tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9743845459345590012024-03-14T10:57:01.880-07:00999 Game ReviewsShare free game news, share top game reviews. 999 hot game reviews.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-6212818928738844992012-08-31T02:45:00.001-07:002012-08-31T02:55:49.507-07:00올해 가장 인기있는 iOS를 타워 국방 전략 게임 "달팽이 대 개미"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">올해 가장 인기있는 iOS를 타워 국방 전략 게임 "달팽이와 개미."</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">플레이어는 즉시 10 만 달러 이상, 즉 가장 인기있는 올해, 타워 국방 전략 게임 "달팽이 워즈 개미입니다.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">클래식 타워 방어 전투 게임.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">최고의 iOS를 게임.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">거리에 왕자의 왕관 달팽이들은 조국의 침공 개미, 그래서 자신의 집을 보호하기 위해 자신의 기괴한 능력을 가진 용감한 달팽이의 그룹은 작은 동물 사이의 전투를 시작했습니다.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">달팽이vs개미 새로운 개념의 타워방어게임으로서 그 플레이 방법은 아주 간단하다. 다양한 전술과 전략을 이용하여 독창성잇는 다양한 각도의 방어시스템으로 개미놈들의 한차례 또 한차례의 진공을 방어해야한다.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">새로운 캐릭터, 좋은 화질, 좋은 음향효과 그리고 신선하고 아름다운 장면을 변경으로하여 게임의 흥취를 더욱더 높여준다.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">★더욱 광범한 맵, 더욱 풍부한 지형 그리고 유희의 업드레이드 버전에 따라 더욱 많은 신과 모드가 추가된다.</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">★6명의 부동한 특색의 달팽이장군들은 더욱 손쉽게 군대를 배치하고 진을 치도록 한다</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">★11가지 부동한 개미들의 진공과 풍부한 레벨 디자인</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">★다종다양한 병력 업그레이드는 당신의 선택을 풍부하게한다</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">★게임에는 단일방향진공,교차진공,사면진공등 여러 모드가 잇다</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">★매관마다 3가지 부동한 모드로 설정되여있고 매개 모드하에 3개부동한 난이도로 나뉜다</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">★무한모드하에 당신의 무한한 도전을 기다린다</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">★화려한 트로피에는 당신의 영광이 가득하다</span><br />
<span style="color: #6fa8dc;"> <span style="font-family: serif;">★ipad HD 지원</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">iPhone: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/kr/app/dalpaeng-ivsgaemi/id533340935?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/kr/app/dalpaeng-ivsgaemi/id533340935?mt=8</a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-20886558153464783502012-08-21T20:06:00.001-07:002012-08-21T20:07:32.135-07:00Snails vs. Ants Now Released Free Tower Defense Game<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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released. Yeah, this is the most expectant tower defense game <i>Snails vs. Ants</i>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">For iPhone: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snails-vs.-ants/id533340935?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snails-vs.-ants/id533340935?mt=8</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">We thoughtfully developed two versions for
iPhone and iPad as the screen of these two devices are in different resolution
and size. This makes you feel better when playing the game.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-53136831004526577002012-08-16T03:19:00.000-07:002012-08-16T03:20:50.227-07:00So, This is What You Get If You Buy Stuff In 'Gasketball'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">I got a text the other afternoon from a pal who knows a thing or two about video games. He was confused about </span><i style="line-height: 19px;">Gasketball</i><span style="line-height: 19px;">'s [Free (HD)] IAP model. He wasn't sure what he'd get if he boned up the $2.99. I thought he forgot how to read or something, but it appears as though this is an actual problem that a lot of people are having -- and it's hurting Mikengreg, as you'd expect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Penny Arcade Report filed a pretty depressing post about <i>Gasketball</i> this morning, detailing how much of a flop that the game is shaping up to be. You should read it in full, but the gist is this: the conversion rate on <i>Gasketball</i> is stupidly low and now the game's two creators, Mike Boxleiter and Greg Wohlwend, can no longer afford shelter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">When I previewed and when I reviewed the game, I looked at it as a whole; not just as a tutorial with IAPs. In hindsight, I should have made it much more clear that I see it as a $2.99 game, as opposed to a free one with optional IAP.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But anyway, since people like my pal are having problems, here's what you get if you opt to purchase the $2.99 "Buy It Forever" IAP: 100 levels, 10 new objects to play around with, and all of the content that will ever be released for <i>Gasketball</i>from this day forward.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To further break it down, here's the names, themes, and items you'll get from each of the five worlds this pack unlocks.</span></div>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Roballin' 101</b> - 25 construction site themed levels. You also unlock two objects: a panel that makes your ball move faster and the conveyor belt.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Cosmo Jam World</b> - 25 levels wrapped in a space theme. You also unlock a new robot avatar named Albert, and two objects: the teleporter and the grav switch</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Gasketslamcade</b> - 25 levels pinball themed levels. You also unlock a new robot avatar named Geoffrey, and two objects: the bumper and the flipper.</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>The Drunkworks</b> - 25 machine themed levels. You also unlock a new robot named Woohouse and two new objects: the spinfusor and the conveyor.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Gasketball</i> is too good to fail, and this content makes the game a much, much better offering than it is without it. So, if you've got <i>Gasketball</i>, we reccomend you give the pass a download. It's not disappointing in the least.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-38562404736380981702012-08-14T00:16:00.001-07:002012-08-14T00:16:57.377-07:00First Hand News: Unbroken Daft of the Snails’ Model<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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coming iOS game -- Snails vs. Ants, and our editor just get an unbroken draft
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<span style="color: #9fc5e8;">10-member’s team working for about 5 months, programming
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9fc5e8;">What we spend now harvests. This game absolutely
refreshes your general understanding tower defense game. It’s easy to operate
but needs strategy; it has high freedom but as well as hidden rules.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9fc5e8;">This is the top prospect game! An ultra-high-freedom strategy
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #9fc5e8;">You should combine different tactics and strategies
and use different snail which owns different abilities to helps you stop the invaders.
Mix up with elegant and hand-painting cartoon pictures, pleasure sound effects,
pure and fresh scene, this game appears with both casual and smart, relax and
excited, challenge and courage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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version updating.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for Snails vs. Ants. It supports languages as: English, Simple Chinese,
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b style="font-weight: bold; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Infinity Blade II</b>, <a href="http://infinityblade2.com/" style="list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chair Entertainment Group’s</a> sequel to 2010’s convention-defying swordplay game, is as big and beautiful as ever. The original Infinity Blade proved that a challenging, beautiful, and big fantasy game could succeed on the iOS platform. Now, Infinity Blade II refines the gameplay, beefs up the role-playing elements, and proves that the original title was not a fluke.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">The first Infinity Blade treated gamer “lives” very differently than your typical game. Instead of merely respawning where the player died, Infinity Blade would start the player’s descendant at the beginning of the castle, ready with his father’s sword and armor to continue his quest. Each life is like a nesting doll, revealing something more about the world and the character.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">The Unreal Engine’s rendering of the environments is spectacular and unlike anything else on the iPad—you can see every edge of the character’s armor and even details as small as candles on chandeliers. Movement in the game is automated by tapping to a highlighted area, but as your character gains experience, more branching pathways appear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Though your movement is on rails, that simply means Infinity Blade’s fighting mechanic is front and center, as it should be. Players tap to dodge or initiate super moves, but otherwise utilize the iPhone or iPad’s touchscreen interface to initiate swings of their blades or magical spells. The gesture-based blade swinging mechanic is utterly addictive and easily one of the geekiest joys you’ll experience on an iOS device. Trace your finger across the screen and watch as your player arcs his sword in the same direction—the mapping isn’t one-to-one, but it’s still much better than anything you’re used to. Infinity Blade II also adds to the list of moves you can pull off: Not only can you parry, attack and dodge, but defend and duck.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">The role-playing elements of the game are subtle, but essential. As you explore the tower castle, you’ll see bags of currency that you’ll want to tap, and as you defeat enemies, you’ll earn currency as well. You can use this money to unlock better armor, weapons, and magical items. Or, if you’re impatient, you can shell out real money via in-app purchases to speed up the process.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Unlike the first Infinity Blade, you can now switch between sword and shield, two-handed, and dual-wielding weapon setups. Each weapon setup has its own tradeoffs—sword and shield gives you more protection while dual-wielding lets you parry much easier. But the two-handed weapon setup deals the most damage and has the easiest-to-execute combos, so there’s very little incentive to not use it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Whether or not you’re entertained by the leveling-up process and are intrigued by the constantly branching paths of the castle is the ultimate determining factor of how much you’ll enjoy Infinity Blade II. There are a few choke holds—points where no matter how skilled you are, you’re still going to die unless you’re a certain level—but these are far enough into the game that you’re already hooked.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">Infinity Blade was one of the fastest selling apps on the iOS store, and with good reason. Visually, there is no comparison to the Unreal Engine-powered environments. The combat, while repetitive, is exceptionally challenging and yet very, very fun. Experienced RPG fans will likely bemoan the game’s dearth of customization options—no matter your helmet or weapons, you’re still essentially a generic knight fighting a never-ending parade of similar-looking demons. And casual players may be turned off by the game’s repetitive nature and instead prefer something more linear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;">But make no mistake: Infinity Blade II isn’t just a shiny new set of armor. It’s a deep, challenging, and addictive title that is not just an exceptionally compelling iOS offering, but one of the top games on any platform. The weapon-swiping mechanic alone is something that the most hardened gamer and the most casual of player will enjoy, and mechanics that are easy to learn but hard to master mean that anyone can hack, slash, and parry with the best of them in no time. </span></div>
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<b>Device: </b>iPad Only</div>
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<b style="text-align: left;">Size:</b><span style="text-align: left;"> 1000.4 MB</span></div>
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<b style="text-align: left;">Price:</b><span style="text-align: left;"> </span>Free</div>
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<ul style="font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Face a greater challenge with Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013!<br /><br />In the latest installment of this hit franchise, travel across the fantastic plane of Shandalar as you face encounters, and battle powerful Planeswalkers.<br /><br />Magic 2013 offers new features including statistics-tracking for your game play and, for those already skilled in slinging spells, the option to choose what lands to tap when you cast your spells.<br /><br />Game includes:<br />3 decks with 5 unlockable cards each<br />Single-player campaign across the plane of Shandalar<br />4 deadly opponents, including the Planeswalker Garruk Wildspeaker<br />Encounters, a new feature in which you test your skills against different preset AI strategies<br />Planechase mode, which changes the rules with a randomized deck of cards based on the planes of the Magic Multiverse<br /><br />Additional content is also available for purchase. Premium content package will get you:<br />7 additional decks to unlock<br />250+ additional cards unlockable through play<br />18 additional Campaign levels across the planes of Ravnica, Alara, and Innistrad, plus 11 revenge matches and 3 Planechase battles.<br />10 puzzling challenges<br />Online one-on-one Multiplayer play<br />Two-Headed Giant and Custom game modes<br />Pit yourself against the Multiverses ultimate evil mastermind, the dragon Planeswalker Nicol Bolas, in the single-player campaign<br />Access to deck key and foil conversion in-app purchases<br />Additional downloadable content as it becomes available<br /><br />Magic: The Gathering Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013 runs best on iPad 2 or later.</ul>
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Game content available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese.</div>
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<b>iTunes Link</b>: <a href="http://toucharcade.com/link/http://itunes.apple.com/app/magic-2013/id502588466?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/app/magic-2013/id502588466?mt=8</a></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc., the world’s most popular social-networking site, is valuing itself at as much as $96 billion in its initial public offering, the largest on record for an Internet company.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Facebook and its holders plan to sell about 337.4 million shares at $28 to $35 each, according to a regulatory filing today. At the top end of the range, the Menlo Park, California- based company would raise $11.8 billion, compared with the 2.92 billion euro ($2.8 billion) IPO for German Internet company T- Online International AG in 2000, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Inside Facebook’s Calif. digs: It’s been a little more than a month since the social networking giant finished moving into its new headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. On the 57-acre campus, employees can be found checking their e-mail while running on treadmills or talking on cellphones in telephone booths. Of course, they’re working, too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">That would value the company, led by 27-year-old Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, at 24 times sales in the 12 months through March 31, compared with 5 times revenue for rival Google Inc., Bloomberg data show. Facebook’s popularity as a tool for staying connected online will spur demand for the stock, even as some investors steer clear of a valuation they deem too high, said Francis Gaskins, president of researcher IPOdesktop.com.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">“Some people will buy Facebook stock no matter what -- they’ll just buy it,” said Gaskins, who is based in Marina Del Rey, California. “There’s going to be an initial push of enthusiasm and money, but ultimately, in a year or so, it will come down to valuation metrics. It has to.”</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Facebook has amassed more than 900 million users and reported a 24-fold increase in sales over the past four years. The company was considering an IPO valuation of as high as $100 billion, people with knowledge of the matter have said. At that amount, Facebook would have a market capitalization about half as high as Google’s -- even though it has one-10th the sales.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Facebook is offering 180 million shares, while existing owners such as Accel Partners and Digital Sky Technologies are offering 157.4 million, according to the filing. Zuckerberg is offering 30.2 million of his 533.8 million of shares. The majority of his net proceeds will be used to pay taxes associated with exercising a stock option.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Facebook will have 2.14 billion Class A and B common shares outstanding following the IPO, equal to a value of $75 billion at the top end of the price range. Including restricted stock units, options and common stock to be issued following the purchase of Instagram Inc., the shares outstanding would total 2.74 billion, implying a market value of $96 billion at the high end.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Facebook filed for the IPO Feb. 1, using a placeholder amount of $5 billion. Zuckerberg, a co-founder, is the company’s top holder, filings show. Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are leading Facebook’s IPO. The shares will be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol FB.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">The initial share sale would dwarf the 2004 IPO of Google, Facebook’s biggest competitor for online ads and the world’s most valuable Internet company. Google’s offering, the same year Zuckerberg helped found Facebook, raised $1.9 billion and valued the company then at about $23 billion. The company currently has a market value of almost $200 billion.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Facebook follows fellow Internet companies such as Zynga Inc. and Groupon Inc. in going public. Zynga, the maker of Internet games such as “Farmville,” raised $1 billion in its December IPO, while online-coupon provider Groupon raised $805 million, including an overallotment option, in November. Both stocks are trading below their offer prices.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Zuckerberg co-founded Facebook with his college roommates at Harvard University, developing a site that let students socialize over the Web. He later made the service accessible to everyone, intensifying competition with sites such as MySpace and Friendster.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Both eventually succumbed to Facebook, which lured users with innovative features like News Feed, which lets people check on friends’ activities in a single place. News Corp., which bought MySpace in 2005, sold the site last year for a fraction of the price it paid. Friendster revamped itself as a social- gaming platform following its 2009 purchase by Malaysia’s MOL Global Ltd.</span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Facebook’s revenue surged 88 percent last year to $3.71 billion, with online advertising accounting for almost all of it. The company also is sharpening its focus on the mobile market as users spend more time accessing the site through Internet-ready handheld devices such as the iPhone. In the first quarter of 2012, sales climbed 45 percent to $1.06 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;">Samsung has certainly become Apple's primary competition in the smartphone race, with the two companies currently taking <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2012/05/03/apple-and-samsung-claim-99-of-profits-among-top-mobile-phone-vendors/">nearly all of the profits</a> in the mobile phone industry. Consequently, it pays for Apple and its fans to take note of Samsung's advances with its own hardware, and today's launch of its new flagship <a href="http://www.samsungmobilepress.com/2012/05/04/Samsung-Introduces-the-GALAXY-S-III,-the-Smartphone--Designed-for-Humans-and-Inspired-by-Nature">Galaxy S III smartphone</a> is no exception.
