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Productive Firefox Plugins

November 6, 2008

I use FireFox as my web browser because of the plugins.  Here are my favorite productive plugins.  Followed by some new ones I’m trying and not sure about yet.
Current Favorites:

Update Notifier – Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. Allows quick access to your extensions and themes and the ability to [...]

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How to travel with DVDs

July 30, 2008

I travel quite a bit.  I wanted to bring some DVD material with my on my current trip to France.  I’m currently in Paris.  But, taking a collection of DVDs is not practical, there is no room in my suitcase.
I tried using many tools to convert my DVD to a computer file but they didn’t [...]

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Who loves accounting?

July 25, 2008

Who loves accounting? I don’t. Even though I had accounting at the honor level at university and aced it, I don’t love accounting. I don’t like QuickBooks, Quicken or the Microsoft versions, too complicated.  I just need a simple tool to do invoices for parts of my business.
In comes Freshbooks.  It has [...]

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Traveling with books

June 19, 2008

I travel a lot. I usually travel and stay for a while though.  Like at least a month at a time.  I still have full high-speed Internet access and live is good.
But, traveling with books is hard.  There is just only room for one or two books in my luggage.  I don’t want to travel [...]

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Missing bookmarklet in WordPress 2.5 found

June 17, 2008

New WordPress 2.6 has an excellent bookmarklet, this old one is no longer needed.
I got a new computer and went to put my handy WordPress bookmarklet in my browser to make blogging easier. And I couldn’t find it. In WordPress 2.5 they removed it. Why? They are going to add a [...]

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Offline writing

March 17, 2008

The number one (and free) software for writing blog posts is Windows Live Writer. A fairly new application. This is my first post using it. Hope this helps you become more productive.

Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog.

Publish to most major [...]

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