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Thursdays are Tip days at SimpleProductivityBlog.
I use a standard backup package to do automated backups of our home machine every week. While not impossible to retrieve things from the backups, it is difficult to do so. And sometimes I just want another copy of data somewhere, but in a usable format.
This last week I decided [...]

Gas prices are at an all-time high. But you can stretch the mileage you get by changing the way you drive.
I became aware of my poor driving habits after buying a hybrid at the beginning of the year. But what I have learned is applicable to non-hybrid vehicles as well.
10 Ways To Get More [...]

Not all of my projects are electronic. In fact, most of the things I do outside of work are not. Most of these things are ones that don’t have a particular due date, so I work on them as the fancy strikes me.
Unfortunately, most of these projects also have paper to go with them, [...]

We all get junk mail. One purchase from a catalog or online company, and suddenly you’re receiving catalogs from places you’ve never heard of. Or you give money to one organization and suddenly your mailbox is filled with requests from other organizations. And let’s not even start on the credit card offers…
Looking at how much [...]

After my last article on simplified camping (Five Ways to Simplify Camping), I received a request for what I keep in my kitchen box.

Here are the contents as of the last time I used it.
Contents of My Camping Kitchen Box

A set of plastic (reusable) cutlery in a tray; I also keep a wooden spoon, a [...]

I love books. I have books in almost all rooms in my house. My favorite store is Barnes and Noble, and I know all the major online bookstores as well. I can also pinpoint the location of every used bookstore and library branch within five miles of my home.
Sad, isn’t it?
The one thing my book [...]

I recently wrote an article on Word Templates, but I forgot to point out that you can do templates in all the other Office products as well. In fact, I had forgotten you could do them altogether, because I rarely use them.
However, as I struggled with yet again overwriting the “master” Excel file I use [...]

I do a moderate amount of blog reading, and I thought I would share my system of reading.
Software
Firefox. This browser, the pioneer of multiple tabs, is extensible through add-ons.
Google Reader. I like the interface on this reader, and the ability to star things for later reference.
Read It Later. This Firefox extension makes it easy to [...]