Black Friday 2012 is yet to come, but you must be preparing for shopping now. This is the season, when you find out best deals on your favourite products all over. We have come up with 10 best tips, so you could shop in style on this Black Friday 2012. Just follow the tips.

1. Prepare a list of items

It is really wise to prepare a list of gifts and items you plan to buy before the shopping on Black Friday. This may help you to control your impulse to buy unwanted things or avoid buying things which are not necessary.

2. Search online advertisements

You can check sites such as Slickdeals and Black Friday@ GottaDeal.com for store advertisements. It may give an idea about different items and its prices. You can easily compare those prices with the retail prices.

3. Check reviews and compare prices online

Check sites such as PriceGrabber, Bing and Nextag for price comparison and find best deals on days leading up to Black Friday. Deal sites including Dealnews help you to find best prices for retailers on select items. Spend a few minutes for online reviews for sale items that you plan to buy. Go for some quality products that long last and function well if you find one-star reviews for the particular brand that you are searching for.

4. Enjoy deals with coupons

You can make your deals better with coupons. You will be able to find coupon codes and printable coupons online if you search coupon sites like Bargainist, RetailMeNot and other Black Friday deal sites. You can also search social network like Twitter and Facebook and sign up for text mobile alerts from leading stores.

5. Create an account with online retailers

You can find best deals on Black Friday shopping if you create an account with online retailers and provide credit card information and address before they start selling items. This way you can even search items and save them to a wish list or cart and order them when the sales start.

6. Know price comparison and return policies

You must have an idea about the stores that offer price- matching on Black Friday. Some stores including Sears and Best Buy do not provide price comparison for purchases on Black Friday. Coupon sites like Dealnews provide charts with price matching and exclusions. You must understand the return policies of the sites and stores where you plan to buy on Black Friday so that you can return items that your family or friends do not like.

7. Search Sites early

Most of the online sales on Black Friday start before they start their sales at stores. So it is wise to hit the sites early to catch the best deals before the sales start officially.

8. Ready for the unanticipated

Check Amazon.com if the particular bargain sells out before you hit it. You can find the best deals at Amazon on Black Friday as it often lowers its prices to match its competitors.

9. Go for online purchases and enjoy cash back

There are several sites such as Ebates and FatWallet.com offer cash back to their customers from 2% to nearly 14% through their PayPal account or via check for online purchases on Black Friday.

10. Wait for attractive bargains

If you do not find any attractive deals, wait for the best bargains. You can find many items for cheap prices in the first two weeks of December. Besides, Cyber Monday also offers some superhot last minute deals.

One of the most significant works by Anthony Burgess was his famous novel Clockwork Orange, which he considered as his lesser works, has laid the foundation of the influential and definitive edition of the Clockwork Orange app for iPad. It was first published in 1962 by William Heinemann. And today it is found in its most interactive and ultimate edition as a Clockwork Orange App not only for literature but also for visual and musical culture.

Clockwork Orange App has made the world spectacular and distinctive with its ability to combine video and sound recordings, interactive texts and archival documents in a prolific production. Furthermore, you can also read the restored version of the text, freshly edited by Andrew Biswell, Anthony Burgess’s biographer.

This app will allow you to examine fully the previous unpublished original 1961 transcript, which has been replete with musical scores, illustrations and interpretations. Likewise, this app enables you to explore the progression and insight of ‘Clockwork Orange’, with exclusive material sorted out from the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and the Random House archives. This material further helps in tracing the novel’s improvement from manuscript to masterpiece.

Moreover, a Clockwork Orange app is there to make you listen to all the audio clips of the author discussing and elaborating his work and reading from the text. And also you will enjoy a complete reading by Tom Hollander corresponding to the text. Tom Hollander is one of the famous actors of Hollywood and he has recently provided the vocal texture for clockwork orange app with a smooth, almost lyrical, and crisp voice.

It has accomplished the task of interpreting the all-embracing and inimitable slang of the book at once understandable to readers. Not only this, but clockwork orange app also facilitates you to watch leading Anthony Burgess scholars and famous fans who will be discussing clockwork orange in a succession of custom-made videos.

Although, many users will find it a bit bore to their taste however, it has it proficient task in letting you to know and learn everything about this text along with interviews, essays, articles and other previously unpublished materials about the origin of clockwork orange. Besides all this it assimilates you with the commentary and analysis from every aspect of the book, right from the very famous last chapter to the controversial film by Stanley Kubrick.

