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Switch from Teaching Word Processing to Teaching Web Processing

If you’re like me, one of the first computer skills you were taught in school is how to use a word processor. We all mastered the art of formatting words for the printed page because we were still using computers … Continue reading

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Thunderbird Don't Die!: The Case for Desktop Email Client Software

Image by adria.richards via Flickr As the blogosphere debates the death of the desktop email client, I am anxiously awaiting the stable release of Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0. Like devotees of Apple Mail.app or Microsoft Outlook, I have come to depend … Continue reading

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Using Mozilla Thunderbird Email to Get Things Done

Cover via Amazon My big mission this summer is to learn how to adopt David Allen‘s Getting Things Done method into my way of handling email. Thunderbird (with the Lightning plugin) has all the tools you need to GTD quickly … Continue reading

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