Tag: efficiency
Where Do You Work Best?
Some people need absolute, morgue-like silence to get real work done. Others are content to type away amidst chaos like chattering coworkers or screaming kids. As a work-at-home freelancer, I love being able to vary my work environment. It was tough when I had roommates who watched TV in myRead More
Some Great Dropbox Tips and Tricks
We recently touched on how Dropbox could be (and, for yours truly, is) an effiicient and effective means to share files across multiple platforms. Seems as if we’re not alone in this. Sister site AppStorm expands upon how the service can be used to share files by offering 15 tipsRead More
World Cup Productivity Watch
Except in the United States (for the most part), the World Cup is a huge deal. My brother, for example, works for an American multinational in Brazil and the company had to bring in TV sets for workers to watch games lest half the office be out sick on gameRead More
How to Find More Hours in the Day
We’ve all wished for more than 24 hours in a day, but short of developing the powers to bend the laws of space and time, that’s not going to happen. But one thing we can do is bend the ways we use the hours at our disposal. If you lookRead More
Keeping Track of Your Tech Devices
Yesterday I realized that I had 5 portable devices to recharge and a drawer of tangled cables from which to get each of the 5 recharge cables (each device has its own). My TV remote and cordless phone seemed to need new batteries and the hand held vacuum was outRead More
Safari 5 – The World’s Most Productive Web Browser
Editor’s Note: Peter North, one of WorkAwesome’s newest contributors, is at Apple’s WWDC all week. He’ll provide little snippets for our readers to digest over the course of the week – to pass on what Apple and its developer community has to offer in terms of making all of usRead More
iPhone 4 Adds New Features – and New Distractions
Editor’s Note: Peter North, one of WorkAwesome’s newest contributors, is at Apple’s WWDC all week. He’ll provide little snippets for our readers to digest over the course of the week – to pass on what Apple and its developer community has to offer in terms of making all of usRead More
Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission
“Ask forgiveness, not permission.” Have you heard this around your workplace? It’s basically a pithy way of saying “I’d rather you go too far than do too little.” Instead of getting bogged down in the bureaucracy, they’re telling you to move forward with your work – even if you haveRead More