From the monthly archives:

March 2007

How often do you use the 80-20 Rule?

by Bruce Keener on March 31, 2007

In case you are not familiar with this rule, otherwise known as the Pareto Principle, here’s a brief summary of it from the website Notes To Self:
Over the years, he and many others observed this rule in action in different spheres. Some examples:

Relationship: Twenty percent of the people you know (friends, colleagues, family) provide [...]

Interesting Review of Cingular Blackjack

by Bruce Keener on March 30, 2007

Doug Raeburn has posted an interesting review of Cingular’s Blackjack. The aspect of the review that interests me the most is that it is by a heavy Pocket PC user who is “transitioning” to a Smartphone. For those who thought they couldn’t adapt to a Smartphone interface, with its lack of touch-screen support, you may [...]

Running Vista on Your Mac: Boot Camp 1.2 Available

by Bruce Keener on March 29, 2007

Boot Camp 1.2 includes several improvements:
Boot Camp 1.2 beta includes [Partial Listing]:

Support for Windows Vista (32-bit)
Updated drivers, including but not limited to trackpad, AppleTime (synch), audio, graphics, modem, iSight camera
Support the Apple Remote (works with iTunes and Windows Media Player)
A Windows system tray icon for easy access to Boot Camp information and actions

Project Management Tools for PDAs, Part 4: Shadow Plan

by Bruce Keener on March 29, 2007

This is the fourth in a series of posts on project management (PM) tools for PDAs. (See here for the first post, which addressed Pocket Plan, here for the second, which addressed ListPro, and here for the third, which addressed Bonsai). In this post we will look at using Shadow Plan for managing projects.
Shadow Plan [...]

Google and Windows Live for PDAs (Updated)

by Bruce Keener on March 28, 2007

Google continues to develop useful products for the mobile worker. They recently released an update to their search page for PDAs. I do not know how well it works with Blackberrys, not having one myself, but it works fine on my Smartphone and other PDAs. This new search version now automatically includes not only web [...]