Meetup, a Popular Online Social Networking Portal

People meet someone with different ways. These days, many people are likely to make a friend through an online social networking website. One of such popular portals is Meetup: http://www.meetup.com. In Meetup, anyone can create or join a group you interest, such as movies, books, musics, businesses, health, foods, or languages. It has had over 10 millions numbers all over the world since it was built in 2002. It has a lot of groups, so you can find any group you want there; it allows you to find some of groups near your neighborhood. From this community, you can meet people who have similar interests with you, share some information, make friends, and spend a good time with them.

A Website to Create a Favicon

When visiting a website, you can see its favicon like this below.

A favicon known as a shortcut icon, website icon, or bookmark icon is a mixed word using favorites and icon. Most of websites use the favicon. The reason is that the favicon makes the websites stand out and distinguish from other websites.  

Even if you make an image for the favicon in photshop, you need a converter to change the favicon file, favicon.ico. There is some software, but you can do that through a website without downloading software. You can just import and export your file from the website. I'll let you know one of websites for the favicon. Here it is: http://www.xiconeditor.com.

Most size of the favicon is 16 x 16 pixels, but you can make a bigger size at first. After then, when exporting a file, you select the size you want here. If you use this website, you can easily create your favicon. You just follow the step like this below.

Shazam - an Awesome Music Recognition Application

When listening to new or unfamiliar songs, I wonder the name of them. In this case, I usually use Shazam, a music recognition application. Shazam is really attractive because the way to use is simple - just touching to Shazam and it quickly lets me know the title of songs. Moreover, whenever I use Shazam, it gives me the exact information of the songs. This application is awesome.

If you have never used Shazam, I recommend you use it. I believe that you will love it. I'm going to link to the website of Shazam here: http://www.shazam.com.

How to Use Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6

The latest version of Adobe is Creative Cloud. If you visit this website, you can watch more video lectures of Adobe Creative Cloud and CS6: http://tv.adobe.com/channel/how-to/how-to-cs6-tutorials.

How to Use Adobe Dreamweaver CS6

If you want to know how to use Adobe Dreamweaver CS6, I'm going to link to the website. Here is the video lecture of Adobe Dreamweaver CS6: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-dreamweaver-cs6.

How to Use Adobe After Effects CS6

If you want to make your videos look more attractive, you should learn Adobe After Effects. Here is the video lecture of Adobe After Effects CS6: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-after-effects-cs6.

How to Use Adobe Premiere Pro CS6

Many users upload their videos online, using various video editing programs. Among them, if you want to know how to use Adobe Premiere Pro CS6, I'm going to link to the website. Here is the video lecture of Adobe Premiere Pro CS6: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-premiere-pro-cs6.

How to Use Adobe InDesign CS6

To learn InDesign is easy and simple. If you know how to use Microsoft Office Word, you can simply understand InDesign. Here is the video lecture of Adobe InDesign CS6: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-indesign-cs6/%7B%7B.

How to Use Adobe Illustrator CS6

Last time, I posted the video lecture of Adobe Photoshop CS6. This time, I'm going to post the video lecture of Adobe Illustrator CS6. I will link to the website. Here is it: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-illustrator-cs6.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Funny Book

Searching something on Google, I accidentally started to read “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney a few days ago. The book has been published in a serial form. It is a popular fiction book for children.

It is so funny that I cannot stop reading it. Reading the book, I’m giggling alone even though I’m an adult. :) If somebody looks at me giggling, he or she might feel that I'm like a silly person. If you read it, you may be the same as me. :)

I have been reading its first book on this website: http://www.funbrain.com/journal/Journal.html?ThisJournalDay=1&ThisPage=1. The website is that I visited by accident and then that I started to read “Diary of a Wimpy kid”.

Reading this book, I wondered how many volumes it has completed, so I visited Amazon.com. I figured out that its eighth book came out last week and becomes #1 bestseller on Amazon.com. 

After book 1, I’d like to read until the latest book 8 as soon as possible.   

