I really like the opportunity of New Year’s Eve to reflect on the past year, too, and to start making plans for what’s to come. It’s nice to take an hour or so to step back from the grind—of life and the holidays—and to assert some conscious contemplation and direction.

Yeah, I don’t normally slam on Apple, but the most recent version of iTunes for Desktop/Mobile makes me really have to wrestle with it. Not sure how Photos is better than iPhoto either . . .

Well it definitely wasn’t iTunes.

I don’t miss a ton of things about OS X since I switched to Windows...but I miss Preview a lot. What a useful-but-unassuming app.

I find this to also be a far better yearly practice than resolutions. At the end of each year, I write a list of awesome accomplishments, as well as lessons I learned that year. I don’t do resolutions; I feel like they set me up for failure. However, listing accomplishments and lessons is a win each year.

This is why my rolling to-do list at work is never erased, only modified to strikeout font. Every time i look at it i’m reminded that i actually accomplished something, once ;)

Photos, on the other hand is awful. It is far more difficult to use than iPhoto was and it has less capability.

I use Sleep Cycle, which just recently introduced a new way of tracking your sleep by using the microphone on the phone instead of the accelerometer. I was skeptical about this change at first, but after a few months of use with the microphone, I think it’s actually a lot more accurate. I should note that I think it’s…

I also use bullet points when trying to convey a message. 100 words broken out into a few bullet points is more likely to be processed than a 100 word paragaph.

Good article. Saved.

I would say more like Trello than Outlook. Both Outlook and Gmail have task lists - they just aren’t particularly useful when it comes to getting on top of your action plan . We think of Sortd as more of a visually-organized workspace for escalating communication into action (rather than a task manager inside email).…

Longtime LastPass user here. Was very disappointed to learn, upon trying to initiate it, that emergency access can only be granted to other people with a LastPass membership. Frankly I feel like this changes it from a useful feature to a thinly veiled membership recruitment mechanism.

I also just discovered that you can create playlist folders, under the file menu, by right-clicking in the playlists, or simply ctrl+shift+n. It might have been obvious to a lot but I somehow completely missed it! Incredibly handy to sort out your playlists, you can nest them and even listen to a whole folder at the…

“you’ll want to head to Business Insider’s full post at the link below”

Bottled water is dumb as shit. I get that maybe you need some for your emergency supply, but on a day to day basis? In most first world countries tap water is cleaner and healthier than bottled water. It’s absolutely ridiculous and people who drink bottled water daily should be shamed.

When someone gives you an email adress, or you have to remember something at some time, or in a certain place, or you have that great idea for a post but you're on the bus, there's no better tool than Google Keep. Yes, there are more powerful apps like Evernote (which I love too), but if you just need to take a small…

Dolphin may be our favorite third-party browser on Android, but despite all its great features, Chrome (which is now the stock browser on Android) is still my go-to. It syncs with Chrome on my desktop, contains most of the features I actually use on a daily basis, and integrates nicely with Android.