Fun Facts about Bananas

Posted by Phoenix on May 6, 2011 in Shopping | 0 comments

Bananas are certainly a delicious fruit that is very good for you to eat. Bananas provide plenty of Vitamin C, Iron, Vitamin A, Calcium and dietary fiber to maintain a body’s healthy immune system. It is also very low in saturated fat and will give you the tough to get Vitamin B6. Here are a few fun facts about bananas that you might not have heard or read before.

Since bananas have such a high content of potassium, they are also naturally radioactive. This potassium-40 element is also classified as a radioactive isotope. But don’t worry, the potassium radioactive isotope is actually good for you and not harmful.

The top three consumed agricultural products in the world are wheat, rice and corn. I’ll bet you can’t guess what number 4 is. That’s right! There are over one-hundred billion bananas consumed each and every year around the world. That’s a lot of bananas to eat!

Bananas are America’s number one fruit. They consume more bananas than any other fruit out there, even apples and oranges put together! The average Joe in the USA consumes over 26 pounds of bananas annually! But there is one country that eats WAY more bananas than an average American, the people of Uganda consume more than 500 pounds of bananas per year. And yes that is just one Ugandan consuming that much!

These are just a few fun facts about the healthy berry that is a banana. That’s right, the banana is actually considered a berry that grows from an above the ground root structure of a plant and not a tree. Remember these fun facts the next time you dig into a delicious banana.

Fun Chocolate Facts

Posted by Phoenix on Nov 15, 2010 in Shopping | 0 comments

Whether or not you love chocolate you are going to love hearing about these fun chocolate facts.

1. It takes 3.5 million pounds of milk to make the chocolate produced every day in the US.

2. Did you know that 3.3 billion pounds of chocolate was eaten in the US during 2000? Wow!

3. Do you know how much the largest chocolate bar weights according the Guinness Book of World Records? It’s 5,026 pounds.

4. The amount of money spent by Americans for chocolate averages $13 billion per year.

5. No equality of sexes here. 15% of men regularly crave chocolate while 40% of women feel the same way.

6. Do you know that over 50% of Americans choose what chocolate they will eat depending on its shape?

7. Almost 2/3 of Americans report that if they are buying chocolate for someone else, they can’t help but include something for themselves.

8. Chocolate is rich in magnesium and iron which are very good for our bodies.

There are many other fun chocolate facts, but first let’s talk a little about the history of chocolate.

It was first used over 2000 years ago by the Mayans who developed a drink made from ground up cocoa beans.

When Spaniards invaded and conquered the Mayans, they adopted the use of cocoa and introduced it to Europeans.

They loved it and its use has continued to grow and evolve over the years.

Meanwhile do you know that 71% of Americans prefer milk chocolate the most?

Fun Facts And Trivia You May Not Know About The Ever-So Common Fruit Strawberry

Posted by Phoenix on Apr 15, 2010 in Shopping | 0 comments

Strawberries are one of the most common fruits that people eat on a daily basis. Despite this, there are some incredible facts and interesting trivia that most are clueless about with the fruit. With that said, here are some interesting facts to keep in mind the next time you are enjoying a delectable strawberry snack.

Strawberries belong to the genus Fragraria in the rose family along with a couple of other fruits in apples and plums. Its name actually derived from the Old Latin word for fragrant and the Italian word for strawberry is Fragola.

Despite having berry in its name, interestingly enough strawberries are not actually classified as a true berry by botanists. True berries like blueberries and cranberries have seeds inside. Strawberries on the other hand have dry, yellow “seeds” on the outside. On top of that, each of the “seeds” on the outside of the strawberry are considered a separate fruit.

On average, every strawberry consists of 200 tiny seeds. If you were to take all strawberries produced in California alone each year and were to lay them side by side, they would wrap around the world an immaculate 15 times. As a result, this is enough strawberries to provide every household in the United States with 12 pint baskets.

Because this fruit is so popular, many gardeners opt to grow them in their backyards. If you too desire to fill your garden with fresh strawberries, expect it to take 2 to 3 months to grow from the plant, and a little longer if you begin growing them by the seed. Just make sure to not eat them until they are fully red to truly enjoy the luscious flavor they have to offer.

Shopping Options for this Season

Posted by Phoenix on Oct 12, 2009 in Shopping | 0 comments

Festive Season is around, the time you have waited for, eagerly. This is the time, which has nothing to do with the Recession, people will still be shopping for festivals, But, this time, the shopping will be limited.

I suggest you few thing to save some money while buying anything from Sunglasses, Jewellery and Watches. This time, you need to be more choosy and need to do more survey of the pricing plus the quality of the product you are looking for.

online shopping can help you save some amount of money, ( transportation, parking fees etc) also, you get some discounts of some of the most popular brands in the world.

