Ayurveda as Home Remedies (Health Tips)

Ayurveda as Home Remedies (Health Tips) Constipation: Copper pot, fill it with drinking water, keep it overnight (room temperature), next morning warm up the water and drink it first in the morning.Gas – Abdominal: Drink Ginger juice 1 ml to 2 ml with warm water. And / Or Drink Club Soda with some salt & Black pepper powder. Common Cold: Ginger powder, Ghee (Clarified Butter) & Jaggery (Brown Sugar) mix them together in same quantity and have it first thing in the morning.Indigestion: Ginger powder, Ghee (Clarified Butter) & Jaggery (Brown Sugar) mix them together in same quantity and make small balls size of small marbles and have it after each meal. Poor – Metabolism: Ginger powder, Ghee (Clarified Butter) & Jaggery (Brown...

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AYURVEDIC BEAUTY TIPS

As an ayurveda practitioner I would love to share some tips for common beauty problems. Ayurveda says that every condition of the skin needs to be examined according to Vata, Pitta or Kapha constitution; their imbalance in the body will be reflected in skin imbalances. Here are some general tips to try on different skin conditions. I have used them on my patients and have found them very useful.• Fresh orange pulp application on face once a week. Orange has a cleansing effect and it also improves skin complexion.• Dry orange peel powder paste to apply on face twice a week, for removing blemishes.• Apply raw papaya and papaya seed juice on swollen and infected pimples. Papaya has antiseptic effect and improves complexion, and cleanses and tonifies.•...

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BEAUTY TIPS

HERE YOU WILL GATE FREE BEAUTY TIPS EVERY DAY1. CLEANSINGWomen who wear makeup - see Uma Thurman - should carry out a routine of cleansing, toning and moisturing turn back the clock each evening, as well as washing the face in the morning. 5 Minute Makeover Cleansing will remove old make-up and the grime and grease that have been accumulated during the day.Remove mascara Lashes Unlimited with a cotton bud dipped in eye-dipped in eye-cleansing lotion. To make the job easier keep your hair off your face.Remove the eyeshadow - Artistic Palletes - by gently wiping it off with a pad of clean cotton wool moistened with eye-cleansing lotion.Pour a little face cleansing cream into the palm of one hand and dab it generously over the nose, chin, forehead...

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Adobe Unveils ‘Wallaby’ Flash-to-HTML5 Converter

Even though its Flash technology is used as a punching bag by web standards fans, Adobe has been working hard to embrace HTML5. The company released its own HTML5 video player, and Adobe Illustrator and Dreamweaver CS5 contain a number of new HTML5 export tools. Now Adobe is turning its HTML5 attentions to Flash with the release of Wallaby, a new Flash-to-HTML5 converter.Wallaby is a free Adobe AIR application that allows designers and developers to convert Adobe Flash files (FLAs) into standards-based HTML5, CSS 3 and Javascript files. Wallaby isn’t quite ready for prime time yet, but you can grab the pre-release version from Adobe Labs if you’d like to experiment.Adobe first showed off Wallaby at the company’s MAX conference last year and...

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Chrome 10 Brings More Speed, Sandboxed Flash

Google has released version 10 of its Chrome web browser. Chrome 10 is a major overhaul for the Chrome line, with better performance, new malware protection, a sandboxed Flash Player and GPU accelerated HTML5 video.If you’re already using Chrome the update should be applied automatically. If you’d like to try out Google Chrome, head over to the Chrome download page.The most noticeable visual change in this update is the new preferences page, which is now a tab in your browser, complete with URLs to all the various settings. There’s also a new search box on the preferences page, which allows you to quickly find the setting you want without wading through every tab and menu item.If you’re a fan of Chrome’s sync features, this release adds support...

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Internet Explorer 9 to Arrive March 14

Internet Explorer 9 Beta on the Windows 7 desktopMicrosoft has announced it will release Internet Explorer 9 onto the web March 14. Internet Explorer 9 will be a massive overhaul for IE and brings much needed standards support, speed boosts and hardware acceleration.The first Platform Preview of IE9 arrived nearly a year ago and since then Microsoft has released several more previews and betas. Along the way, IE9 has gained support for more HTML5 features, CSS3 improvements and better hardware acceleration.IE9 will be good news for web developers since it adds considerable support for HTML5 and CSS3. Its predecessor, IE8 doesn’t support any of HTML5 and is widely blamed for holding back efforts to create a better web.Microsoft is hoping to...

