After my big bookmarks move to the cloud (which I wrote about here) I found that my iPad suddenly had an old set of bookmarks. Of course this was at a bad time – on vacation when I needed to get into an accounting system for work, to make a change that would take five [...]
Productivity
Photo Pooling and Collaboration
June 21, 2014 0 commentsAfter Father’s Day I wanted to share a bunch of photos with my family and also allow other people to contribute to the album – a seemingly simple request. I was astounded how hard it was to find a good solution. Is this 2014? Doesn’t ever device short of a microwave oven have a camera [...]
Has anybody seen my bookmarks?
February 24, 2014 2 commentsDo you keep your bookmarks in your browser? I did too – about 2,000 of them, until I suddenly had 1,600. Only, it wasn’t so sudden. Gradually, entire directories became empty, but they were bookmarks I used infrequently, and it happened over a period of months. So, I didn’t notice for a long while. What [...]
To-Do Re-Do 2014
January 5, 2014 0 commentsAlmost exactly a year ago, I moved my to-do list to the cloud and wrote about it here. It was a great move that made me able to manage my to-dos across all my mobile devices. It freed me from an old Access database I was using that limited me to Windows. I did an [...]
New Years Resolution – To Do List in the Cloud / Mobile
December 31, 2012 1 commentSo, how to get organized for the New Year? I’m a compulsive to-do list maker. I’ve got one list in MS Outlook, one in Zoho, and a big complex one in MS Access. If anything I’m over-organized. But, those lists in different places make it difficult to see the forest for the trees and it’s [...]
Moving CRM to the Cloud
June 25, 2012 2 commentsWARNING: This is a non marketing-oriented post that is going to make your eyes bleed unless you are interested in the techie side of CRM. Over 10 years ago I built my own CRM system in Microsoft Access. Total geek city, I know. It was perfectly suited to the way I kept track of interactions [...]