The Power Of Dividend Investing

The Motley Fool published a podcast on the topic "The Power Of Dividend Investing".

This is exactly the strategy I am adopting in investment.

The new AdSense interface: More controls

The new AdSense interface: More controls [via]

Where should I travel to?

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You've Requalified

You've Requalified - Congratulations! You've earned Expert status and FREE Premium Services!

Bought 2 boxes and gave one away

Performance appraisal in an unique way

Does this happen anywhere at all?

Heineken - Men With Talent

How to reset Microsoft Office 2007 product license key without reinstalling?

I recently installed Microsoft Visio 2007 but entered a wrong set of product key. Several attempts were made to find ways to enter my correct set of product key without having to reinstall the whole thing. The solution is to tweak the registry.

From the registry editor, do the following:

1. Locate and then click the following subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Registration. For user with 64-bit (x64) Windows, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\12.0 instead
2. From there, you should see one or more sub keys with this pattern {90120000-0014-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}. Look through all the sub keys and find the one with string value "ProductName=Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007" (assuming you are trying to fix Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007.
3. After you have located the right sub key, delete registry entries DigitalProductID and ProductID.
4. Exit registry editor.

DONE! You should now be prompted to input Product Key the next time you launch Office.

Wall Street Cover-Ups, Deceptions and Lies

How true is it?

Let’s say you put a big chunk of your nest egg in a life insurance policy with an A+ company.

You invest another sizable amount in a portfolio of high-rated corporate bonds and tax-free municipal bonds.

Then, feeling safe and secure with most of your funds, you take a flyer on a few stocks that a dozen separate research analysts have unanimously rated as a “buy” or at least a “hold.”

You assume you’ve made informed decisions based on the best research the world has to offer.

The reality: Even in the absence of bubbles, busts, recessions or dollar collapses, you could suffer wipeout losses.

Wall Street Cover-Ups, Deceptions and Lies [via]

Aviary HTML5 Photo Editor

This is really cool!

We're happy to announce that we are launching a super-simple and embeddable HTML5 photo editor (codename: Feather) that will allow users of third party websites to directly fix and retouch their photos without ever leaving those websites.

Aviary Launches HTML5 Photo Editor!
http://www.aviary.com/blog/posts/aviary-launches-html5-photo-editor

Beaten

Beaten. Awake since sun morning. Zzzz...

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Tell me why you want to become a trader

There are some things Google can't translate: Baby babbling

History of Social Media

Source: Skloog

累却睡不着

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Google's Guide to the Web

Google Chrome's comic book - a great way to introduce to the world a new browser.

20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web - a guidebook created by the Google Chrome team that tries to address this issue by explaining complicated terms like "Internet", "cloud computing", "JavaScript", "HTML5", "cookies", "URL", "IP address" using illustrations and real life analogies. However, a HTML5-compliant web browser, like Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 9.0, is required for best illustration. This illustrated book incorporates HTML5 capability of reading it offline, reading like an eBook, and remembers the page you were at previously. Pretty cool stuff!

Google apps customers now have full suite of products

From now onwards, Google apps customers will be enjoying the full suite of products Google has. Products like Picasa, Blogger, etc that were not previously available will be included now. Existing customers will be moved to the new scheme in the coming months.

Ten times more applications for Google Apps customers [via]

Awesome Screenshot - Capture & Annotate Websites

Awesome Screenshot is a screen capture and annotation tool with text editing, drawing, and free image sharing—all accessible from the Google Chrome toolbar.

Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/alelhddbbhepgpmgidjdcjakblofbmce

Create and Edit word documents ON-THE-GO using Google Docs

Google has launched Google Docs for the Android, iPhone and iPad so users can simply create and edit word documents on-the-go. The collaborative feature is also available and updated real-time on mobile. On Android, we can even use Voice command to type!

Editing your Google Docs on the go [via]

3rd cheque from Google Adsense scheduled

Thanks for the support :)

Sabana REIT prices IPO at $1.05 per share

Sabana Shariah Compliant REIT, which owns industrial properties in Singapore, has priced its initial public offering at $1.05 a share or at the midpoint of the indicative range. Sabana REIT, Singapore’s first Islamic REIT and the largest Shariah-compliant property trust anywhere, had originally set a price guidance of $1.00–$1.10. I never know REIT can be Shariah compliant too!

Low deposit rates drive investors to seek higher yielding instruments?

Distribution yield estimates: 8.45% for 2011; 8.48% for 2012.
Retail tranche of the IPO: Starts on Nov 19, close on Nov 24 and begin trading on Nov 26.

Buy or Hold Investment-Linked Policy (ILP)?

A view from Phillip Securities Financial Advisory Consultant

Should I hold on to my regular premium investment-link (ILP) policy with high sum assured?
[via]

Happy 25th birthday to Windows

Section 377A - Join public forum if interested

Article on the challenge against Section 337A.

M Ravi is a human rights lawyer and anti-death penalty activist. He will be speaking at a forum – 337a: Where did it come from and where should it go – on 27th November. Details of the forum is as follows:

Name: 377A – Where did it come from and where should it go
Date: Saturday, 27th November 2010
Time: 3pm to 6pm
Venue: The Public House, 42 Circular Road, Boat Quay
Speakers:

1. Mathia Lee
2. Vincent Vijeyasingha
3. Amy Tachiana
4. Hedrick Kwan
5. M. Ravi

Moderator: Mathia Lee
Contact: M. Ravi
Phone: 65337433
Fax: 65324301

Anti-gay laws continue to be used selectively, despite assurances – M Ravi [via]

Telerik Rad Editor & equivalents localization problem on DotNetNuke

DotNetNuke Telerik Rad Editor and equivalents like its Image Manager, Upload Manager, File Manager, etc may lost all its controls' labels and captions after installing a new language pack. Notice the missing button labels below.

A solution to this problem is to duplicate all resource (*.resx) files found in \Providers\HtmlEditorProviders\Telerik\App_LocalResources\* and have the new set of files appended with the newly introduced language culture as file names. E.g. RadEditor.Dialogs.resx → RadEditor.Dialogs.en-gb.resx (assuming we are switching to en-gb localization). After we are done, all dialogs will look good again!

Unexpected dividend from Mapletree Logistics

Why unexpected? Because I had sold all Mapletree Logistics Trust shares few weeks ago.

As announced from SGX website:

Unitholders whose securities accounts with The Central Depository (Pte) Limited were credited with units in MapletreeLog as at 5.00 pm on 29 September 2010 will be entitled to the Cumulative Distribution that will be paid on Monday 29 November 2010. For the avoidance of doubt, the new units issued under the Equity Fund Raising will not be entitled to the Cumulative Distribution.

Lucky I sold it just after 29 September 2010.

President Obama on GM: "One of the Toughest Tales" Becoming a "Success Story"

Warren Buffett says 'Thank You' to Uncle Sam

Well written.

Pretty Good for Government Work [via]

Taylor Swift CMA Awards 2010 HD Back To December Live Performance

Beautiful

Amazon Kindle vs. Barnes & Noble Nook

The following chart is from PCMag.

Google 'Hotpot': Local recommendation sharing among friends

Google has just released an early release of Hotpot - a local recommendation engine powered by you and your friends. With Hotpot, you can make recommendations on the places or the restaurants which you like to your friends and they can do likewise too.

Happy hotpotting!

Discover Yours: Local recommendations powered by you and your friends [via]

Warren Buffett says Indexed Funds to go by default

Daughter distraught scoring 39 out of 50 for Chinese paper; parents disheartened!

Scoring 39 out of 50 in an exam is considered to have done poorly these days. Daughter distraught and parents disheartened. The emotional impact is so strong that triggered parents to write in a complaint letter to the press.

WOW!

Why mark P3 paper by PSLE standard? [via]

Embrace Facebook messaging or Not to?

Why You Should Embrace the New Facebook Modern Messaging System
http://lifehacker.com/5690721/why-you-should-embrace-the-new-facebook-modern-messaging-system

Why You Shouldn't Switch Your Email to Facebook
http://lifehacker.com/5690722/why-you-shouldnt-switch-your-email-to-facebook

Facebook Messaging

The following links should summarise everything about Facebook messaging.

See the Messages that Matter
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=452288242130

Facebook Revamps Messaging System
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372719,00.asp

Get invited!
http://www.facebook.com/about/messages/

Eurozone Industrial Production still below its 2005 level

According to estimates released by the Eurostat, the statistiscal office of the European Union, seasonal adjusted industrial output for September 2010 fell by 0.9% in the euro area (EA16) and by 0.5% in the EU27 as compared with August 2010 data. However, if compared against September 2010, industrial production increased by 5.2% in the euro area and by 5.8% in the EU27. Is the Eurozone slowing down?

