Eye-Fi SD Card automatically uploads pictures from the camera to Mac or PC (as well as on-line photo sharing site such as Flickr). The photos are transmitted wireless from your camera through home Wi-Fi network. Basically this eliminates the need to hook up your camera or memory card to a USB port to upload the images. There is also an adapter to use the Eye-Fi SC card on some CF digital camera.

Three Quick Start Steps:
1. Get an account at http://www.linkedin.com & create a simple profile of where you have worked (and school).
2. Search for a few colleagues who are already in LinkedIn, when you find someone you would like to connect to, click “Add… to your network”
3. Once you have a few people to your network, check their connections to find other common colleagues.

Don’t start if you don’t have an hour to spare!! Consider this a fair warning.

A very inspirational poem

http://www.thedashmovie.com/linda/

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1. Don’t Look for It - until you have some ideas where to look
2. It’s Not Lost—You Are - there are no missing objects — only unsystematic searchers.
3. Remember the Three C’s - Comfort, Calmness, and Confidence
4. It’s Where It’s Supposed to Be
5. Domestic Drift - where did you last have it?
6. You’re Looking Right at It - look again - calmly
7. The Camouflage Effect - under, hidden, behind, covered
8. Think Back
9. Look Once, Look Well - search thoroughly so you won’t have to keep coming back
10. The Eureka Zone - Immediate vicinity/Eigtheen inches zone
11. Tail Thyself
12. It Wasn’t You - someone else took it

The Final Words from the Professor: Remember, lost objects can be found. They want to be found. And they will be found—by SYSTEMATIC SEARCHERS.

Google announces new service today: Google Romance. “Dating is a search problem. Solve it with Goggle Romance”. :-).
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1. Free voicemail and fax mailbox: www.k7.net You get a voicemail box with 206 area code. When someone leaves a message or send you a fax, it will be forwarded to your email. It’s free, however, if there’s no activity for 30 days (no one calling), it will be deactivated. Great if you need a fax number to receive fax.

2. If you want ability to send a fax using your email, check out a low-cost service at www.faxaway.com ($1/month and 11¢/minute) to send fax in the U.S. No set up fee plus all incoming faxes are free.

3. For about $24 per year, you can get a personal toll-free number (888, 877, 866) offered by www.kall8.com. You can route the toll free number to your home or cell phone. The rate is $2/month and 6.9¢/minute.

1. Silicon Manufacturing– Moore’s Law will prevail for at least 10 more years (chips performance doubles every 18 months)
2. Sensors — e.g. RFID, Wireless, GPS and others
3. Application Processors — Application-specific accelerator chips
4. Everyone is a programmer — Ad hoc applications via better tools
5. Services 2.0 — It’s about service

For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision.
But today, well lived,
Makes every yesterday a dream
of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Look well, therefore, to this day.

Sanskrit Proverb

You cannot slay the dragon everyday. Some days the dragon wins. - Colin Powell

A Leadership Primer from Colin Powell

• Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
• You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.
• Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden, Head Basketball Coach, UCLA
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The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read
Beneath the long, straggly branches of an old willow tree.
Disillusioned by life with good reason to frown,
For the world was intent on dragging me down.
And if that weren’t enough to ruin my day,
A young boy out of breath approached me, all tired from play.
He stood right before me with his head tilted down
And said with great excitement, “Look what I found!”

In his hand was a flower, and what a pitiful sight,
With its petals all worn - not enough rain, or too little light.
Wanting him to take his dead flower and go off to play,
I faked a small smile and then shifted away.
But instead of retreating he sat next to my side
And placed the flower to his nose
And declared with overacted surprise,
“It sure smells pretty and it’s beautiful, too.
That’s why I picked it; here, it’s for you.”

The weed before me was dying or dead.
Not vibrant of colors: orange, yellow or red.
But I knew I must take it, or he might never leave.
So I reached for the flower, and replied, “Just what I need.”

But instead of him placing the flower in my hand,
He held it mid-air without reason or plan.
It was then that I noticed for the very first time
That weed-toting boy could not see: he was blind.
I heard my voice quiver; tears shone in the sun
As I thanked him for picking the very best one.

You’re welcome,” he smiled, and then ran off to play,
Unaware of the impact he’d had on my day.
I sat there and wondered how he managed to see
A self-pitying woman beneath an old willow tree.
How did he know of my self-indulged plight?
Perhaps from his heart, he’d been blessed with true sight.

Through the eyes of a blind child, at last I could see
The problem was not with the world; the problem was me.
And for all of those times I myself had been blind,
I vowed to see the beauty in life,
And appreciate every second that’s mine.
And then I held that wilted flower up to my nose
And breathed in the fragrance of a beautiful rose
And smiled as I watched that young boy,
Another weed in his hand,
About to change the life of an unsuspecting old man.

- by Cheryl Costello-Forshey

The tension of opposites: “Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted…”

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• Phone Out: For pc-to-phone calling 2¢ or less per minute, call anywhere in the U.S.
• Phone In: For phone-to-pc, it’s about $29/year (a little cheaper than Skype)

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A strong competitor to Yahoo Finance. The page is well-designed with relevant information. The daily stock chart has a notation indicating ‘event’ that was happening during the day (i.e. how it may impact the rise and fall of the stock price). You can drag on the chart to go forward/backward.

Life is a gift, but unfortunately it comes with an expiration date…
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bookcrossing n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.

