100-Year-Old Life Hacks That Are Surprisingly Useful Today. People don't often look back on the early 1900's for advice, but what if we could actually learn something from the Lost Generation?
The New York Public Library has digitized 100 "how to do it" cards found in cigarette boxes over 100 years ago, and the tips they give are so practical that millennials reading this might want to take notes. Show Full Text. 47 Lazy Girl Beauty Hacks Everyone Should Know. LifeHax. Lifehacks and management tips. Life skills. Really Random Tips. 4 Easy Ways to Make Your Own Half-and-Half Substitute — Tips from The Kitchn. 30 Money Sites to Check Out in 2009 - Stepcase Lifehack. There are so many personal finance resources online that it’s hard to know where to start.
There are blogs, web applications, news sites and more. This list is a beginning — if you take a look at the sites included here, I know you’ll find something new for 2009. Some of these sites are brand new, some are the online presence of organizations that have been around for decades. But all of them look like they’ll have great things happening in the next year: these sites have the information that we all need (no matter our current financial situation) to get a great start on 2009. Blogs. The 80 Best Lifehacks of 2008 - Stepcase Lifehack. And so we arrive yet again at the end of another year. 2008 was at best a mixed bag – while the world was electrified by the US election and it’s promise of change, the global economy was shaken to its core as a decade of financial mismanagement and willful blindness finally caught up with us.
Gas prices spiked, leading us all to ask some difficult questions about sustainability, efficiency, and consumption – and then plummeted, leaving us feeling somewhat relieved, but baffled by the unpredictability of it all. As we roll into 2009, there is an atmosphere of suspenseful anticipation, of hope mixed with not a little uncertainty. Companies are streamlining to prepare for the worst, even as entrepreneurs look ahead to new opportunities. Overall, it seems that now is a time for shaking off the dust, clearing away the debris of the past, and looking towards the future. 10 More from the Webware 100 - Stepcase Lifehack. Last week, I looked at the apps chosen by CNet for the productivity section of the Webware 100.
There were, however, 10 other sections – 9 categories of apps voted for as top in their class and an extra categories of apps chosen by the editors at CNet. This week, I want to look at a selection of applications from the rest of the Webware 100, with an eye towards their use to increase or improve personal productivity. Some of the categories aren’t very productivity-oriented, like the music and audio section – I love Pandora and Amazon MP3, but I can’t say they help with my productivity in anything but the most indirect way (by giving me music to listen to while I’m working). The browsing category is particularly useless – picking the 10 best apps for web browsing is a bit like picking your ten best fingers. But scattered throughout the list there were some interesting apps, worth taking a look at. Write Here, Write Now, Write Anywhere: 13 Free Web-Based Word Pr. Imagine the situation: You’re visiting your parents’ home for the holidays, a thousand miles from your own PC, when inspiration strikes, a brilliant idea for the next plot twist in your novel!
Or consider: you’re on a business trip and your laptop is stolen — and the proposal you’re working on is due tomorrow! Or you’re on campus when you remember you have an assignment due in two hours — and you live an hour away! Maybe you have a thumb drive you keep your work on; now all you have to do is find a PC that can read your files, and hope you remembered to backup the files you need right away. But advances in web technology over the last couple years have given us another way to work from anywhere, no matter what computer we have access to, as long as we have access to the Internet: online word processors.
An online word processor gives you the ability to create, edit, save, and access your documents from anywhere. 12 Lists That Help You Get Things Done - Stepcase Lifehack. At the center of just about every personal productivity system are lists – GTD has it’s context lists, Pomodoro has it’s action inventory and daily to-do lists, todoodlist has, well, the todoodlist, and so on.
But there are a lot of different kinds of lists besides your task or to-do list that can help you be more productive. Lists in general are powerful tools – open-ended, constantly growing, and effective at extending our memories past the 7 or so things we can keep on our mind at any given time. Some of the lists that can make you more productive or otherwise make life easier include: Wikify Your Life: How to Organize Everything - Stepcase Lifehack. Choose Unfamiliar Work Music for Better Productivity and Focus. Hacks and Hints. 43 Simple Ways To Simplify Your Life. Post written by Sherri Kruger.
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