There’s a big difference between being busy and actually being productive . Oddly enough, being busy often feels good because it’s familiar and it makes us feel productive. Productivity may feel good, but sometimes making true progress means giving up that feeling.
Microsoft Outlook is the de facto email and calendaring client in most offices—and it can help manage your tasks and notes as well. Beyond just clicking Send and Receive, there are lots of things you can do to improve your Outlook workflow, such as sharing your calendar, auto-filtering emails, and more.
Happy World Backup Day! Probably not your favorite made up holiday, but still an important one. How’s your backup system?
From now until 8PM ET, eBay is taking $15 off any $75 order (with a few exclusions) when you check out with Paypal and use code C15LIMITEDTIME at checkout. That includes gift cards (other than eBay gift cards), so there’s really no reason not to take advantage.
You don’t want to think about backups: You want them to happen automatically, in the background, on all your computers. You want to access those backups from anywhere, from any device, from any operating system. There are two excellent services for this: CrashPlan and Backblaze. Both are popular, and we’ve recommended both in the past. Let’s compare them.
So far, some of you have saved hundreds (and some even thousands) during our year-long Ultimate Money Challenge . This month, we challenged you to tackle your biggest problem spending area. Now it’s time for you to tell us: how’d you do?
Ticket price and fees are likely the first thing you think about when picking an airline, but there are a lot of other key factors, like flight delay records, luggage mishaps, and consumer complaints. See how the airlines you’re considering measure up with the US Department of Transportation’s monthly air travel reports.
Milk is something I always have around for recipes and Oreo-eating, but I don’t drink a ton of it on its own, and it can be hard to finish it off before it expires. Luckily, Bon Appetit has a solution to my dairy dilemma: milk jam.
In elementary school, the common practice for scraped knees was to clean the wound using hydrogen peroxide. Many of us might still do this, but this video from SciShow makes a darn good case for why we should just skip it altogether.
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