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• 43f Jobs: Your next geek gig

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:09 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Jobs

  Here are a few recent additions to the 43 Folders Job Board we wanted to highlight for you: Featured Job: Ruby/Rails Developers - ThoughtWorks, New York, NY (Atlanta, GA) Technical Program Manager - Development Group - SNAPin Software,

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• Vox Pop: Implementing GTD for Creative Work?

  Published: July 27, 2007, 10:41 am

  Tags: Getting Things Done, Productivity, Creativity, Action Based, Implementation, Keith Robinson

  creativepro.com - Getting Design Done Interesting article here by our old pal, Keith Robinson, introducing GTD to creative types. This is a fascinating topic for me, particularly since I sometimes find it difficult to “crank widgets” when it comes to anything creative. Keith’s an old hand with this stuff, so it’s not

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• Old-timey phones exchanges; boss Wii shirt; new Backpack; cool RSS filtering

  Published: July 26, 2007, 12:02 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Daily Links

  Recent remaindered links you might enjoy: The Telephone EXchange Name Project - This is the site I mentioned on MBW for finding your old-timey telephone exchange. Mine’s "OVerland." Wii T-shirt - Chris’s exploded isometric Wii "Tii" is the shirt I was wearing during the Google Talk. Always buys me tons

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• Video for Merlin's Inbox Zero talk

  Published: July 25, 2007, 3:53 pm

  Tags: Getting Things Done, Productivity, Email, Elsewhere, Inbox Zero, Presentations

  Google Tech Talk: Inbox Zero The video for the Inbox Zero talk I presented on Monday at Google is up and available for free (wow, that was fast!). [via: Dion] Here’s the slides, in case you want a copy. It’d be swell if you wanted to share the video of the talk via your own site. Here’s the copy-and-paste embed code:

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• Macworld: Mac Gems Picks

  Published: July 24, 2007, 4:15 pm

  Tags: Apple Macs Os X, Productivity, Elsewhere, Applications, Macs, Macworld

  Macworld Feature: Connect with the world Macworld Magazine asked me to pick out a few of my Mac Gems, and I was happy to respond with four favorites. Default Folder, for example, is a PreferencePane that I’ve used and loved since Christ was a corporal: Default Folder X (****½) You can tell Default Folder X is a classic

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• Featured links for July 24th

  Published: July 24, 2007, 12:51 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Daily Links

  Mindquarry, the Open Source Collaborative Software - Haven’t tried this yet, but it seems kinda Backpack-like, except with a Mac desktop component. I’m intrigued. Rands In Repose: Ninety Days - "Your job interview isn’t over until you’ve changed to become part of a new team." Knox Simply secure

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• Google Tech Talk: Today @ 2pm

  Published: July 23, 2007, 1:16 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Elsewhere, Google, Inbox Zero, Tech Talk

  A reminder to any Googlers out there that I’ll be giving a Tech Talk on Inbox Zero today at 2:00 pm in the Seville room on the Mountain View campus. Hope I’ll see you there. (And many thanks to Dick Wall for the hook-up!) Updated 2007-07-24 06:40:07 PDT Inbox Zero: Action-Based Email » SlideShare I’ve added my

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• Quicksilver proxies for fast, easy printing

  Published: July 23, 2007, 9:29 am

  Tags: Apple Macs Os X, Tips, Quicksilver, Productivity, Mac Law Students, Macs, Os X, Printing

  Faster Printing with Quicksilver Mark Fisher shares terrific tips on how to use Quicksilver Proxies for faster printing: Use this method when you want to print files that are on the Desktop or are all in the same folder. Select the files that you wish to print by Command clicking them. Invoke Quicksilver (by default, SPACE)

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• Featured links for July 18th

  Published: July 18, 2007, 2:10 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Daily Links

  These are a few lower threshold links we've run across recently that you might enjoy: Boing Boing: Rule the Web show: Merlin Mann, Wednesday, July 18, 5pm Pacific - Mark F’s interviewing me for his "Rule The Web" show tonight. Call in (646) 915-8698 to chat. Mike Davidson: A Low-Fi Solution to E-Mail Overload: Sentenc.es

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• Life Clever's iPhone bookmarklet links

  Published: July 18, 2007, 11:11 am

  Tags: Productivity

  Powerful bookmarklets for your iPhone Chanpory points out that, in addition to the iPhone applications that are out there, you can also use bookmarklets inside of Safari to do your functional bidding when you’re on the go. He’s pulled together a few favorites, and here’s a sampling: 5. List all links Takes all links from

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• Colleen Wainwright on email as PSD

  Published: July 16, 2007, 3:08 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Email, Colleen Wainwright, Mailtemplate, Photoshop, Workflow

  Treat your email more like Photoshop My pal, Colleen, has written up a short, designer’s take on handling email. She suggests you treat messages the way you’d handle Photoshop PSDs; streamline, automate, and fear not the rule nor template: Once you've done enough of the same kind of work in Photoshop or Illustrator say, resizing

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• MacBreak Minute: LiteSwitch X

  Published: July 16, 2007, 10:56 am

  Tags: Apple Macs Os X, Tips, Productivity, Elsewhere, Liteswitch, Macbreak, Macs, Os X

  Proteron - LiteSwitch X In the latest episode of MacBreak Minutes (subscribe), I talked about a favorite PreferencePane of mine called LiteSwitch. LiteSwitch takes the basic app-switching functionality of OS X and adds some handy features, such as the ability to quit (or force-quit), relaunch, hide, reveal, Get Info, and more. Once you get used

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• David Shipley on getting better with (rather than dumping) email

  Published: July 13, 2007, 8:37 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Email, David Shipley, Npr

  Opting Out: New Jersey Governor Rejects E-mail David Shipley, author of Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home, did an ATC commentary on NJ Gov. Jon Corzine’s saying he’s swearing off email. Shipley thinks it’s a teachable moment that shouldn’t be missed: How about: writing better. How about: a

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• Guy Kawasaki & the art of the 5-sentence email

  Published: July 12, 2007, 11:34 am

  Tags: Productivity, Email, Writing, Education, Essays, Five Paragraph Essay, Guy Kawasaki, Life Skills, School

  Ten Things to Learn This School Year I’m intrigued by this bit of advice from Guy Kawasaki on the stuff you don’t learn in school (but should): How to write a five-sentence email…Whether UR young or old, the point is that the optimal length of an email message is five sentences. All you should do is explain who you are,

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• On MBW 48: Pick of the Week is Fly Gesture

  Published: July 11, 2007, 12:35 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Elsewhere, Podcasts, Fly Gesture, Gus Mueller, Macbreak Weekly, Twit Tv

  MacBreak Weekly 48: The Next Big Thing Hosts: Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Andy Ihnatko, The Macalope Variable pricing comes to iTunes, iPhone hacks, and where’s the Mac? Here’s a direct MP3 download of MBW 48. My pick for this week’s MacBreak Weekly is Fly Gesture, which is a nifty little freeware app from Flying

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