Thursday, June 5, 2008

Anti Aging and Computer Technology

Can Computer Technology be a solution for any Anti Aging Remedies? Is there a fear of death? Or are we Aging too fast these days? Every time you consider a catelogue of man’s problem, one problem always shows up on the list AGING. Man does not want to grow Old. Everyone wants to live forever. Has man been looking to a computer for answers? Well, there is talk about ‘Nano Technology’. This is the need to develop the smallest computer with a relevant program to be able to go through the human blood stream and deal with some problems such as incurable diseases or change the genetic code or execute and Anti Aging program. Can we really stop anyone from the natural cycle of growing up? Can a Computer help mankind as an Anti Aging remedy or should we stick to Medical Therapies. Follow the link below and see what is happening…..

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Formulas in Microsoft Word? Fact or Fiction

A Quote from ‘Bill Gates’? “The beauty about Notebook (Laptop) Computers, is that No Matter how much Data you save on them, they never get bigger” do you believe that
Lets get on the journey to simplify yet another task in Microsoft Word.
  • Did you know that you can create a table of figures in Ms Word and enter a formula in the table to calculate any function!!! Such as Sum, Multiplication or even division. Just like an Excel spreadsheet.
By the way to create a table in a word document, you can follow the following simple steps (Ms Word 2003)

  • Open Microsoft word document, start with a blank one
  • Go to the Menu Bar, the menu bar is at the top of your document window below the title bar where you find words ‘File’, ‘Edit’, ‘Format’,Tools’ etc. Click on ‘Table’
  • Point onto Insert and on the submenu that appears click Table
  • A Dialog box appears where you are requested to specify the number of columns and rows. Indicate 4 in each one of the options. For now leave the rest of the options in their defaults
  • Click Ok to create the table
Read the Complete resourse on this Subject by clicking the link 'Inserting Formulas in a Tables' on the right pane of the blog.... Enjoy yourselves
Bright

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Take a Tour into The World of Computer Applications with Bright M, Simply...

Working in the IT Field has been a very exciting time for me! I have interacted with people of different caltural and professional backgrounds. The common Factor in all my interactions has been that everyone wants to be able to use the computer to the best of what it can offer. However, the funny thing is that, they all behaved differently before the PC. Some where so afraid to make mistakes, some where constantly asking the question if they will ever get better at using the PC. Some always threw complicated words at me to illustrate what they had already done, such as Advanced Spreadsheets, Intermediate Level, Graduate level and so on. No matter the name of the course, one thing is clear it is just a syllabus designed to get more money out of the unsuspecting prospects. The bottom line is! Get the Skill
I dont boast that I know everything,
but I have always tried to make it plain simple ooooo, plain simple people.
  1. Principle No.1 Tell yourself the computer is very simple to use and you can learn to use it better (if the computer is very complicated, then the one who designed it must be a fool, cause how can one make something that is designed to help people so complicated?)
  2. Princple No.2 Do Not be afraid to use the computer because anything you do on the computer is reversible
  3. Principle No.3 Do not pay attention to rhetoric of Advanced or Intermediate levels talk by selfish tutors, because if you do it will cause your brain to let you believe that it is not easy. Remember the designer used his brain to create the computer. therefore, it is not beyond comprehension
  4. Principle No.4 You do not need to have special attributes or intellectual capabilities for you to learn how to use the computer, all you need is to be available
  5. Lets stop there for now and do an exercise
EXCERCISE 1.My target in this exercise are those who have very basic knowledge in using a computer and its application packages (Microsoft Office 2003, Ms Word in particular).
  1. Supposing you want the computer to create let us say 58 pages at once in a Microsoft Word Document without you type anything or create any pages. But you want to use a function that can do that for you! What do you do? Solution Use the RAND() fuction (Formulars can also be used in a word document. Remember that). How?
  2. Open Microsft Word document. You will see a cursor blinking to tell you the start of the document
  3. Click and Change the font to 72 points (before you type anything on the document)Now type straight onto your word document the following formula starting with the equal (=)(the same way it is done in Excel spreadsheet) like =RAND(1,100) (with no spaces in the formular please) In the formular the number 100 is not a magic number, you can use any number, it only illustrates how many times text will be repeated. The cursor should be at the end of the closing bracket and
  4. Press the ENTER key on the keyboard
  5. You should now see text repeating itself on about 50 plus pages. What you have done is create pages.
  6. Try it now and let me know the results.
  7. I believe it is simple. Every week, We will be dealing with one aspect of computer applications. The so called "Advanced" The next post is to illustrate further how you can do formulars in a word table.

The above exercise was based on Ms Office 2003. However, it works just fine even in Office 2010. Let me hear from you. Let us build skills together. I would like to see an expert out of you bye!!
Bright Mulenga-0966725830 Zambia National Blood Transfusion Service, UTH, Lusaka.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

ICT for Development

It is a fact without question that the modern age is a computer driven one. Therefore, it is not for anyone to decide weather to use or not to use technology as a daily essential in the third world nations. The truth in the face of everyone is that we are all affected by technology. Nearly all the banking services have been automated, therefore, who can escape the technological Trap. Soon people in the third world nations would require computers in their homes to do what peviously they had to take a trip in order to accomplish. Things like shopping, education and so on. However, the rate at which technological services are progressing does not match the advancement in computer leteracy of the vulnerable groups in Africa. Most rural schools are yet to get a really good glance at a modern Desk top Computer far less a Laptop or Notebook computer. They may have seen a computer on paper but not enough to distinguish the different common parts of the equipment in reality when one is physically present. The level and quality of Computer knowledge being imparted is sometimes half baked. The Lecturer calls the System Unit as a CPU (Central Processing Unit). Well the argument being advanced is that of simplifying the knowledge. If that is the case why not call the entire house a Toilet in order to describe what a house is. Africa needs to bridge up the Technology gap A.S.A.P. What can Africa do in order to ensure that everyone has equal access or opportunity to the ICT Gadgets?...///(send your comments)

Bright Mulenga

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