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Should a non-Power User buy Leopard or not?

I just jumped back on the Mac bandwagon this summer picking up a MacBook Pro... It's been a long time since I've owned a Mac, to be honest, they just cost too much to consider owning during my post undergrad years, and I managed to get by with crappy Dell laptops for the better part of 10+ years. My previous Macs were a Plus (with a whopping 20 meg external hd) and then a IIsi I overclocked with the crystal swap trick... My point here is OS X 10.4 is my first mac OS since 7.0... I'm only now sort of picking up the tricks for getting the most out of Tiger...

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Neverending projects

Organizing even the simplest multi-step activities into projects is one of the most powerful ideas brought to me by GTD. I had assumed that a project has to be something big, involving whole team for a long period of time, but after reading the book I understood how dividing one's activities into discrete projects can help with organization.

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Waiting For List(s)

How do you guys have your "Waiting For(s)" list set up? Do you have one central waiting for list? Or one for each project?

Any particular nuances that you've discovered from using the Waiting For list?

Look forward to hearing everyones input!

Undergraduate note taking applications

Undergraduate note taking applications

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Old Forum Posts Not Converted Properly?

Here's one that didn't get converted properly, don't know why. This one is ok, though. Obviously I can fix them myself, but I expect others are having similar problems, and there might be the possibility of an automated solution on the server side.

Adjusting or replacing the spam filter?

No idea how much spam gets caught here on a daily basis, but I've had two of my replies get eaten by moderation, never to resurface. Probably had too many links in them, but they were relevant links included in fairly long replies.

Is the solution posted here better than what's currently in place?

Or, on a related note, does anyone go through the moderated replies list?

memorabilia

memorabilia

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How to scrub Outlook clean post-DavidCo?

How to scrub Outlook clean post-DavidCo?

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TOPICS: Windows

Waiting for -- what level list?

Waiting for -- what level list?

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