This post is about unreleased software, everything I say here might change until the final version. yaTimer 2.4 will be a free upgrade to all existing customers. When you buy a yaTimer license you can install yaTimer on up to 3 computers and one portable drive (most commonly a USB thumb-drive), one of the most requested features is the ability to synchronize the data between those installations. The synchronization feature is without a doubt the biggest and most complex feature in yaTimer, it’s also almost invisible from the user viewpoint – you click on a menu item and things gets synchronized quickly and...

yaTimer 2.4 will be a free upgrade for all existing customers. As yaTimer 2.4 gets closer to release it’s time to give you a sneak peek at the new version and the first thing I’ve decided to show is the improved reports customization feature. With version 2.3 of yaTimer it’s already possible to customize the reports, to use your own logo, to change the header and footer texts and more – but in version 2.4 I’ve taken report customization to the next level, not only there are some new customization options there is also a preview showing you a real report right...

This productivity tip is really simple - people who exercise regularly are healthier and have more energy, people who are healthier and have more energy are more productive, it’s that simple. Exercising for just two or three hour every week (spread out over the entire week - not all at once) can have a huge positive effect on your life.

This is part 2 of a series about printing in WPF, in the previous part we printed the content of a WPF visual, in this part we’ll create and print a fixed document, in the end of the previous post I wrote well deal with choosing printers and setting up print settings – but actually printing is more interested and I’ll get to printer management later in this series. Printing a FixedDocument is the simplest way to do some “real” printing with control over paging, margin and everything else. The code is much longer than the examples in the previous post but...

yaTimer has been mentioned in this roundup of tools.

Every once in a while I use the term “search engines” on this blog, from this term you can assume all search engines are important, this is not true – this graph shows all visitors who arrived to this site from search engines divided by the search engine: As you can see one search engine dominates the chart to the point that all other search engines are meaningless with an unbelievable 98% of the traffic. This scares me, just one commercial company with no obligation (legal or otherwise) to me or to anyone else except its shareholders controls the amount of...

It takes about 20 minutes to concentrate, that means that every time you ask a coworker a quick one minute question you are causing him or her about 20 minutes of reduced productivity. That also means that if you are interrupted just once every 10 or 15 minutes you are always not as productive as you can be. Take control of your work environment, find a quiet place to work (or a good set of noise cancellation headphones), close your e-mail and instant messaging programs, let everyone understand you are not available for just a quick question and just concentrate on...