Oct 31, 2015
PC Tech & Authority Issue 205 Dec 2014
Online to-do lists advantages:
1. Being searchable. - keywords, people's names
2. Gives you structure. Allow you to set priorities and deadlines to tasks. What's important and what m b done immediately, done next month, no fixed dealine, isn't important and m b crossed off
3. All have iOS and Android apps. Todoist has Windows 8 app
4. Tie in with google or facebook, no need to remember another password.
TOP 5 ONLINE TO-DO LISTS
1. TODOIST ease of use and advanced features. Press Q to add new task. many keyboard shortcuts. US$31/year for Premium feature if you click too many buttons reasonable. Windows 8 app for offline usage.
2. TOODLEDO choice as it has big support community. Author of article uses this app.
3. REMEMBER THE MILK dated interface large user base
4. ANY.DO. Simple to use
5. WUNDERLIST simple task manager that looks great too. Need to drag task to folders not drop down menus.
HOW TO BECOME ORGANISED
1. Set up an account
2. Capture all nagging tasks you have to do on pieces of paper. Go thru email, daybook, diary, voicemail, projects and associate tasks. At least one hour to do this.
3. Group together PROJECTS from pieces of paper.
4. Type in those tasks.
5. Don't put in false deadlines if there is none. Toodldo is good as it leaves this to the author.
In this way, you have A STRUCTURE OR ORDER OF projects you're are working on, no. of tasks associated with each one, good ideas of deadlines approaching
EMAIL is communication, NOT a to-do list.
Avoid reading email twice or more. Paralle to this task, clear your inbox. Create a folder "zArchive" and move all your existing inbox and subfolders there. "zArchive" forces folder to sit at bottom of your list.
Now create 4 folders; ACTION, WAITING, PERSONAL, WORK
Also ORGANISATIONS YOU WORK WITH.
1. If you can respond to an email in 2 minutes, do so.
2. Delete emails unless it contains valuable reference info
3. If it requires more time than 2 minutes, move it to ACTION folder for reference or turn it into an action on your online to-do list.
4. The key is to avoid looking at emails twice unless necessary.
BACK TO PAPER IF YOU LIKE
Now you have a clear inbox, a list of projects you are working on, an idea of the most important tasks to complete, you must set up all your devices (mobile, tablets etc) to synchronise, so that you can add tasks - mark them as completed - wherever you are.
Author creates a DAILY lists each morning from the "master" list on Toodledo, based on most urgent tasks he has been avoiding. Cross out the tasks done at the end of the day.
There will be good and bad days or weeks. You can always reset the process and start fresh.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Thursday, October 22, 2015
How to make your foturne from Youtube
pcandtechauthority.com.au Mar 2015
book on how to turn your idea into a storming success on youtube
http://tinyurl.com/nb4sjsl
Below explains how YouTube channels make their money
1. Monetisation thru AdSense programme
2. Temptation tominimise the ad formats for new channels but YouTube has algorithms to reduce ads if viewers click them off.
Different formats
1. Standard In-stream - non-skippable format. must watch advert in full before video will play. 70% play all way through. You are likely to make more money.
2. Trueview In-stream. Skippable after 5 seconds.
20-50% of viewers watch the whole ad. Your channel is paid if someone watches whole ad o 30 seconds of a longer ad.
3. Invideo Overlay
At bottom of video. Can be closed. Earn money on a cost-per-clic basis. Least valuable of all ad formats. Advertisers interested in people visiting their site will pay good money for per-click basis for some topics.
4. Display Units
show on the YouTube holding page not on video itself. Standard clickable banner ads.
Poor response from users. Little revenue.
5. Trueview In-display
companies make their own videos on YouTube. these link to other video content on YouTube.Generate good revenue.
6. Product placement
Good evenue for established channels. Prominent placement for a product in your video. Company that wants to place their product inyourchnnel. E.g. Jenna Marbles (13 million subscribers.Bella Beachwear swim wear in the video.
7. Tracking your earnings
YouTube Analytics. ---> Estimated Earnings report for content, channel and each individual video
8.Channel performance
3 blocks. Total estimated earnings; ad earnings and transaction earnings. Only first 2 will be applicable unless you supply rental content.
8. Estimated Earnings
Graph. daily, weekly, monthly
9. Big Earners
Top 10 best performing videos on your channel. Individual video or use search box to find more. Whole playlist performance. "Estimated monetised playbacks" tab is onlyestimated earnings. Goto downloadable earnings reports in the Reports Tab of YT Analytics e.g the Performance Reports section - previous month earnings.
