Clean Out Your Inbox with Taskforce. The inbox pictured at left is not mine.
I feel compelled to tell you this right at the outset, because the idea of an inbox with that many messages in it, much less that many unread messages, is enough to make me break out in hives. But there are times when my inbox does get a bit more full than I’d like, which usually happens when I find myself using it as a substitute for my to-do list. I’ll read a message from a student asking for a letter of recommendation, or a request for information from my dean’s office, or a reminder of an impending due date for a conference paper proposal, and I’ll let that message linger in my inbox, effectively saying that I don’t have time to do that thing right now, but leaving the message to serve as a reminder that I need to do it, and soon.
Several new email plugins promise to help with this problem. Julie recently discussed the new Google Priority Inbox, which helps you sort mail and keep your focus on the important items. Return to Top. Wichita Mountain Hiking Experience « Into the Grey. My three weeks with an iPad - Casting Out Nines. Over the break, I had the opportunity to experiment with an iPad 2 that my department has purchased.
The department is loaning the iPad out to faculty for two weeks at a time to see if there is a compelling educational use for the device with our students — in which case, I’m assuming we will try to buy more. As tech-obsessed as I am, this is the first time I’ve had to spend time with an iPad, and here are my impressions. As a piece of high technology, the iPad is pretty marvelous. I’ve been an iPhone 4 user for some time now, so the beauty of the iOS user interface ought to be commonplace for me, but it isn’t. I can see why Apple marketed it as a “magical” device when it first came out. But I always approach technology, especially educational technology, with the question: What problem does this solve?
I downloaded the Wolfram|Alpha app for the iPad. I tried out two apps for screencasting — Screenchomp (developed by Techsmith, also known for Camtasia) and EduCreations. How about you? Beneath Yellowstone, a volcano that could wipe out U.S. It’s the awe-inspiring pride of the United States – and it harbors a deadly power that could kill us all.
Yellowstone National Park is pristine wilderness, full of scenic landscape and iconic hot-pools and geysers that attract tens of thousands of visitors every year. But it’s what lies beneath that has scientists scurrying. We’ve long known that Yellowstone is merely the skin on top of a supervolcano – a giant pool of magma sitting just under the Earth’s surface. Exactly how giant has been the subject of much speculation. Until now. A team from the University of Utah have told the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco that Yellowstone’s magama chamber is 2.5 times larger than previously thought. It is an underground cavern that measures some 55 miles by 20 miles and runs between 3 and 9 miles below the earth. Shadow IT Is Out of the Closet - Jill Dyche. By Jill Dyche | 11:00 AM September 13, 2012 Five years ago, “shadow IT” efforts were the dirty little secret of organizations.
An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. Other managers might take notice and started building their own databases. How to Stand Out From a Crowd - On Hiring. Contrary to popular belief, there is no cohort of monks guarding the secret scroll of candidates on short lists in job searches.
In this digital age, however, it can be both harder and easier to get noticed in the search process. Let me suggest a few ways to increase your visibility. Use online social networks like LinkedIn wisely. Your LinkedIn profile should be complete, consistent with your résumé, and include a robust summary section. Why C.S. Lewis Never Goes Out of Style. The author's death barely made headlines 50 years ago when he died on the same day as JFK and Aldous Huxley. But today, his writings are more relevant than ever. Last month marked the 50th anniversary of a bizarre day in history.
Three men of significant importance each died on November 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy, author Aldous Huxley, and author and scholar C.S. Lewis. On that day, the developed world (appropriately) halted at the news of the assassination of the United States’ 35th president. Huxley’s death, meanwhile, made the front page of The New York Times the day after Kennedy’s coverage began. The news of Lewis’s death, though, didn't appear in print until Nov. 25, and it appeared in the normal obituary section of The New York Times weekday paper.
Have a Good Life: Markdown out of Scrivener and into iBooks. Wednesday, August 29, 2012 by Jethro Jones In writing my book, I used Markdown as I was writing it to force me to focus on the content, or else I would never get it done.
I didn’t start playing around with fonts, and colors, and design until the actual writing was in to be reviewed by a trusted friend. I had a really hard time getting the Markdown text out of Scrivener into a readable format with the pictures that I had linked in. I needed the format to go to Word so that I could insert chapters into iBooks Author. When I compiled from Scrivener to Word, I got markdown formatted text, not RTF (and no pictures)