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RSS – a second appeal
Despite the huge amount of love I put into my last post about the advantages of RSS, I had to find out that a good friend of mine still reads his IT-news on cluttered, ad-overloaded webpages. His...
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Let the system do the typing for you
There are words, phrases and/or numbers you have to type into various forms and text fields over and over and over again. Like your eMail-address. Or your telephone number. Or whatever. Doing that on a...
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Declutter your eMail inbox – move newsletters to RSS
So I found this interesting travel deals website – www.ab-in-den-urlaub-deals.ch. From time to time they offer real good deals to go to Disneyland (Yaaay! Disneylaaand!). Sure I want to keep an eye on...
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Let the Internet robots do the reading for you
Last time I demonstrated how one can use Zapier to create a RSS feed from daily newsletter mails. Today I’m taking this “Webapp Automation” to the next step – I’m going to delegate the reading of the...
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Eliminating the last reasons to own a chunky printer
The last time I wanted to print something out and I failed because my (almost never used “original”) ink cartridge was dried out, I decided to put my personal end to the unfortunate era of killing...
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Feeling weary? Maybe it’s your nutrition.
As I wrote before, one of the preconditions to be productive is a good physical and mental fitness. If you feel powerless, you will have a hard time trying to achieve excellence. Sure an important...
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Why to be careful with eMail clients like Mailbox, myMail, Spark, etc.
A few days ago Readdle launched a new eMail client – Spark – which (once more) promises to make eMails “much faster and enjoyable”. Uncontested they put a lot of love and effort into their new...
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Switch your Mac between showing or hiding hidden files the easy (and working)...
Most of the time it is okay not to see the hidden files of your system. But sometimes you want to. Doing a short web search you will quickly find the solution: Open a terminal Change the variable which...
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Navigate to picture – on your Mac!
A while ago I wrote a post about how to navigate to a place a picture was taken on your iOS device. Today I wanted to do the same on my Mac using the Apple Maps app. As it turns out the way to get...
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PKG installer? No thanks. Just the app, please!
Do you know Teamviewer? It’s a wonderful application to share your screen with someone else far away. Like when my mother get’s stuck with her system, I just tell her to fire up Teamviewer instead of...
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Prioritize!
Todo lists are great. You put all your undone stuff on them and have these things out of your head. Seriously – having a clear mind is a perfect precondition to achieve killer productivity. Having 1000...
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Automation on your iPhone (or whatever iOS device)
Anybody who happened to read one of my blog posts about Automator on Mac OS will know that I’m a big fan of automation. Today I will throw some light on Automators “little brother” on iOS – the app...
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Thinking outside the box with Workflow for iOS
Just a quick addition to my last post. I got feedback that people didn’t see any of the workflows offered to be useful for them. So let me share something one wouldn’t necessarily associate with a...
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Security: An important productivity topic
Starting from now on I will have a new category on “productivity.ninja”: (IT-)security! “How is that a productivity topic?” you may ask. Well – considering IT security in your daily work will not...
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Positive thinking – a good (productivity) resolution for the new year
If you intend to be more productive in 2016 – how about making “positive thinking” to one of your resolutions? “How is this supposed to help me getting more productive?” you might ask. Well, the thing...
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Say goodbye to paper piles – establish your personal clean-desk-policy
Even though I optimized a lot of my every day procedures to be more productive, until recently I had a bad habit to deal with my “open cases”. You know – these documents, papers, whatever which need to...
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“HELL YEAH!” or “NO!”
My today’s post is “inspired” by an idea I got from reading Tim Ferris’s Blogpost ‘How to Say “No” When It Matters Most’. Since he admits he “borrowed” the “HELL YEAH!”-notion by himself from Derek...
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How to send stuff to your sleeping (or offline) Mac
Finally! Finally I found a way to do something I wanted to do for a long time: Send stuff (text, links, pictures, …) to my sleeping Mac without having to do it in form of an eMail (or creating a todo,...
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Speed up your mobile texting
Being an IT security engineer it is my daily job to enter all kind of texts into the keyboard of my laptop computer. Thanks to the 10-finger-system this is a rather effortlessly task. On my iPhone on...
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