Holiday Shopping Guide for the Data-Addict - information aesthet. In its almost yearly tradition to help the data-addicted readers between us buying appropriate presents, here is the data-inspired wish list for the holidays. 1. iPhone Newcomers to this blog can recognize how hip this blog is by the novelty of the first proposed gadget. Because: An iPhone to a data addict is like crack to a heroine addict.
There is no way back. Shown above: The Financial Times app with incredibly beautiful stock market graphs. However: You will miss the time before-the-iPhone, that is when you had to 'wait' for a time and a place to access rich data. 2. 3. Editorial Note: I do assume all these book are absolutely great and must-haves, as I haven't seen them in flesh myself. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Some of this, and much more, at the infosthetics shop. Any other suggestions?
Start Your Work Day The Night Before For Better Productivity | L. Most of us are anxious to make a break for it at the end of a long work day, but career blog Work Awesome reminds us that taking a few minutes before you leave to focus on the following day pays off. Image by Flowery *L*u*z*a* Blogger Andre Kibbe says before you rush out the door, spend a bit of time prepping for tomorrow so you can hit the ground running in the morning.
Like a chef that lays out their ingredients and utensils before making a soufflé, setting up your workspace for maximum productivity will (hopefully) keep you from procrastinating when it’s time to buckle down. The more setup time you eliminate, the less inertia you’ll have to overcome, and the more flow you’ll experience. If you need to edit images in Photoshop tomorrow morning, boot it up before you leave work this evening. If you know the first image file you need to edit, open it now. Begin Your Work Day at the End of It [Work Awesome] Book Reviews Story | The Social Media Marketing Book. Brothke writes "The fact that President Barack Obama has over 7 million Facebook fans, and First Lady Michelle Obama over 650,000 fans, are confirmation that social media has come of age.
That is a far cry from former President Bush's comment in 2006 that he used the Google. While it is relatively easy for the President to get millions of followers, the challenge for businesses of all sizes is how to use social media to get fans and followers, and use them to drive business. " Read below for the rest of Ben's review.Many spam messages recently have such enticing subjects as 'Make Money on Twitter' or 'Be a Facebook Money Machine'. While those are clearly scam emails, the truth is that social media is a tidal wave. The challenge for everyone, how to get in front of that wave. At about half the size of a regular book at 224 pages, The Social Media Marketing Book is lean to begin with. The book(TM)s organization places an emphasis on practical use and readability.
Unanswered Email Undermines Your Productivity - Email - Lifehack. Firefox 3.6 Officially Available For Download | Lifehacker Austr. Windows/Mac/Linux: The oft-delayed but much improved 3.6 version of Firefox has landed, offering up faster performance, one-click themes, safer add-ons and plugins, faster fond handling and a lot more. Grab it now. We’ve been downloading and trying out Firefox 3.6 from the first alpha, and from what we’ve seen, 3.6 is a bigger update than the minor decimal point iteration would indicate. It ranked second only to the cutting-edge Chrome builds in our speed and performance tests, which meant there was real improvement in startup time and page rendering. What’s new? The video above provides the highlights, but the talking points are: Instant themes: Point 3.6 at the Personas gallery, and you can hover over a theme to see how it would look in your browser. Click to apply it, and it’s your browser skin. You can read up more on what’s new in the 3.6 release notes, but you’re probably going to want to discover its features for yourself.
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