Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
If you are anything like me you’ll find yourself using a number of different PCs through a typical week. I have my work laptop, my work Dev machine, my home PC, my netbook and some semi permanent virtual machines that I have. It can be a bit of a pain…
After a brief hiatus (i.e. hectic work schedule for a few months), I am back to reading. The list is currently :- ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever by the guys at 37 Signals Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to Drive Your Career and Create a Remarkable Future by…
I ran into some trouble with Hyper V the other day – I had booted from a VHD into Windows Server 2008 R2 and was trying to start a VM – I got the usual ‘The virtual machine could not be started because the hypervisor is not running” error.I had…
I’ve just started on a renewed reading campaign. Here’s the books I just ordered : How to Talk to Anyone How to Win Friends and Influence People Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction…
This is the second in a series of tips about Workplace Productivity. If you want to get noticed, promoted, a pay rise or simple get out of the door quicker at the end of the day then these may be helpful. Understand the definition of your success. Mike is told…
This is the first in a series of tips about Workplace Productivity. If you want to get noticed, promoted, a pay rise or simple get out of the door quicker at the end of the day then these may be helpful. Get a system in place for recording your task…
I have been updating some of my ‘magicwords’ for SlickRun recently. This a great tool for getting focus on a particular task. Instead of having to mess about opening folders, word documents, web sites all in preparation for a task you can enter one ‘magicword’ and have it do all…
I’ve been spending a bit of time at LifeHacker recently, there is some pretty good tips over there (it’s where I found the PointUI for windows mobile 6). One of the posts I came across was this http://lifehacker.com/347269/lifehackers-exclusive-line-of-productivity-software. The Todo.sh command line tool caught my eye, as I always have…
I am totally blown away by this. This is (IMHO) exactly what Windows mobile has been waiting for. I have downloaded and am using this on my HTC TyTN II (Kaiser) – works like a dream, very easy to use and responsive to finger touch / navigation.There are a number…
I was spending far too much time installing OS’s – virtual machines, lab machines etc. In order to automate / streamline this I wanted to look at not just the Windows tools as well as other options. Remote Installation Service (RIS) and unattended.txt files go so far, but during my…