Videos tagged with Productivity

Do you often use Terminal.app on Mac OS X? If so, you need to consider using iTerm. It offers a number of customizations, including location bookmarks and Command+Number navigation to named tabs that make you more productive at the shell prompt.

This interactive talk will examine two major questions: What is the mind? and How can we create a healthy mind? We'll examine the interactions among the mind, the brain, and human relationships and explore ways to create a healthy mind, an integrated brain, and mindful, empathic relationships. Here is one surprising finding: the vast majority (about 95%) of mental health practitioners around th...

Get the most out of Mozilla/Firefox

Derek Neighbors decided to release one cool thing per week in honor of Productivity Wednesday. This first one highlights one of my favorite time accelerators Quicksilver. It shows you how to add an event to iCal or Google Calendar via Quicksilver.

Improve your typing speed with these helpful tips. Sure, you can touch type, but there's more to typing than knowing where the letters are. Veronica will show you how to navigate that keyboard like a pro with this expert keyboard shortcut tip. Keyboard secrets are revealed in today's Tekzilla.

A simple key combo lets you edit many files at once. Ever wanted to see the size of a group of files? Need to lock several files at once? Veronica brings you a viewer tip to solve all your problems.

Although much of the human mind remains a less-than-resolved puzzle, we've learned a lot through the scientific process. Cognitive psychology offers quite a bit of data and distilled information in not only how the mind works, but the conditions under which it can work best. I will present some key ideas and how they can be used to help people, especially Rubyists, be creative and effective. Am...

Org-mode is a large Emacs sub-systems that has been integrated into Emacs with the version 22.1 release. From it original intend, Org-mode is a system for structured note-taking and project planning. It uses strictly plain text files, making it a truly portable, system-independent solution. The project-planning features are implemented using a fairly simple outlining paradigm, upon which meta-d...

Find out how easy it is to launch apps from your keyboard with a simple hack.  

Merlin Mann is the creator of the Getting Things Done oriented web site 43folders.com and a GTD Guru in his own right. He came and did a tech talk last summer called Inbox Zero which was packed, and can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=z9UjeTMb3Yk (and is highly recommended). This time Merlin is coming in to talk to us about time and attention, and how to maximize both. If you think you do...