Tag: How To

How much do you tip your waiter? Chances are, you’re paying them way too much

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 20, 2012

How to Make Money and Bigger Tips as a Waitress

How much do you tip your wait staff when you visit a bar or restaurant?

Some people go for the standard 20% off the final total of the bill — just take the total, move the decimal point, and multiply by 2… voila! No math required and you left a 20% tip.

Some people jump through complicated hoops to come up with a 15% or 18% tip.

We’ll be honest here – there have been times that Web Watch has left less than 15%… but trust us, the wait staff didn’t do their job that day by listening to what the customer wanted (they didn’t bring us the requested drink, the requested condiment on the side rather than on the sandwich, etc – and it wasn’t because the restaurant was busy that day… it was just bad service all the way around.)

Tags business, food, How To, money, restaurants, Save Money

How To Internet Video

Is that YouTube video legal? Check out the YouTube Copyright School to learn more

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 11, 2012

Harry Potter and the Order of the Court:
The J.K. Rowling Copyright Case and the Question of Fair Use

“The Internet is FREE”, they claim. “Everything on the Internet is free for the taking!”

No, not so much. Rule number one of Internet legalities: Just because someone posted it on the Internet doesn’t mean that there is no copyright or that the material is free to be shared/taken.

Fact is, the very act of writing something yourself gives you an automatic copyright to that material that YOU created. Let’s emphasize that YOU created portion again. It has to be original work from YOU for you to claim the copyright – and even then, you can only claim the copyright on the portion that YOU edited.

Even large mass-edited projects like Wikipedia have a copyright… but Wikipedia explicitly says that the individual Wikipedia editors can’t claim copyright on the text that is contributed directly to Wikipedia articles — just adding the text to Wikipedia grants Wikipedia a licence to make that text available for public use. (Content that is already copyrighted outside of Wikipedia and still contributed by the original author falls under a different set of copyright guidelines — be sure to read that WP article for all the copyright details that may pertain to you.)

Tags copyright, How To, Internet, Legal, Video, youtube

Games How To

Sudoku so hard, it took one team a giant computer and an entire year to solve a single puzzle

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 8, 2012

Will Shortz Presents Simply Sinister Sudoku: 200 Hard Puzzles

If you enjoy working on Sudoku puzzles as much as Web Watch does, then this may be of interest to you.

First, let’s talk a little bit about what Sudoku is, for those Web Watch readers who may have been living under a rock for the past 10 years:

Sudoku is a puzzle that is rumored to have been created by a puzzle creator living in Indiana, seemingly around 1979. In 1984, it was published in a Japanese newspaper… and the rest, they say, is history. The puzzle typically is a 9×9 square, and the object is to put the numbers 1-9 into the boxes so each row, column and 3×3 sub-block contains all the 1-9 digits.

In other words, it’s a game that’s absolutely perfect of playing on an iPad or phone.

Tags game, How To, math, puzzle, sudoku

How To shopping

Want to succeed in business? Try wearing black

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 3, 2012

Beyond Business Casual: What To Wear To Work If You Want To Get Ahead
Beyond Business Casual:
What To Wear To Work If You Want To Get Ahead

As we head into a new year, you may have on your list of New Year’s Resolutions to “get promoted at work”.

While working hard and getting recognized for the job that you do while at the office is only part of the way to advance your career – you may want to take a look at some of the esoteric things.

Apparently, according to CareerBuilder:

Tags business, career, How To, jobs, shopping

10 Things How To Internet Music Websites

Year in Review: 2011’s most popular Web Watch articles and searches

Post author By web gangsta
Post date January 1, 2012

2011: Living in the Future

Thanks to everyone who took the time to visit Web Watch in 2011. For those of you who haven’t been able to visit every day, let’s take a look at what you did come and see while you were here:

The top ten most viewed Web Watch articles for 2011 were:

Continue reading “Year in Review: 2011’s most popular Web Watch articles and searches”

Tags 10 Things, business, football, How To, Internet, justin bieber, Music, playboy, reality tv, website

Gambling How To

Common poker tells, from poker expert Mike Caro

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 31, 2011

Mike Caro's Book of Poker Tells
Mike Caro’s Book of Poker Tells

It’s a long weekend, so what better reason to ring in the New Year by getting together with your buddies for a late night of cigar smoking and poker playing?

But before you do, you might want to read up a little bit on how to recognize a “poker tell” – that is, those silent signs that your poker opponents aroung the table give off when they have a good or bad hand.

Some of these little ticks are done on purpose – players think that they can indicate whether they have a worse hand than they actually do by doing or saying something to throw you off the scent. Other tells are things your body does whether you realize it or not.

Tags Gambling, How To, Las Vegas, poker

Gambling Internet

An open letter to MGM, Caesars, Sands, and other casino companies regarding social media

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 30, 2011

Fountains of Bellagio

This is an open letter to the marketing staff at MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment, Sands, and other casino corporations. And if you’re part of the marketing staff at a different type of company, you may want to pay attention to this as well – since the core takeaway here applies to you as well.

Tags business, Caesars, casinos, facebook, Gambling, Harrahs, How To, Internet, Las Vegas, marketing, MGM Resorts, Sands, social, social media, twitter, Venetian

How To

Women: want to make more money? Stop shaving, showering

Post author By web gangsta
Post date December 29, 2011

GROOMING AND ETIQUETTE FOR CORPORATE MEN AND WOMEN:
How to Dress Properly

We all know that proper grooming is important to succeed in the workplace.

Web Watch knows a few men with (shall we say…) less than admirable shower and clothes-washing habits.

One situation arose where a co-worker had to be taken aside and be told explicitly to go home and shower. It was an uncomfortable conversation, but it had to be done. You could smell him coming from down the hall. Web Watch shudders just remembering the stench, it was that bad.

Tags bathroom, business, career, gender, How To, jobs, survey