Archives for the 'Gadgets' Category
Hit the GTD mother lode [Genuine Curiosity]
I was just checking out a tremendous list of GTD resources at Bootstrapper: “The GTD Resource Motherload: 100+ Links.” There are 103 links there - I haven’t been through them all yet, but have found a few gems already so I wanted to share this resource with you.
A few of my favorites:
99. A Roadmap to [...]
Countdowns and time boxing [Genuine Curiosity]
My buddy Gene told me about a cool tool that is very helpful with time boxing. The tool is called “TimeLeft” and it is a very versatile tool for creating countdown timers, activity timers, and things like that. When you install it, it creates a “Happy New Year” countdown timer by default, and you [...]
Backup a-plenty [Genuine Curiosity]
I was chatting with a friend of mine about data backup this week and he mentioned he’d seen my previous write-up about Mozy, which I use (and love) for data backup at home. What he didn’t realize was that Mozy is only $4.95 per month for UNLIMITED data backup (he thought you had to [...]
Plusmo == way cool mobile feeds [Genuine Curiosity]
If you’re looking for a new way to track RSS feeds on your mobile phone, take a look at Plusmo. What’s a "Plusmo" you ask? Plusmo is a free service that lets you run cool mobile widgets on your phone. Mobile widgets are tiny apps that offer a much better mobile experience for a specific [...]
Blackberry: 1-800-Whatever [Genuine Curiosity]
I’ve been using a Blackberry with a full keyboard for quite a while, and have always been frustrated about dialing letters or words since the Blackberry doesn’t have any kind of indicator what letters go with which numbers. For example, when I want to dial by name on an company phone system, I have [...]
Yapta gets foxy [Genuine Curiosity]
I’ve written about Yapta a couple of times in the past (see “Related items” following this post) and how it’s useful for today’s airfare climate. As a refresher, you use Yapta’s browser add-on to track airfares by “tagging” (or “bookmarking”) the exact flight itineraries that you want while searching on airline websites. Once a trip [...]
Learning from the site of a Trucking Accident [Genuine Curiosity]
What the heck does the title of this post mean? Well, I’m referring to the TruckingAccident.org Blog where I found a great resource for the road warrior in a post called “The Mobile Productivity Toolbox: 100 Resources to Keep You Productive When on the Move.”
Some of the new finds (for me, anyway) from this list [...]
Yapta helped me get cheaper flights [Genuine Curiosity]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a free service called Yapta, which stands for “Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant” (get Yapta now, or read my previous post about Yapta). Shortly after I started using Yapta, I bought a couple of plane tickets for a family trip and used it to watch the fares to [...]
Speed Keys for Web Applications [Genuine Curiosity]
If you’re a student of David Allen’s Getting Things Done, you may know that he encourages you to do a couple of things to improve your productivity in front of the keyboard:
Improve your typing skills (see my previous post on learning to type)
Learn and use speed keys (for example, <Ctrl>+C to copy, <Ctrl>+V to paste) [...]
Wanna wiki? [Genuine Curiosity]
In the past, I’ve written about Wikis and how useful I’ve found them to be for collaboration in my company. In the olde days, only geeky types used Wikis. Now, there are a lot of positive changes that make wikis more accessible to the mainstream (you’ve experience a form of Wiki if you’ve used Wikipedia, [...]