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The 7 Bad E-Mail Habits that Make People Want to Kill You
"Here are seven particularly bad habits, and how you can fix them so people don’t want to kill you"
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How to win at rock-paper-scisssors
"The top secrets to winning at RPS  courtesy of Graham Walker, Director of Management of the World RPS Society"
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Unleash your potential and the ultimate opportunity
"I started looking around for people and things that might help answer the questions that I was asking: What would constitute the next chapter of my life? How could I re-center my focus and clarity?"
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"You’ve got to find what’s interesting in everything, you’ve got to be good at noticing things, you’ve got to be good at listening. If you find people (and things) interesting, they’ll find you interesting."
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Do you make these 10 mistakes in a conversation?
"Can you improve your conversation skills? Certainly."
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Some great photos of ordinary objects doing unordinary things.
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"You can press and hold the Alt (Option) key, click and drag your cursor to select text freely without the constrains of regular text selection."
The ONE key thing to know about negotiation
"In negotiation, the one thing that really strengthens your position is the ability to walk away from the deal."
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Things You Didn't Know About Your Body
"The world's most amazing, practical, and powerful health tips for men"
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"Always enter a conversations with a drink you are about to finish. If things don't go well, all you need to do is take one last gulp from your drink and excuse yourself to get another, never to return."
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"As you're speaking, slowly lower your voice so that at the end of the 10 minutes everyone is leaning forward to hear you and your speaking at the level of a stage whisper."
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"The Printable CEO (PCEO) is a form I made to focus my time productively. For me, that means concentrating on making my freelance business sustainable and fun."
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How to cut through the info blitz and actually get some work done
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"Here are some of the endless numbers of activities that can stimulate your brain. The one key ingredient is to have an open mind."
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Links to lots of great cheat sheets including Illustrator, Photoshop, CSS, PHP, MySQL, etc.
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"This Web site is an invitation to people from all walks of life to share stories and evidence of how they use design in their everyday lives."
"Structure your life as the smart designer does the page. Leave space. Make it vital."
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The definitive collection of idea generation methods
"This website lists and explains every idea generation method I've encountered during the past 15 years."
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"Generate a custom packing list for any journey!"
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Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)
"Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas."
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"Before resealing a can of paint, blow one deep breath into the can and close it quickly."
Over 100 Quick and Easy Healthy Foods
"The World’s Healthiest Foods has an excellent list of healthy foods which need less than 30 minutes of preparation and cooking times. "
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Readers proclaim their love for and loyalty to everything from iPods and TiVo to scum scrubbers and baby blankets.
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A Guide to Getting Things Done
Wired breaks down just what Getting Things Done is
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"Much like many of you I not only got into personal productivity to get things doneâ€â€I want to do great things."
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A look at different ways to keep yourself cable clutter-free
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Shortcuts to find a real person when you call an automated phone system.
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"Known for the Air Jordan and Miller High Life ads, the agency's creative director Jelly Helm was recently featured in "Men's Health" magazine offering five rules of creativity."
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"With help from experts and product manufacturers, Real Simple has compiled a guide to expiration dates. These dates are offered as a rough guideline."
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Your Central Nervous System: Your Biological Key to Productivity
Strategies to make your body work for you
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What I've Learned: The Collected Wisdom
A collection of Esquire Magazine articles with famous people telling the world what they've learned
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"When viewing mail you can apply the "Act-On" action for a message by making simple keystrokes."
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"Open up your cellphone, and approach their cubicle. Say into the phone, "hold on one second." Then tell your talkative friend exactly what you need to tell them."
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New Scientist: "There are lots of tricks, techniques and habits, as well as changes to your lifestyle, diet and behaviour that can help you flex your grey matter and get the best out of your brain cells."
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Some quick tips that might help one become more productive
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KeyCue helps you to use your Mac OS X applications more effectively by displaying a concise table of all currently available menu shortcuts.
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43 Folders: "4. Per cringe item, think honestly about why you’re freaked out about it. Seriously. What’s the hang-up?"
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LifeOrganizers.com is a rich resource of office and home organizing articles, tips, and fresh, easy ideas on how to get rid of clutter from every part of your life.
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Everything You Thought You Knew About Grilling Is Wrong
Five easy tips for being a better grillmaster.
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Twelve Ways to Think Differently
Twelve methods that will exercise parts of your brain that rarely get it, and make you more creative and better able to understand the world.
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Getting Things Done on a Macintosh
Ask MetaFilter: How do you stay organized on your Mac?
