Mud can turn into metaphorical gold through recycling waste food. I’ve eaten many a home baked apple pie that testifies to the fact. From a recycled apple core in the garden, and recycled food waste over subsequent years providing compost, a large bough laden apple tree has grown. The apple pies generated from recycling are [...]

For the male, pocket contents can be chaotic, consisting of various items to attend to the perceived needs of the day ahead. To bring those chaotic pockets to order with greater organization, and a much increased chance of never forgetting to carry an important item – particularly when changing trousers – the following method may [...]

Consistency and tenacity are the ingredients of champions. Now this may not be a champion edit, but consistency and tenacity means that this is 169 posts later than when Life Hack 169 was all an idea in my head. Consistency + tenacity + action = realization of a goal I’ve missed more opportunities than I [...]

The you in your head does, or sometimes does not do things you’d like. Often we aren’t as we wish to be – fulfilling our true potential. Combining this with the concept that after a life changing experience, or passing of much time, people say they are different, e.g.  “I’m not the man I was.” [...]

As mentioned in Life Hack #162 a practical use of a mobile phone note taking application is to create two memos “_On Loan To” and “_On Loan From”. There are a couple of reasons why the memos are usefully titled like this, and these reasons can be used to good effect when naming other files. [...]

There are cables and wires for electrical equipment, or heaps of USB cables that need a neatness solution to be applied. I’ve discovered the rubber inner tube from an bicycle tyre is an excellent source of rubber bands. Instead of throwing away an old punctured inner tube it can be cut into thin sections giving [...]

Blackberry devices have a useful auto replace feature called Autotext that used smartly can save a lot of time and effort. You could think of it like an extended spelling corrector. Yes it will replace misspelled words as you type, but you can modify the entries and this is where it gains its power. A [...]

Using menus are the slowest way to use an application. This applies to the Blackberry device also. Here is an elixir from the font of Blackberry knowledge known as the Crackberry forum 101: When using the email application the following shortcut keys will apply the associated action without having to go through the menus. —- [...]

Once upon a time a notepad was a useful device to carry. Though now I prefer to amalgamate functional activities into one object where possible to simplify life. An example of this is in the use of the Blackberry memopad application to keep memos and general notes. It has the ability to have categories associated [...]

Telephones are for speaking into, and quite usefully with mobile phones  it doesn’t have to be only during a phone call. As the phone is able to recognise speech (you can change the settings to use most languages) and not only tell the phone to dial, but to give status reports such as battery usage, [...]

The Blackberry models have a useful convenience key on one side of the device. This is by default set to voice activated dialling (VAD) (as mentioned in #161 Nine point Six: VADialling ). This is an extremely useful key to have meaning you don’t have to search through menus, or have to be viewing a [...]