How to Organize Your Life with the Help of the World Wide Web

How to Organize Your Life with the Help of the World Wide Web
Every day lives are becoming progressively tasking. We have more and more duties as well as work obligations. Many people feel that it's difficult to leave the office or not work from home. The fact is this also means you have not as much time to spend on our families. Using the world wide web is actually an excellent strategy in order to save time. In this article are a small number of suggestions that may enable you to savea few treasured moments in your week for you.

A great way to manage time spent on the internet is to make use of online social bookmarking websites. They allow you to store all your most used websites to a free account. Plenty of time online is actually misused. Even though most of us have become good at multitasking, there are actually a lot of ways we all throw away treasured spare time. One of them is poorly using the internet. A alarming statistic is that the most popular search terms on search engines like Bing tend to be for the most popular websites. Directly entering the URL of a website may save a small amount of time in comparison to searching for it. It'll help you save a few clicks as well as a short time on load time based on how quick your net connection is. This might not appear to be a lot but we only have to decrease the number of keystrokes and mouse clicks by a small percentageto save several hours over the course of the year. It may not appear to be very much but it might just end up being the difference between seeing your friends or maybe watching a television show. If you times this by the amount of websites you visit often then you will be shocked at how unproductive you are being. Bookmarks are fantastic at saving time. Websites allow you to save bookmarks and then access them with a single click no matter where you are in the world. This means that you don't need to worry remembering a URL or only accessing your bookmarks at work or home. You can also share easily bookmarks with contacts or friends which is great when you are working on a joint project.

Another good tip which is related to the one above is to use an online customised homepage. It works quite similarly to online bookmarks. You can easily save your favorite websites in one easy to access place. However, they work in a slightly different way because they are not merely a record of favorites. You can create a homepage with links, thumbnails, news feeds or widgets which show lots of data. Numerous internet users choose personalised homepages while some people choose bookmarks. There are some sites that incorporate both which is an additional alternative that may be also useful for you.

As many as 70% of the most used websites have got an area where users can login or the site is only accessible by logging in. This results in lots of account details to remember! internet security should be a concern for all internet users and possessing a strong password and maintaining good password approaches is a necessity when we are increasingly becoming reliant on the net and storing information on the web. Two or three password tips are to have a long password, to include numbers and special characters and to use randomly selected letters. This often means having passwords that are tough to not forget. By using an online password manager is handy for a couple of points. Firstly, you can use a more secure password and use different passwords for each website you visit that is safer in comparison with using the same account details for everything. Second of all, excellent password managers can also enter your login details for you and log you in. This will save you tons of time! A great deal of time is spent trying to remembering passwords, entering passwords andlogging into sites. It is always annoying submitting remember password requests to administrators. Password managers stop the need for all of these and some work over various browsers or on various devices.

Now there are plenty of excellent websites for organizing. Another thing that will help you organize your time is to use an online calendar or one which is built into your email provider. It is an excellent method to organize your time as well as plan your month. It may be tempting to plan everything you have to do in advanced but some people prefer to be spontaneous. Unfortunately many people need to work even in their spare time time. Simply by making use of a diary you can plan what you need to do and when. After a while you will be able to determine how long tasks take and then plan even better. Calendars are also a great approach to schedule in some leisure time and also time for things you enjoy. It is always important to be able to turn off and rest from time to time and using an online calendar to help remind you just may be valuable.

In the current financial climate, money and funds seem to be at the the main thing on everyone's mind. Why not take out a bit of the strain by switching to online banking? You can save a lot of time since banks have notoriously long queues and many are not even open on Saturday or Sunday. Online banking is available 365 days a year. You can transfer funds, pay utility bills and lots more. It is even more eco friendly as no paper is being wasted. Internet banking is an excellent method to save time and you will not have to worry about visiting the bank in time. Setting up an account should be easy if you contact your bank.

As digital technology has improved it also seems as though lives have become increasingly more challenging. We are never more than being a few moments away from being online and as work starts to creep into our homes, it is common for many people to get stressed about work in modern society. With a couple of these suggestions you should be able to save a bit of time every day and that will hopefully mean less being less stressed!

Top 5 Blogging Tips - Tips for Writing a Good Blog

I've been writing a blog for many years now. In my free time I write my own personal blog that focuses mainly on Korean, Japanese and Chinese pop music; before that I had many personal blogs going back 10 years and I also write the myhomepage blog. To be honest, I'm not a pro-blogger and I don't get paid to write blog posts but hopefully I've learnt a few things that you might be able to find useful.

