Flexo at Consumerism Commentary blog migrate his financial software from Microsoft Money to Quicken and found out there is a missing feature in Quicken which is to track airline mile points. He finds a way to do that with Quicken’s normal account tracking facility: One of the features I liked when I used Microsoft Money was…

With our featured article on introducing Twitter as a To Do List, Ben Mattes also has similar setup, with an emphasis on using Twitter’s SMS feature to setup a SMS todo list: The great thing with Twitter (as I hinted at above) is that you can add ‘tweets’ via SMS. Once you have created an…

Dave Cheong introduces a framework called 10 R’s to Success: Realistic, Realise, Recognise, Reframe, Respond, Review, Repeat, Reflect, Reward, Renew. Looking it closely, it is actually a step by step problem solving framework. The framework reminds you what you need to do on a particular moment. No matter if you want to set goals, or want…

Entrepreneur usually have number of personality traits. There are classic books like Entrepreneurs in High Technology: Lessons from MIT and Beyond which mentions on such studies. Ben Yoskovitz at Startup Spark gives 10 ways to know if you’re an entrepreneur. It doesn’t mean you have to meet every items on the list, but they definitely…

I got myself a Nike + iPod Sport Kit recently. Sometimes I buy a gadget because it is new and innovative, but this time it’s a rational purchase. I have a iPod nano and I want to exercise by running. Plus it is quite affordable. What I don’t want is getting a new Nike+ shoes, at…

Deborah Perelman at eWeek tells us this may be true because you never could step through 8 hours of work without taking any break. She argues that finding the balance, she calls it Slacker-Worker Equilibrium, will allow us to do work more efficiently. Some managers disagree on this. They expect employees to work through the office…

Kathy Sierra at Creating Passionate Users shares her organization system using Moleskine. Inspired by PigPog PDA Moleskine hack, she mixed and customized parts to fit her style. Overall the most useful part is how she separated her moleskine into different sections: Next Actions; Projects; Travel/Calendar; Notes; Health; Back Pocket. Also her reasons on using…

Stores are here for revenue. After all they are business. There are things that they do to increase their profit. How to identify those overboard money suckers? Consumerist has a great article to help you save money. No fraud, plain cleverness. The article is focused into saving money from the consumer point of view, so…

I interviewed bunch of fresh graduates for number of software development positions. Interview graduates can go two ways – It’s interesting if they’ve done something outside their course work which can show their passions and skills. It’s tiring to hear about what subject they have studied and what are the school projects. Frankly there…

There are many reasons of not getting a good night’s sleep. Whatever it is, try to enjoy some foods would can clam you and relax your tense muscle. Yahoo! Food suggests top 10 foods that helps you to get solid 8 hours of sleep. They are Bananas, Chamomile tea, Warm milk, Honey, Potatoes, Oatmeal…

Dwayne Melancon at Genuine Curiosity and Bren at Slacker Manager share some of their insights on using PayPal and Credit Card. While Bren praises for PayPal and its ability to use it as a virtual MasterCard, Dwayne says there are something that keeps him using a traditional credit card – Reward Points. With my thoughts…

It doesn’t matter if you are a news reporter, a blogger, or just a regular guy who want to find the trends around the Internet, you want to be productive and use as little time as possible to find what’s popular and new. For me, I want to stay on top of technology and software related…

The first month of 2007 is almost over. If you have set some new year’s resolutions in the beginning of this year, how are your progress? Do you need any realignment of goals to make you back on-track? {democracy:2} What do you want to know? Submit a poll idea to tips at lifehack.org!…

Note-taking is important for both academic and professional life. Without the skill of note-taking, you may capture less information in a meeting, or you may not recall an important theory that your professor mentioned in a lecture. Michael Hyatt has an article to help you recover the lost art of note-taking. First he gives…

We are happy to announce Kyle Pott as our new associate editor at lifehack.org. Kyle is a computer programmer, who is also an enthusiast of graphic design, productivity software and tips. He has a high standard on getting good resources, so I am sure you will find his posts excellent for your daily read. He will…