Recent Updates Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts

  • mnassal 3:00 pm on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , , , ,   

    Dunnit!: Todo App for Achievement Nuts 

    Productivity News via: Brandon Pittma – smokingapples


    I’ll go right ahead and say this, Dunnit! is not for the GTD hardcore among us. If you use a todo app on your Mac as well as your iPhone, you’re not gonna be replacing them with Dunnit!. Dunnit! has no desktop counterpart, and that alone is gonna make this app persona non grata for a lot of people. As much as I like a lot of what Dunnit! does, the simple fact that I can’t sync to my Mac (or even a website) kills it for me. If, however, you’re cool with only keeping track of your tasks on your iPhone, Dunnit! does a lot of cool things that most other todo apps haven’t even dreamed up yet. I’ll start off with the first thing that got my attention: it’s got achievements. You heard me. It’s got achievements! It connects to OpenFeint, and you earn achievement points for making and completing tasks. You get points for clearing out completed tasks. You get points for tweeting what you completed. (I appreciated that they warn people to tweet responsibly in the preferences.) You can even get points for procrastinating and completing tasks up to a month late. (Seems counterproductive though.) It’s gotta be the most retarded and awesome thing I’ve seen yet in an iPhone app. I gotta congratulate RunLoop for having the balls to implement this little piece of genius. I waste hours doing the most menial shit in video games to get PSN trophies, and here I would’ve never thought to include achievements in a todo app. Bravo…..

    Complete Story

    Apple, GTD, iphone, news, Productivity, Reviews, software, tasks

    Post to Twitter Tweet This Post

     

  • mnassal 12:00 pm on March 10, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , , , , ,   

    [Mac Classic] TaskPaper Comes to the iPhone 

    Productivity News via: Will Kelly – webworkerdaily


    If you fall into the camp where application simplicity is key and list management trumps the higher-end features you’ll be happy to learn that you can create, manage, tag, and delete projects, tasks, and notes in TaskPaper — everything you might need for project tracking – through taps and swipes on your iPhone’s screen. These basics are documented in a “Getting Started” task list that comes with the application (I recommend that you don’t delete that list). The screenshot below shows the setup of a typical TaskPaper document…..

    Complete Story

    cloud, GTD, iphone, news, Productivity, Reviews, software, tasks, web 2.0

    Post to Twitter Tweet This Post

     

  • mnassal 8:00 pm on March 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , , , ,   

    How To GTD Your Twitter Searches 

    Productivity News via: butyoureagir


    So if you’ve gone to a conference in the last year you may have had trouble trying to keep track of all the tweets and hashtags on Twitter.

    If you’re trying to track mentions of your product on Twitter and have several, it may seem like a waste to keep searching for each one.

    Tweetdeck, a very popular Twitter, allows you to create “columns” based on searches. If you make too many, you can be easily overwhelmed by all the info!

    What is a conference going, company owning, Twitter loving person to do?

    Check out the following tutorial on how to make your Twitter searches easier….

    Complete Story

    Post to Twitter Tweet This Post

     

  • mnassal 12:00 pm on March 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: documents, , , ,   

    [When in doubt] How long should you keep stuff? 

    Productivity News via: Kenpachi Zaraki – zkenpachi.posterous.com

    Don’t be a hoarder. Great list of recommended retention periods.

    Type and Retention Period (years)

    Accident reports and claims (settled cases)— 7 Accounts payable ledgers and schedules— 7 Accounts receivable ledgers and schedules— 7 Audit reports of accountants— permanently Bank reconciliation— 1 Capital stock and bond records; ledgers, transfer registers, stubs showing issues, record of interest coupons, options, etc..— permanently Cash books— permanently Chart of Accounts— permanently Checks (canceled but see exception below)— 7 Checks; canceled for important payments, i.e. taxes, purchases of property, special contracts, etc..— permanently Contracts and leases (expired)— 7 Contracts and leases still in effect— permanently Correspondence (routine) with customers and vendors— 1 Correspondence (general)— 3 Correspondence (legal and important matters only)— permanently Deeds, mortgages, and bills of sale— permanently Depreciation schedule— permanently Duplicate deposit slips— 1 Employee personnel records (after termination)— 3 Employment applications— 3 Expense analyses and expense distribution schedules— 7 Financial statements (end of yr. other months optional)— permanently General and private ledgers (and end of yr. trial balances)— permanently Insurance policies (expired)— 3 Insurance records, current accident reports, claims, policies— permanently Internal audit reports— 3 Internal reports (misc.)— 3 Inventories of products, materials, and supplies— 7 Invoices to customers— 7 Invoices from vendors…. …..

    Complete Story

    Post to Twitter Tweet This Post

     

  • mnassal 8:00 pm on March 8, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , , ,   

    View and Edit iWork Pages Documents on Linux and Windows 

    Netbook computers running either Linux or Windows 7 are becoming increasingly popular — even with Mac users. As convenient as these devices are,  they still present  challenges when viewing and editing documents created on other computers. Besides, the obvious differences between operating systems, these devices are usually stripped down to the minimum in applications. Netbooks are set up with the intention that users will access most of their documents and data through cloud applications. This assumption is probably accurate most the time. Still, there are occasions when the document format is incompatible with the service. On these occasions, the users are left in the lurch.

    This is a common situation for Mac users who want to view or edit their Pages documents from a Netbook. The most common cloud services do not support the native file format used by Pages. Unless you are willing to convert all your documents to PDF or MS Word, your options are limited. One option is to use iWork.com. Apples beta cloud service works well for sharing a select number of documents with collaborators, but requires the additional step of exporting your documents to the service. For iWork.com to be a comprehensive solution you would need to share all your documents and update the shared documents each time you edit them. The most sensible approach is to leave Pages documents in their native format and store them on a cloud based file service like MobileMe, Dropbox, or Box.net.

    Pages documents are actually zip archive files. In each archive is a Quicklook folder containing a file named Preview.pdf. This file is a PDF version of the formatted document which can be viewed like any other PDF.

    Linux:

    • Download the native Pages file
    • Open the *.pages file in File Roller or your default archive tool
    • Navigate to the Quicklook folder
    • Double click on the Preview.pdf
    • File will open in your default pdf viewer

    Windows 7:

    • Download the native Pages file
    • Double click on the file
    • Navigate to the Quicklook folder
    • Double click on the Preview.pdf
    • File will open in your default pdf viewer

    To edit the document you can use one of the many online tools such as PDF-to-Word to covert the file to MS Word.

    It may not be a perfect solution, but it sure beats non at all.

    mnassal

    Edited by: Elizabeth Nassal

    Post to Twitter Tweet This Post

     

Older Posts →

c
compose new post
j
next post/next comment
k
previous post/previous comment
r
reply
e
edit
o
show/hide comments
t
go to top
l
go to login
h
show/hide help
esc
cancel