The number-one key to successful investing is to be a good investor.That is because some investment products are good investments some of the time, and some investment products are bad investments some of the time, and it takes a good investor to know the difference.

Investor education is the first step to being a good investor.Nancy's investor education book is an easy-to-read library of financial recipes that will get you cooking in the financial markets.

Nancy Woods does a great job of demystifying the world of stocks and bonds in an entertaining and light-hearted way. She provides a refreshing approach to investing by de-mystifyng the language and concepts of investing with a 'culinary' treatment that anyone can understand.

In this guide to understanding and creating a diversified financial investment portfolio, food analogies are used to explain confusing financial jargon and suggest that a healthy stock portfolio, like a nutritious meal, must be balanced. Equating bonds with potatoes, blue chip stocks with meat, and speculative stocks with desserts, this primer details the various types of investments available and explains how to choose suitable ventures. Both the novice and the experienced investor will benefit from the resources offered for using the Internet and other information sources to make informed financial choices.

Language: English
Number of Pages: 52
PDF: 14 MB

ShopNotes is written by woodworkers for woodworkers, and it shows. Each issue is full of practical, hands-on woodworking information, as well as clear, step-by-step plans for great woodworking projects. Whether you’re new to woodworking or been a woodworker for years, you’re sure to find something in ShopNotes that will help you hone your woodworking skills

Every page of ShopNotes Magazine will make you a better woodworker, because you get more woodworking plans, more woodworking techniques, more woodworking jigs, and more about woodworking tools — and not a single ad. For more than 25 years, woodworkers have turned to ShopNotes for the most detailed woodworking plans and woodworking tips available anywhere.

Create your own “snapshots” of images and texts from opened documents, pictures, file menus, Web pages, presentations, or PDF files with just several clicks. Screenshot Reader creates copies of images which you can easily cut and paste from your clipboard to Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel or graphic files. More than just a simple screenshot maker, you can use Screenshot Reader to select and copy pieces of text from images, flash files, PDFs, and other image-based files, and convert them into true text which you can edit or insert into another document.
Capture Two Types of Screenshots – Image and Text
Traditional screenshot capture programs take a picture of a program window or selected area of a user’s computer desktop. With ABBYY Screenshot Reader you can decide whether to take the traditional ‘Image Screenshots’ of your desktop application, Web site, presentation, or area of a document, or you can turn the text in graphics files into editable text and create ‘Text Screenshots’.

Image Screenshots
Easily create screenshots and save them as images, that you can share with your friends or use in presentations, training materials and various other documents. You can capture only selected area on the screen, a complete window or your entire desktop. Advanced function Timed Screen will even let you take a screenshot with 5 seconds delay so you have the possibility to ‘prepare’ the screen - for example open up according menus if making documentation for a software.

Text Screenshots
If you want to grab some text from an image file, Web site, presentation, or PDF you can quickly turn text areas into truly editable text that you can paste directly into an open application, edit or save as Microsoft® Word or Excel® documents. Screenshot Reader will convert the image of the screenshot into text.

With Power Screen Capture, you can capture screen from your desktop with high quality. Besides, it offers you the function of capturing video and image from other devices, DV and TV tuner. A list displays all the files captured by Power Screen Capture, and then you can view, copy, delete and rename these files freely and easily! Various settings let you set video compression codec, audio compression codec, output frame size and frame rate. You can also set properties of each capture device, preview and record real-time video, watch TV (TV Tuner is installed), add water mark or texts on video or image, etc.

Main Functions:
Capture screen from your desktop.
Capture video and image from connected devices

Features List:
Capture screen from your desktop.
Capture video and image from DV, TV Tuner and other devices.
Preview and record real-time video.
Record video and even sound (audio device connected).
Browse or edit captured media files.
Set hotkey to activate screen capturing instantly.

Cue Club is a comprehensive and fully interactive pool simulation game. You can play the entire game using only the mouse which makes the game instantly playable and highly addictive. You can choose from a variety of table designs and game types including UK 8 Ball U.S. 8 Ball 9 Ball Snooker Killer and Speed Pool. You'll find plenty to keep you occupied.

Publisher: Gamecock Media Group
Developer: Spark Unlimited
Genre: Fantasy First-Person Shooter
Release Date: Nov 18, 2008 (more)
ESRB: MATURE
ESRB Descriptors: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence

Sealed away inside Pandora's Box are the greatest creatures of myth and lore locked away by ancient forces to preserve humanity. There they have spent eons waiting to be freed in order to rule the world once more. When a thief named Deckard is hired to steal an ancient artefact, he unwittingly triggers a war between man and myth. Now he is the only one capable of preventing the destruction of civilization.

Bunkspeed's HyperShot delivers interactive 3D rendering. It's real time, for everyone, from anywhere-even your laptop. See instant global illumination and physics-based materials on models come alive, right before your eyes, with stunning photographic results. Science based and patent-pending, HyperShot equips you to simply load your models and environments, then see high-tech automation in action, or scale up and customize completely. From industrial design to marketing photography, satisfy your needs for stellar speed and utmost quality. So real, you can skip physical prototypes. Designs are rendered on the fly. What used to require daunting effort, time and expertise can now be done by anyone on your team. In minutes, not hours, or days.

