Category: Life Hacks
The “Four Hour Work Week” and the Service Industry
What Is the Four Hour Work Week? I recently read Tim Ferriss’s Four Hour Work Week, and got rather excited afterwards. He talks about outsourcing, creating better processes and removing yourself from your business so you can do the things you actually want to do with your life instead of working. Great ideas. I have […]
View info for multiple files in single pane on Mac OSX
Just a quick one – instead of “get info” for individual files, use alt+cmd+I to open info for multiple files in one info pane. Hard to explain, really easy to do and very useful for unlocking a whole folder of locked files all at once 🙂
My workspace
I have a little room where I do my web design work, it’s just the right size to get hunkered down and wrestle with CSS. Featuring: Yamaha studio monitors 20″ iMac 15″ Macbook Pro (usually running Windows for Internet Explorer testing) Lacie USB backup and storage drives, the little one for Time Machine and the […]
How to be… a fake.
There are lots of people around, whether it be print, TV or internet that will tell you “how to be…” something or other. Whether it is “How to be romantic” or “how to look like some idiot celebrity”, it’s everywhere. This is messed up. Nobody needs any advice on how to be anything. We would […]
Caffeine detox
We have a bean to cup Gaggia machine in the office, and it makes delicious coffee. I am really sensitive to things. Not a good combination, and resulted in a rollercoaster of manic depression during the day, followed by crashing and burning in the evening. After deciding to give caffeine up as an experiment, I […]
“He said, she said” drama VS getting things done
People often cause themselves untold amount of trouble, and then spend half their lives telling other people about said trouble. I want to get things done in my life, so I haven’t got time or energy to listen to their self inflicted woes. If people make bad choices and refuse to change things, then I […]