A picture is worth 1000 dollars

They say a picture is worth a thousand words... but this one is worth a 1000 dollars (fake) at least it is showing me that I'm loosing a lot of money (and quick)!

This widget clearly shows that I'm loosing more than I'm making... all of the prices are falling down by a lot of percent and I'm hardly making any money. Luckily there are a few pictures in green though that's why I'm not broke yet... I guess its only a matter of time.

Well at least this picture shows that I'm doing my work if not at least pretending to do my work...

I guess this is enough proof to show you that how much I love money, even if it is fake :D!

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The power of Openoffice

Today I just realized how powerful open source software can be. No wonder the people over at Microsoft have so much pressure to keep their standards high. If you compare Openoffice to Microsoft Office, the only difference I see is the price. You need to pay or not pay. Except for the fact that Openoffice doen't have a few of the features in other office suites, it's a great deal and of course you can't beat the price!

After playing around for a little while here are the features I really liked...

I just loved the fact that you can export documents to PDF format (to make it look more professional I guess).
I liked how it asks you what you want to delete when you press delete in OpenOffice Calc... although it is annoying sometimes, I seem to find it useful when you need to delete only one particular kind of data.
It's interface is also kind of cool, for the price you pay its well designed, for sure.
Before I know it I'm sure I'm going to find more stuff that is really interesting and great... hopefully.

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Its truly RIMarkable

Its kind of funny how stocks change in a matter of minutes, seconds even. Yesterday I thought that it was excellent that I just bought about 50 shares of Research In Motion Ltd. because they were making about .4 cents of loss (which was kind of bad compared to all my other shares) but today I fired up my computer and started my stock ticker widget and I was surprised to see that all the shares of RIM had gone up about 4$ (canadian) each!!!!!

This was the worst thing hapenning to me I thought and it couldn't get any worse! Why didn't I take more shares so that I could make more money, but I knew that even though nothing big had hapenned in the past I could really loose a lot of money (plus the other stocks that I had invested were also high risk) so I couldn't take a lot of risk.

Ah... no matter how much I wish I can't change the numbers around now (okay I can... but I don't like to cheat) besides its just a little game... or is it?

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If I ever had 100,000 dollars

If I had a 100,000 that I could blow up on something it would probably be a BMW or something. But unfortunately I need to spend those money on shares (yes, this is boring ol' business class stuff again) and make a lot more money. Well, if you are a beginner in the real share market you might think it is a piece of cake to do this but, let me tell you something it isn't.

It's seriously hard to come up with these choices... but anyways, I have to go with what I have.

If you want to see what I picked then you need to download the files below!

Here are the PDF and XML Files of my shares... for those who wan't to see what I have! These files will be updated weekly or once in 2 weeks. I'll also include graphs comparing profits/rise and fall of my shares from week to week.

Excel - 18 KB
PDF - 59 KB

Week 2
Excel - 21 KB
PDF - 46 KB

Tags: shares, sharemarket

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Another computer video...

Today we watched another boring (well most of it was boring anyways) old (I think this video was made in the early 90's or something) video that talks about computers. Basically it was just like any other video created for normal school students. It's soo old that in their intro they have a screenie of a windows 95 or a windows 98 computer screen. Here are some of my thoughts on it.....

The most part of it was boring. However it did talk about "Power Sources", "Load" and "Switches". It also talked about how cpu's are produced aand there are 46 steps that are there if you want to getinto the cpu production place. I believe it is called a "Clean room" according to a professor in a college that I visited last year. Supposedly they make microchips there... or make sure that the microchips are made properly or something like that.

The video also told us about how cpu's are manufactured and that how cpu's work. They have three main prosesses " fetch", "decode" and "process" and the cpu makers (at least the one sover at intel) seem to make cpu's with three main type of people. Teh architects, then the people who take the information from the architects "or the logics department" and finally the "masking department"

It also did talk about the basic stuff too such as transistors in cpu... and the usualy yada yada about input out and processing and storage. Its funny to see what example they give... in this video it seemed to be a "toaster" haha.

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The Share Market?

