When we're doing our tasks/projects sometimes we found ourselves doing things that is totally unrelated with our current tasks, making our current tasks seems endless. below I will give you some tips that I hope can help you on focusing more on your current tasks/projects. Make sure that your body is well prepared for the current task/project. Believe me when your body isn't feeling so well, it would be really hard to concentrate, it's better for you to get enough rest and therefor increase your effectiveness, rather than forcing yourself through the project. but of course if you're on a tight deadline you may want to skip this step. note: please differentiate between not having a fit body and laziness. Remove any possible distraction from you. There are lots of things that could make us off-track from our current task, so be sure to remove [+]

Sometimes we need to access or search information from a certain website, but our college/office did not allowed it by blocking the site, here are some tricks on how to access blocked site: Open your favorite search engine, and enter these keywords "proxy site" without the quotation mark. A list of a proxy site will appear, now you should search and filter which sould work best for you. Using those proxy site will allow you to access blocked site, if you dont know how to use a proxy site, you can read more on these tutorial: How to use a proxy site: Okay now you found a proxy site, what you should do next is enter the address of the blocked site into the text box on the proxy site. Thats all, you should be able to surf on the blocked site now. For you who are [+]

I recently switched laptops at work and I just could NOT get used to the annoying fact that my delete button has shifted so far away that its became noticeably difficult to use.

Rather than try to adapt (or sprain my hand), I am using Sharpkeys, which is an excellent piece of freeware which allows you to remap your keyboard so your keyboard *ahem* “works the way it’s supposed to”. Want an extra ‘Alt’ or ‘Shift’ key? Just remap another key to it. You can also choose to turn off some keys on your keyboard altogether (like capslock), if you they get in the way. One thing I like about it is that it’s not a program which sits in the background. Instead, Sharpkeys has no [+]

Q: If I get my phone wet, what’s the best way to bring it back to life?A: Even if a wet cellphone seems dead, there’s a good chance it can be resuscitated. Just make sure you act fast—the longer the water sits inside, the greater the likelihood it will destroy the phone for good.

(Photograph by J. Muckle/Studio D. Ilustrations by Gabriel Silveira)

By Joel Johnson

Published in the July 2008 issue. This is a DIY moment. While consumers are conditioned to send back broken merchandise, your phone’s warranty probably doesn’t cover water damage. And you may not have much luck pulling a fast one on your phone company—most of today’s phones come with a “water sticker” that permanently changes color if it gets wet. The first step: Immediately cut the power by removing the [+]

Winning an argument can be a great feeling, but it’s even better when you can get your point across while not having your opponent feel like they have been beaten, broken, or lost out. Winning is best when it is win/win for both parties. Is that even possible? Absolutely! Your Inner Resistance Monster wants you to believe that in order for one person to win, the other has to lose, but this is not always the case. The good news is that this diplomacy skill can be learned so that you become better at creating win/win situations. The better I got at being diplomatic, the better my people skills got and the better all my relationships became; personal, work, online, or even dealing with bill collectors. Here’s some tips to help you with diplomacy: The best state of mind to go [+]

It doesn't need a genius to make good grade at class, you just have to be diligent and take your best effort on studying, here are few tips to help you manage your study: Prepare a designated notebook for each subject, or you can just use one notebook, but remember not to mix them up, separate them properly. Every time you finish a chapter in class, make a summary about it, and don't forget to write the key point of what you learned. Review them once a week, just use the summary and key point, you only need to read from the notebook if you forget about something. Create a mind maps, with image and graphics, this will help you review your lesson faster. If you have time , try to get more information about a topic from the internet, library, and take a note [+]

As we all know smoking is bad for health, not only for the smoker but also for the people around him/her. beside that the smoke generated from the smoker is really annoying for the non-smoker. And when someone become a heavy smoker, its really hard to stop this bad habit, but it's still possible, here's a few tips on how to quit smoking. Although its not full-proof tricks but it can help you to show the steps on how to start your "quit smoking" program. First you need to have a strong will and determination to quit smoking. without it all of the next steps would be useless. Set when your program should start, and when it should end. note that when the program is end, you must be already quit your smoking habit, try to set a reasonable program (ex: a 40 [+]

A battery is the heart of a cell phone, therefor if you want to use your cell phone for most of the time, you should try to preserve your battery, here are some tips on how to do it: When you buy a new battery, be sure to fully charge it before yor first use (initialize). a nickel based battery needs to be charged for 16 hours initially, while lithium-ion battery needs to be charged for about 5 to 6 hours. Just ignore the information that tell you that the phone is flly charged, since it is inaccurate if the battery has not been initialized. Keep the battery in a room temperature, try not to keep the battery in a high temperature place. Know your battery type and how to handle it, read the manual. Use only the charger that was meant for our [+]

Here's an easy way to multiply any number in any digits with 11 Lets practice with a 2 digit number first: for example lets take 23 Adds the two digit together example for number 23 is 2+3 = 5 Insert the number between the original number, example 2 5 3, and there you have your answer Ok now what if the number has total adds up to more than ten like for 89 Just adds the two digits ex: 8+9=17 Now insert between the first and the last of the original number with the number 1 being add to the previous number ex: 8(+1) 7 9 resulting 979 and there's your answer. Now for the ultimate, how to multiply number that has more than 2 digit with 11, for example 239: First split the number ex: 2+3 = 5 and 3+9 = 12 Now remember,since the last number has [+]

Have you ever password your bios and after sometime you just forget what the password is, leaving you unable to access your bios again, well here's an old trick to handle that kind of trouble Make sure your computer is turned off and the cable is unplugged. Open up your computer case so that your motherboard is accessible. Search for the battery on the motherboard, usually has a circular shape and a silver metalic color Carefully remove the battery and wait for about 2-3 minutes Put back the battery, and start the computer Now the computer will most likely to told you that the BIOS configuration cannot be found, now you can reconfigure your bios or just set them back to default. By now the password should have been cleared. [+]