by Rob Cottingham | Nov 21, 2012 | How to..., Technology
You and I track our time religiously… except when we don’t. A crisis comes up, you’re working overtime, and suddenly four weeks have gone by. Here are my tips for delving back in time and figuring out what you were up to.
by Rob Cottingham | Jan 12, 2012 | Everything Else
Recently, a team of skilled Internet (small-e) explorers set out to find some trace of well-known adventurer, bon vivant and conversationalist Mail.app. After chasing down several false leads (one of which ended with a grisly discovery: the frozen, lifeless body of Eudora for Mac OS X Lion), they found this tattered journal, buried under a simple cairn of stacked BCC messages.
by Rob Cottingham | Apr 5, 2011 | Everything Else
I’ve been plowing through my inbox, unsubscribing to a host of newsletters, mailing lists and discussion groups in an effort to tame this beast we call email. Lately, I’ve started to get automated replies saying the newsletter publishers are sorry to see... by Rob Cottingham | Oct 27, 2010 | Social Signal
I had something of a happy mystery yesterday: a huge surge in traffic on one of my Noise to Signal cartoons with no apparent reason why.
That’s the kind of mystery I dearly love to solve. Not just because I’m nosey, but also because I’d like to thank w…
by Rob Cottingham | Oct 7, 2010 | Social Signal
Facebook’s announcement yesterday of a new Groups feature caught a lot of people by surprise.
Even more surprising, though, was the discovery that you could be signed up for a Group without knowing about it – and that your inbox would promptly start fi…