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Dumb Little Man : 5 Ways To Make Your Weight Loss Journey Suck A Little Less

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:11:40 +0000

In order to keep a constant temp : Thermogenic actions = Actions absorbing heat Heat producing= Exercise Heat losing = Eating crushed ice cubes Sure I can use my will-power and actions to make some small change to the 37C core temperature my body likes to keep, but what's your bet that I can voluntarily eat ice until I hit 32 degrees? There's no chance in hell is there? In much the same way my body will fight every inch of the way to get away from a composition the internal settings like to keep. You don't look like you struggle with weight, so let me ask you this: is that through will-power or the fact that you just aren't hungry all of the time?

Dumb Little Man : 5 Ways To Make Your Weight Loss Journey Suck A Little Less

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:11:34 +0000

Well Keith, allow me to comment as somebody who has a special interest in the topic of weight maintainence and also as a medic who has passed all of his exams (just waiting for the diploma!). It really is not as simple as you make out. Calories in and Calories out arguments are severely out-dated and fail to take account for so much evidence it's shocking. I don't read the paleo blogs or the low-carb books but then again I've never struggled with weight, and I doubt you have either. What I will say is this: There is not a doubt in my mind, having looked at studies on the subject, that the modern field of medicine is clueless about weight maintainence and has been misled along the way- the endocrine system is wonderfully complex and to think that we can overpower all of it in order to make a substantial change in weight through will-power? Let's look at it in a simplified but alternative view, instead of willing our hypothalamuses to stop us eating, let's use our willpower to change our body temperature...

WMPoweruser.com : TapSplosion: Fantastic addicting game!

Sun, 3 Apr 2011 10:50:38 +0000

Just tried it out, a simple and fun game indeed.... kind of like being a sheepdog but based in space- if that makes any sense at all.

WMPoweruser.com : New free WP7 game: Juice Factory

Sun, 3 Apr 2011 07:16:11 +0000

That looks seriously addictive and with a little more graphical polish I feel certain it would be an excellent top-tier title for WP7. Why doesn't Microsoft see potential in these games whilst approving them and give developers extra support to make them into XBL titles?

WMPoweruser.com : Microsoft eats humble pie, apologizes for “fall(ing) far short of your expectations, and our o

Fri, 1 Apr 2011 07:09:00 +0000

Easiest method by far, worked for me: http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/a-trick-for-ge...

WMPoweruser.com : What App Would You Like To Have?

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:26:32 +0000

I think I saw a UK lottery application on the marketplace just recently... not sure though, I don't play. I would LOVE more banking applications- a sad side effect of everybody using iDevices is that we don't get any love from these companies!

WMPoweruser.com : Dell Venue Pro Review From AnandTech

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:21:55 +0000

If they had made this available sooner I would have bought it ASAP, however they're too late to the game for this generation of WP7 devices IMHO. I have my LG phone for another year or so before the contract expires and that's going to hurt Dell despite making a sexy device... and by that time I may or may not go Nokia. Best of luck to them though.

WMPoweruser.com : Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7 prototype leaked, or a great photoshop?

Sat, 5 Mar 2011 12:26:15 +0000

I don't care if it's fake or not, that's an enticing design. If Sony Ericcson were to produce this I'd be torn between it and whatever Nokia put out next.

WMPoweruser.com : Latest official Windows Phone 7 ad shows UI, features

Sat, 5 Mar 2011 12:22:50 +0000

Needs to highlight the Zune pass.... then this full version needs to be shown before every movie in cinema's nationwide for the next year... then it might just work. Very nice actually.

WMPoweruser.com : New and cool Samsung Focus ad claim thousands of apps

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:26:35 +0000

Great ad, now do one which tells people you can have unlimited songs each month for $14.99/£9 for up to three devices... watch the families start lining up. The product's great, knowledge about it... not so much.

WMPoweruser.com : 3rd party Evernote client comes to Windows Phone 7

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:47:47 +0000

How do you figure Onenote is ripping off Evernote? Putting the cart before the horse perhaps?

WMPoweruser.com : Chicks’n’Vixens update, release date, and more!

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 07:32:51 +0000

OK, I'll email, consider it done.

WMPoweruser.com : Chicks’n’Vixens update, release date, and more!

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:21:19 +0000

Angry Birds has reached critical mass now and will succeed simply because it is associated with a popular phenomenon; they got to that point by providing a game with a lot of polish though. Chicks and Vixens doesn't have that same level of visual splendor at this point, the developer has done a lot of great work but it doesn't yet deserve XBL status- I hope he gets where he wants to but MS is so busy courting the Angry Birds developers he doesn't stand much of a chance. Still, a very interesting title all the same.

WMPoweruser.com : Nokia release high-res pictures of their concept Windows Phones

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:21:51 +0000

Great now just make them slightly less rounded and in the colours of the ZuneHD originals i.e.: Black (Matt) Aluminium Olive Green Burgundy/Red Just LOOK at these images: http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/9/2009/09/t... http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/200... Don't screw up such beautiful devices with colours like those in the concepts!

WMPoweruser.com : Microsoft Announces Twitter And Deeper Skydrive Integration In WP7

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:07:29 +0000

Finally this was needed at release IMO. Just make sure it works with Live Mesh too!

WMPoweruser.com : Microsoft Shows Windows Phone 7 and Kinect Integration

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:00:41 +0000

Microsoft could finally solve the issue of penalty kicks in soccer/football games with such tech! ;)

WMPoweruser.com : Windows Phone 7 ‘NoDo’ Update Coming In ‘Early March’

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:59:00 +0000

My thoughts exactly- I've been taking it for granted that the Zune mentality of free updates was a given into the future!

WMPoweruser.com : Rumour: Nokia may be working on a Windows Phone already

Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:09:00 +0000

It doesn't bother me specifically that it's Nokia, what I love about this rumour is that it's Elop who'll be in charge (hear me out though). Microsoft isn't making their own phone but this guy is Microsoft blood- I expect he'll have some insider knowledge of what to do to make the platform shine. For example whilst many device makers are out of touch I can't help buy believe that a company ran by a Microsoftie would try and make the device as good as it could possibly be e.g. expandable storage etc. Just my 2 cents.

WMPoweruser.com : Microsoft’s anti-trust consent decree expires 12th May–will the gloves come off with the

Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:00:51 +0000

Indeed, that and Microsoft's "Passport" service for the web which was going to predate Facebook Connect and OpenID by a decade. The antitrust suit was good for Microsoft's competitors and sucky for everybody else- they just haven't realised it yet.

WMPoweruser.com : A simple task switcher concept for Windows phone 7

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:00:53 +0000

How about just a disc with a cross through it- the same way you get when you "un-pin" an item from the start screen.... fits with the UI paradigms and as intuitive as it gets.