5 minutes tips

a web site to give you some useful tips to better use products and services. There are many tips about how to quickly get some tasks done in Microsoft Office Applications.

http://www.timeatlas.com/5_minute_tips/

Explore by yourself. Some tips can really save you some time.

Migration Patterns

Atlas is a moving company. A map (2010 Migration Patterns) on their website is very interesting. From the moving pattern, one can reasonably get an idea about which state are adding population and which state the population are losing population.

http://www.atlasvanlines.com/migration-patterns/

How to handle large amound of Markers in Google API

Read this blog today, this is a very good article to talk about how to handle large amounts of markers in your Google Maps Application.

One method is called MarkerClusterer. It is a simple and effective solution for displaying many Markers on the map.

More detailed can be found Xiaoxi Wu's blog. http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/04/markerclusterer-solution-to-too-many.html

Interactive Demographic Maps from NY Times

Mapping America: Every City, Every Block

This is a very useful map application. users can browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. User can choose from population, income, family and education category to visually check the spatial pattern of each variable and may help them better understand the demographic distribution in the area they are interested.

Learn Chinese

Would like to learn Chinese and try to find some useful learning materials, http://www.hwjyw.com/ will give you what you want. Check it out.

Customize Your Desktop - ObjectDock

Looking for a quick/fun way to add your shortcuts on your desktop, ObjectDock is a great choice.

You can download the ObjectDock from the website http://www.stardock.com/products/ObjectDock/.

Even the free version can save you a lot of time and making your desktop looks nice.

SQL - Insert Multiple Records into one tables at one time

How are you going to insert multiple records into a table at one time?

Here is the code you can do that:

Insert into Table
(Column1, Column2, Column3)

select Value01, Value02, Value03
Union ALL

select Value11, Value12, Value13
Union ALL

select Value21, Value22, Value23

It works and save time by avoiding multiple insert scripts.