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I’ve been asked hundreds of times to quote for a web site project. Nothing strange about it, right? The thing is, the web site project consists of only one page!

So have I ever taken any of these one page web site projects? Not even once. So what do I normally do then? Well, I just informed the person that he can actually create a simple web page himself with software that might already be available on his computer.

Almost all of them are shocked to find out that they can actually create web pages using software that is normally already installed on a typical computer. They thought that creating web pages must be done by professional web developers or by using expensive web development software!

Well, if you’re among this group of people I’m going to tell you how you can create simple web pages using commonly available software.

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After obtaining my first ever DSLR camera, I developed an interest in taking really close-up pictures of things like flowers, insects and small inaimate objects. In the photography circle, this technique is called macro photography.

I’m not going to talk about the technical details and my skills (or rather, the lack of it) in macro photography. I’d just like to share how taking photos of small objects changed my perspective of objects around me.

The most obvious change that I noticed is that I’m spending more time looking at small objects that I previously wouldn’t look at for more than three seconds. I tend to imagine framing the object and composing it on a virtual picture in my mind.

Small and seemingly insignificant things do in fact have an aspect of beauty to it. You just have to focus on it a little bit more. What’s 20 to 30 seconds compared to the new insight gained on the object?

This observation is not only limited to photography, but can be implemented in life as well. For so long the phrase “look at the big picture” has been hammered into our mind that we often overlook the details… sometimes expensively.

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I’ve always preferred a minimalist approach to life. If a program can be written in 500 lines, then it should. Does this make me a stingy person? No, it doesn’t. I see myself as a pragmatic person. Bring me in to solve a problem… one specific problem. Everything else is either unrelated or should be tackled differently.

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Keeping oneself motivated throughout a working day can be quite a challenge. There are deadlines approaching, meetings to attend and resources to manage. So what would be the best way to handle a tough working day?

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The Internet is undeniably the biggest resource of information in our times. Traditionally, web pages and emails are the main mediums of information transfer on the Internet. However, as we develop technologies that make information transfer more robust we begin to see more information transfer mediums being used.

Two of the most popular methods of information transfer on the Internet are electronic books (often referred to as ebooks) and audiobooks (an online spin of traditional cassette and CD audiobooks). In this article, I will describe the advantages of both ebooks and audiobooks.

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