Little Handy Tips

There’s only so many hours in a day, so we need to use them wisely. From managing our time better by limiting distractions to having a system for storing our important data, we all have our own ways to being productive.

For me being productive, either at home or at work, is to not be distracted so that I can accomplish the task at hand. And also to have a system in place so that I can easily record ideas that I have or retrieve them easily, not worrying about whether I have left them on a different computer.

Below is a list of 5 tools for increasing productivity, both at home and at the workplace.

Want to schedule torrent downloads to occur when you are not busy using the computer?
Or are you on an internet plan where you have separate peal and off-peak quotas and would like to do your downloading during the off-peak period?
A scheduled torrent downloading program might be what you are looking for.
Here’s a handy scrip to schedule your torrent downloads while you sleep.

Forward emails sent to the computer’s root account to a different username.

How to use pushd and popd for switching between working directories when working in a command line editor.

Sometimes when using the apt-get command to upgrade, you may have packages that are being kept back.
use apt-get dist-upgrade instead.