Archive for March 6th, 2010
Productivity quick tips
I’ve recently been trying to keep things as simple as possible with regards to my photography as well as all the “stuff” that is part of the business. In doing so I’d like to share with you 2 of my recent discoveries.
My first suggestion has to do with reading interesting articles online. I read a lot of photography blogs and crative inspiration articles. As you might know, web pages are full of ads and “stuff” that distracts from the actual text you are reading. Readability is a tool that makes pages a joy to read. it’s a little bookmark that you place on your browser toolbar and with one click it cleans up the page and leaves only the information you want to read. Check out the following example:
Page from the New York Times as it normally appears. This is a quick news item. Less than 1 page which you need to scroll down to finish reading:
An here’s how it looks like after one click on Readablilty. No scrolling, clean borders and easy to read:
A super simple tool that makes reading articles online much easier on the eyes!
The other tool is part of the Mac OS and it helps when you are reading those great articles online and you find a word that you are not familiar with (English being my second language I often use this to learn new vocabulary). This is a shortcut to the dictionary that all Mac computers come with. Lets say you are reading an article or writing an email and you need to check the definition of a word. You simply have to place your cursor over the word and hold down Control + Command + D and a tiny pop up window appears over the word you selected with the definition. Easy and very useful.
As you can see there is also the option to select either the dictionary or thesarus at the bottom of the window as well as the option to open the Dictionary application.
Hopefully this 2 tips will be useful to you. I know that for me this little things make a big difference in my daily work routine.
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