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Automator tips

4, Feb 2010

I promised a long time ago to tell you more about the most underrated yet one of the most powerful tools on your Mac OSX: the Automator.
I’ll be speaking here about the Automator version on Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6) which, although highly similar to the one in Leopard (OSX 10.5), has a number of extremely [...]

Have a Break – free OSX productivity app

11, Jan 2010

Because sometimes you just need a reminder to have a break, relax your eyes or change your posture, Have a Break is a tiny free mac app that lets you do just that: set up a periodic reminder which you simply CAN’T ignore.
Freshly baked, hot from the oven, my first osx app with hideous graphics [...]

Self Help Classics

12, Jan 2009

By teaching better ways to use your computer, recommending new software tools that make your life easier, or suggesting ways to improve your personal mindset or lifestyle, this blog was all about improvement: personal improvement and technological one alike. This is why, although self-promotional, I won’t shy away from recommending you my latest creation:
The Self [...]

How to seamlessly sync your iCal with Google Calendar

2, Dec 2008

Quick question: what is the One and only most essential tool for any productivity fan?
You guessed it – the calendar.
There are many reasons why you’d want to use Google Calendar for your time management: first of all, it’s free; second, it’s online(you can access it from everywhere). Third, it has SMS alerts, which is probably [...]

Task Five – the simple yet beautiful online task management tool

6, Nov 2008

I never really managed to get GTD working for me.
The basic concepts of the GTD (Getting Things Done) method are really easy to grasp and pretty useful:
Write stuff down instead of trying to remember it, do the easy tasks quickly to get them out of your way, divide projects into smaller tasks and review [...]

From the email bin

5, Nov 2008

During the last year I almost never reposted the links and resources readers of HackTheDay have send me. It took a simple comment(might be a spam, but I hope it’s not) to make me want to get back to blogging over here on HTD.
So, here’s a couple of productivity-related links received from my readers [...]

DIY a Firefox Search Engine – Twitter People

1, May 2008

I mentioned it already: I love Firefox’s feature of “Manage Search Engines” (Internet Explorer 7 has copied introduced a similar one as well). Simply love it, and the reason for it is that it saves me lots and lots of time.
One of the “custom” search engines I had installed was called Flickr Tags. Ironically, though, [...]

Zen of debugging – remember the Seiza

11, Apr 2008

Rereading a text I wrote last year reminded me something I wanted to articulate for quite a while. The power of meditation; but actually meditation is a word with too many and messy meanings. What I’m talking about is that powerful “take a break” moment that precedes most great breakthroughs.

In my freshman year of college(Computer [...]

HackTheDay – top 100 productivity blogs

14, Mar 2008

HackTheDay got listed in the nice list of “The Top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs” on CollegeDegree, side by side with world-renowned blogs such as 43 Folders, Lifehack.org, Lifehacker.com, Zen Habits and 95 more. Pretty nice for a blog I neglected quite a lot in the last months.
It’s this kind of small things that [...]

Top 10 Firefox search engines

28, Jan 2008

Quickly, tell me the web browser you use most frequently.
What? Do I hear anything other than Firefox? You’re most certainly way behind on our Productivity 101 lesson.
Quickly, tell me what’s your most frequent way to google or search stuff online.
If you tell me you click on Firefox’s address bar, type www.google.com then Enter, then you’re [...]


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