My blog recently got hacked so I had to install everything. That means default CSS templates as well and there is the issue of aligning images at the center.

Just make sure you add this CSS code and your aligncenter attribute value should be okay.

img.alignleft { float: left; }
 
img.alignright { float: right; }
 
img.aligncenter { display: block; margin: 0px auto 0px auto; }

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1. Bitrix24.com

Effective communication among employees is substantial for the success of a business. With Bitrix24, a business with 12 employees or less can have the basic package for free. This package includes a fully functional CRM, activity streaming where every team member gets updates as events unfold, calendar, activity planner, sales funnel plus other features at exactly no cost to one’s business.

If you have more than 12 employees, not to worry. For only $99 a month, you can use all of Bitrix24 services.

2. Logaster.com

Logaster for one is a great tool for making unique and beautiful logos without any hassle. You can create a logo yourself or choose from a hundred other pre-defined templates that you can use right away. For  a subscription fee of $4.99, you can also get designs for business cards, letterheads, envelopes your business needs.

3. PickyDomains.com

Thinking what domain name to use for your brand or company is critical. Some people do the nasty habit of domain hoarding that when the time comes you need to pick a domain, they are owned by somebody else. Hence you try to think of the next possible domain name that fit your brand.

Save yourself the trouble of doing this and let others do it for you. For only a small fee, all you need to do is register, pay a deposit ($50 for a domain, brand or name and $75 for a slogan), specify  parameters then choose among the suggested domains.

4. JetRadar.com

JetRadar helps users find cheap flights, compare airfares from hundreds of airlines and hundreds of travel sites and pick the cheapest plane tickets available. Now, this is what travel should be all about.

5. iSpionage.com

iSpionage is a good service to try out to know what your competitors are up to. It is always in the best interest of a company to be on the alert what competitors are doing so you can counter their activities with your own and stay at the top.

Are they spending money on Google and Bing ads? which keywords they bid on, which keywords generate most of free traffic for them, and ton of other valuable data. One can do a free search 3x a day or $59 a month for unlimited searches.

The output of a contact’s birthday is a string formatted date with dashes (-) so I had to make a helper method to parse it; get the month, date and year; convert it to a Date object, then do calculation to get the age of the contact.

Check out the helper method below.

public static int calculateAge(int year, int month, int day) {
    Date now = new Date();
    int nowMonth = now.getMonth()+1;
    int nowYear = now.getYear()+1900;
    int result = nowYear - year;
 
    if (month > nowMonth) {
        result--;
    }
    else if (month == nowMonth) {
        int nowDay = now.getDate();
 
        if (day > nowDay) {
            result--;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

And this is how I retrieved the birthday of the contact from the contact list. Once retrieved, I parsed the output and passed it to the calculateAge() method.

public static int getAge(Context ctx, String contactId) {
    int age = 0;
    ContentResolver cr = ctx.getContentResolver();
 
    String columns[] = {
        ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE,
        ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.TYPE,
        ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.MIMETYPE,
    };
 
    String where = Event.TYPE + "=" + Event.TYPE_BIRTHDAY + 
            " and " + Event.MIMETYPE + " = '" + Event.CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE + "' and " + 
            ContactsContract.Data.CONTACT_ID + " = " + contactId;
 
    String[] selectionArgs = null;
    String sortOrder = ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME;
 
    Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Data.CONTENT_URI, columns, where, selectionArgs, sortOrder); 
 
    if (cur.getCount() > 0) {
        while (cur.moveToNext()) {
            String[] sage = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Event.START_DATE)).split("-");
            age = calculateAge(sage[0], sage[1], sage[2]);
        }
    }
    cur.close();
    return age;
}

I think we all agree that as much as possible, we want to have a small energy bill every month. Lots of bills can cost headaches and stress.

One way to lessen energy costs is to take advantage of solar use and it has bore fruit to many contraptions that have proved useful in lessening our energy bills as well as maintain a safer and more comfortable place.

Solar Gard’s Residential Window Film can help save significantly on energy costs and reduce interior fading. They come in a variety of styles and levels of protection including low-e window films and decorative window films.

Solar Gard has been in this business for more than decades so it comes as no surprise that it is the preferred choice of architects, builders and professional installers around the globe. After all, a company does not last thing long if their products stink in the first place, right?

This is a very impressive accomplishment.

Safety is important too and Solar Gard’s window film can help by rejecting solar energy to improve comfort year round, having a tint that provides impressive energy savings, protection from broken glass and ultraviolet damage.

A very worthy product worth checking out.

Upgrading your computer is not really that hard. You may think that only techies are the ones who can tweak computers without worries and with confidence.

I am a techie but I started out not as one and I actually tweaked my own desktop when I wanted to upgrade its RAM and hard drive. It was not hard. The wires may fool you into thinking upgrading computers is complex but it is not.

