Christmas Holiday Facts

There's no other holiday like Christmas. Many of us celebrate the holidays without knowing how our traditions got started or what they signify. Christmas is much more fun when you know some facts behind the holiday.

Most of these facts are very interesting and reminds us that there is quite a bit of history behind our family customs. Try using the Christmas Holiday Facts to make your own Christmas quiz for holiday parties and add a unique touch with personal favorites.

Christmas Holiday Facts: (World Amazing Facts)

• The word Christmas is Old English, a contraction of Christ's Mass.

• The first president to decorate the white house Christmas tree in the United States was Franklin Pierce.

• Electric lights for trees were first used in 1895.

• The first Christmas cards were vintage and invented in 1843, the Victorian Era

• "It's a Wonderful Life" appears on TV more often than any other holiday movie.

• "Rudolph" was actually created by Montgomery Ward in the late 1930's for a holiday promotion. The rest is history.

• "The Nutcracker" is the most famous Christmas ballet.

• "Jingle Bells" was first written for Thanksgiving and then became one of the most popular Christmas songs.

• If you received all of the gifts in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", you would receive 364 presents.

• The poinsettia plant was brought into the United States from Mexico by Joel Poinsett in the early 1800's.

• Holly berries are poisonous.

• Contrary to common belief, poinsettia plants are non-toxic.

• In 1843, "A Christmas Carol" was written by Charles Dickens in just six weeks.

• The first state to recognize the Christmas holiday officially was Alabama

• Christmas became a national holiday in America on June, 26, 1870.

• Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.

• An angel told Mary she was going to have a baby.

• Clearing up a common misconception, in Greek, X means Christ. That is where the word "X-Mas" comes from. Not because someone took the "Christ" out of Christmas.

• Traditionally, Christmas trees are taken down after Epiphany.

• More diamonds are sold around Christmas than any other time of the year.

• In Mexico, wearing red underwear on New Year's Eve is said to bring new love in the upcoming year.
  

Audi Locus : 2007

The name Locus means a condition that defines a continuous figure which is a curve.

The main characteristics of the design are the way its surface shapes are formed with a continuous flow from front until the back of the car. Inspiration for that was obviously the Mother Nature we deal with daily but somehow we usually do not realize that everything in the nature has somehow its specific curves and flowing lines it is very rarely to spot perfectly straight lines. The main goal was to implement this design aspect into a car which creates a relaxing, energetic, vibrant and confident feeling.

It is clear to see a curved sharp edged line that starts at the very front, flowing through the middle section, slightly curved down after the A pillar and then going back up again at the rear wheel arches to follow its way back until the diffuser. This same curve language is also applied to the greenhouse and the way windows are shaped. The front is somehow aggressive looking with the traditional AUDI grill and air intakes that are shaped very much like the headlights to create a coherent feeling. The rear section is obviously very organic with defined curves and subtle details, tail lights are designed to have integrated air outtakes underneath them to avoid any unnecessary details. With dual exhaust and fairly empty rear section, it creates a feeling of subtleness. Another feature is the air intake at the end of the roof which is designed to avoid any distracting design elements on the top of the car combining elegance with functionality.

Atomic BOMB ON HIROSHIMA

THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW YOUR CELLPHONE COULD DO

                           EMERGENCY
> The Emergency Number worldwide for**Mobile** is112

> If you findyourself out of coverage area of your mobile
> network and there is an emergency, 
> dial 112
> and the mobile will search any existing network to
> establish the emergency number for you, 

> and interestingly this number 112can be dialled even if the
> keypad is locked.
> **Try it out.**

> Have you locked your keys in the car? Does you car have

> remote keys?
>
> This may come
in handy someday. Good reason to own a cell
> phone:
> If you lock your keys in the car and the spare keys are at
> home, call
> someone at home on their cell phone from your cell phone.
> Hold your cell phone about a foot from your car door and

> have the person at your home press the unlock button,
> holding it near the mobile phone on their end. Your car will
> unlock.
> Saves someone fro having to drive your keys to you.
> Distance is no object. You could be hundreds of miles away,

> and if you can reach someone who has the other
> "remote" for your car, you can unlock the doors
> (or the trunk).



                Hidden batterypower

> Imagine your cell battery isvery low, you are expecting an
>
 important call and you don't have a charger. 
> Nokia instrument comes with a reserve battery.
> To activate, press the keys
> *3370# 
> Your cell will restart withthis reserve and the instrument

> will show a50%increase in battery.
> This reserve will get charged when you charge your cell
> next time AND...
>                       
     How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone? 