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;">The Android-based Samsung Galaxy S III offers a large 4.8-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280x720. The large screen means that Galaxy S III measures nearly 20% taller and wider than the iPhone 4S, but is slightly thinner and actually lighter. The device also includes an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 1.9-megapixel front camera that can be used for face recognition and tracking features.
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;">Samsung is placing a distinct emphasis on "natural interaction" for the Galaxy S III, touting its facial, voice, and motion recognition capabilities, including a Siri-like "S Voice" feature.</span><br />
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The GALAXY S III features ‘S Voice,’ the advanced natural language user interface, to listen and respond to your words. In addition to allowing information search and basic device-user communication, S Voice presents powerful functions in regards to device control and commands. When your phone alarm goes off but you need a little extra rest, just tell the GALAXY S III “snooze.” You can also use S Voice to play your favorite songs, turn the volume up or down, send text messages and emails, organize your schedules, or automatically launch the camera and capture a photo.
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In addition to recognizing your face and voice, the GALAXY S III understands your motions to offer maximized usability. If you are messaging someone but decide to call them instead, simply lift your phone to your ear and ‘Direct call’ will dial their number.</span></div>
<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;">Other features include "Pop up play", which allows users to play videos anywhere on their screen while still using other apps, camera improvements including zero-lag shutter and burst shot mode, and NFC capabilities. Samsung has also partnered with Dropbox to offer Galaxy S III users 50 GB of free storage for two years, a deal that will extend to all Samsung phones and tablets later this year and see the Dropbox app come preinstalled on the devices.
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;">In another bid to take on Apple, Samsung is also rolling out a new Music Hub service that integrates both a streaming service and an iTunes Match-like scan-and-match service to provide users with access to their own music from anywhere. As <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/3/2996974/samsung-music-hub">noted by <i>The Verge</i></a>, Music Hub will cost $9.99 per month for one device or $12.99 per month for up to four devices plus web access.
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: x-small;">The Samsung Galaxy S III will launch in Europe on May 29 before extending to the United States in June and other markets around the world going forward.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-50614350376349668952011-09-27T19:38:00.001-07:002011-09-27T19:41:28.184-07:00Here’s What Facebook Timeline Looks Like<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"></span><br />
<div class="media-container media-loading" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="Screen Shot 2011-09-22 at 11.00.09 AM" class="attachment-post-detail wp-post-image" height="275" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/screen-shot-2011-09-22-at-11-00-09-am.png?w=640" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="Screen Shot 2011-09-22 at 11.00.09 AM" width="400" /></div><div class="body-copy" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Facebook has just used their keynote at f8 to unveil a major new feature: <b>Timeline</b>. It’s your Profile re-imagined in a more visual way. “It’s the heart of your Facebook experience, completely re-thought from the ground up,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The focus is on three key things:</div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">all your stories</li>
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</ul><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">So what does it look like? Check it out below.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> <b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Update</b>: <b>And here’s a bit of backstory.</b></div><div class="media-container media-loading" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 35px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 35px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; top: 0px;"><img alt="aaaaa" class="attachment-image wp-post-image" height="191" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/aaaaa.png?w=288" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="aaaaa" width="288" /></div><div class="body-copy" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Today at Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off a huge change to the service: Timeline. It’s the Profile reborn, and it looks great. Later, Facebook’s head of product Chris Cox took the stage to talk about the feature’s inception.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cox largely credits two people: Nicholas Feltonand Sam Lessin.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cox waxed poetic about Felton’s history. He gushed about Felton’s <a href="http://feltron.com/" style="font-weight: bold; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Feltron Annual Reports</a>, which stared in 2005. “14 pages. One year. One book,” Cox noted. It was all about organizing the years of his life in a beautiful, visual way. “It was hard to call it anything other than what it really was — art,” Cox continued.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“We had one reaction: we have to try to hire this guy.”</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And Facebook did just that. When they bought Felton’s startup Daytum this past April, Felton and co-founder Ryan Case moved from New York to Palo Alto to help weave their data analysis instincts into the future of the Facebook Profile.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cox then turned his attention to Lessin. Facebook also acquired his startup, Drop.io, last year in order to get him. He had one job: to re-imagine the Profile. Lessin noted that “the single biggest lost opportunity in the history of human story telling” was the way the Profile was laid out when he joined. He printed out all of the information he had shared on his profile since he joined Facebook in 2004 to prove his point. It stretched across Facebook’s entire office.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cox noted that when they accidentally launched a product called “Memories” this past summer for a few hours, the reaction was huge. This was a taste of what was to come with Timeline. “We tucked that away, and kept working,” Cox said.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Today, the work is complete — though Timeline will be slowly rolling out over the next couple of months to everyone, there will be a beta of it starting today. Facebook’s recent focus on design, and their moves to acquire as much top-tier design talent is possible is now evident.</div></div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“We’re a culture of builders. Now let’s go build something awesome,” Cox said in closing. </div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-3921870747192689042011-09-27T19:35:00.003-07:002011-09-27T19:43:59.479-07:00Facebook Unveils Timeline: The Story Of Your Life On A Single Page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"></span><br />
<div class="media-container media-loading" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="timeline-1" class="attachment-post-detail wp-post-image" height="231" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/timeline-1.png?w=640" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="timeline-1" width="400" /></div><div class="body-copy" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Today at Facebook’s f8 conference in San Francisco, CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mark-zuckerberg" style="font-weight: bold; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Mark Zuckerberg</a> took the stage to unveil the next evolution of the service. The first major change? The Profile.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Zuckerberg noted that the original Profile was sort of like the last five minutes of your life. The updated Proile from 2008 extended that to show what was sort of like the last 15 minutes or your life. The new Profile unveiled today is “the rest,” Zuckerberg noted. He calls this feature Timeline.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“It’s the heart of your Facebook experience, completely rethought from the ground up,” Zuckerberg says, noting that they’ve been working on it all year. “Timeline is the story of your life.”</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What Zuckerberg showed was a beautiful new Profile that is much more visual than anything Facebook has done before. To be honest, it looks a bit like a really nice Tumblr blog. It has three main parts:</div><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">all your stories</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">all your apps</li>
<li style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">a new way to express who you are</li>
</ul><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And it goes all the way back to when you were born.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Trying to display all of this content was a major design challenge, Zuckerberg noted. How do you do it all on a single page? Well, all of your recent content is shown in a new grid-view. But as you go back in time, it’s more about summarizing your content to display the most important content. The farther back you go, the less you see — it’s just the key moments. “This is the magic of how Timeline works,” Zuckerberg said.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And it works on mobile too. While Zuckerberg mainly showed off how Timeline looks on the web, he also showed it on the smaller iPhone screen. It’s the same idea, just more condensed.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">“We wanted to design a place that feels like your home,” Zuckerberg said.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Undoubtedly, this will roll-out over time (over the next couple of months, CTO Bret Taylor says). You can learn more about Timeline <a href="https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline" style="font-weight: bold; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Update</b>: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/facebook-timeline-pictures/" style="font-weight: bold; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Here’s what Timeline looks like</a>.</div><div class="module-post-detail __FIRST__ hero" id="module-post-detail" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="body-copy" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">Update 2</b>: <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/22/facebook-timeline-birth/" style="font-weight: bold; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">At The Intersection Between Design And Data, Facebook Timeline Was Born</a></div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-425674" height="221" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/screen-shot-2011-09-22-at-10-33-15-am.png?w=640&h=355" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="Screen Shot 2011-09-22 at 10.33.15 AM" width="400" /></div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-425677" height="201" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/screen-shot-2011-09-22-at-10-33-35-am.png?w=640&h=322" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="Screen Shot 2011-09-22 at 10.33.35 AM" width="400" /></div><br />
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<div class="info-container info-container-stack-view" style="float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px; width: 190px;"><div class="left-align" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="header-text" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Interstate, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 10px; max-width: 200px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Company:</span><span style="display: block; font-family: Interstate, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; max-width: 200px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/facebook" style="font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal interstate; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Facebook</a></span></div><div class="left-align" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="header-text" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Interstate, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 10px; max-width: 200px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Website:</span><span style="display: block; font-family: Interstate, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; max-width: 200px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://facebook.com/" style="font-weight: bold; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal interstate; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">facebook.com</a></span></div><div class="left-align" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="header-text" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Interstate, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 10px; max-width: 200px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Launch Date:</span><span style="display: block; font-family: Interstate, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; max-width: 200px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">January 2, 2004</span></div><div class="left-align" style="line-height: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="header-text" style="display: block; font-family: Arial, Interstate, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 10px; max-width: 200px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Funding:</span><span style="display: block; font-family: Interstate, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; max-width: 200px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">$2.34B</span></div></div><div class="body-copy" style="border-left-color: rgb(211, 211, 211); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 2px; float: left; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal arial; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: -1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 250px;"><div style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 500 million users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. 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</div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-8130093851382121202011-09-27T19:35:00.002-07:002011-09-27T19:40:58.627-07:00How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right This Second<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: helvetica, arial, clean, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;"></span><br />
<div class="media-container media-loading" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="timeline" class="attachment-post-detail wp-post-image" height="278" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/timeline.png?w=640" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="timeline" width="400" /></div><div class="body-copy" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This morning <a href="http://howtodocenter.blogspot.com/2011/09/facebook-unveils-timeline-story-of-your.html" style="font-weight: bold; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">Facebook announced Timeline</a>, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has <i style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">ever</i> happened in your Facebook lifespan. It’s like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Facebook said that Timeline would be on the way for everyone sometime in the coming weeks… which is great and all, for everyone else. You’re the type of person who reads TechCrunch, and are thus likely the type of person who likes their new and shiny things <i style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">right now</i>.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">That’s okay. We can make it happen.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fortunately, enabling Timeline a bit early isn’t <i style="font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;">too</i> difficult — but it’s not at all straight forward, either.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You see, Facebook is enabling Timeline early for open graph developers. You, too, can be an open graph developer — even if you’re just looking to dabble.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">A few things to note:</b><br />
- You probably don’t want to do this unless you’re actually a developer. Expect bugs.<br />
- Only you will see your timeline at first (unless you decide otherwise), but it will automatically go public after a few days. My timeline was automatically hard-set to go public on September 29th.<br />
- It seems that if you login into Facebook on another machine, Timeline gets disabled automatically on all of your machines. With that said, it seems you can get back to your timeline (but ONLY after following the steps below) by navigating to http://www.facebook.com/YOURUSERNAMEHERE?sk=timeline<br />
- You’ll need to have a “verified” account for one of the steps, which means you need a credit card or phone number attached to the account.</div><h2 style="font-family: Interstate, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 31px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Here’s how to do it:</h2><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">1.</b> Log into Facebook</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">2.</b> Enable developer mode, if you haven’t already. To do this, type “developer” into the Facebook search box, click the first result (it should be an app made by Facebook with a few hundred thousand users), and add the app.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-425856" height="337" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/add-developer.png?w=577&h=337" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="add-developer" width="577" /></div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">3.</b> Jump into <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/apps" style="font-weight: bold; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; text-decoration: none;">the developer app</a> (if Facebook doesn’t put you there automatically, it should be in your left-hand tool bar)</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">4.</b> Create a new app (don’t worry — you wont actually be submitting this for anyone else to see/use). Give your shiny new app any display name and namespace you see fit. Read through and agree to the Platform Privacy agreement. This is the step you need to be verified for.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">5.</b> Ensure you’re in your new app’s main settings screen. You should see your app’s name near the top of the page</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">6.</b> Look for the “Open Graph” header, and click the “Get Started using open graph” link.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Create a test action for your app, like “read” a “book”, or “eat” a “sandwich”<br />
