10 things to learn on April 17th

10 things to learn from the almighty WWW today:

Why Bankers Would Rather Work for $0.00 Than $500K – John Sviokla – HarvardBusiness.org

In a research paper entitled "Effort for Payment: A Tale of Two Markets," James Heyman and Dan show that people are willing to help move a couch or perform an experiment just by being asked. Moreover, these individuals feel good about their "gift". Most interestingly, the experiments show that contrary to standard economic theory, paying a small incremental incentive does not increase effort, but actually lowers it — because meager compensation profanes the gift effect and disincents the giver.

The high costs of running YouTube. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine

Everyone knows that print newspapers are our generation's horse-and-buggy; in the most wired cities, they've been pummeled by competition from the Web. But it might surprise you to learn that one of the largest and most-celebrated new-media ventures is burning through cash at a rate that makes newspapers look like wise investments. It's called YouTube: According a recent report by analysts at the financial-services company Credit Suisse, Google will lose $470 million on the video-sharing site this year alone. To put it another way, the Boston Globe, which is on track to lose $85 million in 2009, is five times more profitable—or, rather, less unprofitable—than YouTube. All so you can watch this helium-voiced oddball whenever you want.

20 registry hacks to make your PC more awesome | News | TechRadar UK

Right-clicking on everything is a good way to learn about hidden Windows functionality. Exploring the lesser-known Control Panel applets is another useful technique, and browsing the command line applications in Windows' System32 folder can be interesting. But let's be realistic. There's nothing that quite compares to the Registry.

48 Unique Ways To Use WordPress | Performancing.com

WordPress, one of the most popular blogging platforms (if not the most), is capable of being more than just a blog platform. It's capable of being a full-blown CMS (Content Management System). As someone who has both written small, custom CMSes from scratch as well as evaluated million-dollar professional CMSes for large corporations, WordPress' robustness never ceases to amaze me.

10 Exceptional WordPress Hacks | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine

One of the reasons people love WordPress so much is its great flexibility. You can change the software’s appearance with themes. You can enhance its functionality with plug-ins. And, last but not least, you can totally unleash WordPress’ power with hacks. Some time ago, we wrote a post showing 10 Killer WordPress Hacks.

Today, let’s do it again with 10 new and totally killer WordPress hacks to make your blog stand out from the crowd. As usual, we won’t just list the hacks alone. In each entry, you’ll find an explanation of the code as well as the kinds of problems that the hack solves.

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The 10 Biggest Minutes of Your Interview – Career Advice Article

"Hiring managers often know whether they might hire someone soon after the opening handshake and small talk," a new survey suggests. Executives polled said it takes them just 10 minutes to form an opinion of job seekers, despite meeting with staff-level applicants for 55 minutes and management-level candidates for 86 minutes, on average. Executives were asked, "How long does it typically take you to form either a positive or negative opinion of a job candidate during an initial interview?" The mean response was 10 minutes.*

Unable to obtain a server-assigned IP address. Try again later or enter an IP address in Network settings.

This has been the least favourite error message on my K-Jam. It's not the most annoying problem, but it's one of those really annoying and consistent problems that you can never quite find a solution to.

Today, as luck would have it, I had a spare minute to go playing to see what would fix it. And found two solutions:

Microsoft ActiveSync Troubleshooting Guide | Smartphone and PDA

The symptoms of USB connection problems between a Windows Mobile powered device and ActiveSync 4.x may include any of the following:

Connection between a device and PC is dropped during data transfer or synchronization.

Connection is never established between PC and the device and there is no visual feedback.

Windows appears to stall or crashes upon connecting a device.

Lifehacker – Geek to Live: Securely track your passwords – Downloads

Are your passwords written down on a piece of paper taped to the bottom of your keyboard? Zipped up in a passworded archive? Stowed away in a passwords.doc file?

On Wednesday we discussed how to choose secure and memorable passwords. But what about the passwords you already have? Or passwords that were assigned to you that you can't change? Or passwords for systems with special requirements that your usual password scheme doesn't work for?

Sometimes you just have to write down a password to remember it. But don't do it on a Post-It note. You can keep a secure and searchable database to retrieve those hard to remember passwords without compromising security using the free, open source software application KeePass.

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