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Google and GMail
• Above the Google logo in the Google search screen is a black bar. You can click on images, videos or maps to limit your searches to photos, images or maps.
• If you click the star in the upper right hand of Google, you can get a history list of recently viewed websites. You can also see this history list by pressing Control and ‘h” as the same time.
• Under the more tab, you can select “documents” and save file documents to Google, then access them from anywhere on earth.
• Definitions – to get the definition of a word enter into Google search the word “define” followed by the word you want to define. E. g. Define apple.
• To find the name and address and zip code associated with a phone number – enter into Google search the 10 digit phone number. E. g. (904) 555-1111.
• To get the local weather, just type into the Google search the word “weather” followed by your local zip code. E. g. weather 32256.
• To track an airline flight – enter into Google search the name of the airline and the flight number. E. g. Delta 123.
•To simplify Google searches set the Google advanced page as your home page (rather than the standard Google home page, which requires that you learn the syntax of Boolean expressions to search for phrases, or and/or searches). How to do: Enter http://www.google.ca/advanced_search into the search bar, and then click on tools, internet options, use current.
• When you go to gmail online, you can click on the cog in the upper right hand corner of the screen, and then click on “mail settings” and set preferences for your gmail account.
• When you have a list of messages in your GMail inbox, you have a column for “star” wherein you can mark what is important and a column for “+” which shows up based on who you communicate with often. These are priority indicators.
• When you archive e-mails in your inbox, it sends them to the folder “All Mail.”
• MailChip.com can be used if you need to send e-mails to a large group of people, as in a newsletter. GMail limits the number of e-mails you can send out due to spam concerns.
• Google Chrome is a program that replaces Internet Explorer and has some advantages over it.
• GMail allows 10 MB of attachments. If you need to send a larger attachment, use Dropbox.com. It allows you to post files on line for others to see.
• Picasa is a free Google photo sharing program that allows you to edit photos and share them with others.
• To translate from English to another language or another language to English, click on the “more” tab in Google and select “translate.”
• Google bought out You Tube. So the You Tube video viewing program is now a part of the Google family.
• For more details on what you can get from Google, go to the Google help site: http://www.google.com/help.
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Tips for Handling Telemarketers
Three Little Words That Work!!
(1)The three little words are: ‘Hold On, Please…’
Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt.
Then when you eventually hear the phone company’s ‘beep-beep-beep’ tone, you know it’s time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently completed its task.
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting..
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?
This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a ‘real’ sales person to call back and get someone at home.
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialed the call, and it kicks your number out of their system.. Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
(3) Junk Mail Help:
When you get ‘ads’ enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these ‘ads’ with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.
When you get those ‘pre-approved’ letters in the mail for everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them more than the regular 44 cents postage, ‘IF’ and when they receive them back.
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
One of Andy Rooney ‘s (60 minutes) ideas.
Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn’t get anything else that day, then just send them their blank application back!
If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn’t on anything you send them.
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them guessing! It still costs them 44 cents.
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let’s let them know what it’s like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they’re paying for it…Twice!
Let’s help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that’s why they need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
If enough people follow these tips, it will work I have been doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
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An affirmation is something that you declare to yourself to be true to motivate you in the right direction. An aphorism is a brief statement of a truism. Repeat to yourself over and over the affirmations and aphorisms listed below and in my website. They will filter into your sub-conscious mind. Remember that your actual physical and mental limitations are not nearly as great as you imagine them to be. If you think you can do something then it becomes more likely that you can. If you think you can’t do something, then it, too, will become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
• An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity. ~ Sir Winston Churchill
• Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. ~ Thomas Edison
• Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. – Benjamin Franklin and Dale Carnegie
• Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe. – Albert Einstein
• You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
• “The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.” – Albert Einstein
• Common sense isn’t very common.
• “Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller
• I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
• The key to surviving a stock market crash is liquidity. So I’m off to the bar.
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Pictured are Darryl Bassham (Mai Oui Gourmet), Pete Gentry (Florida Commercial Real Estate Services LLC), Jim Frank (Safe Harbor Solutions), Roger Kuder (author, webmaster, retired).
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What follows is the best gems of wit adapted from the wisdom section of my book…
Live well within your means- spend less than you make- and invest what you save. That’s how most self-made wealthy people got there. If you spend every dollar you earn, you will never accumulate any nest egg. It’s as simple as that.
Always save at least 10% of your gross pay. No excuses, no exceptions. Make that percentage higher, if you can.
Increase your desire for wealth and you will attract more of it. Have a dream, i.e., a well-defined goal that motivates you.
Save money by taking advantage of free Internet and e-mail service, rather than paying for it. Buying things on the Internet is often less expensive than buying the same things in stores.
You are probably paying too much for phone services. If your total phone bills, including premium services, long distance, cell phone and Internet is over $50 per month, see pages 84 and 93-94 of my book.
