Tag: tip
10 Tips To Getting Things Done While Working at a Coffee Shop
Working outside of your office or home can be a nice change if pace and can free you from distractions of your coworkers and home work. Unfortunately, if you don’t prepare, working from the cafe or restaurant can be a frustrating, unproductive experience. The good news is that you don’t need to spend a fortune [...]
Quick Tip: Use A Knot In Your Cables To Prevent Them From Falling Behind Your Desk
As a student, I take my laptop with me to class every day. That means unplugging the power cable and any USB devices that I have hooked up to it every day. When my laptop is gone and they don’t have anything to plug into, the cables tend to fall on the ground, and nothing is [...]
A Guide to Gmail Labs
Google has a habit of quickly iterating on their web services. Sometimes Google rolls these changes out to all users, but other times they let users who want certain features (that might not be ready for prime-time) opt-in to them. These bonus-features are kept in a section that Google calls “Labs”. Google describes Gmail Labs [...]
How To Use Windows 7 Libraries to Manage Files and Folders
Windows 7 has a simple and useful file management feature called Libraries. With it a user can more easily find their files and manage them in the Windows Explorer interface. The primary benefit of a Windows Library is keeping similar file types that may be stored in different locations all in one place. For example, [...]
How to Buy Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 7 for $199 Combined
Last year’s release of Windows 7 and this year’s release of Office 2010 were nice upgrades. Windows 7 was a much better OS than its predecessors. And while Office 2010 has less to compel the average user to upgrade, there are a few cool tools in the new version. Unfortunately, upgrading to Windows 7 and [...]
How to: Use Google’s OneBox Results to Get Info Quickly
You can do a lot of nifty little things with Google these days, rather than just searching. Just today, my brother asked me what the score of the Phillies game turned out to be the other night. A quick search for phillies score†showed exactly the info I needed right on the search page, I [...]
How to Force Quit Applications on the iPhone/iPod Touch
The iPhone may be known for its incredible stability, but even it occasionally suffers from a frozen or non-responsive app every once and a while. Luckily, there is a simple way to force quit these applications. Think of it as a ctrl+alt+delete or option+shift+command+escape for your iPhone or iPod Touch. There are actually two different [...]
How To: Email the Highest Quality Photos from Your iPhone, and More Than Five at a Time
Here is a quick tip that I discovered today while I was doing some iPhone camera testing. Email is one of the best methods for sending photos to friends or quickly getting just a few images from your iPhone. Unfortunately for some reason, the obvious way of emailing photos has a limit of 5 photos [...]
Stuck with Windows Because of PC Games? Make the Switch to Mac and Bring Your Games with You
There are a lot of people who would like to give Mac a try, but for those that identify themselves as PC gamers†going to Mac really isn’t an option because the majority of popular games these days are made for Windows and don’t have any Mac ports. Luckily, through the magic of software, it [...]
Save Time by Launching Programs with Launchy — a Fast, Free, Program Launcher
One of my favorite things on the computer is finding incredibly simple but genius programs that save time or make my life easier in some way. Even better is when these programs are free. Enter Launchy, the ultimate example of this sort of program. Launchy is a dead simple and completely free ‘widget’, if you [...]
