Guide to buying a used guitar : Learn where to look and what to look for when purchasing a used electric or acoustic guitar

Where to look:

• craigslist > musical instruments
• Kijiji > buy and sell > musical instruments
• Other online classifieds

What to look (out) for:

Take a look at the sample ad below. On the first look it looks like a really good deal. It comes with a cool box. Only few scratches and chips? No biggy. And all those cool sounding specs. This is the best deal in the world!

Lets take a dive into reality now. The cool box, which is obviously not very portable because of its weight, is a bait for potential customers.
The ad fails to mention that each scratch and chip can cost the potential customer $50-$100 to repair. Yes, even the small one may cost that much to repair. Also don’t take the advice to cover up those cracks and chips by yourself. That will cost you more when repairing the finish, since the repair guys are paid by the hour on top of labor. It takes hours to repair a small chip, and when you cover it up it makes the job harder and more time consuming for the repair guy.
And those cool specs are standard on most guitars.

Here are some really good and elaborate guides on buying a new or used guitar:
http://www.guitarnoise.com/lesson/how-to-buy-a-used-acoustic-guitar/
http://www.essortment.com/all/buyusedguitar_rmfh.htm
http://exclaim.ca/musicschool/needtoknow.aspx?csid1=86
http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnersguide/qt/buyguitar.htm
http://www.sweetwater.com/shop/guitars/electric-guitars/buying-guide.php
http://www.sweetwater.com/shop/guitars/acoustic/buying-guide.php
http://pages.ebay.com/buy/guides/vintage-electric-guitars-buying-guide/
http://www.guitarimports.com/acoustic-guitars.htm
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/document?doc_id=99234
http://www.guitarbitz.com/buyersguide.asp
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/columns/the_guide_to/beginners_guide_to_buying_an_acoustic_guitar.html
http://www.guitar-resource-center.com/beginners_electric_guitar.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/52426/the_complete_guide_to_buying_the_guitar.html

Zoho online productivity and collaboration suite

Online productivity applications are a great breakthrough. They’re cheap, easy-to-use, and they’re compatible with many platforms. Google Docs is a widely used platform for word processing and spreadsheets. But there are others out there.

Zoho is a suite of tools that includes productivity and collaboration applications, Along with the word processor and spreadsheet apps you would expect, they’ve also got email, a presentation tool, a wiki, online organizer, and more. Along with these unlimited tools, they’re got more business tools that do carry some limitations: a CRM system that supports 3 users, a project management tool that can help you oversee one project at a time, and others.

You can create documents online, or you can upload files from your local system—browse your hard drive, or even email them as attachments. If you’re without Internet access, you can still work on your docs and sync them up later. And of course, you can share documents to collaborate with friends or co-workers.

Zoho is a free service. It should work with most systems running a modern web browser.

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Statistics Problem Solver 2.2

Publisher’s description of Statistics Problem Solver

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From Runiter:

Statistics Problem Solver software can solve statistical problems and generate step-by-step solution for it. This statistics tutorial software is as easy to use as filling in the blanks and clicking on Solve button. This software can be used by beginners in learning about discreate distributions, continuous distributions, test of significance, comparing data groups, testing hypothesis or generating and plotting histograms.

Version 2.2 enhances user interface.