A team of MIT researchers have discovered a possible way to make multicore chips a whole lot faster than they currently are,…
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Square adds online appointment booking to its growing list of seller services
Square Appointments will link client booking and staff scheduling tools to Square Register, which is becoming far more than just a payment processing app.…
Read MoreBetty almost cracks scheduling meetings
I stumbled upon Betty, perhaps the most minimal and easy-to-use meeting scheduling solution I’ve ever seen. It is a Google Chrome Plugin and…
Read MoreSolving an age-old problem, Acompli integrates calendar with email
I have yet to see a demo of Acompli, a new mobile email startup, but one feature in the iOS 7 app…
Read MoreBuffer bucks the startup secrecy trend as it finds growth
It might be a marketing tactic, but it's certainly a refreshing one: Buffer, the app best known for scheduling your tweets and Facebook status updates, candidly explains how they've been profitable so far and why they aren't necessarily looking for more fundraising right now.…
Read More10 tips for respectful — and effective — shared calendaring
More than email and even shared documents, shared calendars can feel a bit intrusive. These 10 tips will help you make sure your coworkers respect your time when they schedule you for meetings, and they may even make those meetings more efficient.…
Read MoreScheduling Tool Tom’s Planner Now iPad and iPhone Compatible
Tom's Planner, a simple drag-and-drop, Gantt-chart-based, online planning tool has received a couple of useful updates: the website is now compatible with the iPad and iPhone (no app required), and it can also now import Excel and MS Project files.…
Read More5 Common Collaborative Scheduling Faux Pas
I've heard mounting complaints about the Google-centric focus of web workers from those using other scheduling tools, but the fact is that the plethora of tools designed to make scheduling easy can actually make it more difficult. Are you guilty of these scheduling faux pas?…
Read More12 Ways to Find More Time
The return of daylight savings time often brings with it a flurry of complaints about losing something web workers treasure most: time. Here are twelve ways to claw some if it back:…
Read MoreHow to Stop Clients from Invading Your After-Hours Time
It's Friday afternoon. You clean up and get ready for respite. Surprise, surprise ... within an hour of checking out for the weekend, a phone call comes in. What do you do? Ignore the call? Pick it up?…
Read MoreMix Up the Workweek by Setting Your Own "20-Percent Time"
Google has what it calls "20-Percent Time", where its employees spend one day each workweek on projects they're passionate about, while 3M calls its version "15% culture," which "encourages technical employees to spend 15 percent of their time on projects of their own choosing and initiative."…
Read MoreDoodle Premium Launches: 50 Free Accounts for WWD Readers
Popular online scheduling tool Doodle (as used by WWD writer Aliza Sherman) today launched a Premium Edition. This new version of the…
Read MoreHow Long Do You Expect Your Macs to Last?
How long should a Mac last? Mac360’s Alexis Kayhill posed the question recently, and it got me thinking on the topic, especially…
Read MoreScheduling My Time
One of the best things about being a freelancer is that I can schedule my time in a way that works best…
Read MoreScheduleOnce: Scheduling Software With Full Google Calendar Integration
We’ve covered a lot of scheduling software here on WWD. For example, I wrote about When Is Good, a lightweight solution that…
Read MoreBookFresh: A Virtual Receptionist
When you’re working on your own, setting up appointments can take you away from more important tasks. Even if the appointment itself…
Read MoreSingletasking Tip: Work Like You're on Vacation
I have a singletasking tip for you, and it’s an important one: Work like you’re on vacation. Before you type up the…
Read MoreKukoo: Web-Based Email Tool for Singletaskers
Recently, I posted about singletasking, a new trend that many are turning to after having burned out on multitasking. One key component…
Read MoreStop Just Putting Out Fires, Start Really Working
I can always tell when I'm just putting out fires (moving from one "urgent urgency" to the next). "What? A client needs help with an über pressing concern, and it has to be handled right now or his website will explode? I'll get on that right away!" "What, Ms. Prospective Client, you have the ultimate web project, but you need a quote within the hour? No problem." It starts with checking email first thing in the morning. Open, read, react, and an hour later, reply. Open, read, react, and an hour later, reply. On and on it goes, until it's two o'clock and not one smidgen of paid work has been done, or if it has, it's been done in a haphazard way, usually at the client's demand instead of using my own tried-and-true schedule and system. By the end of the day, I'm zapped and feel like a heel for allowing my work to control me instead of the other way around. There has to be a better way, and you know there is.…
Read MoreHow to Alter Your Work Schedule to Accommodate Personal Projects
One of the advantages of working from home is the flexible schedule. No matter how many things you need to accomplish, or…
Read MoreMeeting Scheduling's a Breeze Using MeetingMade
Scheduling a meeting can be a trying business with all the back and forth over email trying to find a time and…
Read MoreTask Scheduling With Lingon
In the Windows world, system administrators are likely to be familiar with the Scheduled Tasks service. This allows you to schedule processes,…
Read MoreOutlook Web Access grows up- goes Live on other browsers
I don’t use an Exchange Server anymore but when I did I was regularly using Outlook Web Access which aggravated me to…
Read MoreWhen is Good: Spend Less Time Scheduling, More Time Meeting
In general, I am meetings-averse. Most of the time I find them of questionable value, with attendee lists that defy logical explanation,…
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