“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains” by Anne Frank, The Diary of a young girl . Very wise words that point to a powerful internal process. Anne Frank describes enduring immense suffering, … Continue reading Courage and Hope within Suffering, by Anne Frank
The result of spending copious hours and days, knee deep in Linux IS – a working and stable 2TB NAS with Debian Linux based on Seagate GoFlex NET. Persistence and Charisma eventually paid off, ended up being a labour of … Continue reading Build your own Pro NAS – Seagate Goflex Net with Debian Linux, RAID1 and OpenMediaVault
Link DannyBoyBroderick – How to Create a Graffiti Logo. Link YouTube Video – Thanks Danny, great first video. I have to confess I used the monkey-with-typewriter method at first and when I started to see something I liked, then spent a bit more time and care refining it. Photoshop can do some AMAZING things with text using these effect so well worth having a play with. Cheers Don Charisma Continue reading How to Create a Graffiti Logo
I am welcoming DannyBoyBroderick to the WordPress community and introduce him as my friend. We’ve known each other for over 10 years. We worked together in a Swiss bank in London, became friends owing to various social events and similar interests … Continue reading Don Charisma welcomes DannyBoyBroderick
What’s wrong with this picture ? As I’m not a photographer, it’s taken me an age to get to the bottom of how to fix this. Photoshop has it’s own idea about colours, presumably something to do with the fact … Continue reading How to Get Photoshop JPG colour to match web page colour
let it be… …let it change… …let it go Don Charisma 2013 Resources & Sources I would like to thank: Vitaly S Alexius svitart.com – for the four seasons graphic, just awesome Vitaly. Please do visit his site, there are … Continue reading DonCharisma.org – Charisma, The Easy Way
I’m trying to get Hootsuite to reblog my WordPress posts onto Google+. It’s not that very intuitive to use and it has sat there doing nothing for days. Now it’s decided to randomly start reposting my posts. So sorry for … Continue reading Sorry Blog Readers, I’m really not having a Hoot with Hootsuite
moreissuesthantimemagazine has nominated me for this award, and I humbly and proudly accept. Thank you for nominating me:) Since starting blogging I’ve “met” a bunch of really cool people, a real driving force for creativity and positivity. Quite a few … Continue reading doncharisma – I am Part of the WordPress family … Award
Looking for a lodger or apartment sharer in the London, UK used to be fairly straightforward process. Gumtree did a fairly good job. But recent times Gumtree just isn’t getting many replies, generally because of increased competition and Gumtree now … Continue reading Review, find a lodger or sharer – easyroommate vs spareroom
For some reason I thought this would be quite difficult and involve learning video editing with something like Adobe After Effects. No so. I wanted a basic slide show of photographs with captions, maybe a bit of background music. A … Continue reading EASY WAY to Create a YouTube promo video in 30 minutes, with Powerpoint
My first Adobe Illustrator mini project:) Resources Keep Calm and Carry on Font http://www.ianbarnard.co.uk/free-keep-calm-and-carry-on-template-vector-eps/ Continue reading Keep Calm and STOP with These Boring Keep Calm Clichés
I’ve owned several Canon digital cameras over the years, which have all come with a “free” utility called PhotoStitch. PhotoStitch isn’t the most feature packed or the newest software, but it does work well, made by a well respected company. … Continue reading How to get Canon PhotoStitch Panorama and Photo Stitching software for free
Have you ever taken a photo when it’s overcast, and when you got home, looked at it on the computer, and you were thoroughly disappointed ? – this has happened to me many, many times. Until now I didn’t know … Continue reading Grey Skys to Blue, How to Photoshop it – THE EASY WAY
Back in July, I wrote about my experiences Cartooning myself, because I wanted to show myself I could do it and I wanted to share with others my experiences. With a little free time on my hands I decided to … Continue reading Miss Charisma – Cartoonize my girlfriend, another two days of cartoonification !
(Thanks to 5readblogs for giving me the encouragement and opportunity to write this) Introduction Five reads blog asked me to write about five books that mean a lot to me. I like the idea of the five reads blog, so … Continue reading Don Charisma @ 5readsblog
Many thanks to 5readsblog for encouraging me to write this, I hope that others will find the books I like useful 🙂 Continue reading Don Charisma
I’ve flown back and forth from London to Thailand quite a few times now, and I’d like to share some of the things that I’ve learnt in my travels that make things cheaper, more comfortable and more relaxing. I’ve written … Continue reading Flying long haul on a budget in relaxed comfort (well almost!)
It’s only taken them 5 days to tell me, you’d have thought it would be a priority to let their customers know that their personal information had been stolen, Apple are so arrogant and patronising … Anyway, just as a … Continue reading Apple Website Hacked – Customers’ Personal Information Stolen
The Beginning I have a good old friend of more than 20 years back home in London, England. The UK economy according to the politicians is doing great, but ask most people on the street and you’ll hear a different … Continue reading Getting A Failing Website Back On Top
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My name is Rachel. I’m a reeeeally good writer from India. Honest! Although I haven’t actually used the site for a long time, I am still signed up to… Continue reading Where did you say you were from?
