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Essays from July 2008

2 essays from July 2008

  1. The iPhoto conundrum

    Like me many people have bought their first mac lately. Like me they’ve also been very happy with the whole package (hardware + OS + software). But here’s the problem: if you have liked the iLife suite as much as I do you are probably running out of space in your MacBook Pro (MBP) even …

    2 min read

  2. Time is our most precious resource, use it sparingly

    In the follow up of GTD (of which I’m a big fan) and the “Four hour week”, or even “Zen to Done”, here‘s a piece to make you think. You and me are “knowledge workers”, that means we “process information” into value added knowledge, processes, software, designs, you name it. One thing that we are …

    1 min read

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