Wednesday, September 24, 2008
25 Sure-fire Ways To Motivate Your Team Members
1. Projects are about humans. Deal with that
2. Self realization comes from self evaluation
3. Take time to explain your actions to yourself
4. The only valuable experience is one you learn from
5. Meditate; see the project process as a flow
6. Flexibility in communication skills
7. Self reflection is one of the best forms of mental exercise
8. Meditate.
9. Inspirations go a long way in life
10.Relate project scenes / scenarios to your favorite television shows
11. Try to come up with three different metaphors for your project
12.View your project or organization as a fish pondiew your project or organization as a fish pond
13. Practice putting yourself in another's position when you are about to judge them
14.Think about your team
15. study the behavior of individual coworkers
16. Evaluate the behavior of your foreign coworkers
17.Give your team feedback. Be kind but honest in evaluation.
18. Deliberate every process element of your plan and mull over what it is supposed achieve
19. Analogies go a long way in thinking things through and the comparisons make you appreciate the complexity of life itself
20. Play The Sims to see how people react in different circumstances.
21. Mull over why your project / company or industry is located around the world the way it is.
2. Self realization comes from self evaluation
3. Take time to explain your actions to yourself
4. The only valuable experience is one you learn from
5. Meditate; see the project process as a flow
6. Flexibility in communication skills
7. Self reflection is one of the best forms of mental exercise
8. Meditate.
9. Inspirations go a long way in life
10.Relate project scenes / scenarios to your favorite television shows
11. Try to come up with three different metaphors for your project
12.View your project or organization as a fish pondiew your project or organization as a fish pond
13. Practice putting yourself in another's position when you are about to judge them
14.Think about your team
15. study the behavior of individual coworkers
16. Evaluate the behavior of your foreign coworkers
17.Give your team feedback. Be kind but honest in evaluation.
18. Deliberate every process element of your plan and mull over what it is supposed achieve
19. Analogies go a long way in thinking things through and the comparisons make you appreciate the complexity of life itself
20. Play The Sims to see how people react in different circumstances.
21. Mull over why your project / company or industry is located around the world the way it is.
How to Create an invisible account in Windows XP,
How to Create an invisible account in Windows XP,
Go to the registry key:
HKLM\Software\ Microsoft\ W indowsNT\CurrentVer sion\W inlogon\SpecialAcco unts\U serList
Create a new DWORD, setting its name to the name of the account you wish to hide. Then set its value to 0 to hide it. However, this account isn't completely hidden because it is visible to administrators in Local User and Groups and also the profile is visible in the Documents and Settings. When you are at the welcome screen, and you want to login to this account, then press Ctrl+Alt+Delete twice and it will display the log-on promt style similar to Windows 2000, then type the username, and the password and hit enter.
Insert your name in the bottom right taskbar!
Hey its a very cool trick u can amaze u r freinds and relatives by insertng ur name on the bottom right taskbar. Follow the instructions bellow:
Open Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Customize ->Time
here u can see A.M. and P.M. change it with u r name or anything you like!
Go to the registry key:
HKLM\Software\ Microsoft\ W indowsNT\CurrentVer sion\W inlogon\SpecialAcco unts\U serList
Create a new DWORD, setting its name to the name of the account you wish to hide. Then set its value to 0 to hide it. However, this account isn't completely hidden because it is visible to administrators in Local User and Groups and also the profile is visible in the Documents and Settings. When you are at the welcome screen, and you want to login to this account, then press Ctrl+Alt+Delete twice and it will display the log-on promt style similar to Windows 2000, then type the username, and the password and hit enter.
Insert your name in the bottom right taskbar
Insert your name in the bottom right taskbar!
Hey its a very cool trick u can amaze u r freinds and relatives by insertng ur name on the bottom right taskbar. Follow the instructions bellow:
Open Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Customize ->Time
here u can see A.M. and P.M. change it with u r name or anything you like!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Six effective diet rules
Almost all of us have at some point in our lives tried to diet to lose weight. We’ve all attempted to knock off one food group or item from our plates. I am guilty of banishing sugar from my food for months, only to come back and devour it with a vengeance! Now I’m wiser thanks to advise given by fitness instructors and nutritionists and here’s sharing with you what I’ve learnt about diets. Believe me these tips work!
