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Great Website on Filing Systems

Great Website on Filing Systems

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Static Landscape

Static Landscape

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How do you share information with your spouse?

Hey all,

I've recently been racking my brain on how exactly to share information (the digital kind) with my wife. We've been together for 7 years, but only started living with each other (as opposed to different states and countries like before) after we got married in May.

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Server transition: Expect delays

Sweet fancy Moses, it looks like there's an end in sight for our server woes. Sometime today, the technically gifted elves at A2 Web Hosting will be pushing this enterprise over to a hotrodded new server with more CPU, more disk space, more bandwidth, and cup holders that are ample for a thirsty family of eight.

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Anne Lamont documentary on Boston PBS tonight (Wed 12/14)

(cross posted to the 43Folders Group)

Anne Lamott was the subject of one of Merlin's posts a few months ago. Tonight a PBS channel called "WGBX World" is showing a documentary about her (thanks TiVo Wish List). This channel is #209 on my local Comcast digital cable lineup (I'm south of Boston).

If you are interested, here's the description and link:

"Bird by Bird With Annie: A Portrait of Anne Lamott" Episode #408.
Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock's depiction of the life and career of author Anne Lamott.

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Dictation options?

Anyone have experience with a solution like iListen that's not quite as expensive?

Sync Outlook with Basecamp with Palm

Hi Everyone,

My first post. Drowning here in technology hell and need some insight on something that's bugging me for a long time. Much appreciated!

I use Outlook 2003 which I sync with my Treo 650. No problems there.

I manage projects with Basecamp and want to be able to sync with Outlook. Found a neat little sync app for Basecamp called Grabsync. Works great syncing BC and Outlook, but it creates a new task folder so that it my Outlook-BC tasks do not sync with my Treo.

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who is using plain txt to gtd?

who is using plain txt to gtd?

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Not Quite OSX, but...

Not Quite OSX, but...

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TOPICS: Mac OS X
 
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