Listening to OnPoint last week, the editor-in-chief Kimberly Kleman said we should keep the receipt and call the manufacturer on it if the bulb fails.

1. Delete your local Reminder list in Reminder, leaving the iCloud reminder list
2. On your Mac(s) calendar program, go to View / Show Reminders
3. (optionally) on your iPhone change Settings/Sound for reminders so that you know a reminder has gone off as oppose to other events.

Now when you schedule a reminder with siri, it will automatically synced to your macs and ipads, and it will show up on all devices!

When iPhone 3G came out, the iPhone version, called Things Touch, was available at the App Store. While the desktop beta is still free, the iPhone version is $10, and it does not including syncing with the desktop ! Current users and potential users were scratching their heads, but in short, CulturedCode wanted to get their name out there, and banked on the loyalty of their current beta-customer based to pay the $10 for the iPhone version, assuming that syncing will be coming out very soon.

Did it work? Are people that crazy about this app that they will pay $10 and then wait for the feature that they need? You bet. After the guys being Things.app all but promised that syncing will be available really soon now, even I paid the $10 as a vote of support.

Well, tonight the App is updated. I just synced my entire GTD list to my iPhone. Now I have my entire GTD system available both on my desktop and my phone. Pretty cool huh? The syncing is done via wifi network. So both devices must be on the same local wireless network. Start the iPhone version, go to the desktop version and go into preference, click iPhone, and follow the instructions.

There are some missing feature still on the iPhone version: Context is not available, which makes it a little less GTD friendly.

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1. Get rid of more stuff.

If you are thinking about moving, start getting rid of your old stuff. Donate it. Freecycle it. Whatever you do, do not think you will cleanup and decide what to throw out after you move. Especially as you get close to the end of moving the moving day, it is very tempting to give up on cleanup and just pack stuff in boxes even if you think you may throw them out after the move. You will never do it. Just more junk to store in the next place.

2. Plan furniture placement and room usage before you move.

This is the fun part. You get to play architect / interior designer. I actually consider this part a major part of searching for the next place. Ideally when you pick your next home, a lot of the decision process includes your thoughts on how the new place is to be used. Whey plan ahead? See next tip:

3. Pack to unpack.

This is the key to a quick move and a quick recover. By recover, I mean how fast can you get back to living normally after the move. For the last few moves, it takes me less than one week to get back to normal living in my new places. Since you know what should go where in the new place, pack your stuff accordingly. Label each box (and furniture on the moving date) by destination/room. Your mover will also love you for doing this. A lot of time will otherwise be wasted by the mover asking you where things go. Color code the boxes and furniture. Tape up color coding at each room in the new place for the movers.

4. Clean the bathroom and shower the day before if possible.

If schedule allows, go and deep clean the bathroom and shower before moving day. After a long day of moving, the last thing you want to do is to jump into a dirty shower. The best thing you can do is to be able to relax in a clean bathroom after the move.

5. Label our audio/visual/computer cable connections.

If you have any reasonable amount of sound or home theatre or computer stuff in the house, label or map out all the connections before the move. It will save you a lot of time in trying to figure how to hook things backup after the move. Pack all the cables in one big box after labeling them.

6. Do have other family members (nor friends) around to help during moving day.

Only your know where you want things to go. Anyone else at the scene will always try to help and end up confusing the movers. Enough said. They can come help before/after, but don’t slow the move down during.

7. Boxes, bubble wraps, and tape.

You can never have too much of them. They are expensive. Try freecycle or “borrow” moving boxes from work. You need them. You will always need more than you think.

8. Buy rubbermaid type boxes (the large 12/18/22 gallon size)

Buy them when they are on sale. They cost too much, but they do make great waterproof storage boxes. I used to have a basement full of them to store old stuff. But, if you are an advance mover like myself, I don’t have old stuff anymore. Live simply. Get rid of everything you don’t need right now.

9. Take pictures before, during, and after.

Why not document the event? Moving is one of the major stresses in life, I read somewhere. I believe it. But if you follow these tips, you may even start to enjoy it.

That’s it. Not too hard. Spend most of your time on planning and packing and throwing stuff out. Good luck Moving!

• It does not use any hex/allen screw. So you could just use a philips and a flat blade screwdriver. Could have used a power screwdriver (but I did not).
• For the drawers, it uses a nylon fastener for the back, and you need to hammer them in.
• The one tricky part is the enter rails for the top two half sized drawers — make sure you put them into the center vertical piece the right side up — the curved part points downwards.Check the end of the rails at the back. Compare them with the ones already fastened to the sides and you can tell.
• It comes with its own nylon floor glide/protectors. Nice touch.
• I wanted to mount caster wheels on the unit, but I cannot because it does not really have any bottom pieces that I can screw four wheels into.

What to do? Physics to the rescue. I bought four feet of aquarium PVC flexible tubing / air hose from a pet store. Filling it with water first (or you can suck the water into it after insertion), I dug down into the mush/soil and inserted the tube under the top plate of the water reservior. As long as you keep the outside end of the tube below the pot, gravity from the outside end of the tube will draw the water out. You can see it draining here:

About 30 minutes later, the soil in the pot is (almost) back to just very very wet.
I will keep the hose there now and next time it gets flooded, a little (careful) sucking and I can siphon out water again.

Enter Simple Human. They were famous for those butterfly openning trash can that needs special trash bag. Not so good an idea. But they have kept up with their innovation. Enters the semi-round trash can:

This one really works well. I put it against the side of my kitchen cabinet. It stays there. The openning mechanism (flip up plastic top) swings up but does not move too much pass the back so that it does not scrape/push against the cabinet. The bottom is rubber and a little “sticky”, so the can does not slip. With the flat back against the cabinet wall, it stays put very well. The large foot pedal also makes openning the top easier.

The only thing that I wish it has is a damper mechanism when the top closes. That would make it the perfect trash can.