Showing posts with label Life Hack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life Hack. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 August 2012

Free University Courses Online

Free university courses online, education for everyone
Education is the key to success. We all know it. But it is somewhat unnoticed how much the cost went up gradually. Surprisingly the cost raises even more than oil if you were complaining about that. But that's only in the Advance world. What about the developing countries and places like Africa and south Asia where people doesn't have the option to choose higher Education either for individual or Nation's economical condition. There are however any attempts and business around fast online university and college courses that tries to solve these problem with new technology. But most of the online courses costs a huge amount of money and other systems such as MIT Open Course warewhich are free, wasn't designed to guide students with all the resources and work or give any kid of certificate. Luckily there is a solution you were looking for all this time. The name is Coursera.


More about Coursera



Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company partnered with top Universities. The university that are so far included are the following:

California Institute of Technology
Duke University
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Georgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
University of California, San Francisco
University of Edinburgh
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan
University of Pennsylvania
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Washington

You can easily spot these famous Universities by their name. The course is lot less independent as you might have seen compared to MIT open course ware and for good. The courses are several week long and you have to follow everyhing and finish your homework on time during this course time. There are big course pair help and intergated with advance technology to bring more of classroom advantage to the internet and exclude what is useless and with less cost. For students, it's completely free. To enter one class after you choose your your catagory you have to meet the requirement and sign up with only your name and email. I have found out about this awesome orgaization through TED talk, which I recomand you watching- explains all the details and system in it.



The course is mainly video based and they provide all the tools you need. This system of online education might be the next big revolution in education. Anyone anywhere in the world with a compute or iPhone connected to internet can access this great tool. And best of all, they also gives a  certificate signed by the professor teaching the class which are accepted many ways in our career. So, what's your thought on this? I would have loved to see an standard certificate but I understand why that is not 'yet' possible. Would you like to give this a try? I am planning to take the calculus course they are offering. Leave your thoughts in the comment section below.

Monday, 30 July 2012

Tips on Productivity Tricks

Productivity is something we are all looking for every time every where yet constantly failing. Before it was blaming your problem, now it's blaming the teacher who gives productivity tips. Stop with fighting yourself and engulf some of my tips on your productivity tips.


To act old, I am going to give the definition of productivity again to bore you at the beginning.
productiveness: the quality of being productive or having the power to produce.

Blah blah, Advice, Productivity


So, what's keeping you from producing what you want? Is it your scumbag brain? Find a mental hospital and live a happy life. Is it your disability? Well, get over it. Is it because of someone else messing with your focus? Well, I guess you don't know what you want to produce then.

More blah blah, Productivity


So, kids, that's what comes out after you watch inspiring athlete movies. I like watching them and thinking about my goals but only problem when you mess up that with real world or the writers that do to confuse people. There's nothing to be productive about if your ok. Seriously. By the way,  I never done any couching job...

Actual tips on Productivity with few blah blah


First of all, you know what you need to do to get where you want to reach. Don't ever make a straight plan but do push yourselves. And if you are trying to be productive for something that you consider your life's goal to be or reach, I recommend you reconsider. Don't read hundreds of pages of books on productivity or attempt to cut yourself from the distraction such as internet but face them and put number values on them. Remember distraction are almost never the cause of your fail. Don't daydream too much, stay on the reality where you just do things normally not with all productive tips and tricks but still reach your goals. The last step is to stop reading this article, go in-front of the mirror and breath fast but deep for few times (amateur physiology). You don't have to speak out or just think in your head about an abstract idea and reason why you will get there and what you need to do right now instead of wasting your time reading articles like this one.

Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Be more productive with RescueTime

software to become more productive
We do various things on our computer. Especially if you are a techy person or blogger, you practically live inside the computer. There is still so much left to do on computer and real life. On internet you flow through links and never know what is coming next resulting a struggle on time maintenance. It is much easier to know what you should limit and what is the main 'time waster' during your internet time and computer usage. This can help you improve more and be more productive over time. There is a very nice program available for free of charge which might just be right for you.


The name of the program is Rescuetime. It's a very nice simple little program that stays in your computer in a computer and shows result of productiveness and usages of your time on dashboard. You will be needing to sign up for this process since you and only you will be able to access your information on your online dashboard. There is of course a paying version with real time update and option to block places on limited basis but I think for starter you can get most of the benefits from the free version of this awesome software. Rescuetime software can be used for both personal and team needs. I am currently using a free version of this software, where I get 30 minute delay for real time update, Summary and average of my time usage, allow me to set a goal, Efficiency summery by time of the day and weekdays with nice graph, another nice graph update next to it counting productivity by day as well as graph information on overview, activities and all category. You can get more detailed information on each by clicking on it. How is that for a update on productiveness?

rescutime a softwar to become more productive, the rescutime dasmoard

I am very satisfied with this nice piece of software. You practically have to do nothing on the software after installation to get the updates and benefit from it's features. I actually found out about this awesome program after I have watched a famous bloggers video on Youtube, you might already know VlogBrothers- Hank. You can check out the video as well, if you want to be more productive in life. Hank and his brother does a ton loads of work, I think they know how to master the way of time ;)



And not surprisingly by the program Rescutime I now know how much I have to limit my 'watching YouTube time' :( So what's your time waster?