Writing

The Psychology of OmniFocus (How to Wrap your Head Around the Finest (and Most Perplexing) GTD App on the Market) is an excellent article by Ryan Norbauer, describing how he uses OmniFocus, the GTD pitfalls, and his core thinking:

The main point of OmniFocus is to hide things from you that you can’t possibly be doing right now while still letting you track them.

This is a good read if you have been curious about OmniFocus and haven’t dived in and tried it yet.

Flash 10.1 “Gala” Gives Mac Users Hardware-Accelerated Streaming Video

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was just released with amazing new features and fixes including:

• New Ubuntu Software Center
• New splash screen using plymouth
• UbuntuOne Music Store (with Rhythmbox integration)
• New “Memenu” that lets you post to twitter/identi.ca (using Gwibber) and also change your IM status in Empathy.
• Lots and lots of bug fixes

This is a LTS release, meaning that it will be supported until 2013 for desktops and 2015 for servers.

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Preload the cache in WP Super Cache — the new version of the popular caching plugin for WordPress will support preloading the cache, which seems to increase the performance a lot, compared to the normal on-demand caching.

Spotify – the next generation talks about the just released update to Spotify with new social features like Facebook integration, integrated local tracks and music sharing. The following video gives a brief overview of the new features.

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Massive Number of Godaddy WordPress Blogs Hacked This Weekend. “The best part is that the exploit only executes when the traffic is referred by Google, making it the sort of thing that site maintainers won’t easily notice. Clever and devious.”

How important are the tools you use with GTD? David Allen himself talks about GTD tools.

Schneier on Security: Young People, Privacy, and the Internet

Play Modern Warfare 2 Free from Steam this weekend — a good time to try out an entertaining game for free!

In Depth Look: Pages on the iPad

xkcd: Seismic Waves.

April 2010 Apple Special Event for those who still haven’t seen the iPhone 4 keynote.

Declare Inbox Bankruptcy As Often As Necessary, Save Yourself a Lot of Stress

Everything you need to know about iPhone OS 4.0. Highlights include:

• Multitasking
• Folders
• Enhanced mail (threading!)
• iBooks

and lots more.

Why NoSQL is bad for startups (via @psvensson)

How Can I Convert PDFs and Other Ebooks to the ePub Format? is a good read if you just bought an iPad.

quake2-gwt-port is a JavaScript port of the Quake II engine using html5 technologies such as WebGL, Canvas API, audio, local storage and web sockets to achieve this amazing demo.

Things for iPad introduction video shows a quick overview of this sweet Getting Things Done app for the iPad. Check out the corresponding blog post as well.

How to Use Gmail’s Attractive New Tablet-Friendly Interface on Your Regular Old Computer.