Sunday, February 24, 2008
Your Ultimate Email Setup?
8:00AM Tamar Weinberg | For many of you, the constant flow of email in your inbox has you begging for a respite, so perhaps it’s time to evaluate if your inbox is set up as optimally as it should be. The Put Things Off weblog suggests a six-way process a way to achieve “Inbox Heaven.” The perfect email setup should let me: 1) Check all my email accounts in one place. 2) Easily archive or delete email. 3) Flag actionable mail but keep it out of my inbox. 4) Access email from my mobile without loss of functionality. 5) Not worry about how much it’s costing. 6) Feel good about email again. The end result? Inbox Heaven can be achieved by using Gmail efficiently. Point all your emails to a single Gmail account so that you’re not monitoring thirty-seven email accounts on a regular basis. More »
Remember Your Dreams
7:00AM Tamar Weinberg | If you’ve ever wanted to understand your dreams, determine to consciously remember them. Keep a dream journal. As soon as you wake up from a dream, write the dream down in as much detail as you can. Put paper and pen in the same place every night so that you don’t have to scramble to find a writing implement to jot it down. The more your write, the more dreams you’ll be able to remember as long as you consciously devote your attention to the task. If you’re really determined to keep everything down on paper (and you don’t mind waking up in the middle of the night), schedule your alarm to wake you every 90 minutes (but not until you’ve gotten at least 4.5 hours of sleep first, since you typically have longer dreams during the latter half of the night). If waking up in the middle of the night isn’t for you, you might be more interested in learning how to lucid dream. How to Remember Dreams [WikiHow] More »
Start Your Healthy Eating Habit
6:00AM Tamar Weinberg | Get into a healthy diet by following a Calorie Counter’s excellent beginner’s diet guide. Learn the basics of nutrition and get definitions of nutritional facts (calories, fat, carbohydrates, sodium, etc.). Craft a diet after determining how many calories you should be consuming each day, and then select the foods that will supply those calories. Organise your food intake, whether with a written plan or with improvisation. Most importantly, once your diet is planned, be consistent. Once you understand the basics of nutrition, turn your diet into a permanent way of living and you can make it healthy and a lot of fun. The Beginner’s Guide to Diet, Nutrition & Healthy Eating [a Calorie Counter] More »
Checklist Collaboration with Checkser
5:00AM Tamar Weinberg | Organise and share your checklists online with “the wiki of checklists,” sharing and collaboration webapp Checkser. Current available checklists cover self management projects, how to prepare for a vacation, required steps to close your Facebook account, what you should teach your child (and by what age), and more. Contribute to the ever-growing checklist database by starting your own list. Like nearly Wiki, a history of edits is provided as additional people help collaborate on each forever-changing project. Checkser.com More »
DIY Photography Light Tent
4:00AM Tamar Weinberg | Build yourself a cheap and easy-to-assemble photography tent with a box, fabric, a white bristol board, lights, and standard office supplies (tape, glue, and a ruler). Cut out the walls of the box, leaving the borders and bottom of the box intact. Affix an unbent piece of bristol board to the box. Cover the remaining holes with fabric. The Digital Photography School blog explains how to create this cheap light tent in detail with photo illustrations so that you don’t miss any steps on the way. Once you’re finished, you’ll need to light up the box, and with the end result, you’ll be able to make some professional-looking photographs of smallish objects to showcase to the world. The best part? Nobody will know that you took the photographs in a cheap box. How to Make an Inexpensive Light Tent [Digital Photography School] More »