There are a ton of video tutorials too if you want some spoon feeding visuals to help you out just in case you still feel nervous about doing it yourself without any experience yet.

I recently used a system scanner that detects computer performance identifying the existing RAM that your computer has and provides a listing of recommendations how much memory is applicable to you.

There were many recommendations given to me which is hardly surprising since my current computer specs suck at 2GB of RAM. Probably a 4GB or 8GB would surely boost my computer’s performance.

And price is really not a problem because memory sticks are not very expensive. See the screenshot of my system scan showing that my PC has only 2GB of RAM.

The scanner came from Crucial.com and there are also a ton of other video assets to help you out, which are fairly easy to understand even for a non techie.

Even old computers can have their lives extended. That is, if you add the right specs to it. Check out Crucial’s system scanner to see what computer parts you may need to upgrade in order to have your computer keep up to speed running the latest softwares.

In my own way, the code below shows how I retrieve the details of contacts. It retrieves the contact’s display name, email and phone number.

ContentResolver cr = ctx.getContentResolver();
String[] projection = new String[] { ContactsContract.Contacts._ID, ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME };
 
Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI, projection, null, null,
        ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME + " COLLATE LOCALIZED ASC");
 
if (cur.getCount() > 0) {
    while (cur.moveToNext()) {
    	System.out.println(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data._ID)));
    	System.out.println(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Data.DISPLAY_NAME)));    	
 
	Cursor pCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI, 
			null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?", 
			new String[]{ c.getId() }, null);
 
	while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
		System.out.println(.add(pCur.getString(
		pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER)));
	} 
	pCur.close();
 
    	Cursor emailCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTENT_URI, 
    			null, ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.CONTACT_ID + " = ?", 
    			new String[]{ c.getId() }, null); 
 
    	while (emailCur.moveToNext()) { 
		System.out.println((emailCur.getString(
		emailCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Email.DATA)));
	}
    }
}
cur.close();

Monitoring stocks can be a tedious task and requires heavy monitoring as anything can happen at anytime that can adversely affect your investments.

OrderWise’s stock control system enables users to have 100% visibility of their inventory and stock situation, give advises on what they order, when to order and from which supplier.

By taking into account many aspects of stock control including minimum and maximum stock holdings, seasonal trends, sales orders, minimum order quantity, minimum order value, lead times and costs, overstocking and inventory shortages will never be a problem again.

The sales order management module ensures easy access to all the information a sales person needs such as the profit on the order, when the client last ordered with the company and when they last ordered a particular product.

These are but a few of what users can come to expect with OrderWise’s order management software. It is best to understand better by checking out the demo in their portal to see what this software can do to really help your stocks and investments.

In Eclipse, go to Window > Show View > Other, then choose File Explorer (it has an Android icon).

Within the File Explorer tab, the database file of your app is located in

/data/data/[package]/databases/

Highlight the database file and click the icon on the upper right that looks like a diskette with a tooltip that says “pull a file from the device”.

That should get you your SQLite database file.

Merrill Brink International is a leading provider of life sciences, legal, financial, manufacturing and corporate language solutions for global companies.

One such service that they specialize in is medical translation services. When it comes to translation, the best option for businesses is to hire this service from a company that actually does medical translation rather than doing it yourself.

Translation is no easy task. Been there, done that.

For Merrill Brink, they are already a proven leader with more than 30 years of experience in this field and a whole other wide range of language solutions including localization, internationalization and globalization services.

Merrill also caters as a virtual data room services provider that offers a secure and highly efficient method of sharing so your medical translation files can easily be accessed securely and you do not have to worry about maintenance and security concerns.

You can actually get a free quote from them to start with. At least after you place your requirements and needs, you will get an idea how much Merrill’s rates are with regards to your requirements and what you can expect on the whole duration of the contract.

For in-depth medical translation services and unmatched quality assurance and risk analysis, you should check out Merrill Brink.

The BestChange portal fits well for users who frequently exchange electronic money on the Internet. You wonder what makes it different from the others. To get the most of out this, one would surely want to exchange it safely with minimal loss due to the commission fees of exchangers.

Exchangers also need to profit so the best we can take advantage of is if some service will allow electronic money exchange and deduct small fees from it.

While there are other portals like this, this one is pretty simple in design and less clutter of data is what I prefer. Some portals shows a heck of a lot of data that I do not even find useful.

BestChange provides an exchanger monitor table that shows the best exchange rates for the 20 most popular directions. That is just the small part of it. They have a full list of exchangers for some particular direction in case you want comparisons.

This portal was definitely made to help users stay updated about what is going on on the currency exchange market, which exchanger can help exchange monetary units of one currency for those of another currency with minimal losses.