twice a day. You can make a difference in this world with your small donation. You may think it as a very small amount. Though, it is a drop in ocean, all these drops constitute together to form the ocean. So, think over this and act on to donate car.

Take care of your health with fruits

Banana: one of the most found and most healthy fruit. Studies have shown that potassium reduces the risk of stroke and high fiber foods also prevent heart disease and promote bone health. Banana is the fruit which has both potassium and high fiber content. It’s also the fruit which protect people against stomach ulcers acting as an antacid. Bananas also contain soluble fiber called pectin which helps you in getting rid of constipation. It does many things for us like easing you from depression, Anemia, Seasonal Effective Disorders (SAD), morning sickness, heartburn, hangovers and many more.

Interesting Fact: Researchers have shown that the potassium rich fruit can help in learning by making pupils more alert. So, students at Twickenham School (Middlesex) are given three bananas at breakfast lunch and dinner.

It is important to note that the real banana tree is actually a fruit that must be cooked before eating, has a green, red or brown color and has seeds: it is today the staple food of many african populations and is different from the bananas we are used to eat. The original banana is a cultivar used as a food (cooked or ground to make banana flour) and a a source of fibre. Banana leaves are also used to transport food or as umbrellas (since they are large and waterproof)

Carbon FOOTPRINT-environment consciousness

Carbon footprint of an individual is the amount of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2), Sulpherdioxide (SO2), Methane (CH4) released into atmosphere either directly or indirectly by an individual daily expressed only in terms of CO2.

As the level of green house gases (GHG) is rising day by day paving way for many natural disasters which couldn’t be foreseen. A few of them already identified and well known are Global Warming, Melting of polar ice caps and rise in sea level, monsoon cycle got disturbed etc,. All these are inter related and we need to resort to certain measures to control the increase in level of GHG’s if not we could stop its rise.

Carbon footprint gives us an assessment and allows making decisions on the strategies that could be made to control it.

Various countries have come forward and a protocol is setup after their conference in Kyoto called Kyoto protocol which sets up a standard and law for all the industries to control their emissions, suggests the use of alternative energy sources.

In response to this UK has started a carbon trust which certifies and helps various industries in reducing their emissions and producing less CO2 emitting products and label is also made.

Actually the word carbon footprint came from the “Ecological footprint” which tells us how many resources we are using with respect to the ability of the earth to replenish them. It compares current demand with planets regenerating capacity. For example its estimated that we have used 1.3 earth’s resources .It depends upon our lifestyle and it’s our duty to change and adapt it in such a way that future generations have the resources to survive .So one has to conserve the resources.
Check out your footprint at any of the following sites and they even suggest you the measures you could take to preserve the environment that we live in.

Facts: Every year Sahara desert grows by 0.6km

Watch movies online with ease and comfort

Movies are the great entertainment source in the present day. You can find everything in them and they can take you off from your stress and pain. Movies contain action, adventures, comedy and everything that you find in your real life. Sometimes, they act as a guide for your real life problems and also many people get inspired from them. Watching movies is a great fun. Sometimes you will not have a chance to watch a movie in the theater and also in the home if you don't get the DVD of the movie. Mymovees is a great source to watch movies online. They have all kinds of movies and the good thing they can be watched for free.

Wolfram’s ALPHA Intelligent Internet

"The idiot box", is no longer going to be the tag for computer. Our generation is going to witness a new species which up till now served for the man kind with its smartness is going to help him more with its intelligence and decision taking capability. Yes you guessed it right. It's none other than our daily life "internet". It is going to remove the stain on it which states it to be a smart tool to be used by human. With the lightening efforts of Stephen wolfram this species of internet is going to have its brain for the first time in its history of existence. It can now help the needy to take the right decision. The day when your computer says to you that there is more efficient good waiting for you in other shop is not too longer.

This could possibly be the best outcomes of the present day internet as we ultimately look for the service to the end user. That poor old man going to save some in the name of internet. Beyond this the wolfram actually understands the query and answers accordingly. This requires a huge database and also the innumerable computations from the web. Wolfram devised method to do it the easier way. This system which was built by wolfram is potentially limitless. But it does not interfere in personal queries like what should i do. It just tells you what to do in the case of dilemma while surfing the net and guides you to the right destination.

Google voice -Google's Speech-to-text technology

Google launched its new product very recently in the month of march which is quite innovative technology that is being provided freely. Briefly SAI, the technology is speech to text or which converts voice mails to text. This really innovative technology can have many applications and could even help the handicapped people though its not aimed at them.

Actually it started with Google's acquisition of Grand central communication.Google Voice provides consumers with a single phone number to which all incoming calls to home, office and cell phones can be diverted to.The new version the product after acquisition,uses goog-411 directory service which can convert voice mails to text or SMS or even email.Although Google makes money by selling products to organizations and through advertisements,people wonder where this product will fit into Google's business model and an announcement from one of the official is that its going to be free consumer product for now.

But the sad part of it is it's for US only for now.
If it opens its API there could be many applications like helping the handicapped by converting the speech to text to those who cant hear ,converting the text to speech to those who cant see and many more.It can be used at many places more innovatively and hope Google comes out with the same through out the world.
Know more @ https://www.google.com/voice

Personalize your Vista

It has been a long time since the releases of Vista, but few of us are still not able to figure out of how to personalize it to our taste. Two reasons for this, i) You can't tweak Vista like XP as the tools that worked for XP don't work for Vista ii) Microsoft also didn't release any tools regarding this. But, you need not worry; we are here to help you out.

Tweak VI: Tweak UI was extremely useful in customizing your XP, but this doesn't work with Vista and Vista also didn't promise in updating this. Similar to this there is Tweak VI that helps in personalizing your Vista. It is available in both the free and premium version. There are many gadgets, tools with this software. You can download from here. To know more information about this visit this site.


Winkey: Windows XP is liked by many due to its easy navigation through the shortcuts but these are not fully present in Vista like in XP. This can be achieved in Vista by using Winkey Software. Click here to install winkey software.

How to install Winkey?

• Right click on winkey software and choose properties.
• Navigate to compatibility tab.
• Select "Run the program in compatibility for", select "windows XP ( Service Pack2)".
• Click on ok.
• Double click on Winkey initialization file to install
To the maximum you can use shortcuts of XP in Vista, but the keys that work with Windows are disabled [:(]

Gadgets: Vista is well known for its gadgets. Gadgets make vista more appealing than other Windows OS. Though you get a limited number of gadgets by default, you can get more from Microsoft official site. Gadgets are available under various divisions like video players, mail & IM, Multimedia, Fun tools, games, search tools, friends...