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Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter.
So, as we’ve all figured out by now, you (the readers of The 2.0 Life – a smart, attractive bunch) are much smarter than I am. You’re constantly alerting me to the best and the brightest of the Web, and engaging in fantastic and fascinating conversation on this blog and elsewhere.
So now, in an effort to solicit the fantastic advice and genius of the readers of this site, I’m hoping you can help me.
My productivity system is broken. I’ve got a perfect, foolproof, loophole-free system – and I just don’t use it.
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Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter.
Major companies and corporations, it appears, are finally understanding how significant this whole "Internet" thing must just actually be. For a series of tubes, it’s become a pretty big deal.
The potential benefits of this are fantastic, both for companies and consumers. For us, the consumers, it means we get more personal, transparent, and efficient interaction with the huge companies that used to just ignore us and put us on hold for 37 minutes, playing the same Sting song over and over. And over. Thanks to the Web, things might just be looking up – though Sting’s royalties’ll go down the tube.
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This is a guest post from Karen Schweitzer. For more from Karen, check out her blog about Online College Courses, or follow her on Twitter.
College students are increasingly reliant on computers – and, for many of us, that means spending tons of money software that we’d rather not use anyway. The reality, though, is that there are a ton of great, free alternatives out there for almost any purpose.
Using free web apps is an easy and cost-effective way to increase your academic productivity. A well-designed app can also replace expensive software products and free up space on your computer. Here is a list of 15 web apps that would prove useful to almost any college student:
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Post by Squealer from Squealing Rat. Find Squealer on Twitter.
When I write How-To articles, it always strikes me how easy they would be to do if I didn’t write anything and simply showed a screencast. But alas, I write.
Screencasts can be helpful for showing your friend how to do something, taking a video of your latest creation or simply having some fun. Here are some helpful tools, and tips.
At this point, some may be asking, "What the heck are screencasts?" Well, screencasts are basically videos of your screen, that often include a voice over explaining what is happening on the screen. Usually you install software, and use the software to capture screen movements.
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Post by David Pierce. Find me on Twitter.
One of the new trends in a lot of productivity blogs, websites, and applications is a focus on "single-tasking." Rather than multi-tasking, doing thirteen things at once, do one. Do it well, do it with your entire focus, and then move on to the next thing.
Thing is, that’s tough to do. Even if we shut everything else out, we’ve got this long list of things we need to do, and it’s hard to focus on just one at a time. My task list for today, for instance, is 12 items long. They’re not all long, difficult tasks, but it’s hard to put all my effort into just one, when there’s 11 more to do!
One solution that I’m enjoying using is called NowDoThis. It’s an application built especially for people like me, who can’t keep their eyes from jumping around the page as I try to do only one thing.
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