Posts Tagged ‘free’

5 Easy Ways to Earn Mad Money

Even if you've trimmed your budget, it's important to still have "mad money" to spend on things you enjoy. If your fun money account is dwindling, here are a few simple ways to earn some extra money or goods for a little of your time: 1. Bottle caps - Do you drink Coke products? If so, please tell me you're not throwing away your bottle caps without entering the… Continue reading

March 13 2009 | By Liora | Tagged: free, Money, sell | 19 comments»

6 Ways to Attend Awesome Conferences for Free

Everyday, I see an awesome conference or convention I want to attend. While some, like the various PodCamps are free or fairly inexpensive, big conferences like CTIA can cost well over $1,000 to attend. Paying for every conference you want to attend is a fast way to go broke, even if you manage to grab early bird rates and other discounts. But there are a few ways to… Continue reading

September 9 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: conference, convention, free, ticket | 9 comments»

Why Your Free Time is Boring

How do you spend your off hours? Do you watch television? Do you surf the web? Read articles here at Lifehack.org? There are many ways you can spend your leisure time. But is it really possible to get more out of your time off? Not just making this time more productive, but actually making it more enjoyable. Breaking the Work/Play Distinction I believe the answer… Continue reading

July 27 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: free, habit, leisure, Lifestyle, time | 51 comments»

A Simple Way to Publish Your Own eBook

Much is on-line about growing an ebook. Where to seek inspiration, what to share about and how to sell it are the most common topics. Less plentiful are the step by step mechanics of creating and hosting e-book. With the help of guides like Phil Gerbyshack and Rosa Say I am finding a path. I cross the tangle vines and box hollows seeking a path to building… Continue reading

May 24 2007 | By Reginald | Tagged: ebook, free, publishing, writing | 13 comments»

20 Productive Ways to Use Your Free Time

If you've got a big block of free time, the best way to put that to use is to relax, have fun, decompress from a stressful day, or spend time with a loved one. But if you've just got a little chunk -- say 5 or 10 minutes -- there's no time to do any of the fun stuff. Put those little chunks of time to their most productive… Continue reading

May 23 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: free, Productivity, time, utilization | 97 comments»

23 Things You Didn’t Think Were Free

RealSimple.com have a list of 23 'surprising' items you can get for free. Many are conditional, of course, and have a catch like long-lines etc. However, it does spur the question of what can you get for free now-a-days? Particularly useful, to me, in this list is the free online courses from MIT and Apple Stores. You can't get the degree, but knowledge is knowledge. Plus free icecream! There's a lot… Continue reading

April 13 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: free | 4 comments»

Turn Junk eMail Into Treasure

Your spam folder is probably filled with tonnes of promotional offers that promise all sorts of free gear. All you have to do in return is click through their promotions, complete a short survey, and/or participate in a free trial. Baloney right? Actually, you can get that free stuff! CleverDude.com shows us how; and it's no scam - probably.

1. I verify the site credentials as stated in the above section

March 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: email, free, shopping, spam | 4 comments»

Listen to books in the public domain

Loudlit.org offers free audio downloads of books in the public domain. Loudlit is a little different from Librivox because it allows you to download the audio books or listen to a high quality streamed version in your browser. Additionally, Loudlit prints the book in your browser so you can follow along as you listen without downloading anything. Loudlit seems to be a nice resource for… Continue reading

March 5 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: audiobooks, Communication, free, public+domain | 2 comments»

Go to MIT for free

One Man's Blog points out that MIT has joined the online learning bandwagon and is attempting to offer the complete course material for every class online for free. The program will be called "MIT Open Courseware." Susan Hockfield, MIT president, describes the program: OpenCourseWare expresses in an immediate and far-reaching way MIT’s goal of advancing education around the world. Through MIT OCW, educators and students everywhere can benefit from… Continue reading

January 26 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: free, learning, online, university | 7 comments»

How To Get Free Stuff At Trade Shows

Free stuff? I think everyone don't mind some free stuff. I wasn't realise trade shows can get more than some backpacks and drinking bottles. John Chow shows you some of his tips on getting free stuff at trade shows. I am drooling over the photo that John took - he got things like 1GB flash drive, 2GB RAM and watch etc. This alone makes me to read his article. He… Continue reading

October 20 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: free, trade-show | 5 comments»

Free eBook on Motivation

It is called The Laws of Motivation by Richard Denny. He mentions 9 laws of motivations that could give you some hints on what does it take to be motivated or motivate others:

We have to be motivated to motivate
Motivation requires a goal
Motivation, once established, never lasts
Motivation requires recognition
Participation motivates
Seeing ourselves progressing motivates us
Challenge only motivates if you can win
Everybody has a motivational fuse
Group belonging motivates

Law 8, Everybody has a motivational… Continue reading

January 2 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: ebook, free, motivation | 13 comments»

Top 20 Magazines with Free Subscriptions

Over at TradePub, Daniel has kindly given me the list of top 20 publications and magazines with free subscriptions. Some of them are professions specific - for instance, there are IT publications like eWeek for Information Technology Professionals, and Call Center for professionals in support and services field. The list is in alphabetical order: