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A quick screencast about placing folders in the Finder window for quick access. This might be old news, but I just figured it out today.

It has been far too long since I have blogged. There are plenty of things for me to be sharing and ranting about. I guess I have been too busy on tumblr and twitter these days. At any rate I will be posting a screencast today as well as blogging about the challenges/successes of my day to day work a bit more.

Cheers!

Gaaaaahhhh! You have a typo, you reply to the wrong person, you don’t even complete your message; these are all sad times when you wish “deleting a tweet” could be as easy as making a fool of yourself.

I really wish that I could trust the apps that are out there for Twitter to delete my tweet! Lord knows that I don’t trust a damn thing Twitterific does and I was slowing warming up to the validity of TweetDeck’s functions until I switched to twhirl just this evening for it’s multiple account support.

But I digress. I just want DELETE to work with out me having to jump over the web view to check my crafty work. Better yet I want twitter or a twitter app to create a function to replace a tweet. This would be handy if you needed to change the spelling or add/fix link, pretty much to edit a tweet. I would be so sweet if you didn’t end up with one of those silly “ghost birds.”

At any rate and as odd as it may be, my love for twitter will not change and I will continue to tweet! Keep up the great work Twitter team and Twitter app developers!

During my morning feed reading and web surfing I was thinking, “hey I wish there were USB rechargeable batteries.” So I googled it and found this neat product by USBCELL. They have USB rechargeable batteries, a whole line of them. 

Here’s list of the batteries they have with a price break down (*Future Products):

• AA Rechargeable Batteries : (2 pack/£10.99 or ≈ $15.35) (Box 10/£89.95 or ≈ $125.70)
• AAA Batteries & C/D Size
• 9V Battery Cell & Prismatics
• Phone and Device Batteries
• USBCELL Fashion Batteries <—/* I think these are funny */

*Future Products

Please check these out and if you want to go in on a 10 pack shoot me a tweet at @dsmoore and we can try and get a bulk order with some people. Hope you find these as neat as I did.

I put together a quick screencast on how to make a nice menu bar to-do list app using FluidApp and Ta-da Lists

Ta-da Lists Fluid App

I had been working on this for a long long time. Desinging and and re-designing. Until finally reaching some what of a stopping point. I have finally completed my portfolio, check it out!

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As of late I have been struggling to keep the work I love, work I love. Everyone deals with lack of motivation for projects or even lack of motivation for continued research on new methods and trends. There are times that I will not code all day and then stay up all night because I find myself in love with my work again. Because that is exactly what I did last night and now it is the morning I have decided to make a list of solutions to defeat my sleepless nights and still have fun filled days.

1. Do work in chunks: This way there is never too much time focused on just one project or task and the best work will get done.
2. Lists: Make a list of goals for the day and really complete it. The end of the day will be so much more rewarding.
3. Stay Focused: Create breaks for “black hole web sites” like Facebook and Digg and set a time limit. (luckily I hate myspace)
4. Reward Accomplishment: If a large task has been completed have a mini party!
5. Exercise: Wether it be push ups, a bike ride or even finger crunches to avoid carpal tunnel. Don’t sit on your ass all day.

For Vision 22 Haslett Public Schools Television

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