October 2013 Archives

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Sunrise behind the clouds at from the overlook at the dam.


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You run from meeting to meeting. Your inbox is filled to the rafters (and you’re about up to here with it). You spend hours and hours working every day and still don’t feel like you’ve made a dent in your to-do list. We understand. We’ve been there.


via Pocket http://www.thedailymuse.com/toolsskills/45-productivity-tips-for-extremely-busy-people/

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If you’re like me, you’re always on the search for the best way to simultaneously boost your productivity, stay organized, and expertly manage your time at work. Fortunately, there are a few ingenious ways to accomplish more at work on several different levels. 1.


via Pocket http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131022165909-5799319-25-office-hacks-you-need-to-know

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Home Office month is in full swing! And it's not just about the papers. And paper piles. And filing. And paying bills. It's also about the area you do your work within.


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Halloween is the spookiest night of the year, where some people say spirits can wander the earth freely, and others say their children can wander the neighborhood unattended, trick-or-treating or causing havoc.


via Pocket http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/208287/13-facts-you-never-knew-about-halloween

Why Your Professors Suck

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Part of the reason that I'm uncomfortable as a university professor is that I usually like my "bad" students more than my "good" students. "Good" students are easy to teach -- they show up every day on time. They follow directions, complete all the reading assignments, and so on.


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While Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin hundreds of people across East Tennessee are kicking the Halloween holiday into overdrive.


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CIO — When you hear the term "wearable technology," you very likely think of one, or all, of these things: Google Glass, fitness trackers such as Fitbit and Nike+ or smartwatches including Pebble and Samsung's new Galaxy Gear.


via Pocket http://www.cio.com/article/741602/Why_Smartwatches_Glasses_and_Other_Wearable_Tech_are_No_Gimmick?source=CIONLE_nlt_insider_2013-10-18

Productive Living

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Gird your loins for a cranky and direct communication, in my essay below. Hopefully it will inspire more than offend. It's just my rant about the irrational behaviors continually engaged in by the vast majority of even the smartest people. They have a psyche, and they have a system.


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Author Nick Sullivan worked for six years at Apple on many of its most important cryptography efforts before recently joining CloudFlare, where he is a systems engineer.


via Pocket http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/a-relatively-easy-to-understand-primer-on-elliptic-curve-cryptography/

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Everyone has them. Days spent staring at the computer screen, drinking cup after cup of coffee, struggling to get any work done. There are several common causes – procrastination, tiredness – all of which can be easily solved.


via Pocket http://www.dumblittleman.com/2013/10/work-smarter-5-productivity-hacks-to.html

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Do you sometimes feel like you spend all your time managing crises? That your life is basically spent putting out one proverbial fire after another? At the end of the day do you feel completely sapped and drained of energy, and yet can’t point to anything you accomplished of real significance?


via Pocket http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/10/23/eisenhower-decision-matrix/

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If you patrol the web for only a few brief minutes, you stumble onto a lot of articles about achieving success, whipping your productive self into shape, and living the dream.


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Yesterday I was asked by a client about how to optimize a team that was already doing very well. Without having to think twice, I immediately knew the answer.


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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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Meet Liat Aharoni

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Over a year ago Liat picked up a DSLR camera for the first time, which is impossible to guess from looking at her photos. Liat Aharoni’s work is bewitching, exploring darkness, sabbath and new photo techniques.


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Wazuma V8F Matte Edition

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The Wazuma V8F Matte Edition ($TBA) might just be the most fun you could possibly have on four wheels, if you have the guts to actually turn the thing on.


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Thanks to digiKam’s geocorrelation capabilities, you can geotag photos using a GPX file created with apps like Open GPS Tracker. But there is also another way to use your Android device for geotagging. The built-in camera app of most Android devices is capable of geotagging photos.


via Pocket http://scribblesandsnaps.com/2012/10/29/geotag-photos-with-android-camera-and-digikam/

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Good developers are always looking for ways to be faster and to automate their workflows. Today, we present a series of workflows in Alfred that will boost your productivity and rock your world.


via Pocket http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/10/25/hidden-productivity-secrets-with-alfred/

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No, writing: "Get better or you're fired" on a Post-it is not the answer. What's it like to work without any feedback? To JetBlue chairman Joel Peterson, it's like "driving a car with no speedometer, learning to cook without ever tasting your food, or playing basketball without a scoreboard."


via Pockethttp://www.fastcompany.com/3020172/leadership-now/how-to-give-feedback-that-actually-inspires-improvement

