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November 17, 2011

Infographics 101

by Huma Sattar

If I don’t go through an infographic every day, my day feels strangely incomplete. I absolutely love  them. But beside loving, I think they are extremely useful and prove to be a great tactic for marketing; they demonstrate data in a unique fashion that makes you want to

a) keep referring back to it

b) susbscribe for more and similar like it

c) share

Here is an infographic on how to create infographic of your own. You can try it for your business, for your class project, for your blog or just share.

 

 

Produced by Voltier Creative

September 3, 2011

Are you killing yourself …

by Huma Sattar

 sitting is killing you

…by constantly sitting down?

Well, hello, congratulations. You are not the only one after all. You are not the only one accumulating fat in the nether areas of your body because you have to sit all day at work, stare at your PC and are allergic to exercise.

I remember my days of the “hot”(I’ll write about that too), when I could fit into tiny jeans and fitted shirts. Now I wear baggy clothes to hide my indisputably bulgy tummy and flabby arms. I have tyres, yes sir I do.

 You know how when you are graduating from university, you are thinking: ‘This is it, the corporate dream. I will now look professional and put-together, I will eat better and I will talk intelligent’. No one told me it was all downhill from there. No one told me, on top of being over-worked and under-paid, with no time to look professional or put-together, I will sit at my desk all day, still eating junk food during work and not having either the inclination or the will to fulfill the dreams that I once dreamt.

Before you think this post is going to be a long session of whining, let me correct you. This post is going to tell you just how sitting for 9 plus hours, in a crouched position is slowly and surely killing you; like not only sucking life out of your soul (which is a given really) but also making you fat, giving your body more chances of getting heart attack and diabetes (among other life-wrecking threats) and really, just puts your body on a mental and physical stress roll.

I found this very enlightening infographic which gives you statistical proof that this is not a myth and if people at your workplace are mentally pinning you down as one of the ‘fat ones’ who eat a lot (and you don’t even eat that much *sob*) you are probably a victim and you need help!

Sitting is Killing You
Via: Medical Billing And Coding

 

August 19, 2011

What is endangering your mobile phone?

by Huma Sattar

 

I just recently got my mobile phone snatched at gunpoint in Karachi (a blog on that is coming up soon) which has made me a little obsessed about mobile security, hazards of saving data on your phone and whether security on mobile phones actually exist.

 I lost over 3,000 messages on that phone- do I hear cries of disbelieve? Its true. And I did not have any backup! So, I find myelf googling  ‘How to secure your mobile phone data?’, ‘What is threatening my mobile phone data’, ‘Dummy’s guide to mobile security’ and so on and I came across this amazing infographic on mobile malware, what it is, what is endangering your smart phones lately and much, much more! I was never a tech-savvy person so all this information is astounding for me. Hope someone finds it use ful too. Oh, and if you are as uninterested in mobile phones as I used to be only a few days back, at least skip to the last part of this infographic and give half a minute to ’How to protect your mobile device‘ because well, everyone has one.

 Source: http://mashable.com/2011/08/12/mobile-malware/

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August 16, 2011

The world needs some saving…

by Huma Sattar

Everyone knows global warming is an issue. Infact, one does not need statistical data to learn just how far we have come to distroying the environment. Here is something which I thought was worth a share.

The art of this infographic lies in the simplicity of it- doodling and scribbling and drawing its way into making the reader understand just what he can do for the environment, for the world but eventually for himself. This mindmap as the author calls it, points out the little things: Use a cloth bag, eat less meat, cancel junk mail, have no more than 2 children, use public transport or walk or bike, don’t fly, buy local food, save power- save money, use a clothes line- not a dryer, change to energy saving light bulbs and so on. The interesting thing is I could see while moving my eyes from one branch to another that a greener life is also a more economical life. If we started thinking of it along these lines, specially in a country like Pakistan where inflation rates are touching 15% and power supply is dwindling, we would do more to embrace at least some, if not all, of these suggestions. 

Refer to: http://learningfundamentals.com.au/resources

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August 6, 2011

The thing about income distribution is…

by Huma Sattar

Champagne-Glass Distribution, an infographic

Crash course to development economics, I would say. This infographic amazingly demonstrates- in just one look- the disparity between countries and if you think about it, the disparity within countries as well, especially the developing ones, like Pakistan. And much like a champagne glass where the stem supports the cup; the poor support the rich or rather enable them to remain rich.

(I am unaware of the actual source; I found it at ”The Society Pages“)

Disparity Income

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