Archive for July, 2006

GTD Resources and Free Tracks Hosting

Eric over at 52 Reviews has a post that offers a two-fer. He’s got a pointer to another article he wrote listing out ALL kinds of GTD resources (books, sites like ours, and all kinds of software help), and he points to an offer for free Tracks hosting. Tracks is a GTD software implementation written in Ruby on Rails, a shiny Web 2.0 language (framework) if ever there was one… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: 52reviews, gtd, hosting, rubyonrails, tracks | 4 comments»

A Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases

Looking for some quick references on how to sounds good in your research paper? Or don’t understand whata are the phrases there for? The follow page could help you, for you to refer on and make your research paper more professional, or help you understand what does the researcher really want to say. For instance:

Research Phrase: It has long been known…
Translation: I didn’t look up the original reference.

Reserach Phrase: It… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: fun, research | 1 comment»

DIY paper lunch bag CD covers

DVD-R and CDR usually available in a spin bundle now where it does not have a individual box or paperbag for discs. David Curry comes up with a DIY where he uses paper lunch bags as its CD cover. It is inexpensive, and it looks pretty cool:

I’ve been making these fun CDR covers for years - inexpensive, crafty, and you can design, print or xerox any arty label you… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: cd, craft, DIY | 3 comments»

Plant a phone call to yourself

Somes you want to find an excuse to get out of uncomfortable discussion, or try to look busy. Those are the time where you wanted your cell phone ring. There is a US service where you can schedule a fake call and pre-recorded message will play back at you:

Have you ever been in a situation where you wished your cell phone would ring? Maybe you wanted to look extra important… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, software | no comments»

Presentation How-To’s

Kathy Sierra is someone I’d love to meet. Her site, Creating Passionate Users, is endlessly readable and you should throw it into your RSS readers alongside Lifehack for ideas that should matter to you.

She recently gave a talk at OSCON, the Open Source Convention. While there, she had an opportunity to see a great presentation by Damian Conway. I’ve heard the audio from Conway’s presentations and even that was… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: Communication, howto, kathy+sierra, oscon2006, presentation | no comments»

Life Hack Podcast- Ep 5- Michael Sampson of Foldera

It’s been a few weeks since we’ve rolled the Life Hack podcast out into your ears, but here it is. I’ve got an interesting interview with Michael Sampson, the Global VP of Word of Mouth Marketing for Foldera. Foldera is a platform for organizing around activities and projects, instead of around specific software or tools. For instance, you can mix calendar… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: foldera, michael+sampson, Podcast | 2 comments»

Thinking About Trust

Trust in other people is one of the foundations for creating a civilized working environment. Many managers are overworked primarily because of a lack of trust. They take on too much themselves, because they don’t trust their subordinates to do the work properly. They cannot allocate enough time to their own work, because they don’t believe people will put in the required time without constant supervision. They attend pointless meetings… » Continue

July 31 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: attitude, behavior, boss, burnout, business, businesslife, civilized-work, control, corporate-culture, delegation, discontentment, fear, happiness, leadership, lifebalance, Management, manager, micro-management, office-politics, organization, respect, team, teamwork, timemanagement, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance, working, worklife | 1 comment»

8 Expenses to Cut and How

Are you looking to simplify your life? Do you have financial issues? Are you still paying off debts with no end in sight? Hey, me too! Part of my methodology includes plugging expense holes, and shunting that money towards my debts. Here are eight expenses to cut and how:

Make Your Own Morning Coffee- I have a tiny little one-cup machine with a steel filter. Why? Because it’s silly easy

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July 30 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: budget, expenses, finances, Money, saving | 22 comments»

Within top 100 most favorited blogs in blogsphere!

Today I surfed through Technorati, the search engine and trends tracker for blogs. It is excite to see within 49.9millions blogs that it tracks in the blogosphere, lifehack.org is number 68 of the most favorited blogs! So thank you so much for voting us and made this blog as your favorite.

If you read this blog, enjoy it and visit it regularly to seek tips and tricks for your… » Continue

July 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: news | 1 comment»

Your Second Life

Note from Chris - No, not the game of the same name

Related to yesterday’s post about process flows, I’ve got a concept that I call My Second Life that I want you to consider. It takes just a little explaining, but then, the idea’s fairly easy to understand, adopt, and modify to your personal needs and schedule.

My life has the following rough time structure:

6:30AM Wake up.
7:30AM Leave… » Continue

July 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: business, career, execution, gtd, Productivity, secondlife, selfimprovement, timemanagement, workflows | 4 comments»

A List of Over 100 Best Firefox Extensions

Listible’s list on Firefox extension has been increased to whooping 123 extensions! This list should be a good start to find useful extensions for Firefox, or look for essential ones for beefing up your browser functions:

The list is provided by Listible. It is a new service where you can include any of their list into your web site. All you need to do is cut and paste a line… » Continue

July 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: extension, firefox, list, software | 33 comments»

Online teaching on concentration

Have you ever complain or feel bad because of poor concentration on the task? Is it because of distractions, or are there any other factors that involve? University of Kent has archived a good article on the topic of concentration. It talks bout what is concentration (or lack of it), factors that may cause it, the link between your physical and concentration, how to train, and how to maintain your… » Continue

July 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: concentration | no comments»

Time Boxing - An Effective Getting Things Done Strategy

Sometimes you may throw off by the scope of a project and procrastinate. Other things you may only focus into a big task and forgot other commitments and appointment. There is a easy technique that can help you. Dave Cheong introduces a technique called Time Boxing. What is it?

Time boxing is about fixing the time we have available to work on a given task and then doing… » Continue

July 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Productivity, technique, time | 5 comments»

Productivity Hack: Write Mini Process Flows

Creativity is one thing, but capturing it into a form that’s useful (to your needs) is another. I’ve got an idea that I plan to implement for myself: mini process flows. Now, your jobs that you’ll need done are different than mine. I’ll just show you mine as examples, okay?

Process Flow Basics

Here are the basics of getting something done by way of a process flow:

Input - Work Performed… » Continue

July 27 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: gtd, nextaction, process, Productivity, workflow, working | 23 comments»

Huddle up; Meet well

While it is easy for me to remember scores of boring staff meetings, when it came to be my turn to run them and I learned to do them right, I loved ‘em.

Mostly because it was far easier to mobilize the troops in one meeting versus 8 to 10 individually held conversations, and it was a golden opportunity to make collaborative decisions versus arbitrary or dictatorial ones. When the expectation… » Continue

July 27 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: Productivity | 2 comments»

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