Money Saving

Always pay all credit card balances in full amount every month.

Any outstanding balance on a credit card account will leave you susceptible to a high APR (annual percentage rate).

Get Paid To Read Emails

During a conversation, my lovely niece informed me that there is a EmailCashPro web site pays people to read Email.

Upon checking the info on the web site, now, I have an idea how it works.

Firstly, you need to join EmailCashPro site as a member (free-of-charge) and select the kind of emails you are interested in receiving. From here onwards, you will receive Paid Emails from them that match your profile and interest.

Once you click on the Paid Link and visit the advertiser's website for 30 sec, your account will be credited with 1 point.

So, to earn extra money, this may be a choice for you.

If you are interested, you may use the referral link below to register for the free account. It is to help me to build up my network and it wouldn’t cause you to earn less.

http://www.emailcashpro.com/?r=sclam

Notes: each paid email earns you between 0.5 cents to 1 cent depending on revenue sharing.

Firefox Whips Internet Explorer

During a tea break, a colleague of mine happened to mention that Internet Explorer is much better than the Firefox because of it has less vulnerabilities.

Actually this is NOT true... I corrected him as he didn’t aware of the other’s part of story behind.

The fact is that... in the earlier Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, Symantec counted only vendor-confirmed bugs when comparing the two browsers. However, it is not accurate as in open source, more vulnerabilities will be acknowledged because of the transparency in development.

In the newest report, which Symantec issued, they had then split the counts into two categories: vendor-confirmed and a combination of vendor- and non-vendor-confirmed flaws. In term of counting vulnerability, this way should be more appropriate & accurate as it includes those made public but not necessarily confirmed by the vendor.

From the report shown this time, the Firefox is more secure than Internet Explorer.

Reference:- http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181501752&pgno=1&queryText=

EXCEL file can’t be open

上海外滩钟楼 >

I had encountered a problem with a user’s pc where the EXCEL file can’t be open when double-click on the .xls file itself. The system promoted the messages of “Windows cannot find "filename". Make sure you typed the name correctly and then try again”.

However, the file can be open if I first launch the Excel program and then go to File menu to open the .xls file. The problem can’t be resolved even reinstalling the MS Office.

After much research, I finally got a solution for it from the Internet.

These are the steps for the resolution: -

1. In Microsoft Office Excel 2007, click the Microsoft Office Button, and then click Excel Options.

2. Click Advanced, and then click to clear the Ignore other applications check box in the General area.

3. Click OK.

For the earlier version of Excel (Microsoft Office 2003 or below):-

1. Go to the Tools menu of Excel, click Options.

2. Click the General tab.

3. Click to clear the Ignore other applications check box, and then click OK.



See also my article-- Cannot open attachment in Lotus Notes:- http://sc-network.blogspot.com/2008/08/cannot-open-attachment-in-lotus-notes.html

职场名言

曾经在某个网站看过这段职场名言...

一、应答上司交代的工作:“我立即去办”!　　
二、传递坏消息时:“我们似乎碰到一些情况……”　　
三、体现团队精神:“××的主意真不错!”　　
四、如果被问到你所不知道,或不懂的业务上的某些问题:“让我再认真地想一想,两点前答复你好吗?”
五、请同事帮忙:“这个企划没有你真不行啊!”　　
六、男同事讲有味笑话令你尴尬:“这种话好像不适合在办公室讲啊!”　　
七、工作太繁重,向上司请求减轻工作量:“我知道这件事很重要,我们不妨先排一排手头上的工作,按重要性列出先后顺序去做,好吗?”　　
八、承认过失:“是我一时疏忽,不过幸好……”　　
九、找不到话题,又要打破冷场:“我很想知道你对这件事的看法……”　　
十、面对批评:“谢谢你告诉我,我会仔细考虑你的建议。”

这一些话都是一具有成熟的EQ人该会说的话。 　　

Copy contacts from MS Outlook onto Lotus Notes

In the forum, I have seen people asking for solution about how to copy contacts from Microsoft Outlook to Lotus Notes address book.

I have tried the suggestion before and find that the method is not very straight forward. Basically, those steps involve exporting data to a text files; importing into Excel/Lotus 123 files etc.

Actually, there is a tool Called MSOTool (in NSF file’s format) that can do the job much easy which I downloaded from:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/sandbox.nsf/0/e422584f6953308685256c5c00483421

FTP server on WINXP Home PC

<-- 东方明珠塔 (上海) I have a client who needs me to set up a FTP server on his office PC which is running Windows XP Home Edition.

As WINXP Home PC doesn’t come with IIS component, I have done some research on how to go about it.

At last, I found that instead of setting up the IIS onto the WinXP Home PC, it is much easy to install a 3rd party’s FTP software to address the issue.

Personally, I feel that GuildFTPd FTP Server is quite easy to use & configure which I got it from http://www.guildftpd.com/.