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Top 10 Benefits Of GTD (Getting Things Done)

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:32:26 +0000

It is easy to get completely obsessed with your GTD implementation, tweaking and tuning constantly to get it just right. It is even more easy to find yourself drooling over the latest gadgets and web 2.0 GTD applications out there. Perhaps you find yourself going through the motions that are supposed to make you get things done, but you’re not really sure anymore why you’re doing them?

It’s time to refocus on why you are using GTD in the first place!

What was in it for you again? Why did it seem like such a good idea to implement GTD at the time?

To answer these questions, I have created a list of the top 10 benefits of GTD. Just in case you forgot all about them, or you never knew them in the first place, or you’re dying to find out once and for all!

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Top Ten Olympic Events Men Should Watch

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:58:05 +0000

Few other events make us as patriotic as the Olympic Games, but short of a particular sport or two you probably wouldn’t argue the Games themselves can be pretty boring.

Let's face it - it's not the World Cup, and at times, you might feel the best thing about the Olympic Winter Games is that for a little more than two weeks there’s some sort of sport on TV 24 hours a day. But opening your mind, dusting off your country’s colours and taking in all that the Games have to offer can be a great experience. Beyond just hockey, there are plenty of reasons to tune in later this week.

Here are the top 10 Olympic events men should watch.

Top 10 Best Players Not Going To The World Cup

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:54:12 +0000

Despite the Republic of Ireland suffering a slap in the face thanks to the hand of Henry, Sepp Blatter and the South African World Cup organising committee will be relieved that most of the world’s big footballing stars will be cancelling their holiday plans this summer and heading to training bases around Cape Town and Johannesburg.

But while the likes of Messi, Rooney, and er....Lucas are all set to be on the plane to the World Cup, that there are still plenty of brilliant players who won't be. AM pays homage to those talented guys who won't be present in South Africa next summer to grace the world's greatest sporting event. Presenting the top 10 best players not going to the 2010 World Cup.

Top 10 CSS Editors

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:49:21 +0000

CSS editors are editors that focus solely on generating Cascading Style Sheets. Though you could scrape by using a fully-featured IDE or source code editor – CSS editors may offer specialized functions and features to help you write better CSS, quicker.

In this article, you’ll find some of the more popular CSS editors available on the market.

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Top Ten Events To Attend In 2010

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:47:42 +0000

OK, I’m sure you won’t be able to visit all of the mentioned, but if you are planing a trip, maybe you’ll find something interesting here. Related posts:Top 10 destinations for 2010 Related posts:

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Top 5 Luxury cars for 2010

admin — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:44:22 +0000

Do you love being updated with the news of the new cars and its latest technologies? By the way, have you got the latest ranking of the latest and best cars that are ready to knock the market in the 2010? What, not yet? You then must have a look at the top 5 cars of the season that have already made people go crazy for these. From Porsche Panamera's to the weird looking Chevrolet Volt, they're all very nice indeed.

10 Useful Tips for Optimizing Ubiquitous Capture

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:30:42 +0000

Perhaps you know the familiar phrase from the field of computer science, “Garbage In, Garbage Out“? Well, the same goes for your GTD system. Here’s a big surprise: if you feed your GTD system incomplete or incorrect input in the Collection phase, you will never get reliable or useful output in the Doing phase (next actions).

Ubiquitous capture is a well-known principle in the collection phase of the GTD workflow. If done well, it helps you to generate useful, complete and correct input for your GTD system. To help you optimize your ubiquitous capturing, I have compiled a list of 10 useful tips from my own experience.

Before I give you my list of 10 tips, I would like to share the evolution of my ubiquitous capture tool (UCT) with you. I probably forgot some of the things I used as UCT, but here are a few. At one point I bought a stack of expensive Moleskines and used several of them as my UCT. This violates several of the rules described below: it’s expensive and it doesn’t invite you to create quick and dirty notes. Then I started to collect digital notes on my laptop (e.g. plain text files). Violations: not really portable, not simple and not quick. I used the same principle with my Windows Mobile PDA. Though portable, it’s not quick enough and certainly expensive. I finally settled on a small set of UCTs: scraps of paper (could be anything ripped to small pieces) and a simple pen; and sometimes voice notes with my mobile phone. It’s simple, cheap, quick, fun and they complement each other perfectly!

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Top 50 Twitter Topics of the Year

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:42:39 +0000

Back in May, I conducted the first interview -- "The Twuth About Twitter Twends Revealed (by Brit Living in Shanghai)" -- with a young technologist named Matt Mayer who'd created a very clever site called What the Trend? (the question mark is an official part of the name, but for the sake of readability, I'll exclude it henceforth). Speaking via Skype from China, Mayer filled me in on the genesis and functionality of his service, which offers brief, crowdsourced explanations of the often mystifying memes that constantly pop up on the Twitter "trending topics" chart. It remains completely indispensable for anybody trying to make sense of Twitter.

Mayer and I have stayed in touch, and he recently informed me that he was selling What the Trend. Today, I can tell you that Mayer's creation has been formally acquired by a U.S. investor group. Start-up veteran Ingo Muschenetz (he was CTO at DefenseWeb, later acquired by Humana, and headed development at Aptana Studio, a web app-development company) has been named CEO and President of What the Trend.

I spoke with Muschenetz yesterday, and he debriefed me about What the Trend's ambitious plans to expand the service with new functionality and partnerships. (Stay tuned.) He also gave me background on the creation of the first annual What the Trend Twitter Zeitgeist chart. You've likely seen similar year-end charts -- including the 2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist, Yahoo's 2009 Year in Review: Top 10 Searches and Microsoft's Top Bing Searches in 2009 -- as well as Twitter's own category-specific seven-part list of Top 10s

Muschenetz explained What the Trend's unique approach to parsing the year's trends: "We looked at the occurrence of every term that reached the Top 20 trending topics for every hour of every day of 2009, ranking both the height of popularity it achieved, and then the length of time it stayed as a trending topic." He argues that What the Trend's year-end list offers a fuller, more accurate picture of Twitterers' obsessions -- and in fact avoids the blind spots of some other lists. For instance, he notes, "It seems almost inconceivable that the Iran elections aren't on the Google list."

Without further ado, the What the Trend?/Twitter Zeitgeist 2009, presented here as a barebones list. But I encourage you to check out the heavily annotated list, which appears on What the Trend's site here (some adjustments in ranking may occur today and through the end of 2009, as the list remains dynamic).

Super Bowl Top 10 Most-Liked, Most-Recalled Ads

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:39:54 +0000

Everyone, it seems, has a thing for the "Golden Girls." Or Betty White. And who wouldn't, as the actress stole the ad show, aka Super Bowl, with one perfectly timed line. See which other spots were most liked and most recalled this year. No related posts. No related posts.

Top 10 Pet Poisons of 2009

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:34:46 +0000

With various dangers lurking in corners and cabinets, the home can be a minefield of poisons for our pets. In 2009, the ASPCA’s Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) in Urbana, IL, handled more than 140,000 cases of pets exposed to toxic substances, many of which included everyday household products. Don’t leave it up to Fido or Fluffy to keep themselves safe. Below is a list of the top 10 pet poisons that affected our furry friends in 2009.

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