I’m going to delete all mail

Posted April 25th, 2010 in web by Michael

A great tip:

When you go on vacation, set up an autoreply that says, “I’m on vacation until x/x/2010. When I get back, I’m going to delete all the email that arrived while I was gone, so if this note is important, please send it to me again after that date.”

Something I’ll try next time I’ll go on vacation…

Read the full story called 8 things I wish everyone knew about email.

Speed up OpenOffice startup

Posted January 26th, 2010 in tech by Michael

OpenOffice is a really neat office suite which works perfectly fine on the Mac. Unfortunately the startup times are… “not the best”, but here is a little trick of how to improve startup of OpenOffice on Windows, Mac and Linux:

  • Open up the Preferences (Command + ,)
  • Navigate to OpenOffice.org > Java
  • Uncheck the “Use a Java runtime environment”

This will considerably improve the startup time of OpenOffice, while disable i.e. Java based macros. In the very unlikely event that you need them just check the box again…. but until then – enjoy!