A lot of bloggers (including us here at LifeSpy) use the WordPress engine. I also use it for my personal blog. I just love its robustness and user-friendliness. It just keeps getting better with every release! And lo and behold, roughly 5 hours ago, WordPress 2.2 (nicknamed Getz) was rolled out. Here’s a list of [...]

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I’ve already posted a couple of techniques before. Here’s one on a technique called chunking and another one using imagery. Now let me round up my set of memory improvement tips with this post and share with you a few more techniques on improving your memory. These do not only apply to students but a [...]

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Here’s a common scenario – file cabinets and work desk drawers are filled with all sorts of papers. Productivity can be hampered by such clutter. Besides, it’s a total waste of storage space. Here’s a list of paper stuff that you can shred and throw away.

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Motivator posters can try too hard at times. I often found them a bit too much when hung at workplaces. Honestly, when I see one of those on the wall of a boss’ office, it comes to me as something insecure. Haha. Especially the one with “Leadership” on it. But don’t get me wrong, these [...]

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Last time, I featured this neat plug-in that tries to solve that nasty tab scrolling tendencies by reducing the tab width to the site’s favicon. While today’s featured isn’t really related to the tab scrolling but more on favicons. Google Icon simply shows the favicon of each of the site in your search results (if [...]

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The egg is a whole bunch of goodness waiting to happen. It’s so flexible that you can do a lot of cooking with them. In itself you can cook it over easy, scrambled, poached or boiled. Or with stuff as omelet. Or desserts like flan or meringue or angel’s food cake. But the trick is [...]

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Lack of belief in oneself is a killer. It doesn’t help you at all. And you need no one else but yourself to turn things around. Here are a few encouraging words to help you put a little faith into yourself.

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For Mother’s Day this year, I – with the help of 3 extremely cute little girls – made Cheese Enchiladas for dinner. It was quite the experience. Thankfully, my sister-in-law gave me a simple recipe to follow. Since the dinner turned out pretty good (or so I’m told), I thought I would share it with [...]

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Here’s a Mac OSX Quick Tip from Michael from the Apple Gazette. This would help you get rid of corrupt fonts that may cause you headaches in the long (or short) run. Heck, anything corrupt is a problem. Go to your Applications folder and launch Font Book (as pointed out by commenter Stephen, it has [...]

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Posting this a bit late, but Everybody Go To has announced the winners of their Top 5 Blogs of 2007 poll. LifeSpy has been nominated under the Lifestyle and Entertainment category. Unfortunately, we fell way short of the winner. Congratulations to Mama Pop. Still, we’re second in the polls! Wee. Here’s how we fared: Celebrific [...]

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ASCII art has been around for a long, long time. And generators have been around too. And here’s one of them – Photo2Text. It’s an online conversion site that lets you upload an image and download a TXT of the generated ASCII art. I could’ve featured this as a web raid. But since it’s got [...]

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Here are some great tips and news elsewhere: Computerworld – Update: Microsoft demands royalties for open-source software Micro Persuasion – The Most Essential Career Skill You Need to Succeed TechPwn – LiteIcon – Edit Your Mac OS X Icons for Free Froodee – Sesame Classics: 10 Health Commandments Money Crashers – Mistakes Made When Investing [...]

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Clothing emergencies do happen. A button popped here. A hemline goes unstitched there. And it’s not daily that you carry a handy sewing kit with you. Here are some quick fixes on the go.

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I remember our dad buying my sister a piano. Just a simple upright piano great for kids who were just about to learn playing. It’s still around even if no one really plays it anymore. In playable condition. Now I’ve been thinking if we only took better care of it. In any case, if you [...]

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Here’s another neat way to download YouTube videos but this time, it’s not in FLV format anymore. Vixy is a website that automatically converts YouTube videos from its format to a format of your choice. Just enter the URL of the YouTube video and choose a file format. It supports conversion from YouTube’s FLV format [...]

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