David Allen on GTD
We’ve talked a few times about the GTD system. Here’s a 45-minute video of David Allen (author of Getting Things Done) going over the GTD system at Google.
Use Alsoft When it gets Hard.
Rebel Fish has had 2 drives fail on her recently. These drives didn’t just have “problems”, they plain didn’t mount or show up on any computer she tied them to. Tough to run Disk Utility when a drive doesn’t register with the OS.
Never fear! Alsoft is here! (trumpets)
Rebel Fish was in a bind and quickly ran out to the web to download Alsoft’s amazing Disk Warrior 4. After paying the pathetic $100 for the “Download and CD” option, she quickly slurped down the software, launched it, and the silly thing immediately discovered the drive that couldn’t mount with a little message that said, “This disk’s directory structure needs to be rebuilt.” Rebel Fish clicked “rebuild,” and about 10 minutes later, the drive was purring along, no data lost.
Click here for more info on this fantastic, simple, and powerful disk saver. Thanks, Alsoft!
Intro to Lightroom: NEW!
If you’re still using Bridge or (gasp) Photoshop to edit your images, step out of the stone age and into the future with Adobe Lightroom. Kevin Swan walks you through the basics to get you up and running by the time you’ve finished the video.
Kevin can edit a full wedding from 2000 images to 600 in less than 2 hours. That includes all sorting, final effects, crops, file naming, everything! This video shows you how it’s done.
The video is 45 minutes long and covers the following:
Go checkout Lightroom, free trials available!
Order Now: Click HERE!
Hire a Professional
Lots of photographers think they have the stuff to make their own logo. Usually, they are disastrously mistaken. Fortunately, Rebel Fish will share with you all a fun resource for getting a logo done GOOD and CHEAP.
It’s called Logosauce. You put up a description of what you need a logo for, you commit some cash (minimum $200) to the winner, and then it’s open season. Whoever wants to invest the time to design can, and the submissions are all voted on. You can give feedback and the designers can respond. You award the winner with the cash you proposed.
It’s smart, and you get some pretty savvy designers jumping on your brand, which can be a good thing.
Check it out!
Online Books get iPhone Looks
Rebel Fish has been using Quickbooks Online Edition to run her photog biz for the past year. It’s the best decision she’s made when it comes to the biz side of the biz! The down side has been the lack of Mac support; she’s had to run Bootcamp or Parallels or VM Ware to access her books.
This week, Intuit announced the iPhone interface for Rebel Fish’s data, and she couldn’t be happier! You know it’s just a matter of time before we’re able to enter transactions via our favorite little gadget. It’s so sweet! Check it out:
The main interface:
Who owes Rebel Fish:
Look at a transaction detail:
Client details are fully clickable: phones dial, addresses send it to google maps on the phone.
There’s much more, but it’s an exciting step forward!
Swim on!
New Pricing!
We’re standardizing all the NS products to a single price: $59.00! Now everything you want to download is $59. Yay. Woo. Neat-O!
A Lightroom video from Kevin Swan is on its way… Stay tuned!
Why is Denis Reggie so angry?
This is a little teaser into some upcoming projects that NewSchool is working on.
Don’t Loose Your Life in Your iPhone
On a recent trip, a friend of Rebel Fish’s lost his phone… Not only was it sad, because the iPhone is so sexy; it was sad because all of his texts with his wife, friends, and associates were there. Photos, emails (and the ability to continue to send/receive emails!), notes, and contacts. It was all available to the lucky new owner of his phone.
Rebel Fish, of course, has an iPhone. She’s taken to storing much of her needed information in her address book entry. E.g., credit card numbers, passwords for frequently used sites, social security numbers of her friends and their credit card info. hahahah.
So, seeing his distress, Rebel Fish worried what would happen if she lost hers.
That’s why Rebel Fish now locks her phone with a passcode. You can find out more about it HERE. She highly recommends doing it, and despite the fact that you have to enter the code when you turn on the phone, every time she does it, she’s reassured that her personal info is safe. Besides, it makes her feel like a secret agent.
Swim on!
RF