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The beauty of utilizing your iPhone for moving or relocation is that ideally it will be close at hand during every step of your move and eliminates the hassle of lugging a folder of materials or misplacing your organization plan amidst the chaos of moving.  There are quite a few options available for using iPhone apps to help make you …

Tuesday’s are “iPhone Tuesdays” at OPTED Magazine.  On Tuesdays, we’ll review and comment on a different iPhone app located in the productivity section of the Apple app store.  Previous reviews on OPTED Magazine have helped readers purchase apps that enhance their iPhone experience and increase productivity!
Next week’s review will be based on reader’s choice.  Browse the apps in the productivity …

We all have dreams: the visions and lofty aspirations that we hope to achieve in our lifetimes.  It’s important that despite the everyday, mundane tasks that we are required to plod through that we don’t lose sight of these dreams, and in an ideal world, we aspire to dedicate time each day to work towards those visions.
As promised in our …

Sometimes you just don’t feel like going to work, so you call in sick.  The feeling might be triggered in the morning as the day begins and you feel so overwhelmed that the thought of spending a day in the office when there are a million things on you personal to do list seems impossible.  But what if you planned …

For a few months, our household had a terrible track record of making a trip to the grocery store several days during the week, despite using a batch task system to combine this errand with others.  Even despite a weekly meal plan to plan for dinners and a leftovers schedule, we lacked a system to have everything we needed available …

The Economic Times published an article explaining why a narcissistic boss can stifle both morale and productivity in the workplace.  The study included 1200 people, with the results showing the following:
31 per cent reported that their boss is prone to exaggerate his or her accomplishments to look good in front of others; 27 per cent reported that their boss brags …

Recipes, measuring cups and serving sizes on food packaging don’t always add up when you’re cooking in the kitchen.  Attempting to make a complex conversion between tablespoons, cups, and ounces using paper and pen, or a digital app, while you’re covered in flour is an ill-advised move!
An easy solution is the Etsy measurement conversion apron.
The apron is designed so that …

As an avid user of Gmail, I have explored the application from top to bottom and tested out almost all of the features and options in several different combinations.  One of my favorite Gmail concepts is their “labs” feature, which they describe as a “testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime.”  To access labs features, click …