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Microsoft Kicks Off Campaign to Kill Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft has launched a new campaign to rid the web of Internet Explorer 6. The company’s new IE6countdown website tracks IE6’s dwindling market share and encourages developers to paste a code snippet into their websites, telling any IE6 users to upgrade.According to Net Applications, IE6 still has a 12 percent user share worldwide. In the U.S. the number is just under 3 percent, but in China it’s still almost 35 percent. That means millions of people are using a browser that’s older than Gmail, Ubuntu, Borat and even The Euro. You’d be hard pressed to find a web developer that doesn’t want to get rid of IE6. In fact, many websites — including, for example, Google — long ago stopped supporting IE6, but having IE6’s creator jump on the “let’s...

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Mozilla’s ‘Web o’ Wonders’ Shows Off New Firefox 4 Tricks

Just ahead of the final release of Firefox 4 Mozilla has unveiled a new HTML5/CSS 3 showcase to demo some of the new web standards support coming in Firefox 4. Google and Microsoft both released similar efforts to showcase Chrome and Internet Explorer 9, respectively. And, of course, there was Apple’s effort, but, thanks to some poor coding decisions, Apple’s showcase only works in Safari.Mozilla’s new Web o’ Wonders website will work in any modern browser, though the video elements use the WebM codec, so you’ll need either Firefox 4, Chrome or Opera to watch the movies. Refreshingly, Mozilla’s Web o’ Wonders doesn’t conflate the various new web standards under the singular banner of HTML5 — SVG, JavaScript, CSS 3 and HTML5 are all called out...

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Web Notifications API Hints at a Brave New Real-Time Web

Google recently added a desktop notification option to Gmail — whenever a new message arrives you’ll see a pop-up window letting you know. Gmail’s new feature works a bit like the popular OS X app Growl. it’s handy, but there’s a big catch — it only works in Google’s Chrome browser.A truly cross-browser, cross-platform real-time alert system for the web is still a little ways off, but there is already a standard in the works and the W3C recently announced the first Public Working Draft of the Web Notifications API.The Web Notifications API attempts to bring the world of desktop notifications to the web, with the browser serving as an intermediary. The web solved the real-time updates problem some time ago. Take Twitter, for instance, the website...

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Thousand of APIs Paint a Bright Future for the Web

ProgrammableWeb's stat for API protocols and data formatsOnce a novel idea that seemed limited to Flickr, the web-based API is now everywhere you turn — Twitter, Foursquare, Google Maps and thousands of other sites offer up their data in the form of an API. APIs mean that third-party developers can build their own tools and mashups, which in turn helps to fuel the popularity of the web service. It’s hard to imagine where sites like Flickr and Twitter would be today without APIs.In fact, these days some web services don’t even bother launching websites to go with their APIs — the API is the service. The SimpleGeo API, for example, doesn’t really have a corresponding website, it’s just an API that can be used anywhere, including inside mobile...

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Opera 11.5 Preview Shows Off Hardware Acceleration

 OpenGL accelerates Opera 11.5 Opera Software has released a hardware accelerated preview of the coming Opera 11.5 web browser. For now the hardware acceleration is only available for Windows systems with OpenGL 2.x compatible graphics card and drivers. Eventually the company plans to expand Opera’s hardware acceleration support  to include Direct3D and any OpenGL capable system — Mac OS X, Linux, mobile phones and web TVs. If you’d like to try out the latest preview build, you can grab a copy of the experimental build from Opera.Hardware acceleration is the latest hotness in web browsers. Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4 and Chrome 9 all offer varying degrees of hardware acceleration. The idea behind the trend is to hand off as much...

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The Future of CSS: Finally, Sane Layout Tools

Woolly, the CSS sheep.HTML5 and CSS 3 offer web designers new semantic tags, fancy animations, server-side fonts and much more, but that’s  not the end of the story. The next major development in web design will likely revolve around one of the things neither HTML5 nor CSS 3 have yet addressed — page layout.For all the great new tools in both technologies, the task of making page elements arrange themselves the way you’d like remains an imperfect process at best. Floats, absolute positions and the occasional bit of JavaScript will get the job done, but that’s a lot of code for something as basic as positioning elements on the page.Surely there’s a better way. For example, wouldn’t it be nice if you could simply define a box and then position...

