The Global Risk Network Report 2010 which was published on Jan 14 has highlighted out key risks in 2010 : -
- China growth slowing to below 6%
- Fiscal Crises
- Assets Price Collapse
- Global Governance Gaps
- Chronic Diseases
You can download full report from World Economic Forum.
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Many of you may send attachment via email in the form of Ms Words, Ms Excel or etc. Have you ever wonder how to make your document content not to be modified by the other party? Or even email your invoice instead of print out and send it via post?
Here I want to show you a very cool and useful tool – PDF Creator. PDF Creator is an open source application by pdfforge.org (Open Source projects by Source Forge) and that can convert almost any of the documents into PDF file. This software is released under the term of GNU General Public License. Hence, it is an absolutely free application for all its users.
Here are some of its cool features:
- Create PDF files from nearly any Windows program that can print using Windows printers.
- Create documents in the following formats: Portable Document Format (PDF), Postscript (PS), Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), PNG, JPEG, BMP, PCX, and TIFF.
- Combine multiple documents into one PDF.
- Security setting such as files encryption and password protection prevent from being modified, opened, printed, etc.
How to do it? Before you can start, you need to download the application here and install it into your computer. After the installation has been done, the PDF Creator will be appeared as one of the printer. Basically, to create PDF files is as simple as you use print function by select “PDF Creator” as your printer.
Below are the steps by steps on how to create PDF file using Ms Words file as an example.

Step 1: Left click on File or Office Button of Microsoft Word program, left click on "Print (menu item)"

Step 2 - Select "PDF Creator" as printer in Print dialog, then click "OK"

Step 3 - Click on "Save"

Step 4 - Select file location and type in filename, then click "Save"

Step 5 - Your PDF file is now ready to use
Other features you may refer to its help page.

Help & User Guide
Now you can start convert all your documents into PDF easily.
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Windows 7 GodMode allow to you handle all kinds of administrative task under one single page of control panel. Simply create a folder name as the following string:-
GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Your new folder icon will immediately turn into a control panel icon like below . Double click on it, it will open the control panel page then you can see a list of function at one glance.


GodMode Screen
You can now access the Windows’ various control settings in just one screen.
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What’s the next thing you should do after you have a website? You have probably spent few months on designing the website with your web designer and structure the content of information about your company and the products you offered. Finally you have set a dateline to have your website goes live. This isn’t the end of story. Most of the companies just stop there and perhaps there are someone visits their website and reading the content they have prepared. Probably they have showed off to some of co-workers or partners on the newly created website.
What is the next step you should do right after your website has gone online? It is time to promote your website and allow someone to be able to find you online and doing business with you.
Here are list of action that you should do:-
- Redesign the company letter head, invoice, DO, PO or other official documents make sure it carries your website URL.
- Reprint all the name card make sure staff email address carries company domain and put website URL there.
- Ensure any ads or sponsor banner must carry your company URL.
- Send out email to announce your website.
- Perform Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
- Sending Newsletter regularly on latest product promotion or useful material for your customers.
- Create Blog. Blogging on your product and services, allow customer to leave comments or feedback.
- Promote brand awareness on Facebook or Twitter or other social media to interact and share information with your customer.
- Advertise on Search Engine. This is often referring to Paid Search advertisement.
If you are about to start your own online store in Malaysia as a new comer, the next step you need to take into consideration would probably thinking on how to accept credit card payment online.
Even most of the banks do provide internet banking facility to enable your customer to make payment online via internet transfer, but you might lost those customer who is more preferred to use credit card especially from foreign countries if you intend to penetrate the overseas market.
Among those Malaysia internet payment gateway providers, iPay88 and NBePay would be most widely used. A separate application is required if you need to selling in multi-currencies. Finally, which payment gateway is the best? Bear in mind, there is no perfect payment gateway, but there is always something best suited your requirements. Furthermore, you may have to get ready 2 or more payment gateways to meet different kinds of customer needs.
I am not writing to sell you any payment gateway here rather than just want to tell you that you may now consider PayPal as one of your selection. PayPal should not be a new word if you are always doing online shopping. It is such a well-known brand and best recommended to SOHO or small business. Unlike others, you do not need to pay neither setup fee for the application nor annual fee in order to kick start using the payment gateway. To know more about PayPal, kindly refer to its website here.
PayPal has recently added two new features for Malaysia PayPal account. Now you can withdraw money directly from your Paypal account to your local bank account. Previously you could only withdraw money to your credit card account which was inconvenience. To know how it works, check out more details here. Take this opportunity to turn more sales now.
For anyone who wish to make money online, blogging can be one of the way. How much do you want to earn for doing blogging online? Do you want to do it full time or part time? That is something you can decide. Before that you need to set your own target figure so that you can measure it over the time. Certainly Rome was not built in one day. It is possible for you to earn $30,000.00 a year for blogging and quitting your current job. Read further this article, an advice from problogger that make your making money journey more clearer.
How often you wish to have more time for family, avoiding traffic jam in the morning and probably do something different to make your life better? How often you wish to think of starting a new business part time, hopefully the business get better and can quit the job and be your own boss?
The first step to stepping out from the cubicle is hard isn’t it? And you probably don’t know how to do it and afraid of failures stop from doing so. This things repeat again and again…
Do you want to run your own show? Are you ready for the challenge that you need to face the client and perform the task yourself without assistant or chasing for payment?
With technology in place you certainly can start your own business better compare with last time. Think about it you have email system which allow you to get in touch with your client with few clicks. Get conversation on with the messenger or Skype for free. You can reach your client easy by working on the web.
By doing this successfully, you do need a proper plan and something trainings. You can do it at your own pace of course. Start with something small and grow gradually.
Stop thinking now and acting on it. Please download this free How to Escape The Cubicle ebook to learn further.