If you want to find out what happened to the book after you have left it, you should register the book at www.bookcrossing.com, write down the BCID on the front cover directing the reader to post an update at www.bookcrossing.com. (Just a thought, can you do this with a dollar bill?)

Excellent weekly column in the Wall Street Journal about computers, software, and other personal technology. You don’t need to be a WSJ subscriber to read the column and the archives. Here are some samples:

• How to Protect Yourself From Vandals, Viruses If You Use Windows
• What PC to Buy If You Are Planning On a Vista Upgrade
• MacBook Pro Offers Promising Start to Era of Intel-Powered Apple

• 1-800-FREE-411 (1-800-373-3411
• 1-800-411-METRO (1-800-411-6387)

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The worldview we live by has everything to do with what we will become. We are wired to connect. To have a good life, it has to be a life of significant.

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1. Be consistent (meaning trying to use the same tag for similar items)
2. Use plenty of tags - tag extensively, general and specific
3. Use Plural or DON’T - be consistent
4. For documents, use unique and distinctive term
5. For bookmarks, use both general tags (for grouping) and specific tags (for searching)

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There are some basic precautions to make:

1. Installed anti-virus software and anti-spyware and update regularly.

2. Installed the patches and updates regularly. Keep your OS and software up-to-date.

3. Never, never, open a file from an unknown source.

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2. Price check: www.kayak.com will check multiple airline simultaneously.

3. For last minute deals (this and next weekend), check out: www.site59.com. You may be able to get a good combo-deal (flight + hotel) or hotel + car.

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Some popular articles:

• How Lock Picking Works
• How Car Engines Work
• How Hybrid Cars Work

Bonus tip: If you see something neat on the web, take a screen-capture and then posted it to you on-line site for reference or archive.

1. Storage - The price is dropping and the size is increasing. Another trend is free on-line large storage (Google claims to give you ‘infinite’, its Gmail started out at 2GB and now it’s up to 2.7GB). Google is also planning on offering infinite drive once the bandwidth support it. Keep all your data on-line with Google.

2. Bandwidth - Again, the rate is going up and price is going down. For the first time DSL growth exceed Cable Broadband. The more broadband, the more connected we are.

3. Wireless - From EV-DO, EDGE, HSPDA, WiMax - not only ubiquitous access, but also very high speed. The price will be coming down in a few years.

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1. B - Blank/Unblank the screen with black screen (from time-to-time, you may want to do this while answering questions from the audiences)

2. W - Turn screen white/back to presentation

3. Pre-print 6 slides/page cheat sheet for yourself, then when you need to go to a specific slide, key in the slide number + <Enter> - (e.g. 12<Enter> will go to slide 12)

4. <SpaceBar> - Next Slide & Arrows - allow you to forward and backward

5. Do not look at the slide while speaking, look at the audiences.

(You can also try the mobile version at: http://m.30boxes.com.)

Note: Google is working on a calendar called CL2 tied to its Gmail services Suppose to be the ultimate web calendar app. Not sure when it will be released. (3/6/06)

How about creating your own recipe books, places you have been, etc. ect.?

1. Hold the camera still — use view-finder instead of LCD screen if possible (to minimize arms movement). Locked your elbows. Brace yourself against the wall (or tree).

2. Focus carefully - treat “auto focus” as more of an “instant focus”, make sure your subject is clearly in focus.

3. Three Golden rules: 1) Get up close –eliminate clutter by going as close to the subject as possible, 2) Use the sidelight and not flash; 3) Take lots of pictures.

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2. Never edit a JPEG file and re-saved, the image will deterioriate more. Save as tiff if you plan to edit later.

3. One of the best photo management software is free: picasa from Google (only for PC).

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1. Viruses — there are commercial (Norton, McAfee). Bonuses: if you have AOL, it includes for free McAfee Antivirus. Just make sure it’s loaded on your system. (On AOL, go to keyword: “Antivirus” and follow the instructions — note that you must have an AOL software and account).

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1. Storage - The price is dropping and the size is increasing. Another trend is free on-line large storage (Google claims to give you ‘infinite’, its Gmail started out at 2GB and now it’s up to 2.7GB). Google is also planning on offering infinite drive once the bandwidth support it. Keep all your data on-line with Google.

2. Bandwidth - Again, the rate is going up and price is going down. For the first time DSL growth exceed Cable Broadband. The more broadband, the more connected we are.

3. Wireless - From EV-DO, EDGE, HSPDA, WiMax - not only ubiquitous access, but also very high speed. The price will be coming down in a few years.

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1. Perpetual messages storage - with fast “Google-like” search

2. Forward messages from other accounts to Gmail for archive

3. Use Gmail as a catch-all accounts

4. Gmail with POP Mail reader (Outlook, Outlook Express, Apple Mail)

5. Use Gmail with Google Desktop Search or Google Sidebar

6. Store contacts on Gmail for easy search

7. Forward selected email messages from Gmail to your mobile phone

8. Star using Gmail, in case you decided to cancel your AOL account.

9. Use Gmail as information archiver (Ideas, Quotes, Recipe, etc.)

10. Use Gmail as on-line/remote disk drive (2.5 GB)

Note: the best of both world is to use Outlook and POP features to read/store Gmail locally as well.

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Find “Radiating Possibilities” in people. When people have fun they work hard. Playing with a purpose. Each people acted like an owner of the market… They work as a team. They teased customers with a mischievous look that said, “C’mon, tease me back!”

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Create a blueprint for your life, guided by inner values and highest motives.