How to secure your important documents in your wallet

Place the contents of your wallet on a photocopy machine. Do both sides of each license, credit card, etc., so you will know what you had in your wallet and all of the account numbers and phone numbers to call to cancel. Keep the photocopy in a safe place. We've all heard horror stories about fraud that's committed using your name, address, SS#, credit, etc. To limit the damage in case this happens to you or someone you know. As everyone always advises, cancel your credit cards immediately, but the key is having the toll free numbers and your card numbers handy so you know whom to call. Keep those where you can find them easily. File a police report immediately in the jurisdiction where it was stolen, this proves to credit providers you were diligent, and is a first step toward an investigation (if there ever is one). But here's what is perhaps most important: (I never ever thought to do this) - Call the three national credit reporting organizations immediately to place a fraud alert on your name and SS#. The alert means any company that checks your credit knows your information was stolen and they have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit.

Top 5 Apps by Retailers Choice for online Shopping

The power of any online shopping application can be measured on various metrics. Among the key parameters of measurement is how much it can do for the shopper, the retailer and the developer respectively in order of priority. This is in tandem with the new electronic age adage which recognizes customer as king and everyone else comes behind. Internet plays a key role in marketing trends since every item on the shelves of all physical stores in the world has a corresponding review, description or even online marketplace where you can buy it online from the comfort of your home. Billions of dollars are spent every year to make sure consumers get compelled to buy from one manufacturer and/or vendor/brand in the competitive market offered by internet. This is evident from influential ads found on the internet. Be it through youtube videos, eye-catching ads on top-ranking sites  and the millions of “Top 10” lists available on the internet.

With increasing competition comes the need to make sure brands, products and services get to consumers at their comfort, whenever they want to have them and how to have these brands, products or services. Numerous apps have been developed to meet this niche that taps from the power of online shopping. The measurements of these apps are based on a number of approaches but the core important ones to consider in this scenario is their capabilities to the online shopper and the vendor/retailer/manufacturer depending on who is providing the services of the online shopping. The applications are used to link the two to implement sale and therefore the application involved is of critical importance. Among the most efficient applications for online shopping to hit the market are:

1.       1. Amazon Price Check

Amazon price check app searches for products by way of scanning barcode; snapping the cover page of a book, DVD, CD, or video game poster; or by a product name query. This app limits the user in that only items listed in Amazon will appear as search results. Only merchants from amazon can sell their items from this app denying the consumer the variety and competitive pricing they would get from vendors outside Amazon marketplace. The 2 million merchants available on Amazon will offer most items online shoppers would like but does not offer the most competitive pricing. Bargain hunters will be happy to know they can benefit from the Deal of the Day offer as well as Lightning Deals offer which can change multiple times a day. The app is available for apple and android devices.

1.      2. Jifiti

Jifiti is a gifting platform that allows user to spot, share and redeem gifts while walking through stores. Friends and family can easily purchase or chip in for a gift on the Jifiti platform. Friends and family can actually buy the user a gift or easily chip in with one click directly on the Jifiti.com website. All they have to do is click on the link sent by user to them, hit buy (or chip in) and user receives a notification directly to their app. Recipient can simply walk into the store and pick it up with the in-app notification. The app is capable of searching items from captured barcodes.
Jifiti adds a social aspect to online shopping. This makes it very easy for friends to spot you that item you have always craved for. Upon receiving a gift you can opt to check out from store. The variety of items and number of vendors provides for competitive pricing of items. Jifiti shoppers can get this app from Apple online store. New 'Friends' button allows you to see your Facebook friends and invite them to join the Jifiti shopping experience.  The android version is on the pipeline but not yet released. This app derives high rankings from social engagement as well as variety of items offered from stores which is crucial to customer satisfaction. This app does not promise much to bargain hunters although the competitive prices are very compelling.

1.       3. Goodzer

This app promises to get you what you need in the shortest time possible. You however do not get the benefits of competitive pricing. Goodzer is specifically resourceful in finding goods in the nearest stores. This is achieved through providing results which are mapped out to the closest store near you. It lists products sold at major retailers as well as small stores and boutiques that would have otherwise been ignored by most online shopping apps. You should however make a call to confirm the availability of goods in the stores listed by Goodzer before making a trip to the store as they are out of stock in some instances. Goodzer is available for iPhone but users can still access the services from goodzer.com as well.

