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Follow Up: 30 Day Challenge – Can you do without TV? July 22, 2008

Posted by Jeff Nabers in : Health, Personal Enjoyment, Personal Productivity , add a comment

It’s been 30 days since I put out the challenge to not watch TV for a month. Speak up and share your experience.

Here’s what I found over 7 years ago when I stopped watching TV…

  1. More time – This is pretty simple. The average American adult watches 5 hours of TV per day. Convert some of that into work or starting a business to increase or replace your income. Convert some of it into personal enjoyment.
  2. Lower discretionary spending – I am susceptible to materialism. When I allow my brain to be bombarded with advertising, it creates a desire to buy things, and I act on it. Advertising continues to happen because it works. The fact that it works means that (more…)

The best web mail gets better – GMAIL Redesigned April 4, 2008

Posted by Jeff Nabers in : Personal Productivity , add a comment

If you travel a lot, or use more than one computer (ex. one at work plus one at home), then web based email is a much more efficient way of getting your messages.

Rather than have each computer have a separate email account, I suggest you either:

  1. Use web based email as your only email, or
  2. Have your actual email account(s) automatically forward a copy to a web based email service. Then set the web based email account to have the “replyto” address listed as the main, non-web email account.

#1 above means you will get your email all in the same place no matter what computer you’re on. #2 will mean that you still have everyone email you at your main email address, but you can also access that incoming mail from any computer using your webmail which gets a copy of all incoming email. Further, if you happen to send mail from the webmail account it will always send to the main email address (which still forwards a copy to the webmail) so that your contacts only notice one email address, which eliminates the would-be confusion of your contacts having more than one email address for you.

As far as webmail goes, I have found Google’s GMAIL to be the best. Yahoo has a nice clone of OUTLOOK EXPRESS, but it uses more complex coding that kind of bogs down a bit. (more…)