Sunday, November 2, 2008
How to retire earlier than you thought, with more money than you imagined!
1. Recognize your finance condition. The first step must come from inside of you. You must look at the mirror and asking about your financial. "How is my financial condition right now?" "Do I have an income?" "Is my income is enough for my life expense?" You must start know this earlier before you go any further. Start calculating all income come from and all waiting list of your life expense. You usually use your salary only for paying all waiting list expense. Nothing left from the salary. Sometimes the worse things happen and you don't realize about it. You have plan first to use your money in the time before you get your salary. If you have realized about this, it will be a good start for you to go to the next step.
2. Revolutionize your thought about money. Your salary is not money to pay all your life and plan life expense. In this condition, you are working for the money. The money is the boss and you are only the employee. You must reverse this frame. Money must work for you because you are the boss. You make the rule so money cannot order you. This is a positive idea to make you more confident about your financial condition. All change and revolution in your financial must be start from now to get a moderate life and freedom in financial. This is not an easy thing to do. There are four things to keep in your mind to get this goal: - Consistent with your financial revolution process. Keep motivating yourself to change your life to be better because more prosperous your life, much more you can share to others. - Emphatic to yourself. Give yourself reward for good progress and punishment for any breaking rule you make. - Change your thought and affection with money by simplified your life, postpone your pleasure, not to be consumptive and not having a loan. - Change your money blue print. Never think negative about money. Never think money as encumbrance. Money can serve you as your servant.
3. Make plan and target for your retirement. After you pass your psychological process, now you are ready to have a plan for your future. For you who have steady salary, start managing your money. Cut all unnecessary need and start saving your money. For you who have a fluctuate salary, start keeping money when the time has come to get money. For you who do not have a salary, start getting money by finding a job or make your own business. Please keep in mind, not all business need a fund. Be creative, do not hang on money. Do not let money control you. I know that this will be a hard thing to do but you must do this first. After you accomplish your main needing for live, you must save the rest money. There is much more important thing to do with your money in future. There are some phases you will pass through based on your financial condition. - Protect Finance. A phase where you can cover your major minimum monthly expense like eat with your income. - Secure Finance. A phase where you can invest safely and the benefit can cover your major monthly expense without you work or not. - Vital Finance. A phase where you have many safe and health investment and the benefit can cover your Secure Finance extended secondary needs like children school, entertainment, etc without you work or not. - Independent Finance. A phase where you have many safe and health investment and the benefit can cover your all needed with your present life style without working. - Freedom Finance. A Phase where you have many safe and health investment. The benefit can be used to other healthy investment also cover all you need with the life style you want without working. In this phase, money working for you full time.
4. Find your own working system for your plan. When you start acting, you will finally find your own working financial system. Which one of the way is more effective? Which one between the choices is more profitable? How should I make other plan if one plan is not working? All the system will be created independently by process. You can make your system plan but as you start to act, the working system will be more clearly shaped.
5. Maintain your system and improve. After you find the working financial system to reach your goal, you must keep monitoring your system. You must watch the progress. Is it still on the correct road? It is important for you to always review your progress so you will certainly clear about your target.
6. Calculate your retirement time. I believe you can calculate at what time and what age you will retire and get unbelievable income for your whole life. In my opinion, there is nothing impossible for getting something you really want as long as you have a good dedication and respect to yourself.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Print Screen in Mac
For capturing screen from all image shown on monitor, follow this step:
1. Switch to the screen that you wan to to do screen capture
2. Hold down Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 3 and release all
3. Use your mouse to click on the screen
4. Finish, the image automatically save on desktop.
For capturing screen from only image you want, follow this step:
1. Switch to the screen that you wan to to do screen capture
2. Hold down Apple key ⌘ + Shift + 4 and release all key
3. You will see the mouse cursor will change to +
4. Start draging your mouse to select the portion you wish to capture.
5. Finish, you will see a picture file in at your desktop.
No need to open application and paste on it. Easy right?
Friday, August 22, 2008
Tips for Buying Graphic Card
Knowing your need for using the card.
You will need a high performance graphic card with huge memory if you are a gamer who using a high requirement game. If the graphic card doesn’t meet the requirement, this will effect on the graphic quality of the game or for worse the game will crash or freeze because you force the graphic cards to work more harder than it should be. High quality graphic game working with a real time video graphic streaming that is why it need high requirement.
You also need a high performance graphic card if you are video editor. For editing video, some video editing software needs a high requirement video graphic card for during the process of editing. For cutting the video, render, and compile the editing result need high performance graphic card. Some graphic cards support dual monitor to make it easier for editing.
For graphic design and photo editing purpose, a high performance graphic card also needed to process a big resolution file. A big resolution file needs a high performance graphic card for rendering process of effect in editing and saving the file.
You don’t need using a high performance graphic card if you are only using for writing, browsing of watching movie.
Find about graphic card specification.
Chipset - There are many graphic cards chipset like ATI or NVIDIA. Every chipset has it is own ability. They are all making all level graphic card from entry level, medium and high level. Please notice that you cannot rely on one brand because one series they are good but other series they are bad. So please be careful about choosing the chipset and series.
