The Web Browser Address Bar is the New Command Li. Gantter.com - web-based project management alternative. Serena Makes Good on Promise: Dumps Microsoft Exchange for Googl. Jay Goldman » Blog Archive » Top 10 iPhone Power User Tips. Procrastination: Beat procrastination with the 10 minute rule. E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez. As I have mentioned in a previous blog post, the purpose of this other entry is to actually cover some additional commentary related to the feedback input that the various readers from the NYTimes article "I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip" have been leaving all along since I got it published a couple of weeks back.
You may have noticed how I have already shared a couple of comments there myself, which you can find here and over here, but I thought I would expand on a couple of thoughts that seem to keep coming back over and over again. So without much further ado, let’s go ahead and cover them: - e-mail vs. social networking interactions – where is the balance? I know I have been getting plenty of comments in this respect and, while giving presentations at conference events or workshops, it seems to be one of the recurring themes as well over here. Well, my answer is always ask back how much time do they spend on e-mail themselves. . - e-mail as personal time management productivity tool. Labour movement | Economist.com. Google Calendar Sync for Microsoft Outlook. One of the most popular requests for Google Calendar was synchronization with mobile devices and Outlook. After launching a sync tool for Blackberries, Google Calendar now offers a small utility for synchronizing events with Outlook.
By default the synchronization is bi-directional, but you can change this when you install the utility or from the options dialog. The only significant drawback is that you can only synchronize your main Google Calendar, but a future update should remove this limitation. Google installs a small program that loads at start-up and sits on your system tray, while waiting for the next synchronization (the default sync interval is 2 hours).
It's worth noting that Google's new tool works with Google Apps accounts and it's another step towards making Google Apps more business-friendly. { spotted by Google Blogoscoped } Office Live Workspace vs Google Docs: Feature-by-Feature Compari. Today, Microsoft announced that the Office Live Workspace beta is publicly available for everyone to access. The site, a free web-based extension of Microsoft Office, lets you access your documents online and share your work with others. Some say that the service's launch is a direct response to Google's entry into the web office space with their Google Docs online service. If that's so, then the question now is: did Microsoft just trump Google Docs?
Or does Google Docs still rule online office suites? Office Live Workspace: The Basics Before we review the features in detail, let's look at an overview of what Office Live Workspace offers. After signing up for Office Live and signing into the service (and no, you don't have to have an MSN email address to do so), you are presented with the "Documents" area where you can upload and view files and share them with others. However, the defining feature is of this service are the "workspaces. " Feature-by-Feature Comparison Storage Space File Types. LinkedIn Launches Mobile. Discussion :: View topic - How to jury rig local disk indexing. Well, just did it myself, and it looks like it is all working well.The MS sites instructions weren't that clear, but I got it to work.Simply went into the command line followed the "md ddrive" instructions.That process makes a directory in your C:\Documents and Settings\your profile name\ddrive .... then the rest of the instructions creates the virtual link.
Of course before that type in "mountvol" so as to see the drive gui's to know which one to type according to the instructions. Looks like DOS commands, I would have rather had the virtual drive at C: instead, but because the instructions weren't that clear I did what looked the safest thing, didn't realize what it was actually asking me to do. Likely would have needed to change directory, since I was at my profile file level. Maybe I'll change it later. Anyway, it DOES work.... SyncMyCal - Share Outlook Calendar Free, Google Calendar Sync. The Holy Grail of Synchronization: How to synchronize Microsoft.
Google now official supports synching between Google Calendar and Outlook This is a guide for synchronizing (address book) and (schedule) across multiple computers and gadgets. Common terms: synchronization – making the information the same on two different applications WAP/GPRS – wireless Internet access for mobile phones SyncML – a synchronization protocol This is the setup I am trying to sync: Calendars Microsoft Outlook at work for professional scheduling Google Calendar for personal scheduling Contacts Gmail for email addresses Microsoft Outlook at home for contacts Gadgets Nokia 6682 for access to contacts/calendar on the go (or any mobile phone that has software to synchronize with Microsoft Outlook, ie: all of them) iPod for access to contacts/calendar on the go ScheduleWorld wasn’t something I used before I tried to do this, but it is the glue that holds it all together. Here is a beautiful drawing of .
This is how I want to sync it (follow the diagram): But why? Why use Outlook? It’s there. . How to Sync Google Calendar with Outlook and Smartphones Automat. My big complaint about Google Calendar was lack of support for easily syncing calendar data with my smartphone. I use Outlook for my personal information management because it's still the only thing that puts all my data in one place the way I want it. Google Calendar's iCal export made manual syncing with Outlook possible, but I want to get all my calendar data from my computer to my phone automatically.
There have been several third party solutions that attempt to address this with varying levels of success. Just recently, Google released Google Calendar Sync, completely addressing the automatic sync between Outlook and Google Calendar. Google still hasn't addressed automatic sync of Contacts with Gmail and Outlook. Here's how you can sync Outlook with Google Calendar automatically: First download Google Calendar Sync and install it.
After installation is complete, enter your Google Apps account id and password. See Also: How to Automatically Backup Outlook. Voice Recorder for iPod® » How to disable WGA notification | Spyware Confidential. Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy tool has angered a lot of people and rightfully so in my opinion. Fellow ZDNet bloggers have explained the details of the software along their concerns. Ed Bott wrote Microsoft presses the Stupid button and lists the stupid mistakes, starting with "it should never have been included with Critical Updates". I agree with that and all his points. I don't have a problem with Microsoft checking to see if the OS is legal -- once. But why over and over? David Berlind asked Does Microsoft's new WGA disclosure fall short?.
The other huge concern with WGA is that it phones home daily, or each time you boot up the machine. I don't have a problem with Microsoft checking to see if the OS is legal -- once. A: The pilot version of this software periodically contacts Microsoft after validation. Let me make the distinction between the Genuine Advantage validation and the Genuine Advantage notification. The good the bad and the ugly > The good > 101 fantastic f. » Zimbra demos offline client | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com. Spectrum: The Firefox Kid. Inside his uncle’s restaurant, Ross launches into a laptop demo of Parakey. This isn’t a press conference; he’s just showing his brainchild to me informally. It’s the sort of venue he prefers—low key, one on one. And it’s in these moments that he really comes to life. As developers well know, disseminating new software is not only a technical challenge, it’s also a communications task.
You’re not just engineering a solution, you’re marketing it. In explaining Parakey, Ross cuts to the chase. ”We all know people…who have all this content that they are not publishing stored on their computers,” he says. ”We’re trying to persuade them to live their lives online.” Grandparents love seeing their kids and grandkids on Flickr or Snapfish, but they’re often too intimidated to put their own pictures on these sites. It’s not just grandparents who aren’t using the Web as much as they could—it’s everyone.
Take digital photos, for example. What do developers think? Releases SocialPoint | Socialtext Enterprise Wiki. Ubuntu 6.10 "Edgy Eft" released. Canonical announced today the release of Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft. Released every six months to reflect the release cycle of the GNOME desktop environment, the increasingly popular distribution provides a relatively cohesive desktop Linux experience with reliable free updates and recent versions of commonly used open source applications. The latest version features GNOME 2.16, XOrg 7.1 with built-in support for accelerated indirect GLX (AIGLX), and the 2.6.17 kernel. Ubuntu 6.10, which includes the freshly released Firefox 2.0, sports the new Tangerine theme, designed to improve visual integration of the browser by making it better conform to Ubuntu's style.
Other visual improvements are featured as well, including a new USplash startup screen that will provide better support for a wider range of resolutions. In addition to Firefox 2.0, Ubuntu 6.10 also includes OpenOffice 2.0.4, Gaim 2.0 beta 3.1, and recent versions of many other common applications. Blog Archive » DimDim launches FOSS challenge to WebEx. Open source startup DimDim has released an alpha version of their new browser based web conferencing software.