<img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-425857" height="158" src="http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/read-book.png?w=640&h=253" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px;" title="read book" width="400" /></div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">7.</b> This should drop you into an action type configuration page. Change a few of the default settings (I changed the past tense of “read” to “redd” — again, only you can see this unless you try and submit your application to the public directory), and click through all three pages of settings</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">8.</b> Wait 2-3 minutes</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-weight: bold;">9.</b> Go back to your Facebook homescreen. An invite to try Timeline should be waiting at the top of the page</div><div style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 12.5px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">And you’re done! We’ve seen this work quite a few times now, so it should work without a hitch for just about anyone.</div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-40879094258626361812011-09-27T19:29:00.003-07:002011-09-27T19:31:43.670-07:00Apple Issues Invitations for October 4th iPhone Media Event<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Confirming earlier reports, Apple today issued media invitations for a special iPhone event to be held next Tuesday, October 4th at the company's Town Hall auditorium at its headquarters in Cupertino, California. The event is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM Pacific Time. <br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />As <a href="http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/09/27/apple-announces-iphone-5-event-for-oct-4/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">noted by <i style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The Loop</i></a>, invitations for the event carry the tagline "Let's talk iPhone" and depict iOS icons for Calendar, Clock, Maps, and Phone. <br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-color: initial; border-style: initial; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-324816" height="477" src="http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/09/iphone_oct4_event_invite1.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="iphone_oct4_event_invite" width="433" /></span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Apple is of course widely expected to introduce its next-generation hardware (whether it be iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, or both) at the event, and is expected to also be including a minor update to its iPod line. iOS 5 and iCloud are also expected to be topics of discussion at the event, while other reports have indicated that Facebook may launch its iPad app at the event.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-91652333988358795792011-09-27T19:24:00.003-07:002011-09-27T19:26:50.759-07:00Lost Foxconn iPhone May Have Been Source of Teardrop iPhone 5 Case Designs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">M.I.C gadget</i> reports that it has heard from a small iPhone accessory shop in Shenzhen, China that Apple's manufacturing partner Foxconn had lost a prototype of Apple's redesigned iPhone 5 carrying the tapered teardrop form factor seen in a number of case designs over the past few months. </span><br />
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<center style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><img src="http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2011/08/iphone5-11-500x231.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /> <br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><i style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/10/this-could-be-what-apples-iphone-5-looks-like/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Mockup</a> of tapered iPhone 5 based on leaked case designs</i></span></center><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">While the sourcing on the report is certainly questionable, the detailed account is an interesting read and it would not be the first time that a mobile phone accessory vendor has been involved in leaked iPhone prototypes.</span><br />
<div class="quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://cdn.macrumors.com/images-new/quote.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">The missing prototype is said to have been enclosed in a case to disguise it as a current-generation iPhone 4–which brings to mind the iPhone 4 prototype acquired by Gizmodo that was camouflaged as an iPhone 3GS. How Apple achieved that with the iPhone 5 supposedly wider and longer than the current iPhone 4 is a point to ponder. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">It is said to be a test model with a finalized iPhone 5 chassis featuring the tear-drop design. However, the interesting thing about it is that it apparently houses what we assume to be slightly modified iPhone 4 electronics with components such as the A4 chip and even the same amount of memory.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">The report goes on to note that an outside party had paid a Foxconn employee to deliver the prototype device, which was reportedly then sold to a case manufacturer for approximately $3,100. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">It is unclear when the alleged loss of the prototype occurred, although reports of the tapered design extend back to least April and a design document showing the form factor appeared by late July. Since that time, numerous case manufacturers have released cases for the new form factor, but actual evidence of the device in the form of parts leaks has yet to surface. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Not all Apple prototypes make it into production, with the 2009 iPod touch with camera being a notable example of a design that made it quite far through the prototyping process before Apple decided to remove the camera. There has been considerable debate about whether Apple will be launching this redesigned teardrop form factor for the iPhone, as evidence from leaked parts has so far only shown an "iPhone 4S" design based on the iPhone 4. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Daring Fireball</i>'s John Gruber hints in his link to news of the media event invitations that there may in fact be only one new device introduced next week, which would presumably be the more conservative iPhone 4S design.</span><br />
<div class="quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://cdn.macrumors.com/images-new/quote.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Something tells me there’s only one new iPhone.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">The comment is far from confirmation, but Gruber has in the past offered accurate information on Apple's plans and has on occasion coyly hinted at such knowledge in his comments.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-75262741812644274892011-09-27T19:23:00.003-07:002011-09-27T19:27:29.197-07:00Apple to Discontinue iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #041427; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2011/09/27/apple-may-discontinue-the-ipod-shuffle-and-classic/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">TUAW claims</a> that Apple may be planning on discontinuing the iPod Classic and iPod Shuffle devices this year.</span><br />
<div class="quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://cdn.macrumors.com/images-new/quote.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">It seems that the "product transition" Apple mentioned on the last earnings call could very well be within the iPod line. Specifically, if you want to buy an iPod shuffle or iPod classic from Apple, you should do it sooner rather than later. We've heard those two iPods are getting the axe this year.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">They go on to say that they see "few changes" coming for the iPod touch, except for a white model. That portion of the report mirrors our own from last week, which detailed the introduction of a white iPod Touch model, but little else in the way of changes. The iPod nano appears to be safe for the time being and may see a minor improvement as well next week. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">The iPod as a product line has been making up a smaller and smaller percentage of Apple's revenue over the past few years with the growth of the iPhone. Apple does not break out the iPod touch out of those sales, but the touch likely represents a large portion of the remaining iPod sales. The last official word about the iPod Classic came from Steve Jobs over a year ago, in which he said in an email that they had no plans on discontinuing the iPod Classic at that time. Now, a year later, it may be coming, if TUAW's source is to be believed.</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-55527517568749769972011-07-19T00:23:00.001-07:002011-07-19T02:03:54.333-07:00CNN Serves Up Live Streaming 24/7 To iPad and iPhone<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">CNN is the first 24-hour news network to </span>offer live streaming<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> of both the flagship CNN channel and CNN Headline News to </span>iPad<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span>iPhone<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> owners, and at </span>CNN.com/video<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, via the </span>TV Everywhere<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> initiative. </span></span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It only works for users who already subscribe to CNN via AT&T, Comcast, Cox, DISH Network, Suddenlink and Verizon. Time Warner Cable is the notable, ironic exception, mostly because CNN is owned by Time Warner -- a company that </span><a href="http://allthingsd.com/20110718/why-time-warners-tv-everywhere-means-except-for-time-warner-cable/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">once was the parent of Time Warner Cable</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">. The two are related only in name at this point. </span></span><br />
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from: </span><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/18/cnn-serves-up-live-streaming-247-to-ipad-and-iphone/">http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/18/cnn-serves-up-live-streaming-247-to-ipad-and-iphone/</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-11199669899341738182011-07-19T00:20:00.003-07:002011-07-19T02:03:48.697-07:00Apple to Launch Next-Generation iPhone in Late August, Offer Unsubsidized 3GS for $350?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><a href="http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/18/apple-to-launch-low-priced-iphone-for-350-iphone-4s5-end-of-summer/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">BGR</i> reports</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> that it has received information from an "incredibly solid source" claiming that Apple will be introducing its next-generation iPhone "by end of the Summer, late August-ish" and taking advantage of the opportunity to expand its iPhone line to three models by selling the new handset alongside the existing iPhone 4 and potentially continuing to offer the iPhone 3GS as a low-cost device available for $349 without a contract. </span></span><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The source reports that the next-generation iPhone isn't likely to sport a major redesign compared to the iPhone 4, suggesting that case manufacturers should have already leaked the new design if it was in fact different from the iPhone 4. With other sources adamantly reporting in recent weeks that the next-generation iPhone will receive an external redesign, the "will it/won't it" debate remains unsettled.</span><br />
<div class="quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://cdn.macrumors.com/images-new/quote.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;">If this turns out to be true, it will mean there would be an iPhone 4S in addition to the prepaid iPhone 3GS available within the next month to two. Let's do one better, though. In addition to that news, we are told that Apple will continue to sell the current iPhone 4 as well, finally giving the company a full range of devices in the lower, mid, and high-end price segments.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #9fc5e8;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Rumors of Apple releasing a low-cost iPhone carrying an unsubsidized price in the range of $350 have been </span>circulating<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> in recent weeks, with one analyst </span>claiming<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> that Apple will in fact be using the iPhone 3GS to fill that role, slashing its price to free on-contract and $399 without contract. The 8 GB iPhone 3GS currently retails for $449 unsubsidized.<br />
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from: </span><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/">http://www.macrumors.com/</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-59482715485612060532011-07-19T00:19:00.001-07:002011-07-19T02:03:38.416-07:00OS X Lion and New MacBook Airs Coming on Wednesday?<div class="article" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px 4px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; zoom: 1;"><div class="content" style="border-left-color: rgb(144, 144, 144); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(144, 144, 144); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 18px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 11px; zoom: 1;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/18/apple_set_to_release_lion_new_macbook_airs_as_soon_as_wednesday.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">AppleInsider</i> reports</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> that this Wednesday may finally be the day that OS X Lion and new MacBook Air models finally begin shipping as consumers have been anxiously awaiting the releases.</span></span><br />
<div class="quote" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: url(http://cdn.macrumors.com/images-new/quote.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 12px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 18px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 18px; padding-top: 11px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">According to people with proven track records who would be in a position to know, the new product launches are set to occur later this week. Specifically, one person said the products would be released on Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. Eastern.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Circulating rumors have claimed that the updated MacBook Air models will sport a minimum of 128 GB solid state drives and 4 GB of RAM, and will also see the return of a backlit keyboard. </span></span><br />
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From: </span><a href="http://www.macrumors.com/">http://www.macrumors.com/</a></span></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-86911568676132995872011-07-19T00:18:00.006-07:002011-07-19T02:17:59.132-07:00Apple Retail Stores Receive Golden Master Copies of OS X Lion<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #660000; color: #a2c4c9;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Apple appears to be setting up the final pieces for OS X Lion's launch this week. A <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/07/18/apple_set_to_release_lion_new_macbook_airs_as_soon_as_wednesday.html" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">previous report</a> even pinpointed the release as early as Wednesday morning. <br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />We've now been able to confirm that Apple Retail stores have begun receiving final copies of OS X Lion today. The installations have come on hard drive and are meant for the Apple Retail demo computers on the store floor. This, of course, doesn't guarantee a specific launch date, but brings Apple one step closer to launch. <br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Apple has said that OS X Lion will be launching in July but has not publicly committed to a launch date. Apple seeded the <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/01/os-x-lion-golden-master-seeded-to-developers/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Golden Master</a> version of OS X Lion to developers on July 1st. The Golden Master version is typically the final shipping version of the operating system. Apple is also widely expected to refresh the MacBook Air and Mac Mini computers around the same time as Lion's launch.<br />
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<div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"></span></div></div><h2 style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad2.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/module_caps.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -92px; clear: both; color: #4a3c31; font-size: 1.45em; height: 53px; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px 0px 10px -20px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 647px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Steps</span></h2><div class="editable" id="steps" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><ol class="steps_list_2" style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">1</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Have confidence in yourself</b><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></b>. You should know the exact reason that stimulates you to reduce your weight. This will help keep you motivated in your weight loss program. Know that millions of people do it, and so can you! You're never too out of shape to get into shape! </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">2</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Set an achievable goal</b><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for your weight reduction</b>. If the aim is not practical then you will easily get disheartened and stop following your regimen. You must set a target that has a time limit. The amount of weight you want to lose and the time within which you would like to lose it should be decided beforehand. If the time and amount of weight is clearly decided primarily, your enthusiasm will keep you on the track until you reach your destination. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">3</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Determine your daily<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>caloric<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>intake</b>. Losing weight is simply an activity. Lower your calories intake without starving. Remember to calculate your metabolism. The metabolism is a large part of your calories burned in an average day. To win the battle, know how many calories you consume in a day. </span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-type: none;"><li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Write down all the things you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>eat<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on a typical day. Carry a small notebook with you and write down every snack, every drink, and the contents of every meal. There are also great websites that you can use to keep track of calories, get recipes, and help achieve your goal. Don't forget to include the pats of butter or the spoonful of sugar in your coffee. It's best to do this for at least a couple weekdays and a weekend; it's even better if you can go a full week. There are also calorie tracking websites that can help you to do this, such as the US government Pyramid Tracker website. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Do an itemized calorie count. When possible, write down the number of calories in each food you eat as you eat it. Keep in mind that the recommended serving size is often considerably smaller than the serving you actually eat. Look up the calorie count on the internet for foods that don't have calories listed on the container or for fast food meals. You don't have to be 100% accurate, but you do want a good estimate of the number of calories you're taking in. There is an idea that multiplying your ideal weight by ten will produce a rough estimate of the number of calories you need to eat per day to maintain your weight. This is not true for everyone. You may wind up grossly under or over estimating the number of calories you should be eating. Consult a nutritionist. Use a scientific or health website to determine the number of calories you should eat a day or consult your doctor. Everyone has different metabolisms and there is no blanket rule that covers everyone's recommended calorie intake. Reducing 500 calories per day from the calories you eat to maintain your weight can help you lose a pound of fat per week. