Useful, for some time I've had an inkling you can motivate people by telling them they'll contribute more, earn more freedom as they move up, as well as being a lower admin cost; on a nuclear sub however, given the background of recruits, lets just say I wouldn't trust them with a pea shooter, let alone a nuclear…

This is really useful, I don't use Linkedin, Facebook and such but know people who do and expect to fid me there; while I won't give FB a second chance I've been thinking about LinkedIn, it's a pity it requires all this work.

Thanks, useful!

Yikes, this struck a chord but in the opposite direction... People actually look for leadership and start imitating me... Except I don't want to be "the leader"

I really enjoyed many of your posts, you're one of the ingredients that has made Lifehacker so interesting and fun, I wish you the very best.

I once solved this for a friend by pointing to someone else's mega messy desktop and saying it was the tell tale sign of a deranged mind. She became the shining example of filing perfection. Of course having zero desktop icons like me could be said to say the same -deranged - thing!

Or the really cheap?

Really useful, I'm trying to see what's the easiest way to work with an older mac, a chromebook, and a newer app - without MS. I'm a long time openoffice / libreoffice user but this might just work...

I used to get colds regularly, that has changed since I started doing some exercise and eating better (fresh fruits and veggies), although the last one I did get was particularly violent.

Yup, them hard drives are not really portable... In fact I think most laptops aren't really portable at all, I used to lug around a 15' Toshiba, always turned off, I should not have been surprised when the video connection eventually failed, the bezel had markings from the keyboard part which made it look like hobo…

I try to give thanks or contribute something interesting, but this is testing the limits! I'm afraid I've endured way too much bloatware to give it a second chance, from McAfee (made PCs slower and less secure, and we paid for being screwed, yippee!), to Toshiba wifi Apps which wrestled with Windows, to iTunes (I need…

Works great. I'm starting to feel sorry for developers, I mean on top of the tons of platforms they already have I couldn't help thinking: Support chromebooks! The ingratitude...

Useful! Didn't know about System File Checker.

Thanks, this is great! I am not a photoshop user but I do take photos and while I work really hard at getting the shot from the camera I'm aware of the potential to improve in post production, so I always shoot in jpeg + RAW, and there are bound to be more tutorials for photoshop than gimp.

I got a Samson Go Mic which a friend into audio recommended, it's worked out great.

Apple's refurb warranty is great, it's what everyone else should be doing; I was pretty sure Canon only did 90 days, maybe they changed recently? A T3i with a kit lens for $380 something bucks is amazingly low. I wouldn't touch an HP product with a barge pole, new or otherwise, had to take a new laptop to warranty…

I like the idea of a gratitude journal!

Fair enough, although I'm one of those people trying to do 50 things at once and never achieving one, so there's something to be said for daily single tasking consistency.

Interesting points. I've never kept a journal but I have finally started a few notebooks and even an online site to use as idea repositories, as a sort of mental hygiene, and it sure seems to help.

I haven't totaled a phone (knock on wood!) but I have lost one... I have a whole pantheon of dumbphones, some with bulged batteries (thanks sonyericsson!), one semismart (Nokia e63), one smartphone forever stuck on gingerbread (thanks, er, sonyericsson... I guess I'll never learn!)... I think the current lineup of…