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New flybuys Earns Discounts Faster (But They're Not Good Discounts) If you own a digital camera, you’ve certainly feared the worst: losing those precious memories on your memory card. The folks at T3 recommend ways to minimize the damage: don’t rely on a single large memory card (instead, opt in for a few smaller ones), transfer images to a laptop or backup drive as soon as possible, burn the photos on optical media, and back up to an additional hard drive—just in case. If you already have a back up plan for your hard drive, it doesn’t hurt to extend a disaster recovery plan to your digital snaps. How do you keep your images safe and sound? Let’s hear about your tips, tricks, and tools of the trade in the comments.
Protecting Your Snaps [T3]Here’s a fun tip courtesy of the “Google Tip of the Day” gadget for iGoogle. The Google Image Labeler site lets you play a game and help improve Google’s image search at the same time. It’s kind of an online version of Pictionary in reverse – you are randomly paired with a partner, both shown the same set of images, and asked to provide labels for those images. When you and your partner provide matching labels, you score points, and move on to the next image. It’s a nice brain exercise cum time killer.
Your behaviour dictates whether you’re respected or ridiculed. If you want to avoid the latter, the Even Happier weblog suggests ways to commandeer respect and become more of a leader than a follower. The bottom line: body language predicts the outcome. Stand tall, sit up straight, avoid fidgety movements with your hands, and smile so that you’re ahead of the game. Clothing is almost as important: wear pressed professional clothes, especially if the situation calls for it. Finally, focus on your actions: open doors and allow others to walk before you. Appear organised with necessary paperwork. Videotape yourself and review your actions to see where you can improve. These small changes could certainly improve your overall outlook on life and also have a profound impact on how you’re treated by your peers. Photo by dbking.
How to Command Respect [Even Happier]One year ago, guest writer Jason Thomas explained how he gets things done with GTDTiddlyWiki.
Forget a store-bought mask for Halloween: put that photo printer to good use and make a custom mask of your dog, your boss or your favourite celebrity. Microsoft offers instructions on how to print out a handheld mask glued to a piece of balsa wood (or tied around your head with ribbon) with the right photograph. We shameless nerds can download some Star Wars character mask templates for free in the, ahem, kids section of the site. (Totally printing out Chewbacca this weekend and cutting out the eye holes.)
Make your own Halloween mask [Microsoft Home] Star Wars Character Printable Masks [via BuzzFeed]Linux only: Automate frequent tasks and avoid unnecessary program hunting with Nautilus-actions, a free extension that adds file-specific options to the right-click menu. Those with a little script know-how can easily hack together their own automators, but some of the freely available actions include resizing and emailing pictures, file conversion and renaming and even a helpful “shredder”—the kind that erases and overwrites a file 10 times to make it unrecoverable.
Two years ago, you started automatically cleaning out that temporary folder full of downloads and email attachments with the hard drive janitor.
Mac OS X only: The latest version 2.0 of typing utility TextExpander adds some useful new features and on what was already a solid time-saving foundation. We rarely feature software that isn’t free here at Lifehacker, but like Quicksilver, TextExpander has become one of my must-have Mac apps (just like our own homegrown Texter on Windows.) The latest version 2.0.3 of TextExpander adds Leopard support, .Mac synchronisation, AppleScript access, and a few other handy doodads that deserve screenshots of their own. Step into my office to check out some more advanced uses of TextExpander 2.0.
Slowly you’ve been moving the work you used to do in desktop applications online, and you’ve got two major choices to do that: Google Apps or Zoho’s Office Suite. Both the big G and the little Z offer completely browser-based office applications like a word processor and spreadsheet, as well as communication tools like chat and email, as well as collaboration tools like project managers and wiki’s. But the business-oriented Zoho and the consumer-oriented Google applications differ a little bit in offerings, and probably a whole lot when it comes to active users. After the jump, we compare Zoho and Google’s current webapp offerings and you get the chance to pick your poison.
Here’s a challenge for the weekend ahead – make someone’s day. The “I will change your life” blog has a list of 21 things you can do to make someone’s day. A few of them were predictable (give chocolates, cook them a meal) but to me what stood out where the little things you can do to let someone know you’re thinking of them.
For example – make a mixed CD for a friend and mail it to them out of the blue. Here’s another one I reallly liked:
“Did you just think of a funny event that happened to you and a friend? Or do you have some photos from a recent outing? If so, send a quick email to your friend so that they can relive the memory.”
Another one I’m partial to is making a mental note when a friend or loved one mentions something they’d really like to buy for themselves. Buy it secretly and give it to them months later – they’ll be bowled over that you remembered.
Good luck bringing a smile to someone’s face this weekend. :)
21 ways to make someone’s day [I will change your life]