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">4</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Go over the list and decide which foods to cut out or reduce</b>. Cutting calories is usually a lot easier than you might think. For example, that daily tall latte in the morning may pack 500 calories. Since a pound of flab (lost or gained) is roughly equivalent to 3,500 calories, replacing that rich beverage with black coffee can help you lose a pound a week. Other easy cuts include salad dressing (salad dressing is the number one source of fat in the average American woman's diet), soda pop, candy, and butter. Look at the nutritional information for the foods you eat, pay special attention to your intake of saturated fats and empty calorie, high-sugar foods. You don't need to cut these things out entirely, but if you reduce your intake of high-fat, high-calorie foods you'll<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lose weight<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>faster. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">5</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Seek out alternatives to the unhealthy foods you've identified</b>. You can simply reduce the amount of soda you drink or mayonnaise you put on your sandwiches, or you can substitute healthier choices.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Drink water<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>instead of soda, for example, or use mustard instead of mayo. Low-fat and low-calorie options are also available for most foods, and many of these are natural, (although some may contain chemicals), and tasty. Start trying to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>eat healthy<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in most meals: </span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-type: none;"><li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Choose lean meats.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chicken<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fish<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>are both very low in fat, and certain fish like salmon, sardines, and fresh tuna are an excellent sources of antioxidants and Omega-3 fatty acids, which are also beneficial to your health, so aim to replace some or all of the beef or pork in your diet with these foods. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Replace high-calorie<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>side dishes with healthier alternatives. Many people get a ton of calories from side dishes such as macaroni and cheese, French fries, or potato salad. You can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>eat healthier<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lose weight<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by replacing these with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fresh vegetables and salads. Pre-made salads are practically effortless, and when accompanied by a reduced-calorie dressing or no dressing at all, they're weight-loss gold. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Start your days off right. A fattening breakfast of bacon and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>eggs<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or a pastry can be replaced with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>yogurt,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>oatmeal, high-fiber, low-sugar cereals; or fresh fruit for fruit smoothies. However, for those on a low carbohydrate diet bacon and eggs are a great combo for breakfast, since neither have carbs. But don't fall into the trap of skipping breakfast. Eating a healthy breakfast increases your rest metabolic rate earlier in the day, and reduces snacking before lunch. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">6</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Plan your meals</b>. Look for healthy, delicious meals online or in your cookbooks, and create a menu for the week. Make sure that your meal plan reduces your total calorie intake: you're not going to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lose weight<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>if you consume the same amount of calories by eating different foods. Make a list of what you'll need for these meals, and -- except for a few snacks, of course -- don't stray from your list when you get to the market. Planning your meals helps ensure you get a balanced diet and reduces the temptation to stop off for fast food or order a pizza. Remember, it's easier to stick to your shopping list if you shop when you aren't hungry - this will help avoid impulse buys which contribute to calorie consumption. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">7</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Watch your portion sizes</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Eating a whole bag of rice cakes in one sitting won't help you lose weight. When eating chips, nuts, or dried fruit, put a portion in a small bowl and then put the bag away. That way you won't mindlessly eat a larger portion than you had intended. Even if you only make minimal changes to your diet choices, reducing portion size will inevitably reduce caloric intake. A great way to watch portion sizes while snacking is to buy one serving 100 calorie packages - and they come in many favorite snack food items!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Eat slowly to avoid overeating</b>; you will get satisfied with less calories. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">8</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Graze on healthy snacks</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Just because you're getting healthy doesn't mean you can't snack. In fact, eating small meals and snacks throughout the day, or<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">grazing</i>, has been shown to aid weight loss, compared to eating three large meals a day, by keeping metabolism steadier. Pick snacks that are low in calories and fat and high in fiber dried apricots, nuts, rice cakes, fruits, baby carrots, cherry tomatoes, and so on. Vegetables are generally very low in calories, very high in fiber, and full of flavor and nutrition. Avoid starchy vegetables like potatoes, and try to eat vegetables plain, without fatty dressings or dips. Fruit also makes a good snack. Fruit contains more soluble fiber than vegetables, which slows your body's absorption of carbohydrates, thus releasing energy more slowly preventing sugar highs, and keeping you feeling full longer. Fruit juices are not a replacement for the real thing. You need that fiber, and juices often have more calories than the equivalent serving of fruit and as many calories as soda! Be careful with dried fruits, because without the water, you tend to eat more, and fruits, when dried, are calorie-rich per ounce. With any dry or dried food, be sure to drink plenty of water. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">9</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Get more fiber</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There are many myths about fiber, but there is science to back up its helpful role in the diet. Fiber keeps the right amount of water in your intestines, making your digestive system work more efficiently and helping to keep you regular. Thus, just eating enough fiber may help you feel slimmer in just a day or so. There is also evidence that fiber in the diet can help prevent stroke and heart disease, ease the effects of diabetes, and may even directly help in weight loss. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">10</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Drink plenty of water</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>An adequate amount of water is essential for health, and a great many people simply don't get enough. What's more, if you're chronically dehydrated, your body will retain water in unflattering places, so if you make sure to get plenty of fluids you can start visibly trimming down in as little as a day. Remember, the more you exercise, the more water you'll need. See the related wikiHow for more details on how much water you should be getting. Drink one glass of water before your meal; it will help digestion and also to get the sensation of fullness in your stomach that will keep you from overeating; that in combination with<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">eating slowly</b>, will allow you to stop eating when you are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">satisfied</b>, not when you already ate too much (If you eat too fast you can get full, even bloated but still be hungry) . </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">11</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Write down your targets on sticky note pads and then stick them in most spaces of your home</b>. These stuck notes will always remind you of your goal and will further inspire you to stay on your regime. They would not let you forget your goals at any time. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">12</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Exercise</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Remember, you can<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lose weight<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>either by decreasing your calorie intake or increasing the number of calories you burn. Any health strategy should include both, but if you want to lose weight fast, exercise is essential. By<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>making time for exercise<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and other healthy, productive activities, you can also avoid temptation to overeat. </span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-type: none;"><li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Perform low impact aerobic activities. Moderate aerobic workouts incorporating brisk walking, cycling, aerobic machines, or swimming not only burn calories they also keep your heart healthy. Swimming is great, especially if you are quite overweight or have joint problems, because you can get the same benefits of running typically burning even more calories with much less stress on your joints. Try to get at least 30-40 minutes of aerobic exercise at least three or four days per week. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Pump some iron. Resistance training,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>weight training, can help both sexes stay lean by building muscle and raising metabolism. The fact is, hours and hours of aerobic exercise won't help most people lose weight fast because your metabolism drops back to normal fairly quickly after stopping the exercise. If you gain muscle, however, your body's resting metabolism, (the amount of calories you burn when you're just sitting still), increases, because muscle requires a lot of calories to maintain. Studies have shown consistent weight training to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>raise the body's metabolism<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by 15%. This means an average woman might burn 200-300 more calories at rest every day! Resistance training is the gift that keeps on giving! </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">It can be fun! Although you're losing weight through possibly painful exercises, it doesn't necessarily have to be a boring and painful procedure. If you want some extra motivation that will cover up the pain, get the video game Wii Fit. Built by Nintendo, this system helps you do exercises such as yoga, aerobics, strength training, and balance. If you want to work on burning calories, you can always run, but when you run on Wii Fit, it's twice as fun, because you always have a score to beat, and if you're competitive enough, it's a great way to burn the calories and get in shape. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">13</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Rest properly</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This means not only taking at least 24-48 hours between strength training the same muscles, and taking 1-2 days off from exercising each week; it also means knowing how much sleep you need, since sleep deficiency impairs your ability to lose fat. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">14</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Be realistic</b>. Don't expect a miracle. Healthy weight loss can be achieved fairly quickly, but you'll need to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>be patient. In addition, be sure to set realistic goals. Make sure that the weight you're trying to reach is a healthy weight for you, and keeping in mind that gaining pounds of muscle will help you lose fat, be trimmer, and look better even though you don't actually lose any weight. Your goal should be a healthy body, not a number of pounds! Everyone looks good at a different weight. A short person may look really good at about 112 pounds, but a person of a taller height would just look unhealthy. Keep yourself at a weight that makes you look good, not at a number that sounds good. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">15</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Make adjustments</b>. A successful weight loss strategy based on reducing calorie intake and increasing activity can be adjusted to maintain your desired weight once you reach it. Unlike typical diets, this method is sustainable; it is a lifestyle change, not a binge-and-purge exercise. Slowly adjust your diet and exercise to include more weight training and calories, as much as is comfortable<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">for you</i>. If you do gain any weight back, you want that weight to be lean, toned muscle, not fat. In addition, weight training, no matter what your age, prevents muscle atrophy and can help<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>stave off osteoporosis. </span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-type: none;"><li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Instead of thinking of it as losing a certain amount of pounds, think of it as being a certain weight. So if you are 145 pounds, and you would like to lose 10 pounds, think of it as being 135 pounds. This helps you think about it as a long-term goal and not just losing the weight to gain it back again. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">16</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Be confident</b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You need to believe in yourself! If you want to diet, and you know that it will make you feel better, then you need confidence. Otherwise, the temptation to cheat on your diet will make it harder, and you will not feel better when you do lose weight. Avoid temptations like chocolate, ice cream, and cookies. They may taste good, but there are other foods that taste delicious, too, without being unhealthy. You need to always encourage yourself to achieve the goals that you have set. Learn to evaluate your efforts fairly and objectively. If you fail to achieve your target for the week, find out why is it so. Is it because you have missed an exercise session? Or you have been eating junk food for one of the days? After evaluating, look ahead to next week and try your best to stick to your plan. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">17</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Be consistent and disciplined, and have self motivation</b>. To lose weight effectively, you need to stick to your weight loss plan religiously so as to see results. When you think about giving up, visualize the benefits of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>slimming down<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>successfully. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">18</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">After you achieve your targets successfully, you must<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>maintain your weight loss</b>. You must form a way of life that is healthy for you. Make certain that you don't gain back the weight you lost by returning to your old eating habits. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom: rgb(191,191,191) 1px dashed; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-clip: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; clear: right; color: white; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin: 0px 20px 0px -50px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">19</span></div><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b class="whb" style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You can simplify weight loss with a pre-planned diet, many of which involve ready-made food</b>. Be especially cautious of and do not spend long (more than, say, a month) on a diet which involves an extremely restricted variety of foods; do not use any that involves drugs without consulting a doctor. Some involve special versions of a variety of more-or-less ordinary food. </span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-type: none;"><li style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Preparing menus and queuing up portions of food well in advance can help you stick to a diet (by having a well-defined diet to which to stick) and avoid reminders to think about varieties of food daily, which is very helpful when trying to eat less of it. This can help you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>easily stick to and enjoy a diet such as Nutrisystem<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or any other. </span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Motivation is key when losing weight. If you are not motivated, you will forget about your goal and simply drop out. If you want to stay focused, the best strategy is to get a book on losing weight and bring it everywhere you go. By doing this, you're remembering to lose weight no matter where you are. There are books on weight loss everywhere. Just pick one and you're all set to go.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">For maximum health, especially if you are changing your dietetic routine in any drastic manner, start a diabetic diet of vegetables, fruits, proteins in small portions of poultry, fish, eggs, and meat. Build your diet from there.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Determine your objectives to lose weight. To succeed in doing something, you need to have a very compelling objective or reason so that you will not lose track of your goal. Losing weight just for vanity's sake is usually less helpful than losing weight to improve health. Other than just exercising, you need to have a healthy diet so that you will have a better body and more energy to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>be positive<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>throughout the day.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">It's very good to do a blood test before you begin your new diet and exercise regimen. Some people may not need to lose a lot of weight, but they may need to lower the blood sugar level slightly. You can also check for mineral deficiencies.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The goal is to lose fat, not just weight in general. If you are doing strength training during your weight loss (which you should be), you might actually see an initial gain in weight -- don't worry! You have probably lost fat and gained muscle, which is denser than fat and is much healthier. </span><ul style="list-style-type: none;"><li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">A better measurement than what a scale reads is body fat percent. If you don't have access to calipers or a body fat scale, a better gauge is how your clothes fit and how you look rather than your absolute weight. If you can, though, it is good to measure your body fat about once per month. Men should be between 15%-25%, but no lower than 4%; and women 20%-30%, but no lower than 15%. Females have higher fat percentage due to pregnancy and menstrual requirements.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Generally, with a combination of calorie reduction and increased activity, you want to reduce and burn a certain number of calories a day, causing a net loss of calories so your body is forced to use its own stores of fat. How much aerobic exercise you need to perform depends on what you eat, how fast you'd like to lose weight, and how much muscle you gain.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A pound of fat</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>contains<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3500 calories</b>. Men can safely lose around two pounds a week, and women can safely lose around one pound a week. Any more than this and you might be losing more muscle mass than fat. Thus, with a combination of calorie restriction and aerobic exercise, a man should aim to run a 3500-7000 calorie deficit each week, and women should aim for a 1750-3500 calorie deficit.</span></li>
