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…that is called ECS G10IL. And what is that? The successor of R2D2?

No, it’s the new Netbook PC of Elitegroup with a strange name - it weighs less than 1 kg and it speaks 3G.

While Asus can lay claims of having invented a complete new line or range of small, budget notebooks - the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) or Netbooks - the fierce competition is currently heating up more and bringing out new and similar gadgets every week with better value for money or smaller form factors.

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Wanted to share with you quickly some interesting web sites I found recently:

“The Secret History of the Credit Card” is an outstanding documentary and interesting piece of investigative journalism. The critically acclaimed and award-winning show is now available online as a 5-part Video Streaming Series. It’s an in-depth look into a secretive yet very successful industry. You can learn how your Credit Score is calculated, what methods Visa, Master, American Express and others use to keep you spending and how they earn big bucks from you paying only the minimum charge or nothing at all.

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If you are traveling without your own laptop for an extended period of time - chances are you will use Computers in public Internet Cafes to stay in touch with loved ones and friends around the world.

Using a computer in any Internet Cafe in Shanghai, Vientiane or Fiji sounds like a comfortable form of getting things done, considered you have decent connection speed and bandwidth. Sure, sometimes those places feature outdated equipment and the comfort factor isn’t on par with your hotel room - but hey!

Unfortunately there are much darker dangers lurking in the shadows of those locations, some not clearly visible to the unsuspecting eye:

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Traveling the world, most people take plenty of pictures, need access to their business or private contacts, want to make mid or long-term appointments, have to write letters to Visa or Immigration authorities or simply want to stay in touch with their loved ones.

While bringing a laptop or notebook computer is an option for many - most people refrain to do so, as they are quite bulky, can break down, get lost or stolen - all of which will cause havoc to your personal documents, private video or music collection and other valuable private data on it:

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The year is almost over and thanks to your continuous support - it was an exciting and successful year, which saw phenomenal growth for nomad4ever.com.

Checking over at problogger.com, I noticed an interesting list of his best articles in 2007, copyblogger.com has a similar one.

I liked the idea and simply ‘copyblogged’ it, so much about this short introduction and the intention for this article.

Here is the wrap-up of the monthly highlights of Nomad4ever.com in 2007; the posts which attracted the most readers and sparked a lot of comments from you guys:

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I’m currently upgrading the site to the latest Wordpress Version (2.3.1). Therefore you might see some funny effects or a non-complete site layout.

Don’t worry though - it’s not your computer, but mine being responsible for that. I hope everything will be back to normal by tomorrow.

Will take a few hours though to check, if everything works like it should.

Some other changes you can expect:

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Being in the same lucky position just recently, I was asked by many readers, if there are any tips and tricks to share.

Okay, here we go. I started out as a true-blue beginner to blogging, just learning things along the way. It’s truly amazing, what one can learn in a very short time about webpages, blogging and improving traffic and visitor numbers.

So you definitely have the potential to beat those numbers easily. Just try to follow some of the tips below and avoid my initial mistakes. Most things are about Google Optimization and Self Promotion of your Site:

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