Gmail Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. They may change,break or disappear at any time. If (when) a Labs feature breaks, and you’re having trouble loading your inbox, there’s an escape hatch. Use http://mail.google.com/mail/?labs=0.

Custom Date Formats

Adds options to the general settings page allowing the date and time format to be changed independent of language. For example, you can use a 24-hour clock (14:57) or show dates with the day first (31/12/07).

Inserting Images

Allows you to insert images into a message body. You can upload and insert image files in your computer, or insert images by URLs. This lab will not work if you have offline enabled.

Mark As Read Button

Tired of spending all that effort to click on the more actions menu every time you want to mark messages as read without reading them? Now just enable this lab and that is just a button click away!

Pictures In Chat

See your friends’ profile pictures when you chat with them.

Quote Selected Text

Quote the text you have selected when you reply to a message. (Now works with the mouse, too!)

Send & Archive

Adds a button to the compose form that lets you send a reply message and archive the email conversation in a single action.

Sender Time Zone

Should I reply to this mail or just call the guy? Ooops… it’s 1 am. Sorry, I didn’t mean to disturb…

Signature Tweaks

Places your signature before the quoted text in a reply, and removes the "–" line that appears before signatures.

Superstars

Adds additional star icons. After enabling this feature:
(1) Go to the "General" Settings page to choose which superstars you wish to use.
(2) Use either the keyboard shortcut (‘s’) or click to rotate through your selected superstars.
(3) Use the search operator "has:" to find all messages with your superstar (e.g. "has:red-bang", "has:blue-star"). Learn the name of a superstar by hovering over its image in the "General" Settings page.

Undo Send

Oops, hit "Send" too soon? Stop messages from being sent for a few seconds after hitting the send button.

So how many Google products and services do you use? I’ve checked Alexa Traffic Ranking for Google.com and found that the top 3 Google Products remain Google Search Engine, Google Mail (Gmail), and Google Image Search or else 90% of Googlers uses Google only as a Search Engine and of course as a free email service provider. If you are not tech savvy then chances are that you are unaware about most of the following Google products, services, and tools.

Now I’m going to list all the Google Products and Services which I’m using. If you haven’t tried any of them then I really suggest you to check it out and see if it can make your life easier, better and more productive. To see a snapshot of what all Google products are you using then go to Google My Account which lists the top Google Services which you have signed up for.

