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TOPICS: Life Hacks

Trouble resetting number of comments per page

I'm having trouble setting the number of comments that appear on a page. I'd like to set it to 50 instead of 10, and when I try that, I get this message:

Validation error, please try again. If this error
persists, please contact the site administrator.

Graduate Student looking for advice w/GTD related project

Hello- I am a graduate student at George Mason University in the Human Factors and Applied Cognition program. My current project is understand tasks that people perform on a daily basis in both their personal and business life. The survey is comprised of demographic questions, listing personal and business tasks and a likert scale of perceptions of computing devices. I am post this since I have not receive many responses to my survey when I have posted it to other site forums.

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TOPICS: Projects

What is the best online accounting system?

I have been hired as a bookkeeper by a small design firm.

The books don't seem to hard to do, but my boss wants me to use an online system where he can easily export the time for his projects into the accounting systems and quickly produce invoices.

I am used to doing books for retail and wholesale businesses and I know how to do that well but I don't know exactly the right accounting and client management tool to use for this job.

i researched and found that I would have to buy Quickbooks Online, ChronoPipe and Basecamp.

Does anyone here know an easier way?

GMail hacked - Suggested alternatives?

Coming up to 7 weeks ago my 4 year old gmail account was hacked. Google have sent me any number of standard form emails promising action but nothing has happened so I have lost 3 years worth of email and contacts. Let that be warning to back up data in your webmail account as well!

In the mean time I have been using a .mac trial account but that has now expired and so I am looking for an alternative. Ideally it would have the following features:

  • Able to get mail from other POP3 boxes
  • Able to use my own domain for the email address
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Online Storage?

Online Storage?

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Finding advice on presentations

I've been reading all of Merlin's posts on giving presentations, and I recently bought Presentation Zen and Beyond Bullet Points.

I have a few questions I'd like to post to the forum here in the hopes that others who follow these methods can answer. But I'm unsure of which forum to post in. What do you think?

Thanks, Chris

Outlook and my Treo (running Palm)

Outlook and my Treo (running Palm)

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Project Clarification Needed

Hello fellow GTDers!

I have recently devoted myself to the GTD system after listening to the seminar audio recording, and spending a lot of time reading most of the book/43folders.com/other personal productivity blogs.

However, I still am not quite clear on everything. Here is an example:

After processing, let's say I have a new project, so I put it in the projects folder. It is "Clean Apartment". I realize that that could easily be broken down into sub-projects of Clean Kitchen, Clean Bathroom, etc.

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