December 2007
88 posts
Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007 →
2007 was a great year for personal productivity at lifehack.org! We’ve added more than a dozen new writers, who have brought new perspectives, new topics, and most importantly new hacks and tips to our virtual pages.
If you want to be more productive in the New Year, take a look at these 70 best lifehacks of 2007 now, and subscribe to our feed so you don’t miss any of the great advice and...
Year in Review: The 70 Best Lifehacks of 2007 →
2007 was a great year for personal productivity at lifehack.org! We’ve added more than a dozen new writers, who have brought new perspectives, new topics, and most importantly new hacks and tips to our virtual pages.
If you want to be more productive in the New Year, take a look at these 70 best lifehacks of 2007 now, and subscribe to our feed so you don’t miss any of the great advice and...
Who? What? When? Where? Why? Questions to Ask... →
Do you want only simple, specific tips, or something wider and deeper?
It’s a very old journalistic cliché that stories should always contain answers to these six questions: What? Who? Where? When? How? Why? For example, a story about a murder could accomplish all of this in a single sentence: “Jones was murdered in his own home last evening by a neighbor using a shotgun in revenge for Jones’...
Who? What? When? Where? Why? Questions to Ask... →
Do you want only simple, specific tips, or something wider and deeper?
It’s a very old journalistic cliché that stories should always contain answers to these six questions: What? Who? Where? When? How? Why? For example, a story about a murder could accomplish all of this in a single sentence: “Jones was murdered in his own home last evening by a neighbor using a shotgun in revenge for Jones’...
Checking out harness makers today - need new gear for the percherons
It pains me to say that, as a life-long Browns fan, I must root for the Colts tonight (sorry, @rexhammock)
MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO MYSELF: A copy of... →
MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT TO MYSELF: A copy of Propellerhead’s Reason 4 software. I’ve been happily producing podcast music — “stingers” and “bleebles” as they’re known in the trade. It’s very intuitive and easy to use. By the way, you can get a free copy of the software synth I’ve loved for years — the ReBirth RB-338 — here. All...
@rexhammock I’ll match your driving seven hours in a torrential rain and raise you pulling a 26 foot gooseneck trailer…..
Heading to Ohio for the weekend. One can only wonder why….
Become a Knowledge Management Ninja with Google... →
In this era of data smog, the knowledge worker who can act like an agile ninja by consuming vast quantities of information, synthesizing it and getting it in the hands of the right people at the right time is invaluable. For knowledge worker ninjas, RSS is your shuriken. I have been using various RSS readers for nearly five years now - I’ve tried them all. However, none matches the power...
Supercharge Your Scheduling with GCal [Feature] →
There’s no better time to develop your scheduling habit than the start of a new year, and few tools are as easy to pick up and get productive with as Google Calendar. While you can quickly get from beginner to black belt scheduler with just the web interface, the real value in GCal is that it’s accessible no matter where you are—work, play, or the grocery store—and can help you...
MoDazzle: Access Facebook, LinkedIn and Starbucks... →
MoDazzle is one way in particular to mobilize your social networks, specifically LinkedIn, Facebook, Salesforce and a couple others. Using email addresses and SMS short codes, there are ways in which you can access a variety of features on these supported social networks.
For instance, you can look up a LinkedIn contact by emailing the search request to MoDazzle, or you can access your...
36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR... →
This is a collection of startup tips covering software engineering, infrastructure, PR, conferences, legal and finance. They describe best practices for an early-stage startup. We hope that you will find these tips useful, but also please remember that they are based on subjective experiences and not all of them will be applicable to your company. These tips originally appeared as separate posts...
Wanna Get Your Gear Stolen or Damaged While... →
Seeing that as I’m writing this I am mid-travel on my way to Trinidad, I felt it appropriate to talk a little bit about gear safety while traveling. As seasoned CameraPorn readers may know from previous posts, I from time-to-time travel to Trinidad (read here, here and here). This and a recent, horrible gear theft experience of a friend of mine (more on that later), got me thinking a little bit...
Nothing like having a cold over Christmas….
HOW TO - HDR photography in Gimp or Photoshop →
Jason writes -
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is the process of taking several images at different shutter speeds and combining them into a single photo that contains no washed out or underexposed areas. The result is a surreal, almost too perfectly lit photograph that contains a high level of detail throughout the image. Photoshop has a built-in HDR photo merging tool which produces...
Christmas Eve services followed by wassel and family time. Good stuff….
16 Killer Apps to Put On Your Brand New Christmas... →
Editor’s note: This guest post by Glen Stansberry is a special expanded edition of a post originally published on LifeDev.net.
It’s Christmas day and you’ve just unwrapped your shiny new piece of Apple goodness from your new favorite family member. You’ve installed the beautiful Leopard operating system, and are ready to conquer the world.
But you soon realize you don’t know which programs to...
5 Steps to Making the Business Case for Social... →
We started three years ago by deploying social media-based programs as try-and-learn projects with our clients. Many clients especially on the consumer marketing side and the tech side (B2B) had an intuitive desire to get involved with social media. Two years ago, we saw a shift and developed a very solid measurment model to report performance to marketers and ourselves. We are marketers. We know...
Make Your Social Media Campaign a Success - 10... →
*Original photo by redjar.
If you’re a person or company getting into the social media game to promote yourself, please note that all the bells, whistles and buzz words in the world won’t bring in long term, qualified customers. Social media is a fickle beast and cannot be approached like a traditional advertising or marketing campaign. Social media campaigns can take time. Like a snow ball...
It’s all about family today.
