How To Achieve Just-In-Time
Information Nirvana
People
often ask me how I manage to get so much done, even while
traveling. They also notice that I'm always really well prepared
for meetings. I've even been accused of having a
photographic
memory, even for minor details.
The reality is that I use a trick to make all this possible:
Whenever I get any kind of information -- flight details, hotel
information, meeting agendas, to do items, etc., I always put it
into some kind of "time capsule" that will alert me just before
I need to know something, and present that information to me. I
appear to have a great memory -- in fact I don't need to
remember anything (except to keep my phone charged)...
Best of all, I don't waste time searching for information I've
already seen. I handle all data once -- I set it and forget it.
ALL TRICKS
REVEALED IN THIS COLUMN.
Infoworld to Shut Down
Longtime
IDG IT news magazine Infoworld is about to
CLOSE ITS DOORS FOREVER.
Bill
Gates Loses to Pro In Xbox Soccer Game
Bill Gates' best
chance at beating a professional soccer player at soccer would
definitely be a match some kind of computer. But, alas, even
that is no guarantee for the world's riches geek. Gates played
and
LOST
a public Xbox soccer game to Mexican soccer pro Rafael Marquez
this week.
News You Can Lose
A man was told by
the owners of a Casablanca, Morrocco, cybercafe that he was not
allowed to surf terrorism sites, so he
BLEW HIMSELF UP with the explosives strapped to his
body.
So You Want
to Be a Bedouin
San
Francisco Chronicle journalist Dan Frost wrote a nice piece
recently about local digital nomads he called Bay Area Bedouins.
These are people who work for San Francisco start-up companies
without offices, who roam from one coffeehouse to the next,
working wherever they find a Wi-Fi connection. (Traditionally, a
Bedouin is a desert-dwelling nomad who lives in a tent and moves
around to find greener pastures for his camels, sheep and goats,
bringing everything he needs with him.) No matter who you are,
you can embrace the new Bedouinism. You don't have to live in
the Bay Area or the desert or work for a start-up. You don't
even need access to a coffeehouse. It's easy.
HERE'S HOW TO DO IT.
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Found Video
Everyone who's tried
it seems to
love Apple TV -- especially "Attack of the Show"
star
OLIVIA MUNN!
Turn Wall Into
"Firewall" With Anti-Wifi Paint
Is your neighbor
leeching off your Wi-Fi connection and stealing your bandwidth?
A company called EM-SEC Technologies claims to have tested a new
paint that
BLOCKS WI-FI SIGNALS.
Cell Phone Follies
A Chinese company
called Hi-Tech Wealth is showing at CeBIT a
SOLAR-POWERED CELL PHONE called the Light-Energy
Mobile Phone.
Hollywood Spy -
"300" Made With Macs
The
movie "300" is huge, and I'm not talking about its unprecedented
$70 million opening weekend. The extremely fictionalized account
of Sparta's Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, was digitized,
enhanced and edited on 15 G5 Macs, a project that required a
whopping
16 TERABYTES of disc space!
Also:
Wowwee, Ltd., the
company that makes remote-controlled Robosapien robots, is
working with Arad Productions to bring a live action and CGI
movie to the
BIG SCREEN in 2009.
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They Flogged the Blog!
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Nothing's Too Sacred
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Mystery Pic o'
the Week
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Send YOUR guess (be sure to say where you live).
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 LAST WEEK'S
MYSTERY PIC:
No, it's not a "sports bar in Vegas," "Microsoft’s Security
Center ...(because I don’t see any people there)," or even
"Donald Trump's ego," as suggested by some readers.
In fact, it's
AT&T's Global Network Operations Center in Bedminster,
New Jersey, which the company claims is "the largest and most
sophisticated command-and-control center of its kind in the
world." The center links 30 major cities in the U.S. and where
data, voice and wireless traffic is monitored. Here's a
closer look.
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