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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?
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).
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. 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.
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
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.
» How to disable WGA notification 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? 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.
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.
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.
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). 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.
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.