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I love playing with ideas. I’m definitely an idea guy. Unfortunately, though many of them do, many of them also don’t tend to ever see the light of day. I was reading Jason Curlee’s blog and saw this post recently talking about the book Genius Machine. Here’s quoting his analysis of [...]

I thought overall he has some very motivational things to say. A lot of what I got from him is, if you are scared, ask yourself why and what’s the worst that could happen. Learn from the best. Reading some other people’s comments, he might over simplify some things in the sense [...]

I just found an app on the android market called postbot. This is definitely going to be nice to have the option of posting straight from my phone. I doubt it will actually make me post more but who doesn’t like more options
*update* looks like it doesn’t format correctly. bummer. Hmm, [...]

Here are 4 of my desktop productivity favorites that I use all the time:
Xobni – http://www.xobni.com/
Google Desktop – http://desktop.google.com/
Rocket Dock – http://www.rocketdock.com/
Enso – http://www.humanized.com/
Xobni is inbox spelled backwards, or I think their pitch is “looking at the inbox in a different way”. This integrates with Microsoft Outlook. If you haven’t tried it or [...]

Basically, there is a company called Emotiv and they have a headset called the Emotiv EPOC headset. You strap it on and you think and it picks up the brain activity from electric impulses created by your neurons firing. Crazy, I know.
Here’s a picture from CNN.

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how great is this! Remember the milk now has a firefox plugin that lets you have it integrated with your gmail. This is great because it adds outlook like functionality by letting you manage your information better. This really helps both apps out a lot in my opinion. Will this be [...]

I’ll flesh this out some more maybe later this evening, but I wanted to put down that it is good to sometimes sit down, hopefully at least once a year and figure out some of the “ends” that you are trying to get to and then work backwords. If there is one thing I’ve [...]