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What's in Your Bag?

I have seen these posts in a few places so here is mine. Here is a list of everything in my Laptop bag:

1. Timbuk2 Large padded laptop bag. There are two sizes, get the bigger one. I have also noticed that Timbuk2 started making a version of this bag out of a lessor material. Mine has a backing on the inside of the outer material that is waterproof. The new ones do not have this. Not sure it matters since I'm not planning on getting it wet. :-) Great bag! Holds everything and is tough. I have had this bag almost a year and it looks brand new!
2. Toshiba M5
3. Spare laptop battery
4. iGo charger for laptop and phone
5. Cingular 8525 Phone (If Cingular reads this PLEASE release the upgrade to 6.0. PLEASE!!!)
6. Zune for music
7. IPod 30gig Video for Video (when the Zune lets you get TV shows I will can my IPod)
8. Cannon Powershot SD30 camera
9. GPS sensor for Streets and Trips
10. Bag with about 10 different USB cables (Ipod, Zune, Phone, etc) plus small screwdrivers, etc
11. Microsoft LifeCam NX-6000. Great if you are on the road and have small kids. Video chat through Live Messenger is not the same as being home but it helps my daughter!
12. Microsoft LifeChat ZX-6000 Wireless headset.
13. 80 gig USB hard drive (Music, Document backups, etc)
14. 320 gig USB hard drive (Virtual machine library, full machine backups)
15. 4gig USB Flash Drive
16. 10 foot Network cable
17. Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000. Coolest\Geekiest mouse EVER. Bluetooth so you don't need to waste a USB slot on it. Just the right size and if you press a button and turn it over it has PowerPoint slide controls and a laser pointer!
18. Compact USB hub
19. Ziploc with tiny packets of decongestant, Ibuprofen, etc)
20. Small Moleskine notebook
21. Large quad rules Moleskine notebook
22. One novel (Right now it is an old Horatio Hornblower), one non-fiction book (Right now it is Halberstam's Best and the Brightest)
23. Travel Document holder for tickets, receipts and the like
24. CPR Kit (gloves and and mouth to mouth mask) (because you never know when you might need it)

Dashboard Spy

I found this guy via Treb "Dr Porkchop" Gatte and he is awesome! I have never seen so many dashboards. Anyone working on visualization and dashboards MUST go visit this site. Plus his RSS feed is not only full text (I HATE partial text RSS feeds) but it also gives you ALL his posts! I subscribed and got 92 posts!

Tags: business visualization, dashboard

OneNote 2007 for the Smartphone!

How cool is this?!

A Smartphone version of OneNote that syncs notes from a specific Notebook from your desktop to your phone. You can do numbered or bulleted lists, insert pictures from the camera on your phone and insert voice recordings!

OK so maybe I am just a little late to this party since Chris Pratley blogged it like forever ago but it is new to me and I am impressed!

UPDATE: It gets cooler! I forgot to mention that if you take a picture of something with text in it (a sign or a business card) OneNote will OCR the text out of it and you can put it on the clipboard or even make it searchable! Neat does not even come close!

Tags: onenote, office 2007, smartphone

Microsoft Aquires Onfolio! WooHoo!

Microsoft announced today that it acquired Onfolio.

I have been using Onfolio since the beta and it is awesome. I keep bookmarks as well as documents I have found on various research topics together in folders that are searchable. Too often in the past I relied only on the url to a cool pdf or word doc on the Internet only to find later that it had been removed or the url changed. Onfolio changed that for me by allowing me to take local copies of documents or just the html pages I find in my research. Now it will be built into Windows Live Toolbar.

Very Cool. Congrats to the Onfolio Team!

Tags: onfolio, microsoft

The State of IT in America

OK. Things must be bad because Dice.com, a job search site spent the time to build this little game.

 

TagCloud Updates

TagCloud (mentioned here with links to a PM cloud I created) now lets you import an OPML file to more quickly create you clouds.

It keeps getting better! If you have thoughts on how to make their brand new service better tell them here! They seem to be listening. They launched 2 days ago, got the feature request for OPML imports 1 day ago and the feature is there today! I love small companies!

Tag Cloud is VERY Cool

Jack just posted about a new (or at least newish) service called TagCloud. These clouds are the things that you see on Flickr or Technorati where there is a list of words and some are bigger than others and they are all links to keywords or ‘tags’ from posts on the site. These are also known as Folksonomies. Anyway this is very cool stuff. The best thing about it is that, like Jack mentions, is that this is not just ‘tags’ like Technorati’s listing. It is all the text in the posts. This is what I have been waiting for for this kind of tool. This makes it so that you are not limited by what the author picked as his or her tags or categories. You get a ‘folksonomy’ of all the words in the whole post!

Here is a link to the Project Management TagCloud I just created. It is basically a word index of all the current (and from this point forward since it is ever updating) posts from all the Project Management related feeds I subscribe to. The bigger the font the more posts there are that contain that word. Click a word and you get a list of the posts that contained it. There are at least 10 feeds here about PM.

Here is the cloud I created for Projectified. I modified my feed for a few minutes so that this cloud contains all 138 posts I have made so far.

The great thing about these is that they are updated several times a day so each time you visit it will be different since things are getting added all the time.

I'm very excited about this. It will make it easier to see how topics and thoughts and subjects are flowing across feeds or groups of feeds.

New RSS Feed...Again

I know I said this once before but I just discovered that when I moved my feeds over to FeedBurner I neglected to update the links on projectified so anyone that subscribed in the last year is using the old feed. :-)

It would be great if those reading this via RSS could check and see if they are subscribed to this feed address:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Projectified

If they you are not using this address for your RSS feed for projectified please (please) change your subscription to the new address. Feedburner is a great way for me to figure out how many people are reading my stuff via RSS vs. how many just read the site as a web page.

Thanks very much!

Microsoft Offers RSS for the Knowledge Base...sorry KBAlertz!

Microsoft now offers RSS feeds for it’s Knowledge Base…Finally!

I have been using KBAlertz for this. Not sure what this will mean for them.

via Scoble

VERY Cool PowerPoint Multimedia Tools

http://www.pfcmedia.com/

If you use multimedia in your PowerPoint presentations then you should check this out. It adds to PowerPoint the ability to play DVDs, display video from live webcams and play url based streaming media files directly from inside your Presentation. Just the streaming media part is cool enough. This means that you could send you PPT to someone and they could view the video without having to be sent that HUGE video file! Very Cool Stuff.