1. Healthy substitutes: This is for all those who need an occasional nibble at work. Stay away from biscuits and other fattening foodstuff. Keep a jar of assorted nuts handy in your office drawer. Carrot and cucumber sticks are also a very healthy option. If these are ‘boring’ go for good old ‘khakra’, but make sure it’s from a health food store, most of the commercially available ‘khakras’ contain high levels of oil. Baked snacks like baked ‘sev’, sesame or peanut ‘laddoos’ made with jaggery, multigrain rusks or toasted brown bread are healthier options. But make sure you don’t overindulge in these. These are only meant to control the insane urge to order a hi-calorie smoothie or chocolate doughnut during the 4 pm craving. So learn to ration the portions.
1. Healthy substitutes: This is for all those who need an occasional nibble at work. Stay away from biscuits and other fattening foodstuff. Keep a jar of assorted nuts handy in your office drawer. Carrot and cucumber sticks are also a very healthy option. If these are ‘boring’ go for good old ‘khakra’, but make sure it’s from a health food store, most of the commercially available ‘khakras’ contain high levels of oil. Baked snacks like baked ‘sev’, sesame or peanut ‘laddoos’ made with jaggery, multigrain rusks or toasted brown bread are healthier options. But make sure you don’t overindulge in these. These are only meant to control the insane urge to order a hi-calorie smoothie or chocolate doughnut during the 4 pm craving. So learn to ration the portions.
2. Ordering in? If you are really tempted to order in a ‘biryani’, that is if wild horses can’t help in keeping the urge down, then go ahead, order. But right at the beginning give away half of the ‘biryani’. This will ensure that you eat less!
3.Go slow at night: Most of the working folk tend to attack food at night, the only time they have the leisure of scanning the fridge and hunting for hidden temptations. Precisely for such times do refrigerators come with a lock and key. Once dinner’s over, lock the fridge and brush your teeth. If you have a supportive partner, you could hand over the keys to him for safekeeping with a clause that no amount of cajoling or bribing should bend him! This will ensure that the chocolate pastry remains in the fridge and your brushing of teeth will remind you that you are done for the day and you cannot brush again!
4. Don’t reward yourself with food: Do you think because you’ve spent an hour at the gym you’ve earned a slice of pizza or cheesecake? Get realistic. If your goal is serious weight loss, restrain yourself from such indulgences, or it will be an exercise in futility, whatever you sweat out will all come back with the pizza and dessert.
5. Give in to your craving: Mark two days in a week when you will give in to your craving. But remember to stick to this schedule. And once again don’t go overboard. A small slice, a small piece or a half a glass, that’s it. Remember the rest is poison!
6. Healthy cuppa: If you cannot do without your coffee and tea fix, then it would be in your interests to go sugar free. Or else substitute the sugar with a healthy option like palm jaggery. Think of white sugar as your ace enemy and you will strike a lifelong friendship with your weighing scale!
Monday, July 14, 2008
Tips To Search Google Like An Expert
I think Google is the best search engine I ever had. if you also think so then probably you use Google many times a day. if you are using Google by just simply typing few words and changing the query until you find the required results then this article will give you a better way to search on Google.
1. if you want to search specially from a web site and if that site is not support a built in search feature then still you can use google to search that site. simply use site: mobile-pedia.com nokia. Now by putting this query you can get the results about nokia from web site mobile-pedia.com.
2. if you want to calculate some thing just type in the Google search bar and get the results. for example if you enter 675*856 in it then you get the proper answer. so next time when you need to do a quick calculation, use Google instead of calculator :)
3.If you need simply a definition of the word use the command "define:". for example define: psychology
4. If you are ooking to find results of a specific type, you can use the command "filetype:". For example, you might want to find only PDF files related to marketing.
"marketing" filetype:pdf
5. If you want to search for content about marketing, but you want to exclude any results that contain the term management. Simply use the "-" sign in front of the word you want to exclude.
For Example Search: marketing -management
6. If you found an page of your required query and you want to see related pages then just click on the "Similar pages" next to the search result. Google will show thirty sites on the same topic. It's a excellent method to discover interesting sites.
7. The order of your keywords play a vital role in search, so you will get different results for "search mobiles" and "mobile search". So type only the important keywords, in a logical and reasonable order.
8. If you want to find the answer of any question. just place the whole phrase in quotes and use "*" instead of answer.
For Example "* is the shortest person in the world "
9. when you do a search, Google by default will include all the terms mentioned in the search. If want to match one or more terms, then you can use the OR operator but keep in mind that the OR should be capitalized).
For Example marketing OR Finance
10. If you want to take information about a phone number then just use the Google phone book feature. use the command "phone book:"
For example phonebook: enter the number here
11. if you want to take information of an area code just type the area code Google will tell you where it from.
