Archive for the 'lifehacks' Category
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
My google life is continuing:
What with my mail now in gmail, rss feeds in google reader, my calendar in google calendar, and some documents that I want to share in google docs. I even have google notebook up and running. Things are going well.
However, I am having some trouble with my browsers.
Up to this little […]
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Friday, March 3rd, 2006
Marc Orchant has posted about the forthcoming foldera – an online organizational tool that looks very promising.
“I read this morning that Foldera, an online organizational tool that virtually no one has seen, has already had 400,000 people sign up for access to the public beta whenever it is finally made available. That’s a remarkable number […]
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2006
A friend of mine emailed me details about his home theatre pc project a couple of days ago and I thought it was worth sharing for those of you who are thinking of setting up a computer for your own music, video use on your TV.
Hardware: I had 2 leftover Athlon XP 1900+ (2.2GHz thoroughbred […]
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Thursday, August 18th, 2005
Thanko USB iShaver
The gadgetblog points out a very cute and potentially very useful gadget – a shaver that will charge via your usb port. Well, what will they think of next
Charging your shaver via USB is a good idea if you are as absent minded as me. I sometimes get into office and forgot to […]
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
A nice article about the GTD cult – worth a read. There are many well known bloggers mentioned in the artcile.
A holy book for the information age is turning stressed-out worker bees into members of an unlikely new cult obsessed with keeping an empty inbox.
To converts, popular time-management manual Getting Things Done is a […]
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Sunday, May 8th, 2005
englishcompanion.com publish a list of note taking techniques from cornell University. I was just amazed at the variety. There are techniques for students, reporters, writers of fiction, teachers, thinkers, project managers etc. So get your pen or stylus out and start experimenting.
Academic success requires various competencies, among them the ability to know and use a […]
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Friday, May 6th, 2005
Some nice thoughts on study techniques - I wish I had this list when I was at school. Although it is unlikely I would have read it, yet alone followed it when I was at school.
Perhaps there are some hints there that I can apply to my studing for my masters.
“Here I study”
Get a dedicated […]
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