Archive for January 1st, 2012
Adding Pages To USA Passport Quickly How To Get Your Passport Back Quickly
Sunday, January 1st, 2012If you travel a lot, it is likely that your passport pages are always full of stamps from various countries you have visited in the past. So, adding pages to passport quickly is not that difficult when you suddenly run out of them. You do not want to travel and then realize you have no more pages left for the visa stamp. Do not wait for the last minute. Be sure you get your extra pages before you need them.
Extra Pages
Getting an extra page or two can be done without spending money. In case you need the page right away due to a need to travel soon, you should look for a service that can process this faster. If you do not need the additional sheets right now, you can do this for free by applying for the extra page yourself.
Proper Forms
You can apply for an extra page or two if you have less than five blank sheets in your document. Having more than 4 empty pages will not qualify you to have more. Open your document and count the empty sheets carefully so you do not have to go through the trouble of applying for an extra page or two only to be rejected by your passport center. If you have less than 5 pages, get a DS4085 form.
Application
A DS4085 application form will get you the extra page for your travel documents visa stamps. You can print the form from the agency’s website or fill it up online and submit it through the net. When you are printing it, fill up the form with all the data required including urgent contact persons and their phone numbers.
Fee
After you provide all pertinent information on the form, place it in an envelope together with your document and application fee. You can get the fee amount on the website. Address your envelop to the proper agency in your region or the national passport processing agency. If you filled up and sent the application through the website, you can just mail your document by itself.
Check Travel Documents
Typically, this service is free of charge but may take 2 to 3 weeks to process. You may be able to find a private service that can facilitate this faster if you are in a rush but it will cost you extra to do it this way. Make sure that you check your passports every now and then to know if you are down to 4 pages. You can, however, get a same day U S passport.
Certified Mail
You should also check the passports of your family members. If your employees travel a lot on business for your company, you can remind your people to check their passports, too. When mailing out your document or that of your family members or employees, do so with a safe method. Use certified mail to send out your document just to make sure it will not get lost.
HTML5 Cheat Sheets
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
With new additions or changes to HTML5 happening quite frequently, it can become hard to remember all the new various features. These nice up-to-date cheat sheets, created for WDL by InMotion Hosting, can help web designers and developers keep track of it all.
The cheat sheets are broken up into three graphics:
- Tags
- Event Handler Content Attributes
- Browser Support
Each differentiates between the new, existing, and unsupported features of HTML5. The clean visual grid is easy to run through, lending itself to be a very practical tool for a busy designer/developer. The most useful aspect of it all – it is print-ready for you to pin up on your wall for quick and easy referencing.
HTML5 Tags Cheat Sheet
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HTML5 Event Handler Content Attribute Cheat Sheet
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HTML5 Browser Support Cheat Sheet
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7 New Year’s Resolutions To Help Improve Your Personal And Work Life
Sunday, January 1st, 2012So are you ready for doing awesome things (remember, this year can be the last one)? And which things do you want to do? When are you doing them? How will you know by the end of 2012 that you’ve done all that you wanted to?
There is a simple tool to help you keeping tracks of you accomplishments: write down your new year’s resolutions.
I see a lot of people talking about nerdy things, like “learn a new programming language” or “write more about what you know” but the truth is if you aren’t satisfied with your personal life you won’t get better results at work. You need to improve yourself in both sides so you’ll be a better you.
Well, what we’ll see here is a kind of “new year’s resolutions template,” with a lot of ideas that you can steal and we’ll see how to keep track of them.
Don’t forget to check 20 New Year’s Resolution Ideas to Become Better at Your Career!
My Resolutions
Credits: adesigna
What I do is to write down in a paper my big targets. I try to keep them more specific that I can, so instead of writing “Read more” I should go with “Read at least one book per week”, which is based on what I’ve been doing before and what I want to do now. Le’s go to the funny part, the examples.
1. Read one funny book per month, at least
Credits: cindiann
Please change one to what better fits in your reading taste but remember life is not just about boring coding books, you have to get some fun sometimes.
2. Write 100 lines of code, every day, including holidays
Credits: Chapendra
Yeah, this post is not just about work. And so is this resolution.
It’s about discipline and self commitment, which is much more related to self-improvement than to work. The lines of code are just an auxiliary, you can change it to anything you want to do and be really good about.
3. Call parents and friends once a week
Credits: Neal.
You should be close to people that makes you feel good to be alive. Be it your parents, girlfriend (or boyfriend), friends, relatives. For me life is about what difference you make to other people, what is your piece of change in the world. Believe me, this will make you much happier.
4. Read ONLY 5 posts per day
Credits: zendamnabil
Ok, this one is pretty tricky. I know your job is to be updated, so is mine. But you have to deal carefully with information overload. Again the best way for doing so is discipline.
So what you have to do is chose a maximum about of posts to read, websites to visit, time to lose. And in the end you have to get your own ideas, it’s just impossible to hear every single opinion about a topic, just pick the best ones and move on.
5. Play with my pet every day
Credits: flynutaa
I have a turtle, so this is not that hard for me 
Well, spending time with pets will help you to clear your mind and is a good exercise of giving your time to other people. And in the meantime you may lose a few pounds.
6. Play guitar (or just give it a try)
Credits: boston_camera
Listening songs is great for my productivity. But learning how to play guitar is much awesome. I mean, I just know the basics, but if I play it like 15 minutes it gives me a boost to work better and better for hours.
7. Check: Am I happy with what I’m doing?
Credits: Sigalokos
Credits for Steve Jobs by this one. Have you ever felt like “damn, it’s late and I have to sleep, but I wish I could work on this 24×7″ ? If no, my friend, you don’t know what is satisfaction.
If you do things that you don’t want to by a long period of time, it drains your energy, it drains your life. It just doesn’t worth it spending you time on what you don’t want to do.
Keeping track of them
After choosing what you want to do of your life next year, it’ll be good to know how you’re doing this during the year. So after writing down what I’m doing is to go to a to-do-list software (like wunderlist) and set up there my goals.
I’m used to track them down weekly so it’s way easier to change things since if you don’t beat a goal in one week you still have 51 weeks to change this, but you have only 11 another months to correct things.
So break them down to weekly goals and every Sunday read them, check how’s things going and change what you want, you don’t have to wait until next year to do so
After all I just can wish you a happy new year!
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