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Tweaking.com – Windows Repair is an all-in-one repair tool to help fix a large majority of known Windows problems including registry errors and file permissions as well as issues with Internet Explorer, Windows Update, Windows Firewall and more.

Malware and installed programs can modify your default settings. With Tweaking.com – Windows Repair you can restore Windows original settings.

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Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller

Kaspersky Lab has developed the TDSSKiller utility that allows removing rootkits and free for download and use!

What is a rootkit? A rootkit is a program or a program kit that hides the presence of malware in the system.

Once your system is infected the rootkit can run invisibly on your windows system.  A rootkit for Windows systems  is a program that penetrates into the system and intercepts the system functions (Windows API).

This rootkit can effectively hide its presence by intercepting and modifying low-level API functions. Moreover it can hide the presence of particular processes, folders, files and registry keys. Some rootkits install its own drivers and services in the system (they also remain “invisible”).

The utility supports 32-bit and 64-bit operation systems.

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K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. This Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. You should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.
There are five variants of the K-Lite Codec Pack:
The basic variant contains everything you need to play all the common video file formats. Such as AVI, MKV, MP4, OGM, and FLV. This pack is for those who like a small no-nonsense pack.
The standard variant contains some additional features compared to the basic variant. It contains Media Player Classic, which is an excellent player for video files. It also has (better) support for playback of DVDs. This pack is recommended for the average user.
The full variant has many additional features. It supports playback of several (lossless) audio formats. It contains VFW/ACM codecs that can be used for encoding. It has playback support for a few legacy audio and video formats. This package is suitable for power users.
The corporate variant is a special version for use in a corporate environment. It is similar to the full variant, minus a few items, but almost just as powerful. It has a strong focus on open source software.
The mega variant has almost the same contents as the full variant, but additionally contains Real Alternative and some extra VFW/ACM codecs.

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Exercise increases the size and number of mitochondria in the brains of mice (American Journal of Physiology, September 2011). The mice ran on a treadmill for an hour a day, six days a week, for eight weeks.

This could explain how exercise improves memory, treats depression, and makes people feel better and helps them to think more clearly. Until now, the leading theory to explain how exercise improves memory and treats depression was that exercise causes the brain to release endorphins, morphine-like compounds that can improve mood (Journal of Applied Physiology May 1982).

However, endorphins would not explain the improvement in memory and brain function associated with a regular exercise program.

Mitochondria are tiny chambers in cells that turn food into energy more efficiently than any other process in your body. Scientists have known for years that exercise enlarges and increases the number of mitochondria in muscle cells, to increase strength, speed and endurance; but this is the first research paper to offer a plausible explanation why exercise improves memory and relieves depression.

The increase in brain mitochondria could also explain how training for sports increases endurance by making the brain resistant to fatigue. It also could explain how exercise treats mental disorders, delays aging, and improves certain types of nerve damage.

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Created specifically for women, Curves offers a complete fitness and nutrition solution. The Curves 30 minute workout exercises every major muscle group and burns up to 500 calories through a proven program of strength training, cardio and stretching. In addition, club promotions and events encourage women to support charitable causes, learn about health-related issues and forge lasting friendships as part of the global Curves community.

Why Choose Curves:

Curves is the largest fitness franchise in the world.

Curves has nearly 10,000 locations in over 85 countries.

Curves is the first fitness and weight-loss facility designed for women.

Curves provides one-stop, affordable exercise and nutritional information.

Curves works every major muscle group with strength training, cardio and stretching in just 30 minutes, three times a week.

Curves’ 30 minute workout can burn up to 500 calories.

Curves presents the Curves Weight Management Plan, a diet and nutrition plan that shows you how to get permanent results without permanent dieting.

CurvesSmart is your customized personal coach that maximizes workout results and provides instant feedback.

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Curves Gold Coast – Bundall / Surfers Paradise

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Curves Gold Coast – Southport

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Curves Gold Coast – Robina

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Oxenford, Queensland 4210

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Public Gym Memberships Welcome At Bond University

Public usage of the facilities is very popular with 1 month, 1 Semester and 12 month memberships available, as well as single casual visit passes. Prices are reasonable with discounts applying to upcoming renewal members.

How much does Bond University Membership cost for the public?

Memberships Costs

Membership is available to both present and past students and staff on payment of the appropriate reduced fees.

NOTE -The Centre, as a University facility, is subject to changes in the academic calendar. Subsequently there will be interruptions on a semester basis to certain facilities. All prices include GST and are current as of 5th Jan 2009.

Casual Visits

Casual Gym Visit Prices ( October 1 2011)

Best Gym membership on the Gold Coast?

Onlife Gym Broadbeach

At OneLife Health and Fitness on offer is premium services with amazing views right in the heart of Broadbeach on the Gold Coast. 

