Sunday, March 09, 2008

ADrive: Big Bucket of Free Storage

There’s another way to compete in online file storage besides offering unique features: just offer a lot of storage. That’s the plan of ADrive, a new entrant in the market (currently in beta) giving out a whopping 50GB of online storage for free.
ADrive: Big Bucket of Free Storage

Saturday, March 08, 2008

How to Cram for a College Exam

If you haven't cracked a book before now or if you just want to be as prepared as possible, cramming the night before an exam is a must. This how-to will guide you through the process.
How to Cram for a College Exam

How to Meditate

There are many different meditation methods, but at the core is the ability to focus and eventually quiet your mind. As you progress, you will find that you can meditate anywhere and at any time, accessing an inner calm no matter what's going on around you. But first, you have to learn to tame your mind.
How to Meditate

Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control

When you finally decide it's time to do something about that rat's nest of cables that's spreading like kudzu, you don't have to spend a lot of time and money to get it under control. Whether you're looking to stow your headphone wires tangle-free in your gym bag, hide the ugly wire spaghetti you keep kicking further under your desk, or organize your gadget chargers and power plugs, we've got some cord management tricks for you.
Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control

Flip Your Karma: 8 Tricks to Turn the Bad Into the Awesome

It’s inevitable: sometimes, life just doesn’t go your way.
Your schedule gets all messed up. You fail to follow your exercise plan. Someone is mean to you. You feel like quitting something. You want to curl into a little ball and cry.
Flip Your Karma: 8 Tricks to Turn the Bad Into the Awesome

The Shy Person's Guide to Talking to Strangers

One of the easiest ways to improve your networking ability and invigorate your social life is to develop the skill of talking to strangers.
The Shy Person's Guide to Talking to Strangers

Friday, March 07, 2008

Tech Support Gets a Reprieve While Users Take a Hit

It’s time to place half of the tech-support blame where it belongs: at the feet of Them. The Users.
Tech Support Gets a Reprieve While Users Take a Hit

Thursday, March 06, 2008

20 very easy tips for lowering your daily stress level

When we’re stressed, we tend to become more stressed. That’s because when we’re rushed and harried, we cut corners. We don’t take the time to do the little things that, though not difficult or time-consuming themselves, can end up saving enormous amounts of time and trouble.
20 very easy tips for lowering your daily stress level

Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio

Managing the steady stream of email that gathers in your inbox every day can feel like an impossible task. Not long ago, I kept a lengthening list of folders in my email software to track messages by topic, sender, project, urgency and any other context that seemed relevant that hour. I'd spend lots of time carefully dragging and dropping every message from my inbox into the folder it seemed to belong in that day.
Empty Your Inbox with the Trusted Trio

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Planning a Kitchen Garden

What’s a “kitchen garden”? A kitchen garden merely refers to a garden that consists almost exclusively of plants intended to be eaten. Although one might put a few decorative plants around the edges of such a garden, the vast majority of the garden is intended for food.
Planning a Kitchen Garden

Rename Multiple Files Efficiently Using Excel or Google Docs

Renaming multiples files on your Windows computer is easy. Select all the files, press F2 and type some descriptive text. Windows will append a unique sequence number to each of the file names.
That’s a fairly quick solution but not very flexible because you don’t get to specify any choices or criteria.
Rename Multiple Files Efficiently Using Excel or Google Docs

Driftr Travel Blog

Driftr is a travel blogging site. The layout is very simplistic and rather elegant and it formats your trips in a uniformed manner. When viewing a trip, you’ll see the location marked on the map (in relation to all of your other visited locations). Further details are shown below, along with images, including suggested places to eat, visit, sleep, how to get around, and additional notes are found in the trip blog section.
Driftr Travel Blog Opens its Public Beta

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

History's Greatest Replies

Any attempt to compile history's greatest replies—or history's greatest anything, for that matter—is fraught with difficulty, so it might be more accurate to refer to the replies that follow as simply my all-time favorites. Most of them come from people whose names will be very familiar to you, and I think you will agree that the comebacks and retorts here are very special.
History's Greatest Replies

Getting Things Done Traveling Through Southeast Asia

Getting work done on the road when you visit another state for a few days is one thing, but flying halfway around the world with your laptop bag is a whole other ball of wax. The 13-hour flight, foreign power outlets, lack of or spotty Wi-Fi, and the pain that is hauling all your stuff onto ferries, tuk-tuks, and buses every few days can sure put a damper on mobile computing.
Getting Things Done Traveling Through Southeast Asia

Exercises for Better Focus and Concentration

You can find strong powers of concentration in yourself. When you are decisive and sincerely want to excel in your studies, pass an important exam, or playing one of your favorite games; the power of concentration becomes available to you. This kind of concentration is raised because of some need, or desire. Increasing it in a systematic way, brings it under your control, and grants you the ability to use it easily, with no exertion whenever you need it. Real and good concentration is developed slowly, through daily work, and with special exercises. It has to be approached in a reasonable and practical way.
Exercises for Better Focus and Concentration

The Best Free Software

157 software tools. No fees. No expiration dates. No problems. Sometimes even no downloads. No kidding.
The Best Free Software

12 Powerful Ways to Keep Your Online Life Simple and Peaceful

The true challenge of technology: how to get the most out of it without letting it overwhelm us. How to keep things simple but powerful. How to master technology without letting it become our master (to paraphrase Stephen Covey).
12 Powerful Ways to Keep Your Online Life Simple and Peaceful

All A-twitter

In this Web 2.0 age, we expect information to be immediate and distilled into readily digestible pieces.
I just read something disturbing: When Steve Jobs was asked at the recent Macworld Expo what he thought of Amazon's Kindle eBook reader, he said (as reported by The New York Times), "It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore."
All A-twitter

Saturday, March 01, 2008

Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind

The mind is a wonderful thing - there is so much about it which remains a mystery to this day. Science is able to describe strange phenomena, but can not account for their origins. While most of us are familiar with one or two on this list, many others are mostly unknown outside of the psychological realm. This is a list of the top ten strange mental phenomena.
Top 10 Strange Phenomena of the Mind

7 Reasons to Drink Green Tea

The steady stream of good news about green tea is getting so hard to ignore that even java junkies are beginning to sip mugs of the deceptively delicate brew. You'd think the daily dose of disease-fighting, inflammation-squelching antioxidants--long linked with heart protection--would be enough incentive, but wait, there's more! Lots more.
7 Reasons to Drink Green Tea