Less Mouse & More Keyboard

I’ve started to re-think my use of the mouse as an input device. The mouse is an inherently slow, unproductive tool for tasks that do not require precision. Yet, we use the mouse for these tasks because it is a habit left over from our computer beginner days. Think about it, the mouse only took a matter of 5 seconds to figure out. But since we are computer experts now, why do we use a mouse when using a keyboard shortcut could do the same thing quicker?

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Killing Spam & IMAP Your Gmail

Killing Spam

My Griffin Webworks email has been riddled with spam for years. Long ago, I exposed my email to the web with my first incarnation of Griffin Webworks, and spam started rolling in after a few months. My web host for Griffin Webworks, Media Temple, has a spam filter called Mail-Protect, which is decent, but not as good as Gmail’s spam filter.

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Thoughts on iPhone

As if you need to read another blog post on the iPhone right?

When the first iPhones started rolling out at the end of June, I had no plans to get one right away. After all, I was a Verizon customer still under contract, so not only would I have to pay a hefty $600 for the iPhone itself, I would have to fork out $175 to cancel my Verizon contract. I’d thought I’d wait to hear what problems the early adopters a.k.a. “beta testers” would have with the highly coveted super gadget.

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