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Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump | Zen Habits Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump
Every Thursday is Happiness Day on Zen Habits.
Even the most motivated of us — you, me, Tony Robbins — can feel unmotivated at times. In fact, sometimes we get into such a slump that even thinking about making positive changes seems too difficult.
But it’s not hopeless: with some small steps, baby ones in fact, you can get started down the road to positive change.
Yes, I know, it seems impossible at times. You don’t feel like doing anything. I’ve been there, and in fact I still feel that way from time to time. You’re not alone. But I’ve learned a few ways to break out of a slump, and we’ll take a look at those today.
This post was inspired by reader Roy C. Carlson, who asked:
Creative Announces $99 Videocamera - News and Analysis by PC Magazine Creative Announces $99 Videocamera
05.13.08
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by Jennifer L. DeLeo
Vado Pocket Video Cam
Looking for a practical gift for the grad or dad in your life? Creative announced on Tuesday the Vado Pocket Video Cam: a $99 video camera that's both thin (3.9 by 2.2 by 0.6 inches) and light (84 grams).
With a 2-inch color LCD screen, 640-by-480 VGA video resolution, and 2GB of onboard memory, the Vado also has a built-in USB connector that lets you easily plug the cam into your PC. The included software can be used to copy your videos directly to a PC. For the video star, the software also lets you post your videos to YouTube and Photobucket .
For the shy folks, share your videos with close friends and family members only by using Box.net, an online storage site.
The Vado Pocket video Cam is available in pink or silver and has a removable/rechargeable battery and speaker/microphone. Look for it at Amazon.com , B&H Photo, Buy.com, Creative.com, Newegg.com.
Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World
Published May 9th, 2008 in Personal Development, People Skills, Lessons I have learned from... and Success.
Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
Mahatma Gandhi needs no long introduction. Everyone knows about the man who lead the Indian people to independence from British rule in 1947.
So let’s just move on to some of my favourite tips from Mahatma Gandhi.
1. Change yourself.
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.”
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Hot South Korean Trend: Coupons Via Mobiles - News and Analysis by PC Magazine Hot South Korean Trend: Coupons Via Mobiles
05.09.08 -- by Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters Life!) - Young, tech-savvy South Koreans are making coupon clipping a thing of the past and turning to their mobile phones instead.
Some of the fastest-growing mobile phone services in the country let retailers send discount coupons and users send gift certificates for anything from lattes to movie tickets through their handsets.
The merchandise vouchers have a barcode embedded in the message. Users show the coupon on the screen and retailers scan the barcode to apply the discount.
"People can actually receive products from places just by showing their phones," Ryu Mina, a spokeswoman with mobile service provider SK Telecom.
She said people may forget their coupons but always carry their cell phones.
SK Telecom rolled out a service a little more than a year ago called a "gifticon" that allows users to send gift vouchers for items such as convenience store merchandise and pizzas via mobile phones. The sender is billed for the cost of the goods.
South Korean companies started sending coupons via text messages about six years ago, but the service never caught on because most users saw the messages as spam and deleted them.
The main users of the new coupon service with the embedded barcodes are usually in their 20s and younger and often use Internet functions on their mobile phones for communication, according the industry sources.
(Reporting by Lee Jiyeon, writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Valerie Lee)
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Startup's Gizmo Brews Ethanol at Home - News and Analysis by PC Magazine Startup's Gizmo Brews Ethanol at Home
05.09.08 -- by Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters ) - A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won't spike food prices.
E-Fuel Corp unveiled on Thursday the "MicroFueler" touting it as the world's first machine that allows homeowners to make their own ethanol and pump the brew directly into their cars.
The portable unit that sells for $10,000 resembles a gasoline station pump and nozzle—minus the slot for a credit card, or the digital "SALE" numbers that whir ever faster at retail pumps as global demand pushes fuel prices to record levels.
Instead of tapping gasoline from an underground tank, the pump's back end plugs into home power and water supplies to make ethanol for as little as $1 a gallon (3.8 liters), according to E-Fuel.
The company says one of the machine's top selling points is its sweet tooth. It ferments fuel from sugar, the price of which is historically cheap as global supplies are glutted.
That means it avoids the Achilles heel of today's U.S. ethanol system—reliance on corn—which has been blamed for helping to spike global food prices.
"There's no mother in America crying that their kids aren't getting enough sugar," Tom Quinn, CEO and founder of E-Fuel said in an interview.
Regular table sugar alone is too expensive, so E-Fuels says it will link customers to cheaper surplus supplies, including inedible sugar from Mexico that sells at a fraction of the price. It also hopes to get users to help pay for feedstock by selling carbon credits for using the machine, since making ethanol from sugar emits fewer greenhouse gases than making it from corn.
"We will break the traditional ethanol system," said Quinn a California computer and computer games inventor, who has bankrolled the company with what he calls "millions, but not multimillion" of dollars.
He said despite the steep upfront costs, the machines will pay for themselves quickly. For a two-car family that drives about 34,500 miles a year, the MicroFueler will pay for itself in less than two years, assuming average gasoline prices of $3.60 per gallon, the company said. The unit makes up to 35 gallons (132 liters) of 100 percent ethanol per week.
Others are not so sure that the MicroFueler is a good investment.
"I doubt it will work," said David Pimental, a professor at Cornell University who has studied the economics of ethanol for decades. He said the history of the fuel has been one of moving to greater and greater scales to increase the efficiencies of making the fuel.
E-Fuel says the machine is efficient in a way that big ethanol plants aren't because it removes water from the fuel with special fine filters that reduce the fuel costs of distilling the water out.
(Reporting by Timothy Gardner, editing by Marguerita Choy)
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Ditch Your Hoopty: Why You Need a New USB Thumbdrive - Gearlog Monday April 14, 2008
Ditch Your Hoopty: Why You Need a New USB Thumbdrive
Categories:
Cheap Geek, Gadgets & Gizmos, Hard Drives & Storage, Tech Toys
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Flash drive, USB drives
Old USB key vs. New USB key.jpg If you're a tech lover like me--and since you're reading a gadget guide by geeks, for geeks, you probably are--then it's a safe bet that you've been carrying around a hoopty too. I've carried the same USB thumbdrive on my keychain for about two years now. The cap doesn't fit, the plastic is worn down, and the design? It's basically a stick. But still, it's functional, and 2GB seemed large (well large enough, anyway), so I didn't give two thoughts about upgrading it.
Until I saw the new hotness from Transcend, anyway.
The Transcend JetFlash V90c packs 4GB of flash goodness into a tiny metal body barely bigger than the first joint of your thumb. The memory modules themselves are hidden within the body of the drive, and fold out easily enough. But it's the distinctive swirly pattern that really caught my eye--and that of the judges behind the Red Dot Design Awards, who just awarded Transcend for making such a neat device.
Still not sold? Transcend sells these things online for just $27 bucks. Isn't it time you upgraded too?
