Archive for the 'info worker' Category

I just installed Read it Later right now…so I will let you know if it sucks.
This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. A commenter below (Chris) summed it up very well: “It’s a ’staging area’ [...]


There is a growing mountain of evidence that would seem to suggest that multitasking is truly EVIL…

In one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice: “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing [...]


Wanna be more productive? stop checking you email all the time!

Even if you just glance at a popup, read the title of a feed or spend a few seconds replying to a Tweet, you are loosing focus and loosing productivity. You don’t just loose the 20 seconds spent away from your task, but also [...]


I reached an epiphany about a year ago that it became clear to me that most of my online activity was a colossal waste of time. So away went all of my tech podcast’s, I unsubscribed to nearly all of my RSS feeds and the hours spent wandering around YouTube happily went away. Also [...]


I’m currently using Firefox 3 RC3 and it’s not a big fat sloppy resource hog…
Mozilla announces that Firefox 3 will be officially released this coming Tuesday, June 17th. Get your clickers ready, because they’re aiming to break a world downloading record that day. (via lifehacker)