November 2008
Google Reader has been my feed reader of choice for awhile now, but it has never achieved the status of a must-have application that I cannot live without. It was only recently that I recognized the reason I have never wholeheartedly embraced it is because I believe it is designed in a way that creates a drag on my personal Getting Things Done (GTD) system; which for me lessens my desire both consciously and subconsciously to make it part of my daily routine.
After writing about Genius Playlists, I thought it would be good to talk about some simple tips for building better Smart Playlists in iTunes. The first step for creating great Smart Playlists is to start rating your music, so I am going to walk through the system I use to rate my songs.
On Thursday, Delicious celebrated its 5th birthday. Delicious is one of my favorite web applications and is a major part of how I discover, manage, and organize web-based information both for my work and at home. My personal experience with Delicious is relatively new given its age — I only started using it over the last few months, however it has rapidly become a permanent fixture on my desktop.