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I always find myself getting stuck with the washing machine when I need to figure out if my laundry setting should be Permanent Press or Regular washing cycle. I spend about a good 5 minutes just staring at it. Haha!

Well for those who get stuck like me, here’s a good tip from EHOW.

The regular cycle is used for the following types of clothes and other apparel:

• Jeans
• Towels
• Blankets
• Sheets
• Quilts
• Bedspreads

The soil types for this cycle are heavy, normal, and light. This means clothes or other articles that are lightly too heavily soiled should be washed in this cycle. This is due to the washing cycles can be set from a minimum of eight to fourteen minutes maximum. You can use all three of the water temperatures in this cycle.

The permanent press washing cycle is used on the clothes that may or may not need to be ironed.
Such as:

• Blouses
• Shirts
• T-shirts
• Under garments. This would be your unmentionables and socks.
• Jackets
• Sheets
• Baby Clothing

The soil types for this wash cycle are normal and light. The washing times for the permanent press cycle are six minutes to ten minutes. You can use all three washing temperature modes for this cycle as well.

Delicate Washing Cycle

The delicate washing cycle is normally used for sweaters, cotton, silks, and other fabrics that need to be washed with care.

The soil types for the delicate cycle are normal and light. The washing times for the delicate cycle are four and six minutes. It is best to wash your delicate clothes in warm or cold water. Always wash clothing that is more than forty percent cotton in cold water to prevent shrinking.

Online advertising has been with us for as long as I can remember. It works well for advertisers, otherwise, it would not be around so much these days. But gone are the days where online ads were just banners and sky scrapers on the side or bottom or on top of the website. These days, online ads are just plain annoying!

They have media flash playing on your screen before you can even proceed with the website you are looking at or these huuugee ad banners smacked right in the middle of the website .. and on the article you are reading!

And i hate .. really hate online banners that is already blocking your whole article and you cant even close the gaddam thing! No close button or text or X mark. Click it and its still there! Its just there, sitting, plastered, right in the middle and there’s no way for you to go around it or close the ad.

So tell me .. how do I go on reading this article? Ugh!

I’ve been watching Lie to Me at Fox every Wednesday … and I must say its quite fascinating. I’ve always find it cool to be able to read body language.  Is he giving me a fake smile or genuine, is he lying or not, what does shrug of the shoulder mean? Those are some of the things that you can see on the show but these are real-life scientific discoveries of Paul Ekman.

I read up on  the connection of eye movement and lying … i found one very useful diagram called Visual Accessing Cue.

Visually Constructed Images (Vc)
If you asked someone to “Imagine a purple buffalo”, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they “Visually Constructed” a purple buffalo in their mind.

Visually Remembered Images (Vr)
If you asked someone to “What color was the first house you lived in?”, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they “Visually Remembered” the color of their childhood home.

Auditory Constructed (Ac)
If you asked someone to “Try and create the highest the sound of the pitch possible in your head”, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they “Auditorily Constructed” this this sound that they have never heard of.

Auditory Remembered (Ar)
If you asked someone to “Remember what their mother’s voice sounds like “, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they “Auditorily Remembered ” this sound.

Feeling / Kinesthetic (F)
If you asked someone to “Can you remember the smell of a campfire? “, this would be the direction their eyes moved in while thinking about the question as they used recalled a smell, feeling, or taste.

Internal Dialog (Ai)
This is the direction of someone eyes as they “talk to themselves”.

I believe this suggests that if someone is lying they look to the right which indicates a made up answer as their eyes are showing a “constructed image or sound”.

Recently I encountered an error emptying my trash folder.  I transferred photos from my camera’s memory stick to my computer. It was about 200 pictures ( I know, I know…  I need to organize my photos better). I picked the ones I want to keep. Some for printing, some would go to my online gallery but most of them are just junk and would go to my trash folder.

When it was time to empty them out (trash folder), I received an error message. Apparently, the photos I transferred to the trash folder are locked photos. I tried holding down the “Option/Apple” key as I click “Empty Trash” BUT IT DIDNT WORK.

I started to panic. I googled for solution but couldnt find any.  I desperately tried to unlock the photos one by one but after spending 20 minutes and I still had over 100 photos to go…  I thought “there SHOULD be an easier way than this”. There always is. So I googled some more. And I stumbled upon 1 blog who had the same issue and suggested …

“Cmd +Option + Shift + Backspace”. 

It worked beautifully!

I am now at peace! lol!

Today our fax machine broke down and I immediately searched the web for FREE fax online. I saw a bunch that has free trial but has a fee after the trial expires.

If you seldom fax a document to someone, like me for example, I’d rather email documents , you might want to check out Faxzero.com.

Its FREE, maximum of 2 faxes a day with maximum of 3 pages. Personally, that works for me. I hardly send out a fax, there is no hassle of leaving your office and going to a kiosk to fax a document. You can do so by just filling in the details (recipient, fax number), no more log in info and attaching the document to fax. That simple.