1. Google Search & it’s features - Google search is the most popular search engine on the Web.
2. Blogger - A free blog publishing tool for easily sharing your thoughts with the world.
3. FeedBurner – Allows bloggers and podcasters to manage their RSS feeds.
4. Google Ad Planner – A free media planning tool that can help you identify websites your audience is likely to visit so you can make better-informed advertising decisions.
5. Google AdSense – Place contextual Google ads on your site – and earn money.
6. Google AdWords - Advertise online and pay only when people click on your ad.
7. Google Affiliate Network (DoubleClick) - Full-service online marketing company specializing in pay-for-performance media.
8. Google Alerts - Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic.
9. Google Analytics (Urchin) - Google Analytics makes it easy to improve your results online.
10. Google Apps - Software-as-a-service for business email, information sharing and security.
11. Google Base - Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content.
12. Google Blog Search - Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs.
13. Google Bookmarks - Google Bookmarks is an online service that lets you save your favorite sites and attach labels and comments.
14. Google Book Search – Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide.
15. Google Calendar - Keep track of all your life’s important events – birthdays, reunions, little league games, doctor’s appointments – all in one place.
16. Google Checkout - Buy from stores across the web and track all your orders and shipping in one place.
17. Google Chrome - A browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.
18. Google Code - Code is for external developers interested in Google related development.
19. Google Contacts – Similar to an online address book, the Contact Manager gives you easy access to the people you want to reach.
20. Google Custom Search Engine & Google Subscribed Links – With Google Custom Search Engine and Subscribed Links, you can create a search engine tailored to your needs and lets you create custom search results that users can add to their Google search pages.
21. Google Desktop - Search your computer as easily as you search the web with Google.
22. Google Dictionary - Free online dictionary.
23. Google Directory - The web organized by topic into categories.
24. Google Documents – Free web-based word processor and spreadsheet, which allow you share and collaborate online.
25. Google Earth & Google Mars - Offers maps and satellite images for complex or pinpointed regional searches.
26. Google Finance - Offers a broad range of information about stocks, mutual funds, and companies.
27. Google Friend Connect – Instantly awakens and strengthens the community that visits your site by enriching it with social features.
28. Google Gears - A Firefox and Internet Explorer extension that allows to navigate on compatible websites offline and synchronize when going back online.
29. Google Groups - Where groups of people have discussions about common interests.
30. Google Health - Puts you in charge of your health information.
31. Google Image Search & Similar Images - The most comprehensive image search on the web. Google Search Images allows you to search for images using pictures rather than words.
32. Google In Quotes – Allows you to find quotes from stories linked to from Google News.
33. Google Knol - Knol makes it free and easy to create, collaborate on, and publish credible web content.
34. Google Latitude - See where your friends are on a map.
35. Google Local Business Center - If you are a business owner Claim your business listing today and let customers find you online!
36. Google Mail (Gmail) - Gmail is a new kind of webmail, built on the idea that email can be more intuitive, efficient, and useful.
37. Google Maps & Google Map Maker - Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions. With Map Maker you can edit the map in more than a hundred countries and watch your edits go into Google Maps.
38. Google Mobile - Upgrade your phone with free Google products.
39. Google Moderator - A tool that allows distributed communities to submit and vote on questions for talks, presentations and events.
40. Google News, News Archive Search & Google News Timeline - Aggregated headlines and a search engine of many of the world’s news sources. News archive search provides an easy way to search and explore historical archives. News Timeline is a web application that organizes information chronologically.
41. Google Notebook (SearchWiki) - With Google Notebook, you can browse, clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that’s accessible from any computer.
42. Google Patents - Search the full text of the U.S. patent corpus and find patents that interest you.
43. Google Product Search (Froogle) - Presents photographs of products and links to the stores that sell them online.
44. Google Reader - Web based feed reader to keep up with blogs and news.
45. Google Scholar - Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
46. Google Sets - Automatically create sets of items from a few examples.
47. Google Sites - Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share web pages.
48. Google SketchUp - Create, modify and share 3D models.
49. Google Sky - Google Sky includes a number of different ways to explore the universe.
50. Google Squared – Takes a category and creates a starter ‘square‘ of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.
51. Google Store – Official Google Accessories, Apparel Items, Software, Office Equipment
52. Google Suggest - As you type your search, Google offers keyword suggestions in real time.
53. Google Talk - Chat with family and friends over the Internet for free.
54. Google Toolbar - Internet Explorer and Firefox Toolbar with Google search.
55. Google Translate – Free online language translation service instantly translates text and web pages.
56. Google Trends & Google Insights for Search - Compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Use Google Insights for Search and see for yourself what the world is searching for.
57. Google Video - Search and watch millions of videos indexed from all over the web.
58. Google Wave – Google Wave is a new online communication and collaboration tool.
59. Google Web Accelerator - Google Web Accelerator works with your browser to help web pages show up in a snap.
60. Google Web History - Your web history is stored on Google servers, which means that you can view and manage it from any computer.
61. Google Webmaster Tools - Provides you with detailed reports about your pages’ visibility on Google.
62. iGoogle - Your personalized Google home page.
63. Jaiku - Create your own microblog and connect with your friends.
64. Orkut - Social networking site designed to make your social life more active and stimulating.
65. Picasa - Helps you organize, edit, and share your photos.
66. YouTube - Share your videos with friends, family, and the world.

I haven’t included Google WiFi as I’m not from United States. Google WiFi is a free wireless Internet service to the city of Mountain View, California. I know that the list doesn’t end here but I included only the products which I’ve used or have been using. Please let me know if you know any other interesting service from Google so that I can give a try. So, how many Google Products and Services are you using?

Like To Talk?

1. Blog for Ad Revenue – Start a blog on a topic you love, build up a reader base and make money from ads on your site.
2. Be a Forum Moderator – Keep out the spam and build a community and you can earn a little cash on the side moderating forums.
3. Write Articles for Websites – Content is King on websites. Keeping sites updated with fresh, high quality content is a chore for website owners and often outsourced. If you’re a good writer with experience in an area you can make a living off of it.
4. Be a Guest Author – Some higher quality sites will pay between $50 – $400 for a solid article on a topic their readers are interested in. The results are never assured with this method, but the rewards are much higher.
5. Get Paid to Post in Forums – No one wants to post in an empty forum, so webmaster will hire forum posters to help kick start their forum and make it look active. Get paid between $0.10 – $0.25 per post to help get a forum started.
6. Start a Podcast – Basically the same as with a blog, but with audio or video. Talk about what you want and make money from the ads.
7. Get Paid for Forums You Already Talk On – Many forums offer a revenue share program where you can run your own ads on threads you create. This is something Destroy Debt offers. Take advantage of it.
8. Translate Documents - Automated translation is no substitute for humans. If you speak a second language, translate documents and get paid.
9. Be a Life coach or Counselor - Many people would rather talk to a counselor through the safety of the Internet. Offer your advice at an hourly rate.

