Archive for July, 2005

Bring your lunch and save your dollars

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 reading

Disable Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard

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 reading

Download: Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP

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 reading

Re-cap for this week

Some good posts for this week:

Remember to go to Lifehack.Community to check out articles, ask any questions… Continue reading

Man Grooming – How to choose clothing

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 reading

Tips for buying a house

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 reading

Managing Your “To Do List” with MindManager

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?

  • the ability to drag & drop topics wherever I want makes it really simple to keep the list up-to-date
  • the "task

Side Job Track

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 reading

How to Bypass BIOS Passwords

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 reading

Windows XP Home and Professional Service Pack 2 Service Configurations

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:

  • "SAFE" Configuration ~ This is the configuration that 95% of the people will be able to use with little or no side effects. It will also minimizes the amount of

Ten Presentation Tips from Professional Trainer

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:

  • Confident on what you are talking about.
  • You may not know all

Finding Work and Life Balance

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 reading

GTD Hipster PDA Planner Binding

Doug Giuliana from SolutionJunkie has came up with a very cool setup with D*I*Y HipsterPDA Planner. He printed out the template to 3x5 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 reading

Integration between Palm and Bloglines

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 reading

Good, better, best money-saving ideas

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 reading

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