// Archive

• Aperture rating strategy - Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:43 - 0 Comments
  Three Stars Is Enough After reading Bagelturf - Five Star Rating Is Overrated, I've decided to begin reducing my Aperture rating system to three stars (with of course rejected and 0-star), for a total of 5. Here are the rating buckets that I now use: X - Junk - Throw it in the trash 0 - Archive - [...]
• Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Improve your Productivity - Sunday, March 11, 2007 6:05 - 0 Comments
  Top 10 extensions that will keep you focused, reduce distractions, streamline your daily work flow, and ultimately improve your productivity.
• Manage video archives with iTunes 7 - Friday, February 16, 2007 11:58 - 3 Comments
  Yesterday, I found a quick iTunes tip explaining how to set custom Album Art. In this post, Derek makes reference to something I'd been weighing in my mind lately but never did any followup on: The pro's and con's of taking time to convert my entire video archive to MP4 in efforts of finally [...]
• Firefox 2.0 optimized for Macs - Friday, October 27, 2006 8:53 - 4 Comments
  Any Firefox power-user has done the usual about:config hacks and/or installed Fasterfox, neither of which come close to the turbo boost you'll get from installing the optimized Firefox versions of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 for G4, G5 and Intel processor Macs by BeatnikPad. Paul covers two good points about this release; the icon (protected under [...]
• People Skill #536 - Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:59 - 0 Comments
  Improve your interpersonal life by learning to spin a pencil around your thumb.
• Blogging with TextMate - Monday, September 18, 2006 13:06 - 1 Comment
  Whether you are in the market for a desktop blogging client or a fantastic OSX text editor, TextMate does it all in style. I had seen this before but never followed up.. Derek paints a better picture over at 5ThirtyOne.
• TS, CAM, PROPER, LIMITED?! What does it all mean? - Wednesday, September 13, 2006 0:30 - 0 Comments
  Over at a friend's house recently, they were downloading a movie and asked me "What do all the funky abbreviations mean?" I stumbled through a vague explanation, then remembered coming across this post on UNEASYSilence which lays it all out for you.
• Invoices in OSX - Tuesday, July 18, 2006 17:07 - 0 Comments
  Article about On The Job, a time tracking / invoicing / project management software for OSX, courtesy of 5ThirtyOne.
• activeCollab Project Management - Monday, July 10, 2006 18:45 - 19 Comments
  A few months ago Paul Scrivens (of 9rules fame) asked what it would take to copy Basecamp (and 37 Signals' other offerings). Enter activeCollab - let's check it out. We all like to be (or at least think that we are) organized. And at some point throughout the day, most of us use a tool [...]