Tag: ORGANIZATION

This week we'll help kick your Google calendars into shape. As with contacts and e-mail, Google provides a way to keep your calendars synced across multiple apps, computers and devices. As a primary source of party invites, meetups and family gatherings, Facebook is an unfortunate common ground for events these days. If you want to keep your Facebooking to a minimum -- or would prefer a single ...

This week we've focused on creating a single, giant pool of contacts. First, we combined your Web-mail address book and the random numbers stashed on your cell phone. Then, we freed your friends' photos, e-mail addresses and phone numbers from the evil clutches of Facebook. Now, you've got a comprehensive database of hundreds of contacts. Your mother is in your address book 13 times, your ...

Designer Kim Mi Ran hates tangled cords. Who doesn't? (Oh yeah, this dude.) We've run across some novel solutions to maddening cable issues in the past, and we've seen our fair share of quick, DIY fixes, from zip-ties to external sheaths. But all these answers are merely a Band-Aid for the tangled mess that has proven itself the digital era's 'Yellow Wallpaper.' ("I get positively angry with the ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there everyday, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. For iPad owners, everyday is like Christmas. New apps are games are constantly emerging, as are awesome tricks, features and impressive capabilities. Apple fans who own ...

Share digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/03/25/the-ultimate-guide-to-productivity-get-er-done-with-helpful-ha/?d'; Our mission here at Switched entails more than simply bringing you the latest tech and social networking news. We don't even stop at just helping you to become a smarter, better consumer of technology. We want to make sure that you use the power we bestow to enhance your ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/11/23/cable-drawings-take-cords-center-stage/'; While most of us organize excess lengths of cable by hiding them from view, an artist named Maisie Maud Broadhead has decided to expose the detritus of modern technological life and put it to decorative use. Her 'Cable Drawings' are wonderfully simple in both concept and material, but it's really that ...

Ever wonder what Bill Gates's desk looks like? How he sets up his PC to get things done? Well, you need wonder no longer, friend. The man himself has decided to share in a blog post, at Inside Office Online, exactly what his desktop looks like. ...

Are your wires crawling out into the living room from behind your TV, game systems and speakers? Do you get your feet tangled in the mess of computer, printer and monitor cords gathered under your desk? Constantly getting your headphones tangled up in your pocket? Roll up your sleeves and check out Lifehacker's guide to getting cables under control. The guide, focusing on cheap and easy ...

For those of us with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder), organization is often key. We develop special systems for tracking to-do's and routinely reorganize our CD collections just to make sure everything is in order: alphabetical order by artist, then chronological by release date. Some of the more extreme amongst us may even build databases and spreadsheets to track things like wines tasted, ...