FortuneCOMPASS.com Blog

Beautiful new web site

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:58:12 -0700

We are so pleased to share our completely new web site with everyone. The graphics, layout and much of the content is completely new! Our intention is to make browsing the site more interactive and enjoyable, and to share our vision of "Feng Shui for All" to a wider audience.

Please let us know you comments and suggestions as we love hearing from our friends and customers.

Blessings and best wishes, -steve-

LA Times: "Skymall items I could see myself buying"

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:26:21 -0700

LA Times columnist Sandy Banks gave a nice mention in her 8/03/2010 column of the Fortune Compass. While sharing her thoughts about perusing SkyMall catalogs in flight and saying that at first glance some items seem too far out, she did have some kind words for the Fortune Compass:

On the airplane, I tend to leaf through quickly, lest my seatmate think I'm the kind of rube gullible enough to believe "your troubles will melt away" with the $49.95 "Head Spa Massager."

But studying the magazine alone in my yard, I found plenty of SkyMall items I could see myself buying.

Like the $199.99 Electronic Feng Shui Compass that "calculates supportive energy fields quickly and easily to align your physical surroundings to help manifest your goals and intentions."

Thanks Ms. Banks and we wish you safe and comfortable travels and hope you find your perfect brownie pan! Blessings, -steve-

Feng Shui tips for Babies and Children

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:10:58 -0700

Some excellent tips on how to create a soothing and comfortable nursery or bedroom for your little ones can be found in this great article by Living Edge Feng Shui in Australia. Blessings, -steve-

Feng Shui tips for Business

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:35:01 -0700

There are many Feng Shui tools and techniques to activate business luck, including facing good directions (Ming Gua), being in the optimum section of the building (Ba Zhai) and activating your personal power and elements (Ba Zi). I recently read a nice article posted at Feng Shui Vibes web site that talks about activating the correct room in an office. The article says:

In Feng Shui Businesses and Homes, we access the entire area and while this wasn't the only issue, it certainly did have a contributing part. For those of you that have rooms that aren't used often, open the blinds, add some plants (for pure "Life Force") and the windows for a few minutes each day---you'll often find things start to change for the better!

For you enjoyment, here is a link to this full article.

Best wishes for an active, vibrant, prosperous business! -steve-

Software updates for Fortune Compass and iPhone App

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:56:49 -0800

If anyone did not receive the "software update available" email that went out last week, please note that we have posted a new version, 3.44, to the web site. Also the App store just released 1.0.7 software for the iPhone "Life Compass" app.

These updates add Period 5 and Period 6 (1944 onward) support to Flying Stars so it now shows chart types for a wider range of buildings. All updates are free to our customers. As always, thanks for staying in touch with us and sharing your experiences with Fortune Compass.

Blessings, -steve-

Thoughts about Feng Shui success

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:48:38 -0800

I received an email from a customer that truly warmed my heart. He said:

Just had an amazing experience, Steve. I set Life Compass to point to health, recently. Long story short, I had an encouraging outcome to a somewhat critical health event. Sample of one but I do feel better correlating that event with Feng Shui.

After contemplating his wonderful success, I offered this perspective:

Thats truly wonderful. Many powerful forces are aligned for you when you allow your mind, beliefs, understanding and available wisdom to help.

It has been my personal experience that Qi is always ready to help us. She is just waiting for us to do our part by asking for help and making the changes that are presented to us.

Wishing you the best success and outcomes for your hearts desire. Blessings, -steve-

New Year(s) Celebration(s)

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:37:40 -0800

Happy New Year! Actually, lets talk about some of the many definitions for the "New Year". According to a fascinating Wikipedia article the Roman calendar had the new year begin in March, at least until Julius Caesar assumed power in January. Hence the (not so) surprising change to January 1st.

With the expansion of Western culture to the rest of the world during the twentieth century, the January 1 date became universal in nature, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations such as China and India.

Chinese New Year however is celebrated on the Lunar New Year and the "new year" as in first day of a year is the Solar New Year in Feng Shui calculations.

My point is: Happy New Year! If you miss January 1, you can celebrate again on January 28th (Solar New Year) or February 14 (Lunar Year, the second new moon after the winter solstice).

So, blessing to everyone for a wonderful New Year..... times 3!

