Happy new year! For those of you who aren't paralyzed in shock that another decade has gone by thisfast, we ask this: Are you making any tech-centric new year's resolutions for 2010?
The concept of using the new year to kick off a new habit is as old as time. We're all looking to improve our lives and having an un-ignorable starting line can be a great help to get on board with a self-improvement plan.
If you've already made a tech-centric resolution, let us know in the comments. If not, we suggest these little life improvements:
- Finally get around to labeling your every song in your iTunes library. Completely.
- Organize your DVD, CD or vinyl collection by genre, artist, year or the color of the sleeves.
- Back up everything online or with an external hard drive.
- Wrangle those wires.
- Treat your machine to an upgrade. Add memory or storage for a boost that you'll be thankful for year-round.
- Secure your wireless network.
- Change your online passwords. Making this a habit for every new year can save you stress, time and money if somebody tries to hack your account.
- Enter everyone's birthday into iCal.
- Clean your keyboard. Dust your computer, monitor (don't forget the top!) and mouse. Make a resolution to do this more often!
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Comments (7)
Re-ripping some things that I now have more space for higher quality.
Better labels and tagging on my TV shows (movies are great, tv is only mediocre).
Keeping my physical copy purchases under 10 boxes for the year. (Movie/tv/music) I want everything else to be digital.
Make a contingency plan in case/when my apple tv fails. I have a first generation one and while I haven't heard of failings I do rely on it...a lot.
oh yes i do! the list is: 1) fix my RAID drive and make another backup of it. 2) clean off my G5 tower and donate to a school. 3) rip all my old VHS to DVD and archive. 4) clean up the tags in my itunes library. 4) clean out the basket of power/scsi/usb/firewire cables that has been amassing for years.
that's enough, right?! :)
My Tech resolution would be to use technology more purposefully! By which I mean not to just use my Mac or iPhone because they are always there but to use them for a specific reason and then move on to other things.
Hoping this will give me some of my time back!
Perfecting my workflow. And asking myself, "Is this contributing to my life-long dream?" before purchasing any new tech item.
my resolutions (or habits) that i want to start this year are more of simplifying then doing more:
1. stop spending so much time on facebook, tutorial sites, creative inspiration sites, and keep working!
2. migrate to the cloud
3. only backup what's needed
Operation: Inbox Clean Sweep. Those spammers from the College Board and the Princeton Review just don't know when to quit...
No. I'm still in shock.