QuickSilver

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I made a trigger in QuickSilver to post a new blog to my site.  Option-B.  One to open the google docs so I can update my lists Option-G.  It’s easy to learn the basics for QuickSilver but hard to even scratch the surface as a casual Mac user like me.  But I can see how useful it can be in the Mac world.

I spent (wasted) a lot of time today in the Itunes App Store looking for apps.  It IS a huge time drainer.  I’m sure there are some very powerful and useful apps in there, but you just don’t have the time to search for them one by one.  

Started to play with the facebook a bit today.  Wow, lots of  young people are fully immersed in it.  Truly a socializing place for the young’ums.  Not sure what use I can really get out of it.  Will stick with it a bit longer though.  Together with twitter.  Brandon had a great idea about using it for business like LDC so the studio can post happenings and people can follow.  Very clever.

AutoHotKeys and keyboard shortcuts

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Yeah, it’s a great little app and very powerful.  I’ve setup three keyboard shortcuts, one for the blog, one for todo and one for the timesheet for LDC.  And along the same line, went to HP and downloaded the keyboard driver so I can setup the extra buttons.  Some how, I never used those buttons on the keyboard.

It took some programming skill to use the autohotkey app.  But I guess only programmers would be geeky enough to want to setup keyboard shortcuts to reduce the keystrokes for common tasks and repetitive strokes.  I wish I have found it a long time ago.  It would have helped out a lot of what I did at work.  But it’s never too late.

AutoHotkey & QuickSilver

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Wow, I found a gold mine for Windows shortcuts.  Stumbled onto the AutoHotkey while reading an article on how to use Google Docs better.  Downloaded it and wow, I’m excited.  I can create keyboard shortcuts to anything I need to do now.  Yea!!!!!  It’s like when I discovered QuickSilver for the mac. 

Hmm, what can I do with it now….

Goodbye Christinesweb

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Changed the URL to dancingchimes.  It’s what I use for gmail and everything else.  I think it’s about time to switch and consolidate.

I can’t understand why time flies so fast.  It’s 3:30 again and I feel like I have just got started.  Spent a lot of time trying to get the booksmarks to sync between my Vaio and the Macbook Air.  They won’t.  I don’t know why.  It’s frustrating.  They kind of do but the newest link I added to GTD just won’t show up on my PC.  I even deleted everything in the bookmarks and let mobileme replace it.  Still that one doesn’t show up but it did put a lot in.  So I don’t know what the deal is.

Oh, and I tried to connect the camcorder to the macbook air, it won’t recognize it.  But I was able to upload the clip using Vaio.  So that wasn’t total lost of time there.  I stayed up till almost 2:30 last night learning and using the smartlist in Itunes.  I’m quite happy about the outcome.  I can organize my video clips and music a lot better now on the iphone.  It’ll be easier at the studio when we work on the wcs routine in the future. 

Then I tried to use monkeyGTD online version.  Took me a while to remember that I have to use firefox.  So lots of wasted time there.  But hey, this is what I like to do so I am not complaining too much here.

Connie called to get my thoughts on whether to buy a PC or a Mac.  I kind of leaning towards a PC for her since she is familiar with all the software on it.  She was in the car going to Ganley Toyota to look at a car.  I guess Tim’s car is still not working.  She complained how cold it is here.  We sort of had a laugh about that. 

Still need to go over the rumba routine a bit so I am more familiar with it.  Yesterday was a bit rough, I can’t spin at all.