Quick Enter a Google Calendar Event

A cool tip I’ve overlooked until recently. While you’re in GCal, press the q key to summon a single field to enter an event. Best of all, GCal understands natural language like “tomorrow at 2PM.” Not using Google Calendar? Get it at Google Calendar

Inconsolata: Nice Monotype Font

Need a fixed-width font for full screen text editors or the like?
Inconsolata is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print. There are a great many “programmer fonts,” designed primarily for use on the screen, but in most cases do not have the attention to detail for high resolution rendering.
Download Inconsolata

Quick Excel Tip

When you’re typing text into a cell in Excel, hitting Enter takes you to the next cell. To wrap your text in the current cell as you type hit Alt-Enter.

Hands Free Note-Taking

This is a cool service: http://jott.com
You can set up a free account, call and leave a voice mail note, and it will transcribe it and send you an email with your message. Great for hands-free note taking on the road!

4 Folders for Desktop Productivity

Inspired by the excellent Five Steps to a Kinkless Desktop article (a must read if you have a cluttered desktop and folder system), I thought I’d share my own computer desktop organizational system. I have four main folders.

Inbox – All incoming items (downloaded files, temp documents that you’ll throw away immediately, files for email attachments, […]

Blackberry Shortcuts

For the Power User…
App Switching
Alt+Esc works like Atl+Tab on Windows. Hold the Alt key and press the Escape button. Continue to hold the Alt key and select a program. Release the Alt key to switch to that program.
Capitalize a letter
Hold the letter key until the capitalized letter appears.
Move the cursor in a different direction
The Alt […]

Must Have Apps for your Blackberry

Here are some of the must-have apps I’ve seen for your Blackberry. Why Google has such inconsistent links is beyond me!
Google Search
Visit google.com on your mobile web browser, or go straight to http://www.google.com/m
Google Talk (Chat with co-workers)
http://www.blackberry.com/GoogleTalk
Gmail (Check your personal email)
http://m.google.com/a
Google Maps (Get directions on the fly)
http://www.google.com/gmm
BlackBerry Push Weather
http://mobile.blackberry.com/mss/category_push
Berry 411
Wireless Link: www.thebogles.com/berry411.jad
Desktop Link: www.thebogles.com/Berry411.htm
The best […]

Productivity Through Cornell Notes

I have been a long-time fan of the Cornell Notes method for taking notes. It was originally conceived for students, but I find it to be an invaluable note taking system for business. I take notes in the lined area, then go back and summarize action items on the left. I put a square box […]

Become a Gmail Master

A nice list of Gmail tips; I especially like the Gmail search operators summary:
Search operators in Gmail work much the same as they do with Google. Type the operator followed by a colon, and then your search term (e.g., to:tips@lifehacker.com). Likewise, you can exclude terms from your search with the hyphen (-).
The search operators allow […]

Keyboard Shortcuts for the Mac

Working on a Mac? Learn some of these shortcuts to boost your productivity:
Text
?A move to beginning of paragraph
?B move one character back
?D delete character to right
?E move to end of paragraph
?F move one character forward
?K delete text to end of paragraph
?N move to next line
?O insert newline
?P move to previous line
?T transpose characters
?? delete word to left
?? delete word to right
Text Field
?? move one word left
?? move one word […]