Archives for posts with tag: productivity

Wet shaving with a razor every day can be a chore for men. Epilating is an option, though not many would take it.
Rather than scraping your skin as well as the intended hair, shaving every other day is another option to keeping your face scar free.
In addition to the direct benefits of being scar free, and saving time, the facial skin would obviously benefit from (more…)

Some times the car needs to be parked, and the space is small.

In this video the stunt skilled driver displays how it can be done turbo style, with minimal fuss, and no to-ing and fro-ing. Forget parallel parking, this is the time saving method of lateral car parking. See how it’s done after the break… (more…)

Continuing in the fast food line, waiting for gravity to act on ketchup can seem like the gastronomic equivalent of watching paint dry. Shake things up by increasing gravity, all without the headache of space travel after the break… (more…)

Doing the laundry can be such a chore, and a bore. So why not spice it up by practising some Japanese origami and get the job done far faster?

Watch how it’s done in the vid after the break, but beware! You’ll never look at a pile of washed clothes the same way again! (more…)

Fast food is popular, and a very profitable business. Though we all know we should really be eating more fruit and vegetables to maintain health. Here is a blend of these ideas in a video of healthy fast food. And yes, it does blend well… (more…)

The time it takes to untangle your life can be slightly shorter than the annoyance of untangling headphone cord, so it’s a good thing Sprintcuts came up with this time saving video…. (more…)

At this point in the Life Hack series we move into another category of life improvement hacks. A set of short videos helping to save time by speeding up an activity.

The first of these is a method of quickly tying shoe laces.

Sprintcuts: Speed-Tie Your Shoes

…my other shoes use velcro fastenings.

If you’ve ever wanted to simply perform a function and found it to be rather convoluted, that is to say, in essence, things are not really straightforward (just like this sentence), then a program that gets to the point quickly is certainly one to have installed and available for use.

PAUSE for thought. (more…)

Remember when you’d surf the web and have many browsers open so you could see different pages at the same time? Then along came multi-tab browsing, one browser with multiple tabs so you could do it all in one browser and become a tab junkie instead.

Well if your desktop is even slightly similar you’ve probably got your email open right now too, or perhaps some other software programs. Each is vying for space on your monitor screen. Working on multiple tasks means switching dancing between these windows. Minimize, maximize, shuffle, shuffle, and close.

What if you could have all your communications (email, Skype, etc) on one screen, your work on another, and your you-know-what on yet another? You would just need to swap between screens rather than multiple applications. (more…)

Digital information should be packed away neatly when not in regular use, I feel. Not only does it mean the disk space is better utiliised the contents are easier to navigate.

A method for doing this is to use software to compress files. The one I use, and recommend as part of the Life hack series, is 7-Zip.

It is open source (for the most part) and entirely free to use. It has great compression ratios compared to other similar software, and is one of the first programs I install on a personal computer (PC).

As well as saving space on the hard disk, it also greatly saves bandwidth when transferring files, so indirectly lowering the users carbon footprint.