Jose Paul Martin is an investor, merchant banker and philosopher. You'll find stuff that cant be contained within 140 characters. If you want 140 characters, follow me on @jpmartin. Also visit: jpmartin.com or avcion.com or jpm.fm
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I'm giving stuff away. These are old reports, but when I create reports - I try to ensure they're ever green (i.e. always relevant). One thing I've been bullish about is GOLD. (But maybe now there's a reason to sell it!?) Need to know... subscribe to my free newsletter. If you wish to download the report, you'll have to visit the site.
Super-Clean Screenshots
In Mac OS X Leopard, you can capture an image of your entire screen by typing Command-Shift-3. Typing Command-Shift-4 lets you choose a specific part of your screen to save as a screenshot: Click and hold to place the small cross-hair cursor at one edge of the area you want to capture, then drag horizontally and/or vertically to select. When you release the cursor, the screenshot is saved to your desktop.
But creating screenshots this way often means you need to crop or clean up the edges of the image later. That’s especially true if you’re planning to use it as a graphic element in a document or presentation. Fortunately, Mac OS X Leopard offers a way to save clean screenshots of individual elements on your desktop — such as Finder windows, menus, icons, or the visible portion of an open document — without capturing anything else in the background.
Hold down the Command, Shift, and 4 keys, then press the Spacebar. Instead of a cross-hair cursor, a small camera icon appears. When you move this camera icon over the element you’d like to capture, that element is highlighted. Click your mouse or trackpad, and you’ve captured a screenshot of just that element — no further cleanup required.
As a Mac User, you SHOULD know this... if not learn it now!
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The Economist published a special paper by Daniel Thorniley on the current environment. This Global Economic Outlook is certainly not positive! However, it makes a good read. Dr Thorniley is the Senior Global Consultant of the Economist Group based in the Vienna office. He has written regularly for Economist Group publications including The Economist magazine, and is the principal speaker at conferences and seminars around the world.
It is estimated that 12% of multimillionaires who are conducting an extra-marital affair are considering stopping the affair for financial reasons (the source for this is Le Monde, November 28th 2008. Trust the French to come up with this information).
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Cash is King - Cash is the lifeblood of your company - you've heard these statements before. And so it is. What I attempt to do here is brief you on the structure of cash flow statements and how to use the indirect method for calculating them as well as how to analyze some of the results. From Wall Street to Dalal Street (India Shines!), financial modelers should understand and love this simple statement. Any (to-be) financial expert (... I'm not one) will tell you that there are three key statements to watch - Balance Sheet, Income Statement & Cash Flow Statement (CFS). The last one is not only important but the most revealing and sometimes complicated-to-compute.
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I might be taking a slight deviation from what I thought was not possible. Using this blog to share knowledge. I've implemented iPaper from Sribd.com - a company backed by VCs. My only issue was hosting large files on my server, as the number of files increase, it becomes difficult to manage. The current market crisis has seen interest rates falling, paper printing, de-leveraging and a definite depression (or is it?). At first I thought I'd share a report from HSBC, but it ran into 90 pages, so instead, I'm sharing this report from Harvard Business Review (HBR) on how to manage in a down turn. Hope you find it enjoyable! [ipaper id=12515191]
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An interesting video that talks about the real estate market in Dubai. There's more at NY Times... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/world/middleeast/12dubai.html
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From the Acton Institute, this is one of the most inspiring videos I've seen. Really, you have to take some risk in life...
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If you've watched in pursuit of happyness - u'll like this...
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