Blog Awards

Thanks to Liza of Mommy's Little Corner for these awards!

Here are the rules for the Adorable Blog Award:

1. Include the award logo in your blog or post.
2. Nominate as many blogs which you like.
3. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
4. Let them know that they have received this award by commenting on their blog.
5. Share the love and link to this post and to the person from whom you received your award.

I'm nominating the following blogs:
My Sweet Escape
Life Marriage and Kids
Meow Diaries
Turn-u-Off
Limitless Adventure

My New 3-Column Layout

I have finally emerged again after hiding in my invisibility cloak for two months. Unbelievably, I have managed to change my blog layout and to come up with this pinkish style with 3 columns (just the way I like it!). I think having a 3-column blog maximizes the horizontal space and it looks cool too! However, Blogger doesn't have a 3-column default layout so I had to look somewhere else to customize my blog. Blogger Buster has some good tips on how to change your blog into 3 columns without downloading any xml file. This way you can avoid deleting your widgets accidentally. You can also find other blogging tips there. I haven't really finished everything yet like the navigation links ("Home", "Links", and "Email"). They will all lead you to the same page so don't click it yet (but I know you will). I'll finish constructing the pages some other time (hopefully not two months from now). Anyway, enough blogging...I need to get back to work now. Ciao!

Pimp Your Blog

Wow it’s been months since I last posted and this blog has gotten a little dusty now. Looks like I have a lot to catch up. Well anyway, I’m thinking about changing my blog layout coz frankly I’m getting tired looking at this same old layout. The only problem is that I don’t know how to do it (or should I say I’m lazy enough to do it). Although there are a lot of custom layouts out there, I would love to make my own design someday (someday...the operative word)

Speaking of custom layouts, here are a few blogs that you might want to take a look:

Their designs are very lovely. You might want to order some for your blog. And if you want to design your own, these blogs have some cool scrap kits that you can download and use:

So go ahead and pimp your blog now. Remember, good content + nice blog design = more traffic + more advertisers + more moolah! (I just love the sound of that hehe).

Data Conversion Using OCR

I've been inactive in this blogging thing for the past few days since I have been busy at work and I will even be busier next week. I will be going out of town to take care of some important matters and I'm planning to bring with me my Sony Microcassette Recorder so I can just dictate my blogs (that is, if something comes to mind) while I'm on the road then I'll just transcribe it afterwards.

Speaking of data conversion, this method may come in handy in your freelance projects when converting images into text. Instead of doing it manually, using an OCR is quicker and less tedious. Before, I've searched for free OCRs in the internet not knowing that I already have one in my computer. Most computers already have this but I don't think many people use it as frequently as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Here's five easy steps to convert images into text:

Step 1: Open Microsoft Office Document Imaging

Go to Start >> All Programs >> Microsoft Office >> Microsoft Office Tools >> Microsoft Office Document Imaging


Step 2: Select an Image for Data Conversion

In this case, I just opened a scanned document in PDF. Click the Select Tool. Highlight and copy the data that you want to convert into text.

Step 3: Paste Data in Microsoft Office Document Imaging

Click Page and select Paste Page or simply hold Ctrl + Shift + V.

Step 4: Use OCR to Recognize Text

Just click the eye icon to recognize the text using OCR.

Step 5: Copy and Paste Data in Word

After recognizing the text using OCR, you may paste the data in Word, Notepad, or Wordpad if you like.


Since these OCRs are not as smart as humans (ok there may be some exceptions), they are not always accurate so you still need to check it for any possible errors but at least you saved a lot of time converting pages of scanned documents into digital text. Hope you find this useful as it helped me a lot.

My New Blog, My First Post

A lot of people often ask me about my work since working at home is still something new here in our area. So this year I decided to create a blog to feed their curiosity, share my thoughts, and learn from other bloggers who are doing the same thing. I am not a writer so I'd appreciate it if you'd comment and correct my grammar or spelling. I am busy most of the time (it's either I'm busy working or procrastinating) but I'll try posting every once in a while to keep this blog updated. And I'll be changing my template when I can. Anyway, cheers to my new blog!