Entries Tagged as 'productivity'

Smart TextMail and mobile alerts on tasks, website availability

November 26th, 2007 · 72 Comments

One of my longest mobile experiment drew to a close early this month with my rediscovery of Smart’s TextMail.
For more than a year, I’ve been trying one service after another in an effort to get my e-mails sent as text messages to my mobile phone. The answer, you might say, is simple: buy a [...]

Tags: Free services · Highlights · Mobile · WebTech · planner · productivity

Smart unveils USB modem for mobile Internet access anywhere

November 24th, 2007 · 21 Comments

SMART Broadband, Inc. (SBI) has unveiled a USB modem that will allow users to access the Internet with speeds ranging from 384 kbps to 768 kbps anywhere where there is a Smart signal.
The device will be offered under SBI’s “Smart BRO Plan 799.� Under the plan, which costs P799 a month, subscribers have 60 [...]

Tags: Mobile · productivity

Goodbye activeCollab, hello ProjectPier

September 29th, 2007 · 21 Comments

The project management application I use extensively for some of my tasks has turned its back on the open source beginnings that attracted me and, I’m sure, many others to it during its initial versions.
ActiveCollab is a clone of the popular Basecamp project management application. The main difference is that while Basecamp is a hosted [...]

Tags: Free services · Highlights · Open source · WebTech · free software · productivity

Ubuntu makes me work faster in Windows XP

April 10th, 2007 · 14 Comments

My computing life has improved exponentially with Ubuntu that I try to spend as little time as possible in Windows XP in my office PC. My office PC needs to run Windows because the newsroom uses InDesign and Pagemaker to lay out pages.
I now work faster on Windows XP—faster because I want to get work [...]

Tags: Highlights · Open source · free software · productivity

Manage your tasks with Accomplice

January 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

The recent Internet connectivity problem in the Philippines has allowed me to try several software packages in an attempt to replicate the task management that I do online. Before the connectivity problems, I managed all my tasks (personal, blog-related, work-related and other collaborative chores) using an installation of activeCollab.
EASY TASK MANAGEMENT. Accomplice helps you [...]

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Use activeCollab to manage your projects online for free

October 9th, 2006 · 3 Comments

I have long wanted to install a project management system in my web server. I have gone through a couple of open source project management scripts, from eGroupWare, more.Groupware to dotProject and yet somehow I never found a PHP/MySQL script that was easy to install and use but at the same time fit my needs.
I [...]

Tags: Highlights · Open source · planner · productivity