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rickColosimo / October 26, 2013
I recently purchased 1Password v4. I thought, reading the reviews and the FAQ, that it would import the 548 password combinations I evidently had stored in Firefox. NOT TRUE. The product was shippe...
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rickColosimo / March 31, 2013
I was recently in a Starbucks, fand my phone was perched [a little] too precariously. It fell. Into water. I was right there, of course, and snatched it out in less than a second. (Of course, this ...
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rickColosimo / June 27, 2012
Randomly happened upon this old 43Folders post on appending text via QuickSilver. Thinking about how fast that is for certain types of lists (books for library/amazon — and right, I know I haven’t ...
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rickColosimo / November 16, 2010
In this brief post, Unclutterer describes a little elastic band, cord, and sticky piece that helps keep the lens cap of an SLR camera from disappearing. In the Army, this rope or lanyard used for t...
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rickColosimo / November 9, 2010
I recently started with my new MacBook Air, aka the Airbook. I have long been hearing about mythical programs like QuickSilver and OmniFocus (both of which I use now) and even DevonThink (which I’m...
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rickColosimo / April 27, 2010
One of my favorite authors, Seth Godin, recently posted another little list of email tips. Of course, they’re pretty much all useful and accurate. I mean, it’s hard to write a “tip” that is flat-ou...
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rickColosimo / April 11, 2010
Confession: I bought an iPad, the smallest wifi-only version. I wanted something that was more functional than my Blackberry Pearl but with a more convenient form factor than my laptop for use duri...
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rickColosimo / January 27, 2010
What is Fauxtivation? It’s hiding the ball from your customers to try to create a motivation to engage with your company that they wouldn’t naturally have, i.e., don’t need and don’t want. Example:...
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rickColosimo / October 13, 2009
My son’s school, REED Academy has a Facebook fan page as well. I created that page since I’ve been using social media, including blogs, twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook to expand awareness of causes...
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rickColosimo / September 3, 2009
Quick note: watching an episode of Throwdown with Bobby Flay. He’s at Phil’s Fish Market in Monterey, CA (technically Moss Landing). Pam looked at it and said, “hey, isn’t that the place we used to...
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rickColosimo / August 18, 2009
Reading a recent comment on the WordPress users’ group on Triiibes, I realized that a new user was having a problem that actually does affect me as well. The user complained that he couldn’t figure...
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rickColosimo / August 17, 2009
I just got this cross-selling email from Basecamp today. I was thinking about it in the context of providing great outsourced workflow management in a package that is easyto use because it’s contro...
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rickColosimo / August 5, 2009
Anagram is a small piece of software that almost falls into the category that we used to describe in my Silicon Valley law days as “a feature masquerading as a company.” Many of those companies wen...
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rickColosimo / July 15, 2009
Peter Shankman‘s HARO (Help A Reporter Out) service is extremely valuable, but his opportunity-packed three emails a day can be hard to review in a timely fashion and risk getting bypassed if you h...
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rickColosimo / April 13, 2009
I recently saw an article with some tips on writing blog posts more quickly. They were all decent tips, but one caught my eye as being either completely misguided or crazy like a fox. Tim Scullin w...
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rickColosimo / April 2, 2009
Over on Simplifying Complexity, I recently doubled one of our software bounties from $250 to $500. Here’s a deeper background on the topic: Unlike people who use their sent items folder as a giant ...
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rickColosimo / March 27, 2009
Lifehacker recently highlighted a “tangent log” idea from another writer. I thought the concept sounded familiar and realized that my colleague Pierre has long included the “Add to to-do list” page...
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rickColosimo / February 9, 2009
A recent NYT Bits post describes Genius Rocket, a website that fits my early recognition of C2B (customer to business) business models as a likely future for the Internet. The first incarnation of ...
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rickColosimo / February 7, 2009
The zero-time exercise series is a set of short tips on ways to exercise or diet that either cost nothing or take no time. The first tip reflects something I’ve seen only in New York City, and not ...
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rickColosimo / February 7, 2009
The “zero-effort” time-saver series is a collection of short tips that I actually use to save time and be more productive. The key is things that are actually useful, cost basically nothing, and do...
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rickColosimo / January 21, 2009
This article on the caloric math behind drinking ice water to lose weight reminded me of something I wrote a number of years ago. My friend John was at Comedy Central doing on-air promos at the tim...
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rickColosimo / December 11, 2008
The title of this post links to the page pinged by a Facebook badge I just created. I’m considering adding these to our contact pages (http://www.imetrick.com/ and http://www.imetmikeprinci.com/). ...
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rickColosimo / April 28, 2008
I like the Unclutterer blog because it’s short and to the point, reducing clutter in its posts as well as your life. This article describes the author’s approach to removing food clutter, in the fo...
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