With gas prices continually rising, The Free Geek weblog has a timely post about how to save money at the pump. The article includes twelve tips that can help you save up to $.50 per gallon of gas. Although gas in my area is nowhere near $2.20, this is still a quality…

The Getting Finances Done weblog posted the first part of a two part series entitled, “Applying GTD principles to your personal finances.” The article covers how your personal finances and the GTD methodology are related. Don’t worry if you aren’t an expert in GTD. The article assumes no knowledge of GTD. By…

Goodreads is a a splash of social networking mixed with the library. Goodreads lets you network with other readers to find great reading material and read reviews. If you wonder what other people are reading or if you have a hard time discovering great content, Goodreads looks like the site for…

YouTube recently announced that they will be launching a new site called Citizentube that will specifically cover political content. With the approaching elections in November 2008, YouTube has decided to syndicate all of its existing (and incoming) politically-based content to sister site, Citizentube. The announcement was made on The YouTube Blog. What issue matters…

Pagety is a recently released content management system that also has hosting built right in. Pagety claims to be extremely easy to use and can help you manage the content of your websites. If you manage several websites, Pagety offers extreme simplicity (make one change and it is reflected in all…

The Organize it weblog has a two part series about how to get creative. The first part of the series covers the “tools” to help facilitate the process, and the second part covers “where” to get creative. Creativity is all about coming up with new ideas, interpretations and methods and involves thinking…

Instructables has a simplistic way of carrying your papers on a bike without ruining them. I think the easiest way to do this would be to put a folder in a backpack, but if you didn’t want to deal with the extra nuisance of carrying a backpack, this would be a great…

Lifehack.org guest contributor and Zen Habits editor, Leo Babauta, gives some very practical advice about how to get your finances under control and gain some financial peace of mind. The following are my favorite take-aways from the list: Make your payments automatic. I’ve covered this before … it’s an great alternative to the above method. Instead…

Does reading the title make you nervous/scared? Got that sick feeling in your stomach? The number one fear in the world, ahead of even the fear of death, is the fear of public speaking. Regardless of what some may say, the fear of public speaking is extremely common — even the…

David Seah created another excellent organizer. This time it is a very small and compact calendar using only text that he calls the Text File Strip Calendar. David explains how he made it and what purpose it serves. Sometimes it’s handy to be able to quickly make a calendar in your text…

Instructables posted a quick guide at Youtube that shows you how to turn a regular boys t-shirt into a ladies tank top. The process is really quick and requires no sewing. I bet you could complete the whole process is two minutes or less. I’m no fashion expert, but it looks good…

If you enjoy reading or writing blogs, Blog Strings is a site worth checking out. Blog Strings promises to connect bloggers and readers on one site. The site is free for readers and bloggers and the idea is that readers can find great blogs and bloggers can promote their blog. Seems like…

I am always drawn to articles that give you a glimpse into the life of a CEO. This week The Scottsdale Times wrote a report on Bob Parsons’ office. Bob Parsons, for those who don’t know, is the founder and CEO of Godaddy.com. Godaddy.com has 1100 employees and does over…

This morning I was tipped to two interested, but opposing, views as to whether you should travel with your laptop. I have always been pro-laptop when on the road, but the argument to go “laptop-less” is pretty strong. What do you think? When you hit the road is your laptop a…

Unsigned.com is a website that matches unsigned bands with listeners. Unsigned.com allows registered users to listen to music for free while artists can use the websites to promote and sell their own music. Unisgned.com lets you search for music based on topic. If you hate paying $.99 per song at…