Monday 23 September 2013

iOS 7: readers tips on hidden iPhone and iPad features

Users of Apple's iPhone and iPad have sent us some of their tips on how to find fun and helpful hidden features in the new iOS 7 operating system.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/iphone/10323318/iOS-7-readers-tips-on-hidden-iPhone-and-iPad-features.html 

Monday 16 September 2013

#100Women: Join the BBC's new conversation

Women around the world have achieved extraordinary things during the past century. But despite major steps forward in securing political, cultural and social rights, women everywhere face steep challenges compared to their male counterparts.

How to Stop Wasting Time

It’s time to get real about how you waste time. These tips and tools can help you add more hours to your day.
Time is an entrepreneur’s most valuable asset. So how can you get more time in your day? You can’t buy, sell or trade it; you have to reclaim it.
In order to do that you need to identify how and when you’re wasting time. Let’s be real about this: everyone wastes some time during the day—we’re only human after all. The trick is to honestly evaluate your work habits. Only then can you use your time more efficiently.

The monotonous world of overused CV words

A survey suggests that the terms "hard-working", "team player" and "motivated" are so ubiquitous in CVs that they have become utterly meaningless. But what might you write instead, asks Finlo Rohrer.
It's not easy to write the covering letter that goes with CVs. You know it's going into a massive pile that will leave some poor recruiter dead-eyed in a supremely bored fugue. The sentiments you want to express are not just samey, they can even be counterproductive. Simply stating you're "creative" does seem rather to show the opposite.
Perhaps you should adopt the old journalistic adage of "show me, don't tell me". As an old journalism professor once said: "Don't start a sentence with 'interestingly…'. Let the reader be the judge of that." If having described a feat you have to say it is "spectacular" either a) you're not very good at describing feats or b) the feat really wasn't that spectacular. 

Blobfish Voted Ugliest Animal

And you can see why


http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/12/blobfish-voted-ugliest-animal/