Month: August 2010
Envato’s 2010 Birthday Bundle – $20 For $400 Worth of Value
Happy Birthday to us! It’s Envato’s 4th Birthday, and to celebrate, we’re giving away a Birthday Bundle packed with $400 worth of files for only $20. The bundle includes four Tuts+ Premium tutorials, a $50 MediaTemple hosting voucher, five blog and website themes, five Flash and Unity3D files, six codeRead More
How to Stay Productive When the Internet Is Down
The Internet went down this morning at the home office. If I were in a deadline situation, I would have packed the laptop into the car and headed for the nearest caffeinated wifi hot spot. But I was under no pressure this morning and had hope the Internet downtime wouldRead More
The Key to Forming a New Habit
Abandoning an old habit and forming a new one isn’t easy. Unless you really enjoy the new habit, it’d be very hard for you to form it. That’s what Leo Babauta of Zen Habits believes. His article talks about why the most important thing in forming new habits is toRead More
The 5 Best Start Page Services to Start Your Morning
A start page, or “startpage”, is meant to give you access to all those sites and tools you start your day with, on a single page. Startpages ensure that you don’t have to open several tabs and windows for email, news, important websites etc. You’ve got everything right there inRead More
Should You Switch to a Health Savings Account?
The high cost of health insurance has led to the expansion of an extremely popular type of healthcare plan called a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP). This type of plan, in conjunction with a Health Savings Account (HSA), is becoming the healthcare plan of choice in the United States. ItRead More
5 Useful Multi-Monitor Setup Tools
It seems that a lot of you love working on more than one monitor. At least that’s what the comments on my dual monitor setup post imply. I was in fact surprised to find that many are using a 3 monitor setup! So the following are five tools that canRead More
How Do You Ease into the Work Week?
A freelance friend of mine recently commented that she has a hard time transitioning from weekend to weekday. “How do you ease into your work week?” she asked. “Monday mornings are always killer!” I’m afraid I have the opposite problem: work days and weekends blend together thanks to my BlackBerryRead More