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- Habits You Can Use To Be Successful (And Some To Avoid)
- How To Extract Files From ZIP, RAR, 7z & Other Common Archives
- 8 Gift Ideas Under $100 For Campers And Hikers
- 5 Best Demos to Show Oculus Rift Newbies
- Time Blocking — The Secret Weapon For Better Focus
- There’s A Mario Sidescroller for Wii You Haven’t Played Yet. Seriously.
- Supercharge Your SEO With The SEO PowerSuite
- 20 Historical Microsoft Office Facts You Forgot Or Never Knew
| Habits You Can Use To Be Successful (And Some To Avoid) Posted: 04 Dec 2014 06:30 PM PST  One of the best ways to improve yourself is through good habits. Whether you choose to use some software like HabitRPG, or you prefer to adapt some new habits, it really can make a difference in how successful you are at accomplishing your goals. So what habits do successful people do each day? What habits plague unsuccessful people? Take a look at this infographic that breaks it all down, and start copying the habits of the people on the successful side! Via Success Story Click To Enlarge Read the full article: Habits You Can Use To Be Successful (And Some To Avoid)     |
| How To Extract Files From ZIP, RAR, 7z & Other Common Archives Posted: 04 Dec 2014 10:00 AM PST  Ever received an email attachment or been required to download a file with the .rar suffix, and wondered how it should be opened? You’re not alone. Fortunately, managing ZIP files and other compressed archives is simple and over the years functionality has been integrated into Windows. Whether you’re looking for answers about ZIP files, RAR, 7z or other common archive types, the steps for unzipping and extracting the contents are the same. Different Types Of Archive Compression Although ZIP files are probably the most common form of document data compression, several others are in use. You might have seen files with... Read the full article: How To Extract Files From ZIP, RAR, 7z & Other Common Archives  |
| 8 Gift Ideas Under $100 For Campers And Hikers Posted: 04 Dec 2014 09:00 AM PST  The Christmas season may not be the ideal time for hiking and camping — at least for most of us — but that doesn’t mean we can’t start preparing for next summer. This is the perfect time to gift your friends and family with awesome gadgets and tools that will kick your next outdoor adventure up several notches. Not all of us are blessed with a fountain of money, but there are still plenty of gift ideas that you can squeeze into your budget without sacrificing utility or novelty. These emergency survival basics can make for great gifts, but here are... Read the full article: 8 Gift Ideas Under $100 For Campers And Hikers  |
| 5 Best Demos to Show Oculus Rift Newbies Posted: 04 Dec 2014 08:00 AM PST  The final version is still many months away, but there’s now thousands of high resolution second generation Oculus Rift developer kits in the hands of VR enthusiasts, and the march of Oculus releases continues along at an astonishing pace. The Oculus Rift is a crowd pleaser, so if you’re planning on demoing it to your friends or family, here’s the best demos to show them. Here’s a range of experiences to cater for every type of audience. Welcome to Oculus 2 The original Riftcoaster set in the grounds of the UDK castle used to be my first demo for anyone new to the Rift. It’s... Read the full article: 5 Best Demos to Show Oculus Rift Newbies  |
| Time Blocking — The Secret Weapon For Better Focus Posted: 04 Dec 2014 07:00 AM PST  Are you looking for a more efficient way to organise your work-days? Try Time Blocking. A few months back, I came across Cal Newport’s illuminating post on Time Blocking — a productivity “hack” that helps you to make the most of your work day by assigning very specific tasks to very specific blocks of time. This is loosely based on Parkinson’s Law, the idea of which is that work will simply expand to fill the time available for its completion. For some, the idea of scheduling tasks in such a rigid way may be counter intuitive. But, if you’ve a backlog of... Read the full article: Time Blocking — The Secret Weapon For Better Focus  |
| There’s A Mario Sidescroller for Wii You Haven’t Played Yet. Seriously. Posted: 04 Dec 2014 06:00 AM PST  Get your Wii out of the closet: some Mario fanatics put together the best fan-made Mario game in history. We’re talking 128 brand new levels you can start playing right now, by yourself or with up to three friends. If you’re a Mario fan, you’re going to like this. The game is called Newer Super Mario Bros. Wii, and it’s an aptly-named hack of New Super Mario Bros Wii. There’s new worlds, new enemies and even a classic power-up not available in the original game. Sure, this game can be a little rough around the edges sometimes – it’s fan-made,... Read the full article: There’s A Mario Sidescroller for Wii You Haven’t Played Yet. Seriously.  |
| Supercharge Your SEO With The SEO PowerSuite Posted: 04 Dec 2014 05:30 AM PST  When you search Google for the phrase “funny cat pictures” a lot happens under the hood. Google has built up a huge index of websites. The search phrase is compared to this index and the most relevant sites are displayed in your web browser. You click on a link, and someone starts making money. Google uses hundreds of data points to decide which sites are the most relevant. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is all about making your website tick as many of Google’s boxes as possible. This way, when their algorithm checks for the most relevant sites for a given... Read the full article: Supercharge Your SEO With The SEO PowerSuite  |
| 20 Historical Microsoft Office Facts You Forgot Or Never Knew Posted: 04 Dec 2014 05:00 AM PST  Office celebrated its 25th anniversary this August. Instead of a big celebration, it just continued processing data in millions of real offices everywhere. The world has changed since digital presentations, word processing, and spreadsheets became a thing. Today, a world without these tools is hard to imagine. Do you remember how it all began? Here are 20+ facts from the eventful history of Microsoft Office. The Beginning 1. Microsoft’s first Office application was Excel. Originally released under the name Multiplan in 1982, Microsoft changed the name to Excel when releasing it for the Macintosh in 1985. 2. There never was... Read the full article: 20 Historical Microsoft Office Facts You Forgot Or Never Knew  |
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