How I Use

  • Call Me Over at Grand Central

    So there is a relatively new service called Grand Central that allows you to have one unified phone number that will forward your phone calls to any phone you’ve got (home, office, cell, Blackberry, whatever). When you sign up (for free), you get a new custom phone number that belongs only to you. Then you…

  • Google Calendar Mobile > Call it a Day for MS Outlook

    So I’ve been surprised that Google Calendar did not have a mobile version. It’s been the one thing that tethered me to MS Outlook on my Blackberry. But now it’s over– Google has launched Calendar for Mobile and it’s everything you think it is.

  • NYT Anonymity + Twitter

    So I have been using Twitter to stream my NYT "because clauses". It’s manual, but it’s working for me.

  • Basecamp Video In The Can

    So a few weeks ago I saw this call for Basecamp customers to be interviewed for short on-site video vignettes demonstrating how people use Basecamp. I’ve been a Basecamp customer since it started, and I live in Chicago, so I replied. Today the 37 Signals peeps came over to the Bullet Group offices (the place…

  • Yahoo! Pipes and My Combined Feed

    I finally got around to using Yahoo! Pipes yesterday, where I created my combined feed from all my disparate content publishing sources. I got the inspiration from this Lifehacker post. The cool thing about it is that I was able to query all Gapers Block posts and then ferret out only the ones I’ve made…