Frank over Hello, Dollar! tried to use an example on saving - bring your lunch to work and save money to show some basic saving principle. It may not be much if you are just saving those money alone and keep it in your piggy bank, but if you save it into bank or invest into stock and have the money running at compound interest, then the sum of money… » Continue
July 31 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»
If you don’t like the Dashboard because it is dragging down your memory or performance, or you just don’t like the extra bit in Mac OS X 10.4. Mac OS X Things has a way of disabling dashboard. You can disable (or re-enable it) by:
To turn Dashboard off:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
To turn Dashboard on:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO
You have to restart the… » Continue
July 31 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Do you know you can download free utilities from Microsoft to enhance your experiences on desktop? Check out these three utilities: Alt-Tab Replacement, Virtual Desktop Manager and Image Resizer. They are pretty useful. I like Alt-Tab Replacement, it adds a preview screen on the task switching window, able you to view the current content and status of the window before switching:
RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer - Are you a serious… » Continue
July 31 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»
Some good posts for this week:
Remember to go to Lifehack.Community to check out articles, ask any questions… » Continue
July 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Lance Auther at Just Write wrote a pretty intensive guide on how to choose the right clothing for man. The article includes the sections for how to choose good shirt, pants, suit and shoes. Things You Should Never Wear is the final section that really worth to read:
… Bow ties: Frankly, you’re not weird enough to wear a bow tie. Bow ties may be worn with tuxedos, but how often… » Continue
July 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Otis at Ask Metafilter seeked for help on buying a house - what process does home buying involve. There are couple of good advices:
… Some obvious things which you may already know about/do:
- check your neighbours (try to get introduced quickly, as it gets embarrassing after some months have elapsed!)
- find out what parking is available (do you have an allocated space? Is there room for 2 cars? Guest parking?… » Continue
July 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»
Francois Lavaste at The Mindjet Blog made a Todo list system in MindManager map format. He able to use it at the individual and team level and very easy to manage it by drag and drop to different contexts like projects child nodes. What are the other advantages?
July 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 5 comments»
If you are independent contractor and want to find a service to mange your projects, a free service called Side Job Track may able to help you. It is a web-based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software. The main differentiation compared to other services is that it provides features on creating electronic invoices and tracking materials you may use:
… Side Job Track is an easy… » Continue
July 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
If you are unfortunate enough to set a password for your BIOS password for PC and forgot it, chances are you may need to send it back to the manufacturer. Not to worry yet, you still can try out some tips and tricks to bypass or unlock the BIOS password:
BIOS passwords can add an extra layer of security for desktop and laptop computers. They are used to either prevent a… » Continue
July 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 5 comments»
BlackViper has posted different setup of services on Windows XP Home and Profressional Service Pack 2. It suggested the default services may not be ideal for some of the users. There are three suggested sets of configurations to suit different needs:
July 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
I am fortunate enough to receive a training from one of the corporate trainers on time management. Apart from learning more about time management, I also focused on her public speaking style and skills. After the training, I had a chance to talk to her more about public speaking. Here are some tips I have dropped down to share here:
July 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 7 comments»
Many people see the importance of work life balance, however it is a challenge of implementing a system or getting into habit that let you balance your work and other aspects in life. Is it worth to spend your nights and weekends for your work? What’s the problem? Not enough time, or you are too passionate for your job? Brad Feld had the same problem on having work taking over… » Continue
July 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»
Doug Giuliana from SolutionJunkie has came up with a very cool setup with D*I*Y HipsterPDA Planner. He printed out the template to 3×5 cards, then used some stuff sailcloths for front and back to protect the card, finally punched a hole on a corner and bind it using a small carabiner. The result is pretty attractive.
… Rather than bind the cards with a binder clip, I… » Continue
July 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»
Over at Lifehack.Community, Klaas Naaijkens has introduced a good steps on setting up offline reading of feeds in bloglines to Palm! He introduced a application which is pretty useful, called Sunrise, which can convert websites and RSS and Atom feeds for offline reading on your handheld, then you can view it with a ebook viewer in Palm called Plucker (or Vade Mecum in PocketPC):
Finally… » Continue
July 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»
Jennifer Lawler at Bankrate.com has some advices on money-saving ideas for stuff like purchasing car, clothing, groceries, insurance, utilities and appliances. She also categorized into three different levels of money-saving tips:
… So we asked experts to provide a simple tip that will easily save money (good), another tip that might take a little more time or effort but which will save more money (better), and a more extreme tip that… » Continue
July 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
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