Users download the open source free code and install it on their own servers. The current version supports IE on Windows only for presenters, which is really unfortunate, but attendees can be in conference via Firefox on Mac. No software download is required for attendees. Future versions will fully support Firefox on Mac, Linux and Windows. If the software ends up solid then DimDim could pose an interesting challenge to the current list of paid, hosted web conferencing solutions. I tested a version hosted on the DimDim servers early this week and it worked well. Presenters can share their whole desktop or just a single application at a time with attendees. Resolution on the shared screen isn’t all I wish it was but lag time was very low. Typical of open source companies, DimDim’s business model is based on providing paid support and custom installations for business users. The New Mozilla Recommended Add-ons List: The Winners and the Lo.
Developers are from Mars, Programmers are from Venus. Office 2.0 Podcast Jam. Box.net - Free Online File Storage, Internet File Sharing, RSS S. Welcome to Writely. The Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users » Slac. Doug's Windows 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Tips. How to Become an Early Riser. It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. – Aristotle Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I’d almost always sleep in late.
I usually didn’t start hitting my stride each day until late afternoon. But after a while I couldn’t ignore the high correlation between success and rising early, even in my own life. . … and the next morning, I got up just before noon. Hmmm… I tried again many more times, each time not getting very far with it. It’s hard to become an early riser using the wrong strategy. The most common wrong strategy is this: You assume that if you’re going to get up earlier, you’d better go to bed earlier. It seems there are two main schools of thought about sleep patterns. The second school says you should listen to your body’s needs and go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. Building a Smarter To-Do List, Part I. Since new folks visit 43F each day, I thought it might be valuable to return to one of our most popular evergreen topics to review some "best practices" for keeping a good to-do list.
While a lot of this might be old hat to some of you, it's a good chance to review the habits and patterns behind one of the most powerful tools in the shed. Part 2 appears tomorrow (Update: now available). (N.B.: links to previous posts related to these topics are provided inline) Why bother? In my own experience wrangling life's entropic challenges, some of my best gains have come from maintaining a smart, actionable, and updated accounting of all the things I've committed myself to doing.
While the quality of that list may vary from day to day, it's the best place to train my focus whenever things are starting to feel out of control. Anatomy of a To-do Glancing at your own to-do list, do you see any potential troublemakers? Break it Down to the “Next Action” Let's Get Physical All in how you phrase it. Fresh Start: Replace one project. Running a Progressive Dash. Reader Jeff Covey shares how he’s started beating procrastination with a dash. Jeff’s system features a very fast daily start-up and a clever way to make sure every to-do gets touched first thing every morning. by Jeff Covey The recent post about running a dash gave me an idea which has turned out to be a good way to get myself in motion.
It's something like a train pulling out of a station, with a lot of force and effort at the beginning leading to smooth gliding through the long haul. One of my gtd scripts is named "tenmins", and I've used it to make sure I put at least a little time into each of my next actions lists each day. As the name implies, I picked ten minutes as the arbitrary amount of time to give each category of work. tenmins would look through my lists for any which had items waiting to be done. Then it would say, for example, "work on phone calls", display a timer counting down the time remaining, and pop up a message saying "stop" when the time was up. Incoming mailboxes. Kick procrastination’s ass: Run a dash. Procrastination can drive most of us into a spiral of shame that’s as mundane as it is painfully personal. We know what we should be doing, but some invisible hang-up keeps us on the line.
Unfortunately, the guaranteed consequence of procrastination is growth in the scale of the task you’ve been putting off—as well as the anxiety that it creates. All the time you’re putting something off, your problem’s getting bigger—both in reality and in your head, where your colorful imagination is liable to turn even the most trivial item into an unsolvable juggernaut that threatens to overwhelm you. And that means extra stress, more procrastination, and the music goes round.
My favorite tonic for procrastination—which I have mentioned in passing previously—is what I call a dash, which is simply a short burst of focused activity during which you force yourself to do nothing but work on the procrastinated item for a very short period of time—perhaps as little as just one minute. Some Sample Dashes.