Helping Creative People Create

July 2007

There’s a good reason why there hasn’t been a lot of activity on this blog as of late. I’ve been co-launching a blog network with Brett Kelly of Cranking Widgets. We’ve just put the finishing touches on, so I feel confident in sharing with you guys the latest venture, LifeRemix. LifeRemix is a collection of ...

This. is. bizarre.

Office workers, (or anyone who has a chair-ridden job), need a lot of movement. Why? Because moving around is good for you. Plain and simple. But there’s a problem with this: it requires getting up and moving around. Don’t you wish there was a lazier way to exercise? Fortunately, Yoga Instructor Extraordinare Marcia Langenberg gives ...

Since it’s Sunday, I thought I’d throw a fun hack out there for all you coffee lovers.  Instead of tossing your old coffee, take an ice cube tray and freeze it as cubes.  The next time you want iced coffee, plunk a couple of cubes into the glass and enjoy.  It won’t leave your coffee ...

Smashing Magazine has a massive list of over 200 keyboard commands. Wow.  Talk about comprehensive.  The only problem I have with the list is that it makes it sound like knowing these keyboard commands is a must for becoming more productive. There is nothing more valuable than the time we need to get things done. ...

Mike Davidson is fed up with lengthy, open-ended email that takes waaaay too long to send an adequate reply. His beef boils down to the fact that email can be downright unfair. More than any other medium in the world, the time commitment difference between sender and receiver is huge. For instance, if you call ...

I love nostalgic paintings. Ones with scenes of whitewash fences, farmers plowing fields, children playing outside a one-room schoolhouse… basically any throwback to America around the 1920′s-1930′s. Unfortunately, this time period is now scoffed at. What most Americans learned from watching The Simple Life (with Paris Hilton and that other chick) is that living a ...

It’s vital to any project that it be broken down into action steps along the way. However, you can get a little too trigger happy when breaking these down.  Some people like to put every little minute detail into an action step. Take out index cards Open pen cap Write next action While others prefer ...

Hot on the heels of my post on how Facebook could be a killer productivity application, Read/WriteWeb has an article on the 10 most useful Facebook Apps for workers. Did you know that you can embed a calendar, todo list, and even send real email to other facebookers, from inside of Facebook?  Me either. Check ...

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