Doug’s FB Status: Doug just might. http://tinyurl.com/3a2d8p
Doug just might. →
Windows Home Server - My Story →
I thought it was time to share with you my Windows Home Server setup. As Christmas is almost upon us it’s seems to be the hot topic of discussion at User Groups right now. I presented at the Sydney SBS User Group last week and the other I was in Brisbane for the Brisbane Infrastructure Group and you guessed it; the topic is Home Server. I’m not presenting this time so it gives me...
The 23 Best iTunes Add-ons [Feature] →
iTunes may not be the best media player on the market, but let’s face facts: with its tight integration with our iPods and its excellent playlisting tools, it’s very likely the digital jukebox you’re using every day to manage your music. With that in mind, it’s time you take iTunes to the next level. We’ve already tackled the 20 Best iPod Utilities, so today...
Do You Make This Mistake as a Professional? →
Broken promises are one of the biggest mistakes that one can make in their career. Broken promises are a problem because:
Broken promises diminish the value of your word. People want to count on you when you’ll say you do something. If you regularly drop the ball people will rely on you less. Your reputation becomes one of a partial contributor and you will not be offered opportunities.
...
Do You Make This Mistake as a Professional? →
Broken promises are one of the biggest mistakes that one can make in their career. Broken promises are a problem because:
Broken promises diminish the value of your word. People want to count on you when you’ll say you do something. If you regularly drop the ball people will rely on you less. Your reputation becomes one of a partial contributor and you will not be offered opportunities.
...
Blackberry Users Rejoice, Google Sync for Calendar... →
Google has been building up its array of offerings for Blackberry devices. Google Maps, GMail and Google Talk applications are widely used by Blackberry owners, but one application that is going to pleasantly surprise everyone is the brand-new Google Sync, which makes your Google Calendar whisper sweet nothings to your Blackberry Calendar. Google Sync is going to be made available for other...
This Wednesday: Twelve tips to avoid seeming like... →
Every Wednesday is Tip Day.
This Wednesday: Twelve tips to avoid seeming like an arrogant, know-it-all jerk. I’ve been doing thinking a lot about the qualities of pride and humility. A lot of people go through the motions of being humble, but you really have to mean it. A few months ago, I sat next to a guy I didn’t know, and when I asked him what he did for a living, he said jokingly, “It’s...
Planning Blog Post Topics →
It is no coincidence that I am writing this at the end of the year. Traditionally at the end of one year we look ahead to the next. I’m trying to make 2008 much more organized than 2007!
I am often paid to manage projects, it is something I am good at and enjoy, so I find it funny that I can organize projects and other people much easier than I organize myself. My writing especially tends to be...
WInter is definitely here….
13 Tips to Zap Your Butterflies When Speaking in... →
Everyone gets nervous before giving a speech. Unfortunately, the more people in the audience, the more important the speech usually is, making any butterflies in your stomach multiply before you begin. Knowing how to keep yourself calm can make a big difference when giving a speech.
I’m not a world-famous speaker. I’m just an introvert who has managed to train himself to stay calm on stage....
13 Tips to Zap Your Butterflies When Speaking in... →
Everyone gets nervous before giving a speech. Unfortunately, the more people in the audience, the more important the speech usually is, making any butterflies in your stomach multiply before you begin. Knowing how to keep yourself calm can make a big difference when giving a speech.
I’m not a world-famous speaker. I’m just an introvert who has managed to train himself to stay calm on stage....
Lifehacker's 2007 Guide to Free Software and... →
Throughout Lifehacker’s archive of over 14,000 posts, we’ve mentioned hundreds of free web and desktop apps that help you get things done—but which are the best? As we wrap up the year 2007, it’s the perfect time to put together an authoritative guide to our favorite pieces of free software and web services for common computing tasks on every platform. After the jump, check out...
9 Essential Principles for Good Web Design →
Web design can be deceptively difficult. Getting a design that is both usable and pleasing, delivers information and builds brand, is technically sound and visually coherent…
Add to this, the fact that many web designers (myself included) are self taught, that web design is still novel enough to be only a side subject in many design institutions and that the medium changes as frequently as the...
Personal Finance Columnist Loses $10,000 [Money] →
Personal finance columnist M. P. Dunleavey lost $10,000. Her year-end financial review showed an inexplicable, gaping hole in her bank account. Where did the money go? Large hidden bank fees? Identity theft? Drugs?
I ran through the numbers again with my husband, and he reached the same conclusion: approximately $10,000 was missing in action. That was the vacation we didn’t take, part of the...
Cold. Wet. What a way to start the week
Before you Pitch Bloggers: Three Genuine Tips for... →
This post is written to help budding entrepreneurs and startups that don’t have marketing resources, consider this free advice.
Lately, many startups have been sending me emails requesting that I blog about their product or review it or provide feedback. While I scan every single one, most never get more than a few seconds. I love the entrepreneurial activity and really enjoy seeing this flurry...
@rexhammock not that I’m complaining, mind you….
@rexhammock - I’m sorry but I couldn’t read what you wrote - it says right here that Twitter is offline until 10PM PST
damn time zones :-(
So, Twitter’s offline you say?
Doug’s FB Status: Doug will. http://tinyurl.com/3xfda4
Doug was. →
Why many marketers struggle with social media →
Chris has another excellent post today(Which has led to excellent discussions in the comments) explaining that marketing is not social media, and social media is not marketing. It’s easy to see why marketers are ga-ga over social media. But the problem remains that companies are attempting to take their ‘me first’ marketing mentality, and apply it to social media, hoping it will...
Doug might actually start using the FB status... →