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I was lucky enough to be contacted recently by the folks at Wiley Publishing asking me if I'd like a free review copy of of "The Myth Of Multitasking: How 'doing it all' gets nothing done" by Dave Crenshaw. Well, you know me and free stuff so I jumped at the chance.

I'd seen a few interviews with Dave Crenshaw and reviews of the book but tried not to take too much notice of them as I wanted to form my own opinion of the book so when I picked it up I didn't really know what to expect.

And I have to say I was really impressed with what I read, it certainly changes whole management book genre for the better. Unlike the usual dry style "informational" style of most management books, Crenshaw gets his points across in narrative format which is a refreshing change.

The book centres around "Phil", a time management/productivity consultant; "He....

posted at 08:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

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I was contacted by DocStoc recently asking me to take a look at a new piece of software they've released called DocStoc Sync. I've written before about DocStoc but if you're not familiar with their service, its essentially an online document storage site that allows you to upload documents and store them publically or privately You can also embed documents in webpages as you can with YouTube videos, which is excellent for showing presentations.


Anyway, on to DocStoc Sync. You simply download the program (which works for Mac or PC) and you can set it to watch specific folders or manually add files to your DocStoc account.

This will be really handy for people who are remotely working on projects with others, or if you use different computers in different locations. I know there are tools out there that are similar such as BaseCamp but these are actually quite bad at document management.

I have t....

posted at 09:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

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I was contacted a while ago by Scott Karstetter of Smart To-Do List asking if I'd be interested in reviewing their new Smart To-Do List software. And, of course, never being one to turn down a free lunch I jumped at the chance.

I've written recently about the fact that I'm slightly unhappy with the way I'm managing my various tasks and was trying various things to see if I could improve my current productivity methodology. I tried using Thinking Rock as suggested by a reader but I didn't really get on with that (I'll put a post up about my experiences soon) and being a paper-based GTD freak I wasn't quite sure what to expect from their software - especially after my "nightmare" with Thinking Rock!


Scott kindly provided me with a licence for the software so that I could try it out - the usual cost is $14.95 (approximately £7.90 at....

posted at 14:28:22 By Flipping Heck!

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I was contacted recently pointing me in the direction of a new site - www.freephotocalendar.net.

It's a ridiculously simple idea; select a month to print, upload a photo in jpg or png format, press generate and you have your own calendar in PDF format to print off.

It's really neat - you can see mine for August here:

posted at 09:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

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I've been toying with the idea recently of going back to use my PDA again for calendar and task management.

I know, I know! I've long been a staunch supporter of using Moleskine's for managing my tasks, and my phone for managing my calendar but it's starting to get a bit too complicated for my poor little notebook to handle.

The issue I have is that I before I was tending to work on long-term project at a time; now I seem to be flitting between short, medium and long-term projects and the system I've developed (and that has worked well for the past year and a half) just won't cut the mustard any more.

I have several issues/requirements at the moment regarding project management:

• The system needs to be simple - I can't be doing with too much rubbish otherwise I won't use it.
• The system needs to be portable - I have to be able to take it anywhere without too much hassle
• It needs minimal software/website access - Security policies at work make it difficult to use new software that's not sanctioned by management
• It needs to be cross-platform - I need it to work on a PC and Mac as I don't know which platform I'll be working on.

Now, syncing Windows Mobile to a Mac is notoriously difficult and Microsoft (for some unknown reason) doesn't supply a Mac version of their ActivSync so I....

posted at 09:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

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I recently received an email asking me to look into a new service called "Who Does2.0" (yes, it has 2.0 in the title and a funky URL but bear with me!)

Who Does is a web-based project management system that allows you to assign tasks and milestones to projects and assign them to team members. Okay, so nothing new there really, however watching the screencasts there are a few features that set it apart from other similar sites such as Back Pack.

posted at 17:06:36 By Flipping Heck!

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I saw a pillow on The Gadget Show recenty that was part of a mega prize package and it caught my eye. "Why are they giving away a pillow on a gadget show?" I thought to myself so I did a little Google and found that the "Sound Asleep Pillow" contains a small speaker so you can listen to your MP3 player in bed without headphones.

How cool is that? I had a bit of a problem finding someone in the UK that sold them but eventually found one for sale in by TD Textiles inthe Amazon Marketplace.

Essentially, you can plug anything into the pillow as long as it has a 3.5mm jack (or can be converted to one) and it stops the hastle ofgetting strangled by your headphone cables.

The cable supplied with the pillow is extremley long and I had to shorten it with a tie - this is probably because they recommend placing your MP3 player on the floor - presumably so you don't roll over, squash it and then sue them. Here's the cable:



And here it is with an IPod attached:

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