Everybody’s a Project Manager, Part 4 
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This is the final part in a list of key project management tips and techniques. See also part 1, part 2 and part 3.
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Watch Star Trek and MacGyver Online, From Europe 3 Comments
The American network CBS is remarkably with the times when it comes to putting TV shows on their website for free ad-supported. Alas, the online service is available only to Americans. That is, unless you use Firefox armed with FoxyProxy configured to view websites through a free US proxy (here’s a list of free proxies). I’m honestly unsure as to the legality, but it seems like a waste to let Star Trek, The Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks and MacGyver go unwatched by most of the world.
How To Get Rid Of Your Gmail Invites Box [Update] 4 Comments
Back in the day, invitations to Gmail were so scarce and popular that people would pay for them. Today, the Gmail invite window is just a nuisance. As it turns out, if you wish to be rid of said framed box, simply give away all your invites. Personally, I just invited myself 100 times over; makes one feel all welcome.
Update: Alas, things aren’t so simple. Within a week you’re given 50 new invites. It seems you need the Better Gmail 2 Firefox extension to truly hide the box.
Mozilla Weave .2 Syncs Things 
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Some have computers at home and at work. Some of those used to use Google Browser Sync, which has now gone the way of the polar bear dodo. Those people should use Mozilla Weave now.
Besides the woven logo, Weave offers syncronization of bookmarks, tabs, cookies and whatnot. In the future, it’ll even sync all sorts of addons such as themes and other miscellanea. With an open API, Google might even plug that aching need we have to sync our photos and data.
WorkRave Anti-RSI 1 Comment
If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’re using a mouse in your day job. Because mother nature is a bitch, such things cause RSI. Do yourself a favor, today, and install WorkRave. It’ll tell you to take a break, once in a while.
Gmail Bookmarklet: Mail To 13 Comments
Using Gmail daily, I’ve been wanting quicker access to the “Compose Email” area for a while now. So I concocted a deadly bookmarklet for doing just that. The following mockery of JavaScript will open for you, a new popup window showing only the Compose window. It’s awesome.
Drag this link to your bookmarks toolbar: Gmail To
Works with the new Gmail 2 UI.
Utility: Move Window To Other Monitor Using Shortcut Key Comment
Using reSizer, you have only to press win + backspace to instantly move the currently focused window to the next monitor. There are other shortcuts as well, but this alone makes it worthwhile.
Google Analytics Site Search Tracking 1 Comment
Did you know Google Analytics does site search tracking? Well it does, it works well, and if you have both on your website, you should enable site search tracking right now.
Sincerity Theory 4 Comments
When you’re hungry and doing what you love, you do good work. When people notice that work, you become successful. Success makes you a different person. Maybe you’re lazy, and can’t compel yourself to do the work. Maybe you’re burned out, or tired of it. Maybe you only ever had one good thing in you.
Success is a temptress and you want desperately to stay in her good graces. You start thinking of what it is people want from you so you can give it to them. Trouble is, you’ve stopped being yourself and started merely doing an impression of yourself. You have become insincere.
Apt observation. Strikes a chord with me. I believe I’ve felt this myself as well as seen it in others.
So, yes, doing what you love brings success, and by all means, throw yourself a nice big party, buy yourself a nice car, soak up the adulation of an adoring crowd. Then shut the fuck up and get back to work.
Read the full thing at Motherfucker.
Everybody’s a Project Manager, Part 4
Everybody’s a Project Manager, Part 3 2 Comments
This is part 3 in a list of key project management tips and techniques. See also part 1 and part 2.
Everybody’s a Project Manager, Part 2 1 Comment
This is part 2 in a list of key project management tips and techniques. See also part 1.
Everybody’s a Project Manager 5 Comments
Along with a few colleagues, I’m taking a project management course at work. We’ve learned many things already, one of them being that verbal communication is much more effective than textual, which is why this list of tips and techniques is presented to you in readable bulletform…
Extremely Useful Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts [Update] 11 Comments
These shortcuts are most likely buried in the Photoshop help files as well as many other places. I list my favourites here, because these are the ones I use the most.
Flash Component: log() Debugger [Update] Comment
If you develop Flash applications, you’ll know the need to debug the code. The internal debugger is, well, internal, and sometimes it’s necessary to be able to debug outside of Flash.
Enter log(). As an external/embedded alternative to Flash’s built-in trace() function, log() does exactly the same, but in a debug-window you drag onto the [...]