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Upgrading Your Hard Drive

With more and more data and video, our drives are quickly running out of space. Fortunately, you can always find a bigger drive.

It’s also good practice to replace your laptop drive every 2-3 years before it suddenly fails you.

The problem arises when you want to copy your data from your old drive to the new one, especially if you have special partitions on your drive (Lenovo and HP recovery partitions, etc.).

I had to replace my drive a couple of days back and found the following programs very useful:

– CloneZilla: Needs basic tech knowledge to create a bootable CD. Has a lot of advanced options but you can stick to the defaults which worked perfectly fine for me (Lenovo T420)

– AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition : CloneZilla will create a clone of your disk drive leaving additional space unallocated. Windows 7 disk manager is only capable of merging two consecutive partitions. If you have more than two partitions, AOMEI Partition Assistant will do the trick for you.

Both programs are free.

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Writing Upside Down in Twitter, Facebook, Website, etc.

If you ever need to do this, the short way is to go to http://toolsgeek.com/upsidedown.php, type, copy and paste the text anywhere else.

upsidedown

For a detailed explanation of how this work, visit:

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/30197/ask-how-to-geek-how-do-you-make-upside-down-text/

This works perfectly on Facebook and Twitter (including their mobile apps) but will not work on all websites, especially if you’re using an admin to manage them (including WordPress).

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Facebook pages Lebanese people like…

Based on Social Bakers (www.socialbakers.com), the 10 pages with the highest number of Lebanese fans (as of June 19, 2013) are:

Rank Page Lebanese Fans Total Fans
1 Texas HoldEm Poker 382,618 70,365,082
2 Master Chips 262,981 404,264
3   I dream of Lebanon 259,581 437,451
4   SAYFCO HOLDING 244,524 2,336,992
5   Nancy Ajram 190,311 5,547,814
6   Cyrine Abdelnour 167,229 1,04,4173
7   Georges Khabbaz 156,773 216,096
8   Nadine Al Rassi 154,331 261,241
9   Trident 151,819 10,167,898
10   Trident (ME) 151,479 157,096
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Facebook Photoshop Templates

Click here for the updated template (May 2015) or continue reading

 

These templates will help you customize your Facebook profile or Facebook pages. Useful to have a picture-in-picture effect, a profile picture that completes the cover page photo, a profile picture that extends the cover photo or multiple profile pictures embedded within the cover page.

click on the images to download the Photoshop files (PSD) in Zip format. Tutorials coming soon.

Profile Template

facebook_profile_template-201305

Page Template

20130529-facebook-page-template

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MS Excel Tutorial (first draft)

Contents

The basics. 1

Filling Cells. 1

Basic Equations. 1

Equation Priorities. 1

Range Formulas. 2

Logical Operators. 2

Conditions (IF) 2

Formatting cells. 3

Conditional Formatting. 3

Building Charts. 9

Quick Customization. 10

Databases in Excel 18

Creating a Pivot Chart 30

Download PDF file

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Is there a correlation between Women on Facebook and democracy?

Abstract: We compare the democracy score and the gender ratio of different countries on Facebook and find a very strong correlation between the percentage of women on Facebook and democracy.

 

We use the gender data provided by the Facebook ads system for 11 countries: Lebanon, France, USA, KSA, Kuwait, Egypt, UAE, Italy, Sweden, UK and Canada.

 

Lebanon

France

USA

KSA

Kuwait

Egypt

ALL

1,522,960

25,349,340

158,828,500

5,350,020

790,460

14,020,540

F

669,360

12,911,360

82,757,620

1,484,560

261,280

4,980,720

M

822,760

12,157,220

71,055,220

3,857,020

524,180

8,971,500

Not Specified

30,840

280,760

5,015,660

8,440

5,000

68,320

 

UAE

Italy

Sweden

UK

Canada

ALL

3,423,360

23,332,320

4,738,280

31,164,520

17,783,580

F

1,087,500

10,907,020

2,386,680

15,915,120

9,346,580

M

2,313,380

12,301,860

2,279,840

14,664,860

7,996,760

Not Specified

22,480

123,440

71,760

584,540

440,240

 

We then determine the Women/Men ratio for each country:

 

W/M

Leb.

Fr.

USA

KSA

Kuwait

Egypt

UAE

Italy

Sweden

UK

Canada

Rank

7

4

2

11

9

8

10

6

5

3

1

Ratio

0.81

1.06

1.164

0.38

0.49

0.55

0.47

0.88

1.04

1.08

1.168

 

The democracy index is retrieved from The Democracy Index 2012 from The Economist Intelligence Unit (https://www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=DemocracyIndex12) and gender gap indexes (2012) from The Global Gender Gap Report (Hausmann, Tyson & Zahidi, 2012) from the World Economic Forum (http://templatelab.com/global-gender-gap-report/)

 

Leb.

Fr.

USA

KSA

Kuwait

Egypt

UAE

Italy

Sweden

UK

Canada

Democracy
Score

5.05

7.88

8.11

1.71

3.78

4.56

2.58

7.74

9.73

8.21

9.08

Gender
Gap

0.603

0.6984

0.7373

0.5731

0.632

0.5975

0.6392

0.6729

0.8159

0.7433

0.7381

 

Results:

democracy-ratio

Ratio / Democracy

Ratio / Gender Gap
R (Correlation coefficient)

0.95071

0.832496
R2 (coefficient of determination)

0.9039

0.693

ggg

 

There is a very strong positive linear correlation (R) and a high coefficient of determination between the gender ratio and the democracy score.

 

The coefficient of determination is high, yet lower (70% certainty) when comparing gender ratio on Facebook and the gender gap.

 

It would be nice to include more countries to this exercise (when I have more time)…

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Facebook Lebanese population

The below data was extracted from Facebook using the Facebook advertising tools.

It has been compiled on May 2013.

It is important to mention that the penetration ratio of the Lebanese population on Facebook is 116% the number of connected people. So, it is safe to assume that an important number of Facebook Lebanese profiles are fake and that some Lebanese are using multiple profiles.

Lebanese Facebook population by Age and sex:

Age
Total

13-17

18-24

25-34

35-44

45-54

55-64

65+

ALL

1,522,960

189,920

503,460

455,160

215,220

104,240

34,840

22,480

Women

669,360

89,100

225,800

195,500

91,820

44,360

14,540

8,260

Men

822,760

100,580

271,560

246,380

115,620

56,360

19,040

13,200

Not Specified

30,840

240

6,100

13,280

7,780

3,520

1,260

1,020

population

Lebanese Facebook population by age:

age

Lebanese Facebook population by marital status:

Single

In a relationship

Married

Engaged

Not Specified

Men

158,000

37,200

74,360

16,380

529,160

Women

111,920

31,160

105,340

20,980

394,240

maritalstatus

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Create a simple Twitter Follow

This is a good method to create a follow button that can be integrated almost anywhere: website, WordPress blog, other blogs or sites.

If you don’t want to read the full article, this is the iframe based code. Just replace “nasrimessarra” with your twitter username:
<iframe allowtransparency=”true” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.html?screen_name=nasrimessarra”  style=”width:300px; height:20px;”></iframe>

The javascript code is:
<a href=”https://twitter.com/nasrimessarra” data-show-count=”false” data-lang=”en”>Follow @nasrimessarra</a>

    <script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=”//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js”;fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,”script”,”twitter-wjs”);</script>

For the full article, follow this link: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/follow-button

Sample (Javascript):

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