Sunday, December 7, 2008
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Radio Beta Streams International Stations
10:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Radio Beta is a web-based radio station aggregator with a host of features. Rather than simply serving as a search engine a basic playlist-builder, Radio Beta allows you to search radio stations by both region and genre, save your favourite stations, and as an extreme convenience play all the radio stations you find with an embedded player right on the Radio Beta website. If you’d like to visit the website of the station you’re listening, every listing includes the country, language, genre, city, the broadcast frequency and a link back to the source of the audio stream. Radio Beta [via Download Squad] More »
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Get Stuff Done By Becoming A Weekend Luddite
7:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Reinhard Engels over at the self improvement blog Everyday Systems found that his weekends were astoundingly unproductive. Despite having a job that had him stuck in front of a desk every day all week, he would gravitate towards his computer on the weekends and wile away the hours. I don’t watch much TV. I don’t play video games. But I fritter away endless hours in front of the computer. I tried a bunch of restrictions on home computer use. It was much harder to stick with them than I’d thought. Here’s what did stick: thou shalt not touch the computer on weekends between breakfast and dinner. If had has any ideas that related to the computer like designs for his website, emails he needs to send, etc. he simply writes them down on a piece of paper and sets it aside until he’s devoted his daily block of time to analogue pursuits. While it sounds like pure heresy to a die hard nerdling like myself, on the days when I devote my computer to resource hogging tasks and leave it to do its thing I’m amazed at how much I get done without the digital distractions. For more distraction management ideas, check out Reduce Screen Time with 52 Nights Unplugged and Unplug to Avoid Online Distractions. Photo by deanj. Weekend Luddite [Everyday Systems] More »
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Be The Designated Photographer To Make New Friends
6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | When trying to make new friends in a new city, Brain over at Lifehack.org has a few suggestions to get your social life on track. Among them: if you’re looking for a way to foster follow up contact after meeting people for the first time, snapping photographs at gatherings is a great way to keep in touch with the new people you meet. Despite the proliferation of camera phones and cheap digital cameras many people still aren’t avid shutterbugs, but most people love pictures. Make yourself some social calling cards with the address of your favourite photo sharing site on them or ask the person for their email to send the pictures out and you’ve got an instant in for future contact. em>Photo by Mourner. How to Make a Bunch of New Friends in Any New City [Lifehack.org] More »
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Turn A Photograph Into A Stencil
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | After following the stencil tutorial at DIYer blog Instructables you’ll take your stencil making to a whole new level. By using the cutout filter in Photoshop on each layer of colour and/or highlights you want to include you can build a series of templates for your multi-layer stencil masterpiece. Perfect for those times when a simple one colour stencil won’t cut it. Photograph to Stencil [Instructables] More »
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