The Secret Element of Success That Nobody Will Ever Tell You via Freestyle Mind by Oscar on 4/28/10 Before I started this blog, I used to think that to be successful online you had to know something that a few people only knew. Needless to say, I wanted to know what that something was, and [...]

USB Safeguard Encrypts Portable Flash Drives, Securely Deletes Files [Downloads] via Lifehacker by Erica Ho on 4/29/10 Windows only: USB Safeguard is a portable program that encrypts files on your flash drive in case you lose it. It also stores your email or phone number or shreds files in case you lose it. To get [...]

Use the 10/20/30 Rule to Avoid Disastrous PowerPoint Presentations [Presentations] via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on 4/29/10 An oldie-but-goodie post from entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki directly addresses the kind of problems the military has with complex PowerPoint decks—boring read-throughs stuffed with too much on-screen text. His parameters for preventing audience paralysis is dubbed the 10/20/30 rule. [...]

Ah, you gotta love automation. This should eliminate my “waiting for” bin in my mailbox. FollowUpThen updates with new "pending" feature, date formats via Download Squad by Erez Zukerman on 4/28/10 Filed under: E-mail, Productivity FollowUpThen, one of my favorite productivity tools, has been updated this morning with some new goodies! The most useful new [...]

And now you know art. [biotv.] via The Daily What on 4/27/10 And now you know art. [biotv.] Posted via email from chestertam

See What Facebook Publicly Publishes About You [Social Networks] via Lifehacker by Whitson Gordon on 4/28/10 With Facebook’s new Open Graph API causing such a stir, many people are questioning what Facebook is publishing to the public. Developer Ka-Ping Yee has created a simple tool shows you what everyone else can see. To check your [...]

8 Small Habits That Make My Daily Life Simpler, Easier and More Effective via The Positivity Blog | Increase Your Happiness and Awesomeness by Henrik Edberg on 4/28/10 Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/notsogoodphotography/ / CC BY 2.0 “First we make our habits, then our habits make us.” John C. Noble I often write about making big changes in [...]

Likebutton.me shows what your Facebook friends like, all over the web via Download Squad by Jay Hathaway on 4/26/10 Filed under: Social Software, web 2.0 With Facebook's like button expanding beyond Facebook itself, there are a lot of "likes" to keep track of, all over the web. Likebutton.me is the first site to aggregate all [...]

QuestTracker lets you sort your real life to-do list into bite-size Warcraft chunks via Download Squad by Sebastian Anthony on 4/26/10 Filed under: Games, Utilities, Productivity My name’s Sebastian… and I’m a raider. Not just any raider — a hardcore raid leader. World of Warcraft stopped being a game for me years ago: now it’s [...]

7 Habits of Highly Excellent People via Dumb Little Man – Tips for Life by DLM Writers on 4/24/10 Are you driven in life? Do you love to excel? I believe all of us do. We are born to be the best we can be and to make the best out of our lives. When [...]

Make Windows 7 Boot Faster in 10 Easy Steps via TechPinas : Philippines' Technology News, Tips and Reviews Blog by noreply@blogger.com (TechPinas: Philippines' Technology News, Tips and Reviews Blog) on 4/26/10 Time for another TechPinas Tip! DISCLAIMER: Try this at your own risk. How to make Windows 7 Boot Faster in 10 Easy Steps: 1. [...]

Focus on Autonomy and Other Needs—Not Money—for Career Satisfaction [Career] via Lifehacker by Erica Ho on 4/26/10 Life strategy web site Study Hacks says people who are satisfied and motivated with their careers don’t focus on money and prestige, but things like autonomy. Photo by seeveeaar. The post dives into what drives people in the [...]

Facebook gets an "I Don't Care" button, via a Google Chrome extension via Download Squad by Jay Hathaway on 4/25/10 Filed under: Fun, Social Software Now that Facebook’s “like” button is poised to take over the whole web, the campaign for a “dislike” button is more relevant than ever. But what about a third option, [...]

NEWS: HTC Tattoo: Cheapest Android phone now selling for P14,990 via Techie.com.ph on 4/26/10 Even before the scheduled launch of the trio of smartphones, HTC decided to break out the Tattoo, a budget Android phone aimed squarely at kids and the kids at heart.The Tattoo is now officially the cheapest Android phone in the Philippines, [...]

(title unknown) via The Little Black Blog of Big Red Flags by Meagan on 4/23/10 After dating a month, this guy asked me to move in. My first thoughts were that he must want something (other than sex, which we’d already had plenty of), but I moved in anyway. The next month he tried to [...]