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Archive for the ‘Time savers’ Category

January 26th, 2007

About a week with Office 2007, so far so good

It’s been about a week now since I switched over to Office 2007 Pro.  I still haven’t played with Power Point (I’m not a big ppt guy any more), Word has been getting a workout for sure.  Excel?  On the other machine here at home that’s had Office 2007 for a month I’ve played a […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

January 22nd, 2007

ReaderMini–Google reader for your PDA

I’m loving Google Reader lately.  Yeah I know that I’ve been a client-side rss reader kind of guy for a long time, but you gotta try new stuff once and a while.  So there is a "mobile" version of GR that Google provides.  It’s through your mobile browser and not an app.  I’ve tried it […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

December 28th, 2006

Hacks to speed up your web surfing

From ConnectedInternet comes a couple tweaks/hacks/tips to make your browsing faster.  This might be a tad geeky for most, and there is a plugin for Firefox that makes this tweak for you, but if you’re frustrated with slow page loads, these might help:
Firefox users:

Open firefox
type ‘about:config’ in the address bar
Type ‘network’ in the filter bar
Double […]

By Tris Hussey -- 4 comments

December 15th, 2006

Here’s a work tip for you … turn off to get things done

As many of you know I’ve been a pro blogger for over two years now.  In my heyday I could crank out an obscene number of posts in a day.  My record is something like 12 posts in an hour.  Not so much any more.  The pressures of being a part of b5media, Qumana, PodTech, […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

November 21st, 2006

Google Homepage as a GTD tool

Kelly Forrister is trying out Google’s tool offerings as a centralized GTD workcentre.  Her article outlines the details but I thought I’d share some with you here.
First she customized her Goolge Homepage with the following tabs:

This is how she explains each of the tabs:

Actions - I added 6 Google "Gadgets" for To-Do’s. If you do […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

November 15th, 2006

New ways Gmail can help with GTD–Gmail adds features and new extensions out

It’s been a busy launch week so far.  Scot and I have been taking it a bit easy (off our normal couple posts a day routine).  I had this post save to write, I’ve been meaning to write it up for way too long … better late than never!
As you should know by now, Google […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

October 23rd, 2006

Managing e-mail on your Blackberry … block it all

Huh?  Isn’t the whole point of having a Blackberry getting e-mail on the go?  Yes.  The problem is that if you let all the e-mail through, your Berry might be pinging (or whatever your alert sound is) all the time.  At first I just tried routing everything through GMail and that worked pretty well.  Then […]

By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments

October 23rd, 2006

It takes more that a cool tool to GTD you have to learn how to use it

Glen over at LifeDev does it again.  I’m a huge fan of Basecamp and the other web-based apps by 37Signals.  Thing is I think, like many folks, I don’t begin to tap into their full potential, or even to use them to really help me in the whole GTD process.  Well, Glen got some advice […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

October 20th, 2006

Scrybe looks amazing! Web-based organization with offline use!

I caught this on Download Squad this morning.  The movie says it all, so I’ll let you watch it, then we’ll chat.

Ready?  Is that freakin’ awesome or what?!?  I’m blown away.  Like the folks at DownloadSquad I’ve requested early admission into the Scrybe beta test group.  Since this blog is so new, I’m going on […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

October 19th, 2006

Use desktop search to find your stuff

Okay so how many e-mails are in your inbox right now?  Me?  773.  That’s from October only.  Now, what about that presentation you created three months ago and need for something else right now?  Word doc?  Spreadsheet?  I think you’re getting the idea.  With today’s massive harddrives (my first Mac had a 20 meg HD […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments