NameChk scans all the popular social media platforms for you and tells you if a given name has been used. Granted, the name used might be yours (they don’t know that), but at least you can see which platforms still have room for your clever pseudonym.

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Find a social media name

This Microsoft Windows automation tool can speed you through repetitive tasks, giving you more time for what’s really important. While it could be considered a tool for the geek crowd, you really don’t have to learn how to write code because it has a macro recorder.

Turn on the recorder, then do the task once manually. Turn off the recorder and — voila — you have a script for doing that task. Save it to a file and all you have to do is double-click the file to run it.

Here’s a sample of what the tool produces:

Send("{LWINDOWN}e{LWINUP}")
WinWait("My Computer","")
If Not WinActive("My Computer","") Then WinActivate("My Computer","")
WinWaitActive("My Computer","")
Send("{ALTDOWN}d{ALTUP}c{SHIFTDOWN};{SHIFTUP}\clients{ENTER}")


This script opens the Windows Explorer application and then directs it to my Clients directory. How many times a week do you think I might do that? Right. Now you get the time-saving value of this little gem.

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Speed up Windows tasks

There are a number of firms that provide virtual (remote) assistants.  I have used both offshore and USA resources. Individuals that work for these firms will perform a wide variety of tasks for you from updating websites to sending flowers to your wife.  If you can state your needs clearly, they can save you a lot of time and potentially money as well. If you’re not in the habit of being crystal clear, however, you can frustrate yourself (and them) in the process. This is true even in local face-to-face delegation but it is a more acute problem in the offshore model where you face cultural and language differences.

Tim Ferris (author of The Four Hour Work Week) has assembled a list of firms through which you can hire a remote assistant. Some firms have areas of specialty (Agents of Value) while others are more general (AskSunday).

For work that requires a high-touch phone presence (scheduling sales appointments, for instance) or discernment about American culture (we speak more slowly in the South), I recommend using a local person. Check out Cindy Filer’s Innovative-Outsourcing for superb USA-based virtual help.

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Virtual Assistants Save Time

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Outsource Your Friendship

All you have to do is make sure that the application you want to terminate is the active program… then press Control+Alt+F4… and *BAM* down it goes like an old time Batman villain. Click here to learn more about SuperF4.

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Terminate a Frozen Application

Price Protectr [sic] to the rescue! Find a product you like from a vendor you trust and paste the link into this tool along with your email address. When the price changes, they will send you an email alert, showing you the new price. Simple! Now you can get back to your internet, uh, research.

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Price Watch in your Sleep

Situation: You want to publish your email address to provide good customer service.

Problem: Robots chew up your website hourly and harvest your email for the offshore porn and pharmaceutical spammers.

Solution: Use a site like MailToEncoder to create a link that the robots will choke on. Humans can use it just fine, but the spam bots don’t recognize it as an email address.

The site is simple to use. One click gives you code to copy and paste into your site. No registration required.

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Spam-Proof Email Address

• Works exactly like you expect it to
• Drag and drop date availability is very intuitive
• Rquires no account sign-up
• Looks great

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Group Scheduling – Fast and Friendly

Clicking to open these items, however, takes you away from the list of posts you are reading and exposes you to other content. This is a problem for me because I fall victim to “shiny object syndrome” and waste 10 minutes reading an article I didn’t know I needed.

Enter Tweetree.com to save me not only the extra clicking, but also the wasted time from following internet rabbit trails. Tweetree pulls the content of shared links right into the page where you are reading the tweets of those you follow. Presto! Clicking and rabbit trails disappear!

No new account setup is required. Just login using your Twitter credentials.

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Tweetree Saves Time and Clicks for Tweet-readers

I taught myself to type from a book, banging on an old Royal manual while stationed on San Clemente Island in the Navy. It was one of the best things I ever did for myself. In the twenty-five years I have worked with computers, it has probably saved me hundreds, if not thousands of hours.

There are some cool products you can buy and/or download to learn typing. I think we have Mavis Beacon loaded on the family PC. But if you want to try something quick and free… check out TypingWeb.

There are different levels from beginner to advanced. If you register, you get to save your progress through the course. I highly recommend learning to type as an essential career skill for anyone who is, well, breathing. People change jobs 3 to 5 times, after all and it’s hard to imagine any job these days where touch-typing would not help you sooner or later.

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Online Typing Tutor

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