Lark Birdsong's List: Productivity

The Forgotten Attachment Detector (FAD) is a Grassroots Project from Bhavesh Chauhan. Bhavesh works in Hyderabad, India, as a Software Development Engineer for Microsoft’s IT team. He created FAD as a side project in his personal time, and Office Labs is helping him release FAD publicly and collect data on its usefulness. Like other Forgotten Attachment Detectors on the web, when you send an email FAD checks it for keywords that indicate you’ve forgotten to attach an attachment. If it detects this, it notifies you and gives you a chance to correct any mistakes.

A quick overview of how you can easily organize notes and information in Microsoft OneNote 2010.

"Your kids can do a great job on even the toughest school projects with just a computer running the Windows operating system and the right information resources. Research no longer requires a trip to the neighborhood library, because a whole world of information—and the tools to put it all together—are right at home on your family computer."

"Email is old fashioned, right? Not so fast - that rich source of data about your personal connections and interests is finally emerging as a platform for some really innovative services."

"Do you have an effective way to process and organize your email so that you can get to an empty Inbox on a routine basis? If you have lots of email in your Inbox (we know people with as many as 7,000 messages), you might want to rethink your processing methods. Really, it is possible to empty your Inbox. The key is to evaluate how you are processing and organizing your email and then make some changes."

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"How would you like a couple of extra weeks a year? Statistics show that you can reduce the amount of time you spend finding and filing data by as much as 50 minutes a day by having an effective reference system in place."

"We've got'em. And we're happy to share our know-how. Hopefully the tips and tricks from our expert authors will have you zipping through your tasks in no time flat."

"I just ran across a nice little write up on how to Convert Images to Text with Online OCR Software. In addition to Google Docs' relatively new image-to-doc OCR conversion service, Digital Inspiration reviews Abbyy FineReader, Online OCR.net, Free OCR, OCR Terminal, and OCR Online.
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"OCR software let you easily convert images, such as digital photographs, scanned documents, printed books, etc. into text. Once you perform OCR on an image, you’ll be able to copy-paste or edit the text content of that image without any retyping and it also becomes more searchable."

"Convert media files online from one format into another. Please select the target format below:"

"Books take up space. That's a problem for any librarian tasked with finding room on overcrowded shelves. It's also a problem for a book-loving scholar who lives in a small New York City apartment with a toddler and more than 3,000 books. Under those conditions, something's got to give. Chances are good it won't be the toddler.

Alexander Halavais, an associate professor of communications at Quinnipiac University, found a partial solution to his city dweller's no-space-for-books dilemma: Slice and scan. A digital file takes up a lot less room than a codex book does."

"APQC has been focused on providing organizations with the information they need to work smarter, faster, and with confidence. Every day we uncover the processes and practices that push organizations from good to great. "

"We're here to help people create great video and one of the things we think is key to that is collaboration. "

" the Apple Store will reportedly begin selling a $2.99 app called Skyfire, which effectively lets iPhone and iPad users perform an end-run around the Flash ban. "

"Over the past 10 years, online content has accumulated at an exponential rate, making it increasingly difficult for people to find the information and entertainment that is the most relevant and interesting to them. The tools to help people discover, consume, and share content have not evolved over time to match people's changing needs, nor have the applications people use to interact with content kept up with the increasing capabilities of computers and expanding technologies."

"Tom Rath is the author of the Personal MBA-recommended book StrengthsFinder 2.0, as well as Wellbeing: Five Essential Elements, Strengths-Based Leadership, and Vital Friends. For more information about his work, check out the Gallup website.

Here are 10 big ideas from Tom Rath’s StrengthsFinder 2.0… "

"One month after launching in Kenya, startup Txteagle Inc became one of the country’s largest employers with a workforce of 10,000 Kenyans. Let’s look at what Txteagle does and the implications for managers and employees worldwide.
In 2008, former MIT Research Scientist Nathan Eagle founded Txteagle, with the idea of marrying crowdsourcing to cellphones. Txteagle deconstructs work into microtasks that can be performed on any simple mobile phone through texting. Txteagle distributes the microtasks to thousands of workers (currently primarily in Africa) who complete them and get paid via the mobile phone either in airtime minutes or in cash through the M-Pesa service.
“Txteagle is a commercial corporation that enables people to earn small amounts of money on their mobile phones by completing simple tasks for our corporate clients,” says Eagle."