I just read “The Brash Boys at 37 Signals Will Tell Yo: Keep it Simple Stupid” in Wired Magazine, and it got me all fired up to write a response, because I thought it developed an incomplete picture. 37 signals leads the charge for one of Web 2.0’s core tenants, simplicity. Their rapid/rabid [...]
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“File” Syncing?
Published March 27th, 2008 in Personal Tech, Software, desktop software, personal productivity and web apps.Lots of new companies are coming out with file syncing products. This irks me, so here’s my rant.Personally I’ve used Foldershare since day one (which has been out for a while, even pre-microsoft), and its been rock solid. I sync “working files” between a couple of bizdev guys and a desktop thats on [...]
Information processing online
Published October 1st, 2007 in Personal Tech, Software, blogging, personal productivity, social bookmarking, web apps and workflow.Here is a list of the web applications that I use in some way while I consume, process, and publish data online:
Scrapbook - Firefox extension for archiving a web page to your computer only
Google Notebook - application for clipping sections of content into a notebook, where you can group similar content
Diigo (I previously used Furl [...]
I’m a big fan of software that is actually useful. The rest is just clutter, and most of it falls into the clutter category.
Marc Andreessen covers his OSX killer apps of 2007, and has some pretty solid suggestions.
I agree with:
Netnewsire (though its slowly getting replaced by google reader)
VLC (couldnt live without it)
Ecto (though eventually [...]
More on Managing personal information
Published October 8th, 2006 in GTD, Software, notes and personal productivity.In a previous post I wrote about a blog post claiming to find the ultimate solution to syncing your personal data. Now I want to follow up on it, because their solution only addressed a small amount of what can be considered type of personal data. The system only touched on e-mail, contacts, [...]
I started off exploring the world of RSS through a web app called bloglines along with countless other tech gurus. Eventually the UI got to me, and I felt like I needed something a bit more flexible and responsive. Then the tagging abilities of rojo really got my attention, so I switched over. The [...]
Yesterday, a good friend called and asked me what “must have freeware apps†should he know about for his brand new work laptop. After a good 4 or 5 years of full blown Windows power using dorkdom, I figured what better time to round up some of the apps that had a positive impact [...]
After using Diigo for a split second to track apartments that I might be interested in, I realized that I need something a bit more sophisticated. At just about the same time, I started sending out lots of e-mails about these apartments, and I decided to just try copying all my useful information into [...]
Diigo: discussions for your bookmarks
Published July 17th, 2006 in Software, apartment, bookmarking and workflow.http://www.diigo.com
In my previous post about BLAGs, I had thought the best way to collaboratively discuss links and articles would be through taking all your bookmarks and feeding the into a blog, where you could post comments.
Diigo took one of many attempts at the social bookmarking phenomenon and succeeds at creating an intuitive interface for facilitating [...]
Before I get on to my recent big change in technology platforms I wanted to mention a few apps that I found extremely useful for the windows platform.
1) The first one was one that was covered by Russell Beattie, who, unfortunately, recently stopped his very insightful blog on happenings in the mobile world. In [...]
