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What would you do, if you had a chance to restore the famous chain of hotels that used to belong to your family? Decide faster… because soon, you would have the opportunity to help Jane to get back her heritage.

Rule the hotels in France, England, Japan and on the Canaries. Explore the world’s latest tendencies in hotel business and challenge yourself with a greater goal. No one but you can make the chain of hotels prosper once again.

Want to be a fabulous entrepreneur? Expand a boutique hotel chain and provide 4-star service to eager guests. Help Jane purchase four International hotels, make upgrades, and pay off that large looming bank loan. In addition to the normal guest services, Jane can now help customers buy souvenirs and take pictures. Jane`s Hotel: Family Hero is the hospitable sequel adding a brand new twist to time management and cafe simulation games.

Sequel to the hit game. Fast-paced levels. New guest features! Check out the housing market in Jane`s Realty

System Requirements:
OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
CPU: 800 Mhz
RAM: 128 MB
DirectX: 6.0
Hard Drive: 102 MB

User reviews:
this game is one of my best games yet!! i just cannot believe how this game is so amazing!!! this game is alot faster than Jane’s Hotel!! and i must say that this game is very addictive!! well off to play the game see ya who ever you are!!!!!!10th December, 2008, sarah sherwood.

Played this game last night it much better than the first, u have the help of a maid and a porter this time and can upgrade these as well as yourself, and horray there is no sliding screen. Jane’s Hotel 2: Family Hero just great!27th March, 2008, michelle.

From Microsoft Inside Office Online: Theyhave created a new Office Online Career Center and partnered with Monster.com to make the entire job hunting process - from planning your strategy to polishing your resume and submitting it for a position - as painless as possible.

Check out the video, where they walk Seattle’s Alycia Delmore through the process and help her get ready for her next job. Download a resume template and update your own. Look for a job in your area, and post your resume. They’ve even linked to career advice from Monster’s career experts. It’s all there on the page, and broken down in even greater detail in this article.

They didn’t forget those employers who might have openings, because as difficult as it is to find the right job, they know it’s also challenging to find the right candidate for an open position.

Finally, they know their resume templates are among the most popular templates on our site. Our hope is that this new Career Center helps you do more and we wish you luck in your search for a job.

Here’s Microsoft’s Office Online Career Center:

Four Steps to Online Job Search:

1. Start with a strategy
You can avoid anxiety about your job search by starting with a strategy — and we can put you on the fast track with a strategy that’s ready for you now. Monster.com and Office Online are teaming up to make the whole job search process faster and easier.

2. Search for available jobs
What are you looking for?

On Monster.com, you can find information on what employers are looking for in your field, such as finance career tips or information for technology jobs. Go to the Advice home page, scroll down to the View Information by Category section, and click the industry you want to know more about.

If you need to brush up on some of your Office skills, you can find free, self-paced training courses on Office Online.

3. Write your resume
Now that you’ve found a job you want to apply for — or you’ve learned more about the industry where you want to work — it’s time to dust off and brush up your resume.

You want your resume to look professional and to stand out. And you want it to be returned in Search results — right in front of anyone looking for the perfect candidate (that’s you).

Submit!
You’re ready to start your search officially.

If you created your resume using a Word 2007, template, take a moment to save a copy of your resume in .doc format. That’s the copy that you’ll submit to Monster.

Click the Submit button to submit your resume to Monster.com. You can submit it specifically to that job you saw earlier, and you can submit it generally for employers to find in their searches.

Follow up
You can use the Job search log template or the Interview/Resume Follow-Up Log template on Office Online to keep track of where you’ve sent resumes and follow-up letters, and where you’ve interviewed, as well as tracking the thank you letters you send after those interviews.

For more details, click the blue link above to access Microsoft’s Career Planning site.

Whether you’re on the road for business or pleasure—provided you’re not traveling by canoe in the Amazon jungle or dog sled in the arctic—there’s probably a way to stay in touch by e‑mail. With a little knowledge and advance planning, it’s easy to check your e‑mail from the road. Here are some tips to help you remain in contact with friends, family, and colleagues while you’re on the go.

