Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ? Your employer [...]
Screencast: Knowledge Management in Technology – Part 2
3rd January 2013 by 4 Comments
Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ? Your employer [...]
Screencast: Knowledge Management in Technology – Part 1
30th December 2012 by Leave a Comment
Network Engineers have to manage a lot of information. Products, technologies, textbooks, study notes and research material as well as new protocols and features. Just simple tasks like keeping product manuals handy for 40 or 50 products is a real problem. How do you keep the information organised, referenced, accessible and useful ?
This three part screencast is about how I manage all the “inputs” so I don’t feel lost in information after many, many people asked.
DevonThink for Automatic Content Discovery
19th December 2012 by 4 Comments
I’ve got a lot of content in my DevonThink system. As you can see here, over 805 files in the Inbox of my gfDefaultInbox alone. Note: Click on the images for fulle I’ve been promising myself to spend some time looking into LISP, and I KNOW that I’ve been collecting content about LISP for [...]
Important to Get Data Out and Well as In
21st May 2012 by Leave a Comment
A look at a key feature of my favourite anything box – exporting and why I don’t use Evernote.
Change Dock Animation on OSX
24th April 2012 by 1 Comment
Remove Dock Animation Completely defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0;killall Dock Reset Dock Animation defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier;killall Dock Set an Ultra-Fast Dock Hide & Display Animation defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.12;killall Dock Apply commands in a terminal window etc etc.
OSX-RCDefault App – Editing the Default Application
4th April 2012 by Leave a Comment
As part of the writing workflow, I have several text editors for editing raw text when I’m writing in Markdown. I also use different outlining apps which use OPML formatted files (mostly Mind Node, Tree or Scrivener) – OPML is useful for transferring outlines between applications.
This means that I need to keep changing the default application setting on OSX. This is not easy with standard OSX ( or maybe not at all).
Using TextExpander to Type Faster
6th March 2012 by 3 Comments
Seen some people talking about using TextExpander – here is one way that I use it.
OSX:Creating a DuckDuckGo Search From Launch Bar
29th February 2012 by 2 Comments
Tip on configuring LaunchBar to add DuckDuckGo to your search templates. Because DuckDuckGo is better than Google search for me.
Productive Mac Software Bundle – Recommended
5th December 2011 by 2 Comments
Some tips on a Mac Bundle
