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Cool stuff digest: August 2010

September 1, 2010

Things that I liked in August

  1. Who killed more people in the Bible, God or Satan? A bar graph;
  2. Collaborative design thinking;
  3. New concept of bus in China;
  4. Informative infographics video about freecycling consumption trends driven by technology;
  5. Cool service for electronic content promotion: pay with tweet;
  6. Reduce stress scientifically;
  7. New good & free internet radio: Soma FM;
  8. Wikipedia edit wars icon smile Cool stuff digest: August 2010
  9. Service that forms movies recommendations generated based on your friends’ tweets;

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Cool stuff digest: July 2010

July 31, 2010

Things that I considered worthy to pay attention to in July:

  1. How various teas (green, oolong, etc.) are processed;
  2. Curious project which aims to create a movie about our planet all shot in one day all over the world;
  3. TED talk that answers the question “What Leonardo da Vinci Really Looked Like”;
  4. Worth watching talk by venture-capitalist Fred Wilson on “10 ways to be your own boss”;
  5. Just a funny picture that illustrates how Gantt diagrams feel in reality;
  6. Video that shows how augmented reality can potentially look like;
  7. Impressive strength: Konstantinov doing 325kg squat & 420kg deadlift!;
  8. Common Errors in English Usage book;
  9. Very action-oriented comprehensive & yet free webinar about web-based infobusiness, affiliate programs, passive income;
  10. Another motivational video (Nike commercial);

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Cool stuff digest: June 2010

June 25, 2010

  1. NYTimes on multi-tasking vs. mono-tasking & addiction to gadgets;
  2. Shanghai 1990 vs 2010;
  3. An absolutely awesome creative blog – visualization of worthy speeches;
  4. Quite an interesting research: comparison of the “pace of life” betw. different cities;
  5. Interactive map by Kayak that shows the lowest tickets prices based on your current location;
  6. Atypically interesting article about procrastination by Steve Pavlina;
  7. Pencil drawing that can easily be confused with photos;
  8. Hilarious TED talk that actually makes you laugh out loud, great perspective on marketing & ads as well;
  9. Cool ideas by Kevin Rose on improving ebooks reading experience;
  10. Scientific look at lucid dreams;
  11. Lively promo video about Iceland: stunning sights;
  12. WordPress 3.0 is available for download;
  13. Google Chrome extensions sync;
  14. Guide to create really good/bad TED talks;
  15. 6 Japanese Subcultures That Are Insane;
  16. Beautiful pictures of stars and waves;
  17. Retro futurological art;
  18. How to create little planets using Photoshop;
  19. How to get your dream job for $6 using Google Adwords;;
  20. How to run on water;
  21. Mood visualization based on twitter smiles;
  22. Sarcastic and very funny video about customer & vendor relations in marketing;
  23. How to take a scenery photo free of people when it’s overcrowded;
  24. Stunning athletic performance;
  25. Videos from the places with the longest life longevity;
  26. Threadsy – Gmail, Facebook & Twitter in one window;
  27. How various teas (green, oolong, etc.) are processed;
  28. Curious project which aims to create a movie about our planet all shot in one day all over the world;
  29. TED talk that answers the question “What Leonardo da Vinci Really Looked Like” ;
  30. Worth watching talk by venture-capitalist Fred Wilson on “10 ways to be your own boss”;
  31. Just a funny picture that illustrates how Gantt diagrams feel in reality;
  32. Video that shows how augmented reality can potentially look like.

You can find more actual links in twitter and in my Google Reader shared items.

“Cool stuff digest” is an experimental genre. And probably this is the first and the last post. I wonder if it’s of any interest to you.

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Save time by approaching your RSS subscriptions in a completely new way: 8 principles for effective reading of blogs

April 5, 2010

RSS feeds is an awesome tool to save lots of time. You can get them all in the same place and not visit every single web-site to check if there are some updates. But often it becomes quite the opposite.

I personally have 573 subscriptions. That’s a lot. You risk looking at your favorite RSS feeds aggregator (like, Google Reader for example), seeing 1000+ unread items there and then spending half a day passively browsing through them. Instead of pursing your purpose and doing something that will bring you closer to your goals.

newspaper laprop rss subscription reading Save time by approaching your RSS subscriptions in a completely new way: 8 principles for effective reading of blogs

So, what are the lifehacks to minimize the time and maximize the value of reading blogs or other RSS feeds?

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Zen writing: best free minimalistic word processing apps

March 16, 2010

Disturbances and loss of the ability to focus seem to be the curse of modern world. All these social networks, messengers and ideas of “what to google” can make it pretty hard to concentrate on writing. But sometimes you just need to “unplug” in order to finish a good text, whatever it is: a blog post, an essay or a book.

beach computer zen writing Zen writing: best free minimalistic word processing apps

There are software applications that allow you to do exactly that. Often you don’t need billions of formatting options, smart integration opportunities and other features of bloated Microsoft Office. What you need is to write. Then, you can do all the formatting, proof reading, illustration, etc. So, what are the best free tools that are perfect for this task?
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