Weekend picks #020

Time management? How do you manage time? It's just clicks away. Maybe you should start managing your own self. It's easier

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Rescue your time
How can you start managing effectively your time or even better your own self at work if you don’t even know how you spend your time in front of your computer when you are working? RescueTime is a web-based time-management tool that allows you to easily just that. You will only have to create a free account and install a small program that collects data from your computer and sends them to www.rescuetime.com where you can see them in beautiful graphs. You can even add applications into groups or even add tags to them. The data collector is smart enough to recognize the program that you are working with even if you have more than one opened at the same time. There is only one disadvantage and that is that the program is still in beta phase. It is available in Windows or Mac but the programmers said that they will be releasing the code of the data collector as Open Source so I guess that there will be a Linux version also. You can find it here.

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RSS only for news?

Do you use RSS feeds? I am sure that most of you do. It is the only way to stay informed without spending time visiting numerous sites every day. You just sit in your computer and the news comes to you, you don’t have to go get them. With ReminderFeed you can use RSS feeds not for staying informed but for staying on time. You will only have to visit http://www.reminderfeed.com/ and create your own reminder feed, setting the date. The first time you will have to add the feed in your RSS reader and start receiving your own reminders as RSS. If you add the RSS feed in more than one computer, for example work and home then you will receive the same reminder. You can even secure your RSS feed with a password and what is more interesting is that this service is totally free! You can find it here.

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Something New to Flickr?

Flickr Uploadr just gone to beta version 3.0. The new program has a new interface and it’s easier to use than the old one. With 3.0 you can add tags, descriptions, titles, at any number of your photos and you can even rearrange your photos in a different order. I have read some posts of users complaining for problems although I personally didn’t have any problems. As rcrowley says announcing the new Uploadr is that it is still beta. For now it is only available in English, we can expect all the other languages to be released as the program goes to gamma phase. You can find it here.

Until next time, keep on doing what you do best :-)

The Art of Sun Tzu

The Art of War is a Chinese military book written during the 6th century BC by the General Sun Tzu.
Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and tactics of its time.
The Art of War has also been applied, with much success, to business and managerial strategies and many Universities around the globe has lessons about the implementation of The Art of War to modern Management and business tactics.


Yesterday, I finished the reading of the 25th book about Sun Tzu and his amazing Art of War.
Yes, I'm a big fan of Sun Tzu :-)
So, I tried to create my point of view, of what The Art of War is, in modern business life.

The result come up with a Mindmap [using MindManager] trying to show the ...obvious, after reading 25 books all these years ;-)


If you are a fan of The Art of War please make your comments here, of what The Art of War is for you, and I will try to update the Mindmap with the new perspectives.

Go on, think out of the noise!