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Month Expenses

gshahlife — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:12:24 +0000

There are many factors to consider before I can give you an estimate on monthly expenses. Some of the factors to think about are:

Do you want to stay in your own room or share a room with someone
Will you be staying in the heart of the city (Boston, Georgia, etc.) or will be staying in suburbs. It will always be expensive to stay in a metro city
Cooking at home or eating out daily

Monthly expenses can be categorized as follows:

Rent
Cable
Internet
Cellphone
Food – grocery, restaurants, cafeteria
Laundry
Car (if you do get one)
Electricity

Here is an estimate of expenses based on renting an apartment in a suburb of Boston city and sharing a room with someone in a 1 bedroom apartment:

Rent: $1100 to $1300 (including heat and hot water)
Cable/Internet: $100
Cellphone: $40
Electricity: $60
Laundry: $20
Food: $200

Interesting use of Personas

gshahlife — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:35:45 +0000

Here are a few sites where they define the user segments (Personas) which helps a user pick a profile:

http://youcovered.com/renters-insurance.html

http://www.istorez.com/

A video editor to replace Windows Movie Maker

gshahlife — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:46:45 +0000

http://videospin.com/default.asp

Free alternatives to paid software

gshahlife — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:20:57 +0000

Here is link to a list of free applications that can be used instead of the proprietary ones:

http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/

Audacity – A free tool for editing music

gshahlife — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:52:08 +0000

1. Download Audacity and install it

2. Download and install the LAME compression library first. Download the lame_enc.dll file here and put it somewhere permanent on your hard drive. (this step is required if you want to export to MP3)

3. From Audacity’s Edit menu, choose Preferences. On the File Formats tab, under “MP3 Export Setup,” hit the Find Library button and browse to the dll you just downloaded, as shown (click to enlarge.)

Video Tutorial for creating local root/site folders in Dreamweaver

gshahlife — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:28:04 +0000

Web Design Resources from Webpage Design for Designers website

gshahlife — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:52:56 +0000

http://www.wpdfd.com/resources/

Design from IBM

gshahlife — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:48:07 +0000

Resources on design concepts and initial experience for designing hardward, software, etc.

https://www-306.ibm.com/software/ucd/design.html

Design Principles from IBM

gshahlife — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:36:24 +0000

https://www-306.ibm.com/software/ucd/designconcepts/designbasics.html

Typography for the Web

gshahlife — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:09:33 +0000

http://webtypography.net/toc/