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How to print long excel sheets?

pbu — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:31:36 +0000

Quite often on many number of occasions you wanted to print lengthy excel sheets columnwise and with the large amount of data, it might easily take two sheets to print one page.

The secret to print lengthy long sheets is landscape mode and not portrait mode. This many people forget and most just use portrait mode with A4 paper. Even with notepad you can print in landscape mode and not always the case with excel. You can also shrink the % of normal size inorder to accomodate more wide content in the excel sheet.

Many financial data sheets may easily have 50 to 100 columns and with that kind of lengthy data it will easily consume 2 print landscape pages, just to print one month data. Even this doesnt help, you have to use A3 size paper. Be aware that most printers for home use, can only print A4 sheets and cant take A3 size of sheet.

Basics to know when building or buying a House?

pbu — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:14:49 +0000

I have been a complete NOOB when comes to building a home and eventhough i come from a computer background bits and bytes, i absolutely knew nothing about land measurements, lengths and all kind of stuff related to home and land piece, and i have to admit that i struggled a lot to understand very recently.

You can be a person of any background but having a home is so foremost important and surely at one point of time in your life you will need to either build a new home or buy one.

I am sure there are many many people out there who are so naive and dont know anything about math stuff involved. Here is what you need to know and this is your first step to learn about the basics. Just byheart the approx measurements below.

Any home needs a land and usually very frequently the measurement of land or building plan is expressed in cents (or centiaire). So with just 3 cents of land you can build quite a 1000 sq.ft home – should be sufficient for a small family

1 Cent = 435.6 sq.ft (approx 436)

1 ft = 30.48 centimetres (approx 30)

1 metre = 3.28 feet (approx 3.3)

100 Cents = 1 Acre

The first line from cent to sqft is so important and you should never forget the value.

Drawing a House Plan

It is very easy to draw a home plan yourself and you can use the following websites to draw a house floor plan free online. These are the best i have seen and you can simulate the home in 3D mode.

Floor Planner – www.floorplanner.com
Autodesk Homestyler – www.homestyler.com

Enjoy your home!

Automatic system shutdown on CPU overheating?

pbu — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:29:52 +0000

I have been in lot of trouble recently because my PC running intel core2duo processor going wild on overheating and system automatically shuts down. Upon restart i hear a music and the message flashes

Your system got automatically shutdown on overheating – please enter key to contine

This despite my PC has a internal fan plus 1 cabinet fan running. I monitored my cpu temperature with a free temperature monitoring software - speed fan (freeware) and it shows up 85 centigrade, which i believe is hot. Whats even more interesting is when i play games the system hangs up and restarts suddenly. Even gmail loads up slow! Geesh!

It took me hours to figure that a loose fan on CPU causing all these mess. I quickly fixed all the fans and its loose ends and rebooted the system and the PC is working smoothly and now the temperature shows up as 47 centigrades as core temperature.

Wow! this is about 50% savings in overheating.

Doorbell ringing in two places at same time?

pbu — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:52:29 +0000

Well! this may sound odd but i would like to share my experience with a door bell issue.

My home usually has two floors and i stay upstairs and my parents stay downstairs. The annoying problem was, when somebody comes to our house (like pizza man or postman), rings a door bell – the sound can be heard either of the floors.

I was desperately searching for a door bell (with wireless option) which rings on two places on same time but with same switch. So i went to a local shop and bought 2 pcs of wireless door bells from the same manufacturer. It came with 2 bells, some batteries and 2 switches.

I mounted those bells on the wall of both floors and I was shocked to find out, pressing one switch for both bells doesnt work and would only work with the corresponding switches. It observed later each piece works on different frequency! I got really frustrated and above all what a waste of time and money?

So, next time when you are buying a calling bell to mounted on multiple floors be sure it works on same frequency before leaving the local store.

How to create 3D transform of Images in Photoshop

pbu — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:11:19 +0000

I have often wondered how to create 3D images of simple graphic images or photos that i have seen in many blogs and websites. Even examples of source code or screeshots of themes look amazing with 3d transformations.

Creating 3d transformations for your 2d images is nothing but projection at various anges (transformation) is amazingly simple with photoshop.

To use a 3d transform filter, you can use 3d transform tool or other third party plugins like shown below.

3D Transform tool

Just import an image in your photoshop,

Go to Filter > 3d Transform .

If you dont find the option of 3d transform, you can find the filter plugin in your adobe suite dvd in extras. Just place it on /plugins/filter folder inside photoshop.

If you dont like the 3d transform tool difficult to work with, you can use the below 3rd party plugins,

Perspective Transformations

I very much liked this plugin and it is so easy to use. You can download here. It is free to download.

Projection Plugin

3d effects and perspective corner views can be achieved with this plugin. It is free to download as well. You can visit this page

First thing to check when buying a digital camera!

pbu — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:08:49 +0000

First thing to check when buying a digital camera!

Well! it may sound weird! Having owned many digital cams including of kodak and nikon i learnt a valuable lesson.

The Batteries! I am soon off to buying a good digital camera and the first thing i would check is for a battery that comes with lithium ion (like battery used in mobiles) and NOT the AA battery NiMH/Alkaline cells. I really hate those cells type and everytime those cells exhaust and i had to run to purchase new one. Plus it takes full 12hrs+ to charge up which is really frustrating.

i love the lithium ion battery type (you might have seen it in mobiles) that comes with digital cameras. Just place the battery into the holder connected to AC power and within 15 mins or so it gets charged up quicky and i can recharge it numerous times plus long lasting battery power.