Do a through analysis (study the options) before making a major purchase, such as a car or home.
Buy the lowest cost option for homogeneous goods. Know the best option (by doing research) for non-homogenous goods. See page 92 of my book, if you don’t know the difference.
Put your life’s goals in writing. Unwritten goals are wishy-washy, and are not worth the paper they are not printed on.
Learn to be assertive. It’s the happy medium between being too aggressive and too timid.
Be honest and dependable. Do what you say you will do.
Get the Biography Channel. See what makes great people great.
Avoid most regular network TV. It’s designed for the “average” TV viewer (remember- you are FAR above average).
Own a good quality home computer and know how to use it.
Read non-fiction books at least one hour per day.
Read: “the Richest Man in Babylon,” by George Clayson, The 100 by Michael H. Hart, and “Jokes, Riddles and Wisdom,” by Roger Kuder.
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Everyone hates spam (unsolicited commercial e-mails, sent out in bulk). The spam control software programs most people rely on don’t really help the situation much. What they all do is put suspected spam files in a separate folder. The problem with this approach is that the programs sometimes put stuff you want in the spam folder and sometimes leave spam in your inbox. So you wind up reading each piece of spam you get before you delete it. The only thing the spam programs do for you is put them all in one place. This may save you a little time. But here are a few other ideas:
1. Forward any spam you get to the Federal Trade Commission (spam@uce.gov). Include full headers. Right click on the upper pane of Outlook, and then click on options to find the headers.
2. Never reply to a spammer, buy from a spammer or click on a spammer’s link, even if that link claims to be to take you off their list. Spammers definitely can not be trusted.
3. Never post the e-mail address you actually use to receive e-mail anywhere on the web. If you do, spammers, will definitely pick up your address with spider/bot software that requires no effort on their part, and the volume of spam you will get will multiply.
4. One effective method to stop spam is to change your e-mail address to another address, when the volume of spam you are getting is too high; close out the old address, and notify the people you want to correspond with of your new address. That’s a pain in the butt, but effective.
5. Some e-mail services, such as Earthlink, ask any senders not on your approved list to read a graphic, rather than text message and ask the sender to copy it into a blank (automated programs often used by spammers can’t do this) and then send you a request to be added to your approved list. This seems to me like a fairly good approach.
6. For additional ideas on spam, check out the following webpage: http://www.humorandwisdom.com/spam.htm.
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Lots of people are now using social networking websites to connect with other people. Watch this 1.48-minute you-tube that explains the craze: http://www.commoncraft.com/video-social-networking The most popular “social media”/web marketing sites are: Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter. Another way to web market is to blog—when you do you establish your own website. Here is some useful information about each, why you might want to use them and how to.
Facebook—
Reason to use: to better “connect” with people you already know. You chose friends, they need to approve your choice of them by notifying you back, then you post as often as you want—what you are doing, planning to do, etc. You make a little of your life semi-public in exchange for getting a glimpse at other folks lives.
Good websites to check for more information:
Linkedin—
Reason to use: this is more oriented toward business. You find jobs, employees, customers, suppliers, etc by searching areas of interest. It lets you see the “hidden networks” in your life.
Good websites to check for more information:
Twitter—
Reason to use—to connect with people in your field that you don’t already know.
Good websites to check for more information:
Blogging—
Reason to use—To have a means of telling the story of yourself to the world in more detail. Express yourself on whatever interests you. With a blog you will have a website because a blog is a type of website. This is the easiest and least expensive way to get your own website on the web.
Good websites to check for more information:
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–information source: Being Vegetarian for Dummies by Suzanne Havala, MS. RD.
It curbs forest depletion.
Because the worldwide demand for meat is so great– trees and forests all over the world are being felled to make way for cattle grazing. It takes far more land to provide a given volume of meat than the same volume of plant food. Trees produce oxygen humans need to breath. The more trees we fell to produce meat the less trees and oxygen to breathe we will have on this earth.
It curbs fresh water depletion.
Cattle farms suck up tremendous volumes of the world’s under ground water aquifers in order to irrigate grazing lands for livestock. Pesticides and fertilizers used to grow foods for cattle and fecal matter from the cattle contaminate our water supplies.
It curbs fossil fuel depletion.
Fossil fuels such as petroleum are used extensively to transport animal feed and animals and to run the farms where animals are raised.
It conserves resources to better feed the world.
Fewer resources are required to produce vegetables than an equal volume of meat. Because of this there would be more food to feed the world if our population ate more vegetables and less meat.
It’s the smart thing to do, per many noted smart thinkers.
Some of the greatest minds throughout history have been persons who chose to be vegetarians, including: Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Mahatma Gandhi, Sir Isaac Newton and Plato.
The high fiber content fills you up.
Dietary fiber found in vegetables is only partially digested by our bodies. The part not digested is flushed out so that you tend to get a full feeling without taking in so many calories. This enables you to lose weight without feeling hungry.
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