Technology has clearly changed how we work. Mobile devices, for example, have allowed for a more flexible work environment, making it easier to work from anywhere on almost any device. Whatever changes we adopt, the bottom line remains the same; we want to get our jobs done and done well. And when the technology we’re…

As director of product marketing at Adobe, I speak with customers everyday about how they can better maximize their productivity in the workplace. They often tell me they spend more time figuring out how to do their jobs than actually doing them. Regularly faced with the staggering volume of information, they have difficulties keeping everyone on…

Note taking is as ancient an art as any. There are hefty tomes on the subject of how to best capture and organize information in a swift and legible manner and courses devoted to the subject in colleges. And yet, the most popular suggestion in our Skribit widget, which you can use to suggest articles…

In productivity blogosphere, there are countless arguments between two camps: paper vs digital. Along with the evolution of my productivity system, I agree what Glen Stansberry at LifeDev describes in this article – we can use both together as they can co-exist and work well together: Well, I can answer that question in one word: Both…

LifeDev’s Productivity Tools section has a series of articles on the benefits of both paper tools for productivity against their digital counterparts and which you should use. The underlying solution is that they aren’t counterparts at all but, instead, should be used in conjunction with each other. Paper for creativity. Digital for collaboration and archiving. We think we’ve found…

The Listening Post at Wired.com have a handy little article about explaining Digital Rights Management [DRM] to people who don’t get it or why it’s bad. There’s only a couple so it would be great to hear some of your suggestions for explaining this evil. I want to watch an Egyptian movie for my Middle Eastern…

Look at Dad take pictures of little Joey go down the playground slide. Wait – hasn’t he taken about 100 shots of that little boy this morning? Oh yeah – digital – our lives are digital now. Content is overwhelming: words, images, sounds. That same proud Dad uploaded this week’s most precious 150 images to the Joey’s Cute website, so all his dedicated fans can view the little darling.

Those phone photographers are in play too. The phone is now a ubiquitous capture device making no one immune from the serendipitous photographer documenting our most inelegant moments. Unedited, they’re thrown up on Flickr.com for your viewing pleasure – often for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

Pleasure? I’m not so sure. Just like those jokes we used to forward through email as web-neophytes, they swiftly become annoying. We learned only to forward those that were extra-specially, extraordinarily hilarious. The best ones traveled the internet like a virus, but as with a healthy immune system, minor viruses are cured. Who’s going to cure the information overload virus? Who’s going to help me edit my life?

Derrick Story, author of Digital Photography Pocket Guide, has just revised his great article on Digital Photography. His expert advice is that you can make great photos with simple digitial camera with some custom adjustments. There are ten tips that he suggested: Warm Up Those Tones Sunglasses Polarizer Outdoor Portraits That Shine Macro Mode Madness Horizon Line Mayhem Massive Media…