mikevu.com » productivity http://www.mikevu.com web, productivity, business, and design. Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Top 10 Reasons to Work Late at Night http://www.mikevu.com/2008/10/24/top-10-reasons-to-work-late-at-night/ http://www.mikevu.com/2008/10/24/top-10-reasons-to-work-late-at-night/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:58:49 +0000 themvu http://www.mikevu.com/?p=205 It’s 2:51 am, I’m working late night grinding away at some work and had to stop to admire the perks of working late at night.

  1. Nobody to chat with online
  2. No good tv shows to watch
  3. Nobody physically around to distract you
  4. No emails coming through
  5. No phone calls
  6. No text messages
  7. Nowhere to go
  8. No sun to enjoy
  9. No food to eat
  10. Nobody.

So what does this mean to all of you who like to work in the morning or during the day?  Isolate yourself.  Turn off all your distractions for max productivity.

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]]> http://www.mikevu.com/2008/10/20/hello-again/feed/ 1 Evernote has evolved http://www.mikevu.com/2008/04/30/evernote-has-evolved/ http://www.mikevu.com/2008/04/30/evernote-has-evolved/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:15:15 +0000 themvu http://www.mikevu.com/?p=185

Evernote has evolved and everyone is going to get hooked.

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MyProgress allows users to track their personal finances, skills, “knowledges”, wealth and health dynamics.

It sounded like my cup of tea so I even posted a comment in defense of its concept:

I think people are undervaluing metrics. Extraordinary efforts call for extraordinary measuresments. ;) Although it’s not completely polished, you can’t help but applaud the concept. Simplicity is going to be the life and death of such an application…

So I went to the the site to sign up.  I quickly filled out the form and clicked on submit.  An error occurred, reading:

Last name must be more than 2 characters

Wow.  What a bummer.  They had me, and now they lost me.

]]> http://www.mikevu.com/2007/08/19/how-to-lose-a-customer-fast/feed/ 2 Inspiring set of Moleskins. http://www.mikevu.com/2007/08/16/inspiring-set-of-moleskins/ http://www.mikevu.com/2007/08/16/inspiring-set-of-moleskins/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:07:18 +0000 themvu http://www.mikevu.com/?p=173 The following two links and video are inspiring, to say the least.

http://www.moleskine.it/eng/_interni/city/exhibition.htm

http://detour.moleskinecity.com/

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]]> http://www.mikevu.com/2007/07/29/inbox-zero/feed/ 0 Now blogging at Facereviews.com. =) http://www.mikevu.com/2007/07/27/now-blogging-at-facereviewscom/ http://www.mikevu.com/2007/07/27/now-blogging-at-facereviewscom/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:24:38 +0000 themvu http://www.mikevu.com/?p=168 As of today, I am now officially part of the Facereviews.com team.  This is an exciting opportunity to express my passion for the web, technology, social networks, and of course Facebook. 

Check out my first post here. 

]]> http://www.mikevu.com/2007/07/27/now-blogging-at-facereviewscom/feed/ 1 Windows Live Writer Beta 2 is now available. http://www.mikevu.com/2007/06/05/windows-live-writer-beta-2-is-now-available/ http://www.mikevu.com/2007/06/05/windows-live-writer-beta-2-is-now-available/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:47:59 +0000 themvu http://www.mikevu.com/?p=161 After about a year since the first release, the ever so useful blogging tool, Windows Live Writer Beta 2 has finally arrived.  New features include the capability of adding categories, inserting tables, inline spell checking, and more.  I highly recommend this blogging tool to anyone who wants to be a more productive blogger, it’s definitely one of the better ones out there.  Go download it now. 

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