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New flybuys Earns Discounts Faster (But They're Not Good Discounts) Learn to save time in the kitchen and money at the market while ridding yourself of the stress of “What’s for dinner?” with weblog Organized Home’s guide to menu planning. The most brilliant tip: Build a family shopping list on the computer, listing all the foods and sundries your family consumes. Print 52 copies each year. Post them on the refrigerator. Boys who don’t circle “Sugar Gaggers” on the list when they empty the box eat hot cereal for the rest of the week.
The post even provides a menu planner template to help you suss out your meals for the week. If you’ve got any clever tips for how you avoid the harried what’s-for-dinner frenzy
Menu Planning: Save Time In The Kitchen [Organized Home]Linux only: Skype’s latest 2.0 beta for Linux adds long-awaited video chat features to the popular freeware, cross-platform Voice over IP (VoIP) application. Video chat has been available in Windows version of Skype since 2005 with video support for Macs introduced about a year later, so the addition of Linux rounds out Skype’s excellent feature set to include free video chat for all. It’s not uncommon for the Linux version of popular cross-platform apps like Skype lag behind, but it’s always nice to see them catch up with the pack.
Skype 2.0 beta for Linux: the Great Revolution [Skype]The Simple Dollar weblog details how to build a killer resume from start to finish. The first step: Open a plain text document and start listing all of the information you might ever include on a resume List the details of every job, including every possible relevant accomplishment at each one. List every organised activity you’ve ever participated in, and every noteworthy honour you’ve received in your life. List everything.
The author points out that (obviously) you’d never send this base list to anyone, but when it comes time to build your resume—especially if you need to construct different resumes for different types of applications—this list can help you very quickly construct real resumes that you can send to employers. Beyond that, the post suggests several more tips you’ve probably seen at one point or another.
How to Construct a Killer Resume, From Start to Finish [The Simple Dollar]At one point or another, we’ve all gone through the print-sign-fax dance to return a signed document, but the Productivity501 weblog details how to create a high quality scanned signature that you can quickly insert in a document so you can save yourself time and paper. And since many of us are sending scanned PDFs rather than faxing, the scanned signature means the whole process can be handled without paper. The guide uses Photoshop, but this simple method should work in any decent image editor you prefer.
How to Create a Scanned Signature [Productivity501]Don’t let those todo.txt files pile up on your desktop unopened. One year ago, we showed you how to incorporate text files onto your desktop with Samurize.
Google Operating System confirms that Google Talk will see integration with AIM sometime in the near future. We’ll have to wait and see if they go the extra mile and support other IM networks as well.
Windows only: Freeware application Xentient Thumbnails replaces all image icons on your desktop or in Windows Explorer with a thumbnail preview of the image. Of course Windows Explorer has the Thumbnail view and Filmstrip views dedicated to image thumbnails, but after you install Xentient Thumbnails and restart your computer, all image icons in every Explorer view will be replaced with actual image thumbnails. Xentient Thumbnails is freeware, Windows only.
Xentient Thumbnails [via FreewareGenius]Wired offers a primer on portable apps, but if you’re serious about living the portable life, check out our guide to your life on a thumb drive or to running a PC-on-a-stick, Windows or Linux versions.
With the release of the much anticipated Firefox 3 looming just around the corner, we got our hands on the latest beta build of your favourite browser to get a closer look at exactly what changes and exciting new features you can expect from the upcoming release of the ‘fox. From a snazzy design update and stability improvements to smart folders and bookmark tagging, you won’t be disappointed with what you’re getting.
The community at Ask MetaFilter is listing the recurring calendar events they’ve got set up to remind them of work and life events—beyond the usual suspects, like birthdays and oil changes. Some good ones you’d never thought of include having your chef’s knife sharpened before Thanksgiving, changing the Brita filter, reviewing magazine subscriptions for possible unsubscriptions, changing the furnace filter, half birthdays, donating blood every eight weeks, local elections, and replacing your toothbrush. What else do you have on your calendar reminder list? Let us know in the comments.
Brilliant recurring calendar events [Ask MetaFilter via 43 Folders]
