Monday by the Numbers
January 7, 2008
Top Ten Obscure Google Search Tricks - Lifehacker provides us with this list of 10 ways you didn’t know you could use Google just in time for the new year (Has it been 2008 for a week ALREADY?). Included in this list are useful, and definitely obscure tips like “Get the local time anywhere” and “ID people, objects and foreign language words and phrases with image search.”
10 Ways to Make Your iPod a Better Learning Gadget - If you haven’t already broken it, use that new iPod you got from Santa for something other than listening to Kanye 24/7. Openculture presents this list to help you remember that gadgets can be used for something other than just a distraction or entertainment. My favorites on the list: “Create eBooks,” and “Put Wikipedia on your iPod.”
Cool Ways to Use Your Digital Camera or Camera Phone - For those of use who didn’t find an iPod under the tree this year, but a digital camera instead, 1 Heck of a Guy brings us this list of ways to use your new point n’ shoot to your advantage. Think outside the frame and use your 7.1 megapixels for something useful like creating an electronic whiteboard or take pictures of landmarks to help you get where you’re going. Or better yet, get back to where you’ve been (i.e. where you parked).
15 Ways to Restart the Exercise Habit (And How to Keep It) - Lifehack unfailingly brings us a list to help us improve our lives, and this time, they are promoting something most of us can benefit from in order to extend the life we are trying so diligently to make more productive. This list provides tips to help you get your big butt in the gym, and how to keep it there. So if you’re as unsatisfied with the ways the holidays have treated your midsection as I am, then you’ll surely jump on this list with gusto. - JEREMY S. GRIFFIN
(photo by Triotex )
