Here are links to several articles you may find of interest and value:
- Merlin Mann talks about dealing with email conversations. Some good tips and insights in this one.
- CrunchGear reviews a backup battery for the iPod Touch. As a recent purchaser of the Touch, this obviously caught my attention, and is likely something fellow Touch users will want to look into. The article does not say whether this can be used with an iPhone, but I see no reason why it couldn’t. If you know otherwise, let us know in the comments.
- Gina Trapani of Lifehacker has just published Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better
. You can download a sample chapter and table of contents from her introductory link at Lifehacker. Gina, how about a freebie copy for an old man, huh sweetheart?
Note that I have not read this one yet, but I am confident it is a good book … I did get her original Lifehacker book as soon as it was available and learned lots of good stuff from it. - Matt Cutts has a great article on how to back up Gmail to Linux. I know several of you are Linux users, and you will find a lot of good detail in this article. By the way, next week, I plan to have an article on how to easily import Outlook mail into Gmail. It is a snap.
- Jason Calacanis shares 17 tips on how to save money running a startup. He took a lot of heat from other bloggers on his comment on getting rid of folks that do not work their butts off, and he later clarified that he looks for people who are passionate about the company, which is a slightly different spin (with the same ultimate result). Regardless, there are a lot of good tips in his write-up.
- Apple notes that there have already been more than 100,000 downloads of its iPhone SDK!
- Since we started with a link to Merlin Mann, might as well end with one: he has a short but insightful article on loss aversion (loss aversion means we will go through more effort to avoid losing something than we will to gain something).
Best wishes for the weekend, folks … Enjoy!
Good set of links, Bruce. Regarding backing up email, I have used OfflineIMAP before to back up IMAP email and it works very well and is fast. It’s a command-line program, but not too difficult to set up. There are a lot of posts online on how to use it, including this one.
Thanks for the link(s) on OfflineIMAP, Thomas. I’ll give it a check out, as I like having multiple ways of backing up. (I probably have TOO MANY backups, but I suppose that is better than none.)