Archive for September, 2005

4 ways on knoting a tie

Interesting. I found out today from a site that there are four ways to knot a tie. There are four-in-hand, the Windsor, the half-Winsdor, and the Pratt (Shelby) knot, and different ways of knoting suit different type of shirts:

… There are several standard ways to knot a tie: the Four-in-Hand knot; the Windsor (Double Windsor) knot, purportedly invented by the Duke of Windsor, though he later disclaimed the invention; the… » Continue

September 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: knot, life, Lifehack, men, tie | 2 comments»

How to Preserve Newspapers

If you got a piece of artice or editorial in newspaper you would like to preserve - try the following tips by Sean to preserve the piece of newspaper longer and prevent paper to fade to yellow. All you need to have is some distilled water and milk of magnesia and other little accessories:

… As I am getting ready the upcoming move to Seattle I have been attempting to wade… » Continue

September 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: Lifehack, newspaper, tips | no comments»

GmailThis! Bookmarklet

GmailThis! is a bookmarklet that can let you launch gmail and compose an email on the current page and url you are visiting, plus any text you have highlighted on that page in the body. I like it! This is quite a fast way to access Gmail:

… GmailThis! is an easy way to make a Gmail email without visiting mail.google.com. Once you add the GmailThis! link to your browser’s toolbar… » Continue

September 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: bookmarklet, email, gmail, software | no comments»

On Ho‘ohiki: Keeping your promises

Aloha, let’s manage with aloha: Work well, live well.

This is a short and sweet post folks, but it’s important.

You should consider your credibility and your reputation with keeping your word to be one of the defining hallmarks of your character.

However life happens. There will be times when you’ve fallen short of delivering on a commitment you made.

What is the best way to make up for it when this happens?

Own

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September 29 2005 | By Rosa | Tagged: business, commitment, personal, reputation | 5 comments»

Advice: Eating while travelling

Thomas Crampton has posted some advices on food when you are travelling - should you be careful on what you are eating and drinking. Generally he suggests you can eat everything that has been peeled, grilled or boiled. The most important thing is to wash hand before eating:

… Basically, I never eat anything that has been washed in tapwater (like lettuce) and avoid anything that has milk products (pies with… » Continue

September 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: eating, food, health, travel | no comments»

Who needs a PDA when I’ve got paper?

Some regular readers may know this answer straight from their head - but for any newcomers — Why do you want to move on from your electronic based PDA to a paper-based organizer? Should you give up the technology and use pen and paper to organize your life? For anyone who has doubts, over at Guardian Unlimited Network, I have written an introduction on why you want to use a… » Continue

September 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, hipster, index_card, paper, pda, Productivity | 35 comments»

The Benefits of Work-Life Balance

Good pay is not the only factor of the best job. People start to realize having a job which able you to balance on work-life maybe the best job offer. To help people realize this, some top B-schools have started to open some courses to help people on juggling their responsibilities among their work and life:

… Making your career your life is commonplace by now. But a growing niche of… » Continue

September 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: balance, career, job, work-life | 2 comments»

Ways of Getting Off the Phone

A lifehack for fun only - There is a site dedicated to help you getting off the phone. If you are positive that you need to end the call - simply download a wave sound file from the site, play it, state your excuse and get off from the phone! Some excuses such as: “Someone’s at the door”, “There’s another call”, “My ride is here (honking horn)”, “There is a… » Continue

September 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: call, phone | no comments»

How to e-mail a professor

College students, there are some tips and guidelines for you, if you want to get more from emailing your professor. Michael Leddy, a professor, has written a guideline based on his experiences from reading his student’s emails. Summary of the main points are:

Write from your college or university e-mail account.
Include the course number in your subject line.
Choose an appropriate greeting.
Avoid rote apologies for missing class.
Avoid direct requests.
Proofread what you’ve written.
Sign

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September 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: college, email, guideline, student | 3 comments»

Ultimate Pocket Notebook

The Geek Home has a page with full description on his Hipster PDA. He called it the Ultimate Pocket Notebook. He is proud of bringing this with him everywhere and organizes the stack of index cards by punching a hole in one corner and using a binder ring to hold them together. In additional to the traditional way of making the hipster PDA, he has made more modification and enhancement… » Continue

September 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: DIY, hipster, index_card, pda | 1 comment»

Being productive in College

An user asked a good question in AskMetaFilter - How to be successful, productive and more organize in college. Some general tips are good suggestions from readers - such as:

… Thoughts on scholastic success (some of these are mentioned above, but when you see them repeatedly, sometimes their value sticks better):

Go to office hours. Preferably, when you go you have an idea how to do the problems or have questions

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September 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: college, Productivity, studying | 1 comment»

Top Ten Ways to Handle Email Overload

Email is an effective communication tools, but sometimes when you have too many emails, it will add burdens to your life and overload you. Michael Angier has suggested ten ways on handling your emails, to prevent clutter and save you time:

Don’t Check Mail Every Few Minutes
Flag Messages for Later Action
Use Folders
Set up Rules
Deal with Similar Responses All At Once
Templates
Cut, Copy, Paste
Make Heavy Use of the Delete Key
Signature Files
Customize Your Program

Read… » Continue

September 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, email, Productivity, software | 2 comments»

GTD + Tracks + Moleskine = a Hipskine

Minezamac has a very detailed tutorial on combining GTD methodology with Tracks and Moleskine. What Minezamac has suggested is to use Tracks to keep track of all of your tasks, and use moleskine planner to keep track of your appointments. You can then print out your tasks from Tracks’ TXT export and slip it into moleskine’s back pocket. Very portable and elegant:

… For me, GTD… » Continue

September 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, hipster, moleksine, Productivity, software, task, track | 3 comments»

How do I organize a large and growing collection of Electronic documents?

Over at Lifehack.Community, our reader anithri has posted a very interesting question on organizing electronic documents:

I have a collection of 200+ PDF’s, Word docs, text files…
It’s easy to find one if I know the name of what I’m looking for already, but opening a large number of them looking for what I’m currently interested in is getting very old very quickly.

What I’d ideally like is an application that allows me… » Continue

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

How to Hold a Profitable Garage Sale

Holding a garage sale is the best way to clean up your house on stuff that you are not going to use - best of all you can convert those stuff to some considerable money. If you want to sell your items as profitable as possible, eHow has some good tips. For instance: