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Personal productivity on Mac and iPhone

Published by Bruce on June 11, 2008 in Mac. 4 responses

As mentioned in an earlier post on using faux Contacts for collecting, managing, and synching tasks offline on the iPhone, I've been reading Getting things done (GTD) by David Allen. I have to say I found the book a difficult, overly repetitive and non-engaging read, despite my motivation to learn from it. If you could get a lot of things done in the time it takes to read 267 anecdote-heavy pages, here's my somewhat condensed take on the bits worth sharing, along with a few Mac-specific embellishments.
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Using faux Contacts for GTD on the iPhone

Published by Bruce on April 24, 2008 in Mobile. 4 responses

Despite strong indications of an imminent second generation 3G iPhone, the recent £100 price drop on the 8GB iPhone proved too tempting. I had hesitated because the iPhone failed to meet my minimum requirements for basic PDA functionality. With 1Password mostly overcoming the secure data exchange obstacle, the remaining challenge was to find a network-independent way of managing and synchronising tasks ("to do" items). I've also been wading through David Allen's book Getting Things Done in a search for ways to improve my personal productivity. Could I cherry-pick the key principles of the GTD religion and apply them on the iPhone using only the built-in apps?
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More ways to avoid .Mac

Published by Bruce on February 10, 2007 in Mac. 0 responses

I just received my .Mac renewal notification from Apple. Since I don't consider .Mac value-for-money at £70 per annum I shall not be renewing, and have already found a WebDAV-based workaround for iCal sharing and a direct iPhoto-to-web solution. Independent software developers are obviously responding to a disgruntled .Mac user base, as options for achieving similar functionality without a .Mac account are on the increase.
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Easily share an iCal calendar without .Mac

Published by Bruce on December 27, 2006 in Mac. 14 responses

Attempts to duplicate the functionality of .Mac can be very technical (as here), or Google-centric (as here). In his recap of alternative options, Derek mentions a potential iDisk replacement called Box. Box offer unofficial WebDAV support; WebDAV is the same protocol used by .Mac that lets you publish your calendars and allow other folk to subscribe to them from within iCal. Unfortunately (mt), my web host, doesn't support WebDAV. I've already taken care of photocasting using iPhoto to bypass .Mac, although an easy way to share my calendar to my wife had eluded me until now.
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Moving from .Mac to Google

Published by Bruce on November 3, 2006 in Quicklinks. 1 response

MacDevCenter have published a great article entitled Making a Smooth Move from .Mac to Google. Intend to ditch .Mac? The article covers forwarding to Gmail, importing your Address Book (not an issue if using Gmail via POP), iCal to Google Calendar (synch is sadly one way), Google Notifier, using gDisk for online file storage, .Mac Groups to Google Groups, iWeb to Blogger, iPhoto to Picasa, and Google Browser Sync for synchronizing Firefox bookmarks, etc.

Attach files to iCal events

Published by Bruce on April 22, 2006 in Quicklinks. 2 responses

An iCal user since the beginning, I never knew you could attach any file to an event and open it by clicking on the url field. Ideal for those larger memos, or for integrating the list-making ability of Word or diagramming tools of OmniGraffle.