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File sharing software like Ares is great in so many different ways. You can find and listen to your favorite music at the click of a button. You can collect libraries – hard drives full – of wonderful music all for free. Sharing is an important thing in everyone’s life, and Ares certainly facilitates that.

Ares Destiny is just one version of Ares that is on the market. It has a clean looking website which clearly and lucidly takes you through the download and installation processes; you’ll have the software on your computer in no time at all.

And then all hell breaks loose. Seriously. Ares Destiny has some surprises up its metaphorical sleeve.

First you’ll notice that Ares Destiny has a good but slightly flawed interface. The whole thing is a little bit flawed generally: not enough to make you want to smash your computer, but enough to put a doubt in your mind. No, the smashing of the computer comes when you realize that, without asking, Ares Destiny has installed the Dealio software. Dealio is supposedly a shopping comparison engine but in reality it serves highly annoying popups to your screen on a startling frequent basis.

We have to wonder what possessed the designers of Dealio to go down this route.

Some say that the days of the familiar computer mouse are numbered and in the future navigation on computers will be done via touch screens or other input methods. Touch screen devices are coming in all sorts of electronic products today from PCs to cell phones and more.

HP announced a new line of touch screen PCs called the TouchSmart IQ800 series today. The system uses an all-in-one design with a 25.5-inch screen that allows users to control the system with a finger. The line of touch screen computers offers features like integrated Blu-ray players, color changing lighting that shines on the keyboard, and a HP MediaBay for extra storage.

The 25.5-inch screen has a resolution of 1920 x 1200, which will allow it to display full 1080p Blu-ray content. The series is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo CPU and has an integrated webcam. These touch screen computers also takes advantage of HP Power Management technology to reduce power consumption by up to 45% compared to PCs without power management enabled. The line will be available starting in September with a base price of $1899.

Acai, Anthocyanins, and the French paradox

Have you ever seen beautiful purple flowers? How about a deep red grape or a bright red Fuji apple? If you answered yes (and if you said no - stop reading this article and go out and enjoy nature more!) then you have seen anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are flavonoid pigments that plants and fruits synthesize. Anthocyanins give plants and fruits their beautiful pigmentation - but it is not all about looks. Anthocyanins can acts as a sunscreen for plants and in fruits the bright color attracts animals which feast on the fruits and in the process disperse the seeds. However, the aspect of Anthocyanins that is of most interest in regard to the Acai fruit is their antioxidant properties.

Fruits (like the Acai Berry Fruit) that are exposed to strong sunlight face a tremendous amount of ultra violet light stress. This UV light triggers free radicals to form in the fruit. Fruits, such as the Acai berry, develop high levels of anthocyanins because they have very strong antioxidants properties and can quench the free radicals. Here is the interesting part - the antioxidant properties of anthocyanins are maintained even after they are eaten by another organism. This is why fruits with bright pigmentation tend to have the great ORAC values - they are loaded with anthocyanins! Yes, you guessed it - Acai berries have a tremendous concentration of anthocyanins.

The French have a diet very rich in cheese, sugar, coffee, nicotine, sugar and white flour. With this type of diet you would expect the French to have a very high rate of heart disease, however, the exact opposite is true. The ability of the French to consume a heart clogging diet and yet have a very low rate of heart disease has been labeled the French Paradox.

Researchers now believe they have the reason for the “French Paradox” - anthocyanins! The French drink a significant amount of red wine and the the red wine grape, due to its anthocyanins is what is believed to be responsible for the very low incidence of heart disease. While red wine has a good quantity of anthocyanins, the Acai berry has over 30 times the anthocyanins as red wine.

I loved my old version of Ares Vista Galaxy really quite a lot. It has been through a lot with me and I’ve had it since the start. It was with some reluctance that I decided to uninstall it, get on the web and grab a new and updated version. I haven’t needed to download Ares Vista since I last installed Ares Vista Galaxy, so I was in a bit of a quandary as to which of the snazzy new Ares Vista version I should get.

Of course I’d been to OfficialAres.com before. I wasn’t there to download Ares Vista but to read their excellent news section. This is a place where you can get all the cutting edge news stories before they hit the press. Their reporting is well written and unbiased. So with this experience of OfficialAres.com, I figured it might be a good place to start to find somewhere to download Ares Vista.

Fortunately, I was right. Their reviews section is quite simply awesome. Even if I were new to P2P filesharing and this was my first time trying to download Ares Vista, I would not have any trouble finding the right version (and, more importantly, steering away from the wrong version). The reviews are honest, clear, and they pull no punches. Ares Vista Ultimate was the version that I went for in the end.

I am fortunate that I have been gifted with the trait of being really, really stubborn. I refuse to give up. I refused to give up when I discovered I had been let go from my previous job: I decided to start my own home business. I refused to give up when I couldn’t find the right home business for me.

Someone I knew – not too well, I might add — advised that I try the Wealth Masters International opportunity. I had heard of this but hadn’t checked it out, so I went to do some more research.

