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Go diving without the compressed air…
Via LifeHacker; some old standards, but some cool new stuff too:
30 + Tools and Hacks for Gmail
30 great GMail tricks
Mac’s Mail.app: warp speed
Found this post referenced in a couple places. The idea is to scrub the sqlite database underlying the Mail.app and reap tremendous performance gains. The definitive command line entry showed up in the comments. You run this after taking Mail.app down:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum;
I was impressed by the results. No metrics needed, the gains were obvious. YMMV. Depends on how gunked up your database has become. As always, make sure you have a backup (but looking at the comments there were no problems mentioned).
Here is the original post:
In case you were feeling doubtful about Web 2.0
Watch this 3 minute video 3 times.
It reminds you how we got here, and why today is better than yesterday. And maybe convinces you that tomorrow may be better yet.
A little reflection on simplest Enterprise 2.0
Here is a little reflection article on the humorous Crib sheet for the easiest Enterprise 2.0 adoption.
Perceptive comments like this should strike a chord in your out-of-the-box soul:
To reinforce that this isn’t mere speculation, … I cited an instance of one large firm I worked with discovering that
isolated wikis had begun to proliferate like crabgrass internally, with
no impetus from from IT at all. I could relate a half dozen more
anecdotes of the same kind: A worker that needed a wiki to collaborate
on a project on-the-fly and couldn’t wait for IT to provide it and used
his own credit card to get access to one on the Web. Or a department
within a large Fortune 500 firm installs a solitary wiki server on a
developer workstation and the rest of the company’s departments jump on
board and start adding to it, almost displacing the existing ECM system.Though these are just two anecdotes and not rigorous case studies, I
find that most people I speak with have started noticing the same
thing; a marked consumerization of the enterprise that is resulting in
employees using their Internet skills and the latest low-barrier Web
tools and — as Prof. Andrew McAfee says — voting with their feet to use them at work.
A nice summary of web 2.0 development tools
A nice list of tools and web based services for developers. Some I haven’t seen before. I know I have never seen that video of Steve Ballmer. I almost felt appreciated. Almost.
The easiest way to do Enterprise 2.0
If you are reading this…its because we’re already doing this the easy way.
The second-to-easiest way wasn’t easy enough.
No more VirtureDesktops
It looks like the best virtual desktop switcher went dow for the count over the weekend. I’m using the 0.53 version that works just great. I hope it lasts until something superior comes along.
VirtueDesktops » VirtueDesktops: the end for now
More detail:
here
Sync up Outlook and Google Calendars
This plugin does 1 way or 2 way syncs between MS Outlook
and Google Calendars.
Pretty useful for the Windows crowd.
Spanning Sync is for the Mac.
