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Time is finite, but we act as if it were otherwise, assuming that longer hours always lead to increased productivity. But in reality our bodies are designed to pulse and pause - to expend energy and then renew it. In this revelatory talk, energy expert Tony Schwartz debunks common productivity myths and shows us how to regain control over our energy so we can produce great work.

If you work a lot in Photoshop with large files, be sure to read this article on Adobe about key steps to optimize Photoshop CS5 performance:

1. Allocate your scratch disk correctly
2. Separate the Photoshop scratch disk from operating system virtual memory
3. Set the RAM percentage used by Photoshop
4. Defragment your drives regularly
5. Minimize History States
6. Avoid “Out of RAM” errors when running memory-intensive features
7. Reduce the number of open files
8. Clear all available memory: Purge Undo, Clipboard, or Histories
9. Run Photoshop by itself
10. Optimize Cache Level and Cache Tile settings
11. Reduce patterns and brush tips
12. Optimize GPU settings
13. Choose the appropriate Photoshop file type
14. Set the Maximize File Compatibility option
15. Turn off thumbnail display
16. Reduce color bit depth
17. Deselect Export Clipboard
18. Adjust or turn off font preview
19. Optimize image files

Watch this amazing demo about a possible new Photoshop feature that allows you to deblur images with a special algorithm.

Data is becoming increasingly important in our highly digitised world. This is painfully apparent when you lose it. As the saying goes: You don't know what you've got until it's gone.

There are many strategies for backups and all of them have their positive and negative aspects.

On June 20th 2011, ICANN the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, created a global shockwave with their announcement to a packed meeting in Singapore. A thousand delegates witnessed, a long awaited gTLD program released, creating new types of domain names with unlimited potential.

Here's an early look at the upcoming preview of Adobe Edge -- an easy to use tool for creating expressive, standards-based animation with amazing ease and precision. Watch as Doug Winnie, Principal Product Manager for Edge, takes you through the basics of what Edge can do.

The first preview of Edge will be available soon on Adobe Labs - sign up below to be one of the first to try it:
www.adobe.com/go/edgepreview_notify

In the spirit of sitemaps.org, Bing, Google and Yahoo! have come together to provide a shared collection of schemas that webmasters can use: Schema.org.

The site provides a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers. Search engines including Bing, Google and Yahoo! rely on this markup to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.

3 Dreams of Black, the newest music experience, written and directed by Chris Milk, and developed in collaboration with Google, and produced by @radical.media launches today. The song, “Black,” comes off the album ROME, presented by Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi, featuring Jack White and Norah Jones on vocals and soon to be released on the record label Parlophone/EMI. ROME is inspired by Italian soundtracks from the 1960s and the classic Italian Western genre. In fact, the album was recorded with the original orchestra from Italian director Sergio Leone’s westerns (for example, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly).

iPhone Tracker extracts the data gathered by your iPhone and maps the information about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer.