[Image] It’s a dog eat dog world in the retail market right now, and with the holiday season coming up, it’s going to get even crazier for bargain hunters, as stores try like mad to discount their way into your wallet and attention. To help you make the right kind of decision as we approach Black Friday and beyond, we’re presenting our Honest John guide on how to grab a real bargain at this time of year.
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35 Ways To Make Money With Your Web Browser [How-To]
[image-shutterstock] So it’s the new year and one of your resolutions is to sort yourself out and try and earn a little extra cash to support your Pokemon habit? No biggie, nowadays everybody needs a bit of extra cash, and there’s plenty of ways to make it happen. One method is to get yourself a second job, but what if you don’t want to – or can’t – commit to a fixed schedule and just want to ‘earn as you…
Read MoreThe O.R.B Ring Or When Fashion Meets High Tech Gadgetry
It’s no longer news we’re heading to a world where wearable technology will replace classic gadgets (take for example the Nissan Nismo Smartwatch or the Wime Smart Phone Wristwatch we featured earlier – both designed to bring added value to users by offering extra features without the hassle of crowding your pockets with another gadget).
Read MoreSkully P1 – The HUD Interactive Motorcycle Helmet
Motorcycle helmets are clearly designed to save lives, a nd they do it pretty well – many riders can affirm they’re still on the road because of them. However, the tech has not really progressed much over the past years, which means that your generic helmet generally won’t cope with Bluetooth, head up displays and the like. The Reevu MSX1 was on step further along, since it gave users easy access to an internal rear-view mirror, but since then not…
Read MoreNissan Nismo Smartwatch – you and your car in perfect harmony?
In a somewhat surprising move the giant automotive company Nissan has joined the crowded market for wearable gadgets by announcing the Nissan Nismo Smartwatch, a device that aims to improve the day-to-day driving experience and who knows, maybe even help you tell the time occasionally.
Read MoreiPhone Self-Defense – 8 iPhone accessories that could save your life in a tight corner
Steve Jobs taught us one important thing about the iPhone. No matter what you can think of… “there’s an app for that!” But that doesn’t mean everything is solved by simply installing an app, there are other things an iPhone can do without software. Take for example self-defense… and NO … by this I do not mean using your iPhone as an ultra expensive hand-thrown projectile!
Read More10 Cool Tricks That Will Make You An Email Master
Wikipedia describes email as being “a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients“. Sounds simple, but in reality for most of us email is a necessary evil. It may have revolutionized the way we work, but at what cost? Email was the first tool to allow easy message management and instant communication to and from multiple recipients, and while this made life infinitely easier for keeping in touch with colleagues and customers, it has…
Read MoreThe 4 Step Method To Beat Email Overload, Keep Your Inbox Empty And Restore Peace To Your Soul (Mostly)
In the past few weeks we have covered How I Double My Browser Productivity With Just 13 Free Browser Extensions and How to Double Your PC Productivity With Just 65 MB of Free Software. But in order to stay organized and keep on top of your daily work obligations (whether corporate or private) takes more than just good free software! It really helps to maintain an efficient process in the way you do things.
Read MoreHow I Doubled My Browser Productivity With Just 13 Free Browser Extensions [Freeware]
Last week I explained How I double my PC productivity with only 65MB of free software, so this week I’ll continue sharing some more productivity tips using browser extensions. I normally use Firefox and Chrome for 95% of my work. The rest of 5% is split between Opera and Internet Explorer.
Read MoreHow to Double Your PC Productivity With Just 65 MB of Free Software [Freeware]
Like many readers of the Red Ferret, I spend much of my working day in front of a computer, and like others I have an inbox flooded with emails arriving every minute, in addition to client and business partner phone calls…and in between all of this I need to get work done. There are a number of good task management and work organization systems out-there (David Allen’s GTD, 43Folder’s Inbox Zero, etc …) but they all need to be supported…
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