Wii ad's HTML tricks more fun than the new Facebook [Distractions] (2)
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Stupid yet clever enough for Monday-afternoon viewing is this Nintendo Wii ad on YouTube that shakes apart the whole page during gameplay. Drill into it and you'll find it's not a standard YouTube video page, but an oversized Flash animation. Well done! But if the Wall Street Journal's Ahead of the Tape page does this tomorrow, I'm unsubscribing.
Your Best Time-Saving Tips? [Ask The Readers] (6)
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Essential time management yields increased success and productivity, according to weblog QuickSprout. By eliminating distractions, getting enough sleep (especially power napping), and maintaining a balanced diet, you can maximize your productivity and get more done in the few hours you have available. One productivity killer is beating around the bush. Tell people what’s on your mind—being honest and to the point is a great way to accomplish things quicker. When you beat around the bush ...
A Web-based Guitar Hero clone to waste the rest of your afternoon [Distractions] (4)
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Startup incubator LaunchBox gave JamLegend founder Andrew Lee $25,000 to create a Web-based Guitar Hero clone. This is bad news for you if your boss expected you to get anything done today. Lee's giving away invites to Twitter and Facebook users; instructions are on the homepage. Tell your boss I said I'm not sorry.
Email: Single Email Interruption Recovery Time Over a Minute (19)
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Yet another reason to shut down your email client (or close your Gmail tab) and process messages in batches: a study shows that it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train of thought after interruption by email. That's more than a minute per email, and could easily add up to hours over a given workweek for those of you with particularly active inboxes. [via]
3 Strategies for Dealing With External Distractions - Stepcase Lifehack (3)
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There are different types of distractions, but one of the most common types that derails our work ethic day after day are external distractions. Email, news feeds, Twitter, Skype, those old kettles that squeal, the sound of the newspaper hitting the front door, the neighbour’s little monster who runs past your office window screaming and swinging from your clothesline. Ahem. Moving on. Much of the time, we succumb to these distractions because we’re looking for ...
iPhone glitch makes for fun art [Distractions] (3)
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Internet video darling Veronica Belmont's The iPhone Cubism Pool is a collection of photos taken with flaky Apple gadgets. The phone's rare tendency to chop up photos into split-screen mosaics sometimes backfires with beautiful results.
Personal Organization: Reboot Your Workflow This Fall (54)
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The kids are in school, the boss is back from vacation, clients are ringing your phone again, and you've got to buckle down and get to business. If your workflow fell into a disarray during the lazy days of summer, it's time to get ahold of yourself, clean up your computer and files, and start installing those shortcuts into your workday you keep meaning to look into. Here are just a few ways you can ...
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charlie anzman said:
Lifehacker gets better by the day
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K-IntheHouse said:
Everyone can take atleast a couple of pointers from here.
the blinder workstation (or, the poor man’s macbook air) (1)
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This is part of an ongoing series called Blinders where I explore some of the ways I streamline my computer workflows to minimize distractions. I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for the old 12″ G4 PowerBook. (That’s a guilt-free way of saying that I coveted one every time I saw one in the wild.) It’s thicker and heavier, but it’s the poor man’s version of the MacBook Air. Earlier this year, I ...
Merlin Mann's "Attention Dad" Web Page [Distractions] (4)
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The brilliant (yet easily distracted) Merlin Mann says he has a bad habit of Cmd+clicking sets of web browser tabs full of shiny things out to wrest his attention from the important work of doing...
Reduce Social Network Hair-Pulling with a "Pause" Button [Social Networks] (14)
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FriendFeed introduces a new feature on their beta site: a "Pause" button "fake following" mode, which lets you follow someone without seeing their updates. In a similar vein, productivity guy Merlin Mann proposes that all social networks build in a "Pause" button, which would protect you temporarily from a stream of unwanted updates for a certain amount of time without de-friending folks. Along with a "Pause" button for social networking, we also want a "Snooze" ...
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marya said:
Yes, please.
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Erez said:
A pause button. Yesterday I read about RSS readers "forcing" users to "clean" them up... We are an obsessive race.
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ke9v said:
Cool! It's a condom for chatty friends!
