Thursday, November 3, 2011
TweetThe move from MobileMe to iCloud saw a number of services dropped that some of us had come to depend on. There’s a way to get at least some of them back. Keychain Sync On one of your Macs: mv ~/Library/Keychains ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/ ln -s ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/Keychains ~/Library/Keychains Then on each of the other Macs: [...]
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tweet Don’t worry, it’ll be fine as long as we don’t poke it too hard.
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TweetI posted to Google+ last week a thinking-out-loud piece about circles on there, and that my first thought is that they’re not what they are cracked up to be. Specifically, it feel like that if they were just called ‘lists’ they would be exactly the same, except you wouldn’t feel like you’d been promised more [...]
Thursday, August 12, 2010
TweetI bet one of the most common items on the lists of newly-enshrined GTD-practitioners is blogging about their fantastic new system and how better off they are than when they had a life-less-organised. I’d hate to break the stereotype, since stereotypes are so very, very useful, so here I go. Omnifocus. It really is very [...]
TweetI posted this as a comment on an article entitled “Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook“. The biggest question for me as to whether I should stay with Facebook, is down to me knowing who I’m sharing my data with. Do I have the choice that the terms seem to say I have? From [...]
Saturday, February 13, 2010
TweetSo, after nearly four and a half years, my dissertation is bound for the last time, handed in and accepted. All that’s left now is to wear a slightly odd hat in June and change my name on my cards. Coming to the end of a big project is always an unusual feeling, but luckily [...]
TweetA little late to the party, I’ve been having a play with Evernote. A lovely concept, quite nicely executed, but the two usual questions arise. Firstly, will I still be using it in two weeks, and secondly, where exactly is my data? Actually this second issue was pointed out when I asked a colleague if they [...]
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
TweetI need a way to organise and manage my scientific literature. Doesn’t everyone? Handily, we’re thinking of building one. Perhaps the most blogged topic on the internet, bar blogging, is how to organise. Organise, plan, approach, manage – it almost always boils down to the same thing: having a system. In the timeless words of [...]