1. Use web mail and travel light

If you use a web-based e‑mail service such as Windows Live Hotmail, you can send and receive e‑mail using someone else’s computer, without the need to carry around your own mobile PC while you travel.
2. Carry a laptop and use your own e‑mail program

If you’re traveling on business, chances are you’ll have your own mobile PC with you. In this case, you can use a more full-featured e‑mail program such as Windows Live Mail or Windows Mail.
3. Try doing e‑mail offline

Write messages when you’re inspired, not when you’re connected. If you have a laptop with you, take advantage of offline time to read messages you have already downloaded and compose replies and other new messages.
4. Hone your skills at finding Internet cafés

If you’re traveling without a mobile PC, train yourself to watch for Internet cafés and other places where you can rent a computer for a short period of time to check your e‑mail.
5. Look up Internet café locations before you go

If you want to be sure you can check your e‑mail from the road, make a list in advance of Internet cafés where you will be traveling. This can be important if you will be traveling in areas where Internet access is less likely to be available.

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Slow down, freeze, crash, and security threats are over. Advanced SystemCare Free is a comprehensive PC care utility that takes a one-click approach to help protect, repair, and optimize your computer. It provides an all-in-one and super convenient solution for PC maintenance and protection. All work will be done with 1 click and 1 minute. Compared with its nearest competitor, Advanced SystemCare Free provides the more essential and practical formula for Windows: Removing Spyware and Adware, Preventing Security Threats, Privacy Protection, Fixing Registry Errors, Temporary Files Cleanup, Startup Cleanup, Repairing Windows, Speeding up System and 1-click Mechanism.

Version 3.1.2 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

This utility offers a one-stop-shop for cleaning and maintaining your computer for better overall system performance. The interface is very simple, featuring only a few buttons, which makes it easy to get down to cleaning immediately (in fact, it automatically runs on start-up) and doesn’t confuse you with multiple steps.

The Maintain Windows section focuses on four areas of maintenance: spyware removal, Registry cleaning, a privacy sweep, and deletion of junk files. The Diagnose System button provides system optimization tools, detects spyware, defragments your disk, and scans for hijacked Windows settings. In our tests the scan and clean for each of these areas took less than 10 minutes to complete. In many of these scans, it is difficult to tell what exactly is being accomplished by some of the tools, but we were able to test against other trusted apps, which confirmed Advanced SystemCare’s efficacy in those areas.

Under the utilities section you are given several tools, which are similar to plug-ins, for other areas of optimization and diagnostic tests. Overall, Advanced SystemCare Free is a good way to maintain your system’s speed and clear out junk files, but you’ll need to remember to run it regularly because scheduling of scans is only available in the paid Pro version.

Tell a great visual story about a memorable event or trip

What a memorable family holiday! What a special visit from your daughter and your new grandchild! Cool soccer party! Great vacation! Don’t you wish everyone could experience the most meaningful events in your life the way you did? Visual images can conjure up great experiences that you can share with others or revisit by yourself. This article shows you how to capture great photos that will help you to tell your story best.

That’s right, your family holiday, team party, or vacation is a story; each memorable experience has a beginning, middle, and an end. Taking photos in a way that tells the story is the first step in capturing the significant events in your life and sharing it with others.

Digital photography has dramatically changed the way you can share your experiences with others. It provides many new options for telling stories with images. For example:

• You can create a digital scrapbook or slide show to share with others.

• You might burn images to a CD and ship them to your parents or send them via e-mail to family and friends around the world.

• By combining Microsoft Pro Photo software Capture One and Expression Media, you can add stunning professional effects to your photos, and then easily publish, distribute, and archive them.

• With a program like Windows Movie Maker, you can even create a movie of your still images, complete with music, movement, and narration.

• Windows DVD Maker, available in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate, enables you to create professional-looking video DVDs of your home movies and photos and then view them on your DVD players, regardless of geographical region codes.

• The new software AutoCollage enables you to create beautiful collages of your favorite pictures with a few mouse clicks. You can download AutoCollage and start creating your own collages within minutes, then share them with friends and the wider community.

