Posts about Productivity
Mac Tool Tip #1: Mailplane
I’ve been using gmail for a long time and have been using the web UI. Keyboard shortcuts enabled of course. Then I started realising the the…
Summary of goals 2015
This is a post that probably is not of interest to anyone else but me. It’s just a way to keep myself accountable and thus hopefully…
Re-installing a Mac and the Peril of the AppStore (for developers)
So my last Mac was my first Mac since the Macintosh LC II (yep that’s how old I am). So I’ve spent most of my time since then in windows…
Mac OS X - Pipe contents into the clipboard
Windows On windows I used to the time when I wanted some output (from a file or command) in the clipboard. or And then I went of and pasted…
Kill off hung node.js processes
Venturing into node-land and swopping from Windows to Mac OS I’m going to start documenting a few “notes to self” here. If your node process…
Git, GitHub & TFS Online - Slides
Did a Lunch Learning session for my colleagues at Affecto introducing them to Git, GitHub and TFS Online. Real entry level stuff. It was…
Switch - mindmap anteckningar
Har precis läst ut boken “Switch – how to change when change is hard” AdLibris | Amazon | Bokus. En riktigt bra bok måste jag säga…
Podcast I Listen To
I listen to a few podcasts and get a few questions what I listen to, so here is the list. Technology related Hanselminutes Good compact…
My top 5 read book 2012
So, I have written earlier about my re-ignited reading, much thanks to the Amazon Kindle. This posts comes out of that. Just to be clear…
A few stumbling steps with RestSharp
I have this little console application for creating tasks in Outlook. I usually use it from Launchy to create tasks fast ant trying to keep…
Reading Re-ignited
I’ve long been a person that wants to read a lot, but I seldom seemed to have the time. I didn’t want to haul massive books around on my…
Goal Summary 2011
Spend time with my daughter – I’ve spent a lot of time with my daughter. PASSED Be flexible – Hard to measure, my wife (the project leader…
Nailing those pomodors - harder than expected
Been working for 2 weeks now after my parental leave and it has not been pleasant to a variety of reasons. If we exclude factors out of my…
Yearly Goals - Half Time
I’ve stopped with the monthly updates due to some non-encouraging feedback. However, half-time is big so here’s the half-time update. Spend…
Using Polar ProTrainer on Multiple Computers (using dropbox)
I use Polar ProTrainer 5 to track all my physical training (running, underwater rugby, crossfit and so on). I also have multiple computers…
You say Tomato, I say Pomodoro
I’ve been playing around a little with the Pomodoro technique to see if I can increase my productivity (and effectively). For you that haven…
Goals follow-up 1 of 12
As my friend Johan points out, the first month of 2011 has reached its end. So how am I doing against the original goals? Spend time with my…
A bit of fun with OData
So this post has really no big point. I started out by the fact that I’m a heavy user of Tasks in Outlook, as I have eluded to earlier…
TrayWeek - Delivering Business Value to Myself
In Sweden, I don’t know why, we’re very week number centric. Questions like the ones listed below are not uncommon: – “What weeks will you…
Neat Trace Writer Trick
This is one that my colleague Mattias showed me. When I code SharePoint solutions I’m always to put in some diagnostics logging just so that…
Multiple Exchange Servers in Outlook 2010
In my role as a consultant I’ve many a times been at a customer for months in a row. What happens then (at least for me) is I get a Exchange…
Adding outlook tasks fast (using Launchy with a little programming)
Being home from work with a stomach bug today I was thinking on how I can be more effective in what I do. One thing that popped to mind is…
Converting a Html News Page to RSS
This have been my little weekend project this weekend (ok, some Christmas preparations to). Background As some of you know I play underwater…
Getting into Twitter
Everybody is talking about twitter, tweet this and tweeting that. And I haven’t really got the point yet. So this Saturday during a Chili…
3 Weeks with Windows Server 2008 on My Laptop
A couple of weeks ago I felt that it was time to give my laptop (Dell Latitude D830) a clean install. I’ve been running Vista 64-bit on it…
Shortcuts that Saves Time
Hi there, this post is about being a little more efficient in your everyday work. These shortcuts maybe saves me half a sec every time I use…
A Sweet Little File Rename Utility
Every now and then I want to rename files in a folder according to a pattern. Mostly it is to hook up audio books in my iPod. Then I have to…
Get your friends face(book)s in Outlook
OutSync_logo I was vaccuming our appartment the other day and to make it less boring I listened to an episode of Hanselminutes podcast. Yeah…
Vista updates available
There is two major updates released for Windows Vista, they will probably be rolled up into Vista Service Pack 1, but if you’re like me and…
Vista Battery Saver
Just stumbled upon this little utility at CodePlex: Vista Battery Saver. Installed it on my laptop and it seems very promising. It can be…
Live Writer Beta 2 Available!
Live Writer just went Beta 2 and is available for download (this post is writtin in it). One of the new features is SharePoint compability…
OneNote in a Calendar
This guy have pushed the envelope when it comes to using OneNote this (click once) install enables you to see all your OneNote’s in a…
Vista Gems: Snipping Tool
This is probably one of those everyone-else-but-me-alread-know-about-this kinda moments. But in Vista there is a built in snipping tool…
Inline search for IE
While on the subject of additions to Vista this is a must have addition for Internet Explorer. Inline Search! What it does is pretty simple…
Start++ is tha bomb
Back when I was running XP I was a big fan of launchers, personally I really liked Colibri and Launchy. Could never decide winch one I liked…
Create Junction Points Easy in Win XP
I’m rapidly outgrowing one of my disks on which I, among other things, have my audio library. So I really want to move it to another disk…
Download Virtual Systems from Microsoft
Starting a couple of days ago Microsoft supplies a set of vhd (Virtual Hard Drives) containing MS products for download. I really like this…
My new USB stick
UPDATE 2017-02-04: My guess is that nobody reads this anymore but to be clear. TrueCrypt has been discontinued and is said to have a bunch…
OWA on Exchange 2007
When I cranked up my Outlook Web Access this morning I was met the new Exchange 2007 GUI. Haven’t had time to play around with it yet but…
Creating GUIDs
I’ve been writing a lot of XML files for creating SharePoint 2007 features. Every element is identified with a GUID. That’s a lot of GUID’s…
Feed Reader
A couple of months back I went on a little rampage trying to find the ultimate feed reader for my needs. I tried a couple. Google Reader…
Foxit Reader - blazing fast
I’ve seen Scott Hanselman blogging about Foxit Reader for reading PDF’s a couple of times. So when Adobe started thier shit about not…
A good book
This summer I’ve been reading The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and David Thomas. And there is nothing else to do but to join the masses…
Long Time No Say
Sooo, this blog been quiet far to long now. I’ve been on vacation and mostly disconnected. So this week has been mostly about starting…
PC De-Crapifier
OEM PC’s usally comes with a lot of crap on them, if you (like me) don’t like that, check out this tool: The PC De-Crapifier Seems awsome!
To Read
Ever browsed around and felt that this is a page/post you want to read later. For me bookmarking doesn’t really do it, I tend to forget and…