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Personal Productivity Tools

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:51:00 +0000

I use both Linux (Ubuntu at home) and Windows (Windows XP at work).

WikidPad
I have found this Personal Wiki software pretty useful (once you get the hang of things). It functions like Notepad only that it allows you to create links between various ‘Notes’ aka WikiWords and thus maintains a hierarchy of documents that you can easily access.

I’m finding myself using it more and more to note down things instead of Notepad++ (which incidentally replaced the default Notepad). That way, all my ‘notes’ are in one location and I only need to start up WikidPad to access them.

Its open source too.

Google Desktop
If you have sufficient RAM on your PC, this would be pretty useful. Hitting Ctrl twice pops up a Google Desktop search bar allowing you to search for items on your computer (or your gmail if you’ve enabled it) and better still, allows you to run applications if you know at least part of the name.

Why the 9 to 5 Office Worker Will Become a Thing of the Past

Fri, 25 May 2007 11:49:00 +0000

Why the 9 to 5 Office Worker Will Become a Thing of the Past

Very interesting read here.

I had talked about something similar a while ago ..

http://blog.josiahmugambi.com/2006/04/knowledge-worker.html

Kenyan IDs/Passports out in 2 weeks!

Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:58:00 +0000

I actually thought that this was a dream.. (Even though i’ve seen passports being issued in a day ). Hopefully soon, IDs/Passports should be available to applicants within 2 weeks of application (10 working days).
All legal documents–identity cards, passports, births and deaths certificates–will now be accessed within a maximum of 14 days following a move by the Office of the President ( OP) to do away with all cumbersome procedures shrouded in bureaucratic networks of corruption. Residents of Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret and Nairobi applying for passports will be issued with one within a period of 14 days.
Apparantly the Central Records Systen at Sheria House is to get (new?) upgraded equipment to replace the obsolete ones purchased in the 1960s. Obsolete doesn’t quite cover it.. More of Pre-Historic (Pre Flintstone ). Hope the equipment is new – an upgrade from 1960 could be scary – might just be a 386 computer…
This move should see corruption minimized at Sheria House and Immigration…
Good news I’d say

office and productivity

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:57:00 +0000

It seems that the current trends are such that in a few years if not months, most office and productivity tools and applications will be available on a web platform.

Just came across www.zoho.com, with an Office Suite that includes Presentation, Spreadsheet, Word processing as well as a myriad of other productivity tools.

The best bit .. it’s all free (except the CRM which is free only up to 3 users).

I plan on test driving it over the next few days.

Google have added Google Applications to their free hosted solution. Still wondering whether to move my domain there.