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Simply talking doesn’t make anyone a good communicator — just like hearing someone doesn’t make us good listeners. In fact, being a good communicator means being a good listener, according to Aaron Karmin, MA, LCPC, a psychotherapist at Urban Balance.


via Pockethttp://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2013/10/22/6-strategies-to-become-a-better-communicator/

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Harvard Business Review has another rah-rah piece for Silicon Valley. While on the surface it looks like a well-researched article, its error lies not in methodology but in definition. In the minds of the author, the definition for startup success is confined to this:


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Improve your memory by clenching your right fist, chewing gum, walking, ignoring stereotypes, sniffing rosemary and more… Many of the methods for improving memory–like exercise, chunking, building associations or brain training–involve a fair amount of mental effort.


via Pockethttp://www.spring.org.uk/2013/10/10-surprising-and-mostly-easy-ways-to-improve-your-memory.php

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The US District Court for the State of Idaho ruled that an ICS product developer’s computer could be seized without him being notified or even heard from in court primarily because he states on his web site “we like hacking things and don’t want to stop”.


via Pockethttp://www.digitalbond.com/blog/2013/10/22/call-yourself-a-hacker-lose-your-4th-amendment-rights/

8 Signs You’re a Biker N00B

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1. You choose your helmet based on your motorcycle. You’d love to wear a full-face, but only if borrowing a friend’s Honda CBR600RR, otherwise you stick to your Bell Custom 500, no matter the riding conditions, when riding your Bonneville.


via Pockethttp://rideapart.com/2013/10/8-signs-youre-a-biker-n00b/

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So, after months of nothing but Ramen Noodles, you’ve saved up enough loose change to put down a deposit on your first motorcycle. An exciting new world with leather jackets and without traffic, right? Sure, but there some other…stuff, too. Stuff no one else has told you about becoming a biker.


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Most artists dream about being discovered by a celebrity, instantly catapulting them to success and stardom. Few actually experience it. But believe it or not, it happened to a young, unsuspecting photographer who was sought out on Flickr by one of the most popular bands on the planet.


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Every week we showcase the productivity tips and tricks of our favorite experts and productivity heroes in our How I Work series. Now, we're peppering our daily dose of tips with some showcases from you, our favorite readers. This week: Detective Jeremy Burns of Charleston, West Virgina.


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Comments ≠ Engagement

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When we redesigned Signal vs. Noise last year, we tried to make commenting a bit more of a conscious process by placing the link to the comment form at the top of the post rather than the bottom, hiding existing comments by default, and removing the URL field to cut back on spamming.


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It's easy to forget how old photography is. Given that flying, internal combustion engines, electricity, the telephone, and other staples of modern life didn't get cranking until the late 1800s and early 1900s, it's always startling to be reminded how relatively long photography has been with us.


via Pocket http://www.businessinsider.com/first-picture-of-people-2013-10

Mixing PHP and SSI

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This information is ONLY relevant to PHP4 and Apache 1.3. We historically used PHP for all our web work. We have decided to migrate to ruby for lots of reasons for all our new web development but we still have lots of PHP stuff hanging around.


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“It shouldn’t be easy to be amazing.  Then everything would be.  It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.  When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do that much more to make sure it’s even harder – or impossible – to lose.


via Pocket http://www.marcandangel.com/2013/10/13/7-shortcuts-you-will-regret-taking-in-life/

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I have glimpsed the future of search, and it is not keyword-driven. While I have long been an advocate of using keywords as an indicator of a searcher’s intent, I am about to eat my words.


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“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” ~ Lao Tzu


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I used to keep notes and information in various places around the Web and on my devices: Google Drive, the Notes app on my iPhone, to-do list apps, notes scribbled on Post-It’s and notepads, notes and sketches digitally scrawled into iPad apps like Paper and Penultimate. You get the picture.


via Pocket http://readwrite.com/2013/10/17/evernote-addons

Omnifocus Daily Workflow

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Three weeks in and I am still on the iOS-only Omnifocus bandwagon. I have not tired of the app and I continue to be surprised at how my task management confidence has improved. I am forgetting less stuff and looking forward to checking off my tasks.


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Editor’s note: James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and several-times entrepreneur. His latest book, is “Choose Yourself!” (foreword by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter) . Follow him on Twitter @jaltucher.


via Pocket http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/19/the-ultimate-cheat-sheet-for-reinventing-yourself/

Super busy place with good food.

We had noticed this place several times and decided to give it a try today. Inside is huge and today it was packed - every time someone left, someone else was seated...