Memory - Other important aspect of choosing a graphic card is the amount of memory. More big memory will make your compute able to handle more programs using a visual processor. For normal using like browsing, words processing and watching video, a 128 megabytes to 256 megabytes graphic card memory is enough for you. For high graphic gamer, video editor, graphic designer, photo editor, they need more memory for the graphic card from 512 megabytes to 1 gigabyte. It is also good to know about the new memory technology. Now the Dual Date Rate II (DDRII) has more good quality performance.
Cooling Technology - Every graphic card has cooling system on the chipset. It is usually using alloy and small fan. For simple logic, more big cooling system is good for your chipset. The graphic will begin crash or start working slow for processing if the chipset is over heat.
Meet your LCD or CRT monitor resolution.
More big dimensions of LCD or CRT monitor, more big it support for high resolution. 15 inch LCD or monitor support until 768 x 1024 resolution and 19 inch LCD or CRT monitor support until 1024 x 1280 resolution. Please read the support of your graphic card resolution. When you use 19 inch LCD but you use a low display resolution, the image will show bigger. In my opinion, this will not good for you.
Read review
There are many brand, series, and chipset you can choose. It is a good thing if you have time to read all review about the product you choose. You can find a reliable forum or website like toms hardware. Maybe this will take more time but it is better than you buy something you doesn’t know the good and the bad about the product.
Meet your budget
After you read a review, maybe you will now decide some option if graphic card you will buy. You can choose which one meet with the budget you have.
Check the guaranty of product
Every vendor has different policy about guaranty. You can choose which vendor who has good quality service about guaranty. It will make you feel safely if something bad happen to your graphic card in the future.
Note: You can also find this article at Helium
Tips to Protect Your Document File in Windows
There are many ways of protecting your file. This is the tip list of protecting your file.
Keep your file in a safe place
You can put your file in your personal place that other people are not allowed to access your place. But some people with high curious, they usually forget to respect your private authority. This will be a dangerous thing for you. So you must aware when people accessing your computer. Keep monitoring other people when using your computer. You can go to second part if this not effective you can go to second part.
Make an admin account for you and guest account for others
An authorization is other alternative to not let people accessing your private information. If others are not using your account, they will not be able to access your private file. This is quite effective because you will set this since the first time people accessing computer operating system.
Make your file hidden
Go to property of the file and check for hidden. When you apply then your file will be disappear. You can see your file again by going to folder option on the tool bar of windows explorer and check show hidden file. But now this is not effective anymore since much more people who know windows has known about this. This will be effective for you if other people around you don't know much about windows.
Give password to your file or folder
The most common way now is by giving a password on each file or folder. Many document file like word or excel has a password feature to protect your file. You can also use third party protection software but some software is not free. This also has a weakness since there also much password cracker software. If you decide to use this, please find a good protection software by searching on web and read review about the software. Keep in mind also that you will keep your password in safe place also. The most safely place is your brain.
Change the extension of the file
Last stage for you is to change the file extension different from the original. For example: If you have a word document, you can change the file extension from "a.doc" to "a.zip" or "a.exe". It will show confirmation that if you change to this extension, the file will not usable. Choose yes. Now only you who know what really are the file extension. For opening just change the extension to the original source document.
In my opinion, the last tip is the best, cheap and effective ways for you to try. The only person know about the origin kind of file is just you. People will not able to break this if they do not know about this trick. Have a try!
Note: You can also find this article at Helium
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Few Step to Know before Entering Your Business to Search Engine
Before you decide to start including your business to all search engine listed on Internet, you must answer my question first. Have you really known exactly about your business?
Most people failed doing their promotion on Internet because they are not know exactly what is they are doing. So what is the connection between identifying your business and search engine? The answer is only one "word". If you know what exactly you are doing with your business, you will able to describe your business in one word. Keyword is very important for your business dealing with search engine. People will find directly through query they type in search engine. Search engine will collect all data about your business based on the keyword you give for your business.
Register Your Business
Now you are ready go for second step. There are many search engine in all over the world. You must first register to all major search engine like Google and Yahoo. You can also register your business to other business directory. It is depend also with your business customer target. Is it for local business or for global business? I believe if you are ready to use internet for your promotion, you are ready for global business. You must realize that Google and Yahoo are not vital to all country. Some country is not using Google and Yahoo as their main search engine. Like in China people prefer using Baidu than Google.
There is some software also to register simultaneously your business to all search engine listed in their software database. You can find and download it. It make more easy for you better than you register one by one.
Monitoring and Update Your Web
After you finish register your business to search engine, there is an important thing to do. First is monitoring. It will take a few hour of perhaps day to make your business listed in the search engine directory. Some search engine need to attach a meta code to be able to crawl through your page. So you must do this also. You must monitor your traffic. Check the country which is mostly visiting your page. Is it correct to your market target or not? Always update strategy if not walking through the line. Second is updating the content. Search engine will know that your business is healthy if you always update your web. Giving a detail update information is also good for your web.
That is some step you must know for start a search engine marketing strategy for your business.
Note: You can also find this article at Helium.
