Archive for December, 2006

2006 LifeHack Review: Metrics and Focus

It is now up to the three years mark of the phrase lifehack. Google search has over 12,800,000 results on the "lifehacks". The post number at Lifehack.org blog and wiki have exceeded 2,000 posts. They are keep growing. The reason? Life is short. We thirst for getting more out of our life. 24 hours a day is not enough, but unfortunately it is a fixed resource for everyone… Continue reading

December 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Lifehack, Productivity, review | 3 comments»

2006 LifeHack Review: Best 50 hacks for your Life

Do you want to be as productive as many of us, but missed a lot of actions at lifehack.org during the year? Other than subscribing our feed now, I give you a way to catch up with us before 2007 begins. I've selected the best 50 life hacks of the year, based on their popularity and contents in different categories. Invest your time - read them. Bookmark… Continue reading

December 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Lifehack, Productivity, review | 59 comments»

11 Ways to Motivate Yourself to Complete any Task in New Year

Motivation is the mental push from you to accomplish an action. People have motives to do many things. Maslow's Theory, one of the widely discussed theories of motivation debates that physiological needs (such as food, water, sleep etc) are the most basic and fundamental. On the basic needs level, we could visualize how getting fired may lose our ability to buy food and get a good night sleep… Continue reading

December 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: motivation, need, Productivity, success | 4 comments»

How To Get Started On Anything

A blog Smart Graduate School Applications discusses about a social psychology theory called Two Factor Theory of Emotion, which predicts the elements of a person's environment can have a significant impact to their emotion state. The post follows on and describes this can link to how we can overcome procrastination. He suggests to start on a project while sipping coffee. He finds coffee impacts his positive emotion towards his task: I… Continue reading

December 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: procrastination, psychology | 10 comments»

How to avoid 35 most outrageous fees

CNNMoney has featured a great slideshow on how to avoid fees for budget seekers. It covers from travel, phone, banking, credit cards, real estate and investments. For me, travel is probably the one that have a lot of hidden fees and outrageous fees - tips on avoiding fees on hotel is pretty useful: Yet predicting what you'll pay can be hard because chains often don't have an across-the-board fee policy. "You… Continue reading

December 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: fee, Money | no comments»

AA and AAA “Free” Battery Hacks

Two hacks on batteries surfaced recently. One on AA battery and the other one on AAA battery.

Personal Finance Advice discovers all disposable cameras have a battery (usually AA battery) in them which are there for powering the flash. Most of the time, when you take your disposable camera to develop your firm, the store will open the camera, get the film and throw it away. So it is possible… Continue reading

December 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: battery, hardware, Lifehack | 2 comments»

Poor boy Apple Dot Mac alternatives

Love .Mac but too expensive? Here is a great tip if couldn't find .Mac alternatives and are stuck to it. Derek Punsalan at 5thirtyone shows you services that have similar convenience as .mac services but costs less (or even free). Solutions include: Staying code-free without iWeb; Sharing photos without “Photocasting”; Free file storage (WebDav) without an iDisk; Offline file backups without Apple’s Backup 3; Sync multiple machines at your… Continue reading

December 27 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: mac, online, software | no comments»

How To Get Bumped Off Your Flight On Purpose

Sometimes you feel lucky if the flight is overbooked and you are bumped to next available flight. Why? Usually you will get a free hotel or free flight voucher to compensate for the inconvenience. Did you know that airlines regularly overbook their flights on purpose? It’s all a numbers game, and perfectly legal. They know that statistically a certain percentage of people will not show up on time. The result is… Continue reading

December 26 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: flight, Money, travel | 1 comment»

Hacking a GTD Moleskine

Talk about a great example of GTD and Moleskine implementation - Eston Bond at hyalineskies preaches his tales on GTD and how he moves from using Treo 650 and Kinkless GTD to Moleskine. The post has detail of his setup and I am not going to repeat what his said. What I found useful though is the section on dividing moleskine in sections. As moleskine is just a notebook… Continue reading

December 26 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: gtd, moleskine, Productivity | 7 comments»

New Year’s Resolutions and Deficit Thinking

As we approach the New Year, many of you may be starting to consider one or more New Year’s resolutions. Okay, you’ve done it before—probably many, many times—and the results have not been spectacular in terms of success. In fact, most of your past resolutions have lasted maybe a week or two. Don’t despair. Exactly the same thing happens to most people, and for the same reason: the deadly habit… Continue reading

December 25 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: achievement, decifit, decision, thinking, work, worrying | 10 comments»

Your Plan for Christmas?

For people who celebrate Christmas in your country, you may have couple of days off from work. What are you planning to utilize these holidays? Dinner and spending time with family? Party with your friends? Read your personal development books and ready for next year? Tell me your productive plan. Productivity does not meant for work only. For me, productivity means getting what you planned done. For me, I am having one week off… Continue reading

December 22 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: christmas, Productivity | 3 comments»

16 Tips Digital Photography Tips for Christmas

Photography is important to capture your memories on your Christmas holiday this year. Digital Photography School has 16 tips for digital camera owners to keep in mind. Those tips make sure your photo are as high quality as possible so that you won't lose any moment:

Prepare - Making a List, checking it twice….
A White Balance Christmas
Set up a DIY ‘Photo Booth’
Capture the preparation stages
Before and After Shots
Time-lapse Christmas series
Christmas

December 22 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: christmas, photograph | no comments»

A Book Review:Winning With People

A John Maxwell book published by Thomas Nelson, 2004, 272 pages, Nonfiction, Business, Leadership and Personal Development. Yes, I know I just reviewed a John Maxwell book. No, I'm not working for his publicist. Remember when you were a kid and every time a new Piers Anthony book came out, you just had to read it? Even if the story line and characters weren't all that great. Well, Maxwell's books are becoming… Continue reading

December 22 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: book, leadership, managememt, review | 2 comments»

Screen Sieve: Text Find and Highlight tool

A Mac Software.

This is a great utility to search your contents of current active window. When the text matches, it will highlight the texts on the screen. The difference between normal Find command is that this software enable you to search entire window, including buttons and files, not just area contains text. There are couple other differences:

Screen Sieve highlights all the matches that are visible in a window, while

December 22 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: highlight, mac, software | 1 comment»

A Christmas Gift; Hō‘ike‘ike Returns

Traditions abound right now as one year segues into the next, and those traditions serve to bring us together in a number of different ways. I had started one such tradition just last year with the Ho‘ohana Community of Talking Story, calling it Hō‘ike‘ike. ‘Ike is the Hawaiian word for knowledge, and traditionally, the word Hō‘ike‘ike has been used in Hawai‘i to describe a display of wonderful things… Continue reading

December 21 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: bests, blog-carnival, Hō‘ike‘ike-2006, leadership, Management, traditions | no comments»