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin References http://www.etsy.com/listing/110519096/ben-franklin-teach-me-tell-me-involve-me Continue reading Learning by Benjamin Franklin
Interestingly, I posted about downgrading my laptop from Windows 8 to Windows 7 because that’s what I wanted and didn’t particularly like Windows 8, and I’ve had a mini-debate going on with my blog readers. It all started because I … Continue reading Windows 8 is … Crap, Rubbish, Awful, Terrible, Horrible, Slow, A Disaster, A Flop?
In my previous blog post I wrote about building a code box like this one : Code: #!/bin/bash # rsync script rsync -avh –exclude=”*.bak” /home/user/Documents/ /media/diskid/user_backup/Documents/ However, kindly another blogger has pointed out that a nicely numbered code box is … Continue reading Revisted – How to add a code box in free WordPress blog
To interupt booting on my Samsung laptop – F2 key for BIOS, F10 key for boot selection Continue reading Quick Tip – Samsung Laptop Boot/Bios Keys
My ageing Core2Duo Toshiba 17″ laptop was OK whilst it lasted but I was starting to find it a bit sluggish even with an SSD and 2GB memory. At the time when I bought it, I thought I’d got a … Continue reading Samsung Laptop Windows 7 Drivers for NP350E7C-S02UK (and Windows XP drivers !)
Just a snippet, but I’ve tried multiple times to download Adobe CS6 Master Collection (6.2GB) (see link below) and also the Adobe CS6 Design & Web Prem (4.5GB). It’s not very often I need to download files this size direct from the … Continue reading Google Chrome Download File Size Limit
The humble iPod is said to have launched Apple’s success into a whole ‘nuther level. Originally first released in 2001, the iPod has gone through many different incarnations to the the very slick device of today. So why call it … Continue reading Why is it Called an iPod ?
I wonder if Google has the answer to that particular conundrum ? It’s one of the 50 most insane search suggestions ever seen on Google. Fair question, but funny never-the-less. Some of my other favourites : “I feel like a … Continue reading How Come When I Talk To Girls on FaceBook They Don’t Answer me Back?
Reminds me of that song “Free Nelson Mandela”, perhaps someone will make a song for Paul ? Paul McKenna the famous hypnotist and self-improvement guru, incarcerated, jailed … No, no, NO, but he’s giving away free stuff … Now you … Continue reading Free Paul McKenna (No he’s not in Jail !)
How I Cartooned myself, by Don Charisma I’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, finally managed to find the right time and space to get it done. And this is what I came up with : I … Continue reading How to Cartoon Yourself (or Myself or Whatever) – Two Days of Cartoonification
A nice little poem that reminds us not to spend too much time in the past or the future, but focus on the here and now. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a Mystery. Today is Gift, that’s why we call … Continue reading Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a Mystery. Today is Gift, that’s why we call it the Present
Attempting to space out neatly text and images in web-pages can be annoying sometimes, trying the patience and wasting one’s time. I had some short paragraphs that I wanted to highlight with images to make them easier to read and … Continue reading Spacing Images and Text in WordPress Free
This is the first time I’ve had to do this and was a little daunting at first. In UK the Thai Consulate issue a one entry, a two entry and three entry tourist visa for travel to Thailand. In another … Continue reading Calculating your dates for a Thailand Tourist Visa with a little help from timeanddate.com
It’s easy to get caught out with this when planning a stay in Thailand. For British citizens, we can get various different visas for staying in Thailand, and also a 30 day on arrival visa exemption. But how do they … Continue reading Thai Passport Stamp – How They Work Out The “Leave By” Date
Who wouldn’t want to make money sitting at home on their computer, almost passive income ? This I don’t believe is greed, just folks wanting to make a living for themselves and their loved ones, nothing out of the ordinary … Continue reading I Make Money Online, The Anatomy of a Scam
Unbelievable as it seems but it’s possible to get unlimited WiFi in Thailand via TrueMove for a mere 107 baht per month, that’s £2.26 in real money. “TrueMove” or “True WiFi” or “True Internet” or “True Ad Infinitum” have 1000s … Continue reading Get Truely unlimited WiFi from @TRUEWIFI in Thailand for 107 baht per month
This man, the author, suffered tremendously will severe health problems, but his courage and spirit are an inspiration Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be … Continue reading Spirit, Unconquered – Invictus
Frustratingly, WordPress free blog doesn’t have a code box facility, or not one that I could find. Sometimes it’s handy to put a code box for code snippets or commands to be run a command line, like this Code: #!/bin/bash … Continue reading How to add a code box in free WordPress blog
Getting a reliable wifi connection can be a paid in the backside. A solution is a Ubiquiti Nanostation M2, for the unenlightened that’s one of these – http://www.ubnt.com/airmax#nanostationm Ubiquiti make stuff that works for outdoor wifi, expect to pay around 70-100£ … Continue reading How to get @TRUEWIFI working with a Ubiquiti Nanostation M2
Everyone likes free stuff, right? Perhaps I was the last to know but Amazon are doing free MP3 albums … superb ! Just go –> MP3 Downloads › Music By Price › Free › MP3 Albums Here – http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=n%3A318774011%2Cp_n_feature_browse-bin%3A625150011 Continue reading Free music on Amazon
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