Alt Codes for Drawing Characters

Box-drawing characters are a form of semi-graphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes with monospaced fonts. Although less useful to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs. However, they are still useful for command-line interfaces and plain-text comments within source code. Used along with box-drawing characters are block elements, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of the screen and portraying drop shadows. Below are the Alt codes for the most common box-drawing characters.

How to Install Apps in Older iOS

Sometimes, a popular app (like Evernote) has a version compatible with older iOS, but it just does not allow you to download it, unless you have already owned it before. Here is how to get around it.

Step 1: Download iTunes (Business Environment)

The first step is to get an older iTunes which allows you to manage the apps directly from a laptop. If your iTunes does not allow you to manage apps, if you have uninstall it and download an older version.

Learn to Meditate

You will find on these pages some basic instructions on how to meditate, which you can use right away to begin experiencing the peace and communion with the Divine that meditation brings.

Part 1: Correct Posture

AAStocks Chart Codes

AAStocks is a popular stock market charting platform in Hong Kong. The market that it covers include HK shares, US shares, and currencies. Its charts are one of the most frequently embedded gadgets among different websites.

Since the charts could be custom-made with different indicators, periods, and so on, it helps to know the meaning of each table values which is retrieved from the hyperlink, and the available values it has.

CSV format for Google Calendar

CSV format for Google Calendar contains the following elements:

-- Subject: title of your event or activity.
-- Start Date: the starting date of the event or activity.
-- Start Time: the starting time of the event or activity.
-- End Date: the ending date of the event or activity.
-- End Time: the ending time of the event or activity.
-- All Day Event: TRUE if an all-day event, else FALSE.
-- Description: the description of the event or activity.
-- Location: the location of the event or activity.
-- Private: TRUE if it is not seen in shared calendars, else FALSE.

Excel Lookup to the Nearest, Above or Below

This article is about how use lookup function to find the nearest item above or below in Excel or Calc. Currently, the default function in VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP only rounds to the smaller value, so it takes a few tricks to round the value to the closest one above or below.

Let us consider the following practical example. Suppose there is a marathon race, and in case if you have no idea, it has a running distance of 42 km. The organiser has made the following rule regarding first aid. At each interval of 7 km, including the start and the finish, there shall be an first-aid station which helps the injured runners.In other words, there are altogether 7 stations in total. It is expressed in the table below:

The Power of Affirmations

Scott Adams is the famous creator of comic strip Dilbert, and he is also a great fan of self affirmations. In this following video segment, it is told that Scott has used affirmations to achieve great things in his life, including winning in the stock market, getting into a great university, becoming a successful cartoonist, and writing more than one New York Times bestsellers.

Basically, what he did was to wake up every morning and wrote down his goal dozens of times, and in present tense. For example, at one point he wanted to make money in the stock market, so he wrote, “I, Scott, have made money in the stock market.” And sure enough, one night the name of a big winner came to him, and all he had to do was to buy it.