10. Analytics
Full set of analytics, need to download the report. Performance of everything on your channel, individual kinds of ad available to you. Filter your earnings toknow whether your revenue comes from YT viewers or embedded content elsewhere o the web.
The reports are a goldmine of info for larger channels. For you, estimated earnings best place to go.
FOUR WAYS TO KEEP YOUR AUDIENCE WATCHING
1. Use playlists
Imagine you curate a set of videos. When you put one video in the playlist, imagine yourself as a viewer. What would you be interested in the next video?
2. Keep viewers in suspense
Not only compelling content but give verbal prompts e.g. "later in the programme, we tell you how?" "Find out what happens after the break"
3. Programme your content
Create a regular schedule. Let people know in advance certain things at certain times.Build expectations. Think of your contents as episodes rather than one-offs. "The box-set effect" where viewers watch one video to the next.
4. Link with annotations
Added after uploaded he video. Used to link to any poiint in the vieo, back to your website or - most importanly - to anyother video or playlist on YT.
book on how to turn your idea into a storming success on youtube
http://tinyurl.com/nb4sjsl
Below explains how YouTube channels make their money
1. Monetisation thru AdSense programme
2. Temptation tominimise the ad formats for new channels but YouTube has algorithms to reduce ads if viewers click them off.
Different formats
1. Standard In-stream - non-skippable format. must watch advert in full before video will play. 70% play all way through. You are likely to make more money.
2. Trueview In-stream. Skippable after 5 seconds.
20-50% of viewers watch the whole ad. Your channel is paid if someone watches whole ad o 30 seconds of a longer ad.
3. Invideo Overlay
At bottom of video. Can be closed. Earn money on a cost-per-clic basis. Least valuable of all ad formats. Advertisers interested in people visiting their site will pay good money for per-click basis for some topics.
4. Display Units
show on the YouTube holding page not on video itself. Standard clickable banner ads.
Poor response from users. Little revenue.
5. Trueview In-display
companies make their own videos on YouTube. these link to other video content on YouTube.Generate good revenue.
6. Product placement
Good evenue for established channels. Prominent placement for a product in your video. Company that wants to place their product inyourchnnel. E.g. Jenna Marbles (13 million subscribers.Bella Beachwear swim wear in the video.
7. Tracking your earnings
YouTube Analytics. ---> Estimated Earnings report for content, channel and each individual video
8.Channel performance
3 blocks. Total estimated earnings; ad earnings and transaction earnings. Only first 2 will be applicable unless you supply rental content.
8. Estimated Earnings
Graph. daily, weekly, monthly
9. Big Earners
Top 10 best performing videos on your channel. Individual video or use search box to find more. Whole playlist performance. "Estimated monetised playbacks" tab is onlyestimated earnings. Goto downloadable earnings reports in the Reports Tab of YT Analytics e.g the Performance Reports section - previous month earnings.
10. Analytics
Full set of analytics, need to download the report. Performance of everything on your channel, individual kinds of ad available to you. Filter your earnings toknow whether your revenue comes from YT viewers or embedded content elsewhere o the web.
The reports are a goldmine of info for larger channels. For you, estimated earnings best place to go.
FOUR WAYS TO KEEP YOUR AUDIENCE WATCHING
1. Use playlists
Imagine you curate a set of videos. When you put one video in the playlist, imagine yourself as a viewer. What would you be interested in the next video?
2. Keep viewers in suspense
Not only compelling content but give verbal prompts e.g. "later in the programme, we tell you how?" "Find out what happens after the break"
3. Programme your content
Create a regular schedule. Let people know in advance certain things at certain times.Build expectations. Think of your contents as episodes rather than one-offs. "The box-set effect" where viewers watch one video to the next.
4. Link with annotations
Added after uploaded he video. Used to link to any poiint in the vieo, back to your website or - most importanly - to anyother video or playlist on YT.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
How to write crime fiction - Sue Grafton
Sep 21, 2015
Tips from Sue Grafton
1. She keeps a journal which has all the ideas and rantings for the book.
2. After a 5-mile walk and breakfast, shower, email, facebook. Keeps a journal for each novel - about writing of the book to herself. e.g. in W, 660 double spread pages for the book. 1268 single-spaced page journal.
Every sentence is edited before the end of the chapter so that she does not need to do it. She writes every sentence over and over till it is right. If tone or pace is off, goes back to do again. No rough draft as she has fixed it in early chapter. Very slow process. Takes a year to write a novel. Incapable of doing rough draft or work in team. Write everyday. Gives meaning to her life. Now 75 years at X.
