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Archive for November, 2007


29
Nov

14 Productivity, Organization, and Motivation Resources You Can’t Get Via RSS

Believe it or not, all the online information on Productivity, Organization, and Motivation isn’t available via RSS. Some of it is only available via email newsletters. I have one email address that I always use for subscribing to eNewsletters. I’ll frequently go weeks, and sometimes even months without checking it and then I set aside [...]


27
Nov

Meet Me at the SharePoint Information Workers Conference in February (and save $200 this week!)

Although Microsoft SharePoint is a big part of my life, I don’t usually blog about it very much here on my personal blog. I do most of my SharePoint blogging at the SharePoint Solutions blog. However, here is some information that I thought was appropriate for this blog as well.
I will be one of the [...]


23
Nov

Get SnagIt and Camtasia for FREE!

For over a year, I’ve been using SnagIt in my day job to capture screenshots for use in the courseware I write for SharePoint Solutions. This program makes capturing and editing screenshots so easy! Occasionally, I would need this functionality on my home computer, but not frequently enough to justify the price, so I continued [...]


22
Nov

How to Filter Spam with Russian Characters Using Regular Expressions in Open WebMail

Because I frequently use a variety of different computers and operating systems, I primarily access my email through Open WebMail installed on my own web server. This works much better for me than using a client such as Outlook, Thunderbird, or Eudora that would bring my email to a single machine. As long as I [...]


20
Nov

I’m Giving Windows Mobile 6 a Try with the Samsung i760

I’ve been an avid Palmâ„¢ user for over seven years now. When I started working at Reynolds Carolina Federal Credit Union (now Allegacy Federal Credit Union), I was issued a Palm IIIx. I fell in love with the intuitive operating system. Over the years I grew from the IIIx to the VIIx to the m515 [...]


10
Nov

Make a Poor Man’s Desktop Writeboard for Under a Buck!

A few weeks ago I started seeing reviews for a product called the Jot-It from Cocoa, LLC. Apparently the company sent review samples to several professional organizers . Here are some of the reviews:

Office Stuffer
The Daily Saint
Yanko Design
My Personal Organizing Tools Review
Laura Stack

Most of the reviewers gave it an overwhelmingly positive review. This made [...]


04
Nov

Back from Zimbabwe - My World Will Never Be the Same Again

It’s been nearly three weeks since I returned from an 11-day trip missions trip to Zimbabwe Africa. Ever since the day I returned, I’ve been trying to figure out how to best blog about the trip. Each time I get started, I find that it’s an overwhelming task for which the proper words just don’t [...]

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