Simple productivity tips while tinkering with Facebook: Facebook Salvo. Ok, the name was not exactly the most creative one and the process is not exactly new but I guess it worth written just in case some of you are drowned in the sea of mini-feeds and applications.

In short, Facebook Salvo involves doing a barrage of Facebook related activities within short period of time. See for yourselves on how I usually do it.

The example show how I replied to wall messages which I have neglected over the weekend. Notice the timestamp of each activity. Of course it helps to do the salvo during time of the day in which I am usually least productive - before and after lunch - or when I was super bored - usually in the middle or the nights or right before office hour ends. *grin

Of course the best course of action is to close the Facebook tabs and never open it.

Maybe I should dedicate this week to Facebook related posts.

A quick update: my parents were in Singapore last weekend. Together with one of my brothers and sister. It was fun. My youngest brother could not make it due to smallpox.

Admit it, many of your believe that competition is getting stiffer and fiercer in SMU. With increasingly bigger cohort and compulsory ‘C or below’ policy, I am sure people would like to get as much advantage as they could - including you. The same applies to presentation realm where students are constantly challanged to deliver top-notch entertaiment with stunning visual ‘omph’ thanks to the increasing proliferation rate of MAC among SMU students over the past few years. Fret not, here is some freebies to raise the bar for your presentation.

Lifehacker (one of the website) has seen from Macworld (another website) about free keynote objects that can be used to spice up your presentation. The freebies is given by iPresentee (second another website - wow… see how complicated the relations between websites nowaday).

The package combines 100 easy to use and attractive objects and  the background of all objects is transparent and can be used on any colored background. Each object can be tampered in any way possible. And yes, it is compatible with Keynote, iWeb, Pages, Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.

Keynote Objects [iPresentee via Lifehacker via Macworld]