Tag Archives: email

Breaking the Email Addiction

Posted on 30 June, 2010 by Stef

Reading this made me think that my piece about the limitations of email at work is overdue. In Breaking the Email Addiction author Tony Schwartz argues that email distracts people from life (work and everything else) and must be cured … Continue reading →

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How To Read Open Document Format ODF documents on Symbian

Posted on 27 April, 2010 by Stef

My previous post on the topic generated quite a discussion about Open Document Format (aka ISO 26300) documents on mobile platforms. My argument was that ODF support on most mobile platforms is still poor compared to the proprietary counterparts. From … Continue reading →

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Take the mailing list archives with you

Posted on 16 May, 2008 by Stef

I realized that it’s true what they say about email clients: they all suck. Some suck less, some (the majority) suck more than a Dyson vacuum cleaner.’  Mailing list archives are important for communities because they represent their collective knowledge. … Continue reading →

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Messaging, not email

Posted on 29 February, 2008 by Stef

During the past weeks in the mobile world at Funambol I’ve started deepening my thoughts about how computers are still inefficient and largely too hard to use. One thing that I hate is how the whole online things are separated … Continue reading →

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