Natura Sound Therapy

Aaahhh concentration, it’s truly golden. Have you ever found yourself stuck in a noisy environment while attempting to work on your computer, I have. If you wish, try Natura Sound Therapy, it comes with many different natural sounds such as waves, birds, rain, etc set to factory default modes or "sound therapies". Or if you’d like, feel free to use the toggle bar on those default settings to customize your time & place.

Now it’s not a free program, but costs very little for the benefits you will receive. As always I download from www.download.com to avoid any site spoofing.

So give it a hoot, give it a try.

P.S. It also works as a handy sleeping/napping aid device.

Enjoy!

Windows Font Coloration Intensity

If you’d like the capability to tune your font intensity, use Microsoft’s ClearType Tuner PowerToy found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx

Lost Hotmail Password

When you do not remember your answer to your secret question, visit this official Microsoft link:

https://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wlidvalidation&ct=eformcs&scrx=1

They utilize alternative private information which you already gave them when you originally signed up to the service.

Ebook Reader File Solution

I know that many of you on the web are aware of the infuriating DRM block that many e readers support, most particularly the Microsoft Reader, of which you cannot import a pdf into. I trying to convert the pdf with a few pdf to word programs, I found them all to be inadequate, with too many scrunches of paragraphs, thus bleeding into one another. If I were you I would also not bother with the Word to .lit conversion. You see I have found a great solution, that does not even require an ereader program.

If you have ever heard of a great Microsoft program named “OneNote’” then you are well aware of its feature rich capabilities. If you find yourself with a pdf, but not wanting to read them in the eye straining Adobe confines, I would suggest you highlight all of the contents within the pdf, copy, and paste it into a OneNote Page. You see the best thing about my method is that you can even chose to select a chapter, paste each chapter into a OneNote page, and do the same for the next chapter, and so on. This way you can utilize all of the editing tools that are made available within OneNote. Not only this but you can put it to full screen mode as well. I’ve found this solution to be a big bonus, it gives me more control on moving content around.

• Exporting XPS documents into OneNote

   –visit http://xps2onenote.codeplex.com/ to download a small program that will permit you to transfer perfect xps documents into OneNote.

Pretty Good Starting Tutorials for C++

Located within Microsoft’s Developer Network, the tutorials give you a clear understanding of the basics of this programming language. Although you shall require a full guide after you complete this series of chapters.

N.B. you will although require Microsoft’s XPS Viewer, but they have the download right there for you.

 

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/cc305129.aspx

~Ebook Software Databases

To me what makes a great ebook software is not just its available capabilities give to annotate pages, but also the coloration, the style, in essence its presentation of the materials. Not to mention the fact that an ereader lists every book you’ve read, with the options to create categories.

Now I don’t really like to mess around with my ebooks, I instead opt to place a link to the actual file within OneNote pages, a great Microsoft program that beats em all for researching, sharing, organization, recording speech notes, and much more.

So I have chosen Adobe Digital Editions, a free program that has few bells and whistles, but permits the one thing that I wanted, a Spartan options list with a minimalist presentation.

MobiPocket Reader

Now this is more options, it allows the reader to:

• Change the Text through highlighting/right-click
• a dictionary search function, although you must purchase this capability.
• Copying selected text
• Highlights
• Adding Notes
• sending to a mobile reading device

For a free reader with many options, I believe this software beats what I’ve found thus far.

Two Great Websites:Check Your Bandwidth Speed & Quality

speedtest.net

pingtest.net

Game Devo for Children–Runs on the XBox

I came across Kodu, a Microsoft offering for children. Looks pretty easy to use too. So even the very young may enjoy this.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/

Generalizations

I am truly tired of this old, old emotionally charged debate. What I find distasteful is how those who feed the population a daily diet of “what’s in the know” tend to hijack or distort valid scientific findings to the point where they no longer resemble any truth found. When a liberally minded person uses the term “generalization” in a disparaging way, they are attempting to block a proper inquiry into the facts, simply because that person has an emotional stake in the outcome. Now to the opposite corner, where a person will have a negative view of the population in question, that person will also rip apart valid scientific data to display his “truth”  that is presenting a few strands of data without the whole findings.

Now really what is a generalization? It seems true to state that not everyone living within a given sample of a population is 100% identical to a member sampled from the same populace, but there are always average behavioural traits that are fairly distinct, using a more scientific terminology: regressions towards the mean.

A regressions towards the mean is a term describing the phenomena whereby: members of a populace tend to retest more closer towards the average or mean behavioural trait, of the overall population, than to exhibit such traits that are considered more on the fringe.

So “generalizations” are true, to a point. No one person is like the other, yet two devout Catholics will exhibit certain tendencies in either opposition to or unlike those who are not Catholic, (ex:Atheists) again there are dependencies.

So instead of defining a very well documented behavioural trait as being a “generalization”, try to think of how a valid truth can be both right in the larger context, and wrong as an absolute identity. Humans are quite dynamic after all, but not too much.

Number one blogging software

I believe that Windows Live Writer beats out everything out there. Not only is this program easy to use, but you can also attach addins to it such as embedded flash, editors, etc. The most handiest of all would be the button push publication capability, along with the ability to add categories to it.