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For many, attaining that seemingly elusive balance between their job or career and personal lives seems like, at best, borrowing a miracle off on the horizon. Kids get sick. Those complicated presentations? Well, they’re due tomorrow morning. The spouse or significant other is griping about you never having enough time for them. Seems like it’s an unmerciful, perpetual cycle, no? According to a recent study [...]

productivity apps

Introduced in 2010, the iPad has quickly taken the world by storm. The 4th generation iPad is a powerful machine, sporting the super bright Retina Display, speedy Apple A6X chip and a lot more. With over 250,000 iPad specific apps, your iPad can now do so much more. This list can give you some ideas… Note Apps & Mind-Mapping 1.Paper (Free) Your best idea can [...]

procrastination

“Let me just get on Facebook first!” Two hours later and you’re still scrolling down the blue-white feed… Sounds familiar? Most of us are guilty of it. Whether it’s social media, TV, sleep – procrastination blocks our progress towards our goals. The following list of tips will help you fight procrastination and move into definite action today! 1. Spot Your Enemies We all have enemies [...]

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Your iPhone comes equipped with useful tools such as Siri, Passbook, Mail and Calendar. If you want to take your productivity to the next level though, this list of free apps is a great place to start. Most apps are also compatible with iPod touch and iPad. Practical Information & Phone Management 1.Converter Plus How many dollars do you take on your next trip to [...]

steam engine

iTunes App Store and Google Play both have thousands of productivity apps to offer you. The bad news is that most of them are not worth your time. The good news, however, is that we have taken the time to go through them so that you don’t have to. As part of our quest for the best mobile productivity apps, here’s a list of 15 apps [...]

android

With hundreds of millions of global users, Android is now the largest installed base of any mobile platform and it’s growing rapidly. As part of our quest for the best mobile productivity apps, we have scoured Google Play in search for the true gems. Here are 16 of the most useful and intuitive productivity apps for Android. They are all free but some have paid [...]

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Google has long since become a synonym for Web search. You don’t search anymore. You Google. But if you’re like most people, you are probably not using Google Search to its full potential. For example, did you know that you can check flight schedules and prices right on the search results page? How about sports scores, movie times and word definitions? The following tips will [...]

Man multi-tasking

Do you ever feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done that you need to do? Most people have felt this way in the past or feel that way right now. It’s an extremely common feeling, but most people don’t know how to solve the problem. You can’t stop time to get more done, but there are little things you [...]

Couch potato watching TV

Did you know that the average American watches 5 hours and 11 minutes of television every day? That’s 36 hours of television per week, which in turn leads to 144 hours – or 6 full days –  of television every month. If you think that’s bad, imagine how much that adds up to over the course of a year – 1,728 hours, or 72 full [...]

Checking email on mobile phone

It’s something we deal with every day and most of us are terrible at it. We put it off, we hide it, we flag it for later, but we never address it directly. I’m talking, of course, about email. Email is everywhere and for many of us, it’s our primary method of communication on the Internet. We may check our personal inboxes a few times [...]