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Focus Your Ambitions with the Lifehacker Hierarchy of Goals

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. Here's one way to do it.P 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

The 100 Startup 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? Because backing up a computer remains a bit of a pain. 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 Restore Your Files

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. I’d have to go into Windows Explorer and click on the executable to launch the program every time, and if there was an update to the program, I’d have to download the program and “install” it all over again. 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. Obtain New Portable Apps

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. 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. JotForm lets you create an online form for people to fill out, which then gets saved to your Dropbox. 2. Many people use services like InSync to perform a Dropbox-like sync for Google Docs to their home computer. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Cosmos Is Support.com’s 3-In-1 System Optimization App For Android Although Google Play Store is filled with plenty of Android system optimization and performance enhancement apps, few live up to their claims of boosting your device’s performance considerably. As always, we’ve been trying our best to bring some of the best (and mostly free) quality options in this regard, with AirCover, Bitdefender Power Tune-Up, Android Speed Booster and MP Task Manager being some of the noteworthy few. Adding to the long list is Support.com’s Cosmos – a 3-in-1 system optimization tool for your Android that supports a built-in battery saver, junk cleaner and privacy scanner. Making a mark among users amidst such fierce competition is not possible unless you bring something relatively fresh to the table, and this is exactly what Cosmos thrives on. Sporting a neat, uncluttered interface, the app helps you analyze and get rid of all the problematic facets of your Android device, and in doing so, lets you resolve most of the issues with a mere tap. Advertisement

Evernote Android Updated, Gets Swipe Gestures, Location View & More The official Android client of the popular cross-platform note-taking, syncing and sharing service, Evernote, has just been updated to v4.0.1. The favorite note-taking of many Android users (including me) looks an altogether new product as compared to what it looked just the last night, as the most recent update brings plenty of visual goodness, including a thorough ICS-style facelift, brand new homescreen interface with larger buttons to create notes, enhanced in-app navigation via various swipe gestures, context-sensitive action bars for every single app screen, map-view for notes, friendlier navigation while viewing/reading notes, new-look Notebooks and underlying Notes, revamped Notes list with option to switch between various views, and more user-friendly feel right throughout the app’s entire interface. Let’s begin right from the app’s homescreen. Swiping towards the left from this screen lets you navigate to the tags and places screen, respectively. Download Evernote for Android

EZ-CRM: Lightweight Contact Manager With Notes & VCF Export Support Keeping yourself connected to other people requires you to have their contact details always ready. Some fields of work, especially sales, have the most amount of importance for maintaining your contacts in order to succeed. Half of the work in sales in talking to the right person at the right time, and for that, you need to have the contact information of the required person at hand whenever needed. Previously, we have covered a lot of contact managers for mobile. Today, we have a contact manager for Windows called EZ-CRM, which allows you to save information about a contact, including Company, Name, Phone Numbers, Email Address, Website Address, Photo, Notes etc. The application allows you to save the information, edit it and export each contact as a vCard in VCF file format. The main interface of the application is divided into 2 panes. To add a new contact, click the new contact button available at the top left side (beside File). Download EZ-CRM Advertisement

SynWrite Is A Portable Syntax Editor With Tree Structure View For Code Previously, we have gone over text editors the likes of Editra, a cross platform editor, and InType, an editor with a tabbed interface. Today we shall review and compare another advanced text and programming editor called SynWrite. It supports source code programming in over 70 languages (which include JAVA, C++, C, Cobol, Pascal, Perl, HTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, etc.) and writing in over 80 file extensions (TXT and extensions allocated to the languages it supports). SynWrite carries a remarkable number of search functions, which include support for regular expressions (regex) as well as extracting text from files using regex. It also supports a large variety of language encoding. You can also set bookmarks on specific lines in your file and create macros for the file by using the options in their relative menus. SynWrite can also allow you to make changes in how it displays data by editing the settings via the Customize… button in the Options Menu. Download SynWrite Advertisement

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.

The Best Apps and Cloud Services for Taking, Storing, and Sharing Notes Is your desk and computer covered with sticky notes? Do you have miscellaneous pieces of paper with bits of information buried in drawers, your laptop case, backpack, purse, etc.? Get rid of all the chaos and get organized with note-taking software and services. We’ve collected a list of the best desktop applications and cloud-based services for taking, storing, and sharing information. Applications The following programs are desktop applications you can run directly on your computer, some of which are portable, allowing you to take your notes with you. OneNote Microsoft OneNote 2010 is a digital notebook integrated into Microsoft Office that allows you to gather all your notes and information into one place. How-To Geek has published articles that help you learn how to use OneNote: KeyNote KeyNote is a free, portable, tabbed notebook for Windows that allows you to create and store multi-level notes, use a rich text editor, and apply strong encryption to your notes. TreePad Lite WikidPad Jarnal

sRemote: Remotely Execute Commands To Control PC via Gmail Account If you’ve ever wanted to control your PC from a remote location (when you don’t have ready access to the hardware itself, like on a vacation), you can do so now by sending certain predefined commands through your Gmail account. Indeed, it sounds more a gimmick, but this is what sRemote has to offer. It’s an application for Windows that allows you to control and perform certain actions on your PC, such as shutdown, restart, log off, take screenshot etc, by sending various commands in an email subject field. Upon initial launch, you will need to input a master password to access the application. You will see a miniscule application window. Here, enter emails IDs for the account you want to monitor as well as the account where you want the notifications to be sent.

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