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Fantasy Football for 2007

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TOPICS: Grabass

Apply the "Write it Down" Method to Everything!

First off, this new forum layout is retarded, had to get it off my mind!

If you have found that writing tasks/todos down is helping with your mental capacity and freeing up your mind, apply it to the rest of your life as well for even more free and available space.

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Apple & Blu-Ray

I'm pondering the purchase of a Macbook, but I want to wait for Blu-Ray to be part of the package. I know someone mumbled something about it onstage at Macworld, but does anyone know anything about timing/which Macs will have it first? I googled around a bit, but found mostly rumors that it's "right around the corner"... since, like 2006.

Thanks in advance for the help.

Looking for a mobile wiki

Hi, i've been browsing the net for a hosted wiki-sevice that's usable with my cell-phone (Nokia E61). There are realy nice solutions that work in a Web-Browser on my PC (e.g. the zoho-wiki, www.wik.is etc.) but do not work (reading and editing pages) on my phone. The most promising solution seems to be backpack (www.backpackit.com), which has a mobile interface. But: in the mobile interface the ordering of page-items differs from the original page, you only can add page-items (not alter existing ones) and in the free version you may only create 5 pages.

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To-do lists with voice commands

To-do lists with voice commands

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Beware of falling pixels

Non-RSS visitors may notice a few little changes to 43F's appearance and functionality this morning, including a slight change to the page layout, the addition of a print-friendly style sheet, plus a number of little widgets and finials sprinkled here and there.

Some of the changes are experimental and others are incompletely implemented, so if you are experiencing any visual blips or functional farts, please email “bugs” at this domain. Thanks in advance for your help and forbearance.

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TOPICS: Admin

Wired Article on Feats of Memory

Wired Article on Feats of Memory

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TOPICS: Life Hacks

90% of kGTD users are happy!

90% of kGTD users are happy!

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

iTunes Artwork

In Quicksilver I'm unable to display iTunes artwork even though I've clicked the 'show artwork' in iTunes preferences. Is there anything else that I need to do to make this active?

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The Today List

I have been implementing GTD for nearly a year now, I use a paper system and I always try to add improvements to my system.

One of the recent things that I've added is the "Today List" this is simple, but very effective way on focusing on the tasks that I have to process in my day.

Basically, at the start of each day I go through my @context list and add 3-5 items to my "Today List" and try to hang in next to my PC, where I can easily view it thought out the day.

I actually learned this from the "Thing" software for the mac, where you can drag tasks to a today sidebar.

 
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