Stay on Top of Your USB Stick

Are you carrying a USB thumb drive with useful applications with you at all times? I’ve written before about how it makes a lot of sense, and how to stock your drive with many good free, open source applications with only one download. MacLibre and PortableApps.com remain the choice sites to go to to stock your drive up with good apps. For ongoing information on how to get the most out of your pocket drive, though, try GetUSB.info.
Stay on Top of Your USB Stick

How to Reuse an Empty Altoids Tin

Altoids candy comes in a variety of small, sturdy metal tins that invite creative reuse. If you have one (or a giant stack) left over, try one of these projects to put it to good use.
How to Reuse an Empty Altoids Tin

Finding The Best 3G Mobile Broadband Deal

Mobile broadband services -- using 3G spectrum to deliver the Internet to your PC or notebook -- are getting more popular, with almost a million Australians already using them. Whether you want to use them at home, in a hotel room or even in a train, there's a wide range of plans to choose from, and recent price changes from Optus, Telstra, 3 and Vodafone have further muddied the waters. Read on for Lifehacker's guide to the best current deals in the mobile broadband space.
Finding The Best 3G Mobile Broadband Deal

Free 2GB USB drive from Microsoft! | OzBargain

Just fill out the quick survey to receive a free 2GB USB drive from Microsoft!
Free 2GB USB drive from Microsoft! | OzBargain

8 Nifty Tips for Getting the Most from an All-You-Can Eat Buffet

Food can serve many purposes. For some it is merely for nourishment. For others it is a form of art or a means of entertainment. For still others, it fills an emotional need and could even be considered an addiction or vice. For the purpose of this article, I’d like to point out that my advice is for the most basic of needs: good nutrition, a bit of indulgence, and a chance to fellowship with your family or friends with no dishes to clean up! Here are the 8 ways we make our dining dollars a great investment.
8 Nifty Tips for Getting the Most from an All-You-Can Eat Buffet

How to Stop Feeling Like Your Life Isn't Good Enough

In recent times, it seems there are only three measures of success: Money, looks, and fame. If you don't have one or all of them, you just don't measure up. But you're an ordinary person, and it's hard to feel self-worth, self-respect, and self-esteem when you go to an everyday job in an everyday world. How do you find a sense of significance in a world that seems so shallow?
How to Stop Feeling Like Your Life Isn't Good Enough

Stop Trying to Impress Other People

Imagine, just for a moment, that you find yourself on a desert island with just you and four or five of your closest friends and relatives - the people you care about the most in this world. The only people around are the people that care about you.
Stop Trying to Impress Other People

Uncluttered public speaking

I’m sure we’ve all attended memorable presentations — some are memorable because they inspire, others because they’re awful. (I’ll never forget my astrology professor who droned on and on: “One may find that it’s intuitively obvious” and then he’d add a few incomprehensible points about celestial objects.)
Uncluttered public speaking

How Meditation Improves Your Health

Fact 1: Meditation assists healing. If you have any kind of health complaint at all then meditation can help you to get better.
How Meditation Improves Your Health

The 2008 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix - The Big Picture

The sixteenth round of the 2008 Grand Prix motorcycle racing (MotoGP) season was recently held on a track on the southern coast of Australia. The 2008 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix took place on Phillip Island, on the weekend of October 3rd.
The 2008 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix

The Financial Crisis in Pictures: 8 of the Best from Around the Web

With the stock market continuing to plunge, one thing remains constant: financial news sites like to tell part of the story with images of distressed Wall Street traders and executives that are experiencing some of the worst moments of their careers.
The Financial Crisis in Pictures: 8 of the Best from Around the Web

Why It's Not Selfish to Put Yourself First

One piece of advice that I’ve come across in the writings of several life coaches is that we should act in our own best interests. My initial reaction to this is to feel uncomfortable – like most people, I worry that I’m being selfish if I put myself first.
Why It's Not Selfish to Put Yourself First

How to Accept Criticism With Grace and Appreciation

How do you deal with criticism? The first reaction for many of us is to defend ourselves, or worse yet to lash back. And yet, while criticism can be taken as hurtful and demoralizing, it can also be viewed in a positive way: it is honesty, and it can spur us to do better. It’s an opportunity to improve and build up our true talents.
How to Accept Criticism With Grace and Appreciation

Opening the Door to Helping Your Parents

What kind of help should I provide for my parents? What kind of help do they actually need? What does their situation really look like? Would they be happy if I took an interest, or would they not like it at all?
Opening the Door to Helping Your Parents

Email: Test Your Web Mail's Password Recovery (Before Someone Else Does)

CNET's Michael Horowitz runs down the ins and outs of securing and restoring access to your Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail account, whether it's been infiltrated, locked you out, or you're just looking to ensure its privacy. It's a good guide that might make you think twice about your web mail practices, especially if you haven't run through his final bit of advice: Test your password recovery procedure—the kind that left Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account wide open—before anyone else does.
Email: Test Your Web Mail's Password Recovery (Before Someone Else Does)

Once-a-Month Shopping: Save More by Shopping Less

How often do you go to the supermarket? Could you get by making only one trip per month? What if it saved you money?
Once-a-Month Shopping: Save More by Shopping Less

Yoko Ono: Celebrate John Lennon's Birthday Today with Peace

On 9 Oct 2008, John Lennon’s birthday, Yoko Ono asks the people of Iceland to join her and many others across the rest of the world in praying for peace and stability.
Yoko Ono: Celebrate John Lennon's Birthday Today with Peace

The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw

Robert Burton is the former chief of neurology at the University of California at San Francisco-Mt. Zion hospital. He recently wrote a book, On Being Certain, that explored the neuroscience behind the feeling of certainty, or why we are so convinced we’re right even when we’re wrong.
The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw

The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need | Zen Habits

Motivation isn’t that complicated. Sure, there are numerous tips that can help, numerous tactics and strategies.
The Only Two Secrets to Motivating Yourself You’ll Ever Need | Zen Habits

Google Maps: Now Officially Gorgeous

Remember when we told you about Google’s new satellite, GeoEye-1, which should bring highest resolution commercial imagery available to Google Maps? Below, you can see the first image that the satellite captured. GeoEye-1 captures images at .41 meters in black and white and 1.65 meters in color; for real life reference, that means crisp enough to read license plates.
Google Maps: Now Officially Gorgeous