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I was watching a presentation yesterday, half way through which the presenters fired up a demo of their application. To their horror, the demos failed spectacularly. After what seemed like an eternity trying to recover, the presenters were forced to move on, leaving the presenters visibly annoyed and the audience disappointed. Although I’m not immune [...]
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Like many people, I have VOIP at home – my current provider is Vonage. One of the features of Vonage is an international virtual number. This gives me a local number in the UK that my family can dial, which automatically redirects to my home number here in the US. It’s relatively cheap ($4.99 per month) [...]
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What I love about GTD (Getting Things Done) is that everyone has their own take on what works for them. I often find myself refactoring my own GTD system every month or so with minor tweaks that make things a little more efficient. Josh Fialkoff has a nice post on different methodologies and tools other [...]
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Ok, so I spent the last couple of weeks with the DVORAK layout. The experience was enlightening, if not physically and mentally challenging at times. My conclusions from my limited trial: Pros: DVORAK is clearly superior for typing English text. Even after a couple of days many common words felt more natural than QWERTY. Converting to DVORAK [...]
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Recently I’ve been feeling the strain of too much typing – nothing too serious, but enough to make me look at how I use the keyboard. In addition to ergo keyboards I’ve been checking out the DVORAK keyboard layout. While I’m convinced that this is a superior way of typing, it’s like learning all over [...]
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In his post, Omar directs us to a new version of Notepad2, which IMO is a must-have tool for anyone that does any heavy amount of text file editing. Although he covers how to replace notepad.exe on a machine running XP, I had to search for the same instructions for Vista. Courtesy of the HowToGeek, [...]
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I really dig the new start menu in Vista, especially how you can type in commands and quickly search for local items, including program shortcuts. One thing that has been missing however (over the previous MSN desktop search and other similar tools) is a way to pass arguments to create more customized shortcuts. For example, [...]
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As of last Friday I became the proud owner of a Samsung Blackjack. The device is very small and runs Windows Mobile 5.0, which makes reading, sending Email, and just generally being “in sync with the world” a breeze. A device so small has it’s limitations of course – battery life is one of them. Although I’ve not [...]
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I was looking in my Outlook Sent Folder today and noticed that I have sent a total of 13,605 emails since Jan 1st this year. Assuming that we're about 325 days into the year, that approximates at 42 emails per day (or 59 per workday – given that I send very little on Saturdays and [...]
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While using Outlook 2007 as my GTD tool, one of the things I’ve been missing is having the ability to rename tasks on the fly. Here’s a pretty common situation: · A new message arrives with the subject of “RE: Purchase Order”. It’s from Jack, and after reading the Email I realize that I need [...]
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