Tools I like very much

I’m a dab­bler.  Always dab­bling.  I have no qualms about hand­ing over my user­name and pass­word to any webapp that looks use­ful / worth 5 min­utes of my time.  As a result i have A LOT of mem­ber accounts all across the inter­net.  Most of these new sites or ser­vices get tossed aside, either […]

Merlin Mann Lays It Out: Get Started!

hotdogsladies_tweetI con­tinue to find Mr. Mann’s talks on the busi­ness of doing cre­ative things thought-provoking and (yes, at times) inspir­ing.  He is of course talk­ing to a con­tem­po­rary gen­er­a­tion of what he refers to as knowledge-workers, so the audi­ence for this stuff is lim­ited.  But his […]

Snippets make TextExpander amazing

TE_logoIf you re not famil­iar with Tex­tEx­pander, it’s a util­ity which runs in the back­ground on your com­puter all the time and does noth­ing, until you type out a pre­de­fined string of char­ac­ters.  It then leaps into action, replac­ing those char­ac­ters with a pre­set block of […]

Mac OS X Basic Training Session coming up — 6/29

beachballUse a Mac for work or play? Want to learn how to use it better?

Who:

New / Begin­ner Mac users
Recent “switch­ers” (just gave up your WIn­dows PC for a Mac)
Long time Apple users look­ing to pick up new skillz
Basi­cally, if you use a Mac, there’s some­thing in […]

How to be busy in happiness

…or rather, How to be Happy in Busi­ness.   Same thing right?  I really enjoy this Venn dia­gram rep­re­sen­ta­tion of the balancing/juggling/dance that we do as we work our way through life.

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Bud Cad­dell who keeps the blog WhatConsumesMe.com put this beaut together based on his […]

In defense of distraction: the yang to your type-A yin

attentionThe irony of a 7-page arti­cle on our col­lec­tive attention-span going down the tubes with our meds and arti­fi­cial sweet­en­ers is not lost on me.  Nev­er­the­less.  I hon­estly and truly read this whole arti­cle, straight through, with­out ever check­ing twit­ter, FB, email, or ran­domly glanc­ing at […]

Inbox Zero: a new email frontier

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I spent the entirety of last week upload­ing mail from user accounts into the Google.  and what i saw in the process shocked and fright­ened me!  i saw mas­sive, bloated inboxes, over­flow­ing with unread mes­sages and one-off memos that should’ve been deleted the moment their message […]

Screencast: Learn about QuickLook

Quick­Look is a spiffy new fea­ture of OS X 10.5 “Leop­ard”.  In the fol­low­ing screen­cast i’ll show you how you can use Quick­Look to work more quickly and eas­ily on doc­u­ments and email.

Click here to view the screencast.

Advice for Controlling Email Onslaught

How do you do it?!
Inquir­ing minds want to know!

A top 5 list from the web­site of my per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity guru Mr. Mer­lin Mann.  These are some easy and quick tips for improv­ing the qual­ity of our email com­mu­ni­ca­tion.  Humankind has had roughly 10,000 years to mas­ter the writ­ten word, and we’ve had maybe 20 years to […]

PDF: one document format to unite us all

PDF IconWe live in an age of vibrant techno-diversity. We have com­put­ing plat­forms galore from Win­dows and Mac, to the count­less vari­a­tions of Linux. We have MS Office, and OpenOffice.org, and NeoOf­fice, and StarOf­fice, JOf­fice, Simdesk, and way more to choose from for our word pro­cess­ing and spread­sheet­ing needs. […]