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OmniFocus Workflow

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:08:30 -0500

OmniFocus Workflow from Jens Poder on Vimeo.
Here is a great video for customizing OmniFocus which is a great GTD app that I use on a daily basis. It captures all of your thoughts and help you organize them into meaningful contexts anbd projects.

Mail and iCal Issues

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:07:50 -0500

Lately I have noticed that iCal consumes enormous amounts of memory and CPU if it is launched before OS X Mail. Perhaps there is a conflict with Mail Tags that is causing an interaction with events but I am not sure. Conversely, launching mail first and then iCal does not cause this problem.

iPhone Battery Followup

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:57:50 -0500

I found found the best way to get mileage out of the iPhone battery but yet keep up to date is to set the preferences to update mail manually but have contacts and calendars update every hour using the Fetch process. I found the Push method knocked my battery to 50% by mid afternoon with light usage otherwise. I also found that having my Exchange account push information drained it even faster. I hope Apple makes an iPhone update available after today's rumored launch of new iPods.

Going Paperless

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:57:02 -0500

I finally have found the ideal work flow for achieving a paperless office. I am now scanning all documents are scanned in with aFujitsu S500 on my Mac and saved the the hard drive. Once I have accumulated a fair number of scans, I log into a Dell on our network via Remote Desktop Connection and run ReadIris Pro Corporate Edition version 11 (available for Mac too but I like to shift the workload to the PC that is not utiilized much except for UPS WorldShip and Stamps.com). Using the Batch OCR command, it looks on the shared folder on my Mac, processes all of the documents into an image over text PDF file and then deletes the originals. From there, I am able to add all of these searchable PDFs to Receipt Walletto archive them.

iPhone Battery

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:55:00 -0500

My 3G iPhone needs charging every night with conservative usage every day. The "Usage" statistic states that I am using it a lot more than I am aware of. Are there some background applications or processes going on without my knowledge? It would be great if Apple would release an "Activity Monitor" similar to the one in OS X so users could see current CPU usage to detect errant background processes.