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I started my account with Dreamhost eight years ago in February of 2006. Changing hosts was much simpler then, as I had a single HTML-based web site. Today it means moving nearly two dozen web sites, most of which are powered by backend databases. Complicating things further, many of them are web sites on which…
GIzmodo reported two years ago that Americans have thrown away $41B in unused gift cards since 2005. That’s more than the entire gross national product of some countries, such as Ghana. Sales of gift cards have risen from $80 billion in 2007 to a forecasted $118 billion this year, a 47% increase in five years, according to…
I discovered Yahoo’s weather application for Android a few weeks ago, which was an iOS-only application until earlier this year. It’s a beautiful interface that uses Flickr images from the weather location that are from the approximate local time of day. From the daily and hourly forecasts to the wind and sun position indicators, the…
My office was a total mess. I had two file cabinets full of papers that I may or may not ever need one day. I’m not a pack rat when it comes to documents, but if there’s a chance I might need it, it got filed. Filing papers takes a few minutes, so it was…
When Mountain Lion was released, a bunch of fantastic wallpapers were hidden away and only used for screen savers. It turns out Apple hid those wallpapers in a different place this time with Mavericks, but users over at StackExchange have managed to find them again. Like last time, these are the images that Apple uses…
Import folders are a perfect way to easily drag and drop documents from a computer into your Evernote account. Follow these instructions to set up an import folder: First, open your Evernote application (the Evernote program, not the web site) and click on Tools and then Import Folders. This will open the Import Folders setting…
I wouldn’t consider myself to be one of those people who just has to have the most recent device, but I do enjoy getting a new phone. I was a huge Blackberry defender for many years, and given that I only really used my phone for work, it was easy to be one. Until a…
Overview Along with Doit.im, Nirvana is one of the best implementations of a GTD system I’ve seen. These two applications have the same major shortcoming: there is no single Next Action in a project; all new tasks are created as “Next”. I don’t really understand how two companies that build such apt tools for use…
Overview I’ve actually been using Doit.im (Snoworange Inc.) for about six months since I started my comparison of GTD systems. I needed a solution for managing my work projects while I reviewed additional systems, and so I narrowed my list of potential solutions to four or five and this was one of them. Due to…
Overview TodoMatrix is the task management application that I used previously. With this in mind, I’m documenting it as a baseline rather than as a product to consider. My primary reason for leaving it for another application is that it does not offer the span of device/platform compatibility that I need. Some folks who rely…