I believe those digital cameras with lithium ion battery might be little bit expensive and i would say it would certainly worth it considering the hassle of battery replacement.

So, dont forget to check the battery type whether it is AA battery cells or Li-Ion type. It is so important.

Guitar not for left handers?

pbu — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 03:49:51 +0000

Guitar not for left handers?

I am not a music pro and recently i walked into the music store and purchased an acoustic guitar for $80. I am a left hander and i started learning guitar lessons in youtube and other sites and it all became upside down to play chords since i am using right handed guitar in my left hand. Most music books and teachings were written for right handed guitars in mind and so it is way too difficult to play the notes.

I have seen in many forums, where people talked about this and the only possible way for a lefty to play guitar is

1. Get a left handed guitar (very rarely available and expensive)
2. Reattach the strings upside down.
3. Force yourself to use your right hand.

I tried force myself using right hand and it seemed my brain and hand not working in harmony as if my mind and hand were working separately.

It is very disappointing to know that not so much emphasis were given to lefthanded people in guitar playing.

how to convert large video from avi to DVD?

pbu — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:17:19 +0000

how to convert video from avi to DVD?

i am not a pro when comes to video editing and conversion. I am sharing here some of the easy tips on converting large avi file to dvd format.

My situation:

I had a 3 hour very large home video (about 30GB file size) in avi format from my Sony Handycam in miniDV cassette.

What i wanted

My goals were to transcode/convert the 3hr video from miniDV cassette and compress the video in such a way to get accommodated it on single 4.7GB dvd (not in multiple dvd disks) without compromising the video quality and very importantly playable in most DVD players.

I searched all over the web on how to convert the video in avi format and write to DVD and the answers were hard to find. Very soon i found the answer was just around the corner.

Answer:

The answer is NERO DVD writing software. I had a version 6 that i owned and never knew it would do such a wonderful job. I imported all video clips through i.Link cable (Firewire port) and the total size of the video is about 30GB. The software prompted me to automatically to fit the video to available dvd space and viola! Its done! In my case it took almost 2hrs to write to DVD and the effort was well worth it.

Conclusion:

Once everything is completed, i noticed that by lowering the sampling rate of video, the whole video was compressed and got inside single DVD disk. The whole file size was only 3.2GB and the quality of video was really good when i had a look on having played in a DVD player.

NOTE: You must only use DV/Firewire port along with i.Link cable to get best picture quality. Dont use USB port to import video as it would get more noise and the quality of video would get degraded significantly.

While installing NERO suite you have install Nero Vision express which is very important to do this video task.

Working whole night and sleeping in daytime!

pbu — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:46:34 +0000

Know what is like, sleeping during daytime and working whole night?

Trust me! I have been living like this for the past 5 years and a habit like this can transform a person insanely. I am a living example for this.

I work the whole night, go to bed by 6′o clock in the early morning and get up by 3pm in the afternoon.

I am documenting here what good and bad i have gone through while being ‘nocturnal’ (term used for work at night) myself.

Advantages

1. I usually get ‘hyperactive’ and my work gets really easy for me and i can concentrate at very high levels just because of quite surroundings. I am equal to 10 men working during daytime.

Disadvantages

1. My body cannot take digestion easy and i will be able to eat few times a day and not heavy food items. Infact i eat only at 3pm and 9pm in the night.

2. I always never been fresh and i usually have headaches and my mind often usually in ‘clouded’ state.

3. My speaking ability gets diminished while my writing and reading skills have improved dramatically. I have often got difficulty in speech while communicating with real life people. Often recollecting has become a problem while talking and i cant even say even the closest name i have known.

4. I have read somewhere that if you dont get enough sleep then your body will become weak to fight cold and flu. In my case it is mostly true and i cautiously select food items when i go out to eat just because i am worried about cold, flu with fever.

5. Every day your body will feel aches and will feel restless.

6. I have often noticed that my hearing ability has become ‘highly sensitive’ and i immediately lose my sleep in daytime when subjected to noisy sound sources. i just cannot take any loud sounds which makes me real crazy. My ears can hear even the slightest bit of disturbance during nightime.

7. Although i dont wear any glasses, my eyes cant take too much daytime light while going to bed, so i prefer the sleeping room to be very dark. I hate too much light! So i put a pillow on top of my eyes to simulate the sleep.

Rest is fine with me and i am perfectly healthy at 28yrs of age. I am sure only a few had this kind of experiences while working at night. Nonethless i have documented my experiences working at night.

Honda activa starting trouble?

pbu — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:34:12 +0000

I recently purchased brand new honda activa from a dealer in India and i very much a lover of scotters than bikes just because it gives enough room to accommodate various items i buy from shops and bring back home.

My honda activa is a latest 2009 model and it gets be smooth pickup and ride. The only trouble i have is if i leave the vehicle untouched for a day or so, it wouldnt start. I have to pull up choke, then it would start and not without about 5-10 tries from self-start button. Once the engine starts i would travel a small distance and then close the choke.

why is it my new vehicle is like that? I have used scooty models and never had a starting trouble.

Any help or advice in the form of comments is much appreciated!