Are You A Gamer?

10. Farm Gold – Regardless of which online game you like to play there’s always people selling in game money for real money. It may be against the terms of the game but it isn’t illegal. Just make sure you’re making more than your subscription fee.
11. Participate in Gaming Tournaments – If you’re good enough consider entering gaming tournaments. Several of them give away serious cash and prizes.
12. Buy In-Game Real Estate – This was popularized by Second Life. Buy and develop land in the game and it can fetch you cash in the real world. You could become a millionaire like Ansche Chung.
13. Open an In-Game Store – Another one from Second-Life. Many people have made big bucks selling tshirts, pets, and just about anything else you can imagine in the game.
14. Be a Tester – A paid game testing job is hard to come by, since so many people will do it for free, but they do exist.

Would You Like To Be A Middle Man?

15. Put a US Face on an Overseas Business – People outsource overseas because it’s much cheaper. However due to communication problems and some bad experience people are also weary of it. Find some workers overseas you can trust who have a particular talent, and open a US store front offering that service. Charge the premium rates for a US company and “oversee” the overseas work.
16. Organize Forum Posters – When starting a forum many webmasters will hire posters to get it started. Paying 50 people $5 each is a pain and you never know the kind of work you’ll get. Put together a team and provide a one stop shop for webmasters.
17. Offer Client Referral Exchanges – Programmers often will get more projects at one time than they can handle and have to refer them off. Pay these programmers 10% to refer clients to you, and charge other developers 20% to send referrals to them. Pocket the difference. The same is true with other professions.
18. Be a Link Broker – Many people want to buy quality links for their websites while others want to sell them. Be the middleman to make these connections and make a profit on the price difference.
19. Sell Websites and Domains for Others – Some people have quality websites or domains but either don’t know how or don’t have the time to go about selling them. Provide this service and charge a 10% fee.
20. Refer Others to Jobs – Many firms will pay referral bonuses of $500-$1,000+ for referring the right candidate for a job. Develop relationships with recruiters and scour job boards for candidates that fit. Make the connection and pocket the cash.

Can You Program?

21. Write Software for Resale – I’ve personally bought tools on a number of occasions I knew I could write myself just because they were cheap enough to justify buying them instead of spending the time to write it.
22. Write a Web Component – I’m sure you’ve bought fancy drop down menus, charting, comboboxes, etc before. If not with your own money than for a project at work. Write a component like this and sell it.
23. Develop Websites for Others – This is kind of a no-brainer. Do some side work, you can probably charge 2-3x per hour what you get paid for your day job. Sites like Rent A Coder and Elance can put you in contact with buyers.
24. Automate Manual Jobs and Charge per Job – I’ve seen several people asking for forms to be populated from Google Maps or Yahoo Answers data. Write a quick app to do this, but charge per entry the same as if you were manually doing it.
25. Extend Existing Software – Create a plugin, build a storefront package on top of Amazon Web Services, make a bulletin board system more SEO friendly, or whatever you dream up. By extending the functionality of existing software, you can quickly build a user base.
26. Start Your Own Search Engine – Not from scratch, Google provides a great API for you to build your own custom search engine. Build one around a certain topic, provide a better design or give out random prizes. When people search from your site and click on the ads, you get credit.
27. Build Canned Websites for Resell – Create a website for a particular industry once, give it a descent admin and then resell copies of it over and over. Just swap out the logo, a few images and you’re good to go. This works especially well for affiliate marketing websites.

Ever Heard Of eBay?

28. Sell Your Junk on Ebay – The packaging and mailing is a pain, but it sure beats having a garage sale.
29. Buy Other Peoples Junk and Sell it on Ebay – Go to garage sales and resell for higher, or buy bulk discontinued items and sell them off individually.
30. Sell Other Peoples Junk on Ebay for Them – There’s a store on virtually every corner that does this now. Why not you?
31. Create a Virtual Store on Ebay with Drop Shipping – Create a wide storefront with tons of products. The beauty is, by working with a private label drop shipping company you don’t have to actually have these products. Just order one when you make a sale and they’ll ship it out for you, with your name on it. You don’t have to deal with the packaging either!

Don’t Mind Working In The Real World?

