Multitasking Mondays: Sync Contacts with Funambol
It’s amazing how much your productivity increases when you have all the information for all your contacts on all your devices.
There is literally only one service that provides this functionality. And its free.
Try funambol.
There’s an iPhone app. Which syncs with Outlook. Or your smartphone. Or your Blackberry. And with some modern mobile [...]
Gmail Adds To-do Lists
Gmail finally has a built in to-do list, a much needed and requested feature. It’s pretty bare-bones, but its there, which is certainly an improvement. You have to enable it through Gmail Labs. From Webware:
Since e-mail is where and how many of us get things done, both in our personal and professional life, why not [...]
Is Memorization Useful?
I found this post interesting. It argues that in an age of Wikipedia and Google memorization is unimportant.
According to Tapscott, the existence of Google, Wikipedia, and other online libraries means that rote memorization is no longer a necessary part of education. “Teachers are no longer the fountain of knowledge; the internet is,” Tapscott told the [...]
It’s OK to Read Fiction
John Piper reminds us fiction junkies that it’s OK to read stories, even children’s stories. Quoting C. S. Lewis:
I was therefore writing “for children” only in the sense that I excluded what I thought they would not like or understand; not in the sense of writing what I intended to be below adult attention. I [...]
Dropbox: Part Sync, Part Backup, All Good
Backup is important. You never know when your hard drive will give out (and it will, someday), or when some killer virus is going to wipe your data, or when you are going to be a bonehead and accidentally delete that all-important file.
Backup is important, but an online backup offers further advantages. It can be [...]
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