HowTo Juice a lemon (Juicy Post)
If your anything like me your not so handy around the kitchen. No worries, you can obtain master cooking skills from various sites around the internet and with a little practice, you can improve your cooking skills. To get you started heres a great video on how to squeeze a lemon to optimize juice production when juicing.
Use Hibernate and Standby to Conserve Batteries
Microsoft has a great article on how to conserve your laptops battery supply using hibernate features available in “most” windows installations. I really think this is an overlooked feature available to Microsoft customers. Read the full article
- Open Power Options in Control Panel. (Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click Power Options.)
- Click the Hibernate tab, select the Enable hibernate support check box, and then click Apply.
- If the Hibernate tab is unavailable, your computer does not support this feature.
Time Savers from Getmoredone.com
We all have done it, some maybe more than others. Regardless I have dug up an online resource with some great tips on how to get more done. The includes articles on “How To Stop Procrastinating“, “How To Prepare For Meetings“, “How To Delegate” and more. I found this resource very useful and hope you will to. Check it out at http://www.getmoredone.com.
Make Windows XP do the Aero Flip 3d effect (Windows)
I love the Windows Vista Aero Flip3D feature, but unfortunately I have to stick with Windows XP for software reasons. TopDesk is a great little tool that will give you the features of Aero Flip3D on Windows XP and more. TopDesk features several different rotate modes, flip styles, color customization, window labels, and more. There is also a feature to quickly show the desktop by placing all your windows at the bottom edge of the screen (F11). You can ALT+Tab to view a vertical view of all open windows.
Keyboard Shorcut tips
- ALT+TAB = Flip, Grid, Spatial (Depending on settings)
- F11 = Minimize your Windows (toggle) works great.
- Tip : Use the mouse wheel to scroll through windows when in tile mode.
Got a favorite piece of software you think would go great with TopDesk? Send me a Tip to tips@timmatheson.com
Get out of a social nightmare with The Popularity Dialer
If you need to get out of a potentially painstaking conversation with someone or just need an excuse to get out of the house The Popularity Dialer might have the solution you need. The Popularity Dialer allows you to select one of five prerecorded calls to have sent to your phone at a specified time. The recording will play and you could place it on speaker phone to make your excuse more believable. The system allows one call per hour to be placed to a single telephone number to avoid pranksters from running a denial of service attack on your phone. You can also add your number to the do not call list to opt out from any calls from the service. The service includes a popularity call,female popularity call, affirmation call, return to the office call and a cousin in need call.
Quick Tip: Launchy - Reboot, Restart, and Logoff Windows (Windows Only)
There is no doubt, Launchy is my right hand Windows app when it comes to productivity. If you haven’t checked out Launchy yet you should give it a go. Launchy allows you to launch any application on your machine by typing part of or the whole name of the program into Launchy’s menu. The Launchy menu remains hidden until suddenly awaken by pressing the Alt+Space bar. You can configure Launchy to open on different key combonations, apply skins, and even run it from your USB drive. I have three quick tips for those of you already using this great tool.