32. Take Stock Photos – Take clever photographs and sell them for stock photos on other websites. Sites like iStockPhoto.com allow you to sell the same photo to hundreds of websites.
33. Make Stuff to Sell Online – If you can quilt, sew, work with wood or are descent at any other task, you can make it and sell it online.
34. Enter Data for Google Maps – Google is currently paying people to take photos of businesses and enter basic data such as hours of operation. Go to the local business complex next to the grocery store and you can knock out 50 of these in a few hours.

Got Some Money To Invest?

35. Flip Websites or Domains – There are countless websites and domains for sell every day at places like DigitalPoint, SitePoint and DnForum. Find the bargains and turn them around for a quick profit.
36. Buy Profitable Websites and Keep Them – The standard going price for a small profitable website is 10-12 months earnings. Buy some gems, hang onto them past 10-12 months and reap the benefits.
37. Learn the Art of PPC Arbitrage – Put up a simple website that has ads, affiliate programs or some other source of revenue. If you can find the right terms and buy traffic to the site cheap enough, it’s possible to make a profit on the difference on what you buy the traffic for and what you sell it for.
38. Become a Day Trader – Better know what you’re doing on this one because it’s just as easy to loose money with it as make it. But it can be quite profitable if you know what you’re doing.
39. Convert E-Currency – There are several forum posts everyday for people who want to convert some EGold money into Paypal money, etc. Offer this service and charge a 5%-10% fee for it.
40. Buy a Fancy Machine – Buy a high tech printer, engraver or automated sewing machine and charge people for the items you can produce with it.

Good With Photoshop?

41. Design Logos – Every good business needs a good logo. You may be just the person to provide it.
42. Design Websites – Why stop with the logo, entire websites need to be designed. I am horrible at design so hired Evermark to design this site. Other webmasters are hiring too.
43. Design Ads – Webmasters still need design work after the site is created. Create banners and other professional ads for websites.
44. Draw Cartoons – You may have noticed our section of debt cartoons. I can tell you I didn’t draw them, it was Dan from GibbleGuts.com. Start your own cartoon business.
45. Design T-Shirts – Come up with a nice image or some interesting text and sites like CafePress will help you slap it on a t-shirt and sell it.
46. Design a Seal – Here’s a little secret, most of those “authority seals” you see really don’t mean anything. They just look like they give a site credibility, so webmasters are willing to buy them because they improve the conversion rate. Create your own, make up some guidelines and charge $300 for websites to use it.
47. Create Digital Scrap Booking Templates – People love to scrapbook and some prefer to do it on the computer. Create templates for every occasion that allow your customers to just slide in their own photos.
48. Make Clipart and Icons – People still need these. Another option is comment graphics for sites like MySpace. Build packages of these, give a few away for free and sell the rest.
49. Create MySpace Backgrounds - Don’t stop at the comment tags. Myspace is a gold mine for selling simple customizations if you’re good at it. Create some nice backgrounds and cash in.
50. Make Photoshop Brushes and Filters – If you’re a true wiz at Photoshop, extend its functionality and you can make a fortune.

Have An Artistic Touch?

51. Edit Photos for Others – You can restore old photos, or give existing ones an artistic touch, nice frame, etc. My brother offers this service for kid’s sports pictures at Zongker Team Pics.
52. Create Video Montages – Have people email you a stack of photos and put together a nice DVD to music for weddings, anniversaries, reunions, funerals, etc.
53. Create Photo Mosaics – You know those nifty pictures that are made up from 500 smaller pictures. Have customers send you the digital images they want to use and you can create these automatically with software like Andrea Mosaic.

Got Talent?

54. Record Songs and Sell Online – That is if you don’t suck. With online downloads, record labels are becoming a thing of the past. If you got the goods, sell it online at palces like Arkade.
55. Sell Artwork Online – If you can paint, draw, sketch, make caricatures, etc try selling them online. You may be surprised how many people are willing to buy it.
56. Compose Midi’s – Create either your own original creation or your interpretation of more popular songs and sell them as midi’s or ring tones.
57. Make Videos – Sites like Revver and Break will share ad revenue or even pay you for your videos. Make something clever and upload it.
58. Contribute to a Collection – Whether it’s a recipe, short story, poem or whatever. You may not be able to sell it alone, but could get royalties from contributing it to a collection.

Have More Time Than Talent?