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<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">With regard to weights, men and women differ on their goals with weight training. Women, don't worry, no amount of weight training will make you as bulky as a man; women just don't have enough testosterone to build large muscles. The female body-builders you see are either taking steroids or training 2-3 hours every day. Male and female beginners should start with 3 sets of 8-12 repetitions, and should use the heaviest weight you can while still maintaining good form, even to the last repetition of the last set. Get a weight training book or find a reputable website that will show you different exercises and the correct form. When lifting properly, you will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>stretch the muscle<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>during the exercise, but you should still stretch properly to prevent injury!</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">No matter what the magazine article says, spot improving is a myth! When your body burns fat, it takes it from all over your body, even if all you do are crunches. No amount of crunches will get rid of that gut if they are not backed up by proper aerobic exercise and diet! Washboard abs do not come from millions of sit ups; they come from having low levels of body fat. So if that is your goal, make sure you do plenty of aerobic exercise in addition to your ab routine.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Sugar comes in many disguises. Check your food labels: fructose, glucose, molasses, and corn syrup are all sugars. Limit all sugars, but especially stay away from high-fructose corn syrup. It is just a corn syrup full of sugar. Choosing foods without it will help you reach your weight loss goals faster.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Remember your body needs 'fuel' just like a car needs 'fuel'. Your body needs the 'right' kinds of food to lose weight effectively.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Don't taunt yourself by not letting yourself eat the occasional snack that you're craving. Just make sure you burn it off later with exercise</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Despite popular belief it is not terrible to eat after 6 p.m. A reasonable dinner with extra protein if you've had a good weight training session is going to help deliver nutrients to the body to prepare it for the next day. Additionally if you find yourself very hungry before bed, a small bowl of high fiber cereal and low fat milk will actually help maintain your metabolism while you sleep.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The key is to not overeat in the evenings</b>.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Take the right vitamins for your requirements. While it is better to always get your nutrients from your food, most people miss something in their diet, especially when they're trying to cut calories. Vitamins and minerals play an important role in keeping your body chemistry balanced and your energy levels healthy.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">If you find yourself missing some of your favorite foods, don't worry. There is no harm in having your treat once a week. Pick a day each week where you treat yourself to your guilty pleasure in moderation. If it's pizza, try going to a gourmet pizza place that will use better ingredients and fresher vegetables. If it's a fast food burger, try making your own. Ahomemade burger<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is generally much healthier than the food they serve in fast food restaurants. Electric grills that are slanted to allow most of the fat to slide off make nice, lean burgers.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Save some calories for potassium and protein for after you work out, this will help reduce soreness. A banana and an egg does the trick.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Do not forget to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>stretch. Stretching can help increase your strength and flexibility.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Cut down on your sodium. Many prepared foods have as much as 30% of your daily value. You get your daily requirement of sodium from a healthy diet; too much can cause you to retain water weight.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Try not to skip any meals as this only makes your body to retain fats for energy. A good weight loss plan is to eat healthily and exercise regularly.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">To continue to lose weight fast, eat a variety of foods. Just like in weight training, the body will get used to the same routine and plateau. Mix up the foods you eat to keep your metabolism high and prevent a metabolism plateau.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Your breathing can also help increase your metabolic rate, and in turn enable you to burn calories more efficiently.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">You can reduce your caloric intake by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">eating slowly</b>; your brain needs about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">20 minutes</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to get the signal that you are not hungry anymore, if you eat fast your stomach can get bloated and you will still feel hungry, the extra calories will be accumulated as fat.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Eating slowly</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>gets you satisfied with less food without feeling hungry or deprived.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">You can actually<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">lose weight</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">eating slowly.</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Because eating slowly gives your the hypothalamus in your brain to register that you are satisfied and that will allow you to stop before you overeat; it takes your brain about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">20 minutes</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to get the signal that you are satisfied. This is why doctors recommend that you eat several<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">small</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>meals while keeping the same daily calorie/carbohydrate limits. The healthy goal is to be satisfied, not full. If you've satisfied your biological needs, but you're not full, then you've probably over indulged in the past to the extent that your stomach is expanded too much. Eat until you are satisfied, and no more, and your stomach will shrink back to its normal size.</span></li>
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<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Always consult a doctor before changing your dietetic routine. Also, make regular appointments with a registered nutritionist.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Do not try to starve yourself.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the short run, reducing your calorie intake to unhealthily low levels will slow metabolism and actually cause you to lose weight more slowly. Then your body cannot process potassium so when you DO eat again, (the alternative to dying), you will gain much more weight than you would if you weren't starving yourself and overall, you may end up gaining more than you lost. In the long run, starving yourself (anorexia or bulimia) can kill you. It's better to eat moderate amounts of healthy food than it is to not eat at all.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Muscle mass weighs more than fat, so don't be surprised if you gain weight but look slimmer.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">When starting a weight lifting routine, do not focus on a single muscle or group, doing so will overbuild that muscle while under building others - in other words, if you work your biceps, and not your triceps, your arms will begin to curl inward and you will look silly. If you work your chest and not your back, you will have a hard time maintaining good posture as your pectoral muscles overpower your back muscles and pull your shoulders forward.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">A balanced workout also strengthens all the joints and smaller tie-in muscles, those most likely to become injured if bigger muscles over power the smaller ones. Have a personal trainer or a fitness facility provide a balanced workout and stretching routine.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">If you have a serious medical condition (such as asthma or diabetes, or allergy to protein such as dairy products or you have lactose intolerance) or you are severely obese, consult with your doctor as well as a dietitian.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Do not take any harmful drugs. They are unhealthy and may ultimately make you<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>gain weight instead.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Carefully consider whether you need dietary supplements. Most people may get the basic minerals and nutrients they need to sustain life through eating food. For example, excessive multivitamin supplements can make you overdose in some vitamins you need, and you can't store most water-soluble vitamins like vitamin C as any excess will be urinated. Although you could be below the recommended daily intake, that doesn't necessarily mean you are deficient in it if it's a kind that is stored. So you may wish to consult with your doctor or dietitian to inquire whether you need supplements and how much you should take.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Losing weight too quickly is dangerous and can have adverse effects on your health.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>For instance, it can in some people cause the gallbladder to damage itself by accumulating gallstones. Despite the title of this article, getting into shape is best done slowly. If you find yourself losing more than 2 pounds, or more than 1000g, each week, you are probably doing something wrong.</span></li>
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<div class="corner top_left"></div><div class="corner top_right"></div><div class="corner bottom_left"></div><div class="corner bottom_right"></div></div></div></div><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">You could write the best resume in the world and be highly qualified for a job, but if your cover letter is poorly written, generic, or misguided, you can pretty much throw your chances out the window. The cover letter is your first, and sometimes your </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">only</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"> opportunity to grab an employer's attention and let them know why </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">your</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"> resume is worth reading. Since there are many different ways to write a cover letter, depending on the employer and the method of transmission, for example, here are some ways to make yours stand out along with some examples you can tweak to your liking.</span></div><div class="ad_image" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="wh_ad" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="wh_ad_inner" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="no_ad" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 13px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=974384545934559001&postID=4207334755227001835" name="Steps" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></div><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad2.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/module_caps.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px -92px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: both; font-size: 1.45em; height: 53px; line-height: 42px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 647px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Steps</span></span></h2><div class="editable" id="steps" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 27px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=974384545934559001&postID=4207334755227001835" name="Before_Writing_the_Letter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a></span></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e7e3d7; background-image: url(http://pad2.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/sub_header_end.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 31px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 625px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Before Writing the Letter</span></span></h3><ol class="steps_list_2" style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">1</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Update your resume</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">. If you don't already have a resume, then </span><a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Functional-Resume" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Write a Functional Resume"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">write one</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"> -- the experiences and skills you list on your resume should be tailored to the particular position you're applying for, reflecting strengths that will be desirable to your potential employer.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">2</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Research the target organization or business so you can include information or facts relating to your desired job or industry</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">. This will not only help you in writing a relevant cover letter but it will also be useful if you get an interview. Some key items you should become familiar with:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">What is the employer's mission? What do they promote as setting themselves apart from competitors?</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">What kind of customer base does the employer cater to? What kinds of people are in their target market?</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">What are the company or organization's values? Innovation? Service? Diversity? Sustainability?</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">What is the history of the employer? Who was the founder? How has the business or organization evolved?</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">3</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Analyze the job</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">. Read the job description </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">carefully.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"> Check for the noted and assumed needs and determine the most important skills, qualifications and experience the employer is looking for. Write them down, and put a check mark next to the ones you have.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li class="steps_li final_li" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">4</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Find the name of the manager in charge of the department you want to work in</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">. Use your network. Do you know someone who is in the company or industry? Can they help you? If not, call the HR department.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
</ol><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 27px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=974384545934559001&postID=4207334755227001835" name="While_Writing_the_Letter" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a></span></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e7e3d7; background-image: url(http://pad2.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/sub_header_end.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 31px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 625px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">While Writing the Letter</span></span></h3><ol class="steps_list_2" style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">1</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Format the heading elements correctly</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">. Line spacing and address conventions mainly apply for a paper cover letter. For an online version that is not likely to be printed out, the date alone may be sufficient, or not even required.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Include your address at the top (in the left-hand corner - approximately 1 inch down from the top of the page).</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Skip down 4 lines and enter the date.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Skip down 4 more lines and enter the Contact Person, then the name and address of the company. Write to a specific person, not "To whom it may concern", or "Dear Sir/Madam", whenever possible.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">2</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Write</span></b><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"> the body of your letter with three or four paragraphs</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">In the first paragraph, tell the employer why you're writing to them in two or three sentences. State the position you are applying for. Avoid the standard openings like "I wish to apply for the position of ___ advertised in ___". Design your opening to get the reader to sit up and pay attention to what you can do. It's unnecessary to specify how you became aware of the position unless it's through a mutual contact or recruiting program. If you're writing a letter of interest (also known as a prospecting or inquiry letter), in which you're asking about positions that might be available, specify why you are interested in working for the employer.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">In the next one or two paragraphs, outline your qualifications and match them to the requirements of the position. Show enthusiasm and a desire to help the company</span><a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Achieve-Short-Term-Goals" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Achieve Short Term Goals"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">reach its goals</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">. Show the employer what you can contribute to </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">their</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"> bottom line, not what </span><i style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">you</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"> want to get out of the deal. Use what you've researched about the employer's background and history. Try to make two or three solid points, backed up by specific examples. Relate some relevant details about the company so the employer knows you did some research ahead of time.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">In the final paragraph, include a positive statement or question that will cause the employer to want to take action. Make this closing paragraph between 2-4 sentences. Direct the employer to the enclosed resume, make your availability known for an interview, and if you want to be assertive, state when you will contact them to set up a meeting time to discuss the opportunity in further detail. Provide your own contact information (phone number, e-mail address) and welcome them to get in touch. It's very important to finish off by thanking the employer for their time and consideration.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
