I have outfitted a hard-cover sketchbook as my Hipster Laptop. Pictures here:

link: http://thedu.us/hLaptop

Seems to me like it's in tune w/ the spirit of the hPDA.

I would like to communicate with people integrating Getting Things Done with the Daylite organizer program for Mac. If I find someone really proficient, I would be happy to hire you as a consultant. Thank you.

Richard Shane

I recently read an interesting post at Study Hacks about building a research database. The program used was Microsoft Access and I was looking for suggestions for a Mac program which might accomplish the same tasks. I have Devon Think and will take a look at Filemaker Pro, but I was looking for some other suggestions.

Thanks for any help.

Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Talking Mail.app: Merlin Mann

Tim Gaden's been doing a series on various Mac folks' usage of Mail.app. He's talked with folks like John Gruber, Mathowie, and Ethan Schoonover about what they like (and don't) about OS X's default mail application, as well as the ways they'd like to see it improve.

Tim was kind enough to ask me as well, and the results are up at Hawk Wings:

Academic Note Collection Project

I have one of the "older" Fujitsu Scansnaps (fi-5110EOXM) that came with Acrobat 7.0 only. I moved overseas right after getting the scanner and was unable to get Readris by mail-in. Now, I have no OCR capability except for Acrobat 7 Pro which seems to be non-useful (won't OCR, crashes). My scans don't show up in Spotlight. :(

I would love to 1) OCR my past scans as well as 2) continue to scan in rapid succession during the day and have something do OCR at night.

My questions:

-Is there any software that will do batch OCR on my scans that is affordable?

The following is a copy of my latest blog post on the new Ikea opening in Cincinnati. I hope that my words or the photoshop job (attached image) I did does not offend anyone, that's not my intention... just voicing my thoughts, and trying to make some sense of some crazy things.

• The Limits of Efficiency - "It turned out that my problem wasn't that I was insufficiently efficient. The problem was that I was way too overextended."
• Macworld: First Look: Numbers - "The way Numbers works goes against nearly 20 years of training, so I really have to try not to 'think Excel' when using the program." [via: Lifehacker]
• Start Here - Neato-looking notebooks that you can "link together." [via del.icio.us/jstarkweather]
• Twitter / Andre Torrez: [on to-do lists] - "How about less to-do apps, and more apps that help me do things?"
• 404 Pros - "Inspired by other sites' 404s and ready to create your own work of error art? Here is some information to get you started."