Folly to assign meaning to every chance event or synchronicity - odd things happen. Use it as a launching pad ie. lead with it.
e.g. in W, dead unscrupulous private investigate and dead homeless man.
3. Mystery noval (Crime fiction) is 3 categories
amateur sleuth, the police procedure, the private eye (Raymond Chandler, Dashell Hammett, Marsha McDonnell).
4. Essentials in writing a mystery novel
How to structure a story
How to write a dialogue
How to get into and out of a scene
How to do action.
Use enough details to bring a scene to life.
Reader v writer contest. Reader figures out what happens. Write - magic. Why do we kill each other. What makes people cross the line? No gore.
Focus on writing, not be distracted. volunteer work etc.
Quit worrying about doing I right. Writing is like play..
Shadow is intuition. unconscious. a bad person. Ego is the good person.
Everybody is in confessional mode nowadays.
Keeps an elaborate chart of what she's done andwhere she's been.
5. Do not repeat stories in a series.
6. Function dictates form.
7. Multiple points of views must be balanced with POV of protagonist.
8. Create suspense. Readers more interested in who will win or get away with the crime, not who does it.
9. Too many characters will not work. e.g. 14 characters in a TV series.
10. Too many storylines will not work. Use one.
e.g. elderly abuse.
11. Connect two storylines e.g. elderly abuse and child abuse (paedophiles). Same phenomenon as both are predators.
12. Shadow side and Ego side.
Our impulse dictates life for the layman.
13. Better to do page count. 2pages a day. Page count in 20 minutes is good.
Tips from Sue Grafton
1. She keeps a journal which has all the ideas and rantings for the book.
2. After a 5-mile walk and breakfast, shower, email, facebook. Keeps a journal for each novel - about writing of the book to herself. e.g. in W, 660 double spread pages for the book. 1268 single-spaced page journal.
Every sentence is edited before the end of the chapter so that she does not need to do it. She writes every sentence over and over till it is right. If tone or pace is off, goes back to do again. No rough draft as she has fixed it in early chapter. Very slow process. Takes a year to write a novel. Incapable of doing rough draft or work in team. Write everyday. Gives meaning to her life. Now 75 years at X.
Folly to assign meaning to every chance event or synchronicity - odd things happen. Use it as a launching pad ie. lead with it.
e.g. in W, dead unscrupulous private investigate and dead homeless man.
3. Mystery noval (Crime fiction) is 3 categories
amateur sleuth, the police procedure, the private eye (Raymond Chandler, Dashell Hammett, Marsha McDonnell).
4. Essentials in writing a mystery novel
How to structure a story
How to write a dialogue
How to get into and out of a scene
How to do action.
Use enough details to bring a scene to life.
Reader v writer contest. Reader figures out what happens. Write - magic. Why do we kill each other. What makes people cross the line? No gore.
Focus on writing, not be distracted. volunteer work etc.
Quit worrying about doing I right. Writing is like play..
Shadow is intuition. unconscious. a bad person. Ego is the good person.
Everybody is in confessional mode nowadays.
Keeps an elaborate chart of what she's done andwhere she's been.
5. Do not repeat stories in a series.
6. Function dictates form.
7. Multiple points of views must be balanced with POV of protagonist.
8. Create suspense. Readers more interested in who will win or get away with the crime, not who does it.
9. Too many characters will not work. e.g. 14 characters in a TV series.
10. Too many storylines will not work. Use one.
e.g. elderly abuse.
11. Connect two storylines e.g. elderly abuse and child abuse (paedophiles). Same phenomenon as both are predators.
12. Shadow side and Ego side.
Our impulse dictates life for the layman.
13. Better to do page count. 2pages a day. Page count in 20 minutes is good.
Friday, September 18, 2015
How to build an effective author website
Sep 18, 2015
Writer's Digest Feb 2015
long-term investment
LAYING THE GROUNDWORK
1. Buy a domain name.
2. Selecting a Host. Free hosting, fee-based hosting (self-hosting), managed or premium hosting.
2.1 Free hosting. blogger or WorkPress.
Cannot fully customize site, limited functionality for e-commerce or monetization (advert, paywall areas, membership), not getting in-depth analytics about visitors
Recommend WordPress as it allows a seamless transfer to a self-hosted WordPress site if needed.
2.2 Fee-based hosting (self-hosting).
best for established authors to monetize the site.
advantages - fully customize site design - fonts etc important for long-term author branding.
- website traffic and what marketing efforts are working
- freedom to add functions to earn money from your site (advert, ecommerce, membership, paywall areas.