</ul><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">3</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Conclude with "Yours sincerely," (if you have addressed the letter to a named person), "Yours faithfully," (if you have used a "Dear Sir" approach) or "Regards</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">." Leave four blank lines to sign your name in blue ink. If you use black ink, they may think it is a copy. If this is online, leave only one or two blank lines.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li class="steps_li final_li" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">4</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Proofread</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">. This is essential. Some things to look out for are:<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Be sure you have spelled everything correctly.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Own what you've accomplished, grammatically speaking (e.g. avoid "this experience gave me the opportunity to..." or worse, "these goals were met by me."). You don't want to sound like everything happened </span><b style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">to</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"> you or was done by some other entity. Make yourself the active subject of every sentence (e.g. In this experience, I developed/reinforced/learned/etc."). But that doesn't mean every single sentence should start with "I..." so vary your syntax accordingly.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Break down any contractions (e.g. "I've" to "I have").</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Avoid colloquial (informal) writing. You want to sound professional, objective, and educated.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Check the punctuation use carefully.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Keep the letter to one page -- the purpose of the cover letter is to get the hiring manager to read your resume! If the letter is spilling onto a second page, it's time to tighten your points and edit the fluff.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Your tone should be upbeat, professional and informative. The employer wants to know what you can do for them, so sell yourself and your skills in a positive way. Keep that in mind as you write and proofread each paragraph.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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</ol><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 27px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=974384545934559001&postID=4207334755227001835" name="Cover_Letter_Exercise" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></a></span></div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #e7e3d7; background-image: url(http://pad2.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/sub_header_end.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; height: 31px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 0.8em; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.5em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 625px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Cover Letter Exercise</span></span></h3><div style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 27px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Answer the following questions, then use each answer in the corresponding spot of the sample cover letter:</span></div><ol class="steps_list_2" style="list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">1</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Name of person you are addressing the contact letter to</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">.</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">2</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Your role or current job</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">.</span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"graduate student in environmental science"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"customer service professional"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
</ul><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">3</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">A general description of your accomplishments/experiences in the field to which you are applying</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">.</span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"fifteen years of customer service"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"an outstanding background in scientific research and discovery"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"a solid history of dependability in the automotive industry"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">4</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">A positive description of the employer</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">.</span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"what many consider to be the most progressive medical institution in the state of Rhode Island"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"a well-established company with a long history of gourmet creativity"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 80px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><div class="step_num" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: url(http://pad1.whstatic.com/skins/WikiHow/images/header.png); background-origin: initial; background-position: -220px -80px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; clear: right; float: left; font-size: 1.45em; height: 31px; line-height: 31px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -50px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 31px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">5</span></div><b class="whb" style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Assets you can offer to the company</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">. List one to three.</span><ul style="clear: both; list-style-image: url(data:image/gif; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 23px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"extensive experience with start-ups"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"demonstrated ability to solve problems"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-width: initial; clear: none; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">"refined ability to manage teams"</span><div class="clearall" style="clear: both; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div></li>
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<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Make your cover letter visually appealing and coordinated with your resume. Use the same personal information block in the heading of your cover letter and your resume. A cohesive resume package is a very attractive selling point. If using paper (i.e., not online), use the same high quality paper for the cover letter as for your resume.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">At the same time, do not overdo the style elements. One type font is never wrong (especially if you are in the arts and applying for a job that requires a resume). Choose a font that is simple but elegant. Avoid uncommon decorative fonts unless you are applying for a job where being quirky is of greater value than being businesslike AND the people who are doing the hiring are on board with this philosophy.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Be concise. Never use two words when one will do (avoid verbosity). Always strike the word "very" and eliminate the word "that" as much as you can.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">The more unconventional the employer, the more leeway for creativity you have in writing a cover letter.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">You should use a different cover letter for every job application. It must be specific to the exact role that you are applying for.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Always request an interview, and be ready for one.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">Think about how you'll answer the question "tell me about yourself." The interviewer doesn't really want you to go back to grade school and talk about your childhood. This is a specific question with a specific answer...in two minutes or so, the interviewer wants to get you to relax and loosen out your vocal cords, understand your background, your accomplishments, why you want to work at XYZ company and what your future goals are.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">When thinking of accomplishments, describe problems you've encountered in the past and how you handled them. They'll basically want to know how you'll perform when faced with obstacles in the position you're interviewing for. Be able to give honest, detailed examples from your past.</span></li>
<li style="clear: both; line-height: 1.2em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #a2c4c9;">When researching the company, don't just do an Internet search, memorize their mission, and be done with it. If it's a retail company, visit a few of their stores, observe the customers, and even strike up a few conversations. Talk to existing employees--ask them what it's like working there, how long the position has been open, and what you can do to increase your chances of getting it. Become familiar with the history of the company. Who started it? Where? Who runs it now? Be creative, and do whatever you think the other candidates don't have the guts to do.</span></li>
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font-size: 24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="line" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(131, 175, 180); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Instructions</span></span></h2><section style="border-bottom-width: 0px; 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border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-top: 20px; vertical-align: baseline;"><header style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h4 class="header Heading5" style="background-color: #69be28; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 3px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Things You'll Need</span></span></h4></header><ul class="UnorderedTitleList" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: none; border-top-width: initial; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 221, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">You'll need a Headset with a Microphone. The best to use is a set with the TWO plugs (microphone and speaker). Avoid the USB type headset (these can be painful when trying to remove the device). Th</span></span></li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 221, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">You'll also need a Credit Card if you want to use SKYPEIN or SKYPEOUT</span></span></li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="title" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 221, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">A computer! Preferably a newer computer with a better-than-modem connection.</span></span></li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="title" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 8px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Optional - WebCam. Version 2.0 and later supports video. Although not particularly flash - its still pretty cool (remember you'll need a fast internet connection for video)</span></span></li>
</ul></div></section><ol class="steps" id="intelliTxt" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="section" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="step" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="stepNumber" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: serif; font-size: 30px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -3px; min-height: 35px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">1</span></span><div class="stepMeat" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 35px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div itemprop="step" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Open a Skype Account. Go to www.skype.com</span></div></div></div></li>
<li class="step" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="stepNumber" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: serif; font-size: 30px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -3px; min-height: 35px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">2</span></span><div class="stepMeat" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 35px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div itemprop="step" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">1. (Computer->Computer) Search for your friends online. Add them by (Contacts / Add Contact). This is a free service.</span></div></div></div></li>
<li class="step" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="stepNumber" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: serif; font-size: 30px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -3px; min-height: 35px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">3</span></span><div class="stepMeat" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 35px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div itemprop="step" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">2. (Computer->Phone). This is called SKYPE OUT. You can dial any fixed or mobile phone where around the world if you add credit in your SKYPEOUT account (go to www.skypeout.com). Paypal and Credit card are supported. You can either add 10 EURO or 25 EURO at one time. Calls are cheap (depending on country), and are relatively comparable to IP cards. Remember to dial the country prefix!</span></div></div></div></li>
<li class="step" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="stepNumber" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: serif; font-size: 30px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: -3px; min-height: 35px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">4</span></span><div class="stepMeat" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 35px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div itemprop="step" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">2. (Phone->Computer). This is called SKYPE IN. This is a VERY convenient service. SKYPE IN (www.skypein.com)allows you to reserve a phone number in a country of choice. The cost is 30 EURO a year, or 10 EURO for 3 months. This allows you to hand out a local number to friends / work collegues in a different country (so they are charged only a local call), and when they call you, your SKYPE on your computer will ring (no matter where you are in the world!). This is handy if you want to have a number on your business card for a country that you do not reside. The only cost to you is the yearly rental of the number, and the caller is charged a normal phone call charge.</span></div></div></div></li>
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</ol></section></section><figure class="Module tipsWarnings" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="Underline Heading2" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="line" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(131, 175, 180); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 24px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">Tips & Warnings</span></span></h2><ul style="border-bottom-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="tip" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="tipIcon" style="background-color: #83afb4; background-image: url(http://v5-ui.ehowcdn.com/ui/sprites/images/layout-corporate_6e60d6c2.png); background-position: 0px -763px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 20px;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">It is worth buying the voicemail service. If your computer is switched off, people can use messages.</span></div></li>
<li class="tip" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="tipIcon" style="background-color: #83afb4; background-image: url(http://v5-ui.ehowcdn.com/ui/sprites/images/layout-corporate_6e60d6c2.png); background-position: 0px -763px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 20px;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">There are many skype accessories. You can purchase a SKYPE PHONE, which simply plugs into your USB port, and you can use it like a normal phone (as long as your computer is switched on!)</span></div></li>
<li class="tip" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(169, 169, 169); border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="tipIcon" style="background-color: #83afb4; background-image: url(http://v5-ui.ehowcdn.com/ui/sprites/images/layout-corporate_6e60d6c2.png); background-position: 0px -763px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 12px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 20px;"></div><div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 40px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6fa8dc;">If you have a mobile PDA with wireless LAN, you can download the pocket-pc version, and use SKYPE from your PDA.</span></div></li>
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</div></section></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04428376688100958839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-974384545934559001.post-73131964403520686482011-06-08T20:24:00.000-07:002011-06-08T20:24:01.443-07:00How to write a successful CV<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span></div><div align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="class3"><img align="right" alt="Threatening Man with CV" height="286" src="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/pics/cvknifeSM.GIF" width="309" /></span></div><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li class="class3"><b>What is a C.V.?</b></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>When should a CV be used?</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>What information should a CV include?</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>What makes a good CV?</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>How long should a CV be?</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>Tips on presentation</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><b>Fonts</b></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>Different Types of CV</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>Targeting your CV</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>Emailed CVs and Web CVs</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>Media CVs</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>Academic CVs</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>Example CVs and Covering Letters</strong></li>
<li class="class3"><strong>Further Help</strong></li>
