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Time Saving & Automation Round-up: Let the Computer Do the Work

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One of the reasons that computers can help us get more done is they have the ability to do lots of work for us. All you need is the ability to identify a repetitive series of tasks that is consuming your time, and the right software to take over the job for you. Here are a number of different Of Zen and Computing articles that will teach you how to save time and automate common tasks:

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  1. I use my automation to automatically play heavy metal music files in the morning to wake me up.

  2. Haha, nice! I do the same thing, except I wake up to a much more mellow track: “Morning Has Broken” by Cat Stevens.

  3. My classic wake up song is Orbital - Halcyon & On & On… Its an electronic song that was most likely in Hackers or something… Starts very mellow and then progressively gets harder

  4. I’m also a huge fan of the wake-up mp3 alarm- I used “WinAlarm”, the winamp plugin, and just left winamp running 24/7.
    I found, though, that it was best to match the song with the period. For instance, during a particularly grueling summer internship, I had to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, and had it set to play “Mighty Fine Blues” by The Eels. The wake-up song is important, it can establish your personal groove for the rest of the day.

  5. I use an RSS alarm clock from Hak5.org which plays a track to wake me up then reads out the days news.

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