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While most of the universe has grown incredibly weary of the Pitch Perfect "Cups" song — and the accompanying cup-banging routine — this group's cover is a complete game-changer. Why? Because they tap dance. Tap. Dance.


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Ringing phones. Pinging e-mail. Co-workers’ ringing phones and pinging e-mail.


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Yesterday I got back from a vacation on which I broke my noise-cancelling headphones, snapping off one of the ear cups when I crammed them into my suitcase.


via Pocket http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-10-10/why-we-cant-get-anything-done-in-an-open-plan-office

FlyKly Smart Wheel

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Lightweight and highly efficient all-in-one design pedal assist that fits on practically any bicycle.


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I blinked my eyes, wiggled my toes, and carefully heaved my right foot out from under me. It had gone completely numb after twenty minutes of meditation. I prodded it tentatively. Moving meditation! Of course!


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Private journals are a much better way of venting your frustration than Twitter. Studies have proven this. (Okay not really.) This explains Day One’s success. The thing is, there aren’t that many quality journaling options available on the Mac.


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Today is September 3rd. This means two things: The pool parties are done, trips to the beach are over, and WINTER IS COMING (unless you live down under!).  Okay so Winter is not that close, but for some reason, September is a signal for many people that it’s time to start slacking!


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In Middle Earth, they allow you to open Dwarven doors. In Skyrim, they allow the Dragonborn to rain tornadoes down up on foes.


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One of the most destructive of creative sins is an over-inflated ego. When many people hear the word “ego,” they immediately think of the know-it-all manager charging into the room and insisting that everyone bend their life and work around his every whim.


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I've been hitting the road non-stop over the past several weeks talking about Die Empty, and challenging people to structure their life and work by design, not by default. I've also been doing a ton of interviews and writing guest posts and articles all over the web.


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Wikipedia editor and self-professed “bird geek” DocTree spends most of his time on the world’s largest encyclopedia editing the pages for long-dead ornithologists.


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7 Lifestyle Photography Tips

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By Annie Tao. Lifestyle Photography has been around for as long as there were cameras, but it was called Photojournalism and was mostly seen only in the newspapers. During those times, most Portrait Photographers captured their subjects posed and “perfect”.


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CIO — Ah, the joys of being a project manager.


via Pocket http://www.cio.com/article/741249/7_Top_Wishes_of_IT_Project_Managers_?source=CIONLE_nlt_insider_2013-10-11

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Microsoft today updated its Outlook.com app for Android with four new features, including server-side search and vacation replies. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play.


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One Thing Well

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Reportr is a complete application which works like a dashboard for tracking events in your life (using a very simple API).


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Being ambivalent most often means not having a preference.  I eat out a lot. If you ask me where I want to go to lunch, there’s a good chance I’ll be ambivalent.  I’ll go where you want to go. Healthy ambivalence leads me to accommodating those I care about.


via Pocket http://recoveryrocks.bangordailynews.com/2013/10/09/addiction/how-to-get-out-of-your-own-way-2/

Defactoring

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The other day, a colleague and I were debating whether to defactor some code. No, not refactor the code, de-factor the code. Defactoring is the process of removing factoring from code.


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If you’ve bought yourself a DSLR and, after unpacking it from the box, you are intimidated by the number of buttons and dials, and by the thickness of the manual, it can be very tempting to put the manual down, flick it onto ‘Auto’ and start shooting.


via Pocket http://digital-photography-school.com/megapost-learning-how-to-use-your-first-dslr

Optimize for the Short Snout

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In 2004, Chris Anderson wrote an article entitled "The Long Tail" popularizing the notion that, in online markets, the tail of the statistical distribution is more valuable than the head.


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Disabling the Avahi daemon

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The Avahi daemon discovers network resources, allocates IP addresses without the DHCP server, makes the computer accessible by its local machine name by acting as a DNS server and facilitates sharing of files and printers.


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Here we show you how to use Maven-Tomcat plugin to package and deploy a WAR file to Tomcat. First, add an user with administrator access right for Tomcat. To add Tomcat user, edit this file – “%TOMCAT_PATH%/conf/tomcat-users.xml“.


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The following how-to shows how to set up a Data Source within Tomcat 6.0 using Oracle Universal Connection Pool (UCP) as the Data Source Implementation. This demo assumes the following are installed: The following assumes you already have Tomcat 6.0 installed on your machine.


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The Context Container

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The description below uses the variable name $CATALINA_BASE to refer the base directory against which most relative paths are resolved.


