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From: Nowshade Kabir
Date: 3/12/2005
Time: 3:41:44 AM
Remote Name: 62.5.207.210
The Internet is increasingly becoming a major time killer for many of us. Involuntarily, we started to spend more time online than we really can afford. Here is how it goes: you were sitting at work, you needed to find some crucial information to finish that project at hand, you went on the Internet to look for the information, you run a web search or started browsing through web directory, and suddenly you noticed something that seems very interesting, it could be a banner ad, a link, just a piece of information, or some related ideas that came up that instant and required immediate attention. You clicked on the link to check it out thinking this won’t take too long. This link took you to another seemingly more interesting page. Before you knew it, you started to ramble through the Internet aimlessly wasting your precious work time. Then, of course, there is this sports news that you must read, stock portfolio that you must check constantly, vacation place you need to choose for your next holidays, the list goes on and on, and what about those emails? Sounds familiar! You are not alone! Most of the Internet users are in the same boat. If you feel trapped and frustrated with your handling of the time spent online, you need to stand back, take a break, and look into the problem from a different perspective. Actually, what you need is more than a break; you need a balanced approach to your Internet activities. In order to understand where you online time goes, the first thing you should do is log everything that you do on the Internet for several days. Log your online activities If you scrupulously write down everything you do on the Internet for a day, you will, truly, be amazed to see how much time you waste on unnecessary things like reading spam, browsing through inconsequential websites, etc. By thoroughly analyzing your online activities with the help of the logs you make, you will be able to pinpoint and resolve the problems – online activities that are unproductive and time wasters. The idea is to stay focused and do the things that you ought to do and stay out of impulsive moves. To do lists Like your daily life, you should make a “To Do” list of the things you need to do on the Internet. First, make a list of all the tasks that you have to do online including routine activities like checking emails, etc. A generic activity such as working with your emails should be broken down into small tasks – answering to a specific email, making an online order for office supplies, etc. Add every single job related to the Internet to this list. Once you created the list, sort it according to the priority. This becomes your master list of online tasks. Select the tasks you are planning to do in a day. Transfer those tasks to a separate list. Make sure this list is precise and not too long, so that you can finish most of the tasks from the list - at least the ones with high priority – within the chosen day. Armed with this list you will be able to tackle the problem of productive use of your online time with confidence. Resources Many major portals have free personal information management programs that you can be used to create daily schedules and to do lists. Yahoo PIM: http://calendar.yahoo.com MSN PIM: http://www.hotmail.com If you rather use a desktop PIM, here is one that you can download from the Internet for free: http://www.essentialpim.com Organizing your computer files As recently as last year, in order to keep your computer files accessible you needed to properly categorize the folders, save the files in the right folders, and up-to-date them regularly. Even with all these troubles, you still used to have problems in finding files when you most needed them, wasting precious work time. Thanks to the desktop search programs, finding a file on your computer, certainly, became painlessly easy. Although, you still should try to maintain computer files organized; you no longer have to waste valuable time on finding them. All you have to do is download one of the available desktop search utilities and let it index your computer. A search tool can help you find any file on your computer, whether is an email or a DOC file, just like an Internet search. You only need to know one word, which you may encounter in that file in order to use the tool. Resources Google Desktop Search Tool: Find information on your computer as fast as you do with the help of Google search. http://desktop.google.com/ MSN Desktop Search Tool: MSN desktop search utility comes along with a toolbar that you can download from http://toolbar.msn.com/ Yahoo Desktop Search Tool: Still at beta stage, it’s a very comprehensive desktop search program. http://desktop.yahoo.com/ Copernic Desktop Search Program: This one came out long before the search engine heavyweights figured out the need for getting your computer files at your fingertips and still one of the best. Free download: http://www.copernic.com Organizing links of important websites While browsing through the Internet often, you come across sites that you would like to visit again. All browsers have the options to add the page you are viewing to a list of favorite links, commonly known as “Bookmark”. If you want to bring substantial efficiency to your browsing skill, you should create folders according to your interest and add links you intend to visit again to those folders. On the Internet Explorer you create a bookmark using the icon “Favorites”, and on Firefox “Bookmarks”. You should keep those folders organized for easier access to required links. Another good option is to use Amazon’s Meta Search Engine A9.com. Once you install the A9.com tool bar, all your web browsing history gets saved. A9.com uses this information to recommend you new sites, alert you to new search results, and notifies you when the last time you visited a page. When you make a query, A9.com searches through you own history, diary, and bookmarks. A9.com has a neat feature called diary. It allows you to keep notes on any web page you visit. You will see the notes, whenever you revisit that page. It’s a very handy tool for avid Internet users. Another great thing about A9.com is your bookmarks reside on A9 servers. This allows you to access them from any computer you use. Resources A9.com search results are essentially supplied by Google. You can download and install A9.com from the page: http://toolbar.a9.com/ About the author Nowshade Kabir is the founder, primary developer and present CEO of Rusbiz.com. A Ph. D. in Information Technology, he has wide experience in Business Consulting, International Trade and Web Marketing. Rusbiz is a Global B2B Emarketplace with solutions to start and run online business. You can contact him at mailto:nowshade[at]rusbiz.com http://ezine.rusbiz.com
From: Janet L. Hall
Date: 9/4/00
Time: 3:37:49 PM
Remote Name: 4.17.67.117
B stands for Backup.
