It is a feeling that pretty much everyone in the world gets, except for people who can control their appetites with simple mind tricks and do not need coffee or treats to make the day go by.  Those people have got mad willpower, but I am definitely not one of those kinds of folks.

I need my three PM tasty time otherwise I will not be able to function properly for the work day or on the ride home, which is bad news for fellow drivers out there.  Once I get home I will simply crash on the couch and not be able to do anything for the remainder of the night.

How do you prepare for this daily three PM tasty time, though?  Obviously you need some help THE INTERNET-Net-Net-Net!!!

The reason that I love the internet so very much is because I can find the best recipes for some of the tastiest treats imaginable.  These treats make three o’clock a happy and joyous time for me.  What’s on the menu for today you ask?  Let’s have a look…

The internet has not just affected individuals though.  Oh no, the internet has changed almost all of the ways people and places do things.  Businesses use the internet to do all sorts of things, and then you have the medical field and pretty much every other field out there utilizing the internet for daily use.  It is crazy to think about how far we have come thanks to this wonderful tool.

Even Universities and schools have changed due to the internet.  It’s not just the students, studying, and researching that the internet has touched.  Curriculum and courses have even been changed or created just to keep up with this information age that we are currently in thanks to the internet.  Take a look below to see what I mean.

There are, apparently, some striking ways in which the most powerful CEOs in America carry out their average working days.  For one thing, most of them wake up bright and early in the morning — at 6:15 am!  Now, that’s early.  Only teachers and day care workers get up earlier than that.  If you’re curious, you might check out Bloomberg Television or catch up on the Wall Street Journal.  Also, check out the infographic below to see how many hours these CEOs put in a day, and all of this before an average 10:30 pm bedtime!

Recently, Amazon.com shook things up considerably by revamping its entire line of Kindle family products and introducing its tablet, the Kindle Fire.  No matter which tablet a person owns, he or she will want to be sure that they have adt security to help secure their homes against crimes, but the Kindle Fire sure makes it easier.  At only $199, it is $300 less than the entry level iPad.  That’s pretty much a steal for something that will do double duty as an ebook reader and full fledged tablet.  Let’s have a closer look at the things besides price that set the Kindle Fire apart from the iPad:

My beef with this is that we in America are supposedly The World Leader, and therefore we should have the best infrastructure, including all things digital, right?  Well, not so fast!  According to this info graphic, America the Beautiful is really America the Pitiful when it comes to Internet speeds.  Could it have something to do with too much big government butting in and imposing strangling regulations on our Internet service providers?  Could that also be what’s wrong with cable and satellite services and everything else that’s a little too stuck in the red tape around here?  You be the judge.  (Click to expand the graphic!)

The way this attack worked was, the hacker would use a phishing scam to trick users into giving away their login information.  A phishing attack often first appears as an email message from someone official (for instance, from Gmail itself) asking a user to sign back in or re validate their credentials in some way.  It can also be a link that, once clicked, unleashes a virus on the computer.  Once the user enters his or her username and password as the message prompts, that information is sent to the hacker in China, who can then login to the user’s email account, read and monitor all message, change settings for email signatures and rules, and even set up forwarding copies of emails to addresses specified by the hacker.

In worst case scenarios, hackers with this power over email accounts can extract sensitive personal data from the victim of the attack, such as bank account information, credit card numbers, and the personal information of others in their contact lists.  Armed with credit card information, a hacker can then sell the information or use it him- or herself to make purchases in the name of the person whose details were stolen.

Other bad scenarios involve matters of homeland security, since top military and government officials from the United States were hacked.  This begs the question, however:  why on earth are senior US officials allowed to use Gmail in the first place?  Shouldn’t they be using highly secure government mail run by the White House instead? cableinternetbundles.com

Granted, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today that the accounts compromised were the personal email accounts of senior government officials — not their government accounts.  I suppose in a land of freedom and democracy, top ranking government officials have a right to free, personal email with lots of storage just like the rest of us.    And hopefully, those people didn’t use a lot of personally identifying information while logged in to their Gmail accounts anyway.    Take Hillary, for example:  surely she wouldn’t login as hclinton52@gmail.com and conduct sensitive government business via Google mail.  At least, we hope not.  What we hope is that the extent of her dealings with Gmail involves having a disposable address to use for signing up for Groupon.com or just staying in touch with old high school pals she doesn’t really talk to often anyway.

Nothing to write home to China about.

So, how do you protect yourself from an attempted phishing scam in Gmail?

• First, make sure you change your settings to only use a secure login. To do this, go to Settings/General, and click the circle beside “Always Use https.”
• If you receive an email message containing a link that asks you to verify any login information, do not click the link.  Gmail would never send you email messages asking for your username and password.
• Also, if a link of any sort comes from anyone you do not personally know, delete the message and do not click the link.

That should help lock things down.  You can also periodically check your Gmail account activity by logging into Gmail from your Browser and scrolling all the way down to the bottom of the page.  There you will find the words “last account activity” followed by a length of time, and an IP address.  Then you will see a link to “details.”  By clicking on this, you will have options to log out of any and all other sessions, view IP addresses that have logged on, and change settings for receiving alerts in case of suspicious activity.

That’s how to lock it down, y’all.

People often don’t realize how easy it is to make their own green smoothies at home, using ingredients fresh from their own gardens — or choosing their favorites from the local farmer’s market or grocery store.  Some popular greens to include are spinach, parsley, kale, arugula, dandelion, carrot and ginger, mint, chard, and even cilantro.  Mixing a few kinds of green vegetables is perfectly ok, too.  Just try to avoid mixing too many of the bitter flavored ones, unless you are using very sweet fruits or melons to mix with them.

The ratio of greens to fruit should be 1:1.  That means the same amounts of fruit as of greens.  So, if you use 20 ounces of spinach, you should also use 20 ounces of your favorite fruits and berries, and melons.  Some great fruits for these smoothies would be mangoes, pears, peaches, watermelon, bananas, apples, grapes, strawberries, and blueberries.   For emulsifying the mixture, something should be added during blending to give the smoothie its creamy texture.  This can be achieved using ripened avocados, or milk or even cream.

Green smoothies are considered to be a raw food.  Raw food diets, while not for everyone, can provide a host of health benefits that a diet of processed and cooked foods cannot match.  Raw foods are believed to contain essential nutrients that, once cooked, are either transformed into less potent versions of themselves, or their benefits are obscured by the production of carcinogens and other impurities believed to be caused by the cooking  process.  Many people adopt an entire diet of raw foods, but this can be very inconvenient due to the pressures and demands of mainstream society.  People may not feel they have the time or energy to put into studying up on raw diet, or to prepare meals suitable for this way of eating.   Advocates suggest this is much easier than people make it out to be, but others maintain that it takes some work — at least if you plan on sticking with this diet for any length of time.  If things get dull and boring too early on, the temptation to go back to cooked and processed foods it too great.

That’s where green smoothies come in.  People say they are the ultimate raw food, and that there is so much variety that no one is likely to ever feel they are having the same old thing day after day.  So try a green smoothie and see what raw really tastes like.  It might not change your life, but at the very least, you’ll have a nutritious and delicious meal in only a few minutes.