PC Guardian retractable notebook security lock

PC Guardian retractable notebook security lock: "
All notebooks come with tangible and intangible costs, where the loss or theft of a notebook is made all the more depressing when you realize how important the data contained within is. The PC Guardian retractable notebook security lock aims to offer protection for those who carry a notebook wherever they go. It comes in a lightweight, compact design that does not take up much luggage space. Features include a multi-purpose self-locking design and a convenient push button lock that ensures your notebook stays put even when you have to leave it unattended answering nature's call.


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Shoe Lacing Methods

Shoe Lacing Methods: "Frankly, before I read this post, in my life I only know one way of lacing shoes by criss-crossing. Ian’s Shoelace Site shows me over 30 different ways to lace shoe, from tradition criss cross lacing, to lattice lacing. Look like some of them are quick hacks - those lacing style make the shoes “loose fit” or even can make your shoe to a “slip-on” without any knotting. For me, I don’t like to spend time on knotting, so this style caught my eye:




Checkerboard Lacing - This interwoven lacing forms an attractive 2-colour checkerboard pattern that looks fantastic on today’s wide fronted runners.

Shoe Lacing Methods - [Ian’s Shoelace Site]


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ActiveCollab - Ingyenes project management szoftver

ActiveCollab - Ingyenes project management szoftver: "Akárcsak az elõzõ bejegyzésemben, ismét egy olyan webalkalmazásról lesz szó, amely megkönnyíti a project management-et."

Never Check Your Email First Or Last

Never Check Your Email First Or Last: "Many people know you should not check email first thing in the morning - It gives you peace of mind to finish other stuff in the morning before opening any hauling emails and being obligated by not answering it immediately. LifeDev takes this to the next level and says checking email at the end of the day is not a good idea as well:



Checking my email at night before I went to bed soon started to affect other areas of my life. The most obvious thing was that I was staying up much later than I planned. Email is great at distracting you, mainly because you can open it up and anything can be waiting for you inside. A work proposal, one of 10 uninteresting forwards from your grandma that day, a really weird Japanese game show video; anything can be in there. And because you can’t plan on what’s in there, you have to check it all. And it will distract you, mark my words. You’ll watch the movie, and then you’ll want to watch more because it was sooo funny"

Motionbox tags sections of video clips

Motionbox tags sections of video clips: "My friends at Motionbox are doing more innovative work with the most interesting parts of your video clips: they just launched 'deep tagging,' the ability to label subsections of your videos with..."

USBCell recharges via USB

USBCell recharges via USB: "When you look at the USBCell from Moxia, you will probably slap yourself on the forehead and ask, 'Why didn't I think about it before?'. The simplicity of the USBCell comes across as a surprise - it is a rechargeable AA battery on the outside with a very different mechanism on the inside. You do not need to lug around any more huge chargers as you go on your travels, all you need to do is to plug the USBCell into any available USB port and you're good to go. A pair of USBCell batteries can be picked up from U.K. only at the moment for £12.99. Now, if only somebody will fit in a flash memory chip sometime down the future.


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Back up your phone contacts online with Zyb

Back up your phone contacts online with Zyb: "Web site Zyb backs up and syncs your cell phone's contacts and calendar data so that you'll never have to go through the pain of manually entering in contacts on a new phone again. As if that..."

Glow-in-the-dark bubble-bath

Glow-in-the-dark bubble-bath: "Cory Doctorow: Make your next romantic bathroom scene a little more post-apocalyptic with this $15 glow-in-the-dark bubble-bath. Link (via Gizmodo)


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Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks

Hack Attack: Top 10 Ubuntu apps and tweaks: "by Adam Pash When I made the switch to Ubuntu Linux on my desktop computer (that is, if you can call triple-booting Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu a 'switch'), I was a little worried about finding..."

Personal Development Books

Personal Development Books: "I’m often asked which personal development books are worth reading, so I created an extensive list of personal development books I wholeheartedly recommend. I’ve read about 800 such books over the past 15 years, and to be honest, most of them weren’t particularly good. This list includes the true gems I found to contain original ideas, compelling stories, and profound insights. It’s based on the Ask Steve - Recommend Reading post from last month, but the books are now sorted into categories including productivity, relationships, spirituality, fiction, and so on. I’ve also added several books that weren’t on the original list and linked to reviews and author interviews found elsewhere on this site.

There’s a permanent link to this list in the Best of StevePavlina.com sidebar (”Personal Development Books”), so you can reference it easily whenever you’re looking for a good book to read. I’ll continue updating this list over time.

Happy reading: Personal developme"

Screw camera evades the eagle-eyed

Screw camera evades the eagle-eyed: "The picture on the right might look like an ordinary screw to you, but hidden within is actually a wireless video camera that you would find it hard to believe. This little device will most probably be one of the hottest items on any voyeur's shopping list, as it offers 330 lines of resolution via the 3.6/2.9mm pinhole lens that captures pictures and video in 270,000 pixel glory. When placed at a strategic position, even James Bond would be fooled into thinking this surveillance camera was just a plain old screw.