Our OneLife Health & Fitness Clubs Feature

· Ladies only area’s

· Fully air-conditioned centre’s

· Group fitness studio’s

· Cardio area’s eg treadmills, bikes, cross trainers, rowers

· Free weight area’s

· Change rooms with lockers

· Crèche

· Cycle studio’s

· Infra-red saunas

· 30 min express RPM studio

· Boxing circuits

· Core/ab zones

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Included in your membership @ Onelife:

· Free fitness consultations

· Free programs and updates throughout membership

· Professionally trained staff to help them with all their health and fitness needs

· Access to all group fitness and cycle classes

· access to all facilities and equipment in the centre

· Time freeze options on memberships

· Access to their club 7 days per week (except some public holidays)

Onelife Health & Fitness Location : Broadbeach

Shop 27 Level 2 Oasis Shopping Centre
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If you feel tired most afternoons, you are normal, Studies from Harvard School shows napping Makes You Smarter!

Two studies from Harvard show that napping make you smarter. 

Study One: Matthew Walker instructed people to type a long list of words on a computer. Mr Walker showed that those who were trained at night and were tested after a long night’s sleep did far better than those who were trained in the morning and tested 12 hours later without sleeping. Thus, those who were tested after a night’s sleep did much better than those who were tested after 12 hours being awake (1).

those who took a 60-minute nap did far better than those who took only a 30-minute nap

In the second study, Sara Mednick reported that she compared a person’s ability to learn after no sleep, a 30-minute nap, or a 60 minute nap (2). Those who had a 30-minute nap did better than those who didn’t nap, while those who took a 60-minute nap did far better than those who took only a 30-minute nap. When you start a nap, your eyes are kept still, called non-rapid-eye-movement sleep. You drop down from stage one sleep into a deeper stage two, then a deeper stage three, and then your eyes start to move rapidly back and forth. This is called Rapid Eye Movement sleep, also know as REM sleep. You learn best if you wake up right after non-rapid-eye-movement sleep (stage 2). And you get more non rapid eye movement sleep (stage 2) in a 60-minute nap than a 30-minute nap.

If you feel tired most afternoons, you are normal!

In many parts of the world it is traditional to take an afternoon nap or siesta. Studies of office workers and school children show that people work best in the early morning. As the morning progresses, they lose their ability to concentrate, go out to lunch and function way below their capacity for the rest of the day. A study from the University of Pennsylvania Hospital shows that pilots, who sleep just 20 minutes during flights while their copilots take over, are more alert, attentive and responsive than those who don’t nap (3).

It gets worse as you age. Older people fall asleep while you talk to them in the afternoon. An article in the medical journal, SLEEP, shows that a regular afternoon nap can help older people remain awake afternoon and evenings (4). They took a planned nap for 90 minutes between 1:30 and 3:00 in the afternoon. They were hooked up to special machines that showed that most slept for about one of the one and a half hours they lay in bed. These people had a remarkable improvement in their alertness in the afternoon and evening. They did not sleep as deeply at night and did awake a little earlier in the morning, but felt that the gain in alertness afternoons and evenings was far more important than this slight loss of sleep at night. Their sleep cycles however remained unchanged, so they still went to bed at their usual times.

Tiredness is a signal that your brain needs a rest.

The only effective treatment for tiredness is rest.

If you suffer from afternoon tiredness, find a quiet place to lie down during your lunch hour and take a nap. There is no data to support exercising when you feel tired because exercise does not perk you up. Recommendations to eat protein-rich foods and avoid carbohydrate ones are not based on solid data. Eating does not prevent afternoon tiredness and the drop in mental and physical performance. The only effective treatment for tiredness is rest. Set a radio to wake you to music, rather than a harsh sound that will jolt you, and expect to be far more productive than you were when you struggled to get through the afternoon and evenings without napping.

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Osteoarthritis, also called degenerative arthritis, and reactive arthritis.

There are two major types of arthritis:

Osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis means that cartilage wears away and doctors don’t have the foggiest idea why and therefore they have no effective treatment. Doctors usually prescribe non-steroidal pills that help to block pain but do not even slow down destruction of cartilage.

Reactive Arthritise

Most serious scientists agree that an infection initiates the reactive arthritises and many think that the germ is often still there when symptoms start. Short-term antibiotics are ineffective, but if antibiotics are started before the joint is destroyed, they can prevent joint damage.

You are more likely to suffer reactive arthritis when you have:

I) positive blood tests for arthritis; all tests used to diagnose arthritis are measures of an overactive immunity;
II) swelling of the knuckles and middle joints of your fingers, causing them to look like cigars;
III) a history of a long-standing infection such as a chronic cough, burning on urination or pain when the bladder is full, chronic diarrhea and belching and burning in the stomach; and
IV) pain that starts at an age younger than 50.

