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4 Effective Web Design Tips

Your goal may be to display a simple Website that introduces your company and products or services. Or you might be thinking about developing a fully functional ecommerce site. There are plenty of design options to meet your desires and needs. Here are 4 tips that will help you design a Website that meets your goals.

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Set Your Alarm for Bedtime

Alarm clocks can be useful not only in the morning… More productivity tips from www.howtowakeupearly.com

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8 Tips for Making a Family Holiday Video that Doesn’t Suck

Dusting off the old camcorder to record this year’s edition of holiday bliss? Before you torture friends and family with another two-hour epic, let the MindBites production team offer 8 simple tips on How to Make a Rockin’ Holiday Video.

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Save Driving Time – Avoid Left Turns

Interested in cutting down on your driving time? It’s easy. Avoid left turns. At least that’s what UPS is doing. according to Heather Robinson, a U.P.S. spokeswoman, the software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced [...]

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Boost Your Willpower by Exercising your Mental Muscle

All of us have struggled to maintain self-control. Whether it is to have that last drink at a party, or a a cookie before dinner. An interesting article today in the New York times seems to suggest that self-control is a form of mental muscle that can improve with training. Studies now show that self-control [...]

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Easily Import Song Ratings to iTunes

Updated A few years ago I was given an iPod. Like many, I loaded all of my songs into iTunes and used it as my primary music player. At some point iTunes stopped working and nothing I did would get it working again. At that point, I switched to an alternate music player, JRiver’s MediaCenter. [...]

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Easy way to track time spent on projects

I’ve used a few different project management programs, my current favorite is Basecamp. However, Basecamp wants to treat everything as a project and gets in your way if you want to track time spent on tasks that are not bound to a specific project. Today, for example, I need to track some time spent on [...]

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Organize your bookmarks efficiently with tags

In the stone age of PCs (circa. 2001), files were organized by filename and a hierarchy of file folders. If you wanted to retrieve a file, you needed to remember the filename and where you placed it. If you’ve ever tried to find something over a month old you quickly came to realize what an [...]

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Simple command checks for secret Internet connections.

Has you PC been turned into a zombie? One way to find out is to log your internet connections to see what activity has occurred. There are a number of tools available to do this, however, Windows comes with a free command line utility which is described here. The program, netstat, displays active network connections [...]

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Google Tip – A dictionary as close as your browser search bar

While writing, I am often looking for the best word to use. Rather than checking dictionary websites or dare I say, break out a paper dictionary, I turn to Google. The define keyword allows you to check Google for the definition of a word. To use it, simply type define:wordname and click Google Search. You [...]

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