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Sometimes a new semester can bring a lot of stress, but there is always a way to make the school year successful. All you have to do is change some of your habits, and your productivity will return to you.
This post is about the principles of organization and the habits you need to develop in order to organize your life. [Read more…]
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you know how often I stress the importance of keeping viruses and other forms of malware off of your computers and mobile devices.
Malware is the number one cause of sluggish system performance. Even worse, it can cause you to suffer monetary loss and identify theft as well.
But as you might imagine, it’s just as important to keep your devices “clean” in the physical sense – and that includes the inside of a desktop computer or laptop.
Have you ever tried visiting a website and have it refuse to load, yet find out later that your friends could get to it just fine?
That happens more often than you think, and it’s quite frustrating to say the least.
There are several reasons why your browser might not be able to load a given web page, some of which are completely out of your control. Here are some of the most common reasons why a page won’t load: [Read more…]
Do you print a lot of web pages?
If so, you know how much expensive ink and paper gets wasted by printing website headers, sidebars, irrelevant images and other items that really have no connection whatsoever with the content you actually want to print.
A free print tool called PrintFriendly will let you print only the items on the page that you really wish to print while omitting the rest.
Is there a Windows program (or two, or ten) that you’d really love to run but you just don’t want to ditch your Mac and buy a PC?
Well guess what? You can easily run Windows programs and apps right on your Mac while still using macOS as the machine’s primary operating system. [Read more…]