July 2013 Archives

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Are you constantly fighting your email inbox? Trying to keep your head above the email flood waters?


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Do you need more time in your day? Do you need help with your administrative tasks and wish you had an assistant?


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Today, I thought I would share my current productivity toolkit. It changes from time-to-time as I am always testing new tools. (And of course, sharing them with you…)


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Google just debuted a new streaming media stick called Chromecast that beams what’s happening on your smartphone, tablet, or laptop to your television. The search-and-media giant debuted Chromecast at a press event this morning in San Francisco.


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As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow.


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People use the word "stress" to describe a wide variety of situations – from your cell phone ringing while you're talking on another phone – to the feelings associated with intense work overload, or the death of a loved-one.


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We love guest blog posts! Today’s article on contemplative photography is by Kimberly Poppe, hobbyist photographer from Lodève, France. Kimberly started to practice this genre after an inspirational talk with a friend and now she wants you share her experiences with you. Please enjoy...


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Continuing the Spring 3.0 "simplification series" started by Keith and Chris, I would like to provide a quick overview of simplifications in scheduling and task execution enabled by Spring 3.0.


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This simple python script takes a Latitude JSON File which you can get via Google Takeout (https://www.google.com/takeout/?pli=1#custom:latitude) and converts it into a useable format. Usage: latitude_json_converter.


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Yes, Google Reader is going away, and yes, there are great alternatives.


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This mug. Source: zazzle.com This comparison. Source: twicsy.com This visualisation of a developer's week. Source: explosm.net This common relationship problem. Via: twitter.com This chart. Source: i.imgur.com Thus line of code. Source: i.imgur.com This game. Source: my.opera.com This diagram.


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Adium is an amazing communication app that brings together all of your chat accounts onto one platform, including Facebook Chat and Gchat. You can download and add plugins to customize the app, allowing you to change elements such as font style and speech bubble color.


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I have photos everywhere. I post some to Instagram, others are scattered around my computer and on external hard drives. I have tons at Flickr, and my friends post photos with me to Facebook.


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“Don’t wait for your feelings to change to take the action. Take the action and your feelings will change.” ~Barbara Baron I own a series of CDs called “Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music.


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Ben Casnocha, author of The Startup of You tells a story of a lecture where the only folks that were taking notes were also some of the more successful members of the audience. Do note-taking and success go hand in hand?


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This is a guest post by my friend Chad R. Allen. He spurs dynamic conversations about writing, publishing, life, and creativity at www.ChadRAllen.com, where you can pick up a free copy of his first book Do Your Art: A Manifesto on Rejecting Apathy to Bring Your Best to the World.


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Perhaps you live in Illinois—the last state to open concealed carry—and are welcoming concealed carry for the first time, someone who has been carrying for years, or the Zimmerman trial has piqued your interest.


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If you’re a Nikon DSLR owner, you’re in luck. The company has today offered a firmware update for lots of their cameras–and this one is specifically about distortion control.


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If you’re just starting out with photography, you may be frantically searching for a few good tips. The right information can make taking great pictures a breeze. Read this article and start experiencing with your own style.


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What can literary fiction teach us about recent revelations that the National Security Agency has aggressively been gathering massive amounts of data on American citizens? The novel one usually turns to, of course, is George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, with its terrifying vision of the Thoug


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You’ve seen it on TV shows such as American Ninja Warrior (and not so seriously in The Office) as well as in movies like Casino Royale and The Bourne Ultimatum. If you’ve played Assassins Creed or Mirror’s Edge, you’ve even done it, virtually, at least. I’m talking about parkour.


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Try playing "5-3-1" when you're deciding where to eat or what movie to watch, and you're both ambivalent. Person A names five things, Person B eliminates two of the choices, and A eliminates two more -- leaving you with one! Whew.


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Cell phone users, beware. The FBI can listen to everything you say, even when the cell phone is turned off.


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CIO — Paul Simon famously sang that there must be 50 ways to leave your lover. Similar could be said (if not sung) regarding projects: There must be 50 ways to screw up your IT projects.


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My focus this month is on defining projects, which is not as easy as it may seem. I would bet that over the last few days at least one project has been emerging in your world, that you have yet to get a grip on, exactly.


