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  • Taking the plunge with a new task management system (Teambox)

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    Prior to using Asana, the team have gone thru Basecamp, ActiveCollab, and GoPlan. We’ve been changing task/project-management systems so much that we just got used to it. At the back of my mind, I welcomed it, because it allowed me to start from zero and review tasks that are still worth pursuing. Asana, however, was the…

  • Manage your Toodledo tasks using 2Do

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    Toodledo has an official iPhone app being sold for $2.99. It was perfectly fine for my basic need of editing tasks offline. Soon, however, I craved for something pretty, and luckily, 2Do was available at the App Store.

  • “Ring once” on the iPhone

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    I got to give credit to Nokia for the “ring once” feature on their phones. It is a handy feature which spares me from frantically rummaging thru my bag just to silence an endlessly ringing cellphone. The iPhone, however, does not have such a feature. iPhones loop ringtones endlessly & embarrassingly. The workaround I downloaded…

  • Now using (ugly) Toodledo … Good riddance, (pretty) Remember the Milk

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    It was not easy to say goodbye to Remember the Milk. I’ve shelled out $25 for a Pro account (& I’m cheap when it comes to these things). I also got a ton of tasks already up & running in RTM. Since they conveniently didn’t put an export feature, this has increased my reluctance to…

  • The search for the perfect digital filing cabinet

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    It was a choice among DevonThink, Yojimbo, Together, & EagleFiler. There are supposed to be a handful more in that list, but they were immediately junked either because they were primarily note-taking apps or lacked serious organization. These apps, unfortunately, have yet to be christened with a short & sweet category such as “text editor”…

  • Managing your Firefox profiles for easy backup – bookmarks, passwords, and settings

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    In Mozilla Firefox, your bookmarks, passwords, and settings are saved in something called a profile. This is stored in your hard drive. Your profile is typically located at C:Documents and Settings[User Name]Application DataMozillaFirefoxProfilesxxxxxxxx.default Whenever you need to reinstall Windows, this might create problems, as most of us don’t usually back up our Application Data folder.…

  • Mobile phone technostress: Keeping it under control

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    A highly-charged and always-on-the-go job is more susceptible to technostress, and in my experience, a mobile phone adds more to this than anything else. Here are some things I learned along the way in how to keep my sanity: Ring Once Set your ring tone to “Ring Once.” Do yourself and others around you a…

  • Decreasing the size of Firefox’s tabs

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    Firefox 2.0? Ho-hum. After all, how can such a great browser impress us further? But a spellchecker’s there, & that’s always good; and a feed reader, which unfortunately didn’t live up to the standards of Sage. The scrolling tabs need some time to get used to. The tabs are also wider. This means that it…

  • Disable PDF viewing in Firefox

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    You’re happily surfing, and you realized too late that one of the URLs you’ve clicked was actually a PDF document. You hate it. It takes a long time to load, makes your browser hang, or confuses so much with the toolbars that you unknowingly close your browser. There is a way for you to disable…

  • Learning to touch type

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    The obvious benefit of touch typing is the increase in typing speed. When I learned how to touch type, I discovered another little known advantage: Touch typing actually improved the thinking process. Transforming my thoughts into words was faster and easier — all because I didn’t need to shift my eyes to the keyboard to…