59. Submit to Social Bookmarking Sites – Just look at the Digital Point Forums and you’ll see tons of people paying for someone to Digg or Stumble their site. You’ll be considered the scum of the earth by the users of these sites, but will have a few extra bucks in your pocket.
60. Get Paid to Surf – You won’t make much, you’ll be giving up your privacy and possibly be installing malware, but this list wouldn’t be complete without the obligatory get paid to surf reference.
61. Take Surveys – A few sites will pay you to complete surveys. Not always in cash, but sometimes you can get free samples or points to buy products with.
62. Get Free Samples – You probably won’t find free cash, but hey stock up on all the free samples, mouse pads and other junk you can find! There are tons of freebie sites who’ve done the hard work of finding these freebies for you.
63. Enter Contests – If you’ve got some time to kill, enter a few contests. You may not win the beach house, but I’ve personally won free pizza’s, cell phone accessories and flowers from some local online contests.
64. Data Entry – Here’s ole faithful. People often need data moved from one type of document to another, or written/verbal notes dictated. It’s work pretty much anyone can do.
65. Become a Virtual Assistant – Occasionally people want research done on anything from finding a certain car but don’t have time to do it themselves. Provide this research service for them and charge by the hour. It’s a real industry with it’s own organization.
66. Get Paid to Search – With sites like Winzy you can win prizes for searching.

Do You Know HTML?

67. Make Blog/Forum Templates – Pick a popular blog or forum software, design some nice templates for it and sell them.
68. Create MySpace Layouts – This is essentially the same task as the blog templates, but an entirely different market. You may even be able to reuse the same template for both purposes.
69. Start an Online Store – Order products wholesale, or drop shipped and create your own storefront.
70. Start an Affiliate Website – Don’t want to deal with the headaches of selling your own products? Refer visitors to someone else’s products and earn a commission.
71. Open a Virtual Storefront – Building your own affiliate site is still too much work for you? Then don’t, open a virtual storefront hosted by someone else, using sites like Art.com and CardCommission.com.
72. Offer Paid Reviews From Your Website – Other website owners will pay you to review their website on your site or blog. Make from $10-$50 each or more by offering these reviews.
73. Start a Directory – Build up a quality listing of sites on a given topic and get other sites to link to this resource. Then start selling premium listings in this directory.

Are You Tech Savvy?

74. Resell Web Hosting – You can find several sites offering reseller hosting packages at WebHostingTalk. You just rent the server space, split it up and resell it. Occasional support is required.
75. Host Game or Chat Servers – Set up a Linux box in a datacenter and you can run voice chat and game servers off of it that are available 24×7. People will pay to use them.
76. Host Forums – There’s software like SebFlipper that will allow you to host hundreds of separate forums from a single web server. Charge your members to host a forum with you, or offer it for free and run ads on all the pages.
77. Install Applications for Others – People are constantly getting hung up and asking for help with installs on websites. Install software for them and charge a fee for it.
78. Answer Tech Questions – Sites like ExpertBee provide a place for people to ask questions and specify a price they will pay for the answer.
79. Start an Uptime Monitoring Service – There’s software packages out there that will check a website for uptime, send alerts and provide reports. Buy one of these packages and resell the hosted service.
80. Offer Hosted Email – Setting up an email server, blocking spam and making sure it’s locked to relaying is a pain for most webmasters. Provide an easy way for them to outsource the whole service to you.
81. Provide Application Testing – Manually test websites on different OS and browser combinations and provide a report of your findings.
82. Provide Load Testing – Put a heavy traffic load against websites an provide a report of how it responded.
83. Offer an Offsite Backup Service – Rent a server and massive amounts of storage space from a datacenter and provide remote storage space via FTP or other method for a monthly fee per gigabyte of storage.
84. Start a Domain Registrar – Sites like TuCows will let you create your own private label domain registrar where you’ll benefit from not only the initial sale, but from renewals.
85. Sell SSL Certificates – Another service offered by TuCows and others is the ability to resell SSL certificates.

Have A Knack For SEO?

86. Be a Link Builder – Someone who can find good quality links for a website is worth their weight in gold. Become a link builder and charge per link or by the hour.
87. Submit to Directories – Filling out the forms to submit to directories is a pain but important for webmasters. Most will gladly pay to have someone else do it for them.
88. Be a Consultant – Review websites and recommend changes to help improve search engine rankings. Slap it together in a professional looking report and you can charge several hundred to a few thousand dollars per website.

Know Something About Something?

89. Become an About.com Guide – About.com will pay you a very nice percentage of ad revenue from the section you’re a guide of.
90. Write eBooks – These are hard to sell but if you really have the info others want you can make it work.
91. Teach an Online Course – Many colleges are looking for part time teachers for both their online and in-classroom courses.
92. Sell Instructional Videos – It’s got to be something people want, but if you’re truly an expert on a topic, others will pay to learn what you know.
93. Start a Subscription Website – Provide new scrapbooking techniques, recipes or any other advice on a regular basis and charge for a membership.

Are You Opinionated?

