Productivity Tips

February 10, 2010

February 21, 2009

  • How to have an economical stay in the UK (mainly London)?

    United Kingdom (UK) is an expensive economy with high cost of living. For business visitors, it is important to have an economical and comfortable stay. Based on my experience, I am putting together some tips for fellow business travelers.
    Hotel / Stay:

    Accommodation in UK can vary between GBP 10 per night (for bunker [...]

September 4, 2008

  • Quillpad – Type in Indian regional languages

    Today I came across an online tool called Quillpad.
    This online software let you type in most Indian regional languages (including Hindi, of course). The quality of application and usability has blown me away! I think such applications will make vernacular content a reality on Internet.
    This is how they describe their service:
    Quillpad is a free online [...]

April 3, 2008

  • Use EasyBM today to boost your productivity

    I came across this rocking website called EasyBM (www.easybm.com), a FREE online service, which can help you in boosting your online productivity to new levels. I generally do not get excited about something so quickly. My exposure to new ideas and business plans make me immune to general ideas. But I got excited by the [...]

March 28, 2008

  • The REAL Programmer automates his job

    Just a random thought:
    Programmers are supposed to use their programming skills to automate business process for their clients. Therefore, a good programmer should be one, who takes an initiative of automating his own work and never repeats the line of code he has written once Charity begins at home!
    Unfortunately I have hardly seen many such [...]

March 24, 2008

  • How to generate exhaustive keyword combinations?

    When creating an exhaustive keyword list for your AdWords / PPC campaigns, you might face a tedious job of creating all possible combinations by joining two words / phrases to cover the keyword that your prospect might key in. This can be a very frustrating experience.
    Recently, I sumbled upon this website: http://www.imscripts.com/keywords
    It can generate these [...]

November 27, 2007

  • Take a positive attitude to work

    I often hear from people:

    I hate my job.
    I don’t feel like going to work.
    I have no excitement in my career. It is the same old grind.

    This happens more so often because most people are doing things that they never wanted to do in their professional life. I have written about this problem in [...]

August 20, 2007

  • Learning in the age of information overload

    Blogs have fueled the growth of peer-to-peer information flow in form of news, knowledge packets, ideas and individual point-of-views. However it has also resulted in "Information overload" which drives a normal person nut as he is at risk to wasting too much time reading the flesh before he reaches the crust.
    Learning becomes more difficult as we [...]

August 8, 2007

  • Paper napkin business plan

    I have often seen people struggling with their business plan. I have a bit unconventional take on the subject. May be, because it has worked well for me till now. So here is what I sugget:
    A business plan does help. However a business plan should be proportionate with the size of investment you are making [...]

December 20, 2006

  • Knowledge capsules – Fast start kits

    In this age of information overload, it is nice to see some “read it – implement it” kind of quick start guides at http://www.faststartkits.com/
    These guides are easy-to-read and are only 2-3 pages long. Most of them do not need you to have any background knowledge of the subject it covers as they are targeted towards [...]

December 2, 2006

  • When Gmail makes life difficult

    I am a big fan of Gmail because of its speed and simplicity. However Gmail makes life hell lot of difficult in some cases -
    1. The Threading Bug
    While threading, Gmail creates threads based on the “Subject” of the email. It should be “Subject” & “Sender/Reciepient”. It is very cumbersome to sort out and read mails [...]

  • Google Answers is no longer accepting questions

    I recently came across Google Answers (http://answers.google.com/answers/) and found that they are no longer accepting questions.
    So Google closes down its Google Answers service. Though I did not sense this coming, but once I saw it, I felt this is a logical step Google has taken. I anticipate the following reasons:
    1. Google does not want to [...]

July 19, 2006

  • How to use Gmail to send and receive mails under your own domain name

    Hi Folks,
    Gmail is fast.
    Gmail is easy to use.
    Gmail is virus and spam free.
    Gmail is web based and universally accessible.
    But, for most internet users, the biggest turn off is the fact that you cannot use your own domain name with Gmail. In fact no free webmail service is known to me which provides this facility [...]

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