-effective integration of email newsletter sign-up tools.
eg. hosting providers, Bluehost, HostGator, DreamHost - one-click installation of WordPress and 24/7 support $4-$7/month.
Free 10-min tutorial how to set up a self-hosted WordPress site, http://bit.ly/WDselfhost.
responsible for your own site security, back up your site, site goes down.
2.3 Managed or premium hosting. up to $30/month for site security, regular backups, superior support. One most popular solution for WordPress sites is WP Engine. |Hier someone to help yo properly set up your site.
web designers or a web programmer. $500-1000 for a basic setup and A$3000 or more
BUILDING THE SITE
Should visitors buy your latest book? sign up for your email newsletter, follow you on facebook?
1. Choosing a WordPress Theme. WordPress is a free, open-source content management systems powers more than 20% of the world's website. Blogging as well as full-fledged website e.g. new York Times has customized version. Hire a designer. think long term. Most themes are free, can buy a premium theme with better support and forums, updates and customization options.
2. 7 essential website elements
2.1 Author name or brand e.g. CJ Lyons "Thrillers with Heart"
2.2 email newsletter signup e.g MailChimp automate the process for you
2.3 About or bio page - professional author photo
2.4 Information about your books articles or products and links
2.5 social media icons or badges
2.6 Social proof - positive testimonials, media coverage, good review, significant following e.g. Twitter.
2.7 straightforward menu or navigation. <5-7 menu items.
3. Maximizing your site
3.1 If actively blogging, have calls to action since many visitors will not go to your home page
3.2 not active change default setting of most word press themes as blog posts front and centre on your home page. Settings to designate a different home (front) page. Or no blog page (SELECT to nullify it on Reading Settings.
3.3 install site analytics tool. Google anaylytics.
3.4 20-30% of site traffic from mobile or tablet devices. Double check though Wordpress is mobile friendly.
Free and easy ways to get a website up
About.me free splash-page service
e.g about.me/janefriedman (author of this webpage)
RebelMouse.com
contently.com/journalists
Writer's Digest Feb 2015
long-term investment
LAYING THE GROUNDWORK
1. Buy a domain name.
2. Selecting a Host. Free hosting, fee-based hosting (self-hosting), managed or premium hosting.
2.1 Free hosting. blogger or WorkPress.
Cannot fully customize site, limited functionality for e-commerce or monetization (advert, paywall areas, membership), not getting in-depth analytics about visitors
Recommend WordPress as it allows a seamless transfer to a self-hosted WordPress site if needed.
2.2 Fee-based hosting (self-hosting).
best for established authors to monetize the site.
advantages - fully customize site design - fonts etc important for long-term author branding.
- website traffic and what marketing efforts are working
- freedom to add functions to earn money from your site (advert, ecommerce, membership, paywall areas.
-effective integration of email newsletter sign-up tools.
eg. hosting providers, Bluehost, HostGator, DreamHost - one-click installation of WordPress and 24/7 support $4-$7/month.
Free 10-min tutorial how to set up a self-hosted WordPress site, http://bit.ly/WDselfhost.
responsible for your own site security, back up your site, site goes down.
2.3 Managed or premium hosting. up to $30/month for site security, regular backups, superior support. One most popular solution for WordPress sites is WP Engine. |Hier someone to help yo properly set up your site.
web designers or a web programmer. $500-1000 for a basic setup and A$3000 or more
BUILDING THE SITE
Should visitors buy your latest book? sign up for your email newsletter, follow you on facebook?
1. Choosing a WordPress Theme. WordPress is a free, open-source content management systems powers more than 20% of the world's website. Blogging as well as full-fledged website e.g. new York Times has customized version. Hire a designer. think long term. Most themes are free, can buy a premium theme with better support and forums, updates and customization options.
2. 7 essential website elements
2.1 Author name or brand e.g. CJ Lyons "Thrillers with Heart"
2.2 email newsletter signup e.g MailChimp automate the process for you
2.3 About or bio page - professional author photo
2.4 Information about your books articles or products and links
2.5 social media icons or badges
2.6 Social proof - positive testimonials, media coverage, good review, significant following e.g. Twitter.
2.7 straightforward menu or navigation. <5-7 menu items.
3. Maximizing your site
3.1 If actively blogging, have calls to action since many visitors will not go to your home page
3.2 not active change default setting of most word press themes as blog posts front and centre on your home page. Settings to designate a different home (front) page. Or no blog page (SELECT to nullify it on Reading Settings.
3.3 install site analytics tool. Google anaylytics.
3.4 20-30% of site traffic from mobile or tablet devices. Double check though Wordpress is mobile friendly.
