I’ve already found some cool tips from the other posts here.
I discovered a nice little shortcut the other day. It may not be anything interesting to most of you. You’ll say – I already knew that!
I used to keep my files in a “data” folder on the C drive so the cutesly little short-cuts on the file | save-as box did me no good. I got used to ignoring them. A year or two ago my husband changed my set up so I now have keep my data under the My Documents area. But I didn’t change my habit of ignoring the buttons on the save-as or file | open boxes. Then the other day I paid attention and discovered that Desktop and Documents are right there. No more clicking the up button several times or wading through the file drop down to get back to the top level.
Specific tip – use these shortcuts to save you some time when opening and saving documents.
General tip – stop and rethink some of the things we do by habit.
Another tip is when you are creating a text widget on your blog to put a graphic or text, you can put this at the begining to center it:
<p align=”center”>
And when you put the href entry with the url, you can put target=”_blank” in there so that when someone clicks on the graphic/link it opens in a separate window instead of replacing your current page with the new page.
<a href=”http://www.theimperfectblog.com” target=”_blank”>
A few weeks ago I heard a radio commercial for the Scrubbing Bubbles Automatic Shower Cleaner. I hate to admit that I am this lazy, but we have not managed to keep the shower as clean as I would like. The thought of something we could both do as we get out of the shower and have it work on the walls and corners sounded good to me. I picked it up and Anthony installed it.
It has actually done a pretty good job. The shower actually looked worse before it started to look better. I liked it enough to buy refills this weekend. The glass is looking better, the walls always looked good, the corners are staying clean better.
While I was shopping, I also picked up the Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Cleaning Gel. This was not a success. The scent was too strong (we could smell it out in the bedroom) and it didn’t help avoid the grime ring that we get every 2 days due to sediment in our water. So, I scrubbed away the leftover gel and we’ll go back to the swish and swipe of Flylady.
One tip I picked up a few months ago when I was looking back into Flylady, keep a bottle of cheap shampoo near the toilet and just use a bit to get some soap in when you swish the toilet bowl brush around. This works very well, but find a shampoo that doesn’t have a strong scent.
I don’t know if I’ll come up with a Wordless Wednesday this week. But I do have a What Works for Me. It also counts as a Thursday Timesaver so I’m covering 2 days of the week this way.
As I hang around the Well Trained Mind forum and go nosing around for Homeschool stuff, I have come across a ton of blogs that I like to keep up with. My bookmarks folder in Firefox for blogs has gotten quite full and it is now a chore to check each one during the week to see who has updated their blog. Of course, I could subscribe to each blog (at least most of them offer that option) but I don’t want it coming into my mailbox. I am a clean inbox type and the pressure of all those emails would adversely affect me. I mentioned this to Anthony and he recommended the Google Reader. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to use it and warm up to it. I still could make some aesthetic recommendations, but in general I like the functionality. At first I was concerned when it asked for the user name for the blog (that isn’t always obvious). But I finally just tried pasting in the url and that worked. So, I did that 61 times. Today I was able to easily see what blog entries I had not read and catch up right there in the reader. I can click on the blog entry and it opens a new tab with the blog up so I can add comments, read comments, etc…
Now you know, it’s what works for me.