94. Review Software – Developers are looking for honest feedback on their work and are willing to pay for it. Use a site like SoftwareJudge to get paid for providing this feedback.

Don’t Have A Conscience?

95. MySpace Blast People – Create an account, recruit all the friends you can and then send them bulletins with advertisements. You’ll loose a lot of ‘friends’ but you will make some money at it.
96. Do Homework for Others – It’s completely wrong of course, but you can get paid to do it.

Don’t Mind Annoying Your Friends?

97. Sell Products Via Email – Gone are the days of Avon, Tupperware and Arbonne parties. Just email your friends and family the the current specials and have them email back the orders.
98. Send Out Cards – Another great program for marketing to your friend and family is SendOutCards. They send out physical Christmas, birthday and other cards on your behalf and pay for referrals.
99. Refer Them to Surveys – Not only can you fill out surveys yourself, now there’s a second tier where you can refer friends to take surveys and earn money and gifts for doing so.

Don’t Want To Actually Work?

100. Sell Unused CPU Cycles – Why do work yourself when your computer will do it for you? Sites like CPU Share let you sell your extra computer cycles. Just make sure you’re making enough to cover the cost of electricity.

Want More Traditional Work?

101. Telecommute – Hit up your favorite online job board for jobs marked as telecommute. Most you can do entirely online from your home.

Warren Buffett Quotes On Investing

I was searching the entire web for some famous quotes said by the legendary investor Warren Buffett. I don’t know how many I’ve read. But I would like to share with you 79 of them which I find interesting and which do makes sense. If you are an investor then it’s a must read! And feel free to comment below if I’d missed something! Happy Investing!

1. ‘Never invest in a business you cannot understand.’
2. ‘Always invest for the long term.’
3. ‘Buy a business, don’t rent stocks.’
4. ‘Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.’
5. ‘I really like my life. I’ve arranged my life so that I can do what I want.’
6. ‘We will only do with your money what we would do with our own.’
7. ‘If you don’t feel comfortable owning something for 10 years, then don’t own it for 10 minutes.’
8. ‘I am a better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor.’
9. ‘Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.’
10. ‘The Stock Market is designed to transfer money from the Active to the Patient.’
11. ‘Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy, interest rates, or elections.’
12. ‘I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for ten years.’
13. ‘I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.’
14. ‘For some reason, people take their cues from price action rather than from values. What doesn’t work is when you start doing things that you don’t understand or because they worked last week for somebody else. The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it’s going up.’
15. ‘We don’t get paid for activity, just for being right. As to how long we will wait, we’ll wait indefinitely.’
16. ‘As Buffet said in the speech, “He’s not looking at quarterly earnings projections, he’s not looking at next year’s earnings, he’s not thinking about what day of the week it is, he doesn’t care what investment research from any place says, he’s not interested in price momentum, volume or anything. He’s simply asking: What is the business worth?’
17. ‘Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise.’
18. ‘Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can’t buy what is popular and do well.’
19. When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: ‘we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.’
20. ‘When a management team with a reputation for brilliance joins a business with poor fundamental economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.’
21. “. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise.  Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.”
22. ‘Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they’re doing.’
23. ‘Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.’
24. ‘You’re neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You’re right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right – that’s the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don’t have to worry about anybody else.’
25. ‘It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.’
26. ‘The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.’
27. ‘Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.’
28. ‘I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.’
29. ‘Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.’
30. ‘Our favorite holding period is forever.’
31. ‘Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.’
32. ‘Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.’
33. ‘Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market.’
34. ‘The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.’
35. ‘Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.’
36. ‘Risk can be greatly reduced by concentrating on only a few holdings.’
37. ‘It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.’
38. ‘An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.’
39. ‘Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.’
40. ‘In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.’
41. ‘If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.’
42. ‘Cash never makes us happy, but it’s better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire’s pocket than resting comfortably in someone else’s.’
43. ‘A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.’
44. ‘I never buy anything unless I can fill out on a piece of paper my reasons. I may be wrong, but I would know the answer to that. “I’m paying $32 billion today for the Coca Cola Company because.” If you can’t answer that question, you shouldn’t buy it. If you can answer that question, and you do it a few times, you’ll make a lot of money.’
45. ‘The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.’
46. ‘You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.’
47. ‘It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.’
48. ‘You ought to be able to explain why you’re taking the job you’re taking, why you’re making the investment you’re making, or whatever it may be. And if it can’t stand applying pencil to paper, you’d better think it through some more. And if you can’t write an intelligent answer to those questions, don’t do it.’
49. ‘Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.’
50. ‘An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes.’
51. ‘Do a lot of reading’ (On how to determine the value of a business)

