“No day is so bad it can’t be fixed with a nap. ” Carrie Snow
The Ririan Project has a great article about sleeping better. Getting a good rest can make all the difference in your attitude, mood and your productivity. So if you’re having trouble getting shut-eye, try these tips.

Create A Sleep-Conducive Environment
Avoid [...]

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It doesn’t matter what information you’re trying to put across on your website if your readers can’t find their way about easily enough.
Website usability is big business. Just ask Dr Jakob Nielsen, who has made a career out of this very issue. But you don’t have to pay through the nose for scientific studies [...]

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I have to admit, adding wi-fi to my home is one of the best tech decisions I ever made. The convenience it brings, and the mobility within the house as well as the fact that you don’t have to set up wiring has made my humble abode more connected than ever.
In case you’ve attempted [...]

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This week I’m concentrating on a series of posts about Effective Web Design. Part 1 offers strategic questions to ask yourself when eyeing up the work your competitors are doing.
There are a myriad websites out there. New ones crop up every second and it is getting harder to get your message across, especially if [...]

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As energy bills continue to rise, where can we turn to save some money? Here are 20 tips from Consumer Reports that should help you.

Wash clothes in cold water
Hang your clothes up
Don’t overdry your laundry
Let the dishwasher do the work
Put your PC to sleep
Turn down the heat in the winter, and turn down the [...]

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2 utensils in 1.
That was the idea behind this automatic measuring spice carousel which is designed to dispense its contents exactly a quarter teaspoon at a time. This removes the need for measuring using a spoon, giving a consistent measurement of spices at all times.
Who said cooking was boring?
via tinyliving.com

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“Percent of noninstitutionalized US adults age 20 years and over who are overweight or obese: 66.3%” - CDC USA
Now that is one scary statistic.
If you belong to the above demographic, it’s time to do something about it. While I’ve written about fitness and running in previous posts, here are some tips from Lifehack about [...]

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Whether you’re a manager aspiring to be one, here are some key traits of a successful manager. Apply these learnings to your work, and you’d certainly make a positive impact to the people under you

People: Managers concentrate on strengths and make weaknesses irrelevant.
Place: Managers create great workplaces where people thrive.
Mission: Managers get the work [...]

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A new pay for post blogging/advertising service is out called ReviewMe, and so I decided to give it a test drive. The post here is a sponsored post, meaning that I am getting paid a small amount to talk about the service. But there is no better way to learn how a service operates [...]

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Do you worry about being attacked by a vicious dog. Fearful of pitbulls running off-lead in the park?

Here are five tips to bear in mind:

Keep your hands reasonably high as moving parts tend to be the first to be bitten.
Shout ‘No’ at the dog as this may delay the attack. Avoid direct eye contact and, [...]

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Picture this… You’re going to be late for the most important presentation of your life. You blaze across the highway and everything seems to be going well. Until of course, you see the flashing blue lights in the background and the ominous sound of a siren. What are you going to do [...]

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Knowing your readers, and what they like is essential if you want to customise your blog content to their needs. One of the best indicators of what works and what doesn’t is of course - by tracking page traffic. To do this you have to pick one of the many many site metric [...]

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If you’re a Mac user and fed up with the seemingly Holy Trinity of Apple’s Mail, Entourage or Eudora, you might want to give PowerMail a try.
Since switching over to PowerMail four years ago after chancing upon a copy on friends aging PowerBook, I haven’t looked back. The application has always been lean, [...]

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Business overheads are something best kept to a bare minimum when you’re starting out. This is especially true when you’re starting small. Here’s a list of things you shoud not spend (too much) money on as a business overhead in the begining.

Fancy shmancy marketing materials - Scale upwards, and try blogging to [...]

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“If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.” - Benjamin Franklin
Know how to stretch a dollar and make your money work for you. Women’s Personal Finance has come up with 46 tips to help you do just that… Here are some of my favorites:
Always Try to Pay More [...]

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