http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com Information for the Overload Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:40:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You probably read the article about how Bill Gates works with 3 screens in front of him… And now LifeHacker is talking about increasing productivity with more screens. Something I discovered, though - which I think Mac users figured out long ago - is that if you decrease the size (width-wise ... http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2006/04/20/get-more-screens/ Merlin has a great (or at least a decent remindering) series on how to cut down email clutter. For those who need something in their system to tinker with, there is now something else you can incessantly mess with: e-mail filters! Just when you thought you had ... http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2006/03/14/more-to-tinker-with/ “Doing Getting Things Done stuff” should not be on your list of Next Actions. If it is, you’re doing something wrong. Please feel free to leave comments with other things that should not be “Next Actions.” http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2006/02/17/getting-what-done/ Just check it out. I don’t have time, nor is there really a need, for more of a review than this: Clipmarks is Awesome. http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2006/02/03/cilpmarks-is-awesome/ Lifehacker has discovered for me, Yahoo! Open Shortcuts. Yahoo Search blog has a post about it. And here is Yahoo’s Help page for Open Shortcuts. I’m so excited I can barely write… From Yahoo’s page: How do I use it? Type an ! (exclamation point) followed by the name of the shortcut in ... http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2005/12/20/more-awesomeness-from-yahoo/ Nev n Dave are following up their tips with an example of how to categorize your feeds in BlogLines. Since Nev showed what he was using as categories, I thought I’d post mine as well. They’re a little more creative than the “1 Priority” “2 Priority” system he’s got going ... http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2005/12/20/bloglines-categorization-2/ Gmail finally decided that adding Contact Groups to their contact management was an idea worth implementing. <rant> As a web developer, I realize that sometimes this stuff takes a while, but how long has Gmail been around? It took them that long to decide that having groups was a ... http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2005/12/15/its-about-expletive-time/ Yahoo has essentially eliminated the biggest competition for their My Web 2.0 by acquiring del.icio.us. I’m glad I switched over from del.icio.us to My Web a couple months ago. Why? Now I don’t have to deal with any weird integration going on between the two like I ... http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2005/12/09/yahoo-adds-another-weapon-to-the-arsenal-in-a-backwards-sort-of-way/ With My Web 2.0, the new Yahoo Maps, and the (hopefully) soon to be released Mail 2.0, Yahoo is quickly amassing quite an array of awesome web services. Add to that the new Yahoo Answers, and, well, that’s that. Most of the answers I’ve seen so far have ... http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2005/12/09/yahoo-adds-another-weapon-to-the-arsenal/ 10 tips that are BRILLIANT! My favorite: 9. Add an ‘ignore’ category for blogs that you no longer read - this helps you remember your decision. If you ever come across the blog in the future and think “ooh, I’ll add that to my aggregator”, you’ll see that it’s something you decided ... http://2minuteoffense.blogsome.com/2005/12/02/how-to-read-blogs-more-effectively/