So is cracking apps the only reasons to jailbreak your iPhone ? I don’t think so !
Let’s me introduce you some jewels available only for jailbroken iPhone that will boost your productivity and free your iPhone from Apple bounds.
Note that all the apps of this list are 3.0 compatible.
“Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention” — Herbert Simon
Most of us, knowledge workers, have to deal with HUGE amount of information each day. E-mails, RSS Feeds, Twits, etc… Too much information, especially badly handled, cause a lost of attention and focus.
In this blog post, I’ll share with you some ways to handle one of the biggest flow of information : RSS Feeds (I’ve already talked about e-mails in an earlier series of post : Inbox Zero).
Last couple of weeks, I’ve been facing a big procrastination period. I was unable to get real things done and to focus efficiently on tasks.
I fact, I wasn’t trusting my system anymore. I wasn’t using my task management app anymore and was spreading my notes and lists in too many places.
So I decided to take some time (2 full days exactly) to review my processes and my workflow and to evaluate each tool I was using.
One other thing to add to our synchronize series is notes.
By notes, I actually mean more or less organized data. Ideas, quotes, shopping lists and stuff like that.
I always carry some index cards along with a small notebook to be able to jot ideas from anywhere. Another thing I carry all the time is my iPhone so why not using it to takes notes?
Because it’s easier to organize notes on a computer, and because it saves trees, I’ve been looking around for something that is :
The next post of our “synchronize” series is going to be about Files and Documents. Some are important enough that you always need to have access to them. How can you do this ?
There are many ways to have files synced around multiple place, let’s go through them.
The most obvious is certainly having an USB key containing your most important file and that you carry with you. But there are some drawbacks to an USB key : you can forget it, you can loose it (and imagine the troubles you can be in if you haven’t encrypted files on your key), you can have it in the pocket of the wrong coat or the wrong jeans etc.
This first post of the “Synchronize” series is about Calendar and Contacts. To me having those synchronized is the first step towards a hassle-free life. No more contact data loss, no more forgotten appointments. Wherever you are, you need to be able to trust your system.
The goal is to have a multi-directional sync of your calendar events and of your contacts between your devices and your computers.
Nowadays, with the multiplication of capable devices, and the mix between the private and the professional sphere, one of the key of productivity is to avoid loosing time synchronizing manually files and multiple data between your devices and places.
Imagine that you have a smartphone, a personal laptop, a family computer and a professional computer. Now think about all the datas you could need at the same time on each device : contact, agenda, email, rss feeds, bookmarks, notes, todos, files, music,… Add to this the need to access some data from anywhere (friends place, clients office, …). And finally, consider that your devices don’t obligatory run the same OS and don’t always run the same applications.
There’re so many available distractions for people like me, working almost all day in front of a computer with an internet access, that sometimes it can be totally impossible to work. You feel overwhelmed by all these disturbances. I can list a few for you : e-mails, micro-blogging, RSS feeds, social networks, forums, instant-messaging, online activity, endless surfing session (lost in the “open in new tab” loop) and so on.
First of all, don’t feel bad about it, it happens to everybody. It’s just in the human being DNA (at least, I guess it is).
Here is a new post of my Productive Software series. For this post, let me introduce you another really useful piece of software : Typinator.
Typinator is an automatic text software. It boosts your productivity and eliminates errors by automating the process of inserting frequently used ext and graphics and auto-correcting typing errors.
While Snow Leopard introduces limited text expanding functionality (using the Language and Text system preferences), Typinator is more powerful and adds some neat features :
When I switched from Linux Debian to Mac OS X at work a few weeks ago, I knew that I’d find equivalent, or better tools, for everything I have to do on my computer to get my work done. Everything except one thing, a tool that I use many times per hours and that helps me to save a lot of time : Yakuake (Yet Another Kuake), a drop-down terminal emulator.
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