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with beans timesaver #3: Only return messages at set times

with beans timesaver #3: Only return messages at set times

Smart phones have turned every idle minute into an opportunity to catch up on e-mail. But you’ve probably noticed something. Say you were in line at the bank when you started catching up on your messages, but then after your transaction’s done, you decide to sit down and finish e-mailing. Had you really intended to [...]

with beans timesaver #2: Anagram Generator

with beans timesaver #2: Anagram Generator

The term productivity app needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Consider the productivity king of the Microsoft Office suite, Excel. Seldom does an application come along that permits you to do more than this program. Problem is, once you get sucked in to perfecting an Excel spreadsheet, you can spend the better part [...]

with beans timesaver #1: Picasa

with beans timesaver #1: Picasa

Sending photos back and forth as e-mail attachments never seems to be a problem until the worst possible moment, typically around the time you need to exchange high-resolution images with a client or colleague and you discover that one or both or your e-mail systems can’t handle the size of the photos. Or, you figure [...]

Don’t touch that paper more than once

Don’t touch that paper more than once

Self-help books can certainly get you in the mood to rethink how you organize your life, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Everyone from habits-of-effective-people guru Stephen Covey to the famously prolific Stephen King has inspirational ways to increase your efficiency and free up the cluttered sectors of your life. But when it comes to [...]

Game changer: Hotspot energy harvesting battery

Game changer: Hotspot energy harvesting battery

The tech media seldom get more excited than when the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) comes to town, and that was certainly the case this year when Oh Gizmo helped lead the charge, no pun intended, with news of the RCA Airnergy WiFi Hotspot Power Harvester. Simply put, it’s a free energy game changer. The battery, about [...]

Another Paywall Blocking Unpaid Access to Content

Another Paywall Blocking Unpaid Access to Content

Doesn’t everyone want to know what’s going on in the world of entertainment? Even if you don’t read the stories every day, you have to admit that they are mildly entertaining.  Let’s face it, everyone from your children to your grandmother read the story about Tiger Woods.  But did you pay to read that story?  [...]

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Why Don’t Loud Snorers Wake Up in the Middle of the Night?

Why Don’t Loud Snorers Wake Up in the Middle of the Night?

Everybody knows a friend or family member with a bedtime snore that seems louder than a lion’s roar.  The snore is so loud that you have to fall asleep before they do; otherwise you aren’t getting to bed anytime soon.  Have you ever noticed that the loud snorers never wake up in the middle of [...]

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How to Increase Your IQ Quick

How to Increase Your IQ Quick

For years scientists have wrestled with the idea of improving your IQ. Is your IQ something passed down from your parents, or is it something that you can improve and develop over time? Or, is it a combination of both factors? Although we may never know the answer, today it seems less [...]

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How To Nap

How To Nap

How to Nap Do you want to take the perfect nap?  Follow the steps below. Make sure there are no distractions (you won’t get a world-class nap at work or school). Make sure you have no other commitments — an unfinished to-do list can linger on your mind [...]

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