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Category Archives: Productivity

Sleep better

September 17, 2008 – 7:57 am

My favorite podcast on CNET is The 404. They cover the culture of the web in New York. Today, they interviewed Dr. Michael J. Breus, an expert on sleeping. Here are the notes I took from the interview:
In a 20 minute nap, you don’t fully go into deep sleep, but your mind goes into a [...]

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HelloTxt has Ping.fm beat

July 18, 2008 – 5:03 pm

Ping.fm is a way you can update your status on multiple sites with one a few steps. But HelloTxt has a simpler interface, and interacts with mobile better.

I like it better because I can easily choose which services I want something to go to. Ping makes you goto another page, and make groups. Just make [...]

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Track shipments with Twitter

April 22, 2008 – 9:16 am

pb30 has an awesome thing. You can get updates from UPS, DHL, and FedEx on Twitter.

Here are the simple instructions, taken straight from pb30’s page:

Follow @trackthis - Since @trackthis uses direct messages, you must follow it so it can send direct messages to you. @trackthis will follow you back immediately so that you can send [...]

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