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URL Hunter: a Cool Game, but not HTML5

 Gaming in the URL bar If you need a mindless morning diversion, URL Hunter (link opens in new tab), a simple ASCII text game that turns your URL bar into the playing field, fits the bill. Be forewarned though, it’s going to leave massive, meaningless tracks in your browser history. Still, if you don’t mind the history garbage, URL Hunter is surprisingly entertaining. One thing URL Hunter is decidedly not is HTML5. Its creator, developer Corey Johnson of Probably Interactive, calls URL Hunter “ridiculous” and clearly didn’t mean it as a serious effort. Nowhere on the page does he mention HTML5 (technically the page does use an HTML5 doctype, but otherwise there’s nothing HTML5 about it), but that hasn’t stopped several prominent tech news...

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LOOK BEAUTIFUL EVERYDAY

Our skin faces a constant barrage of chemicals everyday from pollution to harsh chemically formulated products that strip the skin of its natural balance. These simple Ayurvedic home remedies help you to attain a clear, healthy and glowing complexion. Ayurveda mentions many simple natural ways to maintain a healthy and glowing skin. Using these natural ways, one can stay beautiful for a longer period without having to suffer the side effects of the chemicals.Below are some simple 'secrets' SUPER BEAUTY TIPS. Mix equal quantities of cucumber juice, rose water and lime juice. Wash the face and apply it overnight. Rinse off in the morning. This clears the complexion and keeps it healthy. Take 50 ml. of raw (not boiled) milk and mix a...

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SUPER BEAUTY TIPS

The Three Pillars of Beauty Maharishi Ayurveda (MAV), the modern, consciousness-based revival of the ancient Ayurvedic medicine tradition, considers true beauty to be supported by three pillars; Outer Beauty, Inner Beauty and Lasting Beauty. Only by enhancing all three can we attain the balanced state of radiant health that makes each of us the most fulfilled and beautiful person we can be. Outer Beauty: Roopam The outer signs of beauty - your skin, hair and nails - are more than just superficial measures of beauty. They are direct reflections of your overall health. These outer tissues are created by the inner physiological processes involved in digestion, metabolism and proper tissue development. Outer beauty depends more on the strength...

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TOP 10 AYURVEDIC BEAUTY TIPS

Ayurveda and Beauty: Top Ten Ayurvedic Beauty TipsIn this special newsletter, our ayurvedic expert from The Council of Maharishi Ayurveda Physicians discusses the top ten ways to feel and look beautiful all year long. 1. CUSTOMIZE YOUR SKIN AND BEAUTY CAREQ: There are so many beauty products to choose from. How do you know which ones to use?A: Have you ever tried a skin care product and found it just doesn't feel right for your skin? While you may have unctuous, smooth, unwrinkled skin, your friend may be plagued by dry, thin skin that wrinkles as it ages. Still another will have sensitive skin that breaks out or turns rashy when exposed to harsh skin care products. Or a fourth friend might have a combination of two of these (i.e. sensitive...

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Smoke alarms review and compare

Smoke alarms come in two main types: ionisation or photoelectric. It’s been known for many years that photoelectric smoke alarms usually respond faster to smouldering fires, while ionisation alarms respond faster to flaming fires. Our test of 15 battery-powered smoke alarms, including photoelectric, ionisation and dual-sensor models, confirms there are major performance differences between the two types of sensor, even though all the smoke alarms tested meet the Australian Standard.See our free smoke alarms buying guide for detailed information including types of alarms, how to install and maintain them, and other fire safety tips.Watch our video for a quick explanation of the two types of smoke alarm and how they work:Manufacturers aren't...

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Mattress survey

It's that time of year again, when mattresses go on sale with price tags boasting up to 40% off. So it's timely that the results of our mattress satisfaction survey are in. This survey of 3500 members ranks the major brands and retailers. The results are based on genuine user-experiences. Coincidentally, our US and UK sister publications, Consumers Report and Which?, also ran mattress brand satisfaction surveys, with very similar top results to ours – Tempur brand mattresses took out the number one slot in all three countries. While you’ve asked CHOICE many times to test mattresses, experts tell us that bed comfort is all about personal preference (see our mattress buying guide for tips), so shopping...

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Making the House Pretty: Hiring a Home Stager Means Hiding Some of The Unmentionables

Before Karen Thornton, owner of Visionary Staging, came to stage my house, I had had some warning.  I was told she helps a home seller create a fantasy world, one in which the people in the home for sale do not clean, diet, or get dirty.  As such, when I decluttered my house I took pains to store or hide any cleaning supplies, garbage cans, personal hygiene products, etc.  I also took down and stored personal photos, photo albums, kids’ art, and anything that indicated the presence of actual people.  I wanted the house to look like a Pottery Barn photo shoot.  The best I could do on my own resembled a 10-year-old, yellowed and wrinkled copy of an Ikea catalog, but it was a start.Karen started her visit by introducing...

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