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3 Ways to Overcome the Midsemester Blerghs

3 Ways to Overcome the Midsemester Blerghs

[Image courtesy of Walt Stoneburner. Licensed under CC BY 2.0.] This time of year, it can be tempting to drag your feet on school work. The weather is cold, midterms are approaching and awful, and you’ve reached a point where class seems close enough to done that it’s not worth bothering. If you’re a sophomore ...

Startino Offers a Clean, Simple Task Manager and To Do List

Startino Offers a Clean, Simple Task Manager and To Do List

Startino is a pretty sweet, free task manager.I’ve never really been one for online to do lists. I’m much more of a physical notebook kind of to-do-lister. It’s always there when I need it, and I just think better when I write things down. However, I am pretty intrigued by Startino, which is a free ...

Start Packing Early to Prepare for May

Start Packing Early to Prepare for May

You don’t want to deal with all of this during the last days of finals. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Vieux Bandit licensed under CC BY 2.0We’re quickly approaching the end of school, and if you’re still living in the dorms then it’s time to start thinking about packing. It’s still early, but last year ...

Free Alternatives to Office and iWork

Free Alternatives to Office and iWork

Image Courtesy: CNET News BlogThe Web 2.0 era has changed the internet so much. The browser has become some many different things. Some of the things they can do now, is create documents, spreadsheets and even presentations all on the web. Where could one do such a thing? Well, as long as you have a ...

Friends Around the Web: Cal Newport’s Mailbag

Our buddy over at Study Hacks, Cal Newport, got some great productivity questions from his readers this week. Cal, in turn, gave excellent answers. Check it out and peruse the rest of his blog: Q & A: Dealing with Killer Classes, Notes in the Age of Note Packets, and Avoiding the Deadly Grind Syndrome [Study ...

A Slim GTD for Students: Keeping Yourself Organized

A Slim GTD for Students: Keeping Yourself Organized

Chris recently wrote a post for Lifehacker about Getting Things Done for students. Check it out! First off, I have never read David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity that’s the go to productivity organizing method. And from what I’ve talked with Chris about and for how much I’ve read regarding the ...

Five Mini Mac Hacks

Kick off the new semester with five little shortcuts that’ll turn you into an instant Mac fanboy. Five simple shortcuts, no installation required. Follow along: Simple Screenshots: There’s a way to take a screenshot of the whole screen, but I don’t care about that one. With Command Shift 4 you can draw a box around ...

PocketMod Updates

Our very favorite personal organizer, PocketMod, has released some new features and a cleaner interface for the year 2008. Check it out: PocketMod: The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer

Resolving New Year’s Resolutions

As much as I hate to bump down a post on binge drinking, it’s time to get serious about that new year’s resolution. Here’s a goal: a power hour in 20 minutes. Over at the Keith Ferazzi blog (author of Never Eat Alone), he’s come up with some great resolution solutions: To be a successful ...

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