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Laundry Hacking

Making life easier isn't always about massive, miraculous changes in habit, or chucking vast quantities of your belongings. Sometimes, preventing just one little hassle can make your day.

detergent.JPGYou know how the little bit of soap left in the cup after you dump it in the wash always manages to leak down the side of the bottle when you recap it? Usually, you don't notice it until the next time you do the wash, and have to pry the jug loose from a sticky, lint-colored pool. To prevent this from happening, toss the cap in along with the wash instead of recapping the bottle right away. It comes out squeaky clean, and you just have to shake off a little water before screwing it back on the bottle. I suspect this would work with the top of a dish soap bottle too, though you'd have to ask Ray, the gallant cleaner.

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Single-person project management

I'm a college student with a small software business and a few other projects that take up at least a few hours of my time every day.

As I've begun to intern at different tech companies, I've studied the way they manage projects.

One medium-size web/media company I worked at had very clear goals for each quarter in terms of sales and traffic, but also, as it affected my department (tech), what features needed to be added to the sites during each quarter.

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43F Podcast: The Sticky Hipster (and the Case of the Missing Toilet Paper)

Ubiquitous index cards; you'll look completely insane, but feel really relaxed. Just as God intended. (3:10)

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Entourage and GTD White Paper

Entourage and GTD White Paper

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Personal databases on the Mac?

My home computer, a laptop with Windows XP, is on its last leg and I'll need to replace it in the next few weeks. I'll likely switch to a Mac.

With that in mind, I'm using a Windows PC at work. I've been gathering and organizing my digital life using Evernote on a thumb drive for the past two years. It's been easy to access my data at both home and work, and print notes for reference on the go.

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Links (and Distractions), 27 Nov 07

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DYMO labelwriter and Leopard

My upgrade to Leopard went without any problems, thanks to good advice from wonderful sites like 43f. The only thing broken is my Quicksilver action to print to my DYMO LabelWriter 400. I upgraded to the latest drivers and nothing works.

Anyone has found a workaround for that?

Thanks, Denis

Show us your workspaces...

Show us your workspaces...

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Ready-Set-Do! - GTD Implementation for the Mac

Ready-Set-Do! - GTD Implementation for the Mac

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TOPICS: Projects

Hacer: where does it come from?

Hacer: where does it come from?

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TOPICS: Hacer
 
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