Huiting Zhuang,Sell your business overseas

I use computer to manager almost everything. I use both paid and free softwares while I use free softwares whenever possible. I also write some softwares if no software will satisfy my needs.

There is one software among all others that I use daily. This software is free. It is called Stickies.

Here is a description from the author's website:

Stickies is a PC utility I wrote to try to cut down on the number of Post-It® notes I was leaving stuck to my monitor. It is a computerised version of those notes.

The design goal behind Stickies is that the program is small and simple. Stickies will not mess with your system files, or write to the registry. Stickies stores information in a single text-based ini file.

You can download the software from the author's website:

Here are a list of the features that I like:

1, free, fast and simple. No mess with registry table. No mess with other softwares.2, I use it as simple text editor.

3, It is better to organize than Post IT. You can get back all our deleted Stickes if you want. They all exist in one text file.

4, No other good alternatives exist in the windows computer world. We do have one in Mac though. It is also called Stickies.

Check this software out. I am sure you will like it.

Disclaimer: I am not an affiliate with the author. I am not getting paid for writing this article. I am not responsible if your car is broken due to the usage of this software.

Everybody experiences a moment when people do not want to answer phone calls. I experience a lot. Sometime, I know the other end is with the phone but simply choose to ignore the phone.

So I compile a list of uncommon, not-typical, inconvenient reasons that people, espeically realtors do not answer the phone. Common reasons

1, The house is sold or the item is not available. One lady in Sams** realty inc in Providence RI is like this. Sorry, Sams** Realty, I will never do business with you guys.

2, Hate the other realtor and choose to ignore it.

3, Have never used any cellphone and do not know how to answer a phone call.

4, Cooking lobster and forgot to bring the phone in th kitchen.

5, Bought a battery from eBay for cheap and it only lasts 3 minutes.

6, The dog has biten the cellphone while you are eating.

Do you have any other reasons that you wanto share? let me know.

Below is a handwritten signature that I use for email and other occaions.

The picture is in PNG (png8) format and transparent. Which means it will "hang over" any background.

A handwritten looks very professional.

How to get a signature like that? For many Photoshop users, it is easy. But for non-veteran users, here is a tutorial I write for you.

Tools needed:

1, a picture editing software. Either Photoshop (pricey) or gimp (free) or inkscape (free, vector software).

2, a scanner. Any scanner will work.

3, any hosting place to host your signature file. You can use picassa or whatever you like. Ideally, you own hosting space.

Here is step by step tutorial:

1. get a very bright white piece paper. Use a mark pen or whatever pen you like to write your signature.

2, use your scanner to scan it. Here is the scanned picture.

3, Open this picture in photoshop (or GIMP). Use Magic wand to select the background. (this scann is not good as the background is kind of grainy. A good scan will render the background all white).

Then click the delete button. This will delete background.

Or you can choose select inverse and copy it to a new picture.

Ideally, this will leave only the hand strokes left. Otherwise, you will have to hand erase the background.

4, now, click "save for the web" under photoshop. or something similar in gimp. Choose PNG-8 as a compression method. Select "transparent" box.

In the image size dialogue, you can also choose to resize the picture. I choose a width of 150px.

Then click save.

You now have a signature like the one in the beginning.

Upload it to a web host of your like and you now have a signature that you can use any time.

There are many free picture viewing softwares that people can use. But not anyone can beat this one: IrfanView:

http://irfanview.com/

I have been using digital camera since 2001 and used many picture viewing softwars. Including ACDSee, Adobe album, etc. But nothign beats this one. Features that I like:

1, Super lightweight and fast.

These days, many softwares try to help you do everything in one package. Just like microsoft and peoplesoft (I hate peoplesoft). But everybody knows you are good at a few things.

This software only does what it can do. Nothing more, nothing less. In my IBM X60s laptop, everytime I click the icon, it opens up right away. In my old ibm X24. The same thing.

2, quick resize, rotate and crop.

You can quickly resize and crop your pictures in lighting speed.

3, the best part: you can automate your tasks.

I sometime have lots of pictures and want to uplod them to my website. They are big. I have to resize each of them and then create a thumbnail for each of them.

I just create a batch action on a whole folder. This software will do the job automatically on each Picture in MY WHOLE FOLDER.

You want to try with Photoshop? Best of luck. Not only it is slow, but it may crash your machine if your folder is hugh.

4, this software is very small.

Softwares have become big and big. Windows Vista is now a big dvd. But this software is only barely over 1Meg.

There are many good things about this software. Try it out. You will like it.