If you’re still carrying around one of those George Costanza-esque bulging wallets with dozens of scraps of paper, photographs, receipts, tear-off strips for free guitar lessons and the like, you really ought to simplify things and declutter your wallet! While you’re at it, you might want to consider switching to a minimalist wallet; there are [...]
If you’re using WordPress.org for your blog, you may find a new plugin called “Insights” really interesting. Developed by WordPress guru Vladimir Prelovac, Insights makes it exceedingly easy and fast to: Add Flickr images to posts Add Google maps to posts Add links to your own blog posts to a new post Search Wikipedia and [...]
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On August 26th Mozilla released an “experimental” Firefox extension that promises to substantially change your browsing experience. Ubiquity enables you to surf the internet by utilizing simple language commands as opposed to the traditional point and click method. Once installed, a simple, customizable combination of keystrokes (I used Ctrl + U) launches Ubiquity. Although still [...]
Two of my biggest fears when I travel are that I’ll either a) get sick, or b) lose my wallet. I can’t do much about warding off illness or a medical emergency, but there are some simple steps -putting some information in your cell phone – that anyone can take to minimize the impact of [...]
Regular PracticalHacks reader Michael W. recently commented on my post “A minimalist approach to packing for a short business trip” as follows: I realized the focus of this article was on bundle-wrapping and roll folding, and not on use of a back-pack as a “onebag” (and it appears to be a MEDIUM sized “day” pack, [...]
Simple, fast, easy way to set up and receive electronic reminders for important events and tasks!
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