Shopwiki is a website where you will find almost all the online stores, it is an online store where all the online stores are listed, shopwiki claims that they have approximately 30,000 stores listed, which makes them the biggest online store.

For Example,, take a look at the Accessories page, where you will find every possible accessory you are looking for.

Be More Scary this Time

Posted by Phoenix on Aug 3, 2009 in Shopping | 0 comments

So, Halloween is coming soon in about 2 months. If you think you did not get the best costume for Halloween,

You should learn from your mistakes and stat looking for the best costume right this early. I think I should recommend you a place where you can get what you’ve been looking for. I am talking about Halloween Express, It is an online store, which has more than 10000 Halloween Costumes.

So, tell me what you want to be this time? A Super hero?

With the Success of Transformer 2, everyone this year wanting to be like them. What….Machines?

Make sure you buy your favorite costume before it’s gone.

Wanna Shop?

Posted by Phoenix on May 25, 2009 in Shopping | 0 comments

I have been doing Online shopping for like 5 years, but when I started out to do so, there were few people like me who did not have the fear of putting their Credit Card Numbers online.

Also, There were only few shopping portals, which means few online buyers had to face the monopolistic behavior. But, Now time is changing or say it has changed. People are not scared to shop online anymore, and you have great deals too.

What I like about Online Shopping!

1. I am a lazy ass bones, and I work at night and sleep the whole day, which limits me to go for offline shopping, So, I prefer to do it online, which enables me to shop at any time, day or night.
2. Sometimes when I go to a mall for shopping, these sales guys (it is ok when there are girls) stand right next to me, staring at me like I am the one who is going to rob their shop. When I am doing it online, I simply can take my time.

What I don’t like about Online Shopping

1. While shopping online, I have fell on bad products many times, These sellers are so good at marketing that they can make a bad or say pathetic product, a Hit. If you are doing it offline, you can at least touch the product.
2. There is no fun actually, I mean, I am not able to discuss about the product I am going to buy, with anyone. When doing it offline, I can discuss it with my friends who are with me. 

But, Its more fun to shop online Now.

I will never complain about anything if I get the same fun in online shopping.

Here comes ShopCorn, India’s one of its kind Social Shopping Community. Its gives your offline shopping fun in online shopping. you can talk to your friends and discuss about the product you are looking at.

You can even bring in product deals from other shopping portals and put then in Deal Box where other users can discuss it. All of it is done in real time.

You not only get tangible product deals over there, but, also Travel deals, do travel comparison take the best by discussing it with other users. These discussion  things are too good to get a better deal and save you money from being wasted on any useless product.

I can say this from my Own Experience. I mean I was looking for a better internet wireless connection I can take anywhere, also, which gives me a great speed at the same time (my GPRS internet gives pathetic speed). When I discussed about it on the site, I found that Photon+ USB modem from TATA is going to be the solution of my problem, It gives a speed of up to 3.1Mbps, which is awesome.

By doing that, I met few great likeminded people online, and yes I forgot, you can upload pictures and videos to your profile, create blogs take part in Q&A etc. in their Community Section.

I would recommend this site to everyone who thinks Online shopping is only about buying things.
Enjoy!

Buy things online in Pakistan

Posted by Phoenix on May 21, 2009 in Shopping | 0 comments

This is an Informational Post for people who are living in Pakistan. They can now look for whatever they need with the comfort  of their home, if you are from Pakistan,

you can search for anything you want to buy, or you can even list your own things to sell.

here is a site harmalharcheez.com. you can look for PDA phones to pakistan car. whatever is listed will come to your screen, then you can contact  the person (the owner).

They have got separate categories for everything, if you are from any other part of the world, this is a best site if you are a collector of things.

this is the first online classified I have seen for Pakistan.

Real Mailboxes for You

Posted by Phoenix on May 7, 2009 in Shopping | 0 comments

It’s the age of emails, electronic communications, but I suppose, you still get mails.For fast communications, people use calls, text messages, emails, instant messages etc.But this paper thing will still be there for 100 years or more. You might get thousands of emails in your everyday, but its exiting to get mails in you mails box, yes the real mailbox.

You might be getting Christmas cards, Birthday cards etc in your mail box. So, setting up a mailbox at your home’s or office’s gate is not a bad idea. It at least gives an outlook to your home, plus it is an accessory to decorate your home. Here are some nice mailboxes for your home or office

You can buy them online, on http://www.mailboxixchange.com/ , they have got almost 2500 kinds of mailboxes, the Residential Mailboxes as well as commercial mailboxes. I think 2500 mail boxes is a huge collections, it covers almost all the market leaders in manufacturing home and office decors, yet they offer pretty reasonable prices on mailboxes.

