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Quick question about Keynote (from a non-mac user)

Quick question about Keynote (from a non-mac user)

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Outlook annoyances

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done

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An off-topic post about music (for your aural enjoyment)

Hope posting about a fantastic indie band isn't too "off-topic" for the Grabass forum. If I am out of line, please someone, put me in my damn place.

So anyways, one of my favorite indie-rock acts Division Day are releasing either a cover or a remix of something from their current catalog over the span of 8 weeks (8 songs total) which will make up a "Covers and Remixes EP".

Last Tuesday they released this little doozie - a cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence"

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43F: Recent MacBreak Podcasts

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Over the past few weeks, I've been having a lot of fun participating in the MacBreak video podcast and its little brother, the MacBreak Weekly audio podcast. Leo, Alex, Scott, and the rest of the MacBreakers do a swell job with these shows, and I've enjoyed getting to nerd out a little with them.

If you haven't caught these already, here's a quick catchup of episodes I've been on in the last month or so (reverse chronologically):

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Homework Assignments: Where do they go?

As a student, I get many homework assignments from reading, to worksheets, to completing problem sets in a text. I was wondering, where should these assignments go in my GTD system?

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Is there a Web 2.0 app for organizing a job search?

Is there a Web 2.0 app for organizing a job search?

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Tool send email requests for address updates?

I'm am trying hard to keep my address book up-to-date, and it becomes a more difficult tast as the number of entries grows rapidly.

What would be tremendously helpful is a utility, script, or else, that would email each of the people in my address book and say: "[Premade message from user]. I have your information as such [auto-fill from address book] is this still current? If not please let me know.

That's it, I'm happy to make sure to do the data entry as email replies come back.

Thanks in advance, and please let me know if I'm being at all unclear.

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Family Tree app for Mac?

Are there any applications on the Mac OS X platform that were designed for compiling family tree information?

If not, any apps already on the Mac platform that are helpful to build a family tree? I'm thinking OmniGraffle on that one if nothing else already exists for family tree building.

Does anyone have recommendations on compiling this information? Applications to help compile and build this information? Sites that I must check out for info?

Any general suggestions are appreciated on this project as well...

Thanks!

 
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