4. Google Shopper
Google Shopper can scan the bar-code of almost any product. It also lets you scan the covers of books, CDs, DVD, or video games just by pointing your phone's camera at the product. Users can simply say the name of a product and Google's voice search will find it in Shopper. Once users have found an item within the app, they can find the product at various sellers online, complete with seller ratings. Users can also locate the item at nearby stores, read reviews of the product, and read details about the product, including a description, related products, specifications, and videos. The advantage that comes with this app is its linkage to Google Offers—daily local deals available in select cities—so users can purchase a Google Offer right within Google Shopper. The app can also keep lists of products scanned and be used to create a shopping list. The app is available for iPhone and android devices.

5. Smoopa

Smoopa uses barcodes to compare prices from different stores such as Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Sears, Kmart, Office Depot, OfficeMax, CompUSA, TigerDirect, Buy.com, and more. The user scans a product barcode while at a store, enters the price of the item, and selects the store. The app then compares it with other prices in its database. Smoopa shows a green and yellow button, signifying user can save money by price matching (yellow), or it's a good price and the user should buy it (green). Smoopa can also track a product and send alerts to the user if the price drops below a specified amount. Smoopa also rewards people for using the app with giftcards, rebate checks, and donations to charity. The more people use Smoopa, the more rewards they'll earn. This android and iPhone app is especially useful to merchants who would like to keep check on the competitiveness of their prices relative to other stores.

How to download torrents when your P2P/torrents are blocked by web proxy

Dear ardent readers of my blog,
I have recently delved into migrating this blog and another one that I run at samloffee.webs.com to a self-hosted domain and host. You should check updates on that soon.
Lets now go to the duck of the day. Its pretty well fried I guess. you are probably lost in desperation when your school/college/university/workplace has the "torrents blocked". This is  not unusual. Most institutions do that to limit on bandwidth use per host and improve the network performance. This however does not justify the reason why users should be blocked from using this file sharing technology which proves to be next frontier after most file servers face the risk of shutdown due to infringement on copyrights on account of content found in their servers (Story for another day). You are probably asking yourself how to get that file you found out is only available through torrent downloads.
You should take note that most often the admin of the network will have probably blocked you from downloading the torrent file (that small torrent file usually below 200kb that initiates the torrent download of interest). you will thus not be able to have a torrent file unless you use an alternative unrestricted internet connection to download the file. In this case, you will have to depend on a magnetic link to be able to use the method am about to describe below. Go to your preferred website that hold torrent file collection. Find the file of interest within the website. Once spotted, choose tto download the same using magnetic link (This usually opens your torrent client say uTorrent/BitTorrent etc and feeds it with the URI- Its pretty happens very fast you might not probably notice it.). Ensure you have either the torrent file of interest or its URI in your torrent client application.This is how you proceed:
1. On your torrent client, right click the file of interest. Select the option of "Copy Magnetic URI".
2. open web browser. Open the ZBIGZ Website
3. Paste the Magnetic URI on the bar at the top. Then click "Go"
4. Proceed with the steps and Wait for the file to be prepared for direct download.
5. Click download/zip when ready
Enjoy the download experience
Robust speeds and resumable downloads can be attained from premium accounts. More info coming soon.

How to unlock ZTE San Francisco Orange

This week i have been researching on tricks to unlock ZTE San Francisco locked to orange kenya. The progress is amazing and I will soon be releasing an archive for that, so you can check from my www.4shared.com account for that.
And just as a by-the-way I stumbled upon a commercial (cloud) server that lets you download stuff from the internet at amazing speeds. Free users get to enjoy all the benefits enjoyed by premium users and whats more, they pay users for uploads. interesting? check it out at www.180upload.com

How to unlock Huawei Gaga Orange

This week i have been researching on tricks to unlock huawei gaga locked to orange kenya. The progress is amazing and I will soon be releasing an archive for that, so you can check from my www.4shared.com account for that.
And just as a by-the-way I stumbled upon a commercial (cloud) server that lets you download stuff from the internet at amazing speeds. Free users get to enjoy all the benefits enjoyed by premium users and whats more, they pay users for uploads. interesting? check it out at www.180upload.com

TIPS TO INCREASE SPEED AND PERFORMANCE OF MOZILLA FIREFOX

We all know, Firefox is widely used internet explorer and now many popular Add-ons are available for it. But If we install many ad-ons for Firefox, we experienced some slowness in the performance while opening multiple pages at the same time so to increase the performance here are some tips.

