lifehack.org (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
In Monday’s article, we discussed the various ways home automation can make life easier. Today we’ll look at the primary commercial methods of automating the home—a true and grand lifehack, in that it hacks the primary habitat in your life! At the end of the day, there are two main methods of home automation. The most popular is probably most popular because it is most affordable, and that’s plug-in...
Public Blog (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
It’s easy to get lost in the world of personal productivity. It’s a jungle of information and not all of it makes sense. Here you’ll find a few of the blogs and books you should read to get a grip on it all, if you’re serious about getting this part of your life under control. Blogs 1. Lifehack -- Lifehack provides a whole bunch of great information and helps hundreds of thousands of people get their...
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
If the eyes are the window to the soul, being able to manipulate how your eyes appear to others is a rather tricky lifehack. Over at WikiHow they have a tutorial on methods of training yourself to shrink and enlarge your pupils. Why might you want to do this? Scientists have actually studied how the way we feel about the things we see affects the size of our pupils (welcome to the world of pupilometrics...
lifehack.org (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
If you’ve been obsessed with the productivity space for any length of time like those of us here at Lifehack, you’ll no doubt have read more than your fill on the topics of attention and distraction. They work together, a bit of a yin and yang, neither inherently bad or unwanted, but both requiring management and balance. Attention is required to complete creative work—and I don’t mean creative work...
Bluesdiary (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
Lifehacker Tips And Downloads For Getting Things Done Letze Woche habe ich Ihnen die Seite Lifehack vorgestellt, die sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, Menschen wie dir und mir beizubringen, wie man besser lebt und effizienter arbeitet. Lifehacker nun schlägt in dieselbe Kerbe und verfolgt dieselben Ziele: auch Lifehacker geht es um die Verbesserung unserer realen und digitalen [...]
Combat Consultancy (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Stepcase Lifehack analyses Deirdre McCloskey’s classic on on Economical Writing and elaborates in her 5 principles, which are: 1. Always ask “so what'”2. Always ask “how do you know?”3. “Fluency can be achieved through grit.”4. Guard your inspiration and “clean up in a dull moment.”5. Don’t skimp on supplies. The original post is here.
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Stepcase Lifehack blog pulls out a trusted tome, Deirdre McCloskey's Economical Writing , and extracts some wisdom from an accomplished economics professor on writing tight sentences that are thrifty with words (unlike, say, this sentence). Here's one bit especially relevant for online writers: Always ask “So what'” ... Your reader’s time is very valuable, and he or she could be doing a lot of...
whip up (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Lifehack has put this list together. Checkout the “Sewing and Other ‘Feminine Arts’” list. Link. Thanks TipNut. Link Share and Enjoy:
ConverStations (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Whistle Stops are conversations, eye-openers, or tools representing the brain train discovered while traveling along the Conversphere. From business to education, lifehack to giving back, these are the posts and links that have in some way grabbed my attention! This...
PastorHacks.Net (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Part of the pastor gig will always be coaching people in their performance- regardless of how much we want to shy away from it (because of our co-dependency). Learning how to critique others and help them see their growth areas in a sensitive, constructive way is imperative. LifeHack offers 6 specific ways to critique without meltdowns. Offering constructive criticism is surprisingly hard to do. There’s...
lifehack.org (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
Back in July, I wrote about StudyRails , a web application for students. That post is here . Since July, the team behind StudyRails has made some significant upgrades. With the fall semester just starting up, StudyRails has a special offer for Lifehack readers: a free semester of StudyRails, running through January 31, 2009. The normal price for a StudyRails account is $4.95 per month. The first 100...
Combat Consultancy (Free subscription) | 09/13/2008
Stepcase Lifehack has a great list of skills one needs to succeed at almost anything:. Here is the short version, they go into detail at the post: 1. Public Speaking 2. Writing 3. Self-Management 4. Networking 5. Critical Thinking 6. Decision-Making 7. Math 8. Research 9. Relaxation [...]
lifehack.org (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Summer’s drawing to a close and so is the Lifehack Great Big Summer Giveaway. The entries are all in, the tips are all blogged, posted, tweeted, and FriendFeeded, and I’m working my way through the drawings. Here, then, are the winners of the contests from Week One of the Great Big Summer Giveaway. Remember, all winners were chosen by random drawing, not according to the quality of their entries. How...
LinkMachineGo (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
[google] Useful Lifehack: Use Multiple Google Accounts Simultaneously in Google Chrome … This tip is also useful if you have multiple accounts on other services such as Delicious or eBay… ‘When you open a window in incognito mode (Ctrl+Shift+N), your cookies from the standard session are no longer available and you can easily log in [...]
The Zen Of Steve (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Despite what you may think, there are lifehacks to be learned from the...
