Category: Life Hacking
Life Hacking is all about personal improvement, building a better me. If you’re as anal as I am, then you’ll understand the impulse. I don’t know about you, but I could stand to increase my efficiency and better manage my time. Life hacking is all about that.
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Android visual automation programming
My day job has me thinking about automation for a living . And while I try not to bring the office home with me, these concepts tend to follow me around.
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Redesigning our family finance
The art of personal finance has been a topic of interest for me for most of my adult life. Some people feel strongly about it, choosing all manner of tools, software, processes, etc.; while others employ no real system at all, opting for a more intuitive sense of financial decision-making. That’s a wide spectrum of…
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Customizing Chrome’s “new” tab
Ever bore of the new tab screen in Chrome? It’s what you’re presented with after doing a CTRL + T. Well, with the magic that is extensions, you’re free to change this. There are a host of replacements available on the Chrome Web Store. But I’ve always appreciated a low-tech, unobtrusive approach. I’ve used the…
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Email, the new Todo
Shockingly, over a year has elapsed since I last spoke about my digital life-hacking. That’s a pretty terrible commitment to the discipline of writing and contemplation. I can blame that on so many things: raising small, needy humans; steadily growing home-improvement lists; active social calendars; too many screens and not enough books. But the truth…
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The lack of file tags in Windows
So, I’m supposed to be working on this month-long challenge. But hey! I found some other project to work on. It’s in service of my recent computer switcheroo, with which I’m a little obsessed lately. Since recently switching from OS X on an iMac to Windows 10 on a laptop, I sorely miss file tagging.…
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Platform Interchange
I suppose that the “Slippery Slope” phenomenon applies to me right now. A chink in my Apple armor developed some time ago. Then I got out of the iPhone world all together, which amazed me as much as it did my friends. The recent maturity of Google’s cloud services (Photos, Drive, Music, etc.) had a considerable…
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Modernizing my email
A few months ago, I did an overhaul of my digital life. Those posts were all about switching smartphone platforms from Apple iOS to Android. What was most revealing to me was not the hardware and software differences, but just how I get things done now. In the end, I’m not unhappy with my switch. I tend to…
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DIY mamma
When my washing machine breaks down, do I call a plumber? No! I text my wife.
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cell phone plan switcheroo, part 2
Here’s a triumphant update to the last post on switching cell phone carriers. It’s been a long road, but we finally got there. As of now, we are now truly paying $80 per month for two cell phones (with about $10 tacked on for taxes). If you too want to try to make the switch,…
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The hunt for the perfect cell phone plan
I am nothing, if not occasionally obsessive. I get fixated with certain projects, plans, or life goals Well lately (as in the last 6-9 months), I’ve been rather preoccupied with finding the perfect, affordable cell phone plan. The last time I was this worked up about hacking my status as a cell phone user, it was…