12. if you want to find results between any of a range of numbers then you just give the two numbers and put ".." between them. mostly useful for years or prices.
For Example disasters 1999..2008
13. If you want to restrict your search to specific domain.
for example Photoshop tutorial site:.edu
using this Google will only search on the “edu” domain. This works on country domain also.
14. If you want to know about a current position of a company's share in the stock market. just enter the valid stock in the Google search and you will get the financial position with charts and graphs.
15. Google allow only 32 words in the search query and Google will ignore the subsequent words. you should had to restrict your query in 32 words.
Hope these tips are useful for your future Google search. if you have any tip related to Google search feel free to post here. waiting for your comments
Monday, June 23, 2008
Top 20 Replies by Programmers when their programs do not work
Top 20 Replies by Programmers when their programs do not work...
20. "That's weird..."
19. "It's never done that before."
18. "It worked yesterday."
17. "How is that possible?"
16. "It must be a hardware problem."
15. "What did you type in wrong to getit to crash?"
14. "There is something wrong in your data."
13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
12. "You must have the wrong version."
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
10. "I can't test everything!"
9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."
8. "It works, but I haven't been tested."
7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it work?
4. "You can't use that version on your system."
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
19. "It's never done that before."
18. "It worked yesterday."
17. "How is that possible?"
16. "It must be a hardware problem."
15. "What did you type in wrong to getit to crash?"
14. "There is something wrong in your data."
13. "I haven't touched that module in weeks!"
12. "You must have the wrong version."
11. "It's just some unlucky coincidence."
10. "I can't test everything!"
9. "THIS can't be the source of THAT."
8. "It works, but I haven't been tested."
7. "Somebody must have changed my code."
6. "Did you check for a virus on your system?"
5. "Even though it doesn't work, how does it work?
4. "You can't use that version on your system."
3. "Why do you want to do it that way?"
2. "Where were you when the program blew up?"
And the Number One Reply by Programmers when their
programs don'twork:
programs don'twork:
1. "It works on my machine"
A Comparison study on Appraisal and Resignation
In Appraisal meeting they will speak only about your weakness, errors,failures.
In resignation meeting they will speak only about your strength,achievements, success. In Appraisal you may need to cry and beg for even 10% hike.
In resignation you can demand for more than 60-70% hike. During Appraisal, they will deny promotion saying you didn't meet the expectation, you don't
have leadership qualities.
During resignation, they will say you are the core member of team, you have to take the project
in shoulder and lead to success. There is 90% chance for not getting incentives after appraisal.
There is 90% chance of getting on-site opportunity after resignation. This is for one who resigned or going to resign
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Don't think that your new company appreciates your talent and welcomes you with red carpet,
they are badly in need of resource.
Don't think that you will not have politics, appraisal glitches in the new company.
Remember, again you are going to work with PLs, PMs, Program Mangers.
"DIFFERENT PLATE BUT SAME FOOD" and "A COIN HAVE TWO FACES"
In resignation meeting they will speak only about your strength,achievements, success.
In resignation you can demand for more than 60-70% hike.
have leadership qualities.
During resignation, they will say you are the core member of team, you have to take the project
in shoulder and lead to success.
There is 90% chance of getting on-site opportunity after resignation.
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Don't think that your new company appreciates your talent and welcomes you with red carpet,
they are badly in need of resource.
Don't think that you will not have politics, appraisal glitches in the new company.
Remember, again you are going to work with PLs, PMs, Program Mangers.