Write "about:config" In the address bar of your Firefox browser and press Enter (Some time you can see some security alert so, click "Proceed" Button). Many configurations you will find.
Now After making some change in to pipelining and some for simultaneous connections we can increase the performance of Firefox.
Setting for Pipelining :
Look for the following entries in to the configuration page.
network.http.pipelining

network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Now you have to change above entries by just double clicking each entry.
Set network.http.pipelining to TRUE
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to TRUE
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to number 8 (requests at once).

Now right click anywhere and select New->Integer . Name it as nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set the values 0 .
This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. This will again help you to increase the performance of browser.
Now we will do some settings for simultaniously connections.
Settings for Simultaneous Connections:
Look for the following Entries and change the values of each entry.
network.http.max-connections = 96
network.http.max-connections-per-server = 32
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy = 24
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server = 12
You have to follow the same method to change the setting. Double Click on each entry and modify the values for each
Pls. Note that doing the above settings, with some of the pages you can face some loading problem and for those who are using Broadband with Firefox will experience much faster speed from now onwards.

Install Microsoft Security Essentials Without Genuine Validation Check

Microsoft Security Essentials is the free antivirus developed and provided by Microsoft for free to Windows XP, Vista and 7 users. It has been very good detection against virus and it is light which does not put a lot of load on your computer. However to install Microsoft Security Essentials, the user must go through the genuine validation check first. If the genuine validation passes, the installation continues but if failed, the user cannot proceed with the installation showing the message “This copy of Windows did not pass genuine validation. You might be a victim of software counterfeiting” and will be either asked to close the setup or get a genuine Windows.

If you do not have Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) installed because you want privacy and does not trust what information is being constantly sent to Microsoft, then here is a method on how to install Microsoft Security Essentials bypassing the genuine validation check.

1. Download Microsoft Security Essentials.

2. Right click on mssefullinstall-x86fre-en-us-xp.exe, go to 7-Zip and click Extract to “mssefullinstall-x86fre-en-us-xp.exe\”

3. Download MSSE Genuine Check Bypass Loader, extract and copy the loader.exe file to the mssefullinstall-x86fre-en-us-xp.exe folder.

4. Run loader.exe and Microsoft Security Essentials setup will launch. Follow the on-screen instructions and when asked validate your Windows, just continue with it. Within a few seconds you will get a message “This copy of Windows passed genuine validation”.

You can now update and use Microsoft Security Essentials as normal. However you will notice that there are some red alert notifications in the program telling you that Windows did not pass genuine validation and you can run another validation check after you get genuine Windows.

This annoying message can be removed by following the steps below.

1. Press WIN+R, type %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc and click OK.

2. Open hosts file with a text editor, add the following entries to the file and save it.

127.0.1.1 spynettest.microsoft.com

127.0.1.1 spynet2.microsoft.com

127.0.1.1 mpa.one.microsoft.com

3. Press WIN+R, type "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Windows Genuine Advantage\Data" (with quotes) and click OK. Delete the data.dat file in the data folder.

The method above only works on Windows XP. We have tried it on Windows 7 and got the error message “Unable to change access to memory region!” when trying to run the loader.exe. Unfortunately every running loader.exe with Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode also won’t work.

Compare Pros and Cons of Villas vs. Hotels vs. Motels

Compare Pros and Cons of Villas vs. Hotels vs. Motels

When looking for travel destinations most people look at a few factors that determine their choice of accommodation provider to their respective destinations either on the way or at their destination. Motels cater for travelers seeking to sleep over and offers secure parking facilities for motorists before they proceed with their journey. Parking spaces provided by motels are usually if not always at the front of the motel and customers are usually booked rooms where they can see their vehicles from their rooms. Some motels contain kitchen rooms. However, most motels offer bed and breakfast for their customers. The prices charged by most motels is reasonably low and affordable as they do not go the extra mile of providing luxurious facilities and privacy to customer with most being characteristically crowded and poor customer service, while others have dirty rooms and bedbugs. They only offer you the convenience to take a break on your journey when darkness sets in. The environment is less appealing with hooting cars just passing by the road.

