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Jan van Iperen: person in progress

Post archive for ‘workflow’

Eyecandy on a Wednesday

Straight from my Notebook… eyecandy to read.

5 influential books all bloggers should know
Everything you wanted to know about simplifying your life… and way more
40+ most wanted Wordpress tricks and hacks
Screenflow - Professional screencasting Studio
Essential applications for your Mac OS X

Enjoy!

Help Firefox set a World Record

IMHO, if there is one application that has enabled enhancing my online workflow and productivity, it sure is Firefox.
Although I keep Safari around for its speed, the many plugins and options of Firefox sure put it on the nr. 1 spot for me (more…)

Insight in the next WordPress release [WP 2.6]

Lack of time and digital laziness moved me to put my remaining WordPress powered blogs to the bleeding edge… I update them with a simple and short command in terminal: “svn up”
This does put me in a position where I face bugs every now and then, but that does not really bother me (yet).
Working this [...]

Getting Things Done part 1: Reading about GTD

In my effort to live a bit more efficiently, I started by simply expanding my knowledge on GTD by reading different books on this topic.
Objective of GTD for me
Most important reason for me to get to learn GTD is a lack of time for further development of knowledge, skills and networking.
There are administrative and repetitive [...]

How easy is it to un-plug?

I prepared this post on the train, using my Nokia N95 and wireless keyboard.
When I look at my daily digital activities, I sometimes think about rather looking at the little time I am not digitally occupied.
I just saw the show of a befriended and amazing stand-up comedian. It was his last in these series and [...]

Back in love again: ecto

 I have been stunned by the many updates of ecto the past few days, but man!, it sure does deliver and has totally rewon its position as my main blogging tool.
For quite some time, I used ecto to prepare my posts on different blogs, published the drafts and did the final publishing from WordPress’ web [...]

Bringing peace to your eyes: Nocturne

I had stopped using Blacktree’s Quicksilver about a month ago, but kinda got fed up with Spotlight constantly busy indexing everything on my Powerbook, so downloaded a fresh version of Quicksilver again.
Glad I did, cause besides finding some eye-pleasing updates in this version, I found something else on Blacktree’s website that totally enhances my workflow: [...]

Blogging Workflow

Sometimes I get asked how I manage my blogs and what my workflow looks like.
To give some insight information first the workflow when using internet resources:

Google Reader - Read updated feeds [I just scan the feeds to get a general idea what the post is about]
Google Reader - Star interesting feeds [first part of filtering [...]