The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
How to synchronize Tweetdeck across two Macs
I recently wrote a post introducing Twitter. That post ended with a reference to optimising your Twitter experience by using the excellent Tweetdeck in order to increase your productivity. Chris Spagnuolo wrote a great article on how to achieve this.
Many people run Tweetdeck across multiple machines. At this stage, Tweetdeck does not sync across machines (it appears that a future version will allow for this - see the release notes of the current version for more details). You will agree with me that it is a bit of a hassle to tweak Tweetdeck on each of your machines and in my opinion this is another example of a productivity paradox.
However, over the weekend, I managed to put together a hack that manages to synchronize Tweetdeck across two Macs utilising Dropbox and symlinks. I have not had the opportunity to test this on a PC, but I think it could very easily be done using the technique described below.
Tools that show us a glimpse of e-mail 2.0. Part 3: Gist
In the first of this series I had a look at one of the pioneers in the inbox management area - ClearContext. Then I turned my attention to one of the young guns - Xobni. Today I am delighted to be writing about Gist - where your inbox meets the web.
Arthur Alston
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e-mail, personal productivity & simplifying technology
14 February 2009 | 4 comments
An introduction to Twitter - a cause of information overload and how to prevent it
This is the fourth post in my series of introducing you to the common forms of social media that can lead to information overload or infomania. In the earlier posts we had a closer look at social media, blogs and RSS, today we turn our attention to Twitter.
An introduction to RSS
This is the third post in my series of introducing you to the common forms of social media that can lead to information overload or infomania. In the first post we had a closer look at social media and blogs, today we turn our attention to RSS.
An introduction to blogs
This is the second post in my series of introducing you to the common forms of social media that can lead to information overload or infomania. In the first post we had a closer look at social media, today we turn our attention to blogs.
An introduction to social media
This blog is about one of the great paradoxes of our time, the simple fact that an increase in technology does not necessarily translate to an increase in productivity. It is also about dealing with this problem by changing the way you use technology and tools and, more importantly, your behaviour. However, this approach depends on a key assumption: that you understand the technology.
Tools that show us a glimpse of e-mail 2.0. Part 2: Xobni
Last time I had a look at one of the pioneers in the inbox management area. Today, it is the turn of one of the young guns and being young, this one brings (amongst many other features) social networking aspects to Outlook.
Tools that show us a glimpse of e-mail 2.0. Part 1: ClearContext
Since so much of infomania and information overload relates to the influx of e-mail - and the main focus of my business is on how to manage this debilitating condition - I thought it a good idea to review some programs (or as Mac users call them, applications) that currently push the e-mail management envelope and provide us with a glimpse on how e-mail management will look in the future. First up, ClearContext.
Update to my experience with OtherInbox
I posted - Hot off the press: OtherInbox - about a web application called OtherInbox a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was time for an update.
The cost of constantly checking your e-mail
One of the aspects that I focus on in the E-mail Redux workshop is interruptions, the effect they have on productivity and a couple of techniques on how to handle them.
Arthur Alston
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e-mail, interruptions, personal productivity & simplifying technology
30 September 2008
Hot off the press: OtherInbox
I just came across this new service. It looks very promising.
TED Talks David Pogue: When it comes to tech, simplicity sells
David Pogue, The New York Times columnist, takes aim at technology’s worst interface-design offenders