The Glory, Bliss and How-to of Screen Scraping for RSSRead/Write Web has a screencast video showing you how to use Dapper to create an RSS feed for any site.Tags: rss tools howto tutorial data
Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google ReaderMicro Persuasion offers an unorthodox take on Google Reader, with instructions to set up, use, and mine Reader like a giant database. With tagging and Google’s search capabilities at your disposal, Reader puts vast amounts of data within easy reach.Tags: productivity googlereader research information
New Productivity Tool: JUST DO IT ALREADY!!The Executive Assistant reminds us that when allthe organizing, planning, mindmapping, idea capturing, and task listing is done, we still have to roll up our sleeves and JUST DO IT ALREADY!Tags: productivity motivation tasks
Blogger Interview – Lisa GatesHD BizBlog interviews lifehack.org contributor Lisa Gates. She was recently a guest on Lifehack Live; this interview takes a completely different tack, focussing on her blogging and writing life.Tags: interview blogger 10 Foolproof Tips for Better SleepSleep is often seen as a luxury these days — a guilty pleasure. It’s not. We’re learning that sleep is essential notonly to general health, but to maintaining body weight, learning, and staying creative. Dumb Little Man tells you how to get enough.Tags: health sleep
A Modest Proposal: Learn a New Skill This Holiday at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and LifeLifeClever suggests you take some time this holiday season to learn a new skill, and offers up a few ideas ranging from the sublime (learn a musical instrument) to the silly (yo-yo, anyone?). Why not challenge yourself if you have some free time?Tags: goals learning Credit Card Fees: Hidden and OtherwiseWIse Bread’s guide to the fees,sometimes straightforward (like interest) and sometimes sneaky (fees for not carrying a balance?) that make credit cards an incredible way to... More »
Use any USB stick to ReadyBoost your computerWindows Vista Magazine tells you how to hack Vista’s registry to detect a non-compliant USB drive to use for ReadyBoost. Seems like using a drive that’s too slow wouldn’t help, but this might be useful when Vista misdetects your “Vista-ready” drives.Tags: hack vista readyboost windows memory computer Remember The MilkRemember The Milk’s new Firefox extension integrates RTM’s todo list management with Gmail and Google Calendar, allowing you to view your list in Gmail’s page, transform emails to tasks, add tasks to your calendar, and more.Tags:... More »
10 Habits of Highly Effective BrainsAlvaro Fernandez in the Huffington Post gives a concise guide to the care and operation of the human brain. Feed it well, exercise it, teach it new tricks, and never, ever let anyone else control your brain!Tags: brain health creativity intelligence education
David Allen: Three Cheers For Sloth, Indolence, And Procrastination! – Living on The Huffington Post“One of the greatest lessons I have learned and continually must practice is that in order to really be in control, I must surrender. In the martial arts (and golf) things must be held lightly. Grabbing too tight, whether it’s my ego, my trowel, or my actTags: gtd sloth indolence procrastination Your Guide to Get Spinning in the Idea TornadoThink Simple Now offers a thorough set of instructions for brainstorming.Tags: brainstorming idea thinking creativity
Archive Organize Your Life With JottChris Poteet, the new writer at Web Worker Daily, hits the ground running with some great tips on using Jott with other web services like Google Calendar. Jott is an amazing service that transcribes voice messages — it’s free and it works!Tags: jott webapp calendar gtd collect Organize your (Christmas) Party with Google services | Event Management Blog“Google offering is capturing most of my time online. I find myself using most of their services for all of my Internet needs.”Tags: christmas party organization event google webapp
The Church of the Latter-Day DudeCelebrate your Dude-like bliss by becoming an ordained Dudeist priest. Join Dudeist luminaries like Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Kurt Vonnegut, Sarah Silverman, and the Dude himself, Jeffrey Lebowski, in telling to world to “just take it easy, man”.Tags: religion humor fun dudeism Time Management #8: ResourcesMark McGuinness of Business of Design Online rounds up a bunch of time management resources, including his own free e-book, “Time Mangement for Creative People”.Tags: productivity gtd time_management creativity
5 Time-Management TricksMarci Alboher at the New York Times offers 5 simple but effective time-management tips: tame your email, minimize meetings, make interruption-free space for yourself and your work, work around your own hythm, and learnto say no.Tags: productivity time_management tips email 7 Ways to be a better delegatorPenelope Trunk offers tips to overcome the control-freak in all of us that makes it hard to delegate work to others — even when we’re *supposed* to! She ties the fear of letting go to perfectionism and unclear priorities — and even a little... More »
Make A Pocket-Size Dry Erase Board — VideoLifehack reader Black Velvet Monkey made this great video about turning an index card into a pocket-sized dry-erase board, and expands the idea in some useful and creative ways.Tags: indexcards hack dry-erase gtd productivity 365 (or so) Merlin Mannerisms · The Cranking Widgets BlogWWMMS? (What WOuld Merlin Mann Say?) Find out with this page-a-day “Merlin Mannerisms” calendar from Cranking Widgets. Download the PDF for free or order the “super-cheap printed version”Tags: gtd quotes merlinmann calendar 10 Free Mini Apps–Perfect for a USB Thumb DriveWEbWorker Dailylists... More »
Hack Your Day – A productivity blog | Using Google Calendar to send free SMSNot sure who this benefits, but the ingenuity of this hack is amazing — use multiple Google Calendar accounts, each with a mobile phone associated for reminders, to send SMS messages for free. Crazy!Tags: free sms hack Cool Tool: Scotch Restickable Adhesive Glue StickScotch Restickable Adhesive Glue Stick turns any piece of paper into a Post-It-style sticky note!Tags: tools glue organization 10 Tax-saving Tips for WritersJune Walker offers a series of tax tips for writers getting ready for... More »
The 9 Best Ways to Get Organized by Year’s EndDumb Little Man’s tips for a year-end sweep to get you ready to go in 2008.Tags: advice organization productivity The Simple Dollar » Does Peer Pressure Keep Us From Succeeding?Trent at The Simple Dollar meditates on the ways that peer pressure can hold us back, often by influencing us to make bad decisions. I would add that many hold back because they’re afraid of standing out or making peers look bad.Tags: peer_pressure success goal The Complete Guide To Finding & Learning Something New... More »
Tips to make your finals/papers just a bit betterGearfire offers a list of tips for students facing finals this week. These are little things,like writing your final in spelling and rewording to avoid spelling errors, that might push your grade up a few points, giiving you work that little “kick”.Tags: student exam writing studying
