How to start your mornings? Take cold shower!

How to start your mornings? Take cold shower!

Take A Cold Shower Tony Robbins starts every morning by jumping into a 57-degree Fahrenheit swimming pool. Why would he do such a thing? Cold water immersion radically facilitates physical and mental wellness. When practiced regularly, it provides long-lasting changes to your body’s immune, lymphatic, circulatory and digestive systems that improve the quality of your life. It can also increase weight-loss because it boosts your metabolism. A 2007 research study found that taking cold showers routinely can help treat depression symptoms often more effectively than prescription medications. That’s because cold water triggers a wave of mood-boosting neurochemicals which make you feel happy. 8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M. — Medium

How to search for exact Skype ID, not Skype name?

How to search for exact Skype ID, not Skype name?

Let’s say you want to search for someone on Skype, and that person gives you his/her Skype ID. You search for it. The trouble is, if that person has a name which is common, you will get lots of results. How do you know, when having the exact ID of a person, which of the names in the list are the ones you are looking for?

I found the solution online.

Malthe Sigurdsson - What is Skype?, https://flic.kr/p/c4XjB
Malthe Sigurdsson – What is Skype?, https://flic.kr/p/c4XjB

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„Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) – The ninth movie I like a lot

"Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015) - The ninth movie I like a lot

A few days ago, I’ve seen Mad Max: Fury Road (2015).

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My conclusion?

The biggest complaint I have with the movie is not about action, actors, script, or anything else. It’s about having a soul. Just like most movies by Christopher Nolan, this movie, also, has no soul. The main hero has some internal fights with his past. They are ignored, or just mentioned (he says he needs redemption, but that’s it). There’s little to no romance between characters. The good guy wants to live, but, despite his actions (he fights a lot), he doesn’t let this be seen too much. When he sees some almost naked ladies with water on them, and then he shares a cab with them he has little to no reaction to them. Incredibly hot girls, long ride, nothing happens (being mad is no excuse). Even the lack of suspense (I talk about it in the current article) is an emotion which is lacking. There’s not lust for anything, for living, for pleasures, for ethics, for a goal, for nothing. „Look, I’m powerful, he seems to be saying, and I lived to see another day”. At the beginning of the movie, he eats a reptile. But he’s not fighting too much, he doesn’t care so much, he doesn’t have a lust for living. Not too sexy, in my opinion. The main character also has the big fault of not having any faults, he doesn’t seem vulnerable and human. Also, to decide that the good guy is good and the bad guy is bad, you need more than a mask, you need to see it through their actions. This doesn’t really happen. Other than that, just like in movies by Christopher Nolan, George Miller does a great job. Entertaining, nice script, good actors, good everything. One year passes, and all you remember is the action and graphics, but not too much the emotions you’ve had. Compare this with Quentin Tarantino, which gives you all the things above, and, still, manages to add lots of emotion to everything. And, also, he has suspense. As a conclusion, it’s still a good movie to watch, smart, good reviews and average grade on IMDb and so on.

Below, my feed-back (spoiler alert!, read my review after you see the movie).

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Lifehacker: „Make Any Cocktail Taste Better by Adding a Pinch of Salt”

In his new book, Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail, author and mixologist Dave Arnold reveals the secret ingredient for any perfect cocktail: salt. Just stirring in a pinch will cause the other flavors to pop. Because of the way salt interacts with your taste buds, the sweet ingredients will taste a little sweeter, the sour ingredients will be a little more sour, and your tongue won’t register the saltiness at all. It’s the same reason you put a very small amount of salt in pastries or ice cream. Just make sure it’s only a pinch and whatever cocktail you’re making will taste better than ever. Make Any Cocktail Taste Better by Adding a Pinch of Salt

Tip for selling business cards & prints online

The trick is simple – sell a sample of 10 different options for business card papers (different types of paper) and 10 different samples of flyers. Ask a very low price, and send the sample using cheap (yet reliable) sending solution. Cover your costs, nothing more. Right now, when I order business cards / printed materials, I’m not sure how will they look like.

How to find out about historical DNS changes? (small tip)

Let’s say you’re interested in buying a web site. It’s a good idea to check on its history. On a more practical level, if you change the DNS settings and find out that the web site on the new server doesn’t work, you need to know the old DNS. How to find it? There are tools which help you do just that: DNS History History.com DNS Lookup | Nameserver Lookup – Who.is – Who.is ViewDNS.info – Your one source for DNS related tools! Whois Search, Domain History, Reverse IP/NS Lookups and more – WhoisRequest.org

How to solve the XSS Vulnerability with add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg() functions on WordPress?

A lot of WordPress Plugins and Themes are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) due to an unappropriate usage of two functions: add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg().

Some of the plugins/themes have been updated to reflect current changes, some have not.
If you don’t want to wait until all of your files are update to the latest version or if you want to be sure that your web site is not affected, see my tutorial below.

As a side note, it’s quite likely that your web site has a problem with this thing, if you use lots of plugins.

Below, my video solution to the problem.

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What is a better solution of doing SEO for WordPress than using a dedicated plugin?

The WordPress plugin WordPress SEO by Yoast is considered the best SEO plugin for WordPress and is currently the most popular one.

So, we have the CMS with the biggest number of users (WordPress) and the most popular plugin for doing SEO on it – Active Installs: 1+ Million.

My question is the following – is there a problem with using the plugin and is it possible to achieve the same results as the plugin provides by manually coding things?

I made a video on the matter:

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