Wouldn't it be nice if our computers would give us a warning before our computers * crashed *? * Warning, Warning, your computer will crash in three hours, stop what you are doing and perform a backup now!*
I truly believe that never has once critical instruction on a piece of equipment been so widely ignored then this, * make a backup of your information! *
Is it ignored because people don't have the time, they forget, or they don't know how to perform this easy task?
Whatever the reason, here are my 10 top reasons for performing a backup:
1. Your computer is giving you 'fatal' error warnings.
2. You've created and typed a lot of new documents.
3. You've changed a large file/report that contains a lot of graphic art.
4. You've been doing design work.
5. You've installed new software.
6. Your computer is noticeably slower.
7. You've completed a project.
8. It would be extremely time consuming to re-create your materials.
9. It would be a disaster if you * lost * your information.
10. Your livelihood depends on your computer and the information stored on it.
When was the last time you performed a backup of your computer files, folders, or (C:) Drive?
When was the last time you backed-up your software?
Things that can cause your hard drive to * CRASH *:
1. Viruses
2. Wear and Tear
3. Power Surges
4. Improper Ventilation
5. Dust
6. Heat
7. Human Error
According to Elisa Williams, in her article *Sooner or later, you're gonna crash *:
...all hard drives eventually will fail because they are made up of mechanical parts that at some point-though it may be years and years-will wear out and malfunction. Most drives built for home use have a lifespan of about 10,000 to 50,000 hours. If you never turn your computer off-which many people don't-that time passes quickly. One year equals 8,448 hours on your [hard] drive. (http://www.newstimes.com/archive96/sep0496/cpe.htm)
This is all kind of scary isn't it?
Well, maybe performing a backup is scary too.
Now you can chase those fears away!
Microsoft users can do a backup using the backup function found under * System Tools * on their computer. There is a wizard that will guide you through the process. You can get FREE step-by-step instructions on how to use this feature by clicking on mailto:howtobackups@sendfree.com I use this function on my laptop and I use an Iomega Zip Drive on my main computer to do my backups. I find the Iomega quick, efficient, and easy to use. You can also customize your backups as in Microsoft.
You can also have your backups performed for you by a service and stored off-site for you. Having someone else do backups for you takes away the headaches of having to do them yourself and it is reassuring that they ARE getting done and are stored off-site. This is something you need to think about because you never know when a disaster might strike your building or where you store your backups. I located one of several services at http://www.datalock.com that has various protection plans for reasonable fees. They even provide an on line Risk Evaluation Test.
So, what are you waiting for? Schedule a date and time and please do at least one back up before next month when I'll be writing Part 3, U is for Uninstall!
Smiles, not Piles, Janet L. Hall
Janet L. Hall is a Professional Organizer, Speaker, and Author and owner of OverHall Consulting. Janet is based out of Southern Maryland and can be reached at 410-586-9440, 800-687-3040, or e-mail her at overhall@chesapeake.net. She has developed ˇ§The 5 Wˇ¦s of Organizing, a TEASER, and a ˇ§TICKLEˇ¨„¶ˇ¨. She has written two booklets, writes for several internet magazines, conducts teleclasses, and has a monthly newsletter, OverHall IT! To find out more about her services and products, please visit her web site at http://www.overhall.com
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