Focus Your Ambitions with the Lifehacker Hierarchy of Goals Setting goals is easy, but prioritizing them is hard. Humans suck at properly weighing what we need to achieve our goals. We take on too much, skip steps, and often, as a result, we give up. Once you commit to a framework to prioritize your goals and cut the junk, achieving your goals gets a lot more realistic. If you're anything like me you have a ton of goals. Consider this a system of life designing that helps you question assumptions and figure out what you really want. Level 1: The Primary GoalsP SExpand Your primary goals are the base of all other goals—the one or two things you aspire to do before you die. Level 2: Long Term GoalsP Your long term goals are the major goals that are required to get to the primary goals. Level 3: Short Term GoalsP Think of short term goals as weeks or months out. Level 4: Recurring GoalsP Your recurring goals are what you want to do daily/weekly/monthly regardless of what else is going on. Level 5: Immediate GoalsP Formulate a Plan and Get StartedP
Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana After two decades online, I'm perplexed. It's not that I haven't had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I've met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I'm uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see a future of telecommuting workers, interactive libraries and multimedia classrooms. Baloney. Consider today's online world. Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Won't the Internet be useful in governing? Point and click:Then there are those pushing computers into schools. Then there's cyberbusiness. What's missing from this electronic wonderland?
A CUP OF JO How To Back Up PCs To Each Other Via The Internet Using Crash Plan Personal Backing up the data on your computer is vital. Everyone knows this. Yet not everyone does something about it. Why? If you own more than one computer, however, the answer may already be in your home. Introducing CrashPlan Personal Still, while this sounds great in theory, backing up your computers can be tedious in practice. CrashPlan is a popular piece of backup software. When you sign up for the first time you’ll be enrolled in a 30-day trial. You don’t however need a paid account to do backups between computers. Creating The Backup To use this software for backups across computers you’ll need to install it on each computer. Once you’re in the main CrashPlan menu you’ll need to look towards the bottom of the window and find the “Another Computer” option. By clicking on the link you’ll be sent directly to the Computers tab of the Destinations section. This process can take some time. Changing Your Backup CrashPlan backs up whatever is listed under Files in the software’s main menu.
Tech Cocktail - Tech Startup Events, News and Resources The Everywhereist | travel advice, tips, and stories 3 Ways The Portable Apps Platform Will Make Your Life Easier Portable apps have a huge place in my geeky heart simply because they are quite numerous (if you don’t believe me, check out the Best Portable Apps here). They don’t modify the registry, and can be used in different Windows machines (though there are portable apps for Linux as well). Up until recently though, maintaining portable apps was not pleasant for me. If your answer is yes, you should probably take a look at the Portable Apps Platform, currently on version 10.0, available from the same site that offers portable versions of popular programs. Start Menu For Application Organization & Launch If you have quite a few portable apps (even our suggestions from our Best Portable Apps reach 50+), having a way to access them is probably optimal. You can select for the Platform to sort your programs by category, by alphabetical order, or either with favorites and recent apps displayed first, something that the program calls “Smart” organizing. Update Existing Portable Apps The Easy Way
How To Run Android 4.0 ICS On Windows, Mac & Linux Using VirtualBox Android platform shines in nearly every aspect, from its large number of developers support to gargantuan amount of customization options. Being an open source platform, anyone can compile the code and cook their desired ROM according to their own needs (provided they have supported kernal and other required files). One of the latest iterations of Android OS is Ice Cream Sandwich or commonly called as ICS. The first thing you’d need is download and install VirtualBox (download link given at the bottom of the post). Once loaded, you can start the Android ICS in a virtual machine by double-clicking the Android-v4 VM available in left sidebar. During boot, choose the second option Android Start from /dev/sda to continue booting into Android ICS virtual machine. If all goes well, you should have the latest Android operating system breathing on your computer, just as you are using it on an actual phone. Download Virtual Box Download Android v4 Ice Cream Sandwich Virtual Machine Advertisement
Time for Reflection 10+ Best Apps For Your Dropbox If you’ve been using Dropbox for a while, you may not have noticed that a whole ecosystem of applications have been built up to use the service. Over time, these apps have sprung up to fill all of the little holes Dropbox left unfilled. There are apps now for just about everything. It’s possible to sync Google Docs to Dropbox, automatically send Gmail attachments to Dropbox, play music in a browser from your Dropbox music files, encrypt your Dropbox, easily host a website or blog in Dropbox, collect URLs and web clippings to Dropbox and to automate file syncs between all of your social networks and Dropbox. You can even view all of your Dropbox files alongside your Google Docs, Box files and FTP files in the one web interface. If you want to know the best apps to do all of these things, then read on. 1. DropItToMe is a service which allows you to set up a URL specifically for your friends and clients to use for uploading things to your Dropbox. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. More Links
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Move Forward, Keep Going How to run two Dropbox instances on the same PC Why would you want to run multiple Dropbox instances on the same machine? We could think of two reasons (1) you’ve maxed out on the 16 gigs or so that each free Dropbox account can give you as a ceiling, and would like to use another account to add more, or (2) you would like to access another Dropbox account for whatever reason, such as a disposable account used by members of your team or that of someone else (such an ex employee of your company) etc. In this posting, we will describe how to run another Dropbox account to your WINDOWS machine using a third party freeware program (i.e. to install two Dropbox accounts running simultaneously on one PC). The application used: DropboxPortableAHKis a free program that can create portable instances of Dropbox, which can be carried on a USB drive, etc. Or it can be run locally alongside your existing Dropbox installation, which is what this post assumes. First things first, download the free program: Setting up: Consider the following options.
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