Jan 19, 2012

Most productivity software falls either in the to-do list or timer category, and often they are tied to a particular methodology such as Getting Things Done (GTD) or the Pomodoro Technique. This is of course very useful when either you are knowledgeable about the methodology and, most importantly, when the methodology fits precisely into your workflow. Another...

Jan 13, 2012

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Seeing as this is the big news today, here are my thoughts on Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype, in a nutshell: No one really cares about Microsoft anymore. Whatever they seem to do online is irrelevant, and the foundation for their dominance (Windows) is becoming less and less relevant as everything moves online. Microsoft’s attempts at becoming...

I am not, perhaps unfortunately, given to doing much social analysis. However, and I really don’t know why, I caught myself considering some of these issues while going through Engadget’s review of Google’s Cr-48 netbook, the first netbook sporting Google’s Chrome OS. By now it’s old news that Google’s OS is entirely based on...

It looks like our move into the browser is by now inescapable, as more and more applications are moving to the web.  For me, a major milestone was reached about a month ago, when I moved my work e-mail account to Google Apps, where it now lives together with the rest of my e-mail accounts.  Of all my desktop apps that see heavy daily use, the next in the list...