"DIFFERENT PLATE BUT SAME FOOD" and "A COIN HAVE TWO FACES"
Blood group tells your nature
| | BLOOD GROUP O | BLOOD GROUP A | BLOOD GROUP B | BLOOD GROUP AB |
| In a nutshell | Cannot stand people who hide the truth | Pessimistic and too sensitive | Cannot take orders easily | Romantic and sentimental |
| Basic Behavior | Make objectives clear | Careful about decision-making | Make decisions fast | Extremely practical |
| Possess great deal of confidence | Make things clear in black and white | Can be flexible | Excellent in analyses | |
| Honest, optimistic and energetic | Care too much about social rules and standards | Do not care about rules | Give fair criticisms | |
| | | Respect scientific and practical findings | Cannot decide when it comes to important issues | |
| Tolerance | Strength and endurance depend on their aim | High tolerance for physical or repetitive work | Maintain the longest interest in what they do | Try to be hard-working |
| Give up easily if they find the job meaningless | Cannot take changes easily | Seem impatient | Tend to be impatient | |
| | Lose interest in a hobby easily | Dislike repetitious work | | |
| How do they see their future and past? | Positive about the past, thus do not regret about the past | Try hard to forget the past | Hard to forget recent affairs, but able to forget past and memories | Sentimental about the past |
| Seek financial stability for the future | Pessimistic about the future | | More concern about the immediate problems than anything else | |
| How do they express their emotions? | Usually stable and calm | Able to display cool outlook even though angry | Expressive | Sentimental |
| Sensitive towards sincerity | Short-tempered | Cool and objective | Usually cool and steady, but can get upset with an immediate, unsolved problem | |
| Give frank, direct opinions | Take longer to heal a broken heart | Although joke a lot, could actually be very shy | Can get moody easily | |
| | Sensitive to others' opinions | Change moods like the weather | | |
| | | Cannot stop complaining when they are upset | | |
| How do they work? | Ability to concentrate vary from time to time, depending on aim | Perfectionist | Creative and possess new ideas | Able to handle a wide scope of jobs |
| Mostly prefer to lead | Handle one thing at a time | Cannot differentiate between work and hobby | Value hard work | |
| Can overlook details | Work a line between work and personal affairs | Cannot take orders | Quick in understanding | |
| | Highly responsible | Do not hesitate to introduce innovative changes and are not worried about theirs criticisms | Not highly responsible and unable to follow-up on a project until its completion | |
| | Tend to choose hobbies which help them release stress | | Tend to be artistic in approach |
How exactly the credit card system works
Read on the conversation to understand the funda:
Priya: I want to buy a Sony digital camera costing Rs.20,000, but I don't have any cash right now.
Raj: Why don't you use your ICICI Bank credit card? Never heard them say ' Hum Hain Na '?
Priya: I am quite skeptic about using these cards. I pay using the card, get a bill after 30 days and pay after another 20 days. This is a maximum of 50 days interest free loan. Why does any bank do it?
If I borrow Rs.20,000 on personal loan at 11%.Interest to be paid for 50 days = Rs. 20,000 * 11% * (50/365) = Rs. 301.40.
Here the bank is giving me a loan without interest when I use the credit card. Something is wrong somewhere!
Raj: Well let me tell you how it works when you use your card to pay for the camera.
You present your ICICI Bank credit card ' a VISA card.Sony World swipes your card on a machine provided by Citibank. Lets call Citibank, the acquirer bank and the process of Sony World swiping the card on that machine, requesting authorization.Citibank communicates with the card issuer, ICICI Bank through VISA Network to check if the card is valid and has the required credit limit.ICICI Bank reviews and approves / declines which is communicated back to Sony World.You sign a receipt called Sales Draft given by Citibank. This is the obligation on your part to pay the money to ICICI Bank. Data on this receipt can be captured electronically and transmitted.
At the end of day or at the end of some period Sony World chooses:
Sony World submits the receipt you signed to Citibank who pays Sony World the money. Sony World pays Citibank a fee called Merchant Discount . Let us say this is 6% of the sale value = 6% * 20,000 = Rs. 1200Citibank sends the receipt electronically to a Visa data center which in turn sends it to ICICI Bank.ICICI Bank transfers the money to a settlement bank which in turn transfers the funds to Citibank.Citibank pays ICICI Bank an Interchange Fee of 4% of the sale value = 4% * 20,000 = Rs. 80020 to 50 days later ICICI Bank gets the money from you, and you don't pay the interest!!
Priya: Interesting! So Sony World pays more than the interest that I should have paid for the loan that I take. I, as a cardholder have the following benefits
1. Convenience of not having to carry cash.2. Credit availability, free of interest.
However what benefits does Sony World get for paying so much money? Isn't it more profitable for them to take cash? They can save as much as Rs.1200.
Raj: Certainly. Some retail outlets offer you discounts if you pay by cash, don't they?
However when you don't count the money that you are spending, you tend to buy more! Cards encourage this, called impulse purchase .
If you did not have access to credit, you would not have bought the camera this month, or may be not any time soon either. By accepting cards, the merchant is actually extending you credit at the risk of the card issuer. He pays money to the banks to carry that risk.
Priya: So ICICI Bank uses this money to pay back to us when they announce 5% cash back. They insist that the Sales draft that I sign at the retailer should also be from ICICI Bank. This means they are saving on the Interchange Fee and also pay me a part of the Merchant Discount that they get.
Raj: Exactly! If you have noticed, ICICI Bank gives you the cash back in the next credit card statement. They keep the 'cash back' money for a maximum of 60 days before passing on a part to you. This accrues them interest too.
Say if ICICI Bank earns an interest of 6% per annum for the cash they carry they get Rs.1000 * 6% * (60/365) = Rs. 10
That is not huge, but money nevertheless. And when you consider that almost everyone in this city shops with a credit card these days, it is a big sum.
Priya: And that also explains why banks tie up with petrol pumps like ICICI Bank has tied up with HPCL and I could re-fuel there without having to pay the fuel surcharge of 2.5%. The card issuer and the acquiring bank is the same and that saves interchange fees.
Raj: Good! You seem to have figured out how it all works! Let me summarize:
Priya: I want to buy a Sony digital camera costing Rs.20,000, but I don't have any cash right now.
Raj: Why don't you use your ICICI Bank credit card? Never heard them say ' Hum Hain Na '?
Priya: I am quite skeptic about using these cards. I pay using the card, get a bill after 30 days and pay after another 20 days. This is a maximum of 50 days interest free loan. Why does any bank do it?
If I borrow Rs.20,000 on personal loan at 11%.Interest to be paid for 50 days = Rs. 20,000 * 11% * (50/365) = Rs. 301.40.
Here the bank is giving me a loan without interest when I use the credit card. Something is wrong somewhere!
Raj: Well let me tell you how it works when you use your card to pay for the camera.
You present your ICICI Bank credit card ' a VISA card.Sony World swipes your card on a machine provided by Citibank. Lets call Citibank, the acquirer bank and the process of Sony World swiping the card on that machine, requesting authorization.Citibank communicates with the card issuer, ICICI Bank through VISA Network to check if the card is valid and has the required credit limit.ICICI Bank reviews and approves / declines which is communicated back to Sony World.You sign a receipt called Sales Draft given by Citibank. This is the obligation on your part to pay the money to ICICI Bank. Data on this receipt can be captured electronically and transmitted.
At the end of day or at the end of some period Sony World chooses:
Sony World submits the receipt you signed to Citibank who pays Sony World the money. Sony World pays Citibank a fee called Merchant Discount . Let us say this is 6% of the sale value = 6% * 20,000 = Rs. 1200Citibank sends the receipt electronically to a Visa data center which in turn sends it to ICICI Bank.ICICI Bank transfers the money to a settlement bank which in turn transfers the funds to Citibank.Citibank pays ICICI Bank an Interchange Fee of 4% of the sale value = 4% * 20,000 = Rs. 80020 to 50 days later ICICI Bank gets the money from you, and you don't pay the interest!!
Priya: Interesting! So Sony World pays more than the interest that I should have paid for the loan that I take. I, as a cardholder have the following benefits
1. Convenience of not having to carry cash.2. Credit availability, free of interest.
However what benefits does Sony World get for paying so much money? Isn't it more profitable for them to take cash? They can save as much as Rs.1200.
Raj: Certainly. Some retail outlets offer you discounts if you pay by cash, don't they?
However when you don't count the money that you are spending, you tend to buy more! Cards encourage this, called impulse purchase .
If you did not have access to credit, you would not have bought the camera this month, or may be not any time soon either. By accepting cards, the merchant is actually extending you credit at the risk of the card issuer. He pays money to the banks to carry that risk.
Priya: So ICICI Bank uses this money to pay back to us when they announce 5% cash back. They insist that the Sales draft that I sign at the retailer should also be from ICICI Bank. This means they are saving on the Interchange Fee and also pay me a part of the Merchant Discount that they get.
Raj: Exactly! If you have noticed, ICICI Bank gives you the cash back in the next credit card statement. They keep the 'cash back' money for a maximum of 60 days before passing on a part to you. This accrues them interest too.
Say if ICICI Bank earns an interest of 6% per annum for the cash they carry they get Rs.1000 * 6% * (60/365) = Rs. 10
That is not huge, but money nevertheless. And when you consider that almost everyone in this city shops with a credit card these days, it is a big sum.
Priya: And that also explains why banks tie up with petrol pumps like ICICI Bank has tied up with HPCL and I could re-fuel there without having to pay the fuel surcharge of 2.5%. The card issuer and the acquiring bank is the same and that saves interchange fees.
Raj: Good! You seem to have figured out how it all works! Let me summarize:
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