Their collection is so huge that they cover all the mailboxes which suits almost every building’s design.You can choose the suited one by browsing yourself. check out their website for more information.

How to Choose the Best Web Hosting

Posted by Phoenix on May 6, 2009 in Shopping | 0 comments

Nowadays, almost everyone uses internet for different purpose, some run their online business, some are there to make friends, and some are here just have fun.

There is a trend going on these days, a trend to own a website, some people make blogs on them and some put their bio data and portfolios on their website.

It is a great practice as you are exposed to millions of people in the world.

You have people visiting your blog even while you are sleeping, as there must be sun shining at the other part of the world.

There are so many tools available now, that building a website has become very easy. You just need to buy a domain and look for a great hosting. There are plenty of hosting companies available online.

But,It is very confusing to choose a hosting service for your website, especially when you are a newbie.

But you can take help of expert in this field. Web Hosting Geeks is a website, which features best hosting services, which also gives a domain for free. That means, you don’t have to buy a domain additionally. You get a free domain name for life, unlimited space, unlimited data transfer when you choose a hosting services which is featured on this green web hosting. 

All the web hosting services, which is listed on this website, are professional web hosting services yet very affordable, they all are under $10/month. which is quite reasonable.

Five Star Gamble Site Review

Posted by Phoenix on May 6, 2009 in Shopping | 0 comments

Everyone wants to rich, but only few people actually make money online with the easiest way possible.

One of the easiest ways to be rich is online casino.

Unlike casino, you can play online casino right from your Personal Computer at comfort of your home, sipping a cup of coffee.

There are thousands (if not millions) of casino sites available online. You can try your luck on them, but not all the sites are authentic.And if some are authentic, they fail to offer a great online gambling experience. Not every casino site is good for you. So, for the best casino sites, you need to do little research, and you can do that on Fivestargamble.com

Five Star Gamble is an online casino guide providing a selection of best online casinos. Be it US online casino or any other international casino, you can get webs most trusted casinos on their site. You can take a look at their top 30 casinos which features most popular online casinos.

Five Star Gamble is basically an online casino portal, providing Casino Reviews, latest news about casinos and updates on casino and gambling.

They also have articles for people who are new to online casinos, which is a great help for people who want to start playing online casinos.

You will also find some online casinos which accept some of major credit cards like AMEX, Visa, and Master Card etc.

If you are interested in playing online casino, you can visit their website on Fivestargamble.com.

Enjoy HD Videos on Direct TV

Posted by Phoenix on May 1, 2009 in Shopping | 0 comments

Its the age of High Definition (HD)videos, with the change of technology every now and then.

you cant rely on any other service that offers to give you the cutting edge technology.

There are only few company which are capable to cop up with the change in technology.

There are many companies in the market which offers you HD video channels for you entertainment. But Direct TV has a great market, as it have so many packages to suit almost every human beings needs.

My friend, is into collections and customer service of Direct TV and he said the response from the existing customers is tremendous.

They offers over 150 HD Video Channels, I think that will include you favorite channels as 150 is a hue list, and you can even record 50 hours of your favorite programs,that too, in razor sharp HD. You can enjoy those recorded videos by fast forwarding the commercials in between your programs.

I think DirectTV has made life very easy, by giving all these things at very affordable price.

Here are few of their offers

You can get 265+ channels with a monthly rental of $52.99

If you budget is little low, you can get the family pack  which will cost you $29.99 for a month.

There are many other offers available, you can check their website. ( Click Here).

Shopping Online

Posted by Phoenix on Apr 30, 2009 in Shopping | 0 comments

This blog is not the place where I should talk about these things, but I think it is also some kind of knowledge, some kind of awareness,

With the growing numbers of users of computers and internet, more people have started becoming online shoppers, now, they are not afraid of putting their credit card information on websites to buy something.

But still, online shoppers haven’t got many options when it comes to online stores. Only few big names are making great sales every day.

Also, online shoppers have to use different online stores for purchasing different things. There are no such online departmental stores or online mall, where almost everything of your choice is available.

Recently I came across a websites that fulfils all the requirements of online shoppers. They have got almost everything to sell. Be it for you, be it for you kid, or for your wife.

Searching for things is really easy and you can also checkout other stuff before buying them, every kind of product has its own category,

For example, if you are looking for seats for your car, you can go to Car Seats column. Or if you are looking for convertible car seats you can go to Convertible Car Seats area. And if you are looking for seats for your kinds, you can search suitable seats in Babies and Toddlers car seats area.

This is just an example, just to let you know that they have got dedicated categories for different products.

I came to know about this site just week ago, but this site seems to be very popular already. You can check it out yourself.