• With the new program Photosynth, you can combine photos on a digital canvas and reconstruct a scene or object to achieve the cinematic quality of a movie and the detail of the real world. The program makes it easy to share your unique creations with others on the Web.

From TipTalk: Certainly, today’s always-on-and-available-anywhere technology can lead to addictive work habits. We’ve all seen examples of that among friends and family.

But having a cheap, convenient, 24/7 global reach through technology can also efficiently enable you to live the life you’ve always wanted. The choice is yours.

Here are some affordable tools and ideas that harness technology’s power to save you time and money.

1. Use Voice-over-Internet protocol phone service (VoIP) to create a virtual office.

2. Use online services for office communications and banking.

3. Leverage the power of a professional Web site.

4. Use your site features to stay in touch with customers.

5. Use e-mail software to track schedules and tasks.

6. Stop thinking you must do everything yourself.

7. Create a sales contact database for your business.

8. Invest in e-mail marketing that yields results.

Great tips to help your small business or home life.

Holly Thomas, of Inside Office Online, posted about a great creativity test, the Epstein Creativity Competencies Inventory for Individuals (ECCI-i).

It’s a short survey, about 25 or so questions, that scores you in four ares, Preserves New Ideas, Seeks Challenges, Broadens Skills and Knowledge, Changes Physical and Social Environment. Then after you submit the questionnaire, you are given scores in each area and a cumulative score. Mine was 63%. Apparantly I need to seek more challenges and change my environment more. It’s a great venue to get yourself thinking of your environment and life; how you interact with it.

This past year, I’ve relocated across the country from Nebraska to Washington State, moved from Tacoma to Seattle. That’s changing my physical environment. Had to furnish my apt, talked to new and interesting people. Maybe I need to get out more?

It’d be interesting to see how other people score and react to the test and their scores. What would you do differently in your creative life for home, work or around town? How do you interact with others? Have you done anything outside your ‘comfort zone’? I really haven’t. Unless you consider being out at night when the criminals and addicts are panhandling.

Crayon Physics Deluxe brings out your inner child.

Not everyone can be an automoton, working constantly with no play. Plus, there’s a limit on how much time you can spend playing “Solitaire” (four hours, but don’t tell anyone). Here’s a fun program that’s been making the rounds online. Crayon Physics Deluxe.

A little history: It was at last year’s Independent Games Festival that “Crayon Physics” started turning heads in a big way. Those who got a look at the demo version of the game cooed with delight at the way its childish visual style housed game design as thoughtful as anything out there. And despite competing against the likes of the superb “World of Goo,” it managed to walk away with the festival’s Seumas McNally Grand Prize (and the $20,000 check that goes with it).

Created by 25-year-old Petri Purho, “Crayon Physics Deluxe” got its start as a game the computer science student from Helsinki whipped together in a mere five days. And now that the full game has finally launched, it is proving to be every bit as wonderful and whimsical as the early buzz made it out to be.

The thrust of the game is this: There is a ball over here and there is a star over there. You must move the ball to the star by using (virtual) crayons to draw the physical objects that make it possible to transport the ball to its goal. (In the iPhone version of the game you draw by touching finger to screen, and in the PC version you use the mouse to draw with your crayons.)

Crayon Physics Deluxe sounds like a wonderful game that would incite anyone to childlike behavior. But in a good way. I can imagine world leaders at the next G8 summit playing this game before heady talks.

Create your own Mini-Me Smiley

Microsoft is offering a free program to make create a smiley in your own image!

The program is easy to understand, install and use. You choose from an array of options, from head, eyes, mouth, color for skin, eyes, hair, glasses, hats; most any combination you could ever want. I was looking for a quill and ink, being a writer, but can’t have everything, I guess.

The finished product can be loaded onto your Live Messenger program (add me bricko at lioneservices dot com), spaces, facebook or other social network site. The finished smiley is pretty good, with all the options they have to offer.

Create your own Mini-Me then add your friends to show off your handiwork.