Kevin on February 29th, 2008

Zen Habits featured an article today entitled “20 Money Hacks: Tips & Tricks to Improve Your Finances.” Hack # 10 features a spreadsheet the author uses to track his bank accounts, and comments that it does everything he used to do with MS Money.
Here’s a variation on that theme: if you get to the [...]

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Face it: each working day is a battle between your efforts to impose order on your working life in the face of the chaos that each day invariably brings. Between interruptions, unplanned work, impromptu meetings, endless emails and non-important phone calls, it’s a wonder any of us gets anything of significance done. How can you [...]

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Kevin on February 24th, 2008

Amen! From The Probabilist.com
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In a matter of moments you can make a favorite web site – including my.msn or iGoogle – your Startup Page in Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007. Just follow these 5 simple steps:
1. Create a new folder anywhere in the folder tree (File/New Folder or just right click on your In Box folder and select [...]

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Kevin on February 23rd, 2008

If you wash your car yourself & haven’t discovered waffle weave microfiber towels, you need to check them out. A single large (usually between 24″ x 30″ and 25″ x 36″) towel is enough to dry a small to midsize car. Two of them – one per hand – will easily dry an SUV. Plus… [...]

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Kevin on February 23rd, 2008

Roboform is a nifty password manager that enables you to log on to sites, filling in your user name and password, with a single click; online forms are completed just as easily. RoboForm was named PC Magazine Editor’s Choice, and CNET Download.com’s Software of the Year. Click Here for PC Magazine’s review. I’ve used Roboform [...]

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Kevin on February 22nd, 2008

CrackBerry addicts, are you ready to take your BlackBerry to the next level? In this list, you’ll find some of the most awesome tips, hacks, how-tos and guides for the BlackBerry, making it easy for just about anyone to become a power user. From insideCRM.com

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Kevin on February 22nd, 2008

Dealing with financial products can be very confusing and stressful, but there are some products that you should absolutely stay away from for the sake of your financial health. From wisebread.com
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Kevin on February 22nd, 2008

This post from blogger Adam Wright is a straightforward How-To which shows you step by step how to utilize Outlook’s rules to organize your emails.
Following Adam’s instructions, I created several rules which enable me to send certain message types into several “Favorite” folders (see screenshot on the next page; these folders appear at the upper [...]

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Kevin on February 19th, 2008

After decades of conducting interviews I’m no longer capable of asking interviewees questions like, “What’s your biggest weakness?” and “What are your three greatest strengths?”
Asking questions like these is like asking Amy Winehouse if she likes to party – the questions are so hackneyed that even the most inexperienced candidates anticipate them and [...]

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January 2009 edit:  the video described below is no longer available due to copyright issues; this is the original music video for the song.
One of the things I want to do with this blog is share things that I really enjoy, and this is is a good example. Carlos Santana recorded a couple of songs [...]

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Kevin on February 17th, 2008

Featured in the March issue of Fast Company (p65) Eyejot enables anyone with a web camera to send (and receive) video messages in a matter of seconds. There’s nothing to install, and Eyejot works with all popular Web browsers on Windows and Mac OS X. It does require that you have the Adobe Flash Player [...]

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