Monthly Archives: October 2009

I need a new…

By Sherman | Published: October 25th
t happens all the time: Someone walks up to my desk and asks me to look something up, type something, email something, when I’m right in the middle of something else. Rather than close what I’m doing I hit Command+n (+n) and get a new browser window, an empty document, a blank email. I can do the [...]
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Water and Electronics don’t mix

By Sherman | Published: October 21st
Sorry I’ve been away, I had a little problem wherein my cats spilled a glass of water on my laptop… … That’s all I’ll say about that; except for a few pointers I gathered online while researching a solution. Remove power and batteries immediately. Power + liquid = short circut Stand the laptop on it’s side to drain. Open [...]
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Show the desktop

By Sherman | Published: October 13th
Yesterday I talked about using my desktop to hold files I need right now.  It’s a great way to keep everything available, but I have a LOT of applications open. Moving everything out of the way could be a pain.  Luckily there are keyboard shortcuts to help out. On the PC you can use the Windows+D [...]
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Clean Desk

By Sherman | Published: October 12th
I use my computer desktop the way I use my desk-desktop; Holding whatever I need for my current work. Folders, images, documents, PDF files, whatever. I can get to everything I need faster It helps me remember what I’m doing. It’s a great system when it works, but I have to remember to clean my “desk” when a [...]
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Find a mailbox

By Sherman | Published: October 8th
Need a hand finding the nearest mailbox?
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Tell people you’re out sick

By Sherman | Published: October 6th
Telling people I'm out is a simple way of cutting down on the work when I return.
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Google Reader

By Sherman | Published: October 1st
Do you like reading news and blog sites but don’t have the time to click through them all every day?  Give Google Reader a try! I’ve wanted to write about Google Reader for quite some time – it’s one of my favorite tools and I use it constantly -  but I could never come up with [...]
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