I’m frequently asked what software I use for various tasks. This has prompted me to create a page on the site for My Application Toolkit. Rather than creating long lists by operating system or function I’ve used TheBrain to display the relationship between software, operating system and function dynamically, and to provide appropriate links to [...]
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Are you backing up your computers regularly enough? I was discussing this with my father and father-in-law a few days ago and we realised that even if we were, somebody else needed to know what was where. You never know what can happen. This prompted me to create a concept map of the backup configuration [...]
Reports are coming in that iTunes Match has become available in Australia; though once signed up, nothing much is happening. For those who don’t know, iTunes Match shifts the primary storage of your iTunes music from your home computer to the cloud so that it can be available and synced across all your iTunes devices. [...]
My iPhone makes it easy to live the GTD 2-minute rule because there are many things it can do quickly when I’m not at my desk — including this post.
There are two types of people in the world. Those who have had critical hard drive failure and those who are yet to. Backups are important. Imagine the pain of explaining to a child why there are not photos of them before they were five years old simply because you didn’t have a backup strategy [...]
I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. This was the joke that gave comedian Nick Helm the award for best joke at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It may also be the best advice you hear all year. The last twelve months has seen an increase [...]
Or, how to create your own site-hosted unsubscribe form using the Gravity Forms MailChimp Add-in. A technical post today, showing how I implemented this on The Buchan Institute’s website. MailChimp’s basic visual editor forms can be nicely formatted to look like most of your site, and have custom redirects for success pages. If however, like [...]
Have just added the first in a series of articles on my use of PersonalBrain. Here is the first on Thought Types.
Two weeks ago I realised I had misplaced my Sandisk Cruzer 32GB USB drive. Confident there was no critical data on it I chalked it up to experience and purchased a replacement, the remarkable Sandisk Cruzer Blade 16GB. Why not buy a replacement that is 1/4 the physical dimensions of something you’ve just lost. Yesterday, [...]
The social media (twitter, facebook, LinkedIn) space can be confusing for many people in business. It is a new paradigm and picking the start point is difficult. To assist I’ve created a map of this new space as I see it. As you navigate around you’ll see the what, benefits, misconceptions, measurement and activity of [...]