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JNDI Datasource HOW-TO

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PostgreSQL is configured in a similar manner to Oracle. Copy the Postgres JDBC jar to $CATALINA_HOME/lib. As with Oracle, the jars need to be in this directory in order for DBCP's Classloader to find them. This has to be done regardless of which configuration step you take next.


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Once Wendell Phillips and a young friend were sitting by the fire. It was a memorable evening. Recollections had flushed the cheeks of the veteran campaigner. Memories of former heroic days had loosened his tongue. He had completely lost himself in the thrilling recital of the past.


via Pocket http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/10/05/manvotional-there-is-always-a-time-for-heroism/

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A new study published this week in Science concludes that you may get something unexpected from reading great literary works: more finely-tuned social and emotional skills.


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We could not be more pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Evernote Devcup competition for the best new apps on the Evernote platform. Each year, we challenge developers to build new ways to extend apps with Evernote. This year, there were almost 200 qualifying submissions.


via Pocket http://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/09/27/blogging-tool-postach-io-wins-devcup-gold/

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For the third year in a row, we invited our friends, fans, users, partners, and developer community to join us for an event to look back and look forward. Over one thousand people showed up for two days’ worth of workshops and panels aimed to inspire, connect, and energize.


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WASHINGTON — Congress entered the fifth day of the government shutdown Saturday with one goal in mind — to ensure that the 800,000 government employees currently on furlough will receive back pay once the shutdown is ended.


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The first highly visible component of the Affordable Health Care Act launched this week, in the form of the healthcare.gov site. Theoretically, it allows citizens, who live in any of the states that have chosen not to implement their own portal, to get quotes and sign up for coverage.


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“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking.” ―Albert Einstein The human mind is wonderful and powerful, but it’s far from perfect.  Too often we are addicted to our thoughts, and we can’t change anything in our lives if we can’t change our thinking.


via Pocket http://www.marcandangel.com/2013/09/26/9-thoughts-you-need-out-of-your-mind

Yoga and the Mind

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The whole process of yoga is to transcend the limitations of the mind. As long as you are in the mind, you are ruled by the past, because mind is just an accumulation of the past.


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In my brand new book Die Empty, I examine the common places where bright, sharp, talented people eventually get stuck in their life and career. The goal, of course, is to get your best work out of you every day and to not leave it inside or take it to your grave with you like so many people do.


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Examples of usage

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APRS-Alert provides a route for non-APRS users to be informed via "normal" communications channels about the movements and activities of APRS-equipped stations.


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I started journaling a little over a year ago. It has become a regular part of my morning ritual. It has helped me clarify my thinking, process my feelings, and make better decisions. However, like most people, I struggled with consistency. I wanted to journal. I was convinced of the benefits.


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Park rangers on Friday were turning away people who want to visit the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway in an effort to enforce the National Park Service’s decision to shut down the private establishment during the government shutdown.


via Pocket http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/4/blue-ridge-hotel-defies-park-service-shutdown/?page=1

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Yet, when you look at what they are accomplishing it is often fraught with errors, mistakes, and additional effort due to rework. Does multitasking get more done?


via Pocket http://timemanagementninja.com/2013/09/8-ways-to-stop-multitasking-and-get-work-done/

6 Ways to Get More Done

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I got a question from one of the blog readers on how I would describe a spec with examples for a user-interface specific user story, such as "As a user, I want to register in order to log in".


via Pocket http://gojko.net/2013/09/30/writing-as-a-user-does-not-make-it-a-user-story/

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Earlier this summer, a few weeks after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaked documents on the agency's surveillance practices were published, the encrypted email service provider he used, called Lavabit, shut itself down.


via Pocket http://www.theverge.com/us-world/2013/10/2/4796292/lavabit-fought-government-surveillance-with-tiny-font

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Thanks to its great photo quality and the unparalleled selection of photo apps, the iPhone has become the world’s most popular digital camera.


via Pocket http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/09/23/composition-tips-great-photos-iphone/

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For the month of October, we’re delving back into non-fiction with Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (it’s only $2.99 this month on Kindle…bonus!).


via Pocket http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/09/26/aom-book-club-october-2013-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance/

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Skip to main content Knoxville Day Trips Examiner Clayton Hensley Clayton is an East Tennessee native who worked in TV news for 15 years. Whether it's the Great Smoky Mountains or Cumberland Gap, he never grows tired of discovering the region's wonders. You can reach him at knoxdaytrips@comcast.net.


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