Entries Tagged as 'LifeHacks'

In the cloud? What if it all goes up in smoke? The case of my missing phone numbers

April 27th, 2009 · 5 Comments

LAST Thursday, I got the phone number of an elementary school friend I haven’t had contact with in more than a decade. After saving the contact info in the cellphone I am currently testing, a Nokia 5800, I immediately synchronized my phonebook with Zyb. Zyb is a web-based service that stores your contact data. It [...]

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Tweak Firefox, hack your mind

July 21st, 2008 · 10 Comments

Do you believe binaural beats can influence the state of your mind in such a way that you are able to relax, focus, meditate, or boost your brain power? I have a nagging suspicion this is a monumental joke worthy of Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon in Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum—that all these talks on the [...]

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Using a TiddlyWiki: a video guide

September 7th, 2006 · 10 Comments

I am a long-time user of TiddlyWikis and its various adaptations. Before a catastrophic accident involving the synchronization of various offline files wiped out my tasks list, I was an extensive user of GTDTiddlyWiki. After the accident, I moved to a server-side TiddlyWiki, alternating between Serversidewiki.com and ZiddlyWiki before finally settling with TiddlySpot. I am [...]

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Back to basics

August 12th, 2006 · 3 Comments

I started working before the word processor as we know it today and the graphical desktop became mainstream. In fact, in my first few weeks on the job, I used a typewriter. When I joined The Freeman, a Cebu City-based community newspaper, in 1996, its newsroom was using networked PCs running DOS. It took me [...]

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I’m writing this post to avoid finalizing the design of a site

June 2nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

Here’s an interesting essay on structured procrastination by John Perry, a philosophy professor at Stanford. In the essay, Perry points the way forward to procrastinators like me: “The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or [...]

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Organize your life with Google

April 15th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Google Calendar, launched just a few days ago, is a service I see myself using extensively. The first thing that grabbed my attention is the typical (for Google) uncluttered and simplified interface. Google Calendar is powered by Ajax, a web technology that allows the updating chunks of information in a web page without having to [...]

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