Needs of customers seeking a more relaxing environment is catered for by hotels. Most are primarily located in towns or cities and their standards. A conventional hotel room has a bed, two chairs, dressing table, a TV set and telephone, wardrobe, bathroom. For a few extra coins you could in addition get a room with different cable or satellite movie channels instead of an old TV set. High end hotels provide guest with free Wi-Fi internet access in the lobby, work desks, faxing/photocopying services, voicemail and access to conference and board rooms where business clients can host their meetings.  The customer can stay in the hotel as long as he wishes as they are billed on a daily basis. Free breakfast is also available at a pocket friendly price but laundry, lunch, dinner, snacks, and drinks would be at an additional fee. Although more expensive than motels facilities such as pools, fitness centers and room service are available for high market end clients. No customized services are readily available and it common for customers to end up in bedbug infested or dirty rooms with poor service in lower class clientele hotels. Also common are delays in room allocations with no privacy at all.

The best rooms are however found in Villas which provide high class services, privacy and flexibility for those with kids. Services offered include multiple utility rooms and bedrooms, private swimming pool, in-house laundry washers and dryers, equipped game rooms, home theater systems and covered lanais, spacious living and dining areas, more informality, more privacy, and more personal service than even the best hotel can provide. Other Villas have electronic entry systems in a gated-community, massages, Wi-Fi internet connection, cars, trained cooks, maids, house boys, spa therapists, laundresses, gardeners, night guards and drivers. However all these come at high rental rates and it is difficult to get a Villa that exactly suits all the client’s needs. At times those who book clients in the Villas are not the owners and therefore not ready to address poor service.

Sytropin

Most people confess to getting worried over gaining the slightest ounce of body weight. Others worry about the impact it has on their health. There are remedies to such occurrences such as a consistent use of sytropin. Sytropin is amazing because it faces all health problems in your body head on. Sytropin supports healthy weight loss regimens. You do not have to be worried on the weight lost but how fit you will be in the exercise routine. It is so fit that your skin will tone evenly and reduced probability of appearance of wrinkles on your face. Sytropin has proven the test of time by registering millions of success cases both in Asian countries and in other continents. Among the strong points of Sytropin is that it is natural. It has the ability to prevent wrinkles on your face. This is desirable as it conceals any signs of ageing.

Compare toasters before settling on a brand

Shoppers have been duped for too long to go for certain brands while shopping for a toaster without sampling toaster oven reviews. The stereotype that some manufacturers make better brands of toasters has gained momentum because shoppers do not probe further than what needs are met by these manufacturers. It is not reasonable to conclude that a manufacturer will always produce a good toaster based on the reputation of a preceding product of the same brand. This is not a good presumption as it could make you spend your savings on a toaster that does not deliver on its promise.

It is advisable to compare toasters on the criteria of price, close competitors, toaster size and the power they consume while in operation. Also take note of the time a toaster takes to prepare a slice of bread. Make these vitals comparisons to ensure you arrive at the best quality toaster that meets all your needs.

Buy toasters that have warranty

Even after sampling numerous home appliances magazines and toaster oven reviews, you will still not get a good product unless you look out for very specific details on a product that will ensure you get value for money. Among the most important things to look out for while shopping for a toaster or oven is the warranty.

The warranty appears as a useless document in the eyes of most shoppers but it proves it worth when your toaster or oven breaks down just a few days after purchasing it. This document provides you with the confidence that a certain product will give you service for not less than the period specified in the document. In case the toaster or oven breaks down before that time, you are justified to take it back to the manufacturer or dealer. The dealer will either replace or make repairs to the item whose warrant has been provided. It is important to take advantage of this important document.

Advantages of buying toasters from recognized dealers

If you are planning to get your kitchen a good toaster or an oven, I would recommend you look for a number of approved dealers for various toasters and ovens from the toaster oven reviews. It is important to insist on approved dealer as they will be in a position to offer professional advice on various ways of setting up and operating your oven or toaster.

Approved dealers offer after sales services such as undertaking maintenance of your equipment at no extra charge. The dealer derives profits from making sales to customers as well as incentives from manufacturer to undertake such maintenance services of products from the sponsoring manufacturer. The advantage of using dealers to fix you toaster or oven is that they are experienced and will usually diagnose the problems of a toaster or oven very fast. The customer is also confident that the oven or toaster is being repaired by trustworthy people whose intent is to retain the repute of the brand as opposed to extorting you.

A less tedious way to prepare breakfast

According to most toaster oven reviews, a good toaster should be able to prepare a good toast in less than three minutes. In addition, the toaster you also be able to consistently deliver evenness of the toast and achieve surface temperatures around the specified temperatures over and over again.

