Category — tips

Found this really cool website called TYPO Buddy and it basically lets you search for items on ebay and Craiglist by also searching for possible typos of what you are looking for. I tried it out a few times and it does work as I saw a lot of items with typos that can be bought for cheaper price as they are the least likely to be the first to come up when searching.

A lot of people always wonder how long certain documents need to be kept for Tax purposes and I found this post at Consumerist by Ben Popken very helpful for this purpose. Very helpful to reduce clutter and keep what you need for the future.

Lifehacker Gina Trapani has a very nice write up of Practicing Simplified GTD which is something I am currently in the process of implementing myself. It’s very detailed but not long enough to be boring. The article is to the point and basically offers a simplified version of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” productivity bible. It tells you to make three lists which include a To-do List, Projects list and a Someday/Maybe list. If you need help creating the perfect to-do list here is an article to help you do just that. It also points out that you need to perform daily and weekly revisions to keep everything updated and productive. It also has tip on how to organize you email inbox and here you take advantage of Gina’s three folder “Trusted Trio” system. In the end as you keep practicing these techniques or any other ones at that you will eventually develop your own customized version of GTD that suits your needs.

I am personally applying the above mentioned GTD system to increase my productivity and so far it has been working great.

On another note over at Keener Living you can download an ebook based on the website articles themselves which help you use technology to your advantage when organizing your lifestyle.

Pocketnow.com points to a little configuration hack for better playback of YouTube and Google Videos on your Tytn II’s/Kaiser/Tilt. As with default settings the videos will play for a few seconds and then stop for buffering obviously making them choppy and appear like pretty much crap. AllShawdow.com posters came up with these steps to enhance playback for these types of videos which are for TCPMP:

“1. From the main video screen press Options > Buffering > and double the number in the Normal Buffer Size field. Press Ok.

I performed the above settings and videos just take a few seconds to buffer when you first play, but do not stop intermittently to buffer in between, which is a vast improvement on how videos played before.”

I came across this through Lifehack.org posted by Craig Childs referring to 64 answers from CrackInterview you should know prior to going on a job interview. The list is very comprehensive and includes common questions asked at almost every interview you would go to. Definitely something to look over when preparing for job interviews.

Lifehacker Gina Trapani wrote a nice article accumulating the top 10 Wi-Fi tips that can increase your signal range and make your wireless network secure. Tips include things like better router placement, extending your signal by using a repeater or a bridge, using  Wireshark to sniff your wireless network packets passing through, enabling WPA Encryption to make your network much more secure than using WEP, enabling MAC address filtering to restrict your wireless network even more, stop SSID (Network Name) broadcasting, using NetStumbler to detect other wireless networks with information about how secure they are and also for war-driving purposes, using portable routers share a wired connection in hotel rooms for instance, a nice youtube video showing how to use tinfoil to increase your signal range, and of course using DD-WRT Firmware to enhance your routers usability and adding more features making your $50 router into a $600 one. It also includes instructions on how to flash the firmware to your router.

As usual Lifehacker Gina Trapani has a great article about how to optimize your resume to include specific keywords so it can show up more easily in front of recruiters. It points to a website that has a updated list of the Top 100 keywords. It also points to another great Lifehacker article about having a say in what Google says about you.

It sucks when you feel like you don’t wanna concentrate on things that are important and you try your best to avoid them. Lifehacker has a nice post about how to counter Brain Drain. Definitely worth a look if you are feeling down and of course drained!!

A new Firefox add on has sprang up called RetailMeNot which basically observes when you are on a shopping website like amazon.com and automatically displays available discounts for it. I have been using it for a while and it seems really cool. I have yet to actually buy anything using on the coupons but still it is a really nifty extension to have in Firefox. Originally posted on Lifehacker by Adam Pash

I came across this post by Ben Popken at Consumerist about seven things to check on a regularly basis to keep your car running properly. After going over the tips some of the stuff is common sense but then again most people don’t have that gift now do they. Definitely worth a looksee.