July 2011
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“There Are Many Things of Which a Wise Man Might Wish To Be Ignorant”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“It Is Vain To Do With More, What You Can Do With Less”
– William of Occam
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The Best Software Microsoft Created
Is it Windows? Is it Office? Is it Internet Explorer?
No, No (expect for Excel) and HELL NO!!!
The best tool Microsoft created is called Windows Live Writer 2011. Hands down.
Most chances are that you never heard of it and you have no idea what it does, right?
That is good because today you will learn all about it and how and most important, why, I consider it to be so good.
What Is It?
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“What Gets Measured Gets Managed”
– Peter Drucker
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Time Management and Tracking Time Is Crucial
One of the problems with working from home (among many others) is tracking your working hours. When I started I didn’t track anything and I was working whenever I felt like it.
Not Good.
I would assume that you might be asking why am I saying that it isn’t good, right?
Good question and great that you asked because I took the time to provide you with a great answer (if I may say so).
You’re...
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“Perfection Is Not When There Is No More To Add, But No More To Take Away”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wunderlist: Wunderlist goes global →
wunderlist:
Internationalization is very important to us. Considering we have over 900,000 registered users (with a forecast of 1 million this year) we thought it right to radically improve our language support for Wunderlist - on all platforms. So what’s the deal? Our iPhone/iPod Touch app now contains…
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Music is one of the few things that can really get...
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“Nothing Is As Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come”
– Victor Hugo
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People, Get a Gravatar!
It’s 2011, If you don’t have it yet - Get It!
waiting…
Seriously now, I been blogging for almost two years now and commenting on other blogs even longer than that and it amazes me how many people still show up as the usual gray blob or some other pre-selected default secret service shadow profile or even worse - a manga cartoon (what’s up with that really!).
I urge you...
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“Ever Tried. Ever Failed. No Matter.
Try Again. Fail Again. Fail Better.”
– Samuel Beckett
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Notepad++ Is Notepad On Steroids
Today I want to recommend a great little free tool that I think all of you PC users should take a look at.
It is called Notepad++ and it is really a great name for it as it does provide some major pluses over the regular notepad app you get with every Windows copy.
Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Running in the MS Windows...
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“What We Fear Doing Most, Is Usually What We Most Need To Do”
– Tim Ferriss, 4 Hour Workweek
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WatchGreat short video from Matt Cutts about TRYING SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR 30 DAYS. Matt is the head of Google’s Webspam team (those that control the all mighty search engine algorithms).
Got me thinking about what I am going to try for the next 30 days and here it is:
I am going to wake up, every day, at 8:00am for the next 30 days. This means I will need to stop going to sleep at 7am… I just...
“Think Like The Fish,
Not The Fisherman”
– Gary Bencivenga
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Brainstorming Overdrive With The Power Of Mind...
One of the things that really helped me get my ideas and projects in order was that I started using Mind Maps. This time I have to thank Ronen as he introduced me to this Mind Mapping concept by sharing with me the service he used called Mindmeister a few months back.
For those of you that don’t know what a Mind Map is, here is the definition according to Wikipedia:
A mind map is a...
“Don’t Take Life Too Seriously You’ll Never Get Out Alive”
– Van Wilder
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4 Simple & Efficient Ways To Help With...
Procrastination is one of the biggest problems we all as a human race have. How many times did you decide with yourself that you are going to do something but you never really go about doing it?
Here is the definition of Procrastination (according to Wikipedia)
In psychology, procrastination refers to the act of replacing high-priority actions with tasks of low-priority, and thus PUTTING OFF...
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Get a Password Manager Today
As far as I see it having a password manager is a must. I really don’t know how I managed all my passwords before.
Oh wait, I do know. I only had 3 passwords I used for everything. Guess what. That is BAD, BAD, BAD. Don’t do it and please don’t wait until it is too late.
A password manager will help you become more productive. It will save you time and more importantly, it...
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WatchAMAZING and very INSPIRING slideshow!
This is just the type of lifestyle I want to have and I can’t wait to have a similar slideshow of my own :)
“Good Artists Copy,
Great Artists Steal!”
– Steve Jobbs
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Block Time-Wasting Sites That Suck The Life Out of...
Working online has great benefits but it also has some big drawbacks. When you launch your web browser (and if you are still using Internet explorer than please read my post - Stop Using Internet Explorer) you are gaining access to just about anything you want which usually means distractions.
I am sure you can relate. How many times did you find yourself sitting in front of the computer...
“No One Can Defeat Us Unless We First Defeat Ourselves”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower
June 2011
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Taking Screenshots With Jing
One of the things I find my self doing quite a bit while I am working online is taking screenshots and I recently started creating screencasts.
The best tool I found that allows me to do both with a single click of a button is called Jing, and guess what, it is completely free to use and if you will create a free account at screencast.com you will get 2 gigs of online storage for all of your Jing...
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“He Who Says He Can And He Who Says He Can’t, Are Both Usually Right…”
– Confucius
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Taking Notes While You Work
Taking notes while you work is crucial.
Read that again. Let it sink in.
It is quite common for me to get ideas or thoughts while I am working. It could be ideas relating to what I am currently working on or it could be about other things.
It could be about anything… That doesn’t matter.
What does matter is that if you don’t write it down, these ideas and thoughts will be...
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Stop Using Internet Explorer
If you want to be more productive when working online than one of the first things you should be looking at is the browser you are using.
If you are still using any version of Internet Explorer than I recommend you start looking at the alternatives and I suggest you focus your efforts on either Firefox or Chrome.
Both of them are faster with nicer interfaces (in my opinion) and more importantly,...
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“Don’t Wish Things Were Easier, Wish You Were Better”
– Jim Rohn
DISQUS Comments Platform →
As a first step in checking the commenting options on this tumblr blog, I’ve just now added the disqus system. Will see how that goes ;)
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Blogging Platform Wars!
It starts!
Well… not a real war, Just me checking them all out and laying out the key points to compare them all against. Part of this review process is using those platforms and as you can see I started with tumblr as the main hub for the time being.
So the key points so far are as follows:
Ease of use.
Themes.
Extensions.
Monetization.
Analytics.
Backup & Transfer of data off...
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A new tuts site from Envato - WPTUTS+ →
Envato never stops! not for one second ;)
Envato got me going almost 2 years ago starting my own blog at www.ronenbekerman.com and I keep following them all the time.
The new WPTUTS+ is all about developing for WordPress, probably the most popular and flexible blogging platform on the planet! I use it myself and love it very much… not much of a developer myself - but I do code a little...
The usual Hello World post
tumblr does not auto create this kind of post for you and I was wondering why is that really?
I started the same type of blog on the WordPress.com system, just so I can put them both to the test and I plan to do this on other platforms too. I’d like to learn the strengths and weaknesses of each system so that I can later share it with you, hopefully make the decision much easier when you...
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KISSmetrics Marketing Blog →
A wealth of information about online marketing… mostly social marketing.
“Less is more”
– The phrase as adopted by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as a precept for minimalist design 