Posts Tagged ‘data’

Are You Doing Business In The Cloud?

All of my email addresses are directed to my Gmail account. Most of the documents I need on a daily basis are on Google Docs. I've been slowly moving towards living in the cloud. In a way, this has been very good for me: I can access just about everything I want, whether I'm in my office, at someone else's office, a friend's house or anywhere else with an internet… Continue reading

May 12 2009 | By Thursday | Tagged: cloud, data, employer | 23 comments»

21st Century Opportunities

Productivity expert Jason Womack is working on a project aimed at teenagers on the careers of tomorrow. He asked me to contribute a few ideas, and he graciously agreed to let me turn it into an article for Lifehack.org. From where I sit, there are a couple of very broad categories in which people can expect to excel in the future: 1. Data Analysis Data and computation have never been… Continue reading

February 3 2009 | By Art | Tagged: 21st-century, business, change, data, design, future, nutrition, opportunity, workplace | 7 comments»

How to Save Thousands of Dollars on Your iPhone Bill

Apple has manufactured the telecom’s dream: a phone that will rack up a massive bill all too easily.To begin with, we’ve got a phone that basically sells itself on its ability to surf the Internet and download data. If you’re with AT&T, you’re all good and dandy on that point (unless you’re on international roaming), but for most of us throughout the world—including the Australian company my phone is with… Continue reading

July 28 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: data, iphone, Money, sms | 9 comments»

Drive-by Tips for Centralizing Your Content on the Internet

Last week, I wrote on how bloggers could make the most effective use of the FriendFeed service. A question I heard from a few people went something like this:I'm not a blogger, but I want to centralize my content on the Internet. How do I do this?There are so many ways to manage information online, and many ways to centralize various types of information. The main decision is in deciding… Continue reading

June 16 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: aggregation, backup, centralization, data, evernote, friendfeed | 45 comments»

How to Tell When Your Hard Drive is Going to Fail

Hard drives form the basis of our computing. The use of computers comes down to manipulating data, and the hard drive is, of course, where we store all our data; family albums, music, work documents, email, the list goes on.Most of the components in your computer are electronic devices. They don't fail with time like a mechanical device such as a car. But your hard drive is one of… Continue reading

March 24 2008 | By Joel | Tagged: backup, data, diagnosis | 25 comments»

Trial by Fire Productivity – The Unexpected

This post is part of the Trial By Fire Productivity series."True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed." ~ Tom RobbinsThis wasn't the entry I expected to post this week.Last week the death rattle of my hard drive whirred loudly, and the drive crashed. It happens. I suppose it… Continue reading

March 23 2007 | By Tony | Tagged: backup, data, software, trial-by-fire | 6 comments»

Ask Readers: Backup Strategies & Methods

I'm just getting ready to do some backups of my system, and I was going to do a pile of DVDs as my backups, but then I realized just how much time that would take. Booooooring. So now I'm thinking that I'll just go buy an external hard drive, shove everything over, and store it somewhere else.And then it dawned on me: I know LOTS of people who stick… Continue reading

July 11 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: backup, bestpractices, data, howto, Lifehack, storage, tips | 26 comments»

Open Source USB Privacy Suite

Traveling Forever has a very informative and useful article on how to set up a USB stick for encryption and anonymous surfing, if you're concerned about your internet privacy, especially when it comes to your government's use of your data.You see, there are fundamental problems with the way the internet was designed in regards to security and privacy. Every email message or web address sent unencrypted (probably every message… Continue reading

May 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: data, eff, freedom, privacy, protection, security, software, usb | 4 comments»

A Text Information Sytem

Everyone has their own information system, Merlin from 43Folders has come up with his system on storing his text information by using a traditional text file. Some unique features on his system: