Apps that Save You Time
Musee d’Orsay Clock (Photo credit: PatrickS)
I’m all about shortcuts and saving time, which is why I absolutely love apps. My co-workers and friends are always asking me which apps I like the best. Here’s a bunch that I put together using a SkinnyScoop.com list generator. Please add the ones that you’ve found that help you be more productive!
List for Cleaning Up Your DVR Recordings
For a person who works in television — I watch relatively little of it. There are some shows that I won’t miss like “Modern Family” or “The Office” but for the most part — my DVR is filled with fluff that I may or may not ever actually watch. Do you have the same problem?
I’ve decided it’s almost like junk mail. I hang on to some shows that take up precious real estate in the DVR “just in case.” So I just went through and deleted a bunch of shows I’ll never watch and cleaned up the scheduled recordings also. Here’s a list so you can do the same:
1. Go through your current saved recordings and one by one decide if you care if you didn’t watch that show. Be honest.
2. Delete the ones you won’t watch.
3. Now go to your schedule series recordings and scroll through all the shows you’ve set to record whenever they are on. (Mine include The Newsroom, Giada at Home and Oprah’s Next Chapter.) Decide if these are worth keeping or if you constantly delete these recordings when they pop up.
4. Repeat. (You probably weren’t honest the first time.)
5. Feel better about having less clutter in your DVR inbox!
What I Will Never Forget
I was a senior at Hofstra University and that morning — I was getting ready in my dorm room for my magazine-writing class. It wasn’t my favorite class because I was a TV writer even back then…and I thought I could say more with fewer words. My professor didn’t agree.
Anyway — every morning I would eat breakfast while watching Regis and Kelly — their show was broken into by a news alert on this morning. The anchor said a plane had gone into the World Trade Center. I called my parents, who are also news junkies, because I knew they would be watching.
We thought it was an accident. While finishing up college I was also working full-time as a news writer at WLNY-TV55 on Long Island for their 11pm newscast. In the last few weeks I had done a few stories about “stunts gone wrong” — like this guy who parachuted and accidentally landed on the Statue of Liberty. I thought this might be a similar antic…until the second plane hit. Read more