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Puts your ToDo lists in your menu bar and synchronizes with iCal.
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An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.
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Tricks of the Trade: "When all that is left are the middle seats on the plane, ask the person at the counter if you can be seated between two people with the same last name."
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Tips & Tweaks: Essential Web Sites
PCWorld: "There are the things you need; and then there are the things you didn't know you needed until you bumped into them on the Web. Here are a slew of sites I've come to love."
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"1. Don't let any material thing come into your home unless you absolutely love it and want to keep it until it is beyond repair."
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Coolest feature/plugin/etc of Quicksilver is?
Lots of cool little Quicksilver tricks.
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If you type words into your Firefox address bar it does an "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google search.
Noise Between Stations: "So how do we become more creative? There’s no easy fix. To be creative, new neural pathways need to be constructed by, well, being creative. Kraft suggests four steps for doing that"
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Macworld: "But important e-mail messages are often hard to define and organize with automatic, rules-based management. They require filters and rules that reside only in your brain."
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An OS X keyboard shortcut reference
macosxhints: "Quick reference guide (PDF, OpenOffice doc) for those magic keystrokes you find out about in bits and pieces here and there."
Some easy to remember ways to figure out just how much food your eating/should be eating.
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Lots of little tips to make your life a little easier
The BlackBerry generation, writes TRALEE PEARCE, is finding salvation in pen and paper
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25 Things Women Wish Men Would Figure Out
All the stuff we expect you to know without our telling you.
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How the Moleskine Rocked My World
One man's relationship with his moleskine
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The best way to organize your room
A five step process to cleaning up a messy room
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"Do not make any serious decisions because you are angry, hurt, depressed, desperate, or frightened."
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Lifestyle tips: How to simplify your life in 2005
Sound Money Tips: "Here are five tips about how to simplify your life in 2005. Ultimately they're about peace of mind, not just finance."
What is the one thing everyone should learn about science? Spiked asked 250 scientists - here we bring you some of the most provocative responses
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10 ways to tackle your goals and projects
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10 life lessons from a designer
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Danny O'Brien and Merlin Mann: "Think of your life in terms of things that you can choose to do or not -- your job isn't about filing."
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10 Ways To Get the Creative Juices Flowing
A good list of ways to get your brain working creatively and work through a problem
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MSNBC: "Your Vulfix Shaving Brush should be allowed to air dry in a "Bristles Down-ward" position after use. Doing so will assure long brush life and proper bristle shape retention. Never enclose your brush in a sealed container while still damp."
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Interview: 43Folders' Merlin Mann
Lifehacker: "After writer Danny O’Brien coined the term “life hacks,� productivity guru Merlin Mann brought it to life with real-world examples."
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Jeffrey Veen: Blinking Out Design
Jeffrey Veen: "Rather than figure out how to design for your audience, design for yourself after becoming like your audience. At that point, I find, snap decisions become good decisions."
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"To chill a bottle of white wine quickly, put the bottle in a bucket with ice, water and a large handful of salt. The salt reduces the freezing point of water . . . which will in turn chill the bottle of wine in six minutes flat."
These instructions apply to pants users only.
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Tricks of the Trade: "Use a small tooth comb to hold small nails in place when hammering. This will keep your thumb and other fingers out of harm's way."
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Tricks of the Trade: How to get someone to sweeten the pot
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Creating Passionate Users: "The more we learn about the brain, the more we learn about learning, and learning is the key. Not just as something to get better at (i.e. learning to learn), but learning as exercise for the brain."
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Paul Graham writes a short essay on how to write
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Experts agree it takes 21 days to break a bad habit and form a new one.
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StopDesign: An answer to the question "How do you stay organized?"
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Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast
Featuring a random cycling of some of the most sleep-worthy tracks ever created.
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Here are some hints on how to construct a mind map.
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Professional secrets from those in the know
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Some instructions for bypassing talking to someone and connecting directly with their voicemail
The wiki for 43 Folders: The web site all about getting things done
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OSX inventories, tips & hack collections
43 Folders: "A one-stop-shopping link for people who want to quickly ramp-up on “what’s out there� in the OSX world that they might not know about, with a focus on how one given person has put it all together."
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An evolving framework for accessing and
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Interview: father of "life hacks" Danny O'Brien
"Geeks are able to memorise almost any trivial fact, apart from the trivia of their own lives. So, the trick is, tell a nearby geek the trivia of your life, and they’ll remember it better than you do. And vice-versa."
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