Thursday 17 September 2009

The World is Full of Idiots - Have a No Download Day

Strong words but it is true.  Every day we get e-mails, tips, product info on the latest gadget that we can use to make our desktop more productive.  Tools to do graphics, manage our to do lists, improve our surfing the internet experience We blindly download them,  play with them for a few days, weeks and then forget them and even worse then forget to unistall them and make our PC, laptop get more and more bloated.

My advice today is a productivity one.  Look at the tools that you already have on your desktop and learn a little more about them.  Looking for a Productivity App?  Use MS Word.  Create a List.  Open it every day - update ' print ' post save.

Need a note taking application - use Notepad
Need a graphics too - you actually don't - leave the graphics to the designers.  Need to draw circles, boxes and lines - your desktop publishing tools can do that already.

Learn about what you have stop looking over the horizon.  Save your self time learning new apps when you haventt even learnt the apps you have already.