To start with I quite liked what I read about Wealth Masters International, but the problem was in getting real, legitimate information and not something that was designed either to make money in commissions by selling the product or drag it down in favor of a competing product.

As I say, I am stubborn. And diligent. I sifted through pages of information on Wealth Masters International and was able to make my own mind up. Wealth Masters International wasn’t for me: there was nothing really wrong with it, I could tell it wouldn’t match my style. I was able to make this decision because I took the time to go through all this information on the web. Not easy, but worth it.

Sarah Palin’s political career, although short, has been a phenomenally successful one. From early beginnings in her home town of Wasilla, Alaska, to her current position as that state’s Governor, Sarah Palin has never been afraid to step on the toes of those who oppose her positive changes.

Sarah Palin’s first term as Mayor of Wasilla was won on the back of an attack of the current mayor John Stein. The voters in Wasilla warmed to Palin what were surely seen as maverick ways. Sarah Palin kept a jar full of voters’ names on her desk in the City Hall. Once a week she would pick a name from the jar and call that person, asking what it was that they thought of the city. Cutting taxes is a quick way to win people’s hearts, and Sarah Palin knew this. Her moves to cut property taxes by a massive 75%, and to eliminate personal property and business inventory taxes went down predictably well.

Palin shook up the top officials of the city almost as soon as she took office, asking for the resignation of all officials as well as their CVs. She reappointed some but only after she had discovered the extent of their loyalty and dedication to her cause.

It was with some interest that I learned about the subject of sex in Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. It’s not that often that you read about the subject in a fairly serious and influential self development book (unless that book happens to be about self development in sex. Think and Grow Rich isn’t one of those types of book). But there it was in black and white. A positive mental attitude and an open mindset, perhaps, but sex? It’s there.

I’ve got to say that this was the chapter that convinced me to read the rest of the book. I didn’t read Think and Grow Rich because I thought there would be more naughty stuff, but because I respected Hill’s ability to pull powerful concepts out of something so, well, ordinary and exciting.

Think and Grow Rich is a well written book that really does have some interesting things to think about. I have to say that “well written” is not something that I would normally associated with this kind of publication! It is a powerful reminder of the simple things that we can do to help ourselves in a big way. Definitely worth acquiring a copy and giving it a read.

Apple are a massive company with a massive marketing product. This is why they are one of the best at marketing their products. They really do sell things to people who never even realized that they wanted what was being sold. The marketing that has gone on to push the iPhone at people has been tremendously successful. Some of the marketing effort expended by Apple has gone into making the right kind of iPhone accessories for the nifty little gadget. These iPhone accessories not only make money in their own right, but also add value to what is already a pretty wonderful piece of kit.

Some of the iPhone accessories will, of course, be developed, manufactured and sold by Apple themselves; others will be produced by entrepreneurial companies hoping to cash in on iPhone fever. The quality and utility of the iPhone accessories produced by these third parties is variable.

Some of the iPhone accessories are fairly predictable, with Bluetooth headsets, cases, screen protectors, car adapters and the like all being very popular. Others are a little more quirky and they deserve some attention, too.

I love the idea of the iPhone pillow with integrated earphones. Great for traveling. The Bose headset is a little on the pricey side but you will get top quality sound reproduction. All worth a look if you want to pimp your iPhone!

One of the quickest growing phenomena in the world of entertainment is the enigma of free music downloads. Hated by so many people who would otherwise look to get paid through sales, it has quickly become an accepted – even encouraged – way of distributing music. With huge music names such as Radiohead, Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails and even Oasis getting in on the act, perhaps it is time for the music executives to start listen to the combined voices to the people and those producing the music.

Sony – one time protagonist of anyone even suggesting that they got some of its music for free – has even joined in: its entire back catalogue is available through the free music downloads service offered by We7. We7 offers free music downloads and free streaming of lots of music and is, apparently, supported by advertising. Whether this model can last is currently open for debate, but they have been going for a while now without any stem to the flow of free music downloads offered. Good for them.

It is companies like We7 and Sony that will benefit from moving forward in this manner, while others who insist on resisting will definitely suffer the most.

I love gadgets and I’m seriously excited by the announcement and pictures of the Google’s forthcoming Android phone. In actual fact, calling it an Android phone is a little misleading, because it is the platform that runs the phone which is called Android, not the phone itself. The handset is in fact a T Mobile G1 phone. The whole package is being billed as the gPhone, so that’s who I’m tempted to refer to it from here on in (if only because it’s a lot simpler that way!).

What’s really nice about the gPhone is that is it so darn practical. It has a full QWERTY keyboard, a home key and even a track ball. Whatever you think about the look of the gPhone compared to the look of the iPhone, you will agree that it is a lot more functional. This, I think, where the potential markets of the two phones bifurcate.

The cost of the gPhone is also pretty attractive: apparently we’re looking at around $179 when it is released in the US next month. The gPhone will reach Europe at year end. In the meantime there are plenty of great looking pictures around to look and wait with anticipation!