I bet you’re sitting on your (furniture) now reading (piece of writing). You look at your (noun) and see that the sky is (adjective). “(exclamation),” you think to yourself, “I’ve forgotten to (household chore verb) the laundry.” But you don’t care because you have more important things to do, like read (subject of this email). […]

To continue with your Distraction December Tech Tips, this week I’m offering something to keep your creative mind distracted. This week I want to introduce you to http://gifninja.com. You can use the site to transform your normal, motionless pictures into animated GIFs (moving pictures, think Harry Potter). The website is very easy to use; just […]

This week’s Distraction December is a great tool for those of you out there who are obsessed with words and languages. Have you ever wondered how much a word has been used over the years? When did the word gain popularity and when did it slide back into the annals of history? Now you can. […]

Hello my fellow PCVs. I have a feeling, that you’re receiving this week’s Friday Digest and reading this Tech Tip, while it’s dark outside. It seems like the sun hardly comes up anymore, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, I don’t have a tech tip to make the days longer and sunnier but this month I’ll be bringing you some […]

Are you looking to start a blog to share your experiences in Ukraine with friends and family back home? Do you already have a blog? Does your blog have a password? It should if you aren’t having your regional manager check over your blog posts before you post them. This issue will explain how to […]

This month I did something I thought I’d never do, even though I’ve talked about it for years. I deactivated my Facebook account. I went cold turkey because I found myself wasting too much time on the website when I could have been productive and working on projects. In the few days that I’ve had […]

In yet another attempt to make you more productive as you travel around the country, I have a tip this week for you to be able to read your email while you’re on the go and without internet. Of course this message doesn’t apply to those of you who already download your messages using programs like Windows […]

Do you own a Mac? Have you purchased an external hard drive and are not able to put files on it? Fear not, this week I’ll teach you how to solve this little mystery. The reason for this problem is the drive is formatted using the Windows proprietary NTFS file system. Macs cannot write to this natively. […]

A cluster mate of mine during training remarked that he would have had an easier time learning the language if he could type it. I had to agree with him. There’s something about the repetition of typing that drives home how to spell a word for me. I while back we learned how to have […]

I know it might seem like I’m the kind of person who would sit in front of a glowing computer screen all summer to get my tan, but I’m not. I went to various summer camps, outside. For some of these summer camps I was asked to write-up a few of my lesson plans to […]