Category: Productivity

  • Firefox Mouse Gestures add-on

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    If you want less movements to go back/forward, open/close tabs, and open links with your browser, you’ll need to get this Firefox plugin called Mouse Gestures to do so. Personally, it’s already cut wasted time at work. Here are the commons gestures I use: Closes tab or window: write L Back to previous page: write…

  • Improve your vision and reduce computer eye strain

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    Here’s an excellent article on Reader’s Digest‘s website chronicling 24 ways to improve your vision; thus, preventing computer eye strain.

  • Leaders vs. Followers

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    When leaders make a mistake, they say, “I was wrong.”When followers make mistakes, they say, “It wasn’t my fault.” A leader works harder than a follower and has more time;a follower is always “too busy” to do what is necessary. A leader goes through a problem;a follower goes around it and never gets past it.…

  • Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed

    Here’s an interesting article that Bill Gates wrote for the BBC News web site, that talks about the skills one needs to succeed in any career.

  • Open command prompt in a specific folder

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    I had to find another way to open the command prompt in a specific, working folder, and the Windows Key + R, type cmd keystroke was no longer efficient. Thankfully, there’s a way around this – two ways, actually…so here they are: Method #1 – Add a Registry Key Open regedit. (If you don’t know…

  • Sync iCal with Google Calendar

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    As a Mac user at home and a Windows user at work, I had looked for a solution to sync my iCal calendar with my Google Calendar. I did find some ways to do it, such as taking advantage of iCalshare publishing, but never found one that did a two-way sync – that is, changes…