By Larry Port
on February 24, 2010
Computer Spa Day, which we talked about before (for both mobile and regular computers), will save you time and money.
I couldn’t believe it. I wasn’t able to install Apple’s mammoth iPad SDK on my two-year old MacBook Pro because I was out of hard drive space. Luckily, some genius named “eriban” wrote a donation-only program [...]
By Larry Port
on February 22, 2010
On a scale of 1-5 (5 being the highest) rank your level of agreement with the statement: I feel I have control over how I spend my time.
This webinar is sponsored by Rocket Matter and is free to attend.
We’ll be raffling off a $50 certificate to Best Buy!
We’ll also give away free copies of Barbara’s book, Market You [...]
By Larry Port
on February 17, 2010
A lot of times, when I read productivity blogs (an admittedly nerdy habit of mine), I come across nominally interesting ideas. This is the first one I’ve read in a long time that really resonated with me.
Amber Singleton Riviere writes in Web Worker Daily about the importance of padding your schedule and other aspects [...]
By Larry Port
on February 16, 2010
This past weekend I took a vacation I felt I had no business to take. I’m under a ton of deadlines, and it feels like I need three of me just to get my job done. Buried, as they say.
However, I reluctantly took the time, and by doing so, remembered how crucial vacation [...]
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By Larry Port
on February 9, 2010
Social Media, whether Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, LinkedIn, Flickr, or something else, is like a huge train whizzing by. Some people are trying desperately to get on it (enter the snake oil salesmen) while others are spending a little too much time on it.
For those of you on the Social Media train, how often do you [...]
By Larry Port
on January 28, 2010
Busy people pride themselves on their multi-tasking abilities. However, every time you make the context switch from one activity to the other, you’re kidding yourself if you don’t recognize the overhead that goes with it.
The overhead of switching tasks can be minimal. It might take a couple of seconds to get one’s bearings, or it [...]
By Larry Port
on January 27, 2010
Today marks the much awaited announcement of the Apple iPad. Considering that people’s mouths were watering over the non-event of the iPhone 3G S launch last year, the arrival of the tablet is garnering, as many have observed, the type of interest reserved only for other tablets delivered to the masses several millenia ago [...]
By Larry Port
on January 21, 2010
Do you type the same things OVER and OVER again? Do you have important codes that need to be correct 100% of the time without error?
Then take a look at programs called Text Expanders. You and your staff will be eternally grateful.
Basically, text expanders allow you to define your own shortcuts or abbreviations that, [...]
By Larry Port
on January 20, 2010
If you’re not subscribed to Ari Kaplan’s newsletter, go check it out. It’s one of the few newsletters I’ve signed up for that I regularly read. Every time it comes out, he offers great tips and articles which are immediately actionable.
This time he’s offering for free workbook from his “Seven Secrets of Opportunity Making Success” [...]
By Larry Port
on January 19, 2010
In our blog this year we are going to focus more and more on productivity tips for the legal profession. To kick things off, I’d like to highlight an article from LifeHacker about keeping a clean, uncluttered desktop on your computer.
If you really want to get down to business and get things done, you need [...]
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