Indeed.com for Jobs

 

Life expectancy is getting higher. We will live to 100 years. Nevertheless, due to global economic crisis, unemployment rate is still high; many young people can’t find a job right away after graduation. Some of them want to establish a business with a little capital instead of getting a job. The others find a job.

 There are a lot of job-searching websites. Among them, I recommend Indeed.com, a great job search engine: http://www.indeed.com. Indeed offers all jobs by searching from job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages. Therefore, you don’t need to visit every single job website. The site is really helpful in finding a job you want. If you are looking for a job, use Indeed.com. Good Luck!

Kayak.com for Travel

Travel for me is happiness. I have traveled over 20 countries so far; among them, I can't count how many cities I have traveled. Through travel, what I can learn about the different cultures and manners of other countries is pleasant and grateful.

When planning to travel these days, I use kayak.com, a price comparison website: http://www.kayak.com. Maybe many people use this site. The site offers travelers to be useful and convenient. If you don’t know the site, I’d like to recommend it to you. 

How to use Adobe Photoshop CS6

Many people take a picture and then edit it by Photoshop. If you have a blog, Photoshop is also useful for making your blog. If you don’t know how to use Photoshop, you can learn from this website:  http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-cs6. Here is a video lecture.

Free Blogger Templates for Your Blog

If you are a blogger, maybe you want to have your representative template to distinguish from others' blog. Google blogger offers limited templates. If you choose one of them, you have the same design like others.

Many users share their template on the Internet. I would like to introduce one of free template websites. Here is a website below.

http://btemplates.com : this site offers various templates. Before you download a template, you can see a demo version of it. If you like the template you see, download. It is free.   

The App of Tunein Radio: Let's Listen to Free Online Radio

I have installed a lot of applications on my smart phone, but I don’t use all of them every day. I only use several apps per day. One of them is Tunein Radio. It offers all genres of music, news, sports, talk shows, and comedy. Wherever connecting to the Internet, I can use Tunein Radio. This app is so useful that I listen to the live radio every day. 

If you have never used Tunein Radio yet, search it on Play Store or on App Store and then install. If you don’t have a smart phone, you can also use the website of Tunein Radio and choose one of radio stations: http://tunein.com Furthermore, if you want to improve English listening skills, it will help you to do so; you can listen to the world's radio. 

Using many apps, I think that apps used every day have competitiveness and win users heart.  Thanks to this, maybe Tunein Radio has been loved so far. 

ADP Payroll Calculator for Net Pay

Many workers wait for their payday. If you are a new employee, maybe you wonder how much you can take home pay from your gross annual income. If you don't know how to calculate net pay, use ADP(Automatic Data Processing) payroll calculator. You can estimate the net pay from the calculator. 

Here is a website for it:  http://www.adp.com/tools-and-resources/calculators-and-tools/payroll-calculators/salary-paycheck-calculator.aspx

It is free and helpful. You can choose a tax year and a state. In addition, there are three sections. You can just follow the step. 

How to Calculate Electricity Usage

I had never cared about how to calculate electricity usage. One day, after getting my electricity bill, I was so surprised that I couldn't believe my eyes; it was too high.

Maybe some people have had such an experience like me. If you understand a way to calculate the usage, you can efficiently use electricity and reduce electricity usage.   

Here is a way to calculate electric power in watts.

1. Check out the home appliances you have.
2. Pay attention to the yellow EnergyGuide label; you can see rated power.
3. Write down the rated power and make a list.
4.  Multiply the rated power, hours daily using, and 30 days, and you will get monthly electricity usage. For example, if an home appliance has a wattage of 1200 and you use 1 hour every day, the way to calculate is to be 1200 X 1 X 30 = 36kWh.
   
   If you see amperes of an appliance instead of wattage, convert amps to watts. Here is a formula for it: Watts = Volts x Amps

I link a website for a free electricity usage calculator: http://www.electricity-usage.com/Electricity-Usage-Calculator.aspx