GTD (Short for David Allen’s book title Getting Things Done), is not only a book, it’s also a hugely adopted personal productivity methodology, a cult phenomenon, a tag in del.icio.us with 58,000+ entries, a favorite posting subject for bloggers (how original of me), and the subject of multiple software and online solutions, both open source and proprietary.
But GTD is also a naked emperor of sorts: chronicles of failed adoptions are pretty much as common (or more) as discussions of GTD itself. Typical postings about it go as follows: Read the rest of this entry »
So, another day went by, and I am still trying to recover from the mess I described in my last post, about upgrading to Apple OS X Leopard (or was it Leper?) 10.5.2. I have by now gone through the typical curve Stress vs. Time, that goes from suspended disbelief (I am sure this is something minor) to the oh shit moment, to increasing exasperation caudes by the idiocy of brands and the power of the large corporations (that component seems to always be there), to gradual understanding of the causes of the problem, and finally to the sweet and sour process of fixing the mess, with increasing confidence, and (I never did, and I will never do it again) some level of realization of the personal responsibility in the disaster.
So, I am fixing the problem. Not out of the water yet, but a few things I have learned: Read the rest of this entry »
Let me state very clearly that it is not my intention to pick up a zeallot fight. I am NOT a hacker, I am not an expert, just your regular user who has found a couple applications he/she depends on, and uses them regularly. I expect thousands of such users to be in the same situation as I am now, and thus I decided to share my experiences.
I use a quad-processor Mac G5, 2.5 Gb memory, Quadro 4500 Video Card driving two Cinema 30 inch monitors. The machine has 750 Gb internal disk, plus 4 Tb of external disks. Not a low end system, not one that can “barely run” the OS. Further, with OS X 10.4 the machine was a screamer, running Aperture with thousand of pictures of 20 Mb each, and at the same time flying through three or four other simultaneous heavy-load programs like Photoshop.
So, one day Safari breaks. Read the rest of this entry »
My usage follows my habits, and thus I need to start by describing those, because a critical parameter for judging the Internet Tablet is precisely… that the Internet be available, that is, wireless connectivity: Read the rest of this entry »
I am using the Nokia N810 more and more, and finding myself increasingly charmed by the device, its community, and Nokia itself. I find that uncommon (I am increasingly disenchanted with technologies, and hold very little respect for its ability to do any good), but at the same time somehow enjoyable. Well beyond the point at which I hit the hype curve’s down-slide with other gadgets, I keep finding more reasons to like it. That is strange… Read the rest of this entry »