> To check your Mobile phone's serial number, key in the
> following digits on your phone: 
> * # 0 6 #
> A 15 digit code will appear on the screen. This number is
> unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it somewhere

> safe. when your phone get stolen, you can phone your service
> provider and give them this code. They will then be able to
> block your handset so even if the thief changes the
 SIM
> card, your phone will be totally useless.
> You probably won't get your phone back, but at least
> you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either.


> Be care while using your mobile phone
> When you try to call someone through mobile phone,don't
> put your mobile closer to your ears until the recipient
> answers. Because directly after dialling, the mobile phone

> would use it's maximum signalling power, which is: 2
> watts = 33dbi, Plz Be Careful, Message as received (Save
> your brain) Please use left ear while using cell (mobile),
> because if you use the right one it will affect brain

> directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team.
> Please spread this useful information around
> SAFETY BY ALL FOR ALL 

Use Different Firefox Profiles For Different Browsing Habits

One of the most under-looked features of Firefox is its ability to run different profiles. This is perfect for various reasons. If more than one person is using the same computer, each person can have a different profile where he can have his own customized Firefox setting - such as extensions or bookmarks.

Another reason to use different profiles is when using FireFox for different purposes. Obviously, most people don’t use every extension every time they use Firefox. However, the fact that the extension is installed makes Firefox startup and run slower than usual. The more extensions you run, the slower Firefox will run.

Use Firefox Profiles for different browsing habits

You can create Firefox profiles for the different browsing habits that you have. For example, if you are a web developer, you can have all extensions for that on one profile, without the unnecessary ones cluttering your Firefox. Likewise, if you want to browse without leaving any trace -”private browsing” - you can have a profile with the extension distrust or stealther and noscript.

For normal browsing, you can have another profile, and so on. This will keep your Firefox neat and fast - leaving only the necessary extensions and bookmarks for their respective purposes.

To use Firefox Profiles, follow these steps:

1. Go to Start->Run and type:

Firefox -p

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2. Click on Create Profile and name it whatever you want (porn mode, work…)

3. Run each profile and set it up exactly how you want it - download the correct extensions and place the bookmarks that you need.

Place desktop shortcuts for each profile:

To create shortcuts for each Firefox profile, put a shortcut for Firefox on your desktop for each profile. So if you have 4 profiles, place 4 shortcuts to Firefox. Right click->Properties on each shortcut and go to the Shortcut tab. In the target field, it will be something like this:

“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe”

Simply add -p name to the end where name is the name of the profile. So if the profile name is ‘private’ the Target field should look like this:

“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” -p private

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Do this for every shortcut of Firefox.

Depending on how many extensions you normally use, this can speed up your firefox significantly (especially how long it takes it to start up) because the extensions are spread over more profiles. Also, it’s much less cluttered because you can spread bookmarks also.

Restarting Windows Without Restarting Your PC

A modern PC with Vista Home Edition takes about one and a half minutes to boot. An older machine with XP is about the same. That’s 30 seconds for the PC itself (the BIOS) to boot up, plus a minute for the Windows operating system to boot.

Sometimes, you need to reboot Windows (e.g. when installing new software), but there is no need to restart BIOS, too. However, the default is to reboot both. (That’s called doing a “cold boot,” rather than a “warm boot.”) There’s a trick that works on both XP and Vista to get it to do a warm boot instead, thus saving you 30 seconds per cycle.

The trick is to hold down the SHIFT key when invoking the restart.

Windows Vista: Select Start, then hover over the right arrow that is to the right of the padlock icon until the pop-up menu appears that contains “restart” as one of it’s choices. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “restart” choice.

Windows XP: Select Start. Select “Shut Down…”. Change the drop-down combo box under “What do you want the computer to do?” to “Restart”. Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the “OK” button.

How to access FTP servers without any software

FTP is used for transfer of large files. Bloggers and webmasters use FTP frequently for uploading files to their server space all the time.

FTP transfers usually involve some software installed on the computer. The method usually involves connecting to a particular host server URl, and entering the username and password for access. FTP transfers may be primitive (they do not have much security), but they are still widely used.
Imagine yourselves in this situation : you are at a friend’s house or a browsing cafe, and need to access your server immediately (perhaps for uploading WP-Cache during a spike, for example). Do you wait until the download of FTP software is complete? That is a complete waste of time.
There is an easier way to access FTP servers - without any third-party software. All that you require is the humble Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer (either of them can be used). To access any FTP server, enter the following (replace server with the domain/subdomain):

ftp://ftp.server.com

Once you enter this, a dialog box will come up, and you can fill out the user name and password and click Log On.

If you’re still not convinved of using this method, try out FileZilla , a free, open-source software.