# Improved model interaction:
You can now move your objects within the scene by simply using the mouse and keyboard. Whether you want to move an object, rotate, or scale it, it now is literally only a mouse-click away.

# Reworked material library:
Enjoy now a crisper representation in different sizes of your materials along with more flexibility when positioning and organizing the material window.

# Simplified workflow when working with textures:
Upon import, HyperShot automatically applies the necessary texture coordinates if they are missing on the geometry.

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Autodesk® ImageModeler™ image-based modeling and photogrammetry software generates 3D models from 2D digital images, giving architects, designers, and entertainment content creators a new approach to 3D modeling.

Bridging the 2D and 3D worlds, Autodesk ImageModeler enables you to capture the reality as-built, take measurements of buildings, and easily create photorealistic 3D models. Editing, modeling, and texturing tools allow you to further edit, refine, and texture your rendered objects. Your 3D objects can then be exported into different formats.

Features
Autodesk® ImageModeler™ image-based modeling software is easy to learn, enabling architects and designers to create a 3D model, starting from 2D images, in just a few hours. Creating a 3D model becomes as simple as drawing lines on images. ImageModeler also has editing, modeling, and texturing tools.

* Calibration Engine
* 3D Measurement Toolset
* CAD and Other Interoperability
* Modeling Technology
* Texturing
* User Interface

Publisher: Ubisoft
Developer: Ubisoft Montreal
Genre: Fantasy Action Adventure
Release Date: Dec 9, 2008 (more)
ESRB: TEEN

In many modern games, you rain death upon your enemies; how refreshing, then, that your main task in Prince of Persia is to breathe life into a darkening world. That doesn't mean that the forces of evil aren't on your tail in this open-world platformer, but the most indelible moments of this enchanting journey are uplifting, rather than destructive. Similarly, the latest iteration in this long-running franchise is a rejuvenation for the series, and it's an ambitious one, offering up a new titular prince and casting certain game traditions aside in favor of player immersion. And for the most part it succeeds, eliminating illusion-breaking mechanics like game-over screens and long loading times in the process. This re-imagining comes with a few caveats, however, and if you're a longtime series fan, you'll quickly discover--and possibly resent--that Prince of Persia is, far and away, the easiest game in the series. But if you can clear your mind and let the game's magic wash over you, its easygoing joy and visual beauty will charm you into forgiving a sprinkling of flaws.

CloneDVD is a flexible and easy to use DVD movie copy software. Without special setting, CloneDVD auto removes all protections (CSS, RC, RCE, UOPs and Sony ARccOS) while copying, lets you freely copy all of your DVD movie collections. You can freely select copy mode, source file and target file as per your taste. The source and target file can either be DVD disc, movie folder or ISO file saved on your PC. Copy main movie only with extras and special features omitted, personalize your DVDs only favorite title/chapter/subtitle/audio remained, you even can custom the target DVD video size to fit your disc.

CloneDVD can compress/transcode a DVD-9 movie into one DVD-5 disc with highest quality, or split a DVD-9 movie into two DVD-5 discs if your have only single-layer(DVD-5, 4.7GB) DVD burner.
Copy DVD movies to your iPod and PSP: freely convert DVD as various popular movie file to expand your multimedia entertainment on most popular portable devices (Apple iPod Video, Sony PSP, Smart Phone, PMP etc). CloneDVD can also convert DVD movie as popular video format (Divx/XviD, MP4, AVI, ASF

Key Features:

Perfect Copy Quality
* Real DVD movie clone by 1:1, Perfect Video & Audio Quality - like the original!

Take a historical adventure full of romance and intrigue with The Nightshift Code heroes, Mike and Isabel. You'll travel from the jungles of Guatemala to the streets of Moscow, from present day back to the history of the Spanish Civil War, brush elbows with historical luminaries such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera while hunting for stolen artifacts across multiple continents. Can you find mysterious Jaguar's Eye before it's too late?

6 full chapters with 7 or more levels each
20+ unique search locations from around the globe
Sequel to Nightshift Code™

BatteryMon is a battery monitoring software solution. It has been designed as an easy-to-use Windows based application that allows users to monitor the performance of laptop batteries and uninterruptible power supplies (UPS).
# Graphically see the charge / discharge rate
# Diagnose problem battery cells with detailed statistics
# Compare and measure your batteries' performance with expected discharge rates
# See the critical discharge point for your batteries
# Uniquely identify battery packs for tracking purposes or system inventories
# Log the performance of a battery for later reference
# See the status of each individual battery pack, when multiple batteries are in use

Compatibility
Any laptop battery or UPS that complies with the Windows, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification should be able to report information to BatteryMon. Note that only Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP support this interface. Windows95 and NT are not supported. Older PCs may also have a problem if their BIOS does not support ACPI. Some features may not be supported by some battery types, typically they will report only partial information in this case. It has been also been noted that several UPS manufacturers are not providing compliant device drivers.