Archive for November, 2005

The Importance of Daily and Weekly Planning

As a self employed mother of a toddler, I fully understand the value of planning. My busy life puts me in the position where daily and weekly planning are essential to create enough time to spend with my son while still succeeding in my home based business. I plan my days and weeks carefully to include time for my family, business and health concerns. This allows me… » Continue

November 30 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: planning, Productivity, progress | 6 comments»

Effective Email Tips

Stakeholders (Audience and related people)? Subject? Importance? Sender & Recipient Internet Connections? Are all issues that you have to think of while sending and email. If you wish to send email messages in a more effective manner following the broad email etiquette standards, then DO continue reading.

In this article, we will try to touch upon the various important issues pertaining to email etiquettes and protocols:

Inbox related Tips
Organize your Mail –… » Continue

November 29 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: article, Communication, email, guide, Productivity, tips | 4 comments»

“But I Can’t…”

How often each day do you tell yourself, or others, you can’t do something? Is it true? How do you know you can’t? What if you’re limiting yourself without knowing it? What if you’re lying to save face or avoid embarrassment? » Continue

November 28 2005 | By Adrian | Tagged: ability, action, article, habit, learning, Management, motivation, performance, success, todo, work, work-life | 11 comments»

The Wikipedia Browser

There is an interesting service called Gollum Browser which is a pretty good frontend interface to view Wikipedia pages. It is more like a online help with minimial clutters and usage of AJAX to speed up the loading time. The interface is quite usable - give it a try if you are often using wikipedia!

Gollum is the name of my newest crime of invention. By reducing the complexity of information… » Continue

November 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: software, web | no comments»

Ten Rules for Web Startups

Evan Williams at EvHead has a good post on how to launch a successful web startups by using ten rules. His track record speak for itself on this - he was co-founder and CEO of Pyra Labs, makers of Blogger. Ten (well, actually eleven) rules from him are:

Be Narrow
Be Different
Be Casual
Be Picky
Be User-Centric
Be Self-Centered
Be Greedy
Be Tiny
Be Agile
Be Balanced
(bonus!): Be Wary

Very good overview. Be Different is probably something that make a… » Continue

November 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: entrepreneurship, start-up | 1 comment»

Good Memorizing Techniques

In an article called Simple Memorizing Techniques, Laura Lane introduces some effective methods on memorizing different type of data, such as lists, numbers and names. She highlights that memory works like a web - ideas and memories interconnects each others. The idea on effectively memorizing information is to create a mental framework to store information - such as the memorizing names:

…A popular technique for remembering names involves creating an image… » Continue

November 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: memory, Productivity | 2 comments»

Re-cap for this week

Hope you had a good week. Some good articles from this week:

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

Weekend Download: IdleTunes

If you are using iTunes and do not like the music library management in it, idleTunes should be able to help you. It adds couple of extra features to manage your library easier. Couple of great features include:

Find and insert album artwork into tracks
Copy iTunes playlists to any MP3 player
Export iTunes playlists as M3U, PLS, or B4S
Remove “dead” tracks from your library
Create playlists for all of the albums in your

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November 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: download, software | 1 comment»

Hackers’ Deck

To think outside of the box, you need some kind of randomness.

This is why we developed the “Hackers’ Deck” for our marketing event sponsored by Yahoo! JAPAN. This nifty deck of cards can magically generate ideas for Internet businesses.

On each card, it has “service” and “feature”. For example, on “service” are “instant messenger”, “auction site”, “IP-phone”, etc… and on “feature” are “for seniors”, “invitation only”, “detachable”, etc.

How… » Continue

November 25 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: brainstorm, Lifehack, Productivity | 4 comments»

Green Tea Health Benefits

For today, treat yourself and try something different on your diet - research shows that green tea has great benefits on your health, for instance it helps on these medical conditions:

cancer
rheumatoid arthritis
high cholesterol levels
cariovascular disease
infection
impaired immune function

Side effect of green tea? Near to none - the only side effect is insomnia due to caffeine.

Plus some favors of green tea is really tasty - why not have a try and… » Continue

November 25 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: drink, health | 6 comments»

Reap Joy from this Thanks - Giving Holiday

Today is Thanksgiving for the United States of America, and that includes us here in my home of Hawaii as the 50th State of the union. We’ve only been part of America since 1959, yet according to the kūpuna here (our elders) we’ve celebrated this very American holiday for much longer; we Hawaiians are quick to jump into most new excuses for celebration! Thanksgiving is but one example for us… » Continue

November 24 2005 | By Rosa | Tagged: life | 2 comments»

Time Management on the Turkey Day

For some of you in US who is cooking a big meal for relatives and friends, you must be stressing on how you should tackle the day and get the day organized. FoodieView suggests some great steps on planning the day:

Decide what dishes you want to make
Figure out what can be done ahead
Plan out the big day on the timeline
Re-evaluate your menu
Time to cook
Have fun

Good suggestions - for other who… » Continue

November 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: food, planning | no comments»

Top 10 things to do for mom’s PC over Thanksgiving

Other than sending flowers to thank your mum in Thanksgiving, Nitin Badjatia over Download Squad has another idea - how about thanks your mother by fixing her computer? Nitin gives 10 different ways on improving your mum’s PC, some interesting ones like:

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When was the last time your mom did a full backup of her computer files? When was the last time you backed up your computer (sorry, had to… » Continue

November 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: hardware, software | 1 comment»

The connection between GTD and Tai Chi

Over What’s the next action, there is an interesting article on talking about an analogy between GTD and Tai Chi. The form in Tai Chi is similar to the tools like PDA, moleskine etc in GTD - they are important, but if you have never learned the principle, the 5 stage of productivity and mindset in GTD, you never can fully master it. This is quite true and similar when… » Continue

November 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, Productivity | no comments»

Steve Pavlina’s Polyphasic Sleep Logs and Results

One of our favorite blogger, Steve, has completed his full 30 days of using polyphasic sleep. Inspired by our post on polyphasic sleep, he has started his polyphasic sleep journey since October. He has experienced his physical adjustment on the first week, mental adjustment on the second and third week, and now he feels highly energetic, high endurance, and gained productivity. Some interesting notes in his final update on… » Continue

November 23 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: health, log, sleeping | 6 comments»

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