Product round-up  As the speedy texter generation grows longer in the Bluetooth and touchscreen technologies improve, the range of Qwerty phones on offer gets smaller by the day. But for many, they wouldn’t use anything else. Indeed, for RIM, Qwerty keys have been the hallmark of it BlackBerry handsets.…

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As we inch closer to summer, you’re more likely to run into poison ivy, bug bites, and the other itchy ailments that come with being outside. Redditor xume points out that banana peels are a great homemade remedy for itchy skin. More »

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It’s May and an time for HP to refresh its evergreen EVA storage line. HP said it would keep investing in the EVA when it bought 3PAR and has kept its promise, with two new models being announced, with larger drive support and better management SW.…

from HP pumps cash into EVA range capacity boost.
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In the wake of Intel’s launch of the entry Xeon E5-2400 processors for two-socket servers earlier this week, X86 server juggernaut Hewlett-Packard wants to keep its name in the mind of customers who might be shopping for systems from rivals Dell, IBM or Fujitsu.…

from HP frogmarches new Xeon, Opteron chips into ProLiants.
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>Windows/Mac/Linux: Although there are a bunch of ways to backup your Gmail, including really easy to use Windows app MailStore, cross-platform program Gmvault takes the cake for being feature-rich and highly customizable. More »

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Classical scholars at Stanford University have created a “Geospatial network model of the Roman world” which offers the chance to calculate journey times along Roman roads in much the same way as is possible on Google Maps and other online mapping services.…

from Roman roads get the web maps treatment.
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Lord Geoffrey Howe of Aberavon has demanded that the UK goes fully metric as soon as possible, describing the current mix of miles and kilometres and pints and litres as a “uniquely confusing shambles”.…

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As the One Laptop Per Child initiative goes from strength to strength around the world, there are signs that Pakistan may be getting the message too, after the Punjab government began handing out 125,000 free Ubuntu-based laptops to college and university freshers.…

from 125,000 Ubuntu PCs to land in Pakistani students” laps.
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If you’re trying to watch what you eat, or your doctor’s put you on a diet, you know what it’s like to struggle with gnawing hunger even though you’re all out of calories for the day. Sure, chugging a few glasses of water and going to bed may help keep you from raiding the fridge before the sun comes up, but being hungry still sucks. Thankfully, the blog Syatt Fitness has a great list of foods you can eat and enjoy even if you’re counting calories. More »

from With the Right Foods, Staying Full While Dieting Is Easier Than You Think [Health].
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Ever feel like you’re wasting more time tweaking your time management tools than—you know—actually doing things? We know we have. Friend of Lifehacker and author of Design for Hackers David Kadavy succinctly articulates the problem: More »

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Leftover wax in a used candle jar is notoriously tricky to clean out, but throwing the candle in a freezer to loosen up the residue may just do the trick. More »

from Freeze Old Candles to Clean Out Wax [Cleaning].
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We all have webapps and services that we love, but that doesn’t make them perfect. If you want to do more with Gmail, remove annoying parts of Facebook, connect two webapps you love, automate tedious actions, and more, you can do all this with a few clever scripts, extensions, and services. Here are our 10 favorites. More »

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Plastic wrap and storage containers definitely have their place in most kitchens, but if you have no love for the stuff and wish there were a way to store your vegetables and produce without resorting to disposable zipper bags or a fridge full of containers, you do have other options to keep your food fresh. More »

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Mozilla argues that Windows on ARM users need to have a choice in which browser they use, Twitter assures everyone that no login credentials were leaked, and Adobe’s security chief praises Apple for crippling older versions of Flash in Safari. More »

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It has been a busy week for desktop, server, and application virtualization juggernaut Citrix Systems, which is hosting its Synergy user conference in San Francisco this week.…

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Although utilizing links for your small business online marketing sounds easy, there are actually quite a few things to understand about linking. In order to make sure that you are linking correctly, consider some of the different types of linking:

Online Marketing with Internal Linking

Internal linking refers to linking to other pages within the same site. For example, if you publish an article on your blog, you may want to link back to other pages of your website within that post. Internal linking is good for a few reasons:

• It makes it easier for visitors to navigate around your website. This gives you control and allows you to point your readers to the absolute best webpage you have for certain topics faster and easier.
• Internal linking can help improve your Google PageRank, which will help your site increase on a search engine results page (SERP).
• Search engines will be able to index your content more effectively if you have a lot of internal links.

Internal linking is considered the easiest way to use linking to improve your site. You are in charge of inserting the links, and all of the links go back to your page. In other words, there is no talking with different editors or writing special posts in order to benefit from internal linking.

Online Marketing with External Linking

External linking is when a link is found on one website and brings anyone who clicks on the link to a different website. I displayed external linking in the first paragraph when I gave credit to SEOMoz. External linking is a great way to use the information of other websites in order to make a point in an article you are writing for your blog because you are giving credit back.

