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- Detox And Weight Loss (exe)
- Detox And Weight Loss forces you to break your usual routine to try healthier habits. Returning immediately to your old diet, as tempting as it may be, can cause you to regain weight. Changing your eating habits is not a test to see how powerful you can become over junk....
- Tags: Body, Habit, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2007-05-04
- The Cup o' Joe Factor Calculator (zip)
- This is a handy Excel spreadsheet that helps you to determine just how much your habits cost you.
- Tags: Excel Spreadsheet, Habit, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2006-05-15
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective Contact Centers
- The bestseller, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, has inspired many parallels in the field of business and organizational improvement. Contact centers, too, could become significantly better at what they do by adopting the timeless, principle-based habits recommended by the book. This paper discusses...
- Tags: Habit, Contact Center, eGain Communications Corp., Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-05-10
- Time Management for System Administrators: The Cycle System
- When one begins using The Cycle it will seem awkward and difficult. However, as time goes on, it will become more comfortable. The user will customize as he or she starts to see how it can best fit into one's lifestyle. Psychologists say takes 21 days to form a new...
- Tags: Habit, O'Reilly Media Inc., Time Management, Productivity
- Book chapters 2005-11-21
- Best Practices: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Contact Centers
- The book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change", has inspired many parallels in the field of business and organizational improvement. Contact centers, too, could become significantly better at what they do by adopting the timeless, principle-based habits recommended by the book. This paper discusses...
- Tags: Habit, Contact Center, eGain Communications Corp., Best Practice, Call Centers, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2005-04-29
- The Seven Deadly Habits of a DBA ... and How to Cure Them
- Calling widespread bad habits in database administration "deadly" may seem extreme. However, when you consider the critical nature of most data, and just how damaging data loss or corruption can be to a corporation, "deadly" seems pretty dead-on. Although these habits are distressingly common among DBAs, they are curable with...
- Tags: Database Administrator, Habit, Storage, Hardware
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- 7 Habits of Highly Effective Contact Centers and Help Desks
- More than a decade ago, Stephen Covey wrote about seven key habits that can help people elevate their personal and professional effectiveness in a ground-breaking book. These habits are equally relevant to contact centers and help desks, and can help dramatically boost their effectiveness and efficiencies, while enhancing customer relationships...
- Tags: Habit, Contact Center, Call Centers, Help Desk, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), It Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
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- Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) Case Study: Renault
- Renault runs a consumer promotion twice a year for Renault car maintenance to end user car owners. Each event lasts one month and is packed with original Renault parts discounts and pre-determines maintenance menus for the car owners. The natural habit is to award consumers with a small present for...
- Tags: Mobile, Habit, Renault, Mobile Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
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- Measuring IT: "Operational Health"
- Measuring IT: "Operational Health"MetricsMetrics are important, but in some organizations that I have been affiliated with in the past, the metrics had a nasty habit of becoming the central focus.i.e.: the measurement of the thing becomes more important than the thing itself. So, you end up making all the metrics...
- Tags: Operational Health, Measuring IT
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Accomplice Task Management Software (msi)
- Task management software to get things done. "Effective enough to become a habit" Chris Shipley. Over 30,000 users! Software to manage to-dos, goals and notes, and then share and track information with teams. Integrates with MS Outlook and PDA's. Activities may be sub-tasked, prioritized, scheduled, delegated and tracked. Supporting information...
- Tags: Software, Activity, Accomplice, Vertabase Project Management Software, Tools & Techniques, PDAs, Management, Handhelds, Hardware
- Software downloads 2008-07-10
- ADD makes dieting harder
- ADD makes dieting harderI comiserateI struggle to keep an appointment book, but how well do you do with daily exercise routines?Interesting fact I got out of David McCullough's biography of John Adams: Thomas Jefferson kept track of every penny he spent for most of his life, but still couldn't get...
- Tags: Keeping Track, John Adams, David McCullough
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus products
- Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus productsNo matter what you do---You'll never get rid of virus.This could even be a threat to the United Nations.Oh the Humanity!ntYou know it's pretty bad when AV vulnerabilities are found......by [url=http://secunia.com/advisories/19284/]hacks like me[/url].RE: Approximately 800 vulnerabilities discovered in antivirus productsParsing error can occur in...
- Tags: SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, AV company, vulnerability, antivirus
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone security
- Apple caught neglecting iPhone securityApple doesn't really care.I believe that Apple puts security of its products at the bottom of the list, with cool design at the top. All this stuff just proves me right, that sure they have a neat casing and a touch screen, but underneath it...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, security, iPhone security
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Google Media Server brings Google to your TV
- Google Media Server brings Google to your TVGoogle should also offer hardware devices. A little caching media server,that also backed up online would be great. If it had a VGA connection and USB for mouse / keyboard, could double as a device for accessing Google Apps / general browsing.RE: Google...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Google Inc., Google Media Server, media server, video, server, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- Playing a video game? No, it's health therapy
- Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but now they're being used to help someone quit smoking or lose weight. Raleigh, North Carolina--Video games are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight? Hot on the heels...
- Tags: Nintendo Co. Ltd., Health Care, Video Game, Video, Therapy, Nintendo Wii, Games, Personal Technology, Reuters, video games, health, Nintendo, Wii
- News items 2008-06-26
- Intel stays behind the curve ... again
- Intel stays behind the curve ... againsorry analysisSo Intel's behind the curve because XP works just fine for them. Maybe they have better things to do than upgrade all workstations for marginal improvements.The Inquirer presented a biased article against Windows?Say it isn't so! Who would have thought! If the Inquirer...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killer
- Nokia buys Symbian to form open-source Android killerOpen sores are good, but when is it too many?It's about time Symbian went open sores. I guess, Nokia, Mot and others saw the writing on the wall. Never mind Android, the real fear is Apple iPhone. The juggernaut is unstoppable if...
- Tags: Linux, UNIX, juggernaut, Open Sores, Symbian Inc., open source, Nokia Corp., Nokia Buys Symbian, killer
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- MacPhobia vs. PCPhobia
- MacPhobia vs. PCPhobiaThe other common problem I see here at workare the result of ifrared mice in many cases. A simple test to try would be to just attach a wired usb mouse into the unit and use it for a while.If the cursor ceases to jump, you have found...
- Tags: Desktops, Linux, Apple Macintosh, PCPhobia, MacPhobia, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Google using invalid security certificate
- It appears that Google is using an invalid security certificate across many of its domains. If you type https://gmail.com or https://google.com/adsense into your favorite Web browser, here's what you see: Very strange. After last year's warnings around sidejacking, I made...
- Tags: Google Inc., Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Lessons from Firefox 3
- I just downloaded the Firefox 3 browser, and if there were problems with their servers before, there certainly are no problems today. The download clocked in under 5 seconds (I do have a fast connection, admittedly), and the install was done in less than a minute. Quite impressive for any...
- Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Web Browsers, Internet, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
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