Archive for December, 2005

Review on The Best Life Hacks of 2005

The phrase Life Hacks has been used for nearly two years now, but 2005 is the year that everyone seeks to learn more hacks to increase their productivity in life. Time is just not enough and everyone wants to best use of their time. Getting Things Done was the hottest topic in 2005. During June-July 2005, Techorati reported that David Allen's Getting Things Done book was the… Continue reading

December 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: best, Lifehack, lifehacks, list | 15 comments»

Online Readability Test

Over at Juicy Studio, they have a tool on testing how readable the content is. You can test any online document by entering the URL into the page. It will return couple of reading level scores, including Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid. Even though they are just algorithms, they can be a good indications how suitable it is for your readers. Here are some background on readability… Continue reading

December 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: software, web, writing | 5 comments»

Web Services to Track Amazon’s Price for you

Yesterday we have covered the little trick on Amazon's Price Drop Policy. In a comment, our reader Keith pointed out a site called "Amazon Credits You will check your purchases everyday and send you an email if the price has dropped. In the email will be a link right to the place where you claim your credit." This service saves your trip to the product page everyday and… Continue reading

December 30 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: Money, software, web | 8 comments»

Essential List on Firefox Extensions for Webmaster

The Essential List and Resources on Firefox Extensions is a popular post here, due to one reason - Firefox has too many extensions and it is difficult and time consuming for a user who just wanted to install some cool extensions to get started on their Firefox journey. Because our original list was more toward normal and daily usage - and being a part time webmaster and blogger… Continue reading

December 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: extension, firefox, list, software | 30 comments»

Trick on Amazon’s Price Drop Policy

Jim at Blueprint shared his tips on Amazon's price drop policy - If you have bought something and found out the price drops, you can ask for a credit of the difference within 30 days of your purchase. The little Amazon hack behind that is that you can still utilize the refund even have you have applied coupon or "Buy Both and Save" deal. Here is the example: ... Where this… Continue reading

December 29 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: shopping, tips | 10 comments»

Writing as a Form of Self Healing

As a self employed writer, I am certainly able to attest to the fact that the written word has the power to heal. However, you don’t have to be an experienced or eloquent writer to receive the self healing benefits that writing has to offer. All that is required is that you channel your emotions honestly and that you write solely on emotion and not reasoning. The… Continue reading

December 28 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: article, feeling, healing, writing | 12 comments»

12 Self Management Checklist

In business world, many people do not need to manage or organise their tasks already. Their manager or project manager assigned specific tasks with specific deadlines for them to meet. Many people works effectively in this environment - they produce their work on time with high quality. However this environment may make them to rely on someone to manage the time and tasks for them, which may lead to their… Continue reading

December 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: Management, performance, personal, procrastination | 4 comments»

How to be more productive

There is a good piece of article on how to be productive. Productivity is usually measured by what sort of things one is working on, and it is tightly coupled with how do you spend your time. Aaron, in the article HOWTO: Be more productive talks about some good topics on productivity, including how to spend time efficiently, how to make your time higher quality. One point that I wanted… Continue reading

December 28 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: mental, physical, procrastination, Productivity | 5 comments»

Effectiveness of Power Nap

Christopher Ketcham at Men's Journal has written a article on power nap. In our previous introduction of power nap, polyphasic sleep involves the sleep pattern of 90 minutes. In this article, they have looked into compressing the nap into 20 minutes, by going through first two out of five of sleeping stages: ... Here's how the power nap works: Sleep comes in five stages that recur cyclically throughout a typical… Continue reading

December 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: performance, sleeping | 4 comments»

How to become an independent programmer

Gus Mueller, the guy behind the popular Mac notepad application VoodooPad, has given 7 Lessons on becoming an independent programmer - or in the other word, a software entrepreneur. Those are good insights and authentic advices as he has gone through his journey from hobby to build up an incorporate business:

Think small and make sure you really like what you are doing.
Setting goals are good. If you make them

December 27 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: entrepreneurship, Management, programming | no comments»

Good and Bad Procrastination

Recently, Paul Graham talks about procrastination. I am a big fan of Paul's writings, and this one opens a new meaning of procrastination. He said no matter what you work on, you're not working on something else - you are procrastinating something. He classifies there are three procrastinations: do nothing; do something less important; and do something more important. He argues that do something less important is the most dangerous… Continue reading

December 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: procrastination, Productivity | 1 comment»

Top 10 Applications New Mac OS X User Should Download

Paul Stamatiou and Charles Stroup gathered a list of 10 applications every new Mac user should download. Those probably are the essential apps that you will need sooner or later. I have checked the list and they are pretty sane in term of functionalities coverage. I think there are two applications that can be optional for some new Mac users: Cyberduck (FTP client) and Nvu (HTML editor):

AdiumX - Instant

December 26 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: list, mac, software | 7 comments»

Happy Holiday with Free Magazines

As it gets closer to the holidays we know all of you are going crazy trying to get those last minute presents, so we wanted to provide a free little something for you, as a thank you for your continued support throughout the year. We partnered with Tradepub.com to provide you with free one year subscriptions to some of the top technology magazines. You can sign up to… Continue reading

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

Last Minute Christmas Ideas

At eHow, they have a special edition on step by step howtos and gift ideas for Christmas. If you are rushing for the last minutes preparation on your gift wrapping, christmas dinner, or looking for quick receipes, they have some great tips:

December 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: tips | no comments»

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