If you are seeking to equip your kitchen with a toaster oven for preparing breakfast, then the toaster of choice should be able to deliver quality toasts that are evenly toasted. In addition, the toaster should be able to retain same quality of toasts for a number of required slices of bread. Time taken to toast each slice should be almost the same for all the slices of bread to be toasted. The toaster should also be flexible enough to cater for bagels and frozen foods. This is to ensure that you have a reliable toaster that you can depend on every morning to provide services you require every morning for preparing breakfast. It is essential to maintain this performance to ensure you breakfast preparations go on smoothly.

Rallying through the African wild

If you are considering to go rallying in African wilderness, you will find a Garmin GPS a worthwhile investment for your sports car just in case you need to find your way out of the bush. The devices come in a variety of model just to fit to your exact requirement.

There are the Garmin GPS for the motor vehicle itself. Alternatively you can opt to get yourself the handheld GPS. The benefits of these gadgets are that they can be transferred from one vehicle to another. This gives you unmatched flexibility and you are at the same time assured of their reliability when it comes to directions. The unique aspect of the African bush is its tendency to look alike everywhere you go exposing you to the risk of getting lost. You will also bear me witness that these bushes are very unsafe if you get stuck with no one to help you find your way.

young entrepreneurs

This little boy hid in his parent's bedroom closet, as he wanted to see what took place in their room when the doors were locked.

As he peeked thru the slats of the closet door he saw his mother and her boyfriend going at it. Suddenly the boy's father comes home. The wife wisks her boyfriend off into the closet - the same closet her son is in.

After several minutes the boy says to the man, "Boy it's dark in here." Shocked, the man just nods his head in agreement.

After a few more minutes the boy says, "Wanna buy my baseball glove?"

The man asks "How much?" In reply the boy says $50.

The man agrees. Several more minutes pass when the boy asks the man if he'd like to buy his baseball bat for $50 as well.

The man reluctantly agrees.

After the father departs, the woman takes her boyfriend out of the closet, and too upset to continue she sends him on his way.

The next morning at the breakfast table the little boy pulls out a roll of money and begins counting it. The mother asks "Where did that come from?, to which her son replied "Can't say."

The mother asks again and upon his refusal to tell she tells her son to get in the car.

The mother takes the boy to church and tells him to get into the confessional and tell the priest where he got the money. When the priest slid the door over the boy said, "Boy it's dark in here", to which the priest replied, "Don't start that shit again!

Kids Say The Dandest Things

JACK (age 3) was watching his Mom breast-feeding his new baby sister. After a while he asked: "Mom why have you got two? Is one for hot and one for cold milk?"

MELANIE (age 5) asked her Granny how old she was. Granny replied she was so old she didn't remember any more. Melanie said, "If you don't remember you must look in the back of your panties. Mine say five to six ."

STEVEN (age 3) hugged and kissed his Mom good night. "I love you so much that when you die I'm going to bury you outside my bedroom window."

BRITTANY (age 4) had an earache and wanted a pain killer. She tried in vain to take the lid off the bottle. Seeing her frustration, her Mom explained it was a child-proof cap and she'd have to open it for her. Eyes wide with wonder, the little girl asked: "How does it know it's me?"

SUSAN (age 4) was drinking juice when she got the hiccups. "Please don't give me this juice again," she said, "It makes my teeth cough."

DJ (age 4) stepped onto the bathroom scale and asked: "How much do I cost?"(and it would be in pounds of course)

MARC (age 4) was engrossed in a young couple that were hugging and kissing in a restaurant. Without taking his eyes off them, he asked his dad: "Why is he whispering in her mouth?"

CLINTON (age 5) was in his bedroom looking worried. When his Mom asked what was troubling him, he replied, "I don't know what'll happen with this bed when I get married. How will my wife fit in?"

JAMES (age 4) was listening to a Bible story. His dad read: "The man named Lot was warned to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back and was turned to salt." Concerned, James asked: "What happened to the flea?"

TAMMY (age 4) was with her mother when they met an elderly, rather wrinkled woman her Mom knew. Tammy looked at her for a while and then asked, "Why doesn't your skin fit your face?"

"Dear Lord," the minister began, with arms extended toward heaven and a rapturous look on his upturned face. "Without you, we are but dust..." He would have continued but at that moment my very obedient daughter who was listening leaned over to me and asked quite audibly in her shrill little four year old girl voice, "Mom, what is butt dust?"

No curvy mannequins in shop windows

TEHRAN, TUESDAY

Iranian police warned shopkeepers not to use mannequins without headscarves or which exposed body curves, official news agency IRNA reported.

