After a while, long, dull, and super descriptive messages tend to clog up answering machines and force listeners to the brim of their patience. If you are someone who tends to cause this problem, stop doing it. Here are some tips you should take to save time while making a phone call and recording a voice message:

• If your call has already ringed for a couple of times, start thinking about what you could say in a voice message.
• If you do need to record a message, try to keep it under 10 seconds.
• If you’re one who either likes to talk on and on or one who just speaks extremely slowly and quietly, try to articulate a clear, concise message without all the details.
• Remember, a main point of voice messages is to state your point and to leave a return option for the listener to follow up with millions of questions.
• Of course, there are also certain times in which you need to record a long message. If such is the case, then it’s pretty much advanced common sense…

This is a VERY LONG VIDEO. Therefore, the best way to watch this is to not watch this. Just turn up the speakers and listen while you do some other easy task. Actually do listen/watch this… because it actually helps and is useful. This Google Tech Talk seminar beautifully describes methods to not burn all your time on emails but rather process them efficiently. Good luck with Advanced Common Sense…

“I haven’t shown you anything here that you don’t already know how to do. But if you actually do it, you’re gonna see extraordinary differences.“

Slides of this Presentation: Inbox Zero [Slide Share]

Feed Elite gets its news sources from many areas around the internet. Obviously there are quite a numerous amount of these “sources.” Therefore, a great way we use to save time and increase productivity in link browsing is to use the Read It Later Firefox Add-on/Plugin.

Link: Read it Later [the Idea Shower]

Unless you’re willing to spend a lot of money to buy expensive legit software, your office suites usually don’t come with enough clip art to fulfill your desire. Open Clip Art Library takes care of this. This great website is one of the best sources where thousands of clip artists post their best images for you to view and download for free! Open Clip Art also creates a community where users request for certain types of customized clip art. Here, over 10,000 scalable vector graphic images are posted with free licenses for personal and commercial usage. This is an end to boring generic clip art from Microsoft Power Point.

Link: openclipart.org [Open Clip Art Library]

Mirrors don’t always have to be made of glass or shiny, high luster materials. Mirrors can be made from anything, as long as they display the “reflection.” Here we see Daniel Rozin with a special wooden mirror that he made. A camera receives input imagery from its video source and then feeds data to a computer, which translates the picture into single pixel movements of 830 wooden blocks. This creates a monochrome black and white styled reflection image. Very neat!