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Telefonterror.no er en genial tjeneste som lar deg slå opp ukjente telefonnummer og se om det er registrert som et nummer som benyttes i forbindelse med telefonsalg, markedsundersøkelser, kundeoppfølging og lignende. I tillegg til å kunne søke opp nummer på websiden er det en iPhone-app og forskjellige filformater for å importere i egne programmer.

Dessverre har ingen av metodene, av forskjellige årsaker, fungert godt nok for meg med Apples Address Book som synkroniseres til min iPhone. Så jeg har endt opp med å lage et skript som lager ei vCard-fil som Address Book får til å importere og som ikke henger synkroniseringen til MobileMe og iPhone.

Som en oppfølging  til Sent from my iPhone :)

Not Sent From My iPhone: “This email was not sent from my iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, or any other sleek, black mobile gadget.  It’s not because I’m un-cool or that my wife won’t let me have one – I just happened to be using my desktop today and I see nothing wrong with that.”

Sent from my iPhone: ““Sent from my iPhone”, “Sent using BlackBerry”. Why am I beginning to dislike those little tags at the bottom of email responses?

Because there’s an implied apology built into them.  In longhand, I think they say “I know there may be typos or I may have been a bit terse, but gimme some credit. I’m typing this on 5mm keys with my thumbs while waiting for my sushi, so be happy I triaged your email to be important enough to respond to right away instead of making you wait until tomorrow when it might get lost in my email pile.  Gotta go … mmm, this food looks delicious …”

In fact, one email I received had modified that tagline to read “Sent via blackberry please excuse any typos.” (note the built-in irony of the missing capitalization, comma, and word ‘so’. She may as well have misspelled it “tipos” to make the irony complete)”

Are You Becoming a “Productive” Moron? - Stepcase Lifehack: “A recent article in the New York Times on recent research by Intercall, noted that 30% of workers in the U.S. who use technology to do their jobs feel the need to stay connected to work 24/7, even during weekends, breaks and holidays. One in two workers also say that taking time off is becoming increasingly challenging.

Today, 25% of workers think that their supervisors expect them to be online and connected to work after hours and that their job security depends on this. Almost 15% of respondents say that they plan to attend at least one work-related call or web meeting during their next vacation and 17% say that it is frowned upon if they don’t connect to work during their vacations.

I’d like to make a bet.

Without the active intervention of management in your company, these numbers are only going to get worse. They are fuelled by fears and anxieties that have increased during this recession, and technology has allowed bad habits to spread across companies like wildfire.

Turning the ship around is no easy task.

After all, where does the accountability for “worker productivity” lie in most companies? Is it with line managers? The CEO? The CFO? Someone in Human Resources?

It’s one of those issues that’s likely to continue to fall through the cracks, and anyone who does try to change it is faced with the fact that they’ll need the consensus of a number of executives and managers in order to turn things around. In other words, there will have to be public, broad agreement to not send or reply to emails, IM’s and text messages after 12am and before 6am.

Until that happens, more workers will feel like they need to connect to work 24/7, and more managers will make employees feel as if they need to be online and connected after hours, and even more will believe that their job security relies on adopting behaviors modeled by the productive moron.

In the meantime, corporate productivity will continue to suffer as more employees are given smartphones, and bad habits become defacto operating standards.”