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My Favorite Sites for Fresh Ideas

February 3, 2011

I get a lot of my ideas through reading and keeping up on a number of blogs. I checked my daily reads book marks and these are my top 10 (in no particular order): Gizmodo/Lifehacker – Published by Gawker Media, this is the tech and productivity geek’s blog. A lot of the material is curated from other [...]

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How I Capture Screen Shots

December 8, 2010

Screen shots are great. They help create a visual that can replace a lot of written text instructions. There are plenty of options out there. First off, show me the free options Don’t want to spend money and buy software. Most operating systems contain some free options. Windows 7 – The Snipit Tool will do [...]

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FAQ: Let Me Google That For You

November 6, 2010

People are always asking questions. How do I do this and how do I do that? I always have an answer. Usually, if I’m on a phone call, there will be a few moments of pause and then I have the answer. If it’s over email, it’ll take a few minutes as well. Below are [...]

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Why I Chose Evernote as My Document Management System

November 4, 2010

After going back and forth with several options for building out my personal document management system, I opted to sign up for a premium Evernote account. Before this, my options were: Do nothing and digitize documents on an ad hoc basis – too chaotic and disorganized. Store digital scans on Dropbox – files are not [...]

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FAQ: What does Walk on Water mean?

August 21, 2010

When I was going to Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy, my career counselor said she heard from a fellow faculty member that Daniel walks on water. What does that mean? Walking on water means living without limitations. Just because we’re told that we can’t walk on water and that we’d sink and drown doesn’t mean it [...]

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Should my blog be self hosted or through a service provider

May 15, 2010

Nearly everyone has a blog in some form or another. I so often see individuals, and even companies use a service provider to manage their blog. This is referring to the many popular ones such as Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous, and so on. They’re easy to use, simply provide some basic information and they’ll set [...]

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FAQ: How do you fix all these Word, Excel, and PowerPoint problems?

May 4, 2010

The MS Office suite can be a pain in the butt at times. Even the most basic activities can easily be messed up or corrupted with bad data. Over time, a lot of formatting and hidden data is entered into a document. After a while, the document is filled with headers, styles, formats, hidden text, [...]

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FAQ: How do you do all your magic?

April 8, 2010

photo credit: catchthefuture This is a series of Frequently Asked Questions. I find my peers, coworkers, and friends asking the same question over and over. I always seem to have the answer. Naturally, I’m often asked: How do you do all your magic? I’m no Harry Potter or Warlock. It’s no secret. I don’t have [...]

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