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An artist who wants to finish what he starts and always do the best thing

Hi all

I'm a self taught freelance storyboard artist for advertising in his fifth year of struggle in an industry that no longer bothers to train or groom anyone like it used to. In this field you are on your own and there is little to guide you in skills acquisition and finding connections. It's the fuzziest of fuzzy edged jobs.

I always meet deadlines (They are short and brutal) and work pretty much every hour of the day I have available to me at improving my skills and speed.

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DevonAgent for academics

DevonAgent for academics

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

handling interruptions

handling interruptions

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Help Me Merlin-Wan Kenobi, You're My Only Hope (Entourage vs. iCal/Mail/Address Book)

Help Me Merlin-Wan Kenobi, You're My Only Hope (Entourage vs. iCal/Mail/Address Book)

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TOPICS: Mac OS X

Oh, Snap, Massive Updates to Entourage today!

Oh, Snap, Massive Updates to Entourage today!

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Going full screen

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TOPICS: GNU/Linux

My Productivity Whitepaper

My Productivity Whitepaper

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Luddite has kGTD & Quicksilver question

So I have been stumbling around in kGTD, 43 Folders, OmniPro land and am impressed, overwhelmed, and seduced by the vision of a promised land of a totally dovetailed & coherent organizational system whose outlines I only dimly understand.

I bought my Mac, bought my OmniFocus Pro, downloaded QS (was starting to feel smug), finally installed kGTD and have been totally derailed by the following instruction from kinkless kGTD:

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is there a program that replaces explorer.exe?

is there a program that replaces explorer.exe?

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