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Marginal gains: How making 1 percent improvements on tiny things adds up

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by on August 19, 2014 at 7:07 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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James Clear writes about using behavioral science to master your habits and improve your health. His free guide, Transform Your Habits, has been downloaded more than 80,000 times. This post originally appeared on his blog. In 2010, Dave Brailsford faced a tough job. No British cyclist had ever won the Tour de France, but as the new General Manager and Performance Director for Team Sky (Great Britain’s professional cycling team), Brailsford was asked to change that. His approach was simple. Brailsford believed in a concept that he referred to as the “aggregation of marginal gains.” He explained it as “the 1 percent margin for…

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Dropbox for Business gets view-only permissions for shared folders, passwords and expirations for shared links

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by on August 19, 2014 at 6:27 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Dropbox today announced an update to Dropbox for Business that brings three new features into the fold: view-only permissions for shared folders, passwords for shared links and expirations for shared links. The company says all three are “highly requested features” and are available to all Business users today. View-only permissions for shared folders let team members choose who can view or edit files within a shared folder they’ve created. Passwords and expirations for shared links create boundaries around who can access content through shared links and for how long. The trio of features was first made available in July 2014…

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Clippers owner Steve Ballmer steps down from Microsoft board

Aug19
by on August 19, 2014 at 6:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has stepped down from the company’s board of directors in order to focus on his new role as owner of the LA Clippers basketball team. Ballmer made the announcement in a public letter to new CEO Satya Nadella. While he plans to remain Microsoft’s biggest individual shareholder, he has decided it’s “impractical” to remain on the board given how busy he has become. Ballmer is splitting his time between the Clippers, “civic contribution,” teaching and study. Nadella responded with a note of gratitude for Ballmer’s time with Microsoft: “While your insights and leadership will be greatly…

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Batch process common photo tasks with Reformator for Mac

Aug19
by on August 19, 2014 at 5:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Product Launches

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Overmacs, makers of the PhotoSweeper photo duplicate eradicator, has launched another extremely useful utility aimed at photographers. Reformator gathers convenient tools that most photo editors wind up needing and using together — browsing, file converting, renaming, resizing, watermarking, color adjustment and metadata tweaking into a single easy-to-use interface. With Reformator, the key word is “batch” because any operation you can perform on a single image, you can just as easily do on multiple images: indeed, batch processing is Reformator’s raison d’être. Sure, if you have the Adobe’s Creative Cloud Photography bundle, or you own the standalone Lightroom, iPhoto or Aperture, you can do many of…

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Yeah, that controversial app redesign is going REALLY smoothly…

Aug19
by on August 19, 2014 at 5:40 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Shareables, Videos

Every time a tech company launches a controversial new app redesign, you KNOW what’s happening behind the scenes… Every week, Vooza – a video comic strip about the tech world – shares a new video with you lovely TNW readers. Sign up for Vooza’s email list to get exclusive access to more funny videos like this one.

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