From the chart above, current industrial output is still below 2005 level.

Are we out of the woods yet?

A quote from Paul Krugman from Axis of Deflation:

True, Europeans are acting as if they’re fully recovered — but the truth is that eurozone industrial production is still below its 2005 level (pdf), and seems to be stalling. Worldwide, we probably have an output gap — resources going to waste, because we’re not using the productive capacity we have — of at least $2 trillion at an annual rate.

Financial crisis fears grow in Ireland, Portugal

Another bout of financial crisis coming?

Financial crisis fears grow in Ireland, Portugal [via]

Facebook vs. Google: The Contact Wars

Interesting article on the PC Magazine.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2372638,00.asp

光棍节快乐

Mentally tired

Web2PDF - Convert any webpage into PDF to your Email

Web2PDF allows you to browse webpages as PDFs from your email. What's required is to compose an email, type the URL of the web page you wish to convert in the body of that message and then send it to submit@web2pdfconvert.com. Almost instantly, an email will be sent with the webpage as a PDF to your inbox.

That's reading offline :)

Web2PDF
http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/

Export your Google Wave as ZIP files before it shuts down

It is now possible to save and backup your Google Wave conversation as a ZIP file before the Google service shuts down in a few months' time.

Please do it asap.

Exporting your waves [via]

Two key factors insurance buyers don't know

Read on.

Two key factors insurance buyers don't know [via]

Google Search app for Windows Phone 7 - in the Marketplace now

Google up competition with Bing to release an app to make searching on Google easier on new Windows Phone.

Google Search app for Windows Phone 7 - in the Marketplace now [via]

ARA Asset Management stock movement chart

Take note of the movement from Aug 2010 to today. That's the gain I got from this counter :)
BTW, the RSI is now at 87.22 (super overbought)

ARA Asset Management Share Price Chart

Bought on 16 Aug 2010 at S$1.10 and sold at S$1.58 today.

ARA Asset Management sold!

Sold at $1.58 For a 44% profit! Held it since 16 Aug.

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Google Birthday Doodle for myself

Another full working day

Yes, that is for the past many days even on weekends and Deepavali.

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How iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry Users See Each Other

From here.

Scrybe - Android keyboard using Google Scribe

Download Scrybe now from http://www.appidio.com/apps/scrybe/

Fed's Bernanke `Doesn't Understand' Economics, Jim Rogers Says

Printing more money? USD to go down further!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-04/bernanke-doesn-t-understand-economics-investor-jim-rogers-tells-oxford.html

Cameraless Android Phone?

Hope for many people! I personally feel Motorola choosing Android as their main OS on their smartphones is a right strategic decision. Their recent revenue was astonishing especially when they almost 'died' few quarters ago. A revival for Motorola.

Cameraless Android Phone? Motorola Droid Pro Coming Without Camera [via]

Create live presentation slides using Prezi

Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor
http://prezi.com/

Google Instant now on iPhone and Android

According to the Google Blog, Google powerful Instant search is now available on both Android (2.2+) devices and iPhone (iOS4) in the US. Go to Google.com on your phone and tap "Turn on" the Instant Beta to enable it and start using it.

Watch demo

The power of Google Instant, now in your pocket [via]

Five new Gmail themes

Google Gmail recently launched five new themes. They are Basic White, Basic Black, Marker, Tree Tops and Android.

Basic Black / White

Marker

Tree Tops

Android

Five new themes [via]

Wonder how Unit Trust work

I really doubt the performance of Unit Trust and its performance. When my own stocks and shares are performing so well and still seeing my Unit Trust portfolio in the red, more doubt on UT is casted. How is it calculated?

My stocks and shares

ARA Asset Management (+35.18%), C&O Pharm (+10.24%), Cambridge Industrial Trust (+25.66%), CapitalMalls Asia (-9.70%), China Animal Healthcare (+21.97%), China Minzhong Food Corp (+2.5%), Global Logistics Properties (+17.62%), Koh Brothers (-17.31%), Mapletree Industrial Trust (+18.28%), NOL (+11.06%), ST Engineering (+12.97%).

And HG Metal Manufacturing (+10%) but just sold off today.

SGX + ASX: merger or takeover?

An interesting article from the Aussie's perspective. The article also talks on the Lee's family in Singapore.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/a-loathsome-deal-that-should-be-given-bargepole-treatment-20101028-175lw.html

Nothing seems to interest me

Other than sleep (hopefully).

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Trying to find breathing place

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