Archive for August, 2005

Productivity Start With Taming The Paper Tiger

Think about it - Once your office becomes messy and your files are not filed properly, you can hardly search any information to preform your work. Organizing your office through filing, acting, or tossing it method, or Taming paper tiger is how Barbara Hemphill, author of Taming the Paper Tiger at Work and Taming the Paper Tiger at Home refers to the information/paper organization.Why your home or… Continue reading

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

Developing Business Skills

Dr. Leon Winer, Ph.D. in MBA, has made a web site that decaicated to instructions for developing business skills. There are chapters in the site like Case Study Analysis, Creative Decision Analysis, Influencing, Negotiating, Networking, Career Development, Business Plan Outline and Entrepreneuring. I have read through a chapter called Networking / Self-Marketing and I found it is pretty useful:"Networking" is exchanging information. Networking also includes swapping services… Continue reading

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

Interview with Scott Berkun

Scott Berkun is one of the writers on the web who known by many people - articles such as Why smart people defend bad ideas, How to learn from your mistakes, Work vs. Progress are linked by many blogs and discussed by many people.

He was a program manager at Microsoft, leading some major projects on design and development. Through his experience on the… Continue reading

August 25 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 4 comments»

Getting your Inbox to Empty

Dwayne Melancon at Genuine Curiosity has posted a good advice on processing your email - how to tackle your emails when they are swarming your inbox. He mentioned three steps: Consider a temporary invocation of the “one minute rule”; Sort by sender; Sort by Subject / Topic / Conversation, then delete or file:When I started GTD about 18 months ago, I had around 8000 emails in my inbox, about 2500… Continue reading

August 25 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

A Simple Guide to Shaving

Todd Lemoine, who likes to saving money and living simply, pointed to me that he worked out a five steps shaving guide for male readers. He suggested his experience on how to choose a razor, which shaving cream should be used, how to prepare your skin, and how to treat your skin immediately after shaving:... Your mileage may vary, but this process has always given me excellent results and I… Continue reading

August 25 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

Notes on Getting Things Done: the Roadmap Seminar

There are several people who have attended Getting Things Done: The Roadmap seminar and wrote some great posts about it.1. Terrie from O'Reilly has written a short and neat summary on concepts and/or off-the-cuff quotes from Allen. Several highlights:

"You'll give as much bandwidth to buying a quart of milk as you will to buying a company. The mind is a good servant but a terrible master."
If you decide you

August 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Urgent vs Important

What is Urgent and Important in term of tasks? Some people confuses both and mixes them together. Do we have to really do tasks when it becomes urgent, or can we tackle important tasks before it becomes urgent? Seth Godin posted an article and try to answer this question using some good examples:... The most important idea of all is this one: You will succeed in the face of change… Continue reading

August 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | no comments»

Saving Money with Coupon Codes and Rebates

Kathy over Lifehacker has given out five quick links on coupon codes and rebates. If you live in US, those links may interest you and save you some bucks. Sites like Fatwallet and SlickDeals looks promising.Saving Money with Coupon Codes and Rebates - [Lifehacker]…

August 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

Service status updates

There were some problems with the server last night. One of the plugins we had for the blog software has bloated down the whole server (no kidding). The system administrator helped us on narrowed down the problem (Thanks Jeff). Popular posts sidebar is disabled for now until further refinements.Feeds will need some time for the server to refresh again. Apologies for any inconveniences.Update: Feeds are okay now. Services like bloglines… Continue reading

August 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

What makes me creative?

If you are a regular reader of lifehack.org, you know I am into creativity researching - finding what are the tips and ways to improve my creativity. I believe creativity (and/or innovation) is one of the key factors to drive you to success on any front. This is something that I need to improve on as well.Bruce DeBoer at Synthesis has written a fantastic article on creativity. It surely answered… Continue reading

August 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 4 comments»

DIY Planner Kit Identification Template

If you are using a D*I*Y Planner and have valuable information inside it, you may want to download this template, fill out with your information, include it and just in case one day your planner may become lost item (touch wood) and a person may able to return to you by using those information:

This business-card-sized template is in OpenOffice 1.x Draw format (sxd), which will allow you… Continue reading

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

Folder Size Windows Explorer Extension

What is the case when you need to find out what is the size of the folder? Normally you have to right click on the folder and choose Properties to check out the size. With Folder Size Explorer Extension, this nifty little tools will add a new column for showing size on folders in detail view:

Folder Size Explorer Extension adds a new column to the Details view… Continue reading

August 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

Ten Easy Ways to Improve Your Resume

Katharine Hansen has pointed out some important tips for improving a resume. Resume is the first thing that presents yourself for a job - it is important to get it clear and reader-friendly. Katharine suggested ten practical tips for significant improvements on your resume:

Use a bulleted style to make your resume more reader-friendly.
Follow "The Resume Ingredients Rule."
Eliminate "responsibilities" words from your resume vocabulary.
Eliminate clutter from your resume.
Use strong, concrete verbs

August 22 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

6 Don’ts for the End of Your Presentation

Bert Decker, CEO of Decker Communications, Inc., gives a quick six don'ts to avoid for successful presentation. He highlights that last three seconds would be how people remember you. Those six don'ts are:

Don’t step back.
Don’t look away.
Don’t move on the last word.
Don't raise your hands.
Don’t rush to collect your papers.
Never blackball yourself

If you avoid those, you should able to show more confidences in front of the audience, and they will… Continue reading

August 22 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

Gmail Conversation Preview Bubble

Try this! This is a new Greasemonkey script that can change your experience on Gmail. I always thought the normal conversation preview is not too useful as it shows one sentence only.Over Persistent.info has a Greasemonkey script that able to add a preview bubble which shows the first message and last message for preview. It is extremely useful:

... One of the things touted by the upcoming Yahoo… Continue reading

August 22 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: | 1 comment»

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