Hah! I’m still fuming with Vista’s Defrag and my lost-and-found gigabyte of hard drive space and I’m stuck with it. I would’ve wanted to “upgrade” back to XP but that means I have to shell out money for another OS. It really challenges you ethically. Or maybe it’s time to finally try out Linux at [...]

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I love keeping my hard drives in optimum performance that’s why I always take time to defragment them. I’m running my new laptop on Home Basic (I don’t need the frills of Windows bloatware like Aero) and I’ve decided to do a bit of maintenance and organize my files and give it a good defragmentation. [...]

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Google has offered translation services to translate websites or a chunk of text with Google Translate before. As you may have noticed with the text translation, it doesn’t quite translate words and phrases quite well. But now, they remedied that with a dictionary. Right now, the dictionary service translates to and from English with French, [...]

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I have to admit that one of the things that kept me sane as a corporate monkey was Dilbert and the gang. I always wanted to go Dogbert in the office and go medieval on the Pointy-Haired Boss. Anyway, while you can probably find so many other sources for your doses of Dilbert online, here’s [...]

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Cleaning toilet bowls is one thing, dealing with a clogged one can be a nightmare. Have you ever had a clogged bowl or tank once? I hope you haven’t experienced an overflowing toilet bowl. Just in case you don’t flush down any other stuff down there, you know what’s clogging it. In any case, here [...]

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You’ve probably read or heard about a simple idea called the “landing area.” It’s a pretty simple concept yet why do most of us still leave our must-bring items just about somewhere we couldn’t find them. I’m betting that even just for once, you’ve turned your place inside out to look for your car keys. [...]

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Here’s another set of tips for women out there. Ok, so you’re young, hot and gorgeous.. so why hasn’t that guy you met last night called or texted you yet? Every now and then we get to see (or if we get lucky) meet, a cute, sweet guy. Almost every girl knows how hard it [...]

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Many workers hate deadlines. The “dead” part really makes them real killers. Loaded with all the negativity as it is, the word can still be taken either as something positive or negative. So do deadline’s make you “dead” or work like clockwork?

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Yesterday I posted a quick tip on using MeeTimer, an add-on that counts time online spent on productivity (or otherwise). Now for just a bit more on productivity control, here’s an extension that you might consider installing together with MeeTime. LeechBlock is a Firefox extension that lets you block time leeching websites like you-know-what. What’s [...]

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I’ve recently taken up a teaching post with a university teaching business communication. One thing I’ve observed with kids today is their penchant to take up the “kinder” instructors and most especially those who give high marks. While each university might have its own grading standards, there are bound to be teachers who really think [...]

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Now I don’t know if you’ve experienced this but has your dryer suddenly given up on you? Like it doesn’t even dry your clothes anymore. You have to really check on your dryer since it operates on heat and these things often cause fires when not working at optimal conditions. Here are some tips on [...]

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The bane of the giggling teenager is an overprotective dad. It’s a good thing if the dad’s like that dad in Ten Things I Hate About You rather than crazed war Vet that thinks of napalm and guys-who-want-to-date-his-daughter mixes quite well. Oh yes, another one for you younger girls out there. So you want to [...]

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For people who are into self-observation of personal statistics to boost productivity, this Firefox extension may just be a killer tool for you. MeeTimer is a potential procrastination eliminator that works by recording not only your time online, but more importantly, where you spend it. MeeTime can group the sites you visit according to categories [...]

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If you’re a podcast download junkie, then you probably are downloading a lot of data. When you’re using iTunes, some companies (like Time Warner) put a cap on your download speed. I don’t know how “excessive” is “excessive” downloading but I guess when you’re a download fiend, that’s a lot. But this cap can cause [...]

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One of the most frustrating moments for yourself is when you find yourself avoiding the spotlight when you can outshine everyone else! You prepare yourself for a party, curls and all, but when you get there you hang out in the kitchen. What are you doing?!? How do you suppose to get the most out [...]

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