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Managing Life with Dashwire

I’ve been trying to get things together as of late. Making the most of my time as you will. I can’t continue to allow life’s unpleasant situations to constantly interfere with what I want to do. I’ve started by going back to the gym and eating more and eating more regularly. I still have very irregular sleeping habits but I’ll work on that too.

Recently, though, I’ve been working on my time management. I’ve heard that if I keep a time journal that I’ll be able to look back & see how much time I waste. This should prompt me to be more aware of what I do with my time. I’ve tried this before by making notes on my Moto Ming A1200 but I never reviewed the notes I took. Then, after the soup incident all was lost and I never got back on track.

I am trying this again but I’m doing it a little different and hopefully it’ll be more helpful this time around. I figure if I just make notes I’ll have to sync my phone in order to get the time journal file off before I can review it. Yet, that creates the same problem as last time if anything happens to my phone before I get the file off. However, by using Twitter I can log my happenings on the cloud and review it without having to sync my phone. Since I can post to twitter on the web or by txt it is very convenient and easy to keep the journal updated. Unfortunately, I don’t have unlimited txt so I can’t update that often using that method. There’s always the internet but that require me to have internet access all the time. I do have unlimited data on my Moto Q9h but I have to constantly log onto the net and into Twitter from my phone. Not the best way to do things but I’ve managed for the last couple of days. Meanwhile I’ve been trying to find an app for my Q that would allow me to update my Tweets without having to access ATT’s Media Net. Thus, I found Dashwire!

I think I first heard about Dashwire on Cnet but it didn’t try i then because it’s basically a phone management utility and I didn’t even have a phone worth managing. After trying it a bit I am a believer! It’s not a “can’t live without” application, but it certainly makes life much easier. I can easily update my Tweets, sync my photos & videos, add contacts, etc. from the comfort of my desktop or laptop rather than the cramped confines of my phone. I’m still testing out Dashwire and trying to figure out how everything works but so far I like it. Now if I had an assistant to analyze my time journal for me that’d be fantabulous! Unfortunately, by the time I can afford an assistant I should have time management well under control. Wait… there is YMI! Hmmmm.

Yoohoo Orgoo

Just a little program that I think helps consolidate the many different interactive uses of the internet well.
Orgoo.com
I’ve been using Orgoo for a little while now and it seems to work real well.
It just launched a couple weeks ago and I set it up with my AIM, Yahoo! Msgr, and Gchat.
It’s pretty cool and I could get it to pop my gmail account but I got a funky network of e-mails in my gmail account so I’m a little hesitant to set that up just yet.
However, I was thinking that now I might be able to check my gmail without the fear of being stalked by google. They still know what’s in my gmail but they don’t know where I’m surfing to on the web.
Now if Orgoo could just get Yahoo’s stingy free e-mail service to be integrated that’d be awesome!
Sorry, but I got no love for Yahoo’s e-mail right now because it won’t forward or pop unless I pay.
Whereas I can forward and pop with Gmail no problem.
In any case, Orgoo is worth checking out.
Just another way to streamline our lives just a little more.

100 email addresses from gmail

I’m not big on posting about life hacks but I was just watching a clip from Tekzilla the other day and I thought I’d share something that gmail does that is really cool.

So it’s like this, my 1 email address from gmail can be modified limitlessly with a few additions to my current email address.
So say my email address is: thoughtsforbarter@gmail.com

With gmail you can add a “.” anywhere in your email address and it still goes to you.
For example: thoughts.for.barter@gmail.com
or: t.h.o.u.g.h.t.s.f.o.r.b.a.r.t.e.r@gmail.com

Also you can put a “+” after your email address and add anything to it and it still goes to you.
For example: thoughtsforbarter+wordpress@gmail.com
or: thoughtsforbarter+youtube@gmail.com

Add this to gmail’s filtering options and if you ever register for an online website and you start getting spam to that email address you know who’s spamming you and you can filter them out. And then send the company a nasty email for giving out your email address.

If you got gmail test it out.  Click on the register link on the right hand column under “Meta” and use your newly acquired knowledge to register for Thoughts for Barter.  I promise I don’t spam!  Go ahead.  Test me =)