Reduce Social Network Hair-Pulling with a "Pause" Button [Social Networks] (2)
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FriendFeed introduces a new feature on their beta site: a "Pause" button "fake following" mode, which lets you follow someone without seeing their updates. In a similar vein, productivity guy Merlin Mann proposes that all social networks build in a "Pause" button, which would protect you temporarily from a stream of unwanted updates for a certain amount of time without de-friending folks. Along with a "Pause" button for social networking, we also want a "Snooze" ...
Young Michael Phelps (1)
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Switchtasking (6)
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This post was written by business coach Dave Crenshaw, author of the great new book The Myth of Multitasking I’d like to share a valuable principle with you. It’s something I’ve taught to many business owners and executives I’ve worked with. This principle may go against the grain of some of your beliefs about time and the best way to get things done. Because of that, I ask you to keep an open mind. Multitasking ...
How Committed Are You? (1)
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Do you often find yourself making a commitment to do something, then not doing it and making excuses instead? We tend to do this more often with ourselves than others. We are less likely to break commitments with our clients, co-workers, friends, or family. If we say we will do something, we are pretty sure we will stick to that agreement. Then what happens when we make commitments to ourselves and then break them? Why ...
Cooking for the Creative Beast (11)
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Guest post Guest blogger, Matt Wood, learns how to feed his creative side (without giving it a big gut). —mdm Earlier this summer, I was in the kitchen, trying to cook dinner. I had a pot on the stove and a fire going on the grill outside. I was fumbling with a bag of frozen peas when my three-year-old started shouting at me to fix one of his toys. “Hold on a second, son,” I ...
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Jinny Koh said:
I suffer from too-many-pots-on-stove syndrome...
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Goldie Katsu said:
Reminds me of a comment that Len Edgerly made when presenting at our podcaster's meetup. He said he was inspired by a poet (who's name I've forgotten) who told his students to write a poem a day. A student said they couldn't do that. He told them "Lower your standards." Sometimes doing is the point.
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Gangles said:
This justifies why I read so many RSS feeds... at least that's what I tell myself ._.
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Derek Morrison said:
Mentions practicing under less than ideal conditions, commonly.
How to Block Distracting Animated Favicons [Firefox Tip] (12)
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If you've spent any time stumbling around the net, you've run across a site using an irritating animated favicon—a moving icon that shows up in the address bar, the site's tab, and even the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox. (Here's one at the DHL site.) While there's no way by default to disable animated icons in Firefox other than completely disabling all favicons, there are a couple of possible ways to block a particularly distracting web ...
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have any of you actually been distracted by a favicon
Cooking for the Creative Beast (2)
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Guest post Guest blogger, Matt Wood, learns how to feed his creative side (without giving it a big gut). —mdm Earlier this summer, I was in the kitchen, trying to cook dinner. I had a pot on the stove and a fire going on the grill outside. I was fumbling with a bag of frozen peas when my three-year-old started shouting at me to fix one of his toys. “Hold on a second, son,” I ...
Is Enough Ever Enough? (1)
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“The secret to life is to know when enough is enough.” - Dr. Vincent Ryan I know you know when enough is enough. Or do you? Do you ever find yourself complaining that you need more or want more of something? Time, money, love, space, material possessions, happiness–what’s your “never enough”? We continually pursue more, thinking more is better, more will make us happier. We work harder thinking if we’re more productive we’ll make more ...
Freedom Temporarily Unplugs You From Online Distractions [Featured Mac (24)
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Mac OS X only: When it's time to dig deep and do some serious focusing on a task—and refrain from surfing or checking email entirely for a block of time—you want temporary internet disconnection utility Freedom. Freedom serves a simple purpose: It disables all wireless and Ethernet networking on your Mac for up to six hours at a time. After the time you specify is up, Freedom re-enables your network adapters and display a confirmation. ...
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iwein said:
I don't think this is going to work if half your work is online...
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Zach Scott said:
I'm afraid to try this... maybe that means the addiction has progressed too far."
Freedom Temporarily Unplugs You From Online Distractions [Featured Mac Download] (2)
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Mac OS X only: When it's time to dig deep and do some serious focusing on a task—and refrain from surfing or checking email entirely for a block of time—you want temporary internet disconnection utility Freedom. Freedom serves a simple purpose: It disables all wireless and Ethernet networking on your Mac for up to six hours at a time. After the time you specify is up, Freedom re-enables your network adapters and display a confirmation. ...
