Doc Ott’s Life Hack Blog

PowerPoint for use in chemistry lectures
I found this little article in the most recent edition of Using Computers in Chemical Education. It describes the wonderful uses of PowerPoint in chemistry lectures in terms of impact, usefulness and educational value. I read over it pretty quick and found some way cool stuff.

The Power of the Sleep Cycle
I have tried to cut down on my hours of sleep a few times in my life, with some success. It always came back to needing a motivation to get up early. I seem to be getting more motivation, so maybe I will try this…
Dangers of Sleep Hacking
There is always […]

Procrastination Hack
I am a horrible procrastinator, especially not that I have a blog and a news aggregator. This looks like it would work great, especially tied to my less-sleep project…
Procrastination Dash
A similar, yet different method

Registry hacks for Windows XP
Some of these might be fun just to do because I can….

Here is a little film that poses one version of technological events projected 10 years into the future. It seems completely plausible, that’s what is so scary about it…
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/epic

Cleaning up Music Files
My music collection is gigantic (37 Gig I think) and the tags are all screwed up. I found this little tutorial on how to clean it all up.

Boosting my iTrips Range
I have a iTrip, which is an FM transmitter build especially for iPod. Well, the range on them sucks, but I found this hack to boost the signal by a large amount. I am going to try this with mine. I’ll let ya know how it works.

Animation of Entire 2005 Hurricane Season
A little film with 3 or 4 frames per day of the Atlantic Ocean showing the track of each of the 21 (so far) named storms this year. There are various level of resolution depending on the size of your pipe.

Cool Banner Maker
If you have a website that has a title bar, this site is for you. You can make really sweet banner pages.

So a long time ago I found a program called Camtasia which allows you to ‘record’ what is on your computer screen. A window, a defined area, or even the entire screen. You can lay down an audio track at the same time if you wish. Its pretty neat because you can film yourself doing […]