43 Folders (Free subscription) | yesterday
A very simple guide to leaving here quickly to go make something awesome. Ask yourself… Why am I here right now instead of making something cool on my own? What’s the barrier to me starting that right now? This is not an insult or put-down. It’s a useful question. Please, think about it, then search the site to see if we have anything that might inspire you to make something awesome today. What Sucks?...
Techtvforever.net (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
On this week’s MacBreak Weekly, Leo Laporte, Scott Bourne, Merlin Mann, and Andy Ihnatko gather to share their appreciation for “The Voice,” Don LaFontaine, who passed away this week. Additionally, they discuss anticipated iPod announcements next week, Google’s Chrome, and more. MacBreak Weekly // Episode 104 [ episode notes | audio download ]
Download Squad (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Filed under: Internet , Windows , Macintosh , Linux , Productivity , Mozilla , Freeware , Browser Tips Love him or hate him, productivity blogger Merlin Mann has come up with a great way to help keep yourself on track. The idea is to avoid the seductions of the web by stopping a moment to make sure that you're spending your time on what you really want to be spending it on. In his blog post on the...
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The brilliant (yet easily distracted) Merlin Mann says he has a bad habit of Cmd+clicking sets of web browser tabs full of shiny things out to wrest his attention from the important work of doing stuff. To avoid getting sucked down the rabbit hole with one mindless click, he's purposefully inserting a page that asks him outright, "Is this really what you want to be doing right now?" He calls this...
43 Folders (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Welcome back, friend. Per what I wrote in your yearbook back in June, I hope you had a nice summer and stayed sweet and cool. You look great. Did you lose weight or something? Somewhere along the way over the past few weeks, I seem to have got my game on again here at 43 Folders. I wrote a few items that I’m proud of and that lots of people seemed to enjoy. I’m once again posting about stuff that...
Public Blog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The link below leads to a special 43 Folders series looking at the skills, tools, and attitude needed to empty your email inbox -- and then keep it that way. The problem of email overload can take a toll on your time, productivity, and sanity. While there’s no one right way to fix the problem, there is a common set of errors and problems that many people share, including a handful of terrible habits...
43 Folders (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Right Now: What Are You Doing? I’ve started to become a lot pickier about where my attention goes as I observe what it means to my work when it drifts . But, I still have a long way to go. Long way. Like a lot of people I have a bad habit of CMD-Clicking tab sets in my browser, which then spawns a dozen or more new panes of potential distraction, pointless horseshit, and 10,000 excuses not to focus...
Canuckflack (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Some presentation goodness from Merlin Mann, with insight, good design and humour: Who Moved My Brain? Revaluing Time and Attention View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: gtd time)
White African (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Recently Merlin Mann wrote an outstanding post on what makes a good blog, and why they’re so rare. I’d suggest everyone read it, especially if you’re trying to figure out how to be a better blogger. Having said that, in honor of BlogDay 2008, here are 5 Africa-focused blogs that I think are [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
"People send me lots of books," writes 43 Folders editor Merlin Mann , "so I have to decide rather quickly whether one should be added to the ambitious pile of stuff I already really want to finish reading." GalleyCat has the same problem; fortunately, Mann's got a checklist of questions readers can ask themselves, whether they get books in the mail or have to look at them in a bookstore, to make...
43 Folders (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
People send me lots of books, so I have to decide rather quickly whether one should be added to the ambitious pile of stuff I already really want to finish reading. On the off chance that you care or find it useful in developing your own filtering, here’s my insanely reductive, mean-busy-guy way to make a 90-second decision on whether to read a new non-fiction book from an author I’m not familiar...
43 Folders (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth Take a few minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox . So far, I’ve spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver -like interface it wants to bring to web browsing. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo . And, like our favorite OS X launcher, Ubiquity also has an ambitious mission: to move beyond onesie-twosie...
Simon Willison's Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
As duplicitous and sad as “fake following” sounds—and let’s be honest: the whole idea’s pathetic on a number of levels—for a certain kind of user, I can see why there’s a desire for this functionality. Especially on a site like FriendFeed, which has quickly become the platform of choice for the web’s least interesting narcissists—and the slow-witted woodland creatures who enjoy grooming their fur—this...
iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Merlin Mann, Dave Hamilton, Jeff Gamet, and Adam Christianson join me this week to discuss iPhone 3G reception issues, the iPhone 2.0.2 update, and MobileMe. Show notes can be found at iPhoneAlley.com/podcast . If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, email us at Podcast[at]iPhoneAlley.com.
Lifehacker (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
FriendFeed introduces a new feature on their beta site : a "Pause" button "fake following" mode , which lets you follow someone without seeing their updates. In a similar vein, productivity guy Merlin Mann proposes that all social networks build in a "Pause" button , which would protect you temporarily from a stream of unwanted updates for a certain amount of time without de-friending folks. Along...
