Staying Organized in a Digital World

I am very anal when it comes to staying organized.  I obsess over very small things and I am constantly making to-do lists, or managing things on a calendar.  I offload as many standard things I would otherwise have to remember, such as bill due dates, onto a calendar system.  I find my day to day life is much more enjoyable when I can put my faith into other systems for remembering when things are due.  If you can trust your calendar to remind you when a bill is due, that leaves your brain open to focus on other, more important things. My biggest issue with staying organized has always been related to the world of computers, however.  As much as they help, they tend to make an obsessive person such as myself want to have access to everything from everywhere, since something like a calendar is only useful when […]

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iPhone Madness

So unless you have been living under a rock, you know the iPhone 3G came out yesterday.  I decided a little while back that I was going to pick one of these up.  Before you berate me and call me some sort of apple fanboy, try to follow my logic: Currently I have Sprint, which has terrible coverage in my area. My current phone is a Palm Treo 700wx, which pretty much sucks. I have been shopping for a GPS Unit for my car for a long time. iPhone is $199, GPS units cost at least that much by themselves. AT&T has great coverage in my area. So, to me the decision was easy.  I mean, don’t get me wrong I do like apple products, but I didn’t run out and by the original iPhone, it just wasn’t worth it.  The 3G iPhone is feature rich and very competitively priced. […]

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