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Increase your Productivity with the 7P’s Rule

February 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

7P's

 While serving in the military I picked up a good number of sayings and expressions that I still use today. One of them was the 7 P’s rule.

 What exactly is the 7 P’s rule. Well it stands for Proper Previous Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance. This rule can apply to anything you are doing from blogging to taking a trip some where. A little bit of planning can prevent a lot of frustration later.

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Clean the Slate with KleenSlate

February 10th, 2008 · 9 Comments

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 A short time ago I wrote a post on how much I love white boards or dry erase boards. Well Julia the founder of Kleen Slate got in touch with me to tell me about some products she has created for white boards / dry erase boards.

Julia saw a need and filled it with her revolutionary idea of having erasers attached right on the dry / erase marker. No more having to hunt around for the eraser when you make a bumble while writing, or worse yet using your fingers to wipe off the writing.

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My Secret to dealing with large amounts of Important E-mail

February 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments




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 The other night I was talking with some colleagues and they were complaining about having to deal with so much e-mail every day. I naively asked them how much e-mail they get in a day. I was surprised when the answers ranged for 10 to 50. I sometime wish I only got 50 relevant important e-mails a day. The fact is I get close to 100 or more a day, and that is not including spam. They all require my attention, but thankfully not all of them require a response. So how do I deal with them?

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My Favorite 5 sites for Photoshop Actions and Filters

February 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

 Well it is time for the weekly photoshop post on Tenacious Creations. Filters and Actions are tools a photoshop artist can use to speed up their production. Although all the things that actions and filters can do can be done manually with photoshop (and most times a better result is achieved). Filters and Actions can greatly reduce the amount of time required to do these things.

 There are some things that I find just so much easier to use filters or actions for and some cases where I would prefer to do it by hand. I have a mix of bought filters and actions as well as free ones. Here is a list of sites of actions and filters that I find useful.

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Project Wonderful - Is it wonderful?

February 2nd, 2008 · 10 Comments

Project Wonderful

 After a lot of prodding from various online friends I finally relented and joined Project Wonderful.

 Project Wonderful is all about making online advertising more profitable and easier for everyone involved. They say it is a transparent system for both the advertiser and publisher. It eliminates click fraud by getting rid of paying for clicks. Basically the advertiser bids for space on the site or sites of their choice. While they are the high bid their ad is displayed on the site. Ads are bid on a per day basis. For example at the time of writing this post if you look to the top left corner you will see the project wonderful ad. Currently is costs $0.20 per day to advertise on Tenacious Creations.

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