It’s midnight.  You’re trying to finish some documents before going off to bed.  One last document to create that is similar to one I had created the day before.  No problems, just open the file, change some information then select “Save As” option and everything will be good.  The problem is instead of clicking “Save As” option, I clicked on Save out of habit.  All that work on the previous document was replaced with the new changes.  In the past I would have been a little stressed this little mistake. Fortunately, I have  some software that has my...

The zone is a state of mind where you are so focused you shut out everything except for the task at hand. Your creative juices are flowing and you lose all sense of time. When you get into your zone, you seem to be in another world where everything seems to be working in your favor and hurdles, if any, are simple to overcome. The main question is how do you get into the zone? How you get into the zone Do you have a special routine or ritual that you follow? Is it based on a schedule? Is it based on location? Is it based on music? For some people, it doesn’t take long to get into the...

It has been about four weeks since I wrote about my personal fight against SPAM.  I have been using MailWasher Pro 6.5.3 as my primary tool against SPAM.  Of all the tools I’ve used so far, this one has performed better than expected. For the first three weeks I ran it in automatic read mode but disabled the automatic delete mode.  During this learning cycle I reviewed every choice that MailWasher made. It had a lot of learning to do.  Eventually I trusted it enough to know that it was identifying SPAM correctly without false positives.  A false positive SPAM is a ...

This year you decided to make a few new year’s resolutions. One of them might have been to be a better time manager or to get organized. My question to you is how are you going to keep on track? Do you have an accountability partner? Someone that will keep you on task! Here’s a suggestion that just might help.  Back in December 2009, I wrote a post call “Google Calendar does SMS”  Why not have Google Calendar keep you on task.  It’s not just a calendar, it’s a calendar that will send you Text Messages to remind you to stay on task.  We’re...

While preparing for another post related to my online storage article, No more USB access to public computer,  a friend’s data file became corrupted.  In addition to that incident, a shared computer came down with a virus about the same time.  The corruption cause is unknown, but the file contained data that represented many man-hours of work and there was no backup.  He had a deadline and asked for my help with reconstruction of the data.  I helped him reconstruct the data.  Getting the reconstructed data from my computer to his computer. In most collaborative environments you...