O’Reilly has a free online book called So You Want to Write a Book. It is a guide for new authors which talks about from writing a proposal, getting a contract with your publisher, start writing, edit your work and market your book. It is a good book especially if you want O’Reilly to be your publisher:
… In one sense, the market for the book is implicit in its purpose… » Continue
July 22 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
Ever try to send greetings card and need to find a suitable envelops? Ricky Spears at Ricky’s RAM Dump has made a template which help to find out the measurement of small papers and envelopers. It is basically x-y axis with measurements in inches however it do become pretty handy:
…With the Odd Size Paper and Envelope Template she simply places the corner of the envelope at the… » Continue
July 22 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
There is a huge security vulnerability in Greasemonkey, that allows any website to read local file on your machine. So if you are using Greasemonkey, please update to install Greasemonkey 0.3.5, or uninstall it.
I have updated our original post of Greasemonkey for the new version.
Mandatory Greasemonkey Update - [Greaseblog]… » Continue
July 22 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Over at Lifehack.Community, chuckmagnum introduced a quick way on how to create a to-do list “widget” on your Windows XP Desktop, without any extra software:
Use an html file as part of an active desktop in windows to create a todo list that is easily updated.
Creating the list
-create an .htm or .html document
-write out your to do list in the document and customize using html, remembering to save when your… » Continue
July 21 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
D. Keith Robinson over To-Done has written a good piece on stuff you need to know to give a good presentation. Are you stress when you speak in front of public? Are you nervous during presentation? I used to be exactly like that. I set myself some goals and practice. I also read and listen some book such as 10 Days to More
July 21 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
Sometimes it takes a lot time to burn ISO file (a format that image CD/DVD) into DVD for just reading some data. People also like to backup discs into ISO file to store in hard disk. But how to access files within the image? Tech-Recipes has introduced a freeware that released by Microsoft. It able to read ISO files as virtual CD-ROMs, without burning into disk. Here is the Readme… » Continue
July 21 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 3 comments»
There is an online book called Free Software for Busy People. It is a good introduction on Open Source software and some basic tutorial on different software such as OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird. You may familar with Microsoft Office and couldn’t switch to OpenOffice, but this online book would give you a brief tutorial on how to get started:
I can get Microsoft Office for free? That’s great.
Not quite. Microsoft makes some… » Continue
July 21 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
Appreciated everyone who has commented in Ask Readers: A community on lifehack.org?. After a week of testing and deployment, it is online now!
Since lifehack.org online, our visitors has increased month by month. For instance this month (half way through the month), our number of unique visitors has already exceed June and 200% more than May. Our posts had hit to varies blogs, web sites and del.icio.us popular page… » Continue
July 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
Closets and Organizers are important within our home because it saves spaces and keep our home organized and clean. How to install a nice shelving system for your home? What are the best way to organize your closet? How to store your beloved wine? DoItYourself.com has a pretty good range of articles that can answer those questions:
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July 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Scott Berkun, the author of The Art of Project Management, has written a nice article on how to learn from your mistakes. He categorized mistakes into four types:
July 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
There is a site called “My Favorite Word” which contains a range of words submitted by readers and explanation of why those words are the favorite word for them. It is pretty interesting to read. An example:
Persnickety.
Because it is the only word that describes my fussy, particular dog who thinks he owns the world and that everything, I mean everything, should be done to suit him. For example: laps and… » Continue
July 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
Matt Evans has shared his library of excel spreadsheets which should help you calculate and analyze different data. It may save you time on designing spreadsheets. Popular ones within the list include:
July 20 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»
Punkey at What’s the next action has a good post on how to print out the DIY planner Hipster PDA version by A Million Monkeys Typing using International standard paper - in this case the index card A7 size.
… We use the A-system (or whatever it’s called) and we have indexcards in A7 size. Or A6, whatever you prefer. A7 equals to 74×105 mm which comes to 2,9×4,1 inch… » Continue
July 19 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
TiddlyWiki + Ruby On Rails + Ajax = ServerSideWiki.
A simple formula that really may make your life easier. If you don’t like TiddlyWiki (or GTDTiddlyWiki) because you don’t like to store the html file locally, or you want to access the wiki from any computer with Internet access, ServerSideWiki should be the tool for you:
… All the power of TiddlyWiki, but now ServerSide… accessible from anywhere… » Continue
July 19 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 4 comments»
By using Apple iTunes 4.9 or ipod color, you are not only bind to listen to podcast, you can also view images or URLs during the show. The new format for enhanced podcasts are encoded with AAC audio files (m4a or m4b, m4p) which can contain new data inside. From Apple’s Documentation:
… You can use Chapter Tool to create Enhanced Podcasts that work with iTunes 4.9 or… » Continue
July 19 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»
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