The share market... one of the most fascinating things ever. You never know what is going to happen and when it is going to happen. You can make money and sometimes loose it. I should know. Being an experienced "Blog Shares" player, I know how hard the real deal is going to be like. That's why here are some things that I've learnt (from real life and my business class).

1. Shares are a part of a company that funds it. So if you own shares then you are partially an owner of the company which is also called "Corporation". (you know what I mean right?)
2. You buy shares by investing in the Stock market and buying shares (obviously)
3. Shares are highly volatile because the value of each share depends on how much it is traded and how much profit the Corporation makes
4. You make profit when you buy a share at a lower price and sell it at a higher price (of course!)
5. If you do any day trading (trading shares every day) you might loose a lot of money and make a lot of money (or in my case "Blog dollars")

Finally never leave your shares unattended... bad things can happen. In my case I lost about 6 million blogshare dollars. Which is a lot considering that you only start off from 500 blogshare dollars.

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Excel, the program that loves doing math

Excel is one of the most used software for accounting around the world (or atleast that's what I think). Usually spreadsheet applications are very helpful when it comes to math (even though you need to do some thinking) because it does all the math for you! However, using it sometimes can be a little intimidating if you don't know what does what. That's why I've put together some Excel tips (more coming soon), and hopefully it might to help you out.

1. The box like thing between a row (the lines that are going horizontal corresponding to the numbers) and a column (the lines that are going vertical corresponding to the letters) is called a cell
2. The location of the cell is identified by the column and the row it is in. For example if a cell is in the A column and the 1st row its cell address is A1
3. Whenever you are writing a formula remember to keep in mind the BEDMAS rule and include brackets
4. Instead of typing in the cell address you can just click on the cell and the cell address will automatically be recorded in the formula
5. Always begin a formula with and equal sign
6. If you are working on a large spreadsheet don't forget to "split" it (Window > Split)
7. You don't need to use just the spreadsheet that you are working on you can also click on other sheets at the bottom of the window and do your work in that

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A few useful Blogger keyboard shortcuts

If you are a "blogger" (pardon the pun) then chances are that you need to post a lot. Even if you seldom post chances are that sometimes you are going to use the bold and italics or even underline text (well all right you can't use shortcuts to underline stuff). By the way did you ever notice that blogger never has an underline button?

I'm pretty sure that most people love shotcuts, because it makes our lives easer. That's why I've put together a list of shortcuts so that you people can benefit from it too...

• To make text bold need to press Ctrl+b (together). To stop typing text in bold just press Ctrl+b again to start typing in normal text (the same goes for most of the shortcuts)
• To change text to Italics you need to press Ctrl+I.
• To underline text (no... unfortunately there is not shortcut) place a u inside <> in front of the word you want to underline and /u inside <> after the words you want to underline. These are html tags... which specify underline, you need to use html to underline text.
• Ctrl+z is the shortcut if you want to undo something. However this shortcut isn't that helpful in un-doing stuff.
• Ctrl+y is to redo.
• To put in a hyperlink first select the text then press Ctrl+Shift+a
• To save your post as a Draft you need to press Ctrl+d
• To publish your post you need to press Ctrl+s
• To preview how your post looks like (yes you can do that) just press Ctrl+Shift+p.To hide the preview just press Ctrl+Shift+p again.
  

Technorati Tags: blogger, keyboard, shortcuts, tips, tricks

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What's up with the Plagiarism?

Hmm... its very interesting to observe that these days people have been copying stuff from my blog (why would anybody do that, I don't even have that much cool stuff in it)! So I guess it is important to protect yourself from this evil thingy. Well, okay ... I won't be suing anybody or anything like that I don't really care actually but it is an important problem. And its funny how people think that they can copy stuff from my blog and never get caught. I guess you need to be smart even if you want to copy stuff these days, ha ha.

But still how can people just blindly copy what I have on my blog and claim that they have written it? That's just not fair. Now i don't really mind that people are copying stuff from this blog ... but once you get into the habit of plagiarism its hard to break it.

