Organize IT

I spend a lot of time at the computer, both at work and at home, so I’ve had to develop several ways to turn the rather clunky Windows operating system into something much more streamlined. However, I’m not keen on tweaking and experimenting with different programs for hours on end so the following five techniques on how I keep files, folders and programs organized had to be simple and quick to implement. I hope you find them useful. Let me know if these would work on Macs and Linux too.

The new year is always welcomed in by two things – resolutions and the detox. There is very little to add to the former that hasn’t already been covered before in every form of media out there. So, in this post I would like to talk about detoxing, which has taken an increased role over recent years as health and dieting has had increased coverage. While detoxing can obviously be done at any time, it seems to be quite common for people to make a determined effort during the new year, when no doubt the effects of an extravagant festive period are kicking in.

Seeing as both ScienceDaily, CNet News and the place I got the original story from (Slashdot) have more than enough procrastination jokes I will just get straight to the point. A University of Calgary academic has done ten years (no comment…) of research into procrastination and its causes. They have discovered that…

Over at Lifehacker they are covering an interesting topic of music CDs versus downloads and I would just like to give my opinion on that issue, and how a particular aspect of music downloading often gets overlooked when it comes to comparing types of musical access.

Hope you all had a good new year and didn’t drink too much! I winded up last year with a brief post on trigger lists. As the festive period has winded down now I’ve found myself with a bit of spare time and decided to use the trigger lists mentioned in that last post to really clear out my mental ram so I was in a clear, focused position to start the new year. While I was doing this I started thinking about having specialist trigger lists for particular needs, such as with my personal life, so I could really get some answers about what I wanted and how I could do it.