Gadget Links: First of the Year Edition

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Trick Yourself into Eating Less on Lifehacker: Lifehacker refers to an article in Reason Magazine that’s making the rounds of the A-list blogs– “In his new book, Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, author Brian Wansink argues that lesser obvious, small changes over time to our daily habits can lead to gradual weight loss. What kind of small changes?….”
Security, for starters on 37Signals SvN: Some great ideas for Mac users who want to use more encryption within their workgroups.
Beginning the Year with Fresh Starts & Modest Changes on 43 Folders: A nice review of some high quality content about personal organization that appeared on 43F in 2007.
New Office for Macs Speeds Up Programs, Integrates Formats, Walt Mossberg’s review on D | All Things Digital: “Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac is a solid program that I can recommend for anyone with a new Mac. It’s not revolutionary, but it does the job.” An interesting reader comment indicates that one thing removed from Mac Office 08 is Visual Basic for Applications, potentially a huge loss for people that really need Office and want to use MacOS. [ Thanks Martin O’Donnell ]