Showing posts with label Resolutions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Resolutions. Show all posts

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Achieve Your Resolutions: YawnLog + SleepyTi.me


Over the next few months, as people draft their New Year’s Resolutions and 2012 predictions, I’ll be providing tools to help you Achieve Your Resolution – valuable webapps and web sites that I’ve found in the past year that help achieve popular New Year’s Resolutions.

We all want to get more sleep in our otherwise busy lives, but we’re not sure how. These two webapps, YawnLog, and SleepyTi.me, help us busy collegiates get the required amount of ZZZs.YawnLog helps track the amount of sleep you can get. You input your time in bed, time out bed, and quality of sleep, and YawnLog does the rest – including graphing your inputted amount of sleep and tracking it against the average of all users who posted. So you won’t have to worry about those late New Years’ Eves.

SleepyTi.me, which I’ve written about previously here, allows you to see how much sleep you can get to obtain to get your optimal amount each night so that your R.E.M. cycles complete and you wake up feeling refreshed.


Don’t sleep your new year away – hack your body to the best it can be!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Achieve Your Resolutions: Amazon, Audible, and Gutenberg Project

Over the next few days, as people draft their New Year’s Resolutions and 2012 predictions, I’ll be providing tools to help you Achieve Your Resolution – valuable webapps and web sites that I’ve found in the past year that help achieve popular New Year’s Resolutions.

Everyone wants to read more. For fun, and not for school. This is a daunting task when all you’ve got is your school’s bookstore and not so much free time.The biggest way I’ve found I can enhance my reading is with my e-reader, and the support I’ve had from Amazon.com. As an Amazon Student member, I can borrow books on my Kindle Fire for free, which helps defray the otherwise high cost of fiction.But if you like to listen to books while you work out, drive to work, or are just on the go, Audible.com is second to none when it comes to audiobooks. They have the largest selection and the best deals to get your reading done…with your ears.And finally, Project Gutenberg has over 36,000 free e-books, mainly classics, that are available to be read on your Nook, Kindle, and on your computer. And yes, the Kama Sutra’s there, as well as some of the great works of Dickens and Lewis Caroll.Get reading – whether it’s on your e-reader, through your earbuds, or in the classical world – in 2012.Sean Quinn

Sean Quinn is a sophomore at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL majoring in political science and public relations. Go Gators! He enjoys watching all sports, especially baseball and football, listening to every type of music (and yes, that includes country and opera), is a relentless Apple fanboy, and is originally from north New Jersey. Sean's an avid reader and was involved in student government and drama during his run at Seminole High School in Sanford, FL. He is also infamous for having a never-ending Hulu and Netflix queue. Sean was previously the Vice President, Marketing and Media Relations and Community Blogger for Teens in Tech , a Silicon Valley-based start-up that provided technology opportunities for pre-teens and teenagers. You can contact Sean on Facebook or Twitter or through email at sean@hackcollege.com.


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