Doc Ott’s Life Hack Blog

Benjamin Franklin lived by and self assesed for 13 virtues that represent a real good set of self imposed rules for living.
Good stuff there…

I now have a copy of photoshop, and found two cool tutorials. Too bad they are ‘advanced’ tutorials, and I am having a hard times doing these. Maybe it is motivation for to finally learn the ‘basics’
Lighting out of fingers (or eyes)
Lightsaber

Ok, this is cool, you can add text to a chalkboard being written on by Einstein and then save the picture
Insert words into Einsteins chalkboard

For anyone who has a wireless card this is good stuff.Wi-fi hacking and hacking prevention a>

So I am doing long runs and I like to listen to talking instead of music when running for 2+ hours. I have been hoping for some school to come up with good lectures I can download. It MIGHT be UC- Berkeley. I subscribed to the Undergrad colloquim on Political Science which might be cool. […]

This allows you to set up a batch file that will open a set of applications at the same time, even setting specific web pages to open. It saves me a little time. Each day I am opening several different apps, why not do it all at once?
Simple batch files for windows.

I am not sure why I love these types of site. The Earth View
site allows you to look at the Earth in ‘real time’ from any angle. It shows the terminator (line between night and day) and includes the lights of cities on the night side. Good for a desktop image.

I have been thinking about trying out linux for a while now. Each day I see more momentum towards it as an alternative to Windows and Microsoft which I have never been a big fan of. If I can get away without it, great.
First things first: Get the basics:
Linux Tutorial
and here is a Linux […]

Occasionally I want to send huge files to someone (many many MB) but email systems sometimes poop on big files. I have found this
Mailbigfile service that allows you to mail files as big as 1 GB. It temporarily allows the file to be stored on their server (1 week I think) until your […]

A few months ago I discovered Damn Small Linux, which you can load onto a flash drive, plug into any machine (even one with Windows OS running) and load up a Linux shell. It was pretty cool and I played around with it for a while, again thinking about learning about Linux.
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