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December 26th, 2012Top Story I'm Chef Aaron Sanchez, and This Is How I Work By Tessa Miller If you're a Food Network fan, you probably recognize Aaron Sanchez as a judge on the culinary battle show Chopped or a participant in the high stakes cook-off Iron Chef. Off camera, the chef divides his time between restaurants in New York and Kansas City, as well as the nationwide network of House of Blues eateries. Aaron's fresh spin on traditional Latin cuisine has collected a stack of awards, launched two bestselling books, and even landed him a guest chef gig at the White House. We stole a few minutes from Aaron's crazy schedule to talk about his favorite gadgets, the best tunes to cook to, and more. Name: Aaron Sanchez Occupation: Chef and partner at Mestizo in Kansas City, KS; Culinary visionary behind Tacombi in New York, NY; Culinary director of Crossroads at House of Blues nationwide; Judge on Food Network's Chopped Location: New York, NY Current computer: MacBook Pro Current mobile device: iPhone 5 I work: Passionately What apps/software/tools can't you live without? Songkick is amazing. It keeps track of my favorite bands and musicians and tells me when there are upcoming concert dates. Spotify is another one that I couldn't live without. For work, Google Calendar keeps me on track. What's your best time-saving trick? Having membership accounts with travel companies, like Hertz and Starwood Hotels helps me keep track of everything. Having all of my info saved in my account makes coordinating travel a lot smoother and easier. I'm also big on planning ahead and making appointments and reservations so I don't have to wait around. Pictured at right: Aaron's iPhone homescreen. What's your favorite to-do list manager? I use the Notes app on my iPhone for everything. I'm never without my phone so it's perfect for me. Besides your phone and computer, what gadget can't you live without? My electric shaver. What's your workspace like? Since I'm on the road all the time, I work from wherever I can—airport waiting rooms, restaurants, hotels. Since I have to be mobile, I keep everything in my bag—my AT&T wifi device, my phone, my MacBook, iPad, headphones, and chargers for everything. What do you listen to while you work? My wife, Ife Sanchez Mora, is a musician, so I listen to her music when I'm in the kitchen. What's your sleep routine like? I'm an early riser. When I'm on the road my phone is my alarm clock, but when I'm at home my son Yuma is my alarm clock. There's no sleeping once he's up and running. Pictured above: Aaron's desktop. What everyday thing are you better at than anyone else? I'm a champ at changing diapers. What's the best advice you've ever received? Cook for the customer, not yourself. Anything else you'd like to add? Being a chef isn't about glamour and accolades. Cooking is all about passion and love. Connect with Aaron on Twitter @Chef_Aaron. The How I Work series asks heroes, experts, brilliant, and flat-out productive people to share their shortcuts, workspaces, routines, and more. Every Wednesday we'll feature a new guest and the gadgets, apps, tips, and tricks that keep them going. Have someone you'd kill to see featured, or questions you think we should ask? Email Tessa. Click to viewClick to view

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December 25th, 2012Top Story Slim Charging Stations, IKEA Breakage, and Multiple Monitors By Whitson Gordon Readers offer their best tips for charging all your gadgets, avoiding the really cheap stuff at IKEA, and avoiding multiple monitor annoyances. Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox, but for various reasons—maybe they're a bit too niche, maybe we couldn't find a good way to present it, or maybe we just couldn't fit it in—the tip didn't make the front page. From the Tips Box is where we round up some of our favorites for your buffet-style consumption. Got a tip of your own to share? Add it in the comments, email it to tips at lifehacker.com, or share it on our tips and expert pages. Use a Letter Sorter as a Slim Charging Station David James finds a great way to charge his larger gadgets: My wife and I have a couple laptops and an iPad, and with our small townhouse and our 2-year-old twins, we really don't have an option for a dedicated desk space that we could use to charge our gadgets. We do have a small built-in hutch in the main living area of our home, but couldn't give up too much of that space either, so I found a three-slot letter sorter that works perfectly for keeping our larger devices charged, accessible, and safely out of the way. Since the sorter is a leather weave, it doesn't mar the casing of anything we're charging in it either. Avoid Items in the "As-Is" Department at IKEA Ehed finds some dubious products in the checkout line: When shopping at IKEA, swing by the "As-Is" department (usually just before checkout) before you pay. Aside from the obvious "treasure hunting" you can do to get stuff at a discount, if any of the items you have in your cart are "over-represented" in this area, you may want to reconsider buying those items. I discovered a rack full of one item I was considering purchasing, being sold "for parts" after they had all broken in the same fashion. Quit Apps Before Disconnecting Your Laptop's Second Monitor Greg kills one of his dual-monitor annoyances: I use my MacBook Pro with an external monitor, and it always bugs me that when I disconnect it, all of my windows consolidate to the one laptop monitor—and then when I plug it back in, they all appear on the main monitor. I have to then drag things like my Twitter client and Spotify back over to my secondary monitor where I keep them. I figured out a little trick to make these windows behave: quit them before you disconnect the monitor. If you aren't going to use those apps when you're out and about (which I usually don't, in the case of my second-monitor apps), you can plug your laptop back in, start those apps back up,a nd they'll appear where you last left them—on the secondary monitor—without ever knowing you unplugged it. I don't currently have a Windows laptop to test this on, but Windows users might be able to use this too. It definitely works on a Mac. Try it out and let us know! Photo by Peter Hellberg. Use Google Apps Groups for Shared Accounts Jingoges makes email notifications more useful for him and his wife: When signing up for an account I intend to share (Amazon Prime, Groupon/LivingSocial, bank notifications, Mint, online news subscriptions, etc.), I use a group in my Google Apps account that only contains two members, myself & my wife. It's great because whenever notifications come through we both get them, without ever having to forward each other things. If you're on a regular ol' Google account, you could probably just make a filter for these things that forwards them to your partner upon receipt, too.

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