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David Allen’s Making It All Work A New Look At GTD
4:53AM Gina Trapani | Author David Allen’s follow-up to his best-selling productivity bible Getting Things Done is called Making It All Work. Due out this month, it’s all about how to become a better self-manager. More »
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More Ubuntu Kung Fu
9:00PM Gina Trapani | Editor: Say hey again to Keir Thomas, author of the new book Ubuntu Kung Fu, who stopped by to share some more of the best material from the book, in a follow-up to his post, Some Productive Ubuntu Kung Fu. Read on to get Thomas’ suggestions for speeding up boot times, reducing delays, getting the codecs you need, getting better DVD playback and more on your Ubuntu desktop. More »
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Some Productive Ubuntu Kung Fu
3:00AM Gina Trapani | Editor: Say hey to Keir Thomas, author of the new book Ubuntu Kung Fu, who stopped by to share some of his best material from the book. Thomas writes: More »
Grab a Free Chapter of Google Apps Hacks
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Philipp Lenssen, author of the oft-linked Google Blogoscoped blog, has put together an entire book of Google Apps Hacks, covering Gmail, Calendar, Docs, and beyond, and his publisher is offering a sample chapter as a free PDF download. The sample delves into Google Presentations and how the PowerPoint-like app can be extended pretty far with style sheet tweaks, theme changes, and a little creative use of photos. Hit the link below to grab the free 19-page excerpt. Google Apps Hacks [O'Reilly Media] More »
Consolidate Multiple Email Addresses with Gmail
3:30AM Gina Trapani | The following post was originally published in Chapter 1 of our new book, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better. You’ve finally decided to move all your email online to Google’s web-based service, Gmail. Great! But what about messages still going to your old email address(es)? You don’t have to notify all your contacts that your email address has changed—again. Gmail is not only an email host, it’s an email client, which can fetch mail from any number of external services and consolidate it all right there in your Gmail inbox. Here’s how to move your email to Gmail without missing a single message from an existing account. More »
CrazyBusy Argues Modern Life Inhibits Creativity
3:30AM Gina Trapani | Geeks joke about having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) all the time, and ADD expert Dr. Edward Hallowell says that’s not too far off. In his book, CrazyBusy, Hallowell argues that Crackberry culture leads to ADD-like symptoms in people that don’t officially have the disorder—a problem he calls Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). While Hallowell’s fondness for making up words like “gigaguilt” and “screensucking” can be annoying, the overall message of CrazyBusy is that we all need to slow down and think in order to innovate instead of being constantly on the go in a frenzied (dumb) state of mind. More »
Get Your Multimedia on in Knoppix
7:00AM Gina Trapani | The Knoppix Live Linux CD can do more than just rescue files from an unbootable hard drive—the full operating system on an optical disk has a host of software packages including multimedia apps. The Hackszine blog points out a free excerpt from O’Reilly’s new book, Knoppix Hacks, which details how to listen to and edit audio, burn CDs and DVDs, and watch video and TV with Knoppix. After the jump, preview the sample hack PDF. More »