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</div><h2 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="is" name="is">What is a CV?</a></h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><strong>Curriculum Vitae:</strong> an outline of a person's educational and professional history, usually prepared for job applications <em>(L, lit.: the course of one's life).</em> <strong>Another name for a CV is a <em>résumé</em>.</strong></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><strong>A CV is the most flexible and convenient way to make applications.</strong> It conveys your personal details in the way that presents you in the best possible light.<strong> A CV is a marketing document</strong> in which you are marketing something: yourself! You need to "sell" your skills, abilities, qualifications and experience to employers. It can be used to make multiple applications to employers in a specific career area. For this reason, <strong>many large graduate recruiters will not accept CVs</strong> and instead use their own application form.</div><table align="right" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" border="0" cellpadding="8" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">Often selectors read CVs outside working hours. They may have a pile of 50 CVs from which to select five interviewees. It's evening and they would rather be in the pub with friends. If your CV is hard work to read: unclear, badly laid out and containing irrelevant information, they will just just move on to the next CV.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">Treat the selector like a child eating a meal. <strong>Chop your CV up into easily digestible morsels</strong> (bullets, short paragraphs and note form) and give it a clear logical layout, with just the relevant information to make it easy for the selector to read. If you do this, you will have a much greater chance of interview.</div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">An <strong>application form</strong> is designed to bring out the essential information and personal qualities that the employer requires and does not allow you to gloss over your weaker points as a CV does. In addition, the time needed to fill out these forms is seen as a reflection of your commitment to the career.</div><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><strong>There is no "one best way" to construct a CV;</strong> it is your document and can be structured as you wish within the basic framework below. It can be on paper or on-line or even on a T-shirt (a gimmicky approach that might work for "creative" jobs but not generally advised!).</div><h2 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="When" name="When">When should a CV be used?</a></h2><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>When an employer asks for applications to be received in this format</li>
<li>When an employer simply states "apply to ..." without specifying the format</li>
<li>When making <strong>speculative applications</strong> (when writing to an employer who has not advertised a vacancy but who you hope my have one)</li>
</ul><h2 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="include" name="include">What information should a CV include?</a></h2><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Personal details</h4><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">Normally these would be your <strong>name, address, date of birth</strong> (although with age discrimination laws now in force this isn't essential), <strong>telephone number and email.</strong></div><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Education and qualifications</h4><table align="right" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" border="0" cellpadding="8" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><em>Some employers may spend as little as 45 seconds skimming a résumé before branding it “not of interest”, “maybe” or “of interest.</em><div align="right" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">BI Business School</div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">Your degree subject and university, plus A levels and GCSEs or equivalents. Mention grades unless poor!</div><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Work experience</h4><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>Use <strong>action words</strong> such as developed, planned and organised.</li>
<li>Even <strong>work in a shop, bar or restaurant </strong>will involve working in a team, providing a quality service to customers, and dealing tactfully with complaints. <strong>Don't mention the routine, non-people tasks</strong> (cleaning the tables) unless you are applying for a casual summer job in a restaurant or similar.</li>
<li><strong>Try to relate the </strong><strong>skills</strong><strong> to the job.</strong> A finance job will involve numeracy, analytical and problem solving skills so focus on these whereas for a marketing role you would place a bit more more emphasis on persuading and negotiating skills.</li>
<li>"<em>All of my work experiences have involved working within a team-based culture. This involved planning, organisation, co-ordination and commitment e.g., in retail, this ensured daily sales targets were met, a fair distribution of tasks and effective communication amongst all staff members.</em>"</li>
</ul><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Interests and achievements</h4><table align="right" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" border="1" cellpadding="8" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><h3 style="color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Writing about your interests</h3></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><em>Reading, cinema, stamp-collecting, embroidery</em></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">Suggests a solitary individual who doesn't get on with other people. This may not be true, but selectors will interpret the evidence they see before them.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><em>Reading, cinema, travel, socialising with friends.</em></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">A little better. At least a suggestion that they can get on with other people.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><em><strong>Cinema:</strong> member of the University Film-Making Society<br />
<strong>Travel:</strong> travelled through Europe by train this summer in a group of four people, visiting historic sites and practising my French and Italian<br />
<strong>Reading:</strong> helped younger pupils with reading difficulties at school.</em></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">This could be the same individual as in the first example, but the impression is completely the opposite: an outgoing proactive individual who help others.</div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>Keep this section <strong>short and to the point.</strong> As you grow older, your employment record will take precedence and interests will typically diminish greatly in length and importance.</li>
<li><strong>Bullets </strong>can be used to separate interests into different types: sporting, creative etc.</li>
<li><strong>Don't use the old boring cliches</strong> here: "socialising with friends".</li>
<li><strong>Don't put many passive, solitary hobbies</strong> (reading, watching TV, stamp collecting) or you may be perceived as lacking people skills. If you do put these, than say what you read or watch: <em>"I particularly enjoy Dickens, for the vivid insights you get into life in Victorian times"</em>.</li>
<li>Show a <strong>range of interests </strong>to avoid coming across as narrow : if everything centres around sport they may wonder if you could hold a conversation with a client who wasn't interested in sport.</li>
<li><strong>Hobbies that are a little out of the ordinary</strong> can help you to stand out from the crowd: skydiving or mountaineering can show a sense of wanting to stretch yourself and an ability to rely on yourself in demanding situations</li>
<li>Any<strong> interests relevant to the job</strong> are worth mentioning: current affairs if you wish to be a journalist; a fantasy share portfolio such as Bullbearings if you want to work in finance.</li>
<li>Any <strong>evidence of </strong><strong>leadership</strong> is important to mention: captain or coach of a sports team, course representative, chair of a student society, scout leader: <em>"As captain of the school cricket team, I had to set a positive example, motivate and coach players and think on my feet when making bowling and field position changes, often in tense situations"</em></li>
<li>Anything showing evidence of <strong>employability skills</strong> such as teamworking, organising, planning, persuading, negotiating etc.</li>
</ul><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Skills</h4><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>The usual ones to mention are <strong>languages</strong> (good conversational French, basic Spanish),<strong>computing</strong> (e.g. "good working knowledge of MS Access and Excel, plus basic web page design skills" and <strong>driving</strong> ("full current clean driving licence").</li>
<li>If you are a <strong>mature</strong> candidate or have lots of relevant skills to offer, a <strong>skills-based CV</strong> may work for you</li>
</ul><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">References</h4><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>Normally two referees are sufficient: one academic (perhaps your tutor or a project supervisor) and one from an employer (perhaps your last part-time or summer job). See our page on <strong>Choosing and Using Referees</strong> for more help with this.</li>
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</div><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">The<strong> order </strong>and the <strong>emphasis</strong> will depend on what you are applying for and what you have to offer. For example, the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/mediacv.htm" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>example media CV</strong></a> lists the candidate's relevant work experience first.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">If you are applying for more than one type of work, you should have a <strong>different CV tailored to each career area</strong>, highlighting different aspects of your skills and experience.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">A <strong>personal profile</strong> at the start of the CV can work for jobs in competitive industries such as the media or advertising, to help you to stand out from the crowd. If used, it needs to be original and well written. Don’t just use the usual hackneyed expressions: “<em>I am an excellent communicator who works well in a team……</em> “</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">You will also need a <strong>Covering Letter</strong> to accompany your CV.</div><h2 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="What" name="What">What makes a good CV?</a></h2><h4 align="left" style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;"><strong>There is no single "correct" way to write and present a CV</strong> but the following general rules apply:</h4><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>It is <strong>targeted on the specific job</strong> or career area for which you are applying and brings out the relevant skills you have to offer</li>
<li>It is carefully and <strong>clearly laid out</strong>: logically ordered, easy to read and not cramped</li>
<li>It is <strong>informative but concise</strong></li>
<li>It is <strong>accurate in content, spelling and grammar</strong>. If you mention attention to detail as a skill, make sure your spelling and grammar is perfect!</li>
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</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><strong>If your CV is written backwards on pink polkadot paper</strong> and it gets you regular interviews, it's a good CV! The bottom line is that if it's producing results don't change it too much but if it's not, keep changing it until it does.<img align="right" alt="CV" height="173" src="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/pics/CV.jpg" width="138" /></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">If it's not working, ask people to look at it and suggest changes. Having said this, if you use the <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">example CVs</a> in these pages as a starting point, you are unlikely to go far wrong.</div><h2 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="long" name="long">How long should a CV be?</a></h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">There are no absolute rules but, in general, a new graduate's CV should cover <strong>no more than two sides of A4 paper.</strong></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">If you can summarise your career history comfortably on a <strong>single side</strong>, this is fine and has advantages when you are making speculative applications and need to put yourself across concisely. However, you should not leave out important items, or crowd your text too closely together in order to fit it onto that single side. <strong>Academic</strong><strong> and </strong><strong>technical</strong><strong> CVs may be much longer:</strong> up to 4 or 5 sides.</div><h2 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="Tips" name="Tips">Tips</a> on presentation</h2><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>Your CV should be <strong>carefully and clearly laid out -</strong> not too cramped but not with large empty spaces either. Use bold and italic typefaces for headings and important information</li>
<li>Never back a CV - <strong>each page should be on a separate sheet of paper</strong>. It's a good idea to put your name in the footer area so that it appears on each sheet.</li>
<li><strong>Be concise </strong>- a CV is an appetiser and should not give the reader indigestion. Don't feel that you have to list every exam you have ever taken, or every activity you have ever been involved in - consider which are the most relevant and/or impressive.</li>
<li><strong>Be positive </strong>- put yourself over confidently and highlight your strong points. For example, when listing your A-levels, put your highest grade first.<table align="right" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" border="0" cellpadding="8" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Choose a sensible email address!</h4>Here are some (slightly changed) graduate email addresses:<br />
<ul style="background-image: none; font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li><a href="mailto:death_metal_kitty@hotmilk.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">death_metal_kitty@hotmilk.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:demented_bovine@gnumail.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">demented_bovine@gnumail.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:so_kiss_me@hotmilk.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">so_kiss_me@hotmilk.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:platypus_mcdandruff@gnumail.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">platypus_mcdandruff@gnumail.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:busty_beth@hotmilk.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">busty-beth@gnumail.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:flockynockyhillipilification@gnumail.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">flockynockyhillipilification@gnumail.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:virgin_on_the_ridiculous@hotmilk.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">virgin_on_the_ridiculous@hotmilk.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:yourmywifenowgraham@gnumail.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">yourmywifenowgraham@gnumail.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:original_madcow_jane@gnumail.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">original_madcow_jane@gnumail.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:circle-of-despair@gnumail.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">circle-of-despair@gnumail.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:rage_against_the_trolley_fish@gnumail.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">rage_against_the_trolley_fish@mail.com</a></li>
<li><a href="mailto:sexylikewoaaaah@hotmilk.com" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">sexylikewoaaaah@hotmilk.com</a></li>
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<li><strong>Be honest:</strong> although a CV does allow you to omit details (such as exam resits) which you would prefer the employer not to know about, you should never give inaccurate or misleading information. <strong>CVs are not legal documents </strong>and you can't be held liable for anything within, but if a recruiter picks up a suggestion of falsehoods you will be rapidly rejected. An <strong>application form</strong>which you have signed to confirm that the contents are true is however a legal document and forms part of your contract of employment if you are recruited.</li>
<li>The <strong>sweet spot</strong> of a CV is the area selectors tend to pay most attention to: this is typically around the upper middle of the first page, so make sure that this area contains essential information.</li>
<li>If you are posting your CV, <strong>don't fold it </strong>- put it in a full-size A4 envelope so that it doesn't arrive creased.</li>
</ul><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Research by <a href="http://www.forum3.co.uk/event-index.asp" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">forum3</a> (recruitment and volunteering for the not-for-profit sector) suggested:</h4><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li><strong>Graduates sent out 25 letters per interview gained.</strong></li>
<li><strong>The average graduate will send out about 70 CVs when looking for their first graduate job.</strong> Of these, the average number of responses will be 7 including 3 to 4 polite rejections and the remainder inviting the graduate to interview or further contact.</li>
<li><strong>There was a direct link between the number of CVs sent out and the number of interviews gained:</strong> the more CVs you send out the more interviews you will get.</li>
<li><strong>Applicants who included a covering letter with their CV were 10% more likely to get a reply.</strong></li>
<li><strong>60% of CVs are mailed to the wrong person:</strong> usually the managing director. Applicants who addressed their application to the correct named person were 15% more likely to get a letter of acknowledgement and 5% more likely to get an interview<table align="right" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" border="0" cellpadding="8" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><em>“To say things like ‘I get on well with people’ is meaningless unless it is backed up by example”</em></div><div align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">Selector for a retail bank</div></td></tr>
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<li><strong>Applicants sending CVs and letters without spelling mistakes are 61% more likely to get a reply and 26% more likely to get an interview.</strong> "In the age of the spell checker, there is no excuse for spelling mistakes". The most common mistakes to not show up in a spell check were: fro instead of for, grate instead of great, liased instead of liaised and stationary instead of stationery.</li>
<li><strong>Set your spell checker to UK English</strong> (assuming you are British) or you will get <strong>center</strong><br />
instead of <strong>centre</strong>, and <strong>color</strong> instead of <strong>colour</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Other turn-offs include:</strong><ul style="background-image: none; font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>misspelling the name of the company or the addressee,</li>
<li>not having a reply address on the CV</li>
<li>trying to be amusing.</li>
