College Tools For Back To School

10Nov07

This list comprises everything from financial aid to local guides, social networking, web-based applications and much more for the student with no time to waste in getting the most out of their education.
Application Sites
BeRecruited.com – For student athletes to fill out a form and be connected with college recruiters while getting information on [...]

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5 Tips for Fast and Effective Learning

06Oct07

Fortunately, learning and learning to learn well, will always be one of the most valuable skills in your personal and professional life. My point is to start building these skills as soon as possible, preferably when you are still a student.
Fast and effective learning is a skill for life and we could talk about it [...]

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10 Ways to Be Productive with your Handheld, Smartphone, or PDA

22Jun07

These days, many web workers are upgrading to more powerful handheld mobile devices — PDA, smartphone, Internet tablet, ultra-mobile PC — and they never seem to stop fiddling with them. From checking email to reading RSS feeds to doing IM or Twitter, the mobile worker is always connected.
But not always productive.
Despite the popular thinking that [...]

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Why the 9 to 5 Office Worker Will Become a Thing of the Past

24May07

The Natural Productivity Cycle
In your personal life, when attending to business or working on side projects, how often do you spend 8 consecutive hours in front of a computer? It doesn’t make sense because we lose the ability to concentrate effectively within a few hours.
Everyone goes through alternating periods of high and low mental acuity. [...]

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Using any browser log into 2 or more Gmail accounts

07Feb07

We are going to use Gmail’s Mail Fetcher to achieve this goal.
Note:
(a) Make sure to ENABLE POP in your second Gmail account which will be accessed from the Main Gmail.
(b) If you are an advanced user or if you have tried this feature with no success then jump to 5th point directly.
(c) You can add up to [...]

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