How to Keep Your Spare Computer Wires From Becoming a Knotted Mess

If you’re tired of your computer cable mess, and you don’t have any twisty ties around, you can try this knotting method to store your cables neatly.

Time Management for Teachers: 9 Minute Video

As part of a new series, I’ve put together a video about a time management system for teachers. In it I cover classroom management strategies, planning your day, keeping track of all your students, how to organize paperwork, sick days, big projects, how to have less stress on the . . . → Read More: Time Management for Teachers: 9 Minute Video

6 Free Applications to Transform Your Phone into a Productivity Booster

David Pogue, technology columnist for The New York Times recently gave a talk about some neat, productive and time saving things you can do with your phone. There’s some old-hat stuff about VoIP in the beginning but skip to 7 minutes into the video for the useful phone hacks.

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Short Documentary about Compulsive Hoarders

Possessed is a short documentary available for free online about four people with clinical compulsive hoarding. From the website:

‘POSSESSED’ enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions… When does collecting become hoarding and why do possessions exert such an influence on . . . → Read More: Short Documentary about Compulsive Hoarders

Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero Talk at Google

Merlin Mann gave a presentation at Google titled ‘Inbox Zero’ about how to manage your email. Merlin ruthlessly views email as an information delivery mechanism: once you have what you need, chuck the email. Emails are not letters or, as he often says, ‘Each email is not a little hug’.

One source of . . . → Read More: Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero Talk at Google

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