External linking should also be looked at from a different angle. Instead of you linking out to a different website, you want other sites to do the same for you. In other words, you want other sites to refer back to your site. This works well for several reasons:

• If an authoritative site is linking back to your blog, it helps show that you have a reputable blog and gives you some credibility. After all, an authoritative site would not link to invaluable information.
• If another site is utilizing external linking and links back to your site, you could very well get an increase in traffic. An entirely new audience has the opportunity to click that link, you have a good chance of getting at least a few new visitors.
• The more pages linking back to your site the better in the eyes of Google. This will help increase your ranking on a SERP.

Many companies utilize guest posting in order to earn these types of external links. Many websites will give you a link back to your blog in exchange for great content, so it is an all-around win-win.

Linking in the Author Bio Box

If your blog is going to utilize guest posting in order for backlinks, there are two different things that could happen: you get your backlinks in an author bio box or you get your backlinks in the copy of the text. In the majority of situations, editors will give you an author bio box.

Getting backlinks in an author bio box is a great way to improve your small business online marketing and your blog’s SEO. An author box is usually equipped with a photo of you, the author, which further helps give you credit for your work. Google search engines and authors typically like these types of links.

Linking in the Copy of the Text

When guest posting, the second thing that could happen to you is that you get a link back to your blog in the copy of the text. Believe it or not, this actually holds more value than a link in the author bio box. Google gives this type of link more weight because editors have control over what types of links go inside the copy of an article. Because an editor can choose which links go inside an article, it is much more likely that those links are of value to a reader as opposed to links in an author box.

For this reason, it is much harder for an author to gain links within the body of the text. These links typically must be extremely relevant. For example, if you were going to guest post on a website about marketing best practices but your blog is typically about sports, you would not really be able to link back to something on your blog.

What Do All of These Different Types of Linking Mean to You?

It is important to be aware of the different types of linking available so that you know where to put your efforts. All bloggers should utilize a little bit of each kind of linking in order for the best SEO results.

Have you ever put thought into the different types of linking? What do you find to be most helpful for your blog?

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A White Paper released today sets out plans for an Active Travel strategy that chief petitioner Sustrans calls a “world first”.

New plans to legally oblige Welsh local authorities to provide cycling and walking routes have been described as a “world first” by Sustrans and a “landmark initiative” by a group of health experts.

The proposed Active Travel (Wales) Bill – outlined in a White Paper released today – will make it it a legal requirement for local authorities to plan and deliver routes that link up hospitals, schools and shopping areas with traffic-free routes and cycle lanes.

Lee Waters, national director of Sustrans Cymru, said:

“This is a ground-breaking move by the Welsh government. With the price of petrol going up, and waistlines going out, this new law will make it easier for people to get around actively.”

Sustrans Cymru has been instrumental in persuading the Welsh Government to introduce the Bill.

“Five years ago we submitted a petition to the Assembly calling for an obligation on the Welsh Government to develop and maintain a network of paths for pedestrians and cyclists, mirroring a similar duty to provide roads,” said Waters.

“The call was widely supported by including encouragement from BT, Royal Mail, British Medical Association Cymru, National Union of Teachers Cymru and Age Concern Cymru, the Association of Chief Constables and the Children’s Commissioner for Wales.

“The resulting Legislative Competence Order request narrowly missed out on becoming law because of delays in Whitehall. However, when the referendum last year bestowed new law-making powers on the Assembly, there was a new opportunity to push through this legislative duty. We were delighted that it formed part of the Government’s Legislative Programme announced in July last year.”

The White Paper released today sets out how the Welsh Assembly will implement the plans and this has been welcomed by Welsh health experts. In an open letter, leading figures in public health describe the plan as a “landmark initiative which could transform the health of our nation.”

The open letter was signed by Dr. Richard Lewis, Welsh Secretary, BMA Cymru Wales; Dr Jane Layzell, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Public Health Wales; John Wyn Owen CB, of the National Heart Forum; Dafydd Thomas of Lles Cymru Wellbeing Wales; and Dr Simon Williams, Head of Sport, Health and Exercise Science at the University of Glamorgan.

The letter said:

“Providing people with the opportunity to walk or cycle instead of using the car for short journeys is as important for our nation’s health as it is for our transport system. At the moment one out of every five of the journeys made by car are less than two miles. These are journeys our parents and grandparents would have made on foot or by bicycle. Today’s modern lifestyles, busy road conditions, and the layout of our towns and cities have seen the levels of ‘active travel’ falling year on year as car use has become dominant.

“Physical inactivity and sedentary living are among the leading causes of chronic disease, ill-health and death in Wales. Obesity amongst children and adults inWales has increased to an extraordinarily high level and, as a consequence, we are beginning to experience an epidemic of type 2 diabetes and other conditions related to this weight gain and sedentary living. These conditions have an enormous personal and financial cost but they are largely preventable if people change their behaviour and take every opportunity they can to be physically active.

“As health experts we strongly support the Welsh Government’s ambition to help more people become active as part of their everyday routine. As well as helping save lives, this would also save the nation money – figures from the World Health Organisation show that every £1 invested in making walking and cycling easier can bring benefits of £9 in reduced congestion and costs to the NHS.”

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