<li>Using lower case i for the personal pronoun: "<em>i have excellent attention to detail</em>"</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;" valign="top" width="50%"><h3 style="color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Why<a href="" id="spelling" name="spelling"></a> you need to use a spell checker</h3><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>I would like a job in the servillian police</li>
<li>I am applying for a mini-pupiledge</li>
<li>i am a prefectionist and rarely if if ever forget details.</li>
<li>Proven ability to track down and correct erors.</li>
<li>I have good writen comunication skills.</li>
<li>Lurnt Word Perfect computor and spreadsheet pogroms.</li>
<li>Develop an annual operating expense fudget.</li>
<li>Good custermer service skills.</li>
<li>In my 3rd year of BA houners English.</li>
</ul><h3 style="color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">And why you must read it carefully as well</h3><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>I was a prefect and pier mentor</li>
<li>I would like to do a law conversion cause</li>
<li>Extra Circular Activities</li>
<li>But I was not aloud to be captain</li>
<li>At secondary school I was a prefix</li>
<li>In my spare time I enjoy hiding my horse</li>
<li>I hope to hear from you shorty</li>
<li>I have a desire to work with commuters</li>
<li>Dear Madman (instead of Madam)</li>
<li>My hobbits include - instead of 'hobbies'</li>
<li>I am sicking and entry-level position</li>
<li>I have a friendly manor</li>
<li>Oversight of an entire department</li>
<li>Restaurant skills: Severing customers</li>
<li>In charge of sock control - instead of 'stock control'</li>
<li>I’m an accurate and rabid typist</li>
<li>Over summer I worked for an examinations bored.</li>
<li>Abilty to meet deadlines while maintaining my composer</li>
<li>Cleaning bathrooms and hovering hallways.</li>
<li>Have made speech's at Open Days</li>
<li>I can make models using a verity of different materials</li>
</ul></td><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;" valign="top" width="50%"><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>Instrumental in ruining an entire operation for a chain operator</li>
<li>I was an administrator in a busty office.</li>
<li>Suspected to graduate early next year</li>
<li>For a PR job: I have a long term interest in pubic relations</li>
<li>I want experience in a big sex practice</li>
<li>Vox pox for BBC Radio, which enhanced my ability to analyse and synthesise information</li>
<li>A ' full shit system’ instead of ‘a full shift system’</li>
<li>Enthusiasm was needed in order to communicate information in an interesting manor.</li>
<li>I own and maintain a volts wagon beetle.</li>
<li>As indicted, I have over 5 years of analysing investments.</li>
<li>On an application to work with teenagers – I am experienced in teaching marital arts</li>
<li>Relevant work experience’: followed by ‘Irrelevant work experience’</li>
<li>My role included typing in details of accounts, customer liaison and money-laundering duties.</li>
</ul><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Thesaurusitis (using the wrong <strong>synonym</strong>!)</h4><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li>I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive experience</li>
<li>I am a strenuous student.</li>
<li>Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave</li>
<li>i am a conscious individual with good attention to detail (Kent graduate)</li>
<li>Received a plague for salesman of the year.</li>
<li>I was formally in a music group in which I performed in three conservative years.</li>
<li>I have a degree in orgasmic chemistry.</li>
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</tbody></table><h3 style="color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Fonts<a href="" id="fonts" name="fonts"></a></h3><table align="right" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" border="0" cellpadding="8" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;">Unnecessary use of complex words or hard to read fonts gives a bad impression: people who use simple, clear language are rated as more intelligent.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li class="style2 style5" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;"><span align="left" class="style5" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;"><strong>TIMES NEW ROMAN</strong></span><span class="style11 style4" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> is the standard windows "serif" font. A safe bet - law firms seem to like it!</span> <span class="style13 style6" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><br />
A more interesting serif font might be <strong>GEORGIA.</strong></span></li>
<li class="style3"><span class="style3 style7" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong align="left">ARIAL</strong></span><span class="style7" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> is the standard windows "sans" font. </span><br />
Sans fonts don't have the curly bits on letters. As you can see they're cleaner and more modern than <span class="style5" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">Times</span> or<span class="style10" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">Georgia</span> and also looks larger in the same "point" size (the point size is simply how big the letters are on the page.) However <span class="style12" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Arial</span> and <span class="style5" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">Times Roman</span> are so common that they're a little boring to the eye.</li>
<li><span align="left" class="style15" style="font-size: 12px;">A more classy choice might be <strong>VERDANA </strong></span><span align="left" class="style35" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">which has wider letters than most fonts.</span><span align="left" class="style14" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
or <strong>GENEVA</strong> - these are both common sans fonts.</span> Don't use <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11582548" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Comic Sans</a>!</li>
<li><span class="style19" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>FONT SIZE</strong> is normally 12 points for the normal font with larger sizes for subheadings and headings.</span></li>
<li class="style6" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="style21" style="font-size: 10pt;">or 10 points. My favourite CV body text font is 10 point <strong>Verdana</strong> or <span class="style14" style="font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Lucida Sans</strong></span></span> <span class="style19" style="font-size: 12pt;">with 12 </span><span class="style23" style="font-size: 14pt;">or 14 points for sub headings.</span></div></li>
<li class="style23" style="font-size: 14pt;">14 points is too big for the normal body font - wastes space and looks crude.</li>
<li class="style7" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span align="left"><span class="style31" style="font-size: 8pt;">and 8 or 9 points too small to be easily readable by everyone</span><strong>,</strong></span> <span class="style33" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 8pt;">especially in </span><span class="style32" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold;">Times New Roman which<span class="style34" style="font-size: 11pt;"> should not be used in sizes less than 11 points</span></span></li>
<li><span class="style19" style="font-size: 12pt;">Although many people use 12 points,</span> some research on this suggested that <strong>smaller point size CVs</strong> (within reason) were perceived as <strong>more intellectual!</strong><table align="right" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" border="0" cellpadding="8" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">The Recruitment and Employment Commission says that about half of all CVs received by recruitment consultants contain spelling or grammatical errors.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">Candidates aged between 21 and 25 are most likely to make these mistakes and <strong>graduates in this age group are twice as likely to make mistakes as those who did not go on to university.</strong> See <a href="http://careers.guardian.co.uk/cv-mistakes" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">http://careers.guardian.co.uk/cv-mistakes</a></div></td></tr>
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<li><strong>Most CVs are now read on screen</strong> rather than on paper. It's no coincidence that <strong>Serif fonts are rarely used on the web</strong> - they are much less readable on screen (<span class="style5" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: bold;">Times Roman </span>was first used on Trajan's column, 2,000 years ago!), and some fonts, such as <strong>Verdana</strong>, were designed with screen readability in mind. <strong>This web site is set in Verdana</strong> which, as you can see, is clear and easy to read.</li>
<li>If you find fonts interesting see <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10689931" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">this BBC article</a> and this <a href="http://creativebits.org/inspiration/periodic_table_typefaces" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">"Periodic Table" of Typefaces</a></li>
</ul><h2 align="left" style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="Types" name="Types">Different Types</a> of CV</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"></div><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li><strong align="left">Chronological</strong> - outlining your career history<strong> in date order</strong>, normally beginning with the most recent items (reverse chronological) . This is <strong>the "conventional" approach and the easiest to prepare.</strong> It is detailed, comprehensive and biographical and usually works well for "traditional" students with a good all-round mixture of education and work experience. Mature students, however, may not benefit from this approach, which does emphasise your age, any career breaks and work experience which has little surface relevance to the posts you are applying for now. <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cv1.htm" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>See an example chronological CV here</strong></a></li>
<li><strong align="left">Skills-based:</strong> highly-focused CVs which relate your skills and abilities to a specific job or career area by <strong>highlighting <img align="right" alt="Application form spelling" height="299" src="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/pics/application-form.GIF" width="370" />these skills and your major achievements.</strong>The factual, chronological details of your education and work history are subordinate. These work well for<strong> mature graduates</strong> and for anybody whose degree subject and work experience is not directly relevant to their application. Skills-based CVs should be closely targeted to a specific job. <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/maturecv.htm" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>See an example skills-based CV here</strong></a></li>
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</div><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><strong>If you are applying for posts outside the UK,</strong> remember that employers in other countries are likely to have different expectations of what a CV should include and how it should be laid out. The "Global Resume and CV Handbook" (available from Reception) and the <a href="http://www.prospects.ac.uk/links/Abroad%20%20%20%20" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Prospects website</a> will help you prepare CVs for overseas employment. <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitesint.htm" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;"><strong>See our work abroad page.</strong></a></div><h2 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="Targeting" name="Targeting">Targeting</a> your CV</h2><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">If your CV is to be sent to an <strong>individual employer</strong> which has requested applications in this format, you should research the organisation and the position carefully.</div><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">If your CV is to be used for <strong>speculative applications,</strong> it is still important to target it - at the very least, on the general career area in which you want to work. Use the Careers Information Room or general careers websites such as www.prospects.ac.uk to get an idea of what the work involves and what skills and personal qualities are needed to do it successfully. This will enable you to tailor the CV to the work and to bring out your own relevant experience.</div><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">Even if you are using the same CV for a number of employers, you should <strong>personalise the </strong><strong>covering letter</strong> - e.g. by putting in a paragraph on why you want to work for that organisation.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">For <strong>example CVs, application forms and covering letters</strong> see <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm</a> with notes highlighting points relating to the content and style.</div><h2 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="EMAIL" name="EMAIL">Emailed</a> CVs and Web CVs</h2><table align="right" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" border="0" cellpadding="8" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><h4 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">How NOT to do it<strong></strong></h4><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">One graduate had emailed out over 80 CVs without getting a single reply and was puzzled as to why.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">I asked him to show me what he had sent out. He had sent identical CVs and letters to all the companies in one mass email. Recruiters opening the email could see the names of the 80 companies he had applied to in the "To: " box of the email!</div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li><strong>Put your </strong><strong>covering letter</strong><strong> as the body of your email.</strong> It's wise to format it as plain text as then it can be read by any email reader.</li>
<li>Emails are not as easy to read as letters. <strong>Stick to simple text with short paragraphs and plenty of spacing.</strong> Break messages into points and make each one a new paragraph with a full line gap between paragraphs. DON'T "SHOUT": WRITE IN UPPER CASE!</li>
<li><strong>Your CV is then sent as an attachment. </strong>Say you'll send a printed CV if required.</li>
<li><strong>PDF (portable document format)</strong> is perhaps becoming the most widely used format now . There are PDF-readers for all platforms (Windows, MacOS, Linux). This also guarantees that the CV will look the same, no matter what reader is used to view the document. Modern versions of Microsoft Word contain a PDF export function or you can download a free pdf converter such as Cute pdf <a href="http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp</a>: you install it and then "print" the document to a folder on your PC.</li>
<li>You can also use <strong>MS Word (.doc) format</strong>, however .doc format is not guaranteed to be compatible among different versions of Microsoft Word, so a CV might look garbled when opened with an outdated or newer version of Word. Also .doc files may not easily open on computers using Linux and Apple platforms. .doc-files may also contain sensitive information such as previous versions of a document perhaps leading to embarrassment. MS Word documents can contain <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/187243" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">macro viruses</a>, so some employers may not open these. Send the CV in .doc (Word 2003) format, rather than .docx (Word 2007) format, as not everyone has upgraded to Word 2007, or downloaded the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">free file converter</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Rich Text Format</strong> (.rtf), or <strong>html</strong> (web page format) are other alternatives.</li>
<li><strong>If in doubt send your CV in several formats.</strong> <strong>Email it back to yourself</strong> first to check it, as line lengths may be changed by your email reader.</li>
</ul><h3 style="color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px;">Web CVs and Electronically Scanned CVs</h3><table align="right" bgcolor="#FFFFCC" border="0" cellpadding="8" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;">The credit company Iprofile recommended that <strong>CVs posted on-line should not contain your date of birth, place of birth, marital status, address and phone number</strong> as they can allow fraudsters to carry out identity theft and perhaps open bank accounts or apply for credit cards in your name.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><strong>When emailing your CV to a potential employer it's probably wise to leave out your date of birth, place of birth and marital status</strong> if you have any doubts about the validity of the organisation you are applying to. Due to age discrimination legislation in the UK you no longer have to disclose your age on a CV but if you wish to, you could give this rather than your date of birth.</div></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><strong>Web CVs use HTML format.</strong> You can include the web address in an email or letter to an employer. They have the advantage that you can easily use graphics, colour, hyperlinks and even sound, animation and video. The basic rules still apply however - make it look professional. They can be very effective if you are going <strong>for </strong><strong>multimedia, web design</strong><strong> or </strong><strong>computer games</strong><strong> jobs</strong> where they can demonstrate your technical skills along with your <strong>portfolio</strong>.</div><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1em; list-style-type: none; margin-top: 0px;"><strong>Electronically scanned CVs</strong> have been used by Nortel, Ford and others. Resumix is one package used for this: it has artificial intelligence which reads the text and extracts important information such as work, education, skills. For more information on this see our page on <strong>on-line applications</strong></div><h2 style="background-image: none; color: #990033; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 1px;"><a href="" id="FURTHER" name="FURTHER">Further</a> Help</h2><ul style="font-size: 1em; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0.3px; margin-top: 0.3px;"><li><strong>Our example CVs, application forms and covering letters</strong><a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm</a><br />
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<li><strong><strong>Learning and Skills Council</strong> <a href="https://www.cvbuilder-advice-resources.co.uk/careersadvice/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">online CV Builder</a></strong> can help you build your own CV in just 12 steps. Very good!</li>
<li><strong>bab.la phrase dictionary</strong> <a href="http://en.bab.la/phrases" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">http://en.bab.la/phrases</a> provide useful phrases for CV writing, letters of application, and business letters in 14 languages including French, German, Spanish, Polish, Chinese and Japanese.</li>
<li>The Careers Service runs <strong>talks and workshops on CV preparation</strong> throughout the year. Ask at Reception for details.</li>
<li>If you are having difficulty your CV, you can consult the <strong>duty careers adviser from 10.30 am - 12.30 pm and from 2 - 5 pm, weekdays.</strong></li>
<li><b>Booklet: "Making Applications". </b>Ask for your free copy from Careers Reception.</li>
<li><strong>"Looking good on paper" On-line Video. Kent students can view this <a href="http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/IntVid.htm" style="color: #003882; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">here</a></strong></li>
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