Diagnosed cases of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) continue to rise hand-in-hand with TV, Internet, computer game, and portable media use. Marketers compete viciously to get your attention. It takes louder noises, brighter lights, and extreme headlines to pierce the wall of media’s onslaught. All these tricks leave your mind numb and unable to focus on your work, creativity, or studies. As you fight back and recognize the battle going on for control of your mind, you can increase your attention span and improve concentration. [Read more...]

The three topic options for a term paper in my freshman philosophy class didn’t interest me at all. I looked over the requirements for our term papers – we wrote four over the course of the semester – and thought that it doesn’t explicitly say I had to write on the assigned topics to get an A grade. Knowing that the paper with the lowest grade got dropped from the calculation for our final course grade, I took a risk. I wrote a paper in flawless logic proving that, “Students in Philosophy 110 don’t have to write on the assigned topics in order to get an A on their term papers.” [Read more...]

As of now I’ve got about ~90 followers on Twitter. Oh wait…91! I haven’t employed any tricks to get thousands of people to auto-follow my profile so that number’s relatively low. I hope my “tweets” provide some value to followers. I use the application primarily as an Internet bookmarking method. However, that’s not why I continue to post. Twitter has much more value to me as a learning tool. [Read more...]

The time it requires to enroll for and complete a formal computer software course or class may not be fast enough for you. Many free tools can help you learn highly-valued computer software skills that you need to increase your earning power. Here are a few suggestions: [Read more...]

How can you keep all your bookmarks, notes, and links in one place when you work on a different computer at home, school, the library and at work? A great web-based service called Evernote enables you to copy and paste from any computer or mobile device (including iPhone) to your own evernote account. No need to write on scraps of paper or synchronize files. It’s not just convenient, it’s a great learning tool also. Did I mention that the basic account is FREE?

Various versions of files, documents, shortcuts and links swamp the hard drives on each of the three computers I use. My thumb drives contain a web of duplicated files, text and shortcuts. And my wife laughs at the ever-expanding stack of my notes scribbled on note cards, business cards, receipts, or junk mail envelopes. I need all my bookmarks, text copied from electronic sources, and downloaded files available in one place, accessible from any computer I use. Enter Evernote. [Read more...]