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Microsoft v. Microsoft - Word 2007 & Windows Live Writer Blogging Review

Note: Post in the comments and let me know your thoughts on blogging tools! What do you use, do you agree/disagree with my review, are you going to try Windows Live Writer (WLW) now? Post it baby!
If you’re still using your platform’s online posting interface, it’s time to come out from under your […]

I love Snag It

Snag It’s nifty integration with Word was just a huge time saver for me. I was able to grab selections from my screen easily and it auto-inserted in Word where my cursor was. No PrtScrn, paste into Paint, copy the selection I want, paste into Word - rinse/repeat.
And Word 07’s nifty easy-to-use menu’s made […]

Gmail: What Gmail IMAP Means for You (and Your iPhone)

Lifehacker has a great article on Google’s recent release of IMAP for Gmail. I’ve been using the web interface since I got Gmail and have been very happy with it, but particularly in Firefox it can get bogged down & be a litte trying to use extensively.
I may fire up Thunderbird and Office 2007 to […]

German Love Study: No Sex Leads To Less Sex, Research Shows

I’m filing this under “Crazy Germans,” but also under “Productivity.” 
That sex reduces stress — or that no sex increases stress — is hardly a new observation. A team of German researchers, though, is arguing that sexual frustration is a complex phenomenon not to be underestimated. It can precipitate a downward spiral, pulling couples helplessly and […]

jkOnTheRun: A day in the life- a tale of two tablets

I’ve been periodically visiting this blog/news site for a while, when their posts about Lenovo products started showing up in my Google alerts. This is a long, but great post about the author’s mobile productivity. It covers the author’s usage of technology throughout an average day for him, consisting of a lot of travelling from site to site for meetings and […]

24 Hours Not Enough?

Work it up to 36 hours and I’ll be happy…
They studied 12 healthy young adults (average age: 28) who volunteered to spend 65 days living in individual rooms without windows, clocks, or any other time cues.
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Next, the scientists tacked on an extra hour of light to each participants’ natural amount of daily wakefulness.
The researchers didn’t […]

The clock just keeps ticking

I told myself I’d quit at midnight and get to bed. With one thing after another to touch-up, or check on, or follow up with, or improve on, 12 quickly turned to 12:30. Now it is nearly 1:30. Does this happen to anyone else? Just diving in, with no distractions from other people wanting things […]