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Presenting Over AirPlay

Tips on how to present your Keynote presentation wirelessly from your iPad.

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Protecting Your Apple Power Adapter with sugru

Afraid of snapping the wire going into your apple power adapter? Check out this simple and quick hack for reinforcing the strain relief.

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Inspiration from Sherlock Holmes

Meditation, even for short periods of time, can increase our powers of concentration and effectiveness as we push the daily limits of multi-tasking.

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Converse Better: How to Have Productive Technical Arguments

Rather than arguing that a technology is inferior/superior overall, discuss where it's particularly useful, and whether another technology would would work better.

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The Shy Person’s Guide to Making Friends at Work

If meeting new people is difficult for you (like it is for me), here are a few tips to help you on your way.

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Language Matters – Don’t Sound Unsure of Yourself

Set yourself apart by eliminating weak language from your vocabulary. Sounding like an unsure moron during meetings weakens your chances of building trust and respect in others.

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Systemantics and How They Apply To Everything

The principles in Gall's Systemantics helped me understand malfunctioning systems and gave me a better grasp on the agile manifesto.

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5 Tips for Success When Joining a New Development Team

Success isn't just what you know – it's how well you work with others. Use your skills more effectively to build great software and relationships.

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Creating a Design Portfolio that Gets You Hired

Here are the 5 things that really get my attention — things make me say "Here's somebody I'd love to have as my design intern!"

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Writing a Good Blog Post – An 11-Step Process

This process has improved my ability to write my blog posts and general web content.

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Copying Charts Reliably out of Numbers

Many important components are lost when you copy and paste a chart from Numbers. This is a work-around to reliably get complete charts out of Numbers and into a graphic file format

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