Entries from March 2008 ↓

joo28

People love traveling, most of us try to go for a local or international trip annually. Bad thing is that we often miss out due to work, school, financial problems. Even if we go good trips are ruined because of lack of information, bad deals etc.

From my personal experience today’s internet provide us with great websites that helps us find the correct flights, tickets, reservations, information of the place, maps and hundreds of things that makes traveling easy. I would like to share few of them that has helped me almost in all trips that I have done recently.

Airfares and Hotels Comparison

Kayak is an aggregator that fetches fares from the travel booking sites. It also tracks hotel fares and other travel methods.

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k.e.b

Once you own a Mac and start working with it, you’ll be astonished with the amount of workflow and productivity possible with it.The workflow can mainly be attributed to the great interface design and clutter free Mac OSX.

But still Mac OSX lacks certain features and some built in apps aren’t upto the mark, that’s where 3rd party applications comes into play. Being a productivity buff, I hate wasting time and seriously i don’t like applications that don’t have a great interface.Previously i mention few free applications for Windows that increase productivity. Today lets go ahead with some few great 3rd party Mac applications that will let you work faster and do more work in less time(atleast they worked for me)

Quicksilver is the all-in-one app launcher. Quicksilver brings in Search with it which is quite faster then Apple’s Spotlight, besides that manipulating files and data, running scripts or sending e-mail are piece of cake with quicksilver.

gisarah

Everyone complains about the high cost of this and that. But nobody knows that themselves are to be blamed. Why can’t we save? The answer is simple, its because we end up spending then our paychecks can afford.

Most of us, frustrated with this daily struggle blame it on anything, high living expenses (food, rent, gas, education, etc) , govt, family, other countries etc but let me remind you if we can sacrifice on few things now, we can be better equipped to handle those rainy days. Previously i did mentioned how to save money with some 10 great ways. But there are hundreds of places where money can be saved. So why not broaden the thing.

Here are 47 ways(I thought it was 50!) on how to start saving money.

Save in the Home

1. Strive for a simpler lifestyle. Buy less clutter and junk. This means buying fewer nonessential things.

The following post was submitted by from Sam Carpenter, Workthesystem

swisscan

Most of us find ourselves ensconced within a corporate framework. It’s a good place to be if one is confident in the product and the organization is fluid enough to offer the possibility of a meaningful ladder-climb. Small family-run operations (operated by someone else’s family) are the worst place to be. Invigorated, medium or large-size businesses, either private or public, are ideal.

Assuming your product is good and there is growth potential, here are two mindsets and three mechanical to-do’s that will aid you in cranking out large quantities of great work, and propelling you up the ladder.

rosefirerising

Nobody can have a stress-free life, it’s near impossible. Without challenges life is too boring to contemplate. In a simple case challenges leads to stress, but there are many things that actually make it so big.

It happens generally because of our unrealistic approach to life. When we succeed, we will feel ecstatic. But when we fail, we will feel very disappointed, sometimes total breakdown.

Avoiding them is the only way to eliminate them. Here are some tips on how to do it so that you can minimize stress and be happy with our life:

Focus on actions rather than results. It’s in the nature of humans that we think about the result before even trying, this leads to emotional tussle, stress, pain etc. There is not much you can do about it since you can’t control the results.

Yesterday i pointed out my favorite 15 free applications that I use and has helped me improve productivity. Out of those applications, Firefox has stolen my heart. Basically Firefox is the ultimate browser, no offense to Opera users! But you can’t beat us when it comes to extensions. Best of all its free, secure and fast. Thanks to the thousands of great extensions, you can fully customizing your browsing experience.

Here are 15 of my favorite extensions that help me save time while online.

1. Ad Block Plus- Kills annoying banners and ads by simply installing the extension. The filter subscription will block most advertisements fully automatically. If it miss some you can right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context menu, the banner won’t be downloaded again.

Just because you paid for a software doesn’t means its good. The Internet is loaded with free software, that are equally good and sometimes better. Here is a list of 15(Web and Desktop) based software for increased productivity. I hope you find these interesting.

1. Foxit PDF Reader

Most people swear by Adobe PDF reader! Funny thing is that most of them hate the slowness of Adobe PDF reader. Foxit PDF Reader is a small PDF reader that loads in a flash. It’s an excellent alternative to Adobe’s slow, bloated PDF Reader.

2. Firefox

I have been using Firefox for quite a while. I would recommend upgrading your browser to Firefox mainly because it’s safe, fast, and tons of great extensions to customize it.

3. Launchy

Launchy is a free windows utility that lets you launch your favorite applications or any documents, just typing a few keystrokes.