Computing Pi- Software
Henry Shanks lived in the 1800s and spent 28 years computing pi to 707 places. Unfortunately, he made a mistake at the 528th place and the last several years of …
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You’ve Got Mail
George noticed his neighbor kept running out of his house several times a day to check his mail. When he asked the neighbor if he was expecting something important he …
Read More Internet Black Holes
A black hole has been defined as a region of space with a gravitational force so strong that nothing, including light, can escape it. Some galaxies are believed to have …
Read More World’s Worst Data Loss
Perhaps the worst data loss in history occurred Jan 10, 1896 when a fire at the Commerce Department in Washington DC destroyed the 1890 Census records and years of work …
Read More Internet Time
A January 2005 article in Time magazine reported today’s average internet user spends 3 hours online each day. That is a huge chunk of time: 21 hours a week, 88 …
Read More Computer Folders
You know computers have taken over your life when you would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon or when the thought a CD referring to something …
Read More 3 Email Accounts
How many email addresses do you have? If you answered “one” you might be spending too much time with email. Here’s a way to save time 3 accounts. Have one …
Read More Financial Software
One of the most time saving investments you can make is personal financial software. If you use it for nothing else, you should at least be using software for your …
Read More Junk Email
Email can be a tremendous time saving method of communication. Or it can be an awful waste of time. One of the ways we waste time is by reading unsolicited …
Read More Mail Tactics
Spending less time with mail, memos and email means spending more time with people. One system for dealing with paper and email is know as the RAFT method. It stands …
Read More Car Transformers
Remember when you were a child how exciting it was when the electricity went out? But now that you’re an adult there are few things that limit your ability to …
Read More Learning Windows
A lady asked a clerk for a curtain the size of a computer screen. The clerk said “Ma’am we don’t have curtains that small and besides nobody puts curtains over …
Read More Do I Really Need It?
Perhaps you heard about the executive that hired a new secretary who hadn’t worked in an office environment for the past 20 years. He knew he was in trouble when …
Read More Internet as a Tool
An Ohio man wanted to clean the cobwebs from his house, but instead of a broom, he decided to use a propane torch. As a result, he burned his two …
Read More Handheld Computers
One of the best time saving devices of recent years is the handheld computer or PDA. They’re the little electronic organizers you see in the shirt pockets of productive people. …
Read More Using Cell Phones Creatively
A man got his wife a new cell phone for their anniversary. The next day she was shopping when her phone rang. “So how do you like your new phone …
Read More Computer Macros
Someone said you know you’re living in the computer age when you try to enter your password to start the microwave oven. It seems computers have come to control just …
Read More Notebook Computers
Maybe you heard about the secretary was so excited about her new notebook computer she called a friend and said, “You won’t believe this new computer. It even has a …
Read More Teaching Children to Converse
A student helicopter pilot took his first solo flight. All was going well until he reached 2000 feet when suddenly he took a dive and crashed. As the instructor pulled …
Read More Phone Tag Solutions
In today’s world of so-called advanced communications, many people identify “telephone tag” as their biggest time waster. When you leave a phone message on someone’s voice mail or answering machine, …
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