I switched over from Naxos Music Library to Spotify for some time ago and since then tried to get better at finding classical music. I used to use Naxos Music Library, which is a good service, however, it is limited to Naxos productions. There are lots of talented artists that use other labels then Naxos.
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Spotify for Classical music listeners
I listen to classical music. Of course, I dance to and enjoy other types of music. However, when it comes to serious listening, it is always classical music. I used Naxos Music Library for a year. A great alternative with access to majority of classical pieces. However, the number of artists are limited. It is […]
Essential WordPress plug-ins!
Not very often, but sometime, you get to use a tool so good. You just want more … I started to use WordPress and it just gets better. I have spent sometime playing around with plug-ins and have found the list below to be the essential list of plugins that you should definitely consider using. […]
Instant effectivity tool, or is it?
Everyone looks for the best “something” to help them become better at “something”. It is the nature of humans. I am one of those people always looking for a software/hardware/gadget to help me do things differently. I guess since you read this blog you are one of those people to. Look around you, if you put […]
Why Blackberry will lose to iPhone and Android
Blackberry has been marketed as the business phone for many years. They tried to market a consumer phone and failed miserably. It is not easy to copy apple. Let’s not even get into that discussion. People want to have nice things, fashionable things and things that has a hype around it. Regardless of blackberry dominance […]
Part 2/2: Advanced searching & saving searches
By Shahram on May 4, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
This is the last of two blogs, here is a link to the first one. Once you have played with the shortcuts and the simple search syntax it is time to create more advanced searches. Setting the scope: Here are some of keywords to limit and scope of your search. notebook: to limit which notebook […]
Part 1 of 2: Effective searching in EverNote
By Shahram on May 2, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
Searching is key in any media/circumstance. In the old days who ever could do a good search at Altavista, Yahoo or eventually Google was the king. I even had searching classes back in university for faculty and other students. Since than has the search engines evolved to let any type of search produce decent results. […]
EverNote Attributes used for GTD
By Shahram on April 13, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
EverNote is a great tool for gathering, organizing and handling things. In earlier blogs I talk about why the simplicity is exactly the thing that makes EverNote superior to any other tool. Searching, attributes and folder is just enough features for a general GTD practitioner. Sometimes you just like to have certain functionality or automation that […]
Search vs. categorization, tagging and adv. sorting
By Shahram on April 11, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
I have spent many years on working with optimization of life and work. Have read/practiced most of the techniques from the old time-management stuff for 15 years ago until the most modern philosophies and tools. Dependent on where you are in your development, let me give you a quick advice! Search beats categorization 100% of the time […]
EverNote templates
By Shahram on April 7, 2011 in Effectiveness, EverNote & GTD, Getting More Done, Getting Things Done, Software
Once you get to know EverNote, you will start to have customized requirements. Many notes as in meetings, reports and quick info captures has the same format and content. Having a template saves lots of time. Unfortunately, EverNote doesn’t have a template feature yet. Here is a short tutorial on how to work around this […]
