The Productivity Show #37 - David Gray (Global Geek)

download link I thought it was time to go back to the technology of productivity, and who better than David Gray of the The Global Geek Podcast, to discuss all things geek and beautiful. Patient Admin Systems! - Tony sold em, Dave now uses them. They record things like blood pressure straight into the patient record. They didnt in my time! They now have bandwidth to move X-Rays. They didnt in my time! Frogs - Love of all things Frog Getting Things Done - Dave needs the pressure to perform. Once you start, you stick with it. Use the deadline to drive you. Geek Distraction - A disease. Cool stuff. Twitter. Twitter and Second Life - Help or Hindrance to productivity? Twitter as a quick blogging and marketing communication tool. No need to engage in a conversation. It doesnt have to be just a social networking tool. Make sure you control the tools and they dont control you. Twhirl - Twitter client running on Adobe Air. multiple accounts, cross posting to Pounce and Jaiku. Chat - As a knowledge sharing productivity tool to find things. Second Life - For sky diving! Improved levels of communication. Great potential meet up service. Easy to get distracted but a good potential video conferencing tool so you dont have to physically travel. Greener to use video conferencing than all that real transport. FeedDemon - RSS Feed/Reader gives Dave 10 fold productivity for reading a large number of websites. Subscribe to specific searches in your reader for key words that come up on the web. Dave has 281 feeds and 9848 unread items! I have 24 feeds and no unread items in my SharpReader RSS Feeder. Follow the Readers - Robert Scoble will read the sites for you so you dont have to! Or try Louis Gray for early geek stuff. TechCrunch, Mashable for early news on tech. You might have to avoid sites with too many postings because it will snow you under. XP - Vista No Thanks. Notepad and Google Docs - for creation and sharing documents. Thunderbird - For email. Getting off Thunderbird is a bit difficult. Rooting email via Gmail. Tucows and Domain Direct - Not good for my pop3 email. Go Go Daddy. Gmail spam filter is very good. BlackBerry - For tasks and contacts but not sending email. Cheapo handset for making phone calls - Thats what mobiles are for arent they. Nokia 2310. Pre-paid call divert to another mobile. Vodafone Australia pre-paid wont let me do it. iPod for music - In the car. No radio for 3 years. No TV in over 3 years. Dave watches when he wants to watch. Tony doesnt listen to The Global Geeks Podcast because the show is too good!! Similarly, Merlin Mann, Kathy Sierra, and Guy Kawasaki, are too good to read! You want to save them to study them in more detail but never get round to it. RocketDoc - Get rid of your icons and look like an Apple! Dip cursor to look at applications and clean up your desktop. Launchy - Launching applications with short cut keys. And word completion as you type for which application. Not good for Tony if you have the memory of a goldfish, but good for most people. Index your entire Start menu. Makes it much easier to launch applications. Skype - For VoIP of course. Im recording this podcast on to CallBurner. Roboform - Password manager. Plugs into your browser and Roboform fills in your password and can generate different passwords for each website. Dave has 90 site passwords. Or Keepass which is an open source product. Tonys Software on new 2GB Laptop - Office2007, Outlook2007, MindManager, GyroQ, Skype, Firefox, Gmail, Microsoft CRM. No Twitter, RSS Feed, or Second Life yet. Gmail Plugins - Better Gmail via LifeHacker, to change the Gmail interface. Desktop Search - Im missing my Google Desktop search at work. Will it slow the laptop down? Life Streaming - Aggregates all your content, Blogs, Facebook, Linked-In, Twitter, into a single feed of yourself, or of other people you want to follow. FriendFeed, takes data from all your sites and puts them in one aggregated place, or track other people. Shareaholic to share links you find, straight into Twitter, Facebook etc. The Future is Mobile and Wireless - Mobile web applications. What takes up Daves time? - Podcasting! Trying to record live, to save time. Pressure needed to perform and Get Things Done - Remember those last minute assignments and essays. Never Again! Kill the Perfectionist - Near Enough is Never Good Enough! Just Do It, to overcome the perfectionist. Action Action Action. Kids will kill the perfectionism. Plan in Real Time - No long term life plan. Recent guests tend to be living in the present and organically growing their goals. Finishing tasks no matter how small. Completion. Footballers Favourites - Try video blogging. Traveling. Midnight Oil. Worst Habit.