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Adii has released three new themes under the Live Wire name. We have Live Wire 2.0, Live Wire Edition and Live Wire Style. Very much a magazine theme, the Live Wire themes are still very usable without needing to have your own magazine blog. Starting at $99.95 for a single license, $149.95 for a three pack, which contains all three themes, and two licenses, or $249.95 for the developer license which allows you to use the themes on an unlimited number of blogs, the features help speak for the pricing. [Read more]

The question is this: Is your collection organized, and easy to share with your family and friends? In addition, is your collection backed up and protected? If not, then you need to take a look at the ReadyNAS Duo [Read more]

If I had to guess what the biggest challenge people have with GTD, it's not maintaining the system, it's building it. And you might feel that the task of building it seems daunting and undoable, given the world doesn't really slow down because you've decided to take time for yourself to get this thing off the ground. I doubt your colleagues are sitting back saying, "Hey, let's not send emails to him or pull him into this meeting. He's really trying to get his work defined and his GTD system built." Not likely. So right off the bat, unless you've got two days of uninterrupted time to dedicate to the building phase, as David suggests in Part Two of the GTD book, you're more likely going to build it in stages. It will take longer, but a great system can be built in stages. 1. Choose a list manager to track your projects and actions 2. Get a good reference filing system built for your non-actionable stuff 3. Get In/Pending/Out buckets/folders/trays to be able to move things through the system. Once the constructing is done (your house is built), then you're in populating mode (move your stuff in.) Get everything from all of your collection buckets, processed and organized into your new system. Look for the major [Read more]

Dial down your screen brightness; Turn off your system completely at the end of the day; you (still) have a CRT, consider upgrading to an LCD...

Follow these settings to save energy with the computers you already own.