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The Exaggerated Death of Voicemail by Tim Marman

Mike Arrington said “ voicemail is dead ”, and I used to agree. I hated voicemail forever but it was a reality we had to live with. (I’ve made my suggestions in the past on how to leave good voicemail ). The thing that changed that all for me was voice...
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Time Management? It's the Attention, Stupid by Tim Marman

Those of you who follow Getting Things Done know that you don't manage time, you manage tasks. Scott says he "thought [time management] was all about being organized and careful planning", but "the number one thing you can do to . . . is...
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The Problem with Multitasking by Tim Marman

A recent NYT article discusses multitasking and the impact of interruptions on the quality and speed of our work. In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer...
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Major Blackberry Outage by Tim Marman

Starting last night, I'm stopped getting "capital EDGE" connectivity on my 8700. The last e-mail I received from my BES server was at 5:15 EST last night, and I've only been getting e-mails intermittently from my BIS servers. Turns out it's not just me...
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Start++ brings WDS shortcuts to the Vista start menu by Tim Marman

Brandon recently released a tool for Vista that brings Windows Desktop Search-style shortcuts to the start menu (and command line). Users of WDS on XP may recall the “Deskbar Shortcuts” functionality that allows you to create little aliases between words...

Blackberry 8700g, T-Mobile Dash and a leak in my system by Tim Marman

In July, I switched from my beloved Audiovox SMT5600 to a Blackberry 8700g. Part of the reason for the switch is that I wanted EDGE and I wanted a keyboard, but I wasn't happy with the phones out at the time on either GSM network here. I bought my slightly...

Blogging from Office 2007 (Beta 2) by Tim Marman

Well, I finally got Office Beta 2 downloaded and all of my machines upgraded from Beta 1 Technical Refresh. So far, so good. Performance is still not ideal, but it's much improved from previous builds (especially in Outlook). I was going to write this...
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