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...

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...

Saw this one over at FriendFeed Watch: the first desktop client for FriendFeed was released!  I was looking forward to this, as FriendFeed is such a nice and well implemented idea that justs begs to become a permanent resident of my system tray, rather than having to keep a browser tab permanently open to check on it.  The client is called bTittleTattle (yea,...

I had two very different experiences in the last few weeks which showed how valuable web conferences can be when working with distributed teams in projects, or for that matter for any technical issue that you need to work on over a distance. The good experience: I had an issue with a portfolio management tool that we are deploying, and after setting up a web...

Now that I’ve written about Comapping’s new features, I thought I’d finish the mind mapping review series with a round-up of all the posts I’ve written on the subject. So here they are, in reverse chronological order: New Features at Comapping Reviewed ConceptDraw MindMap 5 Professional: Another Mind Mapping Tool Reviewed Mind...