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February 5th, 2007

Desktop search in Vista–files meet tags

While I’m still waiting for my copy of Vista to arrive (looks like Friday-ish), I’ve been reading up on it to see how it’s going to help me do “stuff” better.  Besides gathering up tons of install tips (no I’m not doing a clean install), I’ve been looking at the built-in improvements to search.  LifeHacker […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 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 17th, 2006

Six words to use to move into action mode

LifeHacker linked to a super post over on 43folders called: “6 powerful ‘look into’ verbs (+1 to avoid)“.  Premise, six steps to move a project forward and turn ideas into actions (I think this is what Scot calls GTD … Getting Things Done).  I’m not going to scrape all the content from the post a) […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments