Written on August 24th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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Probably I’m obsessed by this word: synchronization.
But if I’m not the only one who tries to keep all calendars, emails, to-do lists, files, contacts in sync, then I would like to share some of my considerations and some of my experience with a pretty good cocktail of tools I regularly use. Truly enough, I would love to hear similar thoughts and experiences from anyone.
First of all let me say that I’m a great fan of David Allen‘s GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology and that I love to be organized, efficient and productive. Second, I must admit that I’m also fascinated by new technologies and not very keen anymore to use paper and pen.. Oh, and I’m a Mac man.
What I would like to share are some experiences, workarounds and ideas I came up in the last years in order to try to keep my life (and work tools) in sync.
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Written on August 19th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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For those of you who think can keep all your activities and To-Do list in your mind, for those who still rely on paper and pencil, for everyone who does not believe that technology can improve your productivity… stop reading this article. For all the rest I hope this helps!
Given as requirement that I’m a Mac user and GTD (Getting Things Done, by David Allen) passionate, I will try to illustrate several options I have personally tested for To-Do lists and task management.
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Written on July 23rd, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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I’m definitively an iPhone fan. I bought it the first day it was delivered to stores.
I also must admit it has increased my productivity and pleasure in using such a device.
BUT, although it has been around now for several years, the operating system is now in its release 4.0.1…. yet I still believe there is one huge deficiency: VOIP. While most of other smartphones provide this feature in someway, the iPhone seems to ignore the VOIP industry.
Many VOIP app developers are struggling in trying to upload their applications on the Apple store, but I believe everyone is still far from what a true VOIP phone should look like.
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Written on July 7th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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It might seem obvious but I found out that a lot of people don’t know you can sync your Apple iPhone with your Google calendar.
So here is a very short how-to.
In order to sync your iPhone’s calendar with your google calendar you must create a new Microsoft Exchange account under Preferences:
1. Open the Settings application on your iPhone.
2. Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
3. Tap Add Account.
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Written on July 5th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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I’ve used several social media applications in the last few months, all with great capabilities and features. I was basically not deciding which one to use for all my social media accounts.
Hootsuite has definitely helped me in deciding.
Hootsuite is a web based social media aggregator, with no need to install on your computer.
You can manage all your twitter, linkedin, facebook and foursquare accounts from one place. Each of your social media accounts will be a tab in the web 2.0 interface, where you can see the home stream, the direct messages, the posts you have sent, etc. You can also schedule your tweets and have Hootsuite notify you by email when the tweet has been posted.
Since you have all in one place, you can decide to post the same tweet to all your accounts simultaneously.
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Written on February 24th, 2010 by Vincenzo Vecchio
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If you could listen to this picture, you would feel the incredible and wonderful silence.
