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3 Types of Productivity – Making the Most of a Working Day

Digital Digressions: 3 Types of Productivity – Making the Most of a Working Day

A fantastic article. His general classifications of productivity are short, concise and extremely accurate. This definitely applies to a greater part of my working life, particularly planning your todo lists based around the type of input each requires:

1. If your work requires long periods of un-interrupted concentration:
2. If your work requires short bursts of intensive activity
3. If Your Work Requires Creative Team Input

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I want to teach my phone to sing

…in perfect harmony. Actually I’ll settle for teaching it a few words. Since switching from a Nokia 6600 to a 7610, back again and then from a 7610 to a 6682, I’ve had to reconfig my phone a few times – but what bugs me the most is reteaching my predictive text engine words which make up my regular sms vocabulary.. things like karaoke, joburg, smooch, socialight, booyakash, shit, frak, fuck.. etc . So I’m thinking that maybe there could be a personal dictionary for predictive text engines which lets you easily transition your lexicon between handsets. As phones become more personal devices, linked to more of the media that we generate, this personal lexicon concept would be extended to other things – like UI themes, wallpaper, ring tones etc. So maybe what I’m looking for is a cross-platform user profile for my handset which I can easily move between phones from different manufacturer’s and different carriers.

This clearly sounds like something that could be achieved by mashing up your social network profile, a mobile UI theme generator and sxip, but I haven’t been able to find anything like it out there at the moment. If anybody hears of anything… send it my way, otherwise perhaps I’ll take a stab at it one of these days.

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Fixin’ Isync

If like me, you bring home a Nokia 7610, attempt to hook it up with the Bluetooth and iSync and encounter the wonderful “iSync can not connect to this device” screen – never fear – the iSync Connection Fix is here. Thank you partylemon, whoever you are…

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Socialight launched!

Well – it’s definitely been a long time coming, but Socialight, the location-based messaging system which I’ve been working for a while is now live! Yay! Yippee! Rejoice! Alright… what’s even more staggering is that this blog is getting updated!

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Quicksilver/Launchbar clone for Windows

For all you Windows users who have serious OS X envy, here’s an interesting clone that should give you a little bit of interface relief. AppRocket is a handy dandy navigation tool that looks more Launchbar than Quicksilver, but should be quite useful nonetheless. Download it, try it out and I’ll keep you updated on how it works out. Plus they gotta cute widdle favicon. Aw…. ain’t he sweet…