1 - Know Your Niche

This is the fundamental rule I try to stick to. Know your niche. Magazines are split up into different genres - sports, digital design, women's interest, men's interest, children's, puzzlers and so on. Your blog should be no different. If you don't have a coherent blog identity then your readers will be slightly disorientated if they've navigated to your blog on a film you've reviewed only to find you then talking about your car. Personal blogs are exempt from this as they're more like diaries. But I strongly suggest picking a topic you're interested in and sticking to it. You'll find that your blog can pick up a lot of traffic with a lot of keywords in the same topic once it gets indexed by Google and other search engines.

2 - Express Your Personality

One thing that a good writer does is to stand out from the crowd. Being able to show your personality in what you write is important and will keep people coming back to your blog (obviously it might also annoy them but you can't win over everyone). To do this is hard, because we're often used to reading very straight and unbiased writing in news. But never forget to express yourself within your writing - after all the blog is just very much a reflection on you.

3 - Write Interesting Articles

This is another important one. Often I'll find blogs that are just videos or images but with no text or explanation. This can sometimes work great if you're going for a really visual statement - but it can also be difficult to pick up traction because people simply don't want to spend time trying to figure out the point of your post. I've found that the more indepth an article is, the higher chance people will read it and stick around. I've posted a lot of short posts before but they never work as well as longer posts because in the shorter ones, you aren't offering anything different than what your reader could find from a news aggrigrator.

4 - Include Multimedia

This is a simple one and it doesn't always hold true. But if you have atleast one interesting image or video file in your post - it greatly helps your reader understand what your blog post is going to be about. If you're blogging as a personal diary, again, that's different.

5 - Network

This is another important point. Just like how businesses grow through friends and connections, you can see a great improvement to your web traffic if you start networking around. Commenting on other people's blogs, writing to them, exhcanging links. Although this can be daunting and you might be fearful of rejection - most bloggers actually really enjoy getting contacted and love it when they get emails. Plus, exchanging links means that you'll get an improved ranking by Google which will help with your search engine results.

In conclusion, I really enjoy writing blogs - I wouldn't have kept one of some form for over a decade if I didn't. Ultimately I keep a blog because I enjoy writing, but it's more than that. If I just enjoyed writing then I'd keep a diary or write a novels and essays. Blogs allow you to interact with others. The internet facilitates, and actively encourages, reader/author communication. Most blog platforms have an option for readers to post comments easily opening up channels of communication unlike traditional print media. It's this interaction that I enjoy the most. I've gotten to know a lot of nice people through blogging and without this interaction I think blogging would be less engaging.

Image credited to Annie Mole at flickr.

Password Safety Tips

At myhomepage, security is our number 1 priority. Using our password vault means you can safely store your username and password details for websites with us and they'll always be completely safe (you can even make up a random password of numbers, lower case and upper case characters and you'll always be able to find it). However, we also acknowledge that passwords should be safe in the first place and good password practice is half the battle for online saftey.

So, below you'll find a short list of really good password tips.

1. Never use a common word or even an uncommon word. Words you can find in a dictionary are a big no no. Similarly, never use a consecutive string of numbers (or letters for that matter). Notable culprits are '123456', 'abcdef' and 'password'.

2. Be at least 8 characters long (the longer the better).

3. Use a random selection of characters: upper and lower case letters, numbers and punctuation marks. Having at least 1 of each is a great idea, having 2 of each is even better! Some websites and services might not allow punctuation in a password so you might not be able to have some punctuation in there but you should aim for a random selection of numbers and upper and lower cased characters.

4. One great tip that I've found is replacing some standard characters with numbers of punctuation marks. For example: A = 4, S = $, E = £ and so on. Another tip which I think works quite well is to have the first letter upper case. Taking these tips on board, the notoriously unsafe: 'password' can be made a bit more safe by changing it to P4£5w0rD.

5. Another tip is to not have recurring letters, even if they are not sequential.

6. A tip that works well for me is to use foreign words that aren't in the English dictionary. For example, you could try using Korean words instead, add some upper casing, some numbers and some punctuation and you've got a password that will be a lot tougher to crack than 'password'. i.e. 'Y£0nG12' vs. '123456' - which one is statistically harder to crack? The first one of course!

Check out this nifty website to check your password's strength: Password Meter. They ranked the first one as being 72% strong; add a simple + (so it becomes 'Y£0nG12+' and it rises to 98%). Compare this to '123456' which only has a strength of 4%.

Although we're super secure at myhomepage and use the highest encryption levels, it's still always good for peace of mind to use strong passwords for all your online accounts. Hope this helped!

P.S.

The Korean word I used, 'yeong', is the number zero.