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Arranging the Furniture
Arranging the furniture in a college dorm room can be a complete mess. But if you can, it’s a lot easier to go in with a plan.
So as I got relatively bored the other night, I started to do just that. Opened up Photoshop and made myself a life size document (12.5′X17′) complete with life size furniture pieces in there. It might be a little crazy to do that, but it really cut down on the math needed to keep everything to scale. And trust me, it was bad enough having to convert all of the measurements to inches.
Grades Template Revisited
Do you remember when I tried to show you how to use Excel to keep track of your grades? That was a bit of a disaster, with the template never downloading. Well, we’re going to try it again, with a lot of improvements. Check out the template, and after the jump you can see what’s changed.
Table of contents for Grade Tracker
- How To Use Excel to Keep Track of Grades
- Grades Template Revisited
- Grade Tracker 1.5
- Hold the Grade v 1.6
Sunbird 0.8 Released
Mozilla Sunbird has released version 0.8, and I’m very excited about that. I’ve been a fan of the stand alone calendar cousin of Firefox and Thunderbird for a while. Here’s a list of the new features straight from Mozilla:
- A new icon set which matches more closely the icon style of other mozilla applications
- Category colors are now shown next to an event box, giving users a much better overview of their differently categorized events
- Events with alarms now have a visual indicator showing an alarm bell
- A totally overhauled alarm dialog
- Sunbird now recognizes the timezone definitions in .ics files created by other applications. This fixes the longstanding issue of Sunbird miscalculating the date or time of events contained in those files
- The timezone guessing has been significantly improved
- Sunbird now contains experimental support for viewing remote calendars offline. This feature has known bugs and is included for testing purposes only
- Sunbird contains several performance fixes, which should improve working with larger calendar files
- You can now define for each of your calendars, whether you want to be notified of alarms for events in these calendars or not
- A full list of changes that have gone into this release can be found on The Rumbling Edge website
After the jump, see what I think about these changes.
6 Ways To Effectively Use Wall Space
There are countless articles and blogs that will tell you how to organize a room. And I’m not saying that they’re bad. Even I’ve done it, so it would be a bit fishy if I said it was a bad idea. But something that I see neglected a lot of the time in these articles is using wall space effectively. After the jump, check out 6 tips that you can use to get more use out of your walls.
Furniture Hacks
If you’re living in a tight space then you should know that furniture came sometimes take up more room than it’s worth. But how can you get around having that large recliner or the furniture that comes with the dorm room? After the jump, I’ll tell you about a few simple furniture hacks that can make life a lot easier. Some are common sense, but I hope that there are at least a few that you haven’t thought of before.
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TimeBridge: Solving Almost All Of Your Scheduling Problems
If you’ve ever tried to set up a meeting with people then you know know how messy it can become. People don’t know their schedules and have to get back to you later. People think they know they’re schedules and that perfect meeting time is down the toilet because of previous commitments. You almost have to plan a meeting just to figure out when to have the real meeting. Who wants to do all of that. After the jump, we’ll take a look at TimeBridge, an online application (or web app if you don’t feel like typing all of that out) that attempts to take care of that for you.
Stay Organized to Stay Sane
I’m not exactly the most organized person in the world, so you can either take this advice as hypocritical or lessons learned from failure. Really, the lesson to learn here is that organization greatly reduces anxiety. After the jump, read a more detailed explanation.
4 Reasons to Run PHP On Your Computer
PHP is a pretty powerful tool if you know how to use it. But what most people don’t realize is that PHP can be used for more than making websites for the world to see. It can also be used to make your everyday life easier in the off line world. If this is something you might be interested in head over to Apache Friends and download Xampp (Windows, Linus, and Mac versions available) so you can try it for yourself. See how this can help you out after the jump below.
Testing Burning Programs
I’m in the process of finding something that will burn CD Text so that I can have that when I’m in the car. So I’ll be testing a group of free burning programs to see which is the best. CD Text isn’t 100% necessary, but it is why I’m looking for something.
If you have any ideas for programs I should try, please let me know what they are in the comments below.
How To Use Excel to Keep Track of Grades
If you’re in college then you know how important grades can be. And if you’re like a lot of college students then you like to know exactly what grade you have in a class right now and what you need to do to get that A you’re shooting for.
At least I know that I’m that way. And with a little bit of Excel know how, it is a very easy process to have most of the work done for you. See how after the jump below.
Table of contents for Grade Tracker
- How To Use Excel to Keep Track of Grades
- Grades Template Revisited
- Grade Tracker 1.5
- Hold the Grade v 1.6