52. ‘The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.’
53. ‘Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.’
54. ‘The fact that people will be full of greed, fear, or folly is predictable. The sequence is not predictable.’
55. ‘You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.’
56. ‘Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.’
57. ‘I do not like debt and do not like to invest in companies that have too much debt, particularly long-term debt. With long-term debt, increases in interest rates can drastically affect company profits and make future cash flows less predictable.’
58. ‘We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.’
59. ‘I always knew I was going to be rich. I don’t think I ever doubted it for a minute.’
60. ‘Turnarounds seldom turn.’
61. ‘If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.’
62. ‘I don’t measure my life by the money I’ve made. Other people might, but certainly don’t.’
63. ‘Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you’re still around to play the next day.’
64. ‘You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.’
65. ‘With few exceptions when a manager with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor economics, it is the reputation of the business which remains intact.’
66. ‘The business schools reward complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.’
67. ‘It’s not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.’
68. ‘A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.’
69. ‘You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.’
70. ‘We like to buy businesses, but we don’t like to sell them.’
71. ‘Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can’t change how many people love you or how healthy you are.’
72. ‘It’s us fun being a gorse when the tractor comes along, or the blacksmith when the car comes along.’
73. ‘Enjoy your work and work for whom you admire.’
74. ‘With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.’
75. ‘Read Ben Graham and Phil Fisher read annual reports, but don’t do equations with Greek letters in them.’
76. ‘In a commodity business, it’s very hard to be smarter than your dumbest competitor.’
77. ‘A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.’
78. ‘Valuing a business is part art and part science.’
79. ‘Chains of habits are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.’

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What happened with the Internet in 2009?

How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way.

We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you.

Enjoy!

Internet 2009 In Numbers

Source: Labnol

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1975–Paul Allen and Bill Gates, friends who had co-written a programming language for the Altair hobby-kit personal computer, license it to the makers of the Altair. This programming language is the first Microsoft product.

Jan. 1, 1979–Microsoft moves from Albuquerque, N.M., to the Seattle area.

1980–Microsoft chosen by IBM to create operating system for its first PC. Microsoft buys the software

for $50,000 from another company and calls it MS-DOS. Steve Ballmer joins Microsoft.

Aug. 12, 1981–IBM introduces the PC, running on MS-DOS.

1983–Microsoft introduces its Word word-processing program, announces plans to create Windows operating system. Allen resigns as vice president, but remains on the board of directors.

November 1985–Microsoft ships its first version of Windows.

March 13, 1986–Microsoft’s stock goes public.

Aug. 1, 1989–Microsoft introduces earliest version of the Office business software suite.

1991–Federal Trade Commission investigates claims Microsoft monopolizes the market for PC operating systems. Investigation closes two years later without a formal complaint.

January 1, 1994–Bill Gates marries Melinda French on the Hawaiian island of Lanai.

July 1994–U.S. and European antitrust investigations settled; Microsoft agrees to change contracts with PC makers. Settlement is rejected in federal court, then reinstated in 1995.

Aug. 24, 1995–Microsoft launches Windows 95.

Nov. 27, 1995–Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 2.0, challenging Netscape’s Navigator Web browser.

Dec. 7, 1995–Gates details shift in Microsoft strategy to focus on the Internet.

Aug. 6, 1997–Microsoft and Apple Computer agree to share technology and set aside long-standing feud.

Oct. 20, 1997–Justice Department sues Microsoft, says it violated the 1994 consent decree by requiring computer makers to use its Internet browser as a condition of using Windows.

May 18, 1998–Justice Department and 20 states sue Microsoft, alleging it illegally thwarted competition. One state later drops out of the suit.

July 21, 1998–Ballmer becomes president of Microsoft.

Oct. 19, 1998–The antitrust trial begins, continues into summer of 1999.

Nov. 5, 1999–U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson releases his findings of fact, which label Microsoft a monopoly.

Jan. 13, 2000–Gates steps aside as CEO, giving the post to Ballmer, remains chairman and becomes chief software architect.

Feb. 17, 2000–Microsoft launches Windows 2000.

June 7, 2000–Jackson orders the breakup of Microsoft into two companies.

Sept. 26, 2000–Supreme Court refuses to hear Microsoft’s appeal of Jackson’s decision, sending the case to a federal appeals court.

Sept. 6, 2001–Justice Department says it will no longer seek a breakup of Microsoft.

November 2001–Microsoft, Justice Department reach tentative deal to settle antitrust case.

Oct. 25, 2001–Worldwide launch of Windows XP.

