Hoarders, Pack Rats, Clutter Solutions

September 24th, 2009 Alex Posted in productivity Comments Off

I don’t have this problem but I thought those were some interesting thoughts:

Number one: “I have the largest seashell collection on the planet. I keep it
scattered on beaches around the world.” – Steven Wright

Number two:

Coveting possessions is unhealthy. Here’s how I look at it:

All of the computers on Ebay are mine. In fact, everything on Ebay is
already mine. All of those things are just in long term storage that I
pay nothing for. Storage is free.

When I want to take something out of storage, I just pay the for the
storage costs for that particular thing up to that point, plus a
nominal shipping fee, and my things are delivered to me so I can use
them. When I am done with them, I return them to storage via
Craigslist or Ebay, and I am given a fee as compensation for freeing
up the storage facilities resources.

This is also the case with all of my stuff that Amazon and Walmart are
holding for me. I have antiques, priceless art, cars, estates, and
jewels beyond the dreams of avarice.

The world is my museum, displaying my collections on loan. The James
Savages of the world are merely curators.

Quote from
http://www.metafilter.com/65284/Collect-em-all#1862024

Number three: Watch www.aetv.com/hoarders for a few episodes and that might cure you!

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Excel Keyboard Shortcut – Selecting The Whole Data Region

February 18th, 2009 Alex Posted in productivity, windows Comments Off

If you need to select the whole data region (it might included some empty cells) in Excel without selecting all cells (<CTRL>+<A>), click on any cell inside that group and then type: <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+<8>. It is very useful for large data sets.

You should then get something like this:

excel spreadsheet screenshot

Try http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_rnib003503.hcsp for more keyboard shortcuts.

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Set Firefox Scroll-wheel Speed

September 23rd, 2008 Alex Posted in productivity, web Comments Off

  1. Type about:config<ENTER> in firefox address bar
  2. *Optional* Type: mousewheel.withnokey<ENTER> in the filter box
  3. Set mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines to false

    This makes Firefox use its own setting instead of the system-wide setting.

  4. Change mousewheel.withnokey.numlines to how many lines you want to scroll at a time.
  5. I use 8

Source: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/99609816/m/480004345731

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Print Only What You Need From a Web Page

September 21st, 2008 Alex Posted in productivity, web Comments Off

The following resources allow you to edit any web page and print only what you need to save paper and/or ink.

  • Bookmarklets

    To use a bookmarklet, you need to bookmark it; either drag it to your bookmark toolbar or right click the link and choose bookmark this. Next, when you visit a web page you would like to edit, click on that new bookmark. My favorite one is PrintWhatYouLike, there is no extension to install and it is a very easy and efficient.

    1. PrintWhatYouLike Bookmarklet
    2. EditThis Bookmarklet (Demo)
    3. List of bookmarklets to remove (zap) annoyances from web pages
  • Firefox Extension
    1. Aardvark
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Linux Mass Rename Recursively using a Bash Script

September 14th, 2008 Alex Posted in linux, productivity Comments Off

This example Bash script replaces “.JPG” with “.jpg” recursively in the current directory (It can handle filenames with spaces):


#!/bin/bash

find ./ -type f -name "*.JPG" | while read FILE
do
newname=`echo $FILE | sed s/.JPG/.jpg/`
echo $newname
mv "$FILE" "$newname"
done

Convert all characters to lowercase:


#!/bin/bash

find ./ -type f -name "*" | while read FILE
do
newname=`echo $FILE | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z'`
echo $newname
mv "$FILE" "$newname"
done

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