Archive for July, 2005

How To Choose an Athletic Shoes

It is important to protect your feet when walking and running. Shoe can able to fulfill this functionaility but without properly fitting shoes it is impossible. Christina Frank has written 10 tips on how to choosegood athletic shoes that fits your needs:

Understand the bells and whistles. Some models of running shoes look better suited to a space mission than a run in the park, but some of those groovy-looking features… » Continue

July 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

Organize yourself with Whiteboard

Over at Lifehack.Community, user cgr (Charles) has posted a very useful article on how whiteboard can make you more organized at home. What are the things which is useful to keep track with whiteboard at home? He also suggested some other tips like communicating with others at home through whiteboard:

… This whiteboard has allowed us to condense at least 5 lists into one convenient location. Placing the whiteboard in… » Continue

July 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Think Better with Chewing Gum?

Ricky Spears from Ricky’s RAM dump citied an article which described that “Research has shown that chewing does indeed increase our ability to concentrate and to retain what we’ve learned. In fact, studies indicate that, for both kids and adults, mental tasks are completed up to 20% more effectively when we chew gum.”

It made sense. I get a lot of my best ideas when I’m in the shower, mowing… » Continue

July 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

The Paper Planner Inbox

Douglas Johnston has written an article on how to setup a @Inbox with paper. He urged that keeping Getting Things Done’s procedure capture and empty is important to stay organised. Couple of tips from Douglas include:

* Keep your data capture system handy for whenever you need it. Either carry your entire system –for example, your planner or your PDA– or have a “satellite”… » Continue

July 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Digital Photography Tutorial

Cambridge in Colour has a series of tutorials on digitial photography. Frankly digitial photography is not that much easier than traditional film photography, as you need to take care about the exposure, noise level, colour, file formats etc. However digitial does increase the control over traditional. Sometimes I take bad quality photos, and learning something in tutorials should able to save time by increasing of chances taking good photos:

Photography is… » Continue

July 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

30 Day Challenges and Experiments

LetterJ over Lifehack.Community has posted a very interesting topic for discussion. He found out there are successful concepts and implementations of having 30 (or 28) days period on things like product try-out, experiment on specific theories etc, as short period does not give same depth of experiences. Other than that, what implies to “30 days challenges”?

… The recent success of the film “SuperSize Me” and Mr. Spurlock’s new TV… » Continue

July 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)

Creativity and innovation thinking are topics that I have been searching recently. Below are those couple of sites’ resource links + some related recommended books that related to creativity and innovation. Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas.

Tips on Creativity by Gaping void is a list of how to be… » Continue

July 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 18 comments»

Managing your magazine subscriptions

If you are subscribing too many magazine, then this life hack may suitable for you. Ken Norton has posted a article on how to manage your subscriptions - how to draw a line on what to subscribe and what to unsubscribe. He mentioned nine ways:

Make a list of every magazine subscription.
Rank the magazines in the order in which you’d like to read them.
Note the frequency, Kenneth.
Consider keeping anything that is

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July 25 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»

Automated Backups on Tiger Using rsync

Want to find a free and automatic way on backing up your files in Mac? MacDevCenter has introduced one for Tiger (OS X 10.4) to backup your data without any user interaction after has it setup. It involves rsync command, AppleScript, and iCal:

… In this article I’m going to show you how to create a free, customizable backup solution using only software that comes with Mac OS X 10.4, which… » Continue

July 25 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Creativity is all about connecting experiences

Frédérick Giasson wrote a very nice commentary on one of the popular Steve Jobs quotes:

“To design something really well you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to thoroughly understand something – chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don’t take the time to do that. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask a creative… » Continue

July 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»

Credit for the College Student

Jason Striegel suggested some ways on buliding credit for college student. Don’t spend what you don’t have - auto-debit to pay your credit card, get yourself a saving account and start earning interest. Well this advice may even works for a working adult:

… You can see the simplicity and advantages of this system. Here are the main advantages:
1. You’ll establish really good credit within a year… » Continue

July 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 2 comments»

Re-cap for this week

Some good posts for this week:

Remember to support Lifehack.Community by submitting your discussions or stories! Feature like News aggregator should also… » Continue

July 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Eliminating Verbal Pauses

Steve Pavlina over his blog has posted a entry about verbal pauses which he learned in Toastmasters. Verbal pauses are when you say bridging words when your brain still processing for next sentence - like umm, ahhh, you know, and, and but. It is sometimes distracting and does not sound profressional. Steve showed a solution: awareness and practice:

…First, start becoming aware of verbal pauses by listening for them in others’… » Continue

July 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Removing Your Materials from Google

If you don’t want your web page or material online to be indexed by Google, which is reachable by anyone on the planet. What should you do? In Google Hacks by O’Reilly, they got a detailed article on how to avoid to be index, or ways to remove pages if it is already indexed:

… Once you implement these changes, Google will remove or limit your content according to your META… » Continue

July 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

HipsterPDA in flip-top mode

Thomas came up with an idea on how to bind his Hipster PDA together. He called it flip-top mode:

I want to share my replacement for binder clips… Binder RINGS (aka, Loose Leaf Rings). The rings in these photos are 3/4″ rings by Acco and are widely available at places like OfficeMax and Office Depot.

I cut an unused plastic pocket folder into two slightly-oversized covers for the hPDA. You can easily… » Continue

July 22 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»

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