Along with other literally apps, you will find the real worth of Clockwork Orange in education; with the preserve materials of the biographers and scholars. The most entertaining and fun section you will find is the archive one. This section will make you scouring through a shoebox belonging to Anthony Burgess’s follower.

You will enjoy also the advance information sheet, where the author’s hobbies are listed to let you know about them like educational broad casting, occult, drinking and the relative philology. For those who believe that new technology will turn them into illiterate dumb, they need to have a bit understanding of this app and they acquire a chance to play with the exclusive Clockwork Orange app.

This will certainly change their opinion. Consequently, people will try to believe in modern technology rather than considering it against their moral values. Because, once you will go through the Clockwork Orange app for iPad you will certainly have and amazing change of mind with its multi-purpose tasks and you will surely say that a clockwork orange has scare you all over again.

Android authorizes thousands of mobile devices across the world. It gives you a wide range and multi platform for creating games, apps etc. We have come up with best Android apps, so you could use them accordingly. Just go through this article.

Chameleon Launcher

It is one of the best modern android apps now a day. Its main task is to develop an enhanced looking spin on evaded android widget system, with the most relevant information that you want any time. Also with the help of context system you can use specific rules so that whenever you unlock your device your valuable home screen is visible to you. These home screen context rules can be set on Wi-Fi networks, GPS locations and time ranges.

Amazon MP3

It is certainly not a new app but, it’s a service with a bit modification that enables people to play different songs stored in their music locker. This is one of the best apps for young people as they are highly affiliated to music. This app will automatically add their MP3 music in the Amazon cloud player.

Talking Ginger

Its popularity can be counted by the fact that it had 500,000 installs just after its release. Its animal hero will speak your words back to you with his assigned bedtime routine.

eMusic

This music service was first launched in 2012 in USA but now it has made available everywhere. Anyone can listen to their favorite music stored in their phones or tablets and also getting recommendations for new music. eMusic subscribers can also download free music by paying.

ICC Cricket

This app has rendered new world for cricket lovers. International Cricket council has officially launched an android app. Its main aim is to provide cricket information regarding different tournaments, ball to ball text commentary, audio and video highlights as well.

Scosche RYHTYHM

This finest app has found its advantage in the physical accessory. You can wear your armband Scosche RHYTYM while running and can check your pulse track and can make it available later with further analysis.

GWR 2013 Augmented Reality

Guinness World Record books have organized a new app, which makes you look at the wanders of the world going around.

Audioid

This is a new technology basically used for automatically identifying audio material using aural fingerprints. It gets you with the right 808-state with the rhythm and music composer as audioid.

Bloomberg Radio +

When it comes to the multi-purpose platforms bloom berg radio app is the active one. Its latest app has brought radio app to mobile devices which can enable you to view data and charts while they are being broad-casted.

Trigger Trap

This app of android has been designed to work with SLR cameras, triggering with modes like Star trail, time-lapse and long-exposure. Although, you must have a separate hardware dongle in order to connect between your android device and the camera.

Signal Generator

It’s another app of musical toy like a big knob that can be twisted to make noises with an audio signal generator, including chords and scales.

Distress Signal

It works as a medium to provide you the emergency services. As it sends the signals from your location to the local emergency services even if they aren’t in your country. This service currently works in a few countries like USA, UK. Hong Kong, New Zealand etc but a wider network is on its way.

NuffnangX

Its name might not be good, but the idea behind this app is quite interesting as it allows you to get online summaries, and even you can comment on the blogs if that specific blog supports this technology.

Michael Johnson Motiva8

Apart from his TV commenting skills, former athlete Michael Johnson has launched his fitness secrets to the android. So that you can get benefits from them also by enjoying music running on the way and vocal encouragement by Michael himself.

My Shelf

This app has sorted out the problem of storing pictures, links and notes. It can easily exchange data with WiFi or USB without the mess of even storing in the Cloud.

Pray With Me

This app has its focus on the prayer times. It’s basically a vocal assistant designed to help you in pronunciation of your Arabic (language) particularly during your five times prayers (SALAT). It includes several recordings that can guide you in your pronunciation.

Stay.com City Guide, Offline Maps

This app has actually a dual focus. It guides you while travelling with your friends in making travelling plans, while also helps you in drawing the maps offline for non-wallet screaming abroad.

BBC Good Food Recipes

It is one of the best apps for food lovers as it makes all kind of BBC food recipes available to you. BBC good food cookbook has opened this application to make you feel like home. It enables you to think, eat and stay healthy including quick, one-pot, festive and cake like stuff.

