Five characteristics of objective objectives

Realistic - For a task to be realistic, it needs to be something that you will actually do. This is another bar to putting stuff on the task list just to have it sit there forever. For example, if you never prepare your own taxes, …
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Steps on how to do my project!

opened my project file to do the introduction. thought for a while.. was looking to my hands on the keyboard.. saw some great lighting.. here comes an idea.. brought my camera.. was trying to do some lines and shadows stuff.. couldnt… …
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Command the Installation and Deployment

tasklist | find /i “setup.exe” >nul. if %errorlevel% EQU 0 ( ping 127.0.0.1 -n 3 >nul goto loopSQL ) echo on. @echo # Modify the Surface Area Configuration to allow remote connections …
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Convert Your Gas Mower to Solar Power [Weekend Project]

Web site Appropedia describes in impressive detail how to convert your gas-powered lawnmower to solar power. The process involves some serious hacking …
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ReplacementDocs Finds Manuals and Maps for Video Games [Games]

You can find some great deals buying video games used and secondhand, but there’s often the trade-off of not getting a manual or the original maps and cheat sheets with your …
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Defrag Your Office for Increased Efficiency [Workspace]

One of the side effects of having so much stuff to help us get work done is dealing with the clutter it creates in our workspace. But just like you can defragment a hard drive—organize the bits and bytes so that related ones are closest to one another for faster access—you can also defrag your […]

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RateBeer Finds You a Good Brew [Drinks]

Web site RateBeer contains an enormous user-rated database of beers to help you find your new favorite beer. Last weekend we highlighted Beer Suggest, a new site scouring the net to bring you a good beer, but several commenters pointed out RateBeer (and BeerAdvocate) as sites that have been around for much longer—which means they […]

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Assign Folder-Specific Background Images in Finder [Mac Tip]

Add a little eye candy to your most frequently used folders on your Mac by assigning a background image to the window. To do so, from the View menu, choose “As Icons.” Then again from the View menu, choose “Show View Options.” Under Background, choose Picture, and select the image you […]

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Access US-Only Web Content with Hotspot Shield [Featured Windows Download]

Windows only: Freeware application Hotspot Shield secures your public web browsing by connecting you to the internet through the Hotspot Shield virtual private network. What more people seem to use Hotspot Shield for is to access US-only websites from outside the US. We post a lot of content on Lifehacker, and sometimes we get guff […]

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This Week’s Best Posts [Highlights]

TGIF, people! Before you head out to happy hour, get a load of this week’s most popular posts:
Read Full Magazines for Free, With or Without an iPhone“Digital magazine provider Zinio offers up the current issues of 20 magazines—including Popular Mechanics, PC Magazine, and U.S. News & World Report—for free full-page browsing by iPhone users.”
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