Tips & Tricks from Linda

"Cloud" is a popular word in our daily life. It means the new computer architecture - using service provider's computer equipment instead of your own. It allows a person or a business to forget about technical details like whether a hard drive is big enough and puts that concern on another party. Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon Web service and others provide such software applications and hosting space for end users to access those applications through a web browser or a light-weight desktop or mobile app. For example, Microsoft provides Office 365, combining the latest versions of the Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc) with additional features such as SkyDrive storage and Skype world minutes for family and business to access their common Office functions and emails stored on the remote servers. It helps the family to share documents, photos and emails in distance areas.The Microsoft SharePoint Online helps business to build their collaborati...

Just recently read two news about jobless: " Telstra, origin and iluka cut 1,200 jobs " and " I couldn't even buy a job " about a 61-year-old Sydney woman received more than 500 job rejections. The lady even couldn't planned to enjoy her retirement years. It lets me seriously think about the career development and movement. While the company couldn't offer the long term positions due to uncertain economy, we (employees) should improve or develop the skills and enhance the value to the company.  For above lady, she could learn more skills such as  accounting, bookkeeping, Internet, social media, creative writing, cooking, gardening, baby sittings... rather than just applying for office and Administrator job. In addition, we should make our finance and retirement planning as earlier as possible. Learn various investment areas such as stock market, managed funding, investment property and get advices from Finance planner.    Moreover, people would thi...