There is this one ATM that is located where I shop for groceries regularly. You might be thinking that I use it to withdraw my money, but this is not the case. I used to do it in the past until I discovered that it does not benefit me in any way.

The reason not all ATMs are good places to withdraw your money from your bank account is because you can encounter ATM charges. You only should withdraw money from such ATMs that will not charge you anything for it. Next time you want to check if your ATM will charge you, try to figure it out by looking at the information you can find around you. You might even want to ask your bank about it and see what they will tell you on the subject.

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation and videos to webpages, but you can also add Flash to your PowerPoint presentations. In order to make your PowerPoint presentations even more attractive and enjoyable, you can insert flash movies into it. Here it is how you can do it:

1. Open your PowerPoint presentation and go to View in the upper menu bar.
2. Now, click on Toolbars and choose the option Control Toolbox.
3. After clicking on Control Toolbox click on an icon that looks like a hammer to see more options.
4. Choose Shockwave Flash Object.
5. With your mouse draw a small box where you would like to out your Flash movie. Right click no it and choose Properties.
6. Go to Alphabetic and then go to Movie.
7. In the same column you will see an option Playing. Set It to true. Do the same to EmbedMovie.

After exiting Properties and saving your presentation you will be able to enjoy your embedded flash movie. Flash movies can definitely enhance the quality of your presentation so it may be a good idea to take advantage of that.

If you are like me, you still use CD-ROMs on a regular basis. You may know that if a CD-ROM is not clean, then it might cause a lot of problems accessing data. If you have inserted your CD in the CD drive and you keep getting messages that tell you that there is no disc or your CD takes a long time to read, it all means that your CD-ROM needs some good cleaning. There are special tools used to effectively clean the CD drive. They are called laser lens cleaner discs and need to be used if something goes wrong with your Cd drive.

If you want to use a laser lens cleaner, make sure that there is no CD in your CD-ROM. Use laser lens cleaner to clean the drive lens. Insert the laser lens cleaner disc and play it for a few minutes. If after this your CD drive still causes problems, use a small piece of cloth or a cotton swab to clean the lens. Be careful while doing it so that you do not damage any hardware.

A picture is worth a thousand words. If you are creating a presentation, such as a PowerPoint presentation, then you should not forget about that. Naturally PowerPoint offers many ways to enrich our presentations with pictures. There are two places from which you can take your picture in order to insert it: Clip Art or any file stored on your disk. If you wish to insert an image from Clip Art, follow these steps:

-First, make sure that you are in a slide where you want to insert a picture. Go to the Insert menu and select there Picture. Next select Clip Art and watch how a dialog box pops up. Choose a clip and insert it.

-Alternatively you can insert a picture from Clip Art By going to drawing tool bar and clicking on Insert Clip Art button. Next, select the category of your picture and then your picture that you wish to insert. Right click on it and from the scrolling menu select Insert command.

A picture is worth a thousand words, so it is important to know how to use pictures effectively to convey your message, especially when it comes to PowerPoint presentations. Never estimate the value of pictures.

Silver holdings and investing has been quite controversial in America. Most people might know the story of how America went off the gold standard and they might associate this story with gold and silver. Many believe going off the gold standard caused over flow of cash, which made holding cash not a wise investment. Many people lost their fortunes very fast and they might not have been even completely aware of what is going on. A person who owns silver bullion and silver ingots is in a completely different situation, and I would like to discuss this matter further in my next post.

I have been a coffee drinker for a long time now. As a matter of fact, I have been drinking it for as long as I can remember. I do not even know when my habit exactly started, but it definitely has been a while.

I got used to drinking my morning cup of joe so much that I wasn’t able to start any morning without it. It was natural for me to wake up in the morning and run to the kitchen to make some instance coffee. If for some reason I did not do it, I felt sleepy and wanted to drink my cup of coffee as soon as it became possible.

Well, guess what? I have not drink any coffee for about a week now. I used to think that life without morning coffee was impossible, but here I am : without any coffee for about a week. And I am doing just fine! Of course, from time to time I am still feeling tempted to drink a cup of the drink, especially when I start to feel sleepy in the middle of they day, but so far I have not given in yet.

One question I have been asking myself for some time is whether money equals wealth. It seems that the answer to this question is yes, money definitely equals wealth.

Another question I have been asking myself is whether Americans are wealthy or not. Since so many Americans are in debt, owning a house or a car does not mean that they are wealthy. Usually, a family with the biggest house on the street is not necessarily the wealthiest family out there. Very often, it is easy to take a loan if you know that you might not be able to pay it back.

My advice is to evaluate how wealthy you are and then make your decisions accordingly. Every time you are about to take a loan, ask yourself whether you are going to be able to repay it or not.

I have always thought that in order to multiply my money, it would be best to start my own business. At a first glance, this idea looks reasonable, I have money so I want to invest it and multiply it by starting a business. It is as simple as that. But when I look at the number of small businesses around me, I realize that their number is not so high. Why is this the case, I have been asking myself for some time now. It seems that I might know the answer to this particular question. Here it is.

Having a small business might not be the easiest task under the Sun. It usually means a lot of responsibilities for the owner. I do not know about you, but when I used to work for somebody else in the past, I never had to worry about anything. When I am a small business owner, I am more likely to need to think about everything.