Total, Relaxed Organization, The Blog

Nobody likes waiting, but a slow browser is more than a simple annoyance: It’s expensive. Switching to a lightning-fast browser could be worth hundreds of dollars to you.

Here’s why: The average Internet user spends a shocking 68 hours per month online. If you work online, that number may be much higher. People average 58 seconds on each page. 68 hours divided by 58 seconds means the average user visits a whopping 4,300 web pages every month.

If your browser takes one extra second to load each page, you’re wasting an hour and fifteen minutes every month, just waiting for sites to load.

The cost of this time sap becomes clear when you consider the hourly rate you bill your clients:

• An attorney charges $400/hour
• A chiropractor charges $250/hour
• A programmer charges $70/hour

You get the idea. Saving one second per page is worth $400/month to the attorney. But what happens if his support staff also switches? His entire office? The whole firm? If an office of thirty people switches, the time saved is equivalent to hiring another part-time employee. The hours add up quickly.

Google Chrome is faster than the most recent versions of Internet Explorer or Firefox. It’s more than 4 times faster than old versions of Internet Explorer, which many organizations still use. Chrome is even faster than lightning (almost).

As a time management and productivity coach, I’m telling you: If you’re not already using Google Chrome, you’re missing out. [Click title for more...]

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...]

It’s been several months since our last post, and you’re probably wondering what happened to the Resident Geek. He served up several piping hot portions of GTD product reviews for you, and then, as mysteriously as he came, he vanished! Right?

Not to worry. There are big things in store. Click here to read more about what happened to the Geek, and find out what’s to become of his blog.

Sometimes the typical time and task software just doesn’t cut it. In the business world, large and small businesses alike use a breed of software called CRM (Customer Relationship Management), which makes it easier to reach out to your customers and manage sales. Not surprisingly, this involves tasks, appointments and the like.

There is a massive pool of CRM software to choose from. Some are well worth the time and money, but many do not even support GTD or TRO. When your main workflow is sales, this is a big deal. Since CRM is huge need for many of our customers, we started searching.

It’s hard to work in the GTD (Getting Things Done) world and not at least HEAR of “Remember The Milk”. As one of the leading Web/GTD software products available, Remember the Milk (RTM) has an unrestrained community spanning the globe. Applications for RTM include the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and all major operating systems. Before examining RTM, I had three questions in my mind: What makes it so popular? How well does it support GTD and TRO (Total, Relaxed Organization)? What does “Remember the Milk” mean?

Although I never did find out why they call it “Remember the Milk”, I did find the answer to my other two questions. So, after being subjected to a slew of tests, configurations and enduring a great deal of poking and prodding, RTM has now been officially reviewed by The Resident Geek.