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Academicearth.org – How to catch up missed Lectures

Geschrieben am 02. Apr. 2009 von Maik Preßler.

These days i have received the link of academicearth.org. A site with “Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars.”. Quite interesting i thought, and gave it a try with videos about:
Psycology:

History:

and Physics:

Like Rob, i’m an TED-addicted. Therefore it is really hard to convince me replacing my for-TED-preserved-time with ohter stuff. But academicearth definitely [...]

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100 Weblications for Organizing your Ideas

Geschrieben am 09. Feb. 2009 von Maik Preßler.

At Online College Block is a very useful list of weblications and online apps for brainstorming, mind mapping, listing, organizing or just get ridd of too much mess.
As there are 100 tipps, here are my 3 favorite ones:

delicious: everytime access to my bookmarks for me and my friends
digg: worth a look everytime
bubble.us: graphics and flows, [...]

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'www' – why waste words?

Geschrieben am 29. Sep. 2008 von Maik Preßler.

One thing that often confuses me when opening a website is when the main page of a domain can’t be reached without setting the ‘www’ in frot of the URL.

I know that a domain without the ‘www’ isn’t automatically supposed to be forwarding to the word wide web presence, but IMHO it should be regarded [...]

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Shortcut rulez

Geschrieben am 05. Sep. 2008 von Maik Preßler.

Fact is, for repetitive actions, using the mouse is the longest, most inefficient way to get it done.
I couldn’t agree more to this quote. What the assembly line has done for mass production is what shortcuts can do to our personal workflow. They reduce the time we have to spent with things that can be [...]

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The Art of Speaking

Geschrieben am 12. Feb. 2008 von Maik Preßler.

Just found a useful summary of Patrick Henry Winston’s lecture on “The Art of Speaking”. Read the facts in a nutshell in the Study Hacks’ post. A few very simple but nevertheless very promising hints on speaking in general.
Find the video here.

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How to Organize My Documents and Private Folders

Geschrieben am 15. Jan. 2008 von Maik Preßler.

A question i’ve been dealing with many times is how to organize my files in an uncomplicated but also easy-to-work-with way. On Donationcoder there’s a discussion about the My Documents quest, read the entry here. Lifehacker has also some interesting thougts on organizing the very own files, worth to have a look.
The most popular approaches [...]

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Shortcuts in Acrobat

Geschrieben am 06. Dec. 2007 von Maik Preßler.

Inspired by the Keyboard Ninja from the How-to Geek, i’d like to give some very useful keyboard shortcuts for Adobes Reader. Sure, there are plenty more, but these are the ones that have saved me a lot of time yet:

[Ctrl]+[1] , [Ctrl]+[2], [Ctrl]+[3], [Ctrl]+[0]: Switching the Reader’s display mode
[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[n]: goto page
[Ctrl]+[L]: Fullscreen reading mode
[Ctrl]+[-], [Ctrl]+[+]: [...]

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Most Efficient Time-Waster Ever

Geschrieben am 15. Nov. 2007 von Maik Preßler.

Just a link to an excellent term i’ve been stumbled upon: “most efficient time-waster ever”. Worth a read, definitely!
Link: Wired.com: Thanks to Google’s Tools, I’m the Most Efficient Time-Waster Ever

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Using E-Mail Storage as Backup System

Geschrieben am 17. Oct. 2007 von Maik Preßler.

The issue of backing up your important data is a topic of high interest for everyone dealing with critical data. Some time ago, i thougt about how to manage the backup of my daily documents as simple as possible. As my requirements, i name these:

Most of my data is saved in more or less small [...]

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