Need to improve your typing speed? Setup a weekly, monthly, or every two weeks reminder to work on it. It's kind of a fun break to test how fast you can type. One of the best websites to do that at is 10FastFingers. You'll be able to start right away by typing in an entry box that will test your typing speed and accuracy in one minute. Just follow the words displayed Continue Reading
Productivity
Tech and Tools for Working Outside the Office
This is a guest post by Ashlee McCullen. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur or an employee looking for time away from your cubicle, it’s easier than ever to get work done outside of a traditional office. Before the advent of high quality laptops, internet-connected smartphones, and cloud services, you Continue Reading
Google Reader and Google Alerts
Google Reader – Staying Up To Date Want to stay up to date on something that is news-worthy andoly important to you? Did you know you can use Google Reader to stay up on particular topics and not just blogs? All you need to do is look for that RSS icon or something similar to it that provides an RSS feed to that information you’re interested in. So for example, fire up Continue Reading
Creating in Firefox
The title of this blog post could certainly be Working in Firefox. However, Creating fits much better since that's what we want to feel like when we're "working" and it has a more positive connotation than Working does for some people. Also, if you have a boss or someone(s) standing over your shoulder who wants you to be in pain while you Create, then make sure that person Continue Reading
Making Money On My Blog
This is my first post using WordPress 2.5. Most everything is working. I don't have a bunch of plugins for this blog and you can view them on my resources page. The Top Commentators plugin isn't showing up so I'll have to investigate that a bit more. More to come on WordPress 2.5 This post is a quick post about making money with a blog. I have not spent a bunch of Continue Reading