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Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work. News | Denver and Boulder Cycling News. Avid4 Adventure (www.Avid4.com), the premier provider of outdoor adventures for children and teens, is currently hiring for the 2014 summer season. We offer park skills camps, private lessons and events during the summer out of Valmont Bike Park, and we are seeking applicants who have significant experience with children ages 7-17, a true passion for children of this age, and the ability to support campers' development in slope-style, dirt-jumping, and pump track terrain features. The ideal candidates are ready to inspire youth to live an active, outdoor lifestyle and have a summer full of fun! Why Avid4 Adventure? We want Avid4 Adventure to be the best job you've ever had!
Working with Avid4 Adventure, you will instruct budding outdoor adventurers AND become part of an incredible team of outdoor enthusiasts. Ready to inspire, be inspired, work hard, and have fun? Check out all available positions at our Avid4 Adventure Jobs page and click through to our Online Application. How Google's Designers Got the Company on the Same Page - Liz Gannes.
You know how Google last year redesigned its products to align their design, with more white space and more consistent navigation schemes? You might not have liked all that change. I know I found it jarring, to put it nicely — and I still bristle at some of the things I liked better the old way (gahhh, Google Reader). In fact, a major overhaul is something Google’s designers had wanted to do for a long time and had previously failed to persuade the company to do, they said on a panel at SXSW today. In 2007, designers from multiple Google products put together a set of unified redesign proposals code-named Kanna (Icelandic, meaning to explore, examine or investigate) that was never released. Among other reasons, the designers think Kanna failed because they presented then-CEO Eric Schmidt and other leaders with a set of four different concepts, with themes like making Google more like desktop clients, or differentiating products by color. Here’s the basic chain of events. Facebook Privacy: 10 Settings Every User Needs to Know.
Facebook's privacy settings are extremely detailed, giving you the ability to fine-tune the privacy aspects of almost every little part of your Facebook account. Unfortunately, for most users, this level of micromanagement makes Facebook's privacy settings a convoluted mess. Even worse, these settings change often; you may think you know everything there is about them, only to be greeted with a completely different layout and a bunch of new options the next time you visit the dreaded Facebook Privacy Settings page. So, what do you do when you've got over 170 options to choose from? You focus on the most important ones. We've entered Facebook's maze of privacy options and came out on the other side bruised, battered, but with 10 essential settings in our hands.
Disregard them at your own peril! 1. Account > Privacy Settings > Sharing on Facebook Facebook gives you the easy way out: You can share content with Everyone, Friends of Friends, or Friends only. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Live and Learn, or Lose: Five Ways to Keep from Being Outdated. It doesn’t take an expert economist or a marketing guru to tell you that times are changing quickly. Social change, political shifts, and economic woes are ongoing. In January, Seth Godin wrote about a shift in the workplace, affirming that business itself is changing. Godin calls this post-recession epoch “the end of the average worker.”
Now is also the end of the average engineer, developer, or designer. So what’s the answer? Tip #1: Learn Something New Every Day Relying only on your current knowledge will not see you through to future success. A simple way to get around this is to force yourself to learn something new every day. Tip #2: Avoid Dead Ends at All Costs A few types of dead ends will keep you from staying relevant: Dead-end jobs These are the positions that are essential today, but won’t be around in five years.
Dead-end freelance work These are the jobs that don’t force you to stretch, that keep you anchored in the past. Dead-end education Tip #3: Begin a Horizontal Hobby.
Woodworking. Books. How to setup a Mac Mini Media Center, server, and remote torrents box. Mac Mini’s make awesome little media centers since they are so small and have more features than an AppleTV. Following the below guide you will be able to do the following with a Mac Mini: Watch HD movies, videos, view photos, listen to music, and view weather from your couch on your TV.Watch Hulu, YouTube, and any other streaming online video on your TVAdd & delete torrents to download onto the Mac Mini, remotelyControl the media center via your iPhoneWatch the movies stored on your Mac Mini on your iPhoneServe websites from your Mini to the worldBrowse the web, play games, and use your Mac Mini on a TV from your couch, wirelessly Note: If this walkthrough seems a little overkill to you, check out our easy guide to setup a Mac Media Center which will provide a simpler setup, minus some of the features like remote torrent management.
Update: With the release of the new Mac Mini (2010 model), you won’t need any additional video or audio cables and adapters, only an HDMI cable! Video Cables.
Fitness. Design. 8 Ways to Organize Your Life with Google Docs — Life After College by Jenny Blake. This is a re-print of a guest post I did last week for the Google for Students company blog. They’re hosting a series of guest posts from Googlers who blog, and I was lucky enough to kick off the series! If you read Life After College regularly you’ve probably seen many of these templates already, but hopefully this will still serve as a nice re-cap. Important note: if any of the previews don’t show up, you can still use the template. Google Docs has been picking some technical fights with me lately, and we haven’t reconciled yet!
8 Ways to Manage Your Life After College with Google Docs Life after college can be confusing and chaotic. The great thing about using Google Docs & Spreadsheets is that they are easy to edit, accessible anywhere (any computer or your mobile phone), and you can share them with friends for added accountability and feedback. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
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