Most rheumatologists refuse to treat their rheumatoid arthritis patients with antibiotics even though several controlled prospective studies show that minocycline drops the rheumatoid factor towards zero and helps to alleviate the pain and destruction of rheumatoid arthritis. The studies, referenced below, include: 1) First Netherlands study, 10 patients, J of Rheumatology 1990;17(1):43-46. 2) 2nd Netherlands Study, 80 patients, Arthritis and Rheumatism 1994;37(5):629-636. 3) Israel Study, 18 patients, J of Rheumatology 1992;19(10):1502-1504. 4) U.S.Mira Study, 219 patients, Annals of Internal Medicine. 1995(Jan15);122(2):81-89. 5) U.S. U of Nebraska Study, 40 patients, Arthritis and Rheumatism 1997;40(5):842-848.

Dr Mirkin Treats reactive arthritis patients with Minocycline 100 mg twice a day, (sometimes azithromycin 500 mg twice a week), but this must still be considered experimental because most doctors are not yet ready to accept antibiotics as a treatment. There is also possibility of a rare serious side effect of lupus. Many patients do not feel better for the first few weeks after they start taking minocycline. If a patient does not feel better after taking 100 mg of minocycline twice day for 2 months, I add Zithromax 500 mg twice a week. If the patient does not feel better after taking the two antibiotics for 6 months, Dr Mirkin adds the immune suppressants that most rheumatologists prescribe. But as soon as they feel better, Dr Mirkin stops the immune supppressants and continue the antibiotics.

Other papers show that even osteoarthritis may respond to antibiotics (27). People who have chlamydia in their joints usually have no antibodies to that germ in their bloodstream and therefore cannot cure it (30). Reactive arthritis is characterized by pain in many muscles and joints and is thought to be caused by a person’s own antibodies and cells attacking and destroying cartilage in joints. This type of arthritis may be triggered by infection and antibiotics may help to prevent and treat this joint destruction (1 to 10). Short-term antibiotics are ineffective (5). Doxycycline may prevent joint destruction by stabilizing cartilage (3) in addition to clearing the germ from the body.

How do germs cause arthritis? When a germ gets into your body, you manufacture cells and proteins called antibodies that attach to and kill that germ. Sometimes, the germ has a surface protein that is similar to the surface protein on your cells. Then, not only do the antibodies and cells attach to and kill the germ, they also attach to and kill your own cells that have the same surface membranes. Some people with arthritis have high antibody titre to E. Coli, a bacteria that lives normally in everyone’s intestines (15). It has the same surface protein as many cells in your body (15). Normal intestines do not permit E. Coli to get into your bloodstream. Some people who get reactive arthritis may have intestines that allow E. coli to pass into the bloodstream and cause the immune reaction that destroys muscles and joints. The same type of reaction applies to several other bacteria and viruses that can pass into your bloodstream (15A). Venereal diseases, such as gonorrhea, chlamydia and ureaplasma have been found in the joint fluids of many people with arthritis (16). People with reactive arthritis are more likely to have staph aureus in their noses (17) and carry higher antibody titre against that germ (18). Many people with reactive arthritis have had chronic lung infections, caused by mycoplasma and chlamydia, prior to getting joint pains(20,21). Mycoplasma has been found in joint fluid of people with arthritis (28,29). The treatment of arthritis with antibiotics is controversial and not accepted by many doctors; discuss this with your doctor.

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The TCP Optimizer is a free, easy Windows program that provides an intuitive interface for tuning and optimizing your Internet connection. There is no installation required, just download and run.

The program can aid both the novice and the advanced user in tweaking related TCP/IP parameters in the Windows Registry, making it easy to tune your system to the type of Internet connection used. The tool uses advanced algorithms, and the bandwidth*delay product to find the best TCP Window for your specific connection speed. It provides for easy tuning of all related TCP/IP parameters, such as MTU, RWIN, and even advanced ones like QoS and ToS/Diffserv prioritization. The program works with all current versions of Windows, and includes additional tools, such as testing average latency over multiple hosts, and finding the largest possible packet size (MTU).

The TCP Optimizer is targeted towards broadband internet connections, however it can be helpful with tuning any internet connection type, from dialup to Gigabit+

Tweaking.com – Simple Performance Boost is designed to bring only the safest tweaks to your system to increase speed and stability.

Windows is setup in a default configuration. By fine tuning your Windows configuration you can increase the speed and snappiness of the operating system. These tweaks are the ones that are safe and shown to cause no side effects with any programs. Each tweak only gives a small performance boost. But they all add up, so the more tweaks you do the more performance you get.