I love Facebook … I’ve connected with old friends, shared photos, and played games. But I cant help noticing the ads on the side of the page. And there’s one that caught my eye.

$50 - $90 for part time job?! Hellooo! Thats spells SCAM in bold letters. Unfortunately, a friend of mine fell for it.

At first it may seem harmless. Google kit is absolutely FREE, they say. As soon as you sign up, they ask for your credit card information for “shipping”  - $3.88. Sounds good? But read the FINE PRINT buried in the middle of the paragraph of the page:

“To get your free kit, just enter the information on the right, and I’ll get your kit shipped out fast. Also… for a limited time, not only will you get my entire GOOGLE MONEY TREE KIT, but you will also get a seven day trial to my private, members only website. People pay almost ninety bucks per month for access to this site, but during this seven day trial period, you can have unlimited, back stage private access, without any charge whatsoever. You can stay a member at the discounted price of seventy two dollars and twenty one cents per month for life. Of course, if your goals change, you can always call and cancel your subscription at any time. It really is the easiest thing you’ll ever do. If you can follow simple instructions, and will devote just a little time every day… you can be living the life of YOUR DREAMS TOO. I AM!”

My friend was charged $72.21 in her credit card for 3 months. She couldnt get a hold of their customer service rep to cancel subscription so she had to dispute the charges from her credit card company. And everyone knows its not easy to take away hours from work and responsibilities from home to deal with things like these. Such hassle.

I just hope FACEBOOK screens their advertisers. I know its good money for them. But their reputation is at stake if this keeps up.

Times are hard now so I always try to find ways to make extra bucks. Like this one, thank you TODAY.com! Rebates, freelance writing, online coupons, etc. There are so many scams online. I just cannot believe how ingenious some of them are.

Someone commented in my gallery that I should sell my photos online, try stock photos or join photo contests. I found a few trusted sites but I came across a lot more that are NOT. They look legit and all but after thorough research, I found out that they are big scams!

There are 2 ways to get scammed:

1. They offer a contest with big prize. They ask you to upload your photo and then you get an email saying you were chosen for the grand prize and asks you to pay a certain amount for a book with your photo on it and framed artwork then you’ll never hear from them again. Like this website — http://www.photolaureates.org I’m embarrassed to say but I almost … almost submitted my photo here. Good thing I Googled them and I found a lot of complaints.

1. They ask you to upload your photo and if you don’t read the terms and agreement carefully, you’ll be surprised that you have been stripped off any rights to your own photo. They can sell it and do whatever they want to do with it, without giving you a single cent.

Bottom line, be careful! Read before you submit your photo or join any contest. Google the website and see what comes up. That always works for me.

This may be nothing for some but I just love the new THEMES from Gmail. You can now customize your inbox from Gmail. Just go to SETTINGS tab then click THEMES. There’s a bunch of colors and themes to choose from that Google launched just recently. And personally I cannot just choose one. Lol! They’re so pretty!

I can also customize by location but I haven’t tried that. These themes change throughout the day … if its sunset, sunrise, raining etc. in your location.

If you cant find the THEMES tab in your Gmail account today, just wait. You will have it anytime soon, for sure!

At 10:00am earlier today, there was the Great California Shake Out. Millions of participants (schools, businesses, families) in Southern California pretended that there was 7.8 magnitude earthquake. This is such a brilliant idea. Teaching people how to be prepared in case this happens in the future. I waited for our building to do a drill but unfortunately, they didn’t participate. Are we really prepared? I am a bit troubled. We are not prepared at all. I look around our office and our home … and I see shelves, bookcases unsecured, no disaster kits, no plan etc. Some people may think this is a joke. An officemate even said I am being paranoid. I’m not. I just want to be ready.

There are some guidelines from Earthquakecountry.info that you can read and also check out Shakeout.org for pointers on drills, how to prepare and your home for earthquake disasters, etc.

There was an email circulating for a few years now that the Triangle of Life is what you should remember during an earthquake. According to Shakeout.org, that information is false and the best way is DROP, COVER and HOLD ON.

Easy words to remember and can make a huge difference. I love their artwork too. I am going to post this around our office so everyone can be informed and there will be no excuse when the big day comes.

Recently, I’ve been looking around for new apartments around Orange County. I do most of my researching online before I visit the place. I came across Google Notebook to make my task a little bit easier. Whenever I see postings that I like, I copy them, paste them in my Google Notebook and review what I have gathered online.

It is so convenient. I can clip the apartment’s photos and copy the descriptions (type, location, price etc) and make personal comments like “this apartment includes utilities, stove, etc”. It is very handy. I can also make multiple sections if I want to add a different subject and I can easily drag and drop from 1 section to another.