Xero

This app has its main focus on the accountancy facts. It can help making small accounting bank balances, expense claims, debt and invoicing to receipts. This data has been stored on Xero’s servers for security purposes.

8bit Beat Box

This app has taken its inspiration largely from the video games. It’s a music app for creating tones and music using a three octave keyboard and effective sample pads.

Jugglr

This is the first android app with a real vinyl scratch effect. Primarily, it records your mixes of music and uploads them to the Sound Cloud and makes them available to the wider world. It runs in the landscape or portrait mode.

Is Facebook going to charge a membership fees from its users across the globe? It’s being circulated that Facebook, which has reached 1 billion monthly active users in September, may charge some fees from its users. The message seems to be a ‘hoax’, claimed that Facebook will be charging for the service soon. The charges will be slapped due to the new Facebook profile changes, the message claimed.

However, there is no official word from Facebook itself regarding this. When we logged in at Facebook help center page, we found out written “We will always keep Facebook a free service for everyone.”

Facebook just released their price grid for membership. $9.99 per month for Gold member services, $6.99 per month for Silver member service, $ 3.99 per month for Bronze member services. Free if you copy and paste this message before midnight tonight. When you sign on tomorrow morning you be promoted for payment. It is official. It was even on the news. Facebook will start charging due to the new profile changes. If you copy this on your wall your icon will turn blue and Facebook will be free from you. Please pass this message on…

Facebook is raking billions of dollars every year from online advertising, and it would be a business suicide, if they fix a membership fees for the users.

A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed to The Next Web, a technology news website that the company has no plan to charge a membership fees from users. The Next Web quoted Facebook official as saying: “We have no plans to charge for Facebook. It’s free and always will be.”

Meanwhile, it’s being said that Facebook will be charging users to promote posts to friends. With this program, it would be now easy to bump your promotional post in news feed, so your friends and subscribers are more likely to notice it.

Critics believe that the new Facebook advertising program will lead to explosion of unwanted content to the top of your page or wall. But Facebook will be making some really good money out of it.

There is a good news in store for all those LOSERS by weight! Android phones and i0S have come up with the latest apps, which will now enable the weight loss programs to be more effective and more interesting. We know that weight loss has always been a boring task for all.

People execute routine exercises, more like a ‘duty’ rather than enjoying it. Finally they become fed up of the routine diet regime and exercises. They just thirst for a CHANGE and this change is brought you by the latest models of the Android phones and i0S.

The struggle for maintaining a fit body and owning those curvaceous figures has always been a dream for every human being. But slogging out in the gyms and different slimming centers endlessly, have made it exhaustive and lifeless for the weight losers.

Following are some of the free apps, which can make weight loss more interesting and something that can be looked forward to-

1. BMI Calculator (Free)

BMI Calculator calculates the entire Body Mass index of a person and it also provides you with an added feature of the calculation of waist-to-height ratio. This gives you a snapshot of what should be the ideal weight and measurements as per the age and height of the person.

Android

2. Noom (Free)

This app, proudly presents a scientifically coated weight loss regiment. Nothing can beat the passion for games. Using this as a USP, it uses a game oriented strategy to attract and encourage the users to get involved in it completely. It displays your workout progress, your weight loss position and helps you in maintaining a log book to keep a track of your daily meals. It also keeps you linked on Twitter and Facebook.

Android

3. Fooducate (Free)

This app basically gives you a thorough understanding about the nutritional value of different foods available in the stores and in the markets. Which food is beneficial and which is not is advised by this apps.

Android |  iOS

4. Diet Assistant (Paid and Free)

This app gives you an array of technologically oriented advanced features like database backup, restore, personalized alerts and a home screen widget.

Android

5. Diet Point (Free and Paid)

This app is considered to be the largest mobile forum for weight loss. BMI and BMR calculations along with meal reminders are also linked with this app.

Android | iOS

6. My Diet Coach (Free and Paid)

This app centers completely on women and provides ‘ease’ and motivation in a flexible way.

Android

7. MyFitnessPal (Free)

It provides a database related to food. It also summarizes your entire day’s intake and keeps a count of calories required for the body per day.

Android | iOS

Thus we can say that, even weight loss has advanced in leaps and “POUNDS”!

iPhone 5 is now available, but unlike its predecessors, it has no Google Maps this time. You must be looking for the Google Maps on your iPhone, but in fact, Apple has ditched Google Maps on iPhone for its own maps application- that is not so ‘user friendly.’

Critics say that Apple is losing its direction with the latest fierce competitive tussle with Google. I’m not getting into any debate but, I’ll tell you how to get Google Maps on your latest and new iPhone 5. Just go through this step by step guide.

