Coming Full Circle

Since I don’t have a secretary, I use a whole host of computer applications to help me increase my productivity. I’ve decided to list them all here for others to peruse. If you have a favorite efficiency application that I don’t actually use, tell me about it!

File Management

Amarok (Linux) – A full [...]

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Referenced from Guy Kawasaki’s blog.
I personally spend significant amount of time on my Ipod and my E3C headphones. Naturally, it’s been quite disconcerting to see increasing anecdotal evidence of earbuds induced hearing loss. Fortunately, it seems that an industrious graduate student has come up with some concrete numbers we can use:
“Sound Output Levels of [...]

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Most of you are probably quite familiar with e-mail spam by now, and might even have noticed that it has increased in intensity in the recent months. Rests assured, this phenomenon is by no means isolated to your mailbox. Network World recently published an article on this exact phenomenon titled: What’s with all [...]

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Founded in 2001, Vonage is currently the biggest VoIP company in the world. More interestingly, on May 5th 2006, Vonage issued its’ IPO prospectus. For those that not familiar with VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), it is a new technology that uses the internet as the backbone infrastructure for traditional telephone calls. It allows [...]

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Around a week ago, I made a blog entry about the difficulties I encountered during my workstation’s upgrade from FC4 to FC5. With that bitter memory still fresh in my mind, I had expected to spend this entire weekend on my MythTV box’s upgrade. To my great surprise, the process went very smoothly, [...]

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