Rachel Kaufman, freelance writer

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Posts Tagged ‘reviews’

Tuesday’s Tools: Remember The Milk & Gmail

By Rachel • Feb 12th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Click to enlarge the screenshot. From Rememberthemilk.comOne more organization system: A Firefox plugin that integrates Remember the Milk, the online task-management service, and Gmail. It has some nifty features: You can automatically create tasks by adding tags to messages (for example: every mail tagged To Do can become a task with that e-mail’s subject line) [...]



Reviewed: The Areas of My Expertise (ON CD!!!)

By Rachel • Feb 11th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

I am so, so late to the party on this one, but nonetheless: I loved John Hodgman on Jon Stewart. I loved (still love) him as the stodgy PC to Justin Long’s faux-cool Mac. (Nobody else thinks Long is Trying Too Hard?) But I couldn’t get more than a few pages through The Areas of [...]



Tuesday’s Tools: “Things” (Mac Only)

By Rachel • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

I’m on an organization kick lately. The most recent of my experiments has been Things, a Mac-only organizer program. It’s in alpha right now, and is free for testing (though the final version will not be free), so go sign up and grab it. What you’ll get for your payment of $0 is a fairly [...]



Review: Jobs That Don’t Suck (career books, part 2)

By Rachel • Jan 25th, 2008 • Category: Uncategorized

Yesterday I mentioned The Girl’s Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear. I mentioned that though I can’t vouch for the book, I can totally vouch for the authors. Here’s the opposite situation: a book that will change your life, though I don’t think I like the author very much. Jobs That Don’t Suck is [...]



Reviewed: Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

By Rachel • Nov 28th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

It would be tough to dislike this book.True, it starts slowly–after the prologue, where we meet our hero Attila Ambrus as he is breaking out of Hungarian prison, we are treated to slightly less interesting fare–Attila growing up, Attila going to juvie, Attila sneaking into Hungary by hitching a train–okay, that part isn’t bad. But [...]