Step 1: Launch Safari internet browser on your new iPhone 5.

Step 2: Enter maps.google.com on the address bar. Let the page reloaded.

Step 3: You will find a notification asking you to allow http://maps.google.com to use your current location. Press OK.

Step 4: In next step you will be asked if you want to add the Google Maps icon on the home screen of your iPhone 5. Click Yes.

Step 5: Enjoy using the Google Maps on your iPhone 5.

Meanwhile, it’s being said that Google is working on a standalone Google Maps app for iOS. Google executive Dan Cobley has confirmed the report, speaking on Bloomberg TV.

Making your blog a successful venture is important, if you want to make money out of it. In this article, I’ll focus more on the blogonomical side of blogging. So, fortune rather than fame is the primary focus on this blog post. Read the 9 steps to make your blog successful.

1. Use WordPress

WordPress is the mother of all blogging platforms, as it allows you having access to the code. It’s free and with the help of this blogging platform, you can place items in the order you choose. Otherwise, you may not be able to rearrange the things on your blog pages they way that you want them.

• How to Install WordPress Blog- Step by Step Guide 
• Blogging as Career: How WordPress Helps You 

2. Keyword Research

This is one of the important parts in to take care in your blogging journey. Use Google Adword Tool to research your keyword. Select best keywords, integrating into your blog titles, your blog name, article titles and so on. I would suggest you to be restrictive when using keywords.

3. Edit Categories and Keywords

Your category should be matching with your Keywords. You can edit your blog categories to integrate keywords into URLs. Place your Keywords in the beginning of the article once or twice. Beware- More than two Keywords may be taken as spam.

• Selecting Keywords for your Blog Posts

4. Linking to Other Blogs

Adding links to other blogs, is important as it give you weightage. Before linking to other blogs, make sure that hey are useful to your readers and those links are trustworthy. Trust is a big issue for people using the Internet.

5. Blog directory submission

Try to submit your blog to the top blog directories. People can find you more easily this way, besides this, you will be getting quality backlinks, that are useful these days. Get your blog into the top blog directories including Google, Yahoo and DMOZ.org.

• Install 10 Best WordPress Plugins Just After Launching Your Blog 

6. Blog Posting Length

Try for post lengths of the at least 300 words and integrate selected keywords near the top of the post.  It would be easy for web spiders to track your content, if you write more than 300 words. The keyword should be related to the title that is used by search engines to help understand the focus of the title.

• Top Secrets of Successful Blogging Revealed

7. Moderating Your Blog

Moderating is important of your blog. Don’t let all the comments get posted in your blog. Moderate all comments and delete those containing useless links, those that are off topic that might offend your readers.

8. Clean URLs

Edit your URL before publishing your blog post. I would suggest you to use keywords in the URLs. Clean URLs are easier for a search engine spider to crawl and index into its related search engine automatically.

9. Frequency of New Blog Posting

Make frequent postings. Frequent posts will keep the spiders coming back to see what’s new. This will help to keep fresh content flowing into search engine indexes from your domain.

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Many people face difficulty in creating daily and weekly email newsletters. The main confusion revolves around how to add various options in it and the benefits related to those. Here are a few simple steps which one can follow for creating a daily and weekly email newsletter in WordPress using Aweber or MailChimp.

Though people build a lot of email list however; a useful email list can only be created only, when it’s built using the right steps. Segmenting or grouping your email list plays a pivotal role in giving successful campaigns as segmentation of the subscribers ensures the sending of relevant and targeted emails.

In order to keep abreast with their sites, many people try to use email newsletters on a daily basis, but they fail to do so due to the burden of work. For such users, weekly email newsletter option may be a boon which is far better than choosing the option of completely unsubscribing from a site.

The first and the foremost thing required for creating a weekly newsletter option in WordPress is the availability of an Aweber or MailChimp account. The methods used for both are quite similar. Here we will discuss the steps used with a MailChimp account, as we are using it with this blog.

First, you need to Login to your account and click on the Lists navigation item which will show a list. After that, you need to click on the Groups and then on View Groups option under that. As there are no groups created by you yet so, you will see a new screen.

Create Groups

You also get the choice of showing group options in the signup form. It depends on your choice whether you select checkboxes like our site, radio buttons, drop downs, or choose not to show it at all. However, it’s always better to use checkbox option if you are using MailChimp.

For this, first you need to select the group title and then add the options you want to make a part of that group. As the target at present is to create Daily and Weekly newsletter, only these two options will be added. Once you save these created groups, this part is completed. After this, the forms are created.

