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As you may know by now, I am an advocate of GTD or Getting things done. It is a methodology by David Allen and it has contributed to my being much more efficient.
There is a good site that lists all the various GTD Software and resources. It is fairly new, but growing. Feel free to add your own links. The site is: http://www.gtdsoftware.net
I hope you find it useful. I discovered a few new things there.
Several friends have asked me what they should put on their iPhone. So I decided to blog it.
Here are some of my technogeek apps:
My primary two apps I can’t live without:
First off, I am quickly becoming a big advocate of GTD. I’ll write more about that later, in the meanwhile, check out the book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. And of course there is an app for that:
Nozbe (You can manage your tasks on your phone but you need to sign up first at the Nozbe Website)
And I put everything down now in:
Evernote: http://www.evernote.com
Other Cool Iphone Apps I use:
Cardsnap - Takes a photo of a business card, OCR’s it and puts it in
your contact list.
Pingle - Pings all your social networks with your status via Ping.fm
fex - Imports your Facebook contacts’ photos into your contact list.
Camera Zoom – digital zoom for the Iphone camera
FML - useless but funny
Phone Flicks – update your Netflix queue
Shazam – listens and identifies songs that are playing in the
environment around you.
Pandora – Great music app
Last.fm – another great music app/social network
mint.com – financial management from Mint.com
Dropbox – file storage accessible from iPhone
Urbanspoon – spin your way to lunch
Opentable - find a great lunch via Opentable
Bump - share contact info – iPhone to iPhone
What’s on? – what’s on TV tonight
I just found today a great tool called Twittercal. http://www.twittercal.com
With this tool, you can simply send a message to a twitter account and it will post an appointment on your Google Calendar.
I have Outlook syncing with my Google Calendar. I have an iPhone that is linked to my Outlook. So from any calendar or from Twitter I can set appointments.
First, you sign up for a twittercal account. (Actually, you are creating a link between your twitter account and gmail account.)
You then follow gcal (a twitter user), and from then on you send your appointments via a twitter post such as:
“d gcal Appointment with Sophia at 7pm tomorrow”
d stands for a direct message, gcal is the user you are sending the message to, and finally the appointment description and time.
Within a minute or so, it automagically appears in your Google Calendar.
Give it a try!
Gmail has come up with an innovative response to the flood of email we get. Have Gmail write the responses for you!
You can read more here: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/autopilot/index.html
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Tonight I was reading an article on the History of Burbank, California and I read that Burbank was built primarily around Olive Avenue.
So as I was reading I was wondering why certain streets are referred to as Roads, others being Streets, and finally major through-ways being Avenues. Does anyone else know????
Okay, here is what I found out.
A Road connects places (such as between two towns).
A Street connect people (areas where there are homes and businesses)
An Avenue is a Tree-Lined Street, usually wider than a regular street.
Not so useful, but interesting.
Here are my sources (primarily Wikipedia).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/26412-avenue-vs-street.html