People these days think they can get away with anything. Well thats true sometimes but its not the same thing everytime. My posts comprise of many components(well if you are a web guru you probably know what this is) that enable me to track down stuff ... soI can know if I created that post or not. This way I can find out exactly who is copying my stuff.

Just my 2 cents...

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Oh I just realised!

Oh, I juest realised that I was welcomed by tech-recipes.com... after like 2 days, I guess I need to subscribe to some rss feed

Thanks, guys even though I didn't deserve a precious spot on the blog!

It's always an honour to be writing tutorials and helping people out at tech-recipes.

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What's up with the Gangster talk?

Gangster talk (aka trash talk) is getting highly popular these day! It is spreading like wild fire...

There are many terms such as "what up?" and so on that we use... So I just decided to make my own dictionary of such terms... make sure you contribute something! Just click on the comment button and add some stuff (appropriate terms of course...)

Or just scroll down and add your term to the ultimate dictionary of interesting terms...

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How to use iTunes and iPod

iTunes is not the best of software when it comes to putting songs into your iPod. However this is the reccomended piece of software that you are supposed to use. So I'd rather use iTunes even though it is difficult to use rather than using other software (such as iPodderX for podcasts).

Since iTunes is so hard to use to put the songs that you want into your computer, I decided to write a tutorial on that!

You can also take a look at Apple's tutorial on how to use the iPod and iTunes (its 20 pages long!), but I think that my version of it is going to be much easier to understand!

First make sure that you have properly downloaded/installed itunes. It is important that you install iTunes properly or else it might not work properly.

Then make sure you have some songs to upload. If you don't then you might want to read the following instructions on how to put songs onto itunes from your cd.

1. Open itunes
2. Put the CD in the Drive
3. Click on the "Import" button to the top right

This should now import all your songs into iTunes. Now, you have some songs to put into your iPod!

To put songs into your iPod all you do is...

1. First charge your iPod
2. Open iTunes (start > All programs > iTunes > iTunes | or just double click on the iTunes icon)
3. If it is the very first time you are putting songs into your iPod then it will ask you the name you want to give your iPod and so on, and if you want to autofill (automatically put songs into your iPod) your iPod or not.
4. If you had chosen Auto fill then iTunes will automatically put ALL the songs you have onto the iPod.
Note: If you have more songs that your iPod can hold then it will pick random songs for you.
5. When your iPod is plugged in you can select from where you want to put in your songs from (for example the "Library", or the "Podcasts" section or the "Top 25 Most Played" and so on)

Whenever your iPod is plugged in you can See an iPod and the name that you have given your iPod in the Source list. If the iPod is updating itself then this is going to be blink red. Which means, do not unplug your iPod. You will also see a message in the green area that tells you how much songs are uploaded and so on. It is also going to tell you when it is safe to disconnect.

Now iTunes will remember your settings and use them... however the only down side is that you can only alter the settings when your iPod is plugged in updating itself.

You can also change the settings when your iPod is plugged in. To do this...

1. Edit
2. Preferences
3. iPod Tab

Here you can select your preferences.

Note: If you delete a song from the play list then iTunes will automatically delete it from your iPod. Unless you select manually manage songs and playlists, iTunes will automatically sync the playlist and iPod.

Now, after you've finished doing this, it is time to start using your iPod. Here are the instructions on how to use the iPod shuffle!

1. Unplug your iPod. To unplug your ipod click on the eject button (a triange over a rectangle) beside your iPod in the source list. You might also want to right click on the safely remove hardware icon in your system tray and then click on safely remove usb device then click on iPod usb device. Then click on stop. When you get a message box saying that it is safe to remove your iPod just unplug your iPod
2. Push the slider down (on the back side of your iPod Shuffle)
Note: your battery light should come on and the green light should come on. If this doesn't happen your iPod might need some restoration. So, you might want to refer to this post.
3. JUST PRESS PLAY AND ENJOY!

The rest is just basic stuff! And hope this helps !

Technorati Tags: iPod, shuffle, problems, troubleshooting, restore, firmware, tricks, tips, mp3, music, apple, itunes, tutorials

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