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Get Your Business Cards Out There

    One of the things people spend a lot of time and money over .. or no time and money at all on … is business cards. It’s timely for me because I’ve just used up my last 1000 cards that  I had printed for a conference I did a little while back. So i pulled out my current business card, and the prior one, and the few I used before that. One thing I noticed is that each time I produce a business card it’s never the same look twice! The colours are different, the style is different, the format is different. One thing that never changes is the type of information I put on it.

    I know that flies in the face of the marketing experts and the graphic design branding gurus who espouse a consistent look and feel to your business presentation tools. Frankly I’ve never wanted to spend theRead More »Get Your Business Cards Out There

    How To Be More Productive, Part 1

      I sat in on a call with Helen Raptoplous recently and she did a good job of extending Robert Plank’s productivity philosophy. Plank is a prodigious producer of content on the web so he has learned a thing or two about how to do more in as short a time as possible. Thought I’d share my notes from the call with you.

      This Part 1 on How To Be More Productive is Helen’s take on the Plank 4 Things Theory, with her own enhancements.

       

      1. Be really clear on what you need to work on. Focus on only one priority project at a time
      2. Start each day knowing what things need to be done. Have a list of four things that you can actually complete in one day. One of those things should relate to your highest priority project. The other three thingsRead More »How To Be More Productive, Part 1

      Seagate in Australia

        I’ve had a Seagate external hard disk drive for years and it still works well – the only problem I had was I accidentally threw out the power cable (doh!) and had great difficulty with the folk at Seagate to understand the product I had and whether they had a replacement cable.

        Then I had a Maxtor One Touch III which still works fault-free today. I use it when I’m travelling to take a lot of my work files with me. It’s only 80gb (that was big when new!) but does the job.

        Earlier this year I upgraded the external hard drive I use for backups to a 1TB Maxtor. And it’s already making a very sick sound. Searching the internet I decided to stop trying to make it work by hooking it up to other computers as this may be causing damage. So, in my travels IRead More »Seagate in Australia

        Free Video Grabbers

          If you’re looking for a tool to download and convert video from public storage then these free ones may be the go for you. No recommendations as I haven’t used them but wanted to post here so I don;t lose the links! http://clipgrab.de/en http://youtubedownloader.com/ http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/ http://download.cnet.com/YouTube-Song-Downloader/3000-2071_4-75289616.html http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-Download.htm http://download.cnet.com/aTube-Catcher/3000-2071_4-10969422.html http://keepvid.com/ http://www.save2pc.com/download.html http://www.flashvideodownloader.org/fvd-suite/ Let me know below if you find any others or have feedback on these.

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          Outlook Email Addresses: All the Tricks

            I wrote about this guy and his post a few years back and I find I still have to remind myself to go there when I need sorting out with my Outlook issues. Popped back there today as I need to clean up Outlook again and noticed he has updated and extended the tricks and techniques to grab your email addresses from Outlook (if you’ve been naughty and not saving to address book as you go!) as well as : extract email addresses in bulk extract email addresses from folders and sub-folders remove duplicates extract all attachments in one go search for an… Read More »Outlook Email Addresses: All the Tricks

            Connect Your World: IFTTT Does It

              When you’re active online, keeping everything together can be a challenge. I’ve just discovered IFTTT which is an exciting and brilliant service that cuts across all your online environments to hook them up. You can even set reminders, automate posts, and so much more . There are some limitations but its potential is huge. I’m only just starting out with it so love to hear how others have used it. IFTTT? If that then this – an acronym for the logical statement the app is based upon. How can you use it? http://mashable.com/2012/12/04/ifttt/ http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2013/01/27/5-things-ifttt-can-do-to-automate-your-life-and-make-things-easier/ http://lifehacker.com/5978176/share-your-best-iftt-recipe Find out for yourself at… Read More »Connect Your World: IFTTT Does It