Lam's Space: May 2008

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Learn the Basics of Investing for Free!

A picture of Dubai Investment Property

Hi everyone!

Never stop learning! A lot of people stops learning after they left school. That's when they started to lag behind in our highly competitive world. With high inflation rate, rising oil prices and rising cost of food and other essential products, it is much more important to invest your money into vehicles that yield higher returns than the bank. (Really, they pay peanuts in interest...)

With so many different investment vehicles and financial planners out there, it is vitally important for us to understand basics of investment.

Beware! Some financial planners out there just got a few month of "education" from their company and is out there selling financial products. In my opinion, don't believe them.. They don't know much themselves. Don't risk your hard earned money.

This is the website. Real good basics of investing, it is for people who knows nothing.

http://www.wallstraits.net/basics-101/

Do comments! And thanks for taking the time to read. =)

Sincerely,

Lam

Free Chinese Fonts!!

Compatible with Win9x / NT / 2000 / XP

Download free chinese fonts for your computer, traditional and simplified chinese.

Instructions

Please make sure that in the Start --> Settings --> Control Panel --> Regional Options the default language ("Set default") is "Chinese (VR China)".

Please close all word-processing programs.
Click on the font you wish to download.
Choose a saving location, either "C:/WINNT/fonts" (NT/2000) or "C:/WINDOWS/fonts" (9x/Me/XP).
OR: save the fonts to a new folder, then open "Fonts" from the "Control Panel";
select "File" -> "Install New Font";
open the drive and folder where you saved the new font files,
the fonts will appear in the "list of fonts";
select the files you want to install or choose "Select All"; click "OK".
Restart your word-processing programs

Free Chinese Fonts

thanks to http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/edv/sinopc/chinese_fonts.htm

Lam

I'm Back!! With good free online map resources!

Hi, I'm back!! Ha ha, I've not forgotten about you guys, really thanks a lot for reading and commenting on my blog. Hope it has been of help to you guys. =)

Ok, as all of you had known, www.streetdirectory.com had lost its appeal to LTA and was forced to take down their online maps. A karmic retribution probably? (Lol, reminds my of poor Sharon Stone..) Before this incident, they had been actively suing other companies for using their map. Well, the world is round and now no one knows the fate for www.streetdirectory.com.

This week's post, we'll be showing a list of online maps website and I had personally review of them. This is the list from the best to the worst, in my humble opinion:

www.eRoutePlanner.com 5/5

Highly recommended!! Shows you exactly where to go which road to take. Especially helpful for drivers. Fast, simple, user friendly!

www.Shownearby.com 3/5

Well, not bad, it has some added features, showing you facilities nearby your location. Like clinic and other facilities. Useful in emergency I guess.

I included the rest not-so-impressive website just to show I had done my homework. =) Explore if you like.
www.gothere.sg 2/5
www.StreetDB.com 2/5
maps.singaporeexpats.com 2/5
maps.yellowpages.com.sg 1/5
www.can.com.sg 1/5

www.map.gov.sg/StreetMap 0/5

Well, LTA's official online map. Rated 0 because it is slow. So slow that it is still loading after I reviewed all the other map ad typing this post. Don't bother about it.. ha ha..

Thanks for reading.

Sincerely,
Lam

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Free Reader Software

Hi, CLICK PLAY BELOW TO LISTEN TO POST!!

Ever had a lot of text to read on the net and have a tough time forcing yourself to digest through the large number of text on the net? Fret not, today's post is a very good freeware that will help you read any text you want! Free! Introducing......

Natural Voice Reader

Category: Reader Software

Pros: Reads any text that you can copy and paste on your computer. Adjustable speed. Helps you to concentrate while reading big chunks of text.

Cons: They purposely let you hear the good qualities ones (which you have to pay for) and give you the default Microsoft Anna voice for free.

Lam's comment: Well, its worth a try! I used it to read through articles in wikipedia and is able to finish many articles in one sitting. Used it with Today newspaper easyreader and is able to let my computer read Today newspaper to me. Works for long e-mails, e-books, anything you can think of. Saves lots of time and brain juice! Recommended.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

CD Image File and How They Work

Alright, today's article will be on CD Image file.

Below are a list of file extension used by Image file.

.daa - PowerISO Direct-Access-Archive file

.bin - Binary file

.nrg - Nero-Burning ROM CD or DVD image file

.iso - CD/DVD ISO binary image file.

.mdf - Alcohol 120% Disc Image

.dmg - Apple Mac OS X Disk Image File

.mds - Image file (Media Descriptor File)

.000 - IsoBuster CD/DVD Image File Data Recovery

Excerpt from www.file-extensions.org

Basically, a CD image file is a CD that is being 'burned' to your hard disk. And you can access them as a CD without the actual disk. Certain software allows you to "mount" them into a virtual drive so that it appears as a CD drive in you computer. Powerful.

Why is it useful?

1. Convenient

With more advance technology, we have hard disk that rarely runs out of disk space. So we could just put the CDs into our hard disk and don't have to worry about carrying them around or cluttering up your table space.

2. Save money

Although time consuming we could just send it across the net by uploading the image file over the net rather than mailing or burning the physical CD. Saving on the transportation fee and CD-R costs.

MagicDisc (Mounting Software)

Mounts 24 formats of image file into a virtual disc. Run them without the physical CD. Much better than Daemon Tools Lite(supports only 11 format).

ISO Recorder (Create and Burn)

Well, it creates and burn image files. Its quite tricky to use, so please read the instructions. Very light and does not take up too much system resources.

Alright, hopefully this post helps to make your life better! Have a nice day! And please add in your comments. =)