Total, Relaxed Organization, The Blog

Blogging is great, but it’s a time trap. A good article can take many hours to write and dozens of minutes to read. Who has all that spare time?

We recommend instead: micro blogging and mini blogging. We’re moving to that format here at Priacta, for your sake and ours.

Here’s how you do it. [Click here to read more...]

Outlook 2007 SP2 fixed the commonly reported “I closed Outlook, but Task Manager says it’s still running” bug. While we’re thrilled that this bug was fixed, we’re not so excited about how it was done. The fix has created at least one headache for the Outlook development world. Here we describe the unlikely bug introduced in SP2 and the even more unlikely fix. [Click here to read more...]

Although there were occasional doubters and the development took an eternity, there can be no question. We’ve given birth to a totally new Trog Bar, and Trog development is back in the fast lane.

At long last, the fruits of a difficult development cycle are available. Monday we released a major new update to Trog Bar. How major? We modified about half our code. Of the code we did not modify, about 75% was removed. We replaced the entire user interface with a brand new, more stable, more flashy, more extensible, and more compatible one. Because the changes were so vast, we released this first update as a public beta instead of pushing it out through the automatic updater. It works well, feels great, has dozens of bug fixes, and we use it ourselves. Now you can help us test it “in the wild” before we push out the update to everyone.

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Sometimes I’m asked to disclose my sources. Like, where does that high-tech insight come from? How do I troubleshoot all the nuances of all that GTD software?

While some geeks like to let everyone think they’re a lot smarter than they really are, that’s not me. Ask away.

Here are three quick tips to put you on the path to ultimate geekhood: [Click title for more...]