August 2002–Microsoft unveils business and product changes to comply with Justice Department settlement.

June 23, 2003–Microsoft announces Windows Mobile for handheld computers and phones.

March 24, 2004–European Commission fines Microsoft a record $613 million for antitrust violations, though the sanction is later suspended while Microsoft appeals.

April 2, 2004–Sun settles antitrust claims with Microsoft for $1.95 billion.

June 30, 2004 _U.S. appeals court unanimously approves settlement with Justice Department.

Dec. 22, 2004–An EU court rejects Microsoft’s appeal of the March order.

May 12, 2005–Microsoft shows off new Xbox 360; console hits shelves in November.

July 1, 2005–Microsoft agrees to pay IBM $775 million in cash and $75 million in software to settle antitrust claims.

Oct. 11, 2005–RealNetworks settles antitrust claims with Microsoft for $761 million.

March 23, 2006–Microsoft announces a shake-up in its Windows unit, two days after saying it won’t have its next consumer version of Windows ready for the holiday season as planned.

June 15, 2006–Bill Gates announces plans to withdraw from day-to-day duties at Microsoft in July 2008 so he can focus on his charitable foundation.

Nov. 14, 2006–Microsoft introduces Zune music player.

Jan. 30, 2007–Microsoft releases long-delayed Windows Vista and Office 2007.

Jan. 31, 2008–Microsoft makes unsolicited offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion. Eventually walks away after Yahoo won’t agree to even higher offer, $47.5 billion.

June 27, 2008–Gates steps down from full-time role in company, remains board chairman.

Bright Ideas For An Awesome Day

It’s an amazing list of 101 ways to make your day a beautiful one.

Get enough sleep the night before your awesome day.

Clean your room the night before so that you wake up to a nice clean room.

Have a refreshing shower or a nice warm bubble bath.

Pick your favourite oufit or one that flatters you.

Eat a healthy breakfast.

Go for an early morning jog.

Read the newpaper.

Have a cup of tea or coffee.

Have scones or muffins with jam and cream.

Let someone else drive.

Spend your day with friends or your family or your loved ones.

Go to the beach.

Go shopping and spoil yourself.

Get a haircut. If you are a woman, get highlights too.

Take your phone with you in case you need it.

If you are very overwhelmed with life leave your phone in the car whilst you walk on the beach.

Put your toes into the ocean.

Wear suncreen with a goog SPF.

Be around people that make you feel good about yourself.

Say a prayer.

Do something that you have been meaning to do for a long time.

Spend some time on your favourite website.

Look good wherever you go. That will help you to feel good.

Smile!

Tell a joke to make other people laugh.

Do something for the poor.

Eat your favourite food.

Watch your favourite tv shows.

Do some gardening.

Spend some time with the kids.

Wear a cool hat.

If it is winter, go for a wak in your new coat.

If you don’t have a new coat, buy one.

Go onto your favourite social networks.

Read a book.

Paint a picture.

Don’t think about things that make you stressed or angry.

Express your feelings in art or poerty, or by talking with an understanding person.

Spend some time with your pet. Animals love attention from their owners.

Jump in puddles if it is raining.

Go to a park with a group of friends.

Have a picnic.

Sing a song.

Cook something.

Pick a flower in your garden.

Read a joke book.

Write in your diary.

Go for a jog or to the gym.

Relax in your slippers.

Avoid arguments and be nice to other people.

Go on a boat.

Page through a magazine.

Have more tea or coffee.

Wear a wacky outfit.

Gossip (but not too much).

Laugh

Bake with your mom.

Go to your favourite restaurant.

Drink water.

Have a power nap.

Buy someone a gift.

Go to the zoo.

Go dancing.

Brush your teeth and flosh.

Go to a game reserve.

Collect the post or send a letter.

Play with stickers.

Make a hub page.

Play the My Little Pony Game Online.

Watch the news.

Make new goals.

Use a nice cream or beauty product.

Look at something shiny

Go star gazing

Watch the clouds.

Go fishing.

Go for a hike.

Go mountain biking.

Go to a fun fair.

Facepaint your face.

Kiss your sweetheart.

Stock the fridge.

Go to macca’s.

Text your friends

Make a snowman.

Swim

Play Tennis

Sit in the sun.

Eat a pie on a bench

Give yourself a makeover

Get a cool dvd.

Roast marshmellows on a camp fire.

Tell your friend a secret.

Make money online

Learn a new word

Do a crosword puzzle.

Wear something crazy

Paint your nails

Buy some Swiss chocolates.

Wash your hair

Give yourself a break.