Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

Shiny New Toy? 7-Step Checklist for New Gadget Nirvana

Got a new gadget? Maybe it’s a beautiful new iPod, Blackberry, or camera. We’ve seen a lot of debris from these gadgets in our organizing work… empty boxes, drawers and bins full of old cords and cables, and files full of obsolete manuals. Here’s my 7-step checklist for making sure your gadget has the best possible life!

1. Look at the return policy. Right when you get home with your new… » Continue

August 18 2008 | By Lorie | Tagged: gadget, hardware, organization, Technology, theft | 4 comments»

3 Ways to Stop Living Vicariously Through Technology

Image courtesy of jonrawlinson on Flickr

As technology continues to improve, it is becoming easier than ever for us to live vicariously through the creations of others. Living vicariously through technology is “watching instead of doing.” An example is getting home from work and deciding to watch television or Youtube videos instead of creating something of your own. It is stagnating during your free time instead of growing. This… » Continue

August 13 2008 | By Derek | Tagged: creativity, growth, personal growth, Technology | 9 comments»

How to Ruthlessly Reclaim Work Day Time

When you’re starting a small business or working from home as a freelancer, you need to make every minute of time count; it’s a race against the clock to break even before your new endeavor uses up your savings and breaks you.

But there are always a million and one things that interfere with and take over your day. Your to-do list of twenty items that you intended to tackle by… » Continue

April 28 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: email, feedreader, freelancing, home office, housework, phone, Technology | 21 comments»

Increase Productivity and Relieve Pain with the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard

If you have been looking for a way to increase your productivity without having to train your mind to think or behave in a completely new way, then many will point you to the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. Well, they’re wrong, as I discovered; the time and effort to re-train your mind is quite extensive, but the time spent is worthwhile!

If you’re prepared to make some sacrifices - or rather… » Continue

February 12 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: dvorak, hardware, health, keyboard, Productivity, Technology | 37 comments»

The Ten Videos to Change How You View the World

I believe that a sign of good information is that it makes you think. If reading a book, listening to a lecture or watching a video doesn’t change how you think, it probably isn’t that important. But if you encounter something that forces you to change your views, even if you don’t completely agree with it, you’ve found something valuable.

The problem is where do you find these… » Continue

October 16 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: games, happiness, humor, inspiration, linguistics, marketing, poverty, reality, Technology, video | 100 comments»

Confessions of a Late Adopter

I love gadgets, I really do. But unlike your typical fanboy or -girl who can be found standing in line at Best Buy or the Apple Store days before a new product’s release, I’m more likely to be found trolling the aisles of the local thrift store, surfing eBay, or scrounging through the clearance bins at Office Max looking for my gadget fix. I’d like to say it’s… » Continue

September 26 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: consumer, simplicity, Technology, tool | 10 comments»

An Unlikely FREE Collaboration Management App

What if you had a completely turnkey solution for managing multi-threaded interactions with teams? What if this application handled scheduling, status updates, RSS feeds from collaborative blogs, group messaging, 1-to-1 messaging, photo and screen capture sharing, and more? What if it permitted secure group communication for people inside and outside of your company? And what if you didn’t have to convince your IT department to install it?

Sounds powerful… » Continue

June 29 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: business2.0, facebook, socialapps, socialnetwork, Technology | 16 comments»

15 Coolest Firefox Tricks Ever

Everybody’s favorite open-source browser, Firefox, is great right out of the box. And by adding some of the awesome extensions available out there, the browser just gets better and better.

But look under the hood, and there are a bunch of hidden (and some not-so-secret) tips and tricks available that will crank Firefox up and pimp your browser. Make it faster, cooler, more efficient. Get to be a Jedi master… » Continue

May 11 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: firefox, internet, online, shortcuts, Technology | 334 comments»

UnTech Yourself

Technology can definitely make life easier. E-mail, rapid communication, RSS and the internet create vast opportunities for new information. But technology isn’t perfect. Adopting new technologies can have a sharp learning curve and many programs have unseen bugs and usability problems. Even more prevalent is this boost in information can cause overload, zapping your time in endless e-mails and feeds to read.

Breaking your paradigm of… » Continue

May 10 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: book, ipod, Productivity, Technology | 6 comments»

Digg Life: How Social Media Will Change the World

With a very simple concept, Digg.com has changed the fundamental nature of the news media and how millions of people access information. Digg (and its fellow social media sites) democratized the media, and wrenched control of what gets read from the gatekeepers of print and broadcast corporations and gave it to the people. Now, argue about whether this is good or bad, but it’s now a fact of life.

And… » Continue

May 9 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: digg, socialmedia, Technology | 52 comments»

Send email and text hands free with Jott

Jott is a service that lets you send messages in either text or speech format from your cellphone. You call your Jott number, leave the message, choose the recipients and Jott does the rest. I believe Jott could be very helpful as a to do/GTD manager.

Jott - [Jott.com]… » Continue

April 13 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: gtd, jott, Technology | 6 comments»

Manage your web-based projects with Workspace

Workspace is a online development environment that facilitates the complete management of your Web-based projects. With a syntax highlighting editor built right in, it provides the ability to edit text, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Java, Perl, SQL and other types of files directly on a remote server. Finding and managing those files is made easy with a cutting-edge file management utility embedded right in the app. With this utility, users can… » Continue

April 13 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Management, Technology, workspace | 1 comment»

Create your own photo album website using Photoshop

You can create your own photo album to host your picture collection on the web in just a few simple steps. The Digital Photography School has a short (six minute) video tutorial that demonstrates how to create your own web-based photo album using Photoshop. The process is all graphical and automated, so you don’t have to be a techie to get this done.

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April 12 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: images, photoshop, Technology | 4 comments»

Create a map for your wedding

If you’ve got a wedding coming up your guests will certainly appreciate a detailed map including the locations of the wedding ceremony, the reception hall, the hotel, etc. The Wedding Mapper is a three step website that will automatically create a map that has the locations of all the various parts of your wedding.

Wedding Mapper was built to make it fun, easy, and affordable… » Continue

April 12 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: Lifehack, mapping, Technology | no comments»

101 Essential Freelancing Resources

The Freelance Switch weblog compiled a list of 101 resources for freelancers and small business owners. The list is extremely thorough and covers resources dedicated to timing, invoicing, project management and organization, stock libraries, business tools, legal, job boards, web tools, advertising and marketing, and even a bunch of miscellaneous tools.

The web is such a big and wonderful place, packed with tools and resources which you… » Continue

April 11 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: business, Communication, freelance, list, Management, Money, resources, Technology | 1 comment»