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Fixing a Slow-Responding Finder in OSX

A couple of months ago, the Finder on my iMac began responding very slowly whenever I would select a file and choose “Open With.” Whereas it used to respond almost instantly with a list of apps for opening the file, … Continue reading

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Project Management Tip from J.K. Rowling

Ever wonder what tools authors use for managing a project as immense as writing a book? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use their tools for managing our more complex projects? You might suspect, as I would have, that … Continue reading

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Restringing a Classical Guitar

I hate restringing guitars, especially the Classicals, because new strings on the latter tend to take a good long while to finish stretching, requiring a lot of retuning. Plus, if you don’t restring often, then you can wind up like … Continue reading

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Solo Guitar Recording for YouTube [How To]

Several people have asked me how I get what they consider to be “such a good sound” and “great lighting” in my YouTube recordings. So, rather than typing out a response to everyone who asks, I figured I’d just answer … Continue reading

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Smart Advice for Business and Life: Review of Rework

I am a huge fan of 37signals: its Basecamp product (haven’t tried the other products), its blog, and its founders. So, I bought Rework, the founders’ latest book, as soon as it became available (back in March). I read through … Continue reading

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Too Busy for Charity Work? You Can Still Do This.

Mashable has put together a list of simple and easy ways you can help change the world. Because of the importance of this article, I wanted to make sure you were aware of it, whether you subscribe to Mashable or … Continue reading

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Combine Single and Double Sidebars on Your Blog [Thesis]

As I noted in the previous post, many visitors and subscribers of this blog are fellow bloggers and fellow users of the Thesis Theme for WordPress. This is a tutorial for the fellow Thesis users. What we cover today is … Continue reading

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Leaving the Dates Out of Your URLs [Blogging Tip]

For the past couple of years, my blog has used a URL structure of http://www.domain.com/2009/03/19/article-title/ I recently learned that such a URL is less about 10% (or more) less likely to get clicked than the following one, which is the … Continue reading

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Processing Information When There’s Too Much of It

In this day and time, we are all required to process a lot of information. This can have several consequences, including: Some of the noisy information (undesired information that is not useful) can drown out the useful information. Some information … Continue reading

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Use Change Analysis to Solve Problems

Many years ago I participated in the investigation of a couple of industrial accidents, having been trained on how to conduct various methods of causal analysis. The problem-solving techniques I learned have become second nature to me, and I sometimes … Continue reading

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