What can you expect with this program?
It all depends on your current system. You can get faster boot & shutdown times, faster network file sharing, snappier feel to opening Windows and programs, and more stability. The system in all should feel smoother. These tweaks are the same ones I put on my customers machines and have found them to not cause any problems with any programs.

Only safe tweaks are in this program. The program also supports a silent command so you can run the program silently.

Set the options you want, which will save to the settings.ini file. Run the program with /silent command and the program will apply based on your saved settings then close.

When the program is ran for the first time it will backup all the regkeys it changes into a backup.reg file. This way if you ever want to put things back the way they where a double click of that reg file and your good to go.

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This FREE version allows you to recover 1 GB file free of charge. It solves all data loss problems – recover deleted files emptied from Recycle Bin, or lost due to software crash, formatted or damaged hard drive, virus attack, lost partition and other unknown reasons under Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008 / 7. It recovers deleted files from formatted partitions with original file names and storage paths. Recover .JPG, .JPEG, .DOC, .XLS, .MP3, .AVI, .PST, etc.

Freeware file recovery software to Format Recovery

Have you ever formatted a disk only to realize that it was a crucial mistake? EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition allow you to undelete erased files, recover or restore a deleted partition, unformat, partition recovery, restore deleted pictures from your hard drive, CF card, SD card, MMC, Memory Stick or USB drives, and so on.

Recover formatted files? How?

Prepare a storage medium, usually a disk, for reading and writing. When you format a disk, the operating system erases all bookkeeping information on the disk, tests the disk to make sure all sectors are reliable, marks bad sectors (that is, those that are scratched), and creates internal address tables that it later uses to locate information. You must format a disk before you can use it.

Note that reformatting a disk does not erase the data on the disk, only the data on the address tables. Do not be panic, however, if you accidentally reformat a disk that has useful data. A computer specialist should be able to recover most, if not all, of the information on the disk. You can also use format recovery software that enable you to recover a disk yourself.

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Recover files from formatted partition with original names and storage paths.

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Recover .JPG, .JPEG, .DOC, .XLS, .MP3, .AVI, .PST, etc.

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Having difficulty in typing your documents?  Speak and let Dictation Pro type for you.  Prepare your letters, reports, e-mails just by speaking into a microphone. A good-quality headset is required.  Dictation Pro is fast, easy and fun.  You’ll wonder how you managed without it!

Save Time

Type the documents with minimum keystrokes and mouse clicks. Add the frequently used words, expressions, and technical terms to the vocabulary set of the software. Input the text three times faster by speaking than typing.

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People have different voice modulations. The ultimate goal of the technology is to be able to produce a system that can recognize all words spoken by any person with 100% accuracy.  An initial training session makes Dictation Pro learn to interpret your voice and speech characteristics and increase the dictation accuracy.

Quick Voice Formatting

Dictation Pro includes commands for formatting, deleting, and copying the words and passages. The commands are easy to remember and designed to simplify and speed up editing by voice.

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Dictation Pro allows a better control of commands. Instead of using mouse to select or a keyboard to type the shortcuts, just speak the command and Dictation Pro executes it for you.

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Ghostery sees the invisible web – tags, web bugs, pixels and beacons. Ghostery tracks the trackers and gives you a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.

After showing you who’s tracking you, Ghostery also gives you a chance to learn more about each company it identifies. How they describe themselves, a link to their privacy policies, and a sampling of pages where we’ve found them are just a click away.

Ghostery allows you to block scripts from companies that you don’t trust, delete local shared objects, and even block images and iframes. Ghostery puts your web privacy back in your hands.

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How to delete all of your data from Google calendar

I was finding that when synching my desktop outlook with Gmail it was taking a bit of bandwidth. I also did not like the idea of storing all of my calendar data in the cloud. and that is ok!

Here is how to delete all of that data…

HOW TO Delete a calendar in Google Gmail

To permanently delete a calendar from your calendar list, just follow these steps:

1. Click Settings at the bottom of the calendar list on the left side of the page. (Alternatively, click the Settings link at the top-right of any Calendar page, and click Calendars.)
2. Click the Unsubscribe or Delete link next to the calendar you want to delete.
   • Delete will permanently erase the calendar. (No one, including those who are sharing or subscribing to the calendar, will be able to access it anymore.)
   • Unsubscribe will only remove your access to the calendar. (Others will still be able to use it normally.)
3. Click OK.

In Calendar, go to the top right and choose Calendar Settings

Next, Go To Calendar

Then look for Delete on the right side.. Done!

Hey, Why is my Calendar still there? Keep in mind that it is not possible to delete your primary calendar. You can clear the events on your primary calendar, rename this calendar, and schedule new events to effectively replace your original primary calendar.

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