Back to school is a wonderful time for most students – seeing friends, filling up social calendars, and a lot of hard work. It also means stocking up on the latest and greatest in tech to keep you academically and socially efficient.
Here’s my breakdown of a couple of cool apps/tech buys that will help you get your game face on this fall. And no you won’t see any suggestions on what smartphone, tablet or computer to get. We’re talking apps, web services and a few tech buys to help you stay on your game.
Continue reading ‘Going digital…back to school season (the college/university edition)’
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Tags: Back To School, Daily Routine, Dropbox, Evernote, Going Digital, Livescribe, Moleskine, Skype
Hi I’m Aleks – and I love caffeine. Specifically, I’m a coffee girl. And if you followed me on Instagram or Twitter you’d know this as I’m often posting pictures of various coffees I like to drink.
Hi I’m Aleks and I love coffee. I also like taking pictures of coffees I drink both domestically and while traveling.
There’s nothing better than the smell of full-bodied perfection in the early mornings. I dare you to show me a better smell than a freshly pulled espresso topped with foamed milk and some chocolate shavings.
Triple dog dare you.
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Tags: #CaffeinationNation, Caffeination Nation, Caffeine Detox, Vanilla Affagato
I may need to start adding these to Pinterest as fitness goals!
Last week I had the pleasure of going to my first Mixed Level class at Barreworks. I’ve heard such great things from friends so I thought it was time I gave it a shot and put my instructor through her paces. You see, I have a few injuries I’m working around so I’m not your typical student. Plus, I’m not overly coordinated without a lot of practice so I thought I’d be a bit of a challenge. Funny thing is I don’t think I even fazed her. 
Continue reading ‘Rekindling my love of barre with Barreworks’
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Tags: Ballet fitness workout, Barre workout, Barreworks Toronto, BarreworksTO
Welcome to Podcamp 2012!!
Hello and welcome to my liveblog of some of the #pcto2012 sessions I’ve gone to. I’ll clean this up at the end of the day but until then, enjoy my musings.
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Tags: #pcto2012, Podcamp 2012, Social Media
Pinterest – everything you need to know about the social networking site making a stir in 2012
Back in 2011 I was hailing Pinterest as the site to watch for 2012 and talking about my ridiculous obsession with it.
I am obsessed with pinterest. It's bad.
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Aleksandra Stalmach (@alisaan) November 29, 2011My obsession with butter chicken can only be shadowed by my addiction to pinterest. #ClassicAli
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Aleksandra Stalmach (@alisaan) December 02, 2011Since then I’ve watched in excitement as people flocked to the site wondering what all the fuss is about. After the jump I’m going to explain what Pinterest is, how to use it, how brands are using it, and to top it off I’ll give you some basic resources if you want more info (and yes, you will want more info).
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Tags: My Favourite Things, Pinterest, Social media sites
Ladies Learning Code.
So I’m sitting in the middle of the room at the Center for Social Innovation watching Wes Bos teach us how to edit the code for our sidebar in our WordPress theme. This is me dipping my toe into WordPress…and I LOVE it!
This morning I spent the morning with the great girls at my table Jeannette, Haley and Sarah-Joyce learning to install, hack and navigate our way to creating and customizing a Word Press theme. Sounds scary right? But it’s not! The lovely ladies at Ladies Learning Code make it easy by providing a wonderful environment with a 4:1 student to teacher ratio to slowly learn how to make a site your own.
Continue reading ‘This lady is learning code with Ladies Learning Code!’
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Tags: blogging, CSS, Ladies Learning Code, Word Press
Holiday shopping made easy
This is my Christmas wreath. You like?
Now here’s something you don’t hear someone say too often? “I love shopping for gifts during the holidays!”
But guess what?
In my case, it’s true!
I know it sounds crazy but I have mad holiday shopping skills. So if you want some tips on how to make this year’s shopping activities one of joy and not as much bah humbug, read on!
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Tags: Christmas, Christmas shopping made easy, Christmas wreath, Holiday shopping made easy, Holiday wreath, Holidays
