Author: ontechies
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Interns and Internships
I have always been surprised by the amount of people who need each other but can’t see a way to find each other. This is the problem that online marketplaces try to resolve, some do it good and some others fail to work because they don’t gain the attraction of both suppliers and customers. With…
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How to enable the new Command Prompt features on Windows 10
Windows 10 is packed with lots of new and old features such as the beloved Start menu. One of my personal favorites is the new Command Prompt and its new features. For years, a lot of us have suffered the limitations of the command prompt such as not able to resize the window or simply paste data using Ctrl+V. These annoyances are now…
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How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog and Avoid Writer’s Block
Writing is not easy and there is always room for improvement. Attracting an audience is also hard and it takes time. Here are some of the things that have worked for me in the past few years, I hope they can be useful for you too. Focus on longform articles. People are starting to get overwhelmed with…
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Identify Bad Habits and Create Not-To-Do Lists
There are many techniques you can follow and also tools you can use to be more productive. Yet, the easiest way to gain focus and get things done is to avoid certain things. Below is a list of things you should stop doing that will help you be more productive.
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Ingest Good Books and Avoid Junk Media
The majority of us know the benefit of eating well and avoiding junk food. And yet, we go on and consume junk media instead of ingesting healthy information such as books. Why? Bad habits and easy-to-digest nuggets of junk information are to blame. We are a society that enjoys instant gratification and quick access to interesting news. We…
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Tips for Remote Employees and their Peers
Remote workers and the teams working with them need to follow certain unwritten rules to be successful. Here are some tips to make things easier for remote employees and their peers.
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Programming: A short history of computer languages
What is computer programming The action or process of writing computer programs, that is the definition of computer programming. Unfortunately, that doesn’t tell us much. In a more descriptive way, programming refers to the act of describing processes and procedures by developing a list of instructions and commands for a computer to execute. The type…
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Creativity is You
Creativity is YOU. It is not an activity but what you bring to it when you give yourself permission to make mistakes and not be afraid of it.
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Remote employees: Best tools for collaboration and communication
Working remotely has become a common way of working for a lot of professionals, and while it is a lot easier to do this than years ago, working remotely still has some challenges. The one thing we can all agree with is that not having to worry about a busy and/or long commute is awesome (see…
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Small-groups as the antidote to bad meetings
Bad meetings, meetings from hell, or whatever you want to call them, we’ve all experienced those and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of you experience bad meetings in a daily basis. While there are endless tips, blog posts and even books about how to have good meetings and ways to avoid meetings from hell, none of…