Xbox Software Hacking

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Xbox Software Hacking

Xbox Software Hacking

"Lifehacking" is a term created by technology writer Danny O'Brien, who realized that his most productive colleagues had developed personal mini computer programs in order to improve productivity. Upon interviewing them, he noticed commonalities: many people were individually solving problems held by the entire group. O'Brien posited that the entire online community should share and improve upon these individual solutions.

Lifehacking has since evolved into a massive grass-roots movement of hundreds of websites focused on the development of any straightforward technique to improve efficiency, online or off.

Lifehackers Create Productivity Solutions in the Age of Distraction

In the May 25, 2009, New York Magazine article "In Defense of Distraction" Sam Anderson notes that "we keep an average of eight windows open on our computer screens at one time and skip between them every twenty seconds."

People are becoming wired to procrastinate, not by contemplating their navels, but by checking email every 2 minutes; reading news as soon as the feed updates; watching random videos on YouTube; IMing everyone who pops up on screen; Twittering; Facebooking...you get the idea, and you're probably doing it right now.

Life hacks are designed to keep you on task or to speed through mundane daily chores. For each concept, there are typically a number of websites, programs and applications designed to assist you in implementing the life hack. Here's an overview of three popular life hacks you can use to improve productivity today.

Mindmaps Organize Ideas With Both Sides of the Brain

You have a big idea but find it difficult to organize the myriad thoughts swirling around your head. Mind mapping allows you to capture all of those ideas and expound upon them in an organic, visually based way. Joel Falconer of LifeHack.org calls a mindmap "a place where visual representations and written representations of things merge to create something that is more natural to the mind" than typical word-based methods of notation.