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The 4 Big Myths of Profile Pictures OkTrends

I am back from dark months of data mining, here now to present my ores. To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com, analyzing three primary things: Facial Attitude. Is the person smiling? Staring straight ahead? In looking closely at the astonishingly wide variety of ways our users have chosen to represent themselves, we discovered much of the collective wisdom about profile pictures was wrong. One of the first things we noticed when diving into our pool of photos is that men and women have very different approaches to the camera.

Women smile about 50% more than men do and make that flirty-face four times as often. Now, you’re always told to look happy and make eye contact in social situations, but at least for your online dating photo, that’s just not optimal advice. Notice that, however, that flirting away from the camera is the single worst attitude a woman can take. Maybe women want a little mystery.

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How to Repair Split Boxes

There are a couple of ways to fix this; the most common method is simply to tape it up. Hardly an attractive solution and it tends not to be very solid in any case. There are also "corner repair" stickers available. These are thin, stiff pieces of cardboard with glue on one side that you can apply to the inside corner of a split. I've only tried them a few times and wasn't entirely pleased with the results. (You can click on the pictures to get a much larger view.) One of the main reasons why boxes split in the first place is because of the way they're constructed. . - Greg Aleknevicus For further notes on repairing splits, please see How to Repair Split Boxes 2.0. Text Ascii Art Generator. The Official Site. Download Pivot 3 beta.

Hiding Your IP Address, Anonymous Internet Surfing HOWTO. Hiding Your IP Address Using HTTP, CONNECT, CGI/PHP/WEB, SOCKS proxies Anonymous Internet Surfing HOWTO You could try reading about wingates, socks and proxies (oh before i forget, turn off java, javascript, cookies, what's related, and smart update ... if you are using IE you're not very smart).

Hiding Your IP Address, Anonymous Internet Surfing HOWTO

Also try installing a firewall, or DHCP or you can learn from me! There are situations in which you may want to visit a site without leaving a trace of the visit. For instance you want to check what's going on at your competitor's site. Your visit will generate a record in the log file. Note that these tests are not very sophisticated. Remember that simple owner of Web server may collect information about requests you had performed in search engines, keywords you had typed, your browser and language, date, time, your operating system, physical and geographical position, pages from which you had clicked links and so on.

Step #1-Determine your IP Address: Step #2-Get Anonymous: Method #1: Anonymizer. Portal News - Why your next computer upgrade should be an SSD. How to Move, Unlock Toolbars in Firefox. Firefox does not have a lock / unlock Toolbar option (like IE).

How to Move, Unlock Toolbars in Firefox

So how can you move or unlock Firefox toolbars and organize your toolbars better to optimize screen space, and make it look elegant. Advertisements I was using my friend’s laptop and see his messy Firefox toolbars. In the first line, the location bar where you type the url is really small, displaced by the bookmarks toolbar which is aligned on the right side of the location bar (instead of Google search box).

The second line is a big blank line wasting useful screen space. So how do you move and relign these toolbars? However, Firefox has no Lock or Unlock toolbar buttons, and it is impossible to drag-drop these toolbars, because nothing gets dragged anyway. An Interesting Look at Nintendo. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. What does your phone number spell?