For creating the forms, first you need to go back to the Lists page and click on the Forms link. You also get a page, where you can have a glimpse of your signed up form. If you wish to customize this page, you can use the header images and other options present on that page to give a customized look to your form.

Create Forms

After ensuring that the checkboxes selected by you are present, you need to scroll to the top of the page and click on the “For your Website tab.” By clicking on this option, you see a Signup Form Embed Code. On this page, you will also get the option to create form embed code. Though, there are multiple options present on that page, you need to choose the Naked Form option as it helps in customising the page easily.

Create Form Embed Code

In case, you don’t like their headings and field indications in your form, you can click the options box and match the settings accordingly. After that, you need to click on Create Embed Code as a result of which, you can see the embed code on the same page towards the right hand side below the button.

You can copy and paste this code and use it in your theme wherever you wish to show in the option form. As it is the sidebar used in MailChimp so, you should paste the code in the sidebar.php file.

After pasting the code, the main target is to bring all the styling divs down except the basic form fields. With the help of this embed code; you get a text added to your email input field which is called “Enter your email…” So, when you click on this text to enter your email, the text goes away and you can write your email.

After the completion of the styling part, you are required to create campaigns in your MailChimp or Aweber dashboard for all the groups specifically. For this, you can use RSS to Email campaigns which are commonly known as RSS Driven Campaigns. For getting the RSS Driven Campaign option, you first need to click on Campaigns menu item then drag your mouse over on the campaign button.

The final steps involve entering your RSS Feed URL, selection of time and the segment of your list. So, by following all the above mentioned steps, you can create Daily and Weekly email newsletters and also segment and group your email lists successfully.

If you are owner of a website, you must be thinking about adding a Google search box to it. The search box performs in two ways. It helps your visitors finding what they need on your website and secondly it scans the entire web. With this, your visitors not only get fast and relevant search results, but you make money as well.

Google offers its customised search box. You can add the HTML code by cutting from Google Free to your web page creating a search box for your website. But in this article, I would let you know how to create your own custom Google search box and adding it to your website.

You just need to tweak the code for the better results. You can keep the search results to entire World Wide Web or specific to your domain.

Google Search Box HTML Code

<form method=”get” action=”http://www.google.com/search”> <div style=”border:1px solid black;padding:4px;width:20em;”> <table border=”0″ cellpadding=”0″> <tr><td> <input type=”text” name=”q” size=”25″ maxlength=”255″ value=”" /> <input type=”submit” value=”Google Search” /></td></tr> <tr><td align=”center” style=”font-size:75%”> <input type=”checkbox” name=”sitesearch” value=”santoshmishra.com” checked /> only search Santosh Mishra<br /> </td></tr></table> </div> </form>

Now the value or your search will be looking like this. You can tweak the code very easily. Change the border style or colour is quite easy. Even this code can be directly used to your website. You need to change the domain name given in the ‘Value’ field.

Electronic waste or e-waste is a trouble for the society as it’s growing rapidly with the evolving technology. May be electronics or other technology, several new features or advancement are being introduced on daily basis living the old technology far behind. Electronic waste may be defined as discarded mobile phones, television sets, computers, laptops, refrigerators, entertainment devices or office electronic equipment. In order to make space for the new electronics items we need to get rid off the old e-waste. In this article, I would tell you about top benefits of recycling electronics waste.

Why Recycling Electronic Waste is Beneficial?

1. Creating Space by Recycling of Electronic Waste

As we know latest technology updates leave the old tech gadgets or electronic items far behind. So, by recycling electronic waste you can create space. With this effort, the portion of land can be used for other purpose. Recycling is necessary for making space for new electronic gadgets as well. Unless the old electronic waste is recycled, you cannot use the space accommodating your new products.

2. Reusing the Materials While Recycling

By recycling the old electronic waste, you can reuse the valuable materials. Electronic products are generally made of valuable items and metals like palladium and gold. These types of metals can be used again in the creation of circuits, wires, chips along with plugs. Besides this, monitors, television, printers, computers and fax machines produce a large quantity of plastic and glass. These e-waste products can be used making of new devices.

3. Recycled Product at an Affordable Cost- Recycling Centers

Recycled products are available at an affordable cost from recycling centers. For example, refurbished computers are available relatively cheaper than normal computers, once the recycling process is completed. I know about several refurbishing companies that give away their old computers or other electronic devices for charity purpose.

4. Energy Conservation by Recycling

Recycling is useful in energy conservation. Using recycled products is beneficial for making the environment a better place to live in.