Freeze Drying Is Not Just For Coffee But For Document Recovery Too
August 26, 2008
When papers, books, pictures, and other documents get damaged by water it is really displeasing. These are some of our most needed or most loved holdings. The notion of losing all of these documents and history can be distressing. The good news is that much of these documents and photographs can be rescued if they get wet. There are a few processes that can be utilized to restore these papers. Air drying and dehumidification are two means that can be utilized to dry documents. These methods can be used by an expert in a lab or you can attempt to dry documents at your house if you have the area to lay them out or fasten... Read more »
Your Guide To Colour Envelopes
July 3, 2008
Nowadays there are thousands of different types and colours of envelopes to choose from. Envelopes can be found in traditional brown and white colours and can also be found in a whole host of lurid colours so that your correspondences have a real impact on the people that receive letters from you. The range of different types of envelopes is a relatively new phenomenon. Envelopes have come a long way since they first began to be used and these unassuming little items have a somewhat surprising history that has lead them to the levels of sophistication that they now offer. We all use envelopes daily yet it is likely that you have never considered the design of the envelope. This... Read more »
How Much Do We Really Know About Envelopes?
June 23, 2008
People use envelopes as a method of preserving items that they wish to post. They are also useful in that they provide secrecy about what the person wishes to send and they also provide a large blank space upon which the address of the recipient can be placed. This enables people that want to post an item a great deal of benefits over posting an item without containing it in a secure package. There are millions of mail correspondences made every day and the envelope industry is thriving. There are thousands of different varieties of envelopes and event these simple little items have a long history. The humble envelope has... Read more »
Essays Made Easy with Software
June 11, 2008
Why use software to write? The question should be… Why NOT use software to write? There are many smart people in the world that simply do not write well. They may have trouble organizing their thoughts or they may not understand the basic five paragraph format. Essay writing software can help. There was a recent review of an essay writing software program recently in the Writer’s Digest online concerning a software called the Instant Essay Creator… Some writers have trouble organizing their thoughts into essay format, while others are clueless as to how to write a conclusion.... Read more »
Everything You Should Know About Envelopes
June 8, 2008
Envelopes are used for posting letters and packages and are used to provide security and clarity so that a letter or item can be posted safely to the address that it is meant for. In our lives we are surrounded by envelopes and many of us receive a number of correspondences by mail every day yet I doubt that many of us have ever spent time to think about the humble envelope - where it originated or how many different types of envelopes there are. The history of the envelope is strangely interesting yet it still manages to pass under the radar despite the fact that we are surrounded by these unassuming items throughout our lives. Typically envelopes are flat rectangle shaped pockets into which letters and items... Read more »
The History Of Print: From The Phaistos Disc To The Gutenberg Press
June 6, 2008
The printing industry has a long history dating back to around 1850 BC. Since that time, we have developed new ways of printing onto a variety of mediums. Printing has progressed from the early techniques used in ancient times, such as the Phaistos Disc and woodblock printing, to the innovative inkjet and laser printers that are commonplace in todays society. The first known example of printing was found on the Greek Island of Crete in 1908 by a group of archaelologists. The Phaistos Disc, dated between 1850 and 1400 BC, is a circular clay tablet about 15cm in diameter with imprinted symbols on both sides. Rather than being engraved, the inscription was said to be made by pressing printing stamps into the soft clay in a... Read more »
Sell Your Book To Make It A Best Seller
November 5, 2007
A big portion about writing a best-selling book is not the writing only, it’s the selling. That’s why it’s called “Best-Selling Book” and not “Best-Writing Book”. You have to sell it really well. Here are some of the efforts that I have taken to ensure that my books become bestsellers. The first thing I did was arranging for a lot of book talks. Anytime I could get an opportunity to go out there to speak and sell the book I would do that. So what I did was to approach all the major bookshops in Singapore. MPH, Times, Kinokuniya, Borders and Popular and arranged book talks every single weekend. So every single weekend... Read more »
Writing Contests: 10 Tips for Creating a Winning Entry
August 18, 2007
There are literally hundreds of writing contests open for entry at any time of the year. There are contests for every genre and level of experience — from amateur poetry writing contests to competitions for published novels. Some of today’s top novelists, magazine writers and screenplay writers got a kick start in their careers by entering and winning writing contests. Here are 10 tips that will help you position your entry to become the next WINNING entry! 1. Follow the Rules. Read them once and then print them out and read them again, this time with a highlighter in hand. If the rules are in a miniscule font, copy and paste them into your word processor and then increase the size of... Read more »
Article Plagiarism: the Next Internet Ripoff?
August 17, 2007
Content is King! shout the search engines. That’s what the search engines love. We also love the non-reciprocal links that we get for our websites when our articles are published on other peoples’ sites with our resource boxes dutifully appended below them. To create a well written article takes time and effort. We have to get everything right: it has to be of relevance to the reader in that subject field; it has to be well researched; all spelling, punctuation and grammar must be correct it has to be a genuine contribution... Read more »
Writing Help And Morning Pages
August 17, 2007
Reading Julia Cameron’s “The Sound of Paper” is like revisiting an old friend. For more than fifteen years, her morning pages have been my daily writing help, the friend that coaxed me out of fear and inertia about putting words on paper and like the Nike slogan, urged me to “Just Do It!” Why is it so difficult to write? Writing is an activity removed from direct experience. Writers have often mourned the loss of words to describe an event and this is probably because rendering what happened in words involves a completely different... Read more »