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Most bucket lists include things like, "Go on an adventure in a far-off land," "Learn a new language," or "Buy a dream car." Although all these experiences can make our lives more exciting, the reason we crave these activities goes a little deeper.


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You're in a slump, huh? Join the crowd. Time to crank up that stereo, shut down your Facebook window, and then catch some Zs, to get back on track. So you're having trouble getting through the day in one productive piece.


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KNOXVILLE (WATE) - It's a disturbing thought - going to eat at your favorite local restaurant, only to have your debit card numbers stolen when you pay for your meal. But that's exactly what happened this weekend to several people at Knoxville's Wild Wing Café in Turkey Creek.


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You come in from a summer hike covered with itchy red mosquito bites, only to have your friends innocently proclaim that they don’t have any. Or you wake up from a night of camping to find your ankles and wrists aflame with bites, while your tentmates are unscathed. You’re not alone.


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A Sevier County jury on Friday found the city of Sevierville partially responsible for a 2009 wreck that injured a Sevier County couple. Attorney Matthew Cook represented James and Ruby Cardwell in the action filed against the city and Phillip Collier of Sevier County.


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SCAMPER is a technique you can use to spark your creativity and help you overcome any challenge you may be facing. In essence, SCAMPER is a general-purpose checklist with idea-spurring questions — which is both easy to use and surprisingly powerful.


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You’ll wake up for about 25,000 mornings in your adult life, give or take a few. According to a report from the World Health Organization, the average life expectancy in the United States is 79 years old. (Most people in wealthy nations are hovering around the 80-year mark.


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Maintaining heart health is more than living a healthy lifestyle through a balanced diet and exercise. Reducing stress plays a huge role, and research suggests making time for meditation could reduce risk of heart attack and stroke.


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I finally took the time to install a monitor bracket this evening to support my center Dell 30" monitor. Installing a monitor bracket is one of those nice little things you can do to really spruce up your workspace.


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I can’t remember how I first heard about Krav Maga, but I do remember being immediately intrigued.


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Very many years ago, when your humble scribe hustled in the hospitality industry as a teenager, Independence Day was make or break time for the tourism trade in Sevier County.


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The built-in URL tags, such as MTEntryPermalink or MTArchiveLink create canonical URLs in the form of http://www.domain.com/blog/index.htm and http://www.domain.com/blog/archives/Photos.htm. Sometimes it is convenient to use relative URLs in the form of index.htm and archives/Photos.htm.


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KNOXVILLE -- A Sevierville man was cited this morning after his pickup truck slammed into a tanker truck hauling liquid concrete, snarling traffic for hours on Alcoa Highway.


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Summary: I have been using the iPad for writing work for almost two years and I get asked regularly how I do it. This guide explains what I do and why it works well. The iPad has revolutionized the way I approach my writing and I am regularly asked how I use it.


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With a quick double tap, clip part or all of any webpage, including text, images, and videos...all from your iPad! Finally a simple and powerful web clipping solution for mobile devices :) Perfect for re... Read More


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It's A Cinch, an all in one weight loss app, debuts today on the Apple App Store. This application allows users to track the finer details of their calorie intake, offset it against the calories they burn, and then create meal plans around their energy consumption targets.


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From accelerometers to compasses, you probably won't really use most of your phone's boring features all that often. Still, a few apps really leverage some of the stranger things your phone can do. Here are a few of our favorites.


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Android: The HTC One and Galaxy S4 Google Editions ship with a new and improved Camera app that adds features like PhotoSphere and an improved settings menu. Thanks to some enterprising users, that APK is in the wild and available to anyone who wants to give it a whirl.


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Actual footage from an actual NSA wiretap is actually leaked to the actual public. Subscribe to BarelyPolitical! http://bit.ly/Nf8avU The Key of Awesome play...


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For those that don’t know, amateur radio operators have had something called the Automatic Packet Reporting System for quite a while now.  Most associate it with vehicular tracking, but it does a lot of other neat stuff like weather, telemetry, and message transfer.


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The Raspberry PI attracted my eye, so I ordered one, and started to build an APRS iGate / Digipeater on it. Soon I extended it with a APRS tracker for mobile use. The Dantracker. My exploits can be found here. Note that ifplugd has to be disabled for the wlan0 you are using....


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