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Bookmarklets. eHow.com - How To Do (Just About) Everything! 2006 LifeHack Review: Best 50 hacks for your Life - lifehack.org. Do you want to be as productive as many of us, but missed a lot of actions at lifehack.org during the year? Other than subscribing our feed now, I give you a way to catch up with us before 2007 begins. I’ve selected the best 50 life hacks of the year, based on their popularity and contents in different categories. Invest your time – read them. Bookmark this page and mark reading them as one of your new year resolutions. Communication, Writing, Studying Productivity, Creativity, Motivation Management, Self-Management, Entrepreneurship Procrastination, Goal Settings, Life Are there any other posts that you enjoyed which haven’t mentioned here? In closing, by using the last post of 2006, I want to thank all our contributors and guest authors in 2006 to make lifehack.org a place where people can search for their personal development needs: Chris Brogan, Adrian Savage, Rosa Say, Tony Clark, Reg Adkins, Vishal Rao, Michael Leddy, Bruce DeBoer and many others.

More 2006 Review: Metrics and Focus. 11 Techniques to Increase Page Views on Your Blog. 20/20: Top 20 Programming Lessons I've Learned in 20 Years. This post could be viewed as hard lessons learned for newly graduated college students, entry-level programmers, or advanced developers who just want a chuckle. I've been programming since I was 11 and I've loved technology and programming every since. There are some hard and easy lessons I've learned over time. As a fellow programmer, you may not have experienced these, but I'm offering them to individuals who are interested in learning more from my experiences.

I'll be updating this as time goes on. Here are my most memorable lessons so far. Set a duration of how long you think it should take to solve a problem - C'mon, admit it! I hope this list of lessons learned have either inspired or provided a chuckle for some people. Apple Matters | 20 Useful OS X Tips. Because we are all different, operating system developers always put more than one way of doing things in their systems. One example is there’s often keyboard shortcuts, menus and toolbars in applications for doing the same thing. Consequently, it’s very easy to get into the habit of doing things a particular way without ever learning other ways. Hopefully for the average user there might be at least one tip here that you weren’t aware of and that will be useful to you. Otherwise, I officially re-title this article: “20 Useful OS X Tips for Beginners and Switchers”.

By the way, if you have a single button mouse, where it says “right click”, substitute with “control-click” . 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. The Option key is a hidden treasure trove. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Now, if you are like “The Hackmeister of OS X”, rather than scoffing, let us know a few of your favorite lesser known tips. Things MacOS X. 21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch. Witnessing the launch of a blog as successful as Performancing’s first two weeks might lead you to think that launching a successful blog is easy… well, it’s NOT. Thousands of new blogs are launched every day, but only a handful ever get read by more than a few hundred people, and even fewer ever make a dollar’s profit. While a site can survive a terrible launch (see Instablogs’ surprising turnaround) the cost is high, and the truth is, most never recover.

With no money coming in, and a readership which can be counted in the dozens, it’s no wonder that the vast majority of bloggers give up and shut down their site within a year. The 21 points included in this checklist will cover the basics of what you need to do during those all-important first two weeks of your blog’s life. While there are no guarantees in the blogosphere, if you follow these launching tips closely, your chances of success are greatly improved.

The First Impression 1. 2. RSS & Subscriptions 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.