Free and easy ways to get a website up
About.me free splash-page service
e.g about.me/janefriedman (author of this webpage)
RebelMouse.com
contently.com/journalists
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
19. How to cheaper ways to do business - online freelancers
Elance-o-Desk runs 2 leading websites for online freelancers - 37,000 freelancers from Singapore in 2014. About 30,000 Singapore business register with it. Bosses spent $200-$300 to hire one for 2 weeks from Indian, Indonesia, Europe and US.
Post job descriptions clearly. Look from their profiles such as portfolios, reviews from previous clients and their asking price.
Post job descriptions clearly. Look from their profiles such as portfolios, reviews from previous clients and their asking price.
Monday, July 13, 2015
How to extract videos from youtube
Dear Dr Sing,
to extract videos from youtube,
1. all we need to do is visit the website: http://www.
2. Under " media url to download" insert the url of the youtube video you want to extract
3. and press continue and convert.
The
website is very user-friendly and actually shows the steps you need to
take, it should be easy for the interns to use. Hope this helps.
Yours sincerely,
Gin
Monday, May 18, 2015
17. How to take care of your old dog's eye
A 13-year-old Silkie has sticky right eye discharge everyday for several months.
"Dr E prescribed eye drops and eye ointment and they were effective for some time," the wife took out the bottles from the plastic bag and put on my consultation table. "After a while, they don't work and I went to the pet shop to buy the eye drops. I don't want the same eye medication from you."
17. How to take care of your old dog's eye (Video)
Surprisingly, the left eye cornea was as clear as a crystal but the right eye cornea was scarred with brown dots of pigments covering 80% of the surface. The eye white was reddish as compared to the normal white of the left eye.
"Has the dog been rubbing his right eye with his right hind leg daily?" I asked.
"Yes, yes," the husband said.
I applied fluorescein eye drops onto the cornea (video) and there was no ulcerations as there was no green stain.
"The brown pigments on the right eye cornea are caused by long-time scratching and now is scarred," I said. "There is no chance of reverting to the clear cornea. Now, we need to prevent the 20% of the cornea from becoming covered up with brown pigmentation."
"The possible causes could be the right ear pain as the dog wanted to snap at me when I palpated the ear. Another cause could be tooth ache as the roots of the back upper teeth are exposed and the teeth are cemened with thick tartar," I explained to the owners.
Sedation 5 kg, 13-year-old Silkie: Domitor + Ketamine 0.05 + 0.05 ml IV
Ear irrigation
Eye irrigation with 3rd eyelid everted to flush out debri
Optomimmune and eye drops. E-collar.
Inj. antibiotic and anti-inflam.
E-collar for 2 months.
To review in 3 weeks and dental scaling.
CONCLUSION
Allergy to commercial ear drops, vigorous overcleaning of the right ear and periodontal diseases can cause ear scratching with collateral damage to the right eye in this case. Early dental scaling would have been preferred.
"Dr E prescribed eye drops and eye ointment and they were effective for some time," the wife took out the bottles from the plastic bag and put on my consultation table. "After a while, they don't work and I went to the pet shop to buy the eye drops. I don't want the same eye medication from you."
17. How to take care of your old dog's eye (Video)
Surprisingly, the left eye cornea was as clear as a crystal but the right eye cornea was scarred with brown dots of pigments covering 80% of the surface. The eye white was reddish as compared to the normal white of the left eye.
"Has the dog been rubbing his right eye with his right hind leg daily?" I asked.
"Yes, yes," the husband said.
I applied fluorescein eye drops onto the cornea (video) and there was no ulcerations as there was no green stain.
"The brown pigments on the right eye cornea are caused by long-time scratching and now is scarred," I said. "There is no chance of reverting to the clear cornea. Now, we need to prevent the 20% of the cornea from becoming covered up with brown pigmentation."
"The possible causes could be the right ear pain as the dog wanted to snap at me when I palpated the ear. Another cause could be tooth ache as the roots of the back upper teeth are exposed and the teeth are cemened with thick tartar," I explained to the owners.
Sedation 5 kg, 13-year-old Silkie: Domitor + Ketamine 0.05 + 0.05 ml IV
Ear irrigation
Eye irrigation with 3rd eyelid everted to flush out debri
Optomimmune and eye drops. E-collar.
Inj. antibiotic and anti-inflam.
E-collar for 2 months.
To review in 3 weeks and dental scaling.
CONCLUSION
Allergy to commercial ear drops, vigorous overcleaning of the right ear and periodontal diseases can cause ear scratching with collateral damage to the right eye in this case. Early dental scaling would have been preferred.
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