"Using unusual mannequins exposing the body curves and with the heads without Hijabs (Muslim veil) are prohibited to be used in the shops," Iran’s moral security police in charge of Islamic dress codes said in a statement carried by IRNA.

Iranian police have stepped up a crackdown on women and men, boutiques and small companies which fail to enforce strict religious dress codes since 2005.

The measures are the latest in a countrywide campaign against Western cultural influences in the Islamic Republic.

"Both showing necktie and bow tie behind the windows ... and (the) selling (of) women’s underwear by men are prohibited," said the police statement.

In the past, crackdowns tended to be launched at the start of Iran’s hot summers and petered out soon after. But last year they extended into winter and included a drive against tight women’s trousers and even men with spiky "Western" hairstyles.

Five things a player will never say

A successful pickup artist is typically endowed with the gift of gab, but thanks to time and experience, he carefully selects what chitchat he makes. To the receptive girl, it always sounds smooth and casual — never forced and never strained, and it will lead almost any woman to relax in mere minutes. 

Always remember: Players would never say anything to compromise those aforementioned ideals. 

Here are some things a player will never say, much less mean:

• "I love you"


A Don Juan arrives with a bang and sneaks out as quietly as possible

It’s a predictable No. 1, but all the critical women out there should realise that avoiding this heartfelt statement saves you a great deal of stress and pain. 

As the player has no enemies — male or female — and he frowns on manipulation and deception, he isn’t about to toy with a woman’s heart just to satisfy his base desires. 

• "I don’t care — whatever you want to do"

At no point is a player disinterested in his partner’s hobbies and activities, and at no point does he relinquish all control of the situation. There’s a reason why you typically only hear this statement from married or committed men; men who have already accepted their fate and have lost all interest in the proceedings. 

The ladies’ man is always interested in hearing a woman’s suggestions for plans and he’s never a doormat, as he understands the ceaseless female desire for avid communication. 

• "This is way too expensive"

He may think it, but he’d never say it. Having money certainly isn’t a prerequisite for all aspiring players (although it helps), but one should never flaunt his lack of funds as it includes far too many negative implications. 

Even if she’s aware the man has money, she’ll assume he’s cheap, or if she’s the high-maintenance type, she’ll probably disappear before he can turn around twice. 

• "Wanna have sex?"

Despite popular opinion among feminists, the player exhibits a certain amount of class and sophistication at all times. Not only is this ridiculous question crass and adolescent in nature, it also shows nothing in the way of tact and good breeding — both of which are required traits for any legitimate ladies’ man. On top of which, the observational and social talent of the player allows him to accurately assess the situation; if she’s ready to go, he knows it. The transition from discussion to sex should be seamless and even wordless. 

• "Sorry, I don’t have a condom"

Yeah, right. The player who hits the night scene without a condom isn’t a player at all. A ladies’ man can snag a woman at any given time. It doesn’t always happen in the standard, traditional locations; it could happen in an elevator, a parked car or a restaurant bathroom. Who knows? The point is, a player is always prepared, and furthermore, he’s always safe. The lifestyle is appealing and exciting , but it can also be dangerous.

Think you are clever?

Below are 4 questions. Answer them instantly. You can't take your time. Answer them immediately. No pencil or paper! OK?

Let's find out just how smart and clever you really are.

Ready? ...

GO!!!

FIRST QUESTION: You are participating in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in?

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ANSWER: If you answer that you are first, then you are absolutely wrong! If you overtake the second person and you take his place, you are second! Try not to screw up in the next question.

To answer the second question, don't take as much time as you took for the first question.

SECOND QUESTION: If you overtake the last person, then you are...?

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ANSWER: If you answered that you are second to last, then you are wrong again. Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST person?!

THIRD QUESTION: Very tricky math! Note: This must be done in your head only. Do NOT use paper and pencil or a calculator. Try it.

Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000.
Now add 30.
Add another 1000.
Now add 20.
Now add another 1000.
Now add 10.

What is the total?

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ANSWER: Did you get 5000? The correct answer is actually 4100.

Don't believe it? Check with your calculator! Today is definitely not your day. Maybe you will get the last question right?

LAST QUESTION: Mary's father has five daughters: Nana, Nene, Nini, Nono. What is the name of the fifth daughter?

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ANSWER: Nunu? Nana? Nene? NO NO! Of course not. The fifth daughter's name is Mary.