How to Write Faster, Better, and Easier

Simplify Your Images

OS X File Encryption

TokBox: Video chat without having to download software. May have to try this out since the MacBook has the built in iSight camera.

DIY Muslin Studio Backdrops

On treating your laptop, iPod, and iPhone batteries right

Tagging my bookmarks has been wonderful. Today I discovered Punakea for Mac OS X which looks very promising in that it will allow me to tag the mountain of files I seem to dig through every day looking for the one I need at the moment. Finding files can be irritating to say the least. Punakea looks like it just may ease some of the frustration of finding files.

“Punakea is a little app trying to help you cope with the day-to-day struggle of managing your files. Designed to complement Spotlight, it allows you to tag your files and bookmarks, freeing you of the strict hierarchy of the Finder’s folder structure.”

I try to get things done (gtd), I really do. But when I can’t do it right away or I’m trying to do something else and an important item needs to be placed on my list of things to do I want a quick way to add it to my list so I can get back to the task at hand. Enter Quicksilver and the append to a text file from anywhere tip from 43 Folders.

Clever – Sentenc.es – A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email. Picked this up from the Video for Merlin’s “Inbox Zero” talk

This is a very cool Firefox add-on that makes it possible to drag and drop attachments in Gmail – dragdropupload