Category: Personal Productivity

I recently wrote about my My Current Personal Productivity Favorites. Now I turn to my technology productivity blackholes.  For 18 months I felt like Comcast was my best friend based on how often I talked with them. Long story short: I suffered intermittent connectivity lapses...

Today I re-visit my favorite personal productivity technology tools. I’ll do another post about “technology productivity blackholes”, tech issues that suck time out of my day.   Screen Real Estate and Multiple Instances of Application Windows. For me, ample screen space is the most important...

Three years ago I blogged about the productivity benefits of dual monitors. Today, the New York Times published a long article extolling the virtues of bigger or dual monitors.  Boss, I Need a Bigger Screen. For Work Efficiency, of Course by Farhood Manjoo (15 Dec...

File names and document titles turn out to be a big deal. Without proper file names, it’s hard to find the right document.   Where document management systems prevail, lawyers and staff often fail to provide meaningful titles. So much so that you have to...

Microsoft ran a two-page-spread yesterday in the Wall Street Journal as part of its big new advertising campaign. In my view, consumers would be better off if MS spent money on developing better products than advertising.  The ad offers two tag lines: “Windows vs Walls”...

I am not a gadget guy but I do depend on my wireless PDA (smart phone) for phone calls, e-mail, web access, and web connectivity (phone as modem). With some trepidation, I decided to switch from my Palm Treo 700p to a Sprint Blackberry 8830....

It’s surprising, but computers seem less predictable and more moody than people.  Who would have thought that the seeming black and white of the binary world would lead to the moral equivalent of moodiness. And I don’t mean dystopian visions such as HAL in 2001....

Flaky hotel internet access drains my personal productivity. Aside from whining, hotel connectivity illustrates interesting economic issues for law firms.  In one of about every four hotel stays, I have to call tech support to get the net connection working properly. I waste a lot...