Webpick of the Month

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Spiritual

1. How to Actually Talk to An Atheist (if you are a Christian) – by Joe the Peacock. This is the most well expressed article on this topic I’ve seen on the web so far. For those who knows about the Cultural Mandate, it will ring a bell.

Joe points out how Christians should "live the example, and let your actions spread the message. Get people to see the merit in the life you live and adopt your practices," instead of putting people off by pestering people to go to church or threaten them with eternal death.

It just doesn’t work this way.

Career

2. Why Bother Having A Resume – by Seth Godin (authority in Marketing)

(I actually wrote a impassioned blog entry earlier this morning. Those on my RSS should have captured it in your blog reader.)

His point? Great people shouldn’t have a resume:

"Great jobs, world class jobs, jobs people kill for… those jobs don’t get filled by people emailing in resumes. Ever."

Money

3. How To Make Money From 0% Bank Transfer – by My Money Blog

This long article talks about how to use the cash credit available from various credit cards which charge 0% interest for the first year (2.5-4% from year 2 onwards).

Withdraw $40,000 (most people’s credit limit) and put it in a high yield savings account (4% from ING) and woala! Free money from interest!

I’ve printed out the entire article (a whopping 30plus pages including comments) to see how it can be utilised where I am. The cards they have at the States is different from those here. A little bit of homework there.

The risk? It might hurt your credit history (very very important for leverage next time). It is, for the lack of a better word, interesting.

Friends

4. Turboscout – Waileong

A powerful search engine which search across the most widely used search engines today. Saves time repeating your search words on different search engines. Site featured in Wall Street Journal(s), Mediacorp’s TODAY and The Star.

5. Designslides.org – Mine

Mmm..

Technology

6. Wordweb

The BEST offline dictionary I know. I use it so often to enhance the quality of my writing. A simple CTRL+ALT+W gives you the definition of a word that is highlighted and synonym. The lastest version even gives you the pronunciation and wikipedia definition and explaination of it.

A must get for all aspiring bloggers.

7. Windows Live Writer. by Microsoft

This is a WYSIWYG program. I’ve been using this program for 3 months now. Works wonders for WordPress and Blogger (I haven’t experiment with other platforms).

Edit images, text and video like your MS Word program with your Blog template (i.e the output you see on this program is exactly the same when you publish)

It helps alot for WordPress users, because the images get pixilated easily when you resize them. You can change it to work for your other blogs instantaneously by clicking "weblog" and choose where you want to blog. Publishes directly when you save your username and password

The support is excellent for the program. I received very prompt reply on email from WLW’s customer service after running into some problems posting on other blogs.

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