Talking Fortune Compass to London, Ontario

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:26:34 -0800

I had the pleasure of giving a brief radio interview on CJBK News-talk 1290 in London, Ontario this afternoon. "London in the Afternoon" co-host Mike Stubbs asked me about the Fortune Compass as a unique holiday gift. He and Al Coombs discovered us on by searching the web and decided to call me and see if I would like to talk on their show. "Sure", I said. We had a fun back-and-forth about Feng Shui, rearranging furniture, and finding good Qi. I enjoyed them and appreciate their offer to share the Fortune Compass story with our Canadian friends. Blessings, -steve-

Ancient Wisdom meets the iPhone

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:29:51 -0800

Our Life Compass iPhone app is a success! We've received mostly 5-star reviews and people are finding Life Compass to be easy and fun to use. Thank you to all our customers and friends for making us successful.

We launched a PR campaign last Friday talking about what the iPhone app does and how you can use it to find good personal Qi energy as well as help with 'house hunting' to find a perfect home or business space. The press release is available here.

We send Blessings and Best Wishes to everyone for a perfect Thanksgiving Holiday. -steve and tisha-

Does Feng Shui require Intuition?

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:00:09 -0800

One of our affiliates, Nicola Elizabeth Jones of feng-shui-design-consultancy.com address this question in her recent newsletter as follow:

Compass School Feng Shui is a set of numerology calculations used to analyse orientation, location and time, none of which are psychic or intuitive.

You can read her well written full article here. With best wishes, -steve-

Life Compass iPhone App released

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:01:10 -0800

Today was exciting for us as our "Life Compass" iPhone app was released for sale in the Apple App store. This app requires an iPhone 3GS (the newest model) as that is the only Apple hardware with a compass sensor. Older 3G and original iPhones models do not have a compass.

Here is a comparison between the app features and the Life Compass version:

iPhone app vs Fortune Compass comparison

You can read more about the iPhone app here and can buy the Life Compass app from the iTunes store here.

As always, we love to hear from our customers so please let us know what you think, and any ideas or suggestions you have for us to include in future versions.

Blessings, --steve-

Life Compass on Facebook

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:32:16 -0800

Social networks like Facebook make the internet "fun" again, and actually are changing the world - I believe. For example, Twitter has provided vital real-time information about natural disasters and helped gather like-minded people together. And Facebook brings families and new friends together around shared interests and community even when we live many time-zones and miles apart.

We're happy to be adding our voices to the Facebook community and making it easy for you to share your thoughts and experiences with the Life Compass through our FB group.

We invite you to become a fan of the Life Compass and add your energy and thoughts to the community. Together, we are making the world a better place! Blessings and Thanks, -steve-

Macintosh OS 10.6 "Snow Leopard" and the Fortune Compass

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:58:08 -0700

Apple recently released their latest update to the Mac OS X, 10.6, referred to as "Snow Leopard". Some of our customers have noted problems updating their Fortune Compass software after installing this on their Mac. We posted a new updater on our web site that fixes some issues (uses the latest Java 1.6 and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Java).

However there is a confusing alert dialog that appears when you power on a Fortune Compass attached to your Mac. This dialog did not appear in previous versions of OS X, and based on some other postings from unhappy Mac users for lots of reasons, might be changed by Apple in the future! In any event, if you get "A new network interface has been detected" alert, simply click on "Network Preferences" in that alert, then click on "Apply" in the Network preference panel that appears. Full details can be found in this document on our support page.

Not to be outdone, Microsoft has released the long awaited Windows 7 this past weekend..... so there will probably be updates needed to our documentation for the Windows install process too, we'll just have to see. If you are a windows user, the latest documentation with links to any necessary device drivers can be found here.

Sending you Success for all your computer interactions! -steve-

Introducing Life Compass

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:39:59 -0700

We are proud to introduce the newest Fortune Compass model, the Life Compass. This model incorporates all of the previous "Advanced" premium features (such as Eight Mansions/Ba Zhai and Flying Stars, and increases storage to eight friends and associates). Best of all, this is a free upgrade to our current Personal and Advanced model users! Just go to our Updates page and your compass will be updated..

The Personal model has been replaced by the improved Life Compass model, which is now value priced at US$199.00, making all this great Feng Shui available to even more people.

The latest documentation on the Life Compass can be downloaded here. We wish you great blessings and prosperity. -steve-

Tianren Tong Feng Shui Compass Advertising

nospam@example.com (Steve Vollum) — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:09:02 -0700

With great enthusiasm we can now let everyone know we are shipping our Tianren Tong Chinese Feng Shui compass product.

We have also begun advertising it in a Los Angeles area Chinese newspaper, the Epoc Times. Adverts will run on various days this month. If you have friends that would like to receive the paper they should check it out.

Here is our current ad:

Epoc Times ad for Tianren Tong Feng Shui compass

Best wishes for your continued success, heath, spiritual growth and fantastic relationships! -steve-