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Five Other Ways to Speed Up Firefox Search

Five Other Ways to Speed Up Firefox Search: "Follow up on the last week post, Speed Up Your Search with Top Bookmarklets, lifehack.org readers suggested couple more quick ways to search with keywords in Firefox. For those who may not read our comment box regularly, I want to consolidate those in a post for you:


Use Context Menu: Highlight the word, right-click and select Search Web for “…” – JDB
Use Quicksearch: Use Alt-D to go to Address Bar, type “google keyword” and press enter. Go to Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks -> Quick Searches for customizing your quick searches. – MariusZ
Use Shortcut to go to Search Box: Press Ctrl-K to go to search box, and press ctrl-Up/Down to switch search options. – MicrowaveSafe
Hyperwords Extension: Get the extension, highlight a word and press Alt-LeftClick to bring up the search options. – BruceMagnus
DragdeGo Extension: Get DragdeGo, configure it with your own preference, highlight a word, and drag to different directions "

New to Management: A Learning Hit List

New to Management: A Learning Hit List: "As the author of Managing with Aloha, I get some great questions from managers and leaders via email. This one came a few days ago:



Dear Rosa,

I just got a job as an intern. I’m pretty excited about it, for this company is growing like crazy, and they are known to give their graduating interns terrific opportunities if they’ve done well within their program. I’m hoping this will segue into my first management job when the term is over.

The manager I report to, clued me in to the fact that learning is highly valued here. In your book, you’re pretty passionate about learning too: What kinds of things do you think I should include in my list of things to learn while in my internship?

I’d appreciate hearing of your thoughts.
Sincerely,
Chris

I sent Chris my two Short 7 Lists for new managers, and I thought I’d share them with you too.

The Business List
Learn the company’s values, brand promis"

Improve your reading speed with ZAP Reader

Improve your reading speed with ZAP Reader: "Web site ZAP Reader hosts a speed-reading program designed to help you quickly read any text you choose. It works like this: you copy and paste text you'd like to get through quickly (ZAP Reader's..."

18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work

18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work: "One of the rising blogger, Dave Cheong, has a good article on how to stay focused at work. I agree, sometimes it is difficult to stay focused in office environment - hallway chatters, and shoulder tapping distractions etc. Dave gives it all and provides 18 ways to stay focused. Here’s a few:


Write out a daily task list and plan your day.
Allocate time slots colleagues can interrupt you.
Apply time boxing.
Setup filters in your email.
Listen to the right types of music.
Fill up a water bottle.
Use shortcuts on your computer.

18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work - [Dave Cheong]


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Whole House Fan offers cheaper alternative to air-condition

Whole House Fan offers cheaper alternative to air-condition: "
Any house with an attic ought to look into the Whole House Fan as a much cheaper and more effective cooling solution when compared against installing expensive air condition units. Just attach the Whole House Fan in the attic, and you will be able to enjoy circulated air at 1500 cubic feet a minute. This device expels hot, humid air from your house to bring in much cooler and fresher air from the outside. The fan is 16' in diameter and is equipped with a thermal safety overload switch to prevent the unit from overheating. In addition to much lower electricity bills, you get a more peaceful rest as it is much quieter than standard air conditioners. Why not give the $374.99 Whole House Fan a try today?


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Clickdensity web site click heat map

Clickdensity web site click heat map: "Web publisher helper Clickdensity displays a heat map over your web page that shows which links visitors click the most. Pop some Javascript into your web site's pages to enable Clickdensity..."

ThickBox 2.0

ThickBox 2.0: "

ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.

WOW! This is great! Reminds me of Lightbox JS. Great find BB!"

Insanely obsessive ultra realistic vector art

Insanely obsessive ultra realistic vector art: "Mark Frauenfelder:
Here's a gallery featuring artists who use Adobe Illustrator to create extremely realistic drawings that look like photographs. The drawing of the woman shown here was created by Thai artist Ussa Methawiitayakul. Here's a link showing some in-progress screen shots. Link

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A szezon gasztronómiai meglepetése – Füstölt éden az Arbat csemegeboltjaiban

A szezon gasztronómiai meglepetése – Füstölt éden az Arbat csemegeboltjaiban: "A Homárnak mindig is gyengéje volt a szlávos magyar akcentus, kedvenc telefonpartnerünk például mindig is El Kazovszkij képzõmûvésznõ mamája volt. A másik gyengénk persze a hasunk, így csak idõ kérdése volt, hogy felfedezzük az Arbat boltjait, ahol kedves, szláv akcentusos asszonyok árulnak szinte minden elképzelhetõ orosz finomságot.
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