Remember The Milk. Customize your Browsers with the Quix Super Bookmarklet% Overview: You will learn how to use Quix browser bookmarklet to Make a Super Bookmarklet for your browser. What is Quix? Quix is an exensible bookmarklet tool that performs the functions of several bookmarklets, extensions, and GreaseMonkey scripts. What’s in it for You? You can remove several extensions, GreaseMonkey scripts, and existing bookmarklets. This will get rid of some browser bloat (caused by extensions) and speed things up. It will also clean up your browser’s interface a little. Plus, you can add a lot of power and flexibility to your browser using Quix. Removing Unnecessary Extensions Before I added the Quix Bookmarklet to FireFox, I was running the following extensions: Ubiquity, Evernote Clipper, Delicious (among others).
I was able to uninstall them completely. Removing Unnecessary Greasemonkey Scripts One of the most handy FireFox extensions is Greasemonkey. I was able to remove a few Greasemonkey scripts that I no longer needed. Combining Several Bookmarklets into One Button. Bookmarlets - Add Magical Powers to Your Browser. Home - Dial2Do - Use your voice to text, email and more while yo. Create a RoboSecretary for Yourself with Dial2Do% Do you ever wish you had a secretary to take care of setting things up for you? Yeah, me too. Well, I found the closest thing to having your own secretary that you can get without opening your wallet. The free service Dial2Do.com will allows you to use your phone to do the following: check and update your calendar, send emails and text messages, create to-do’s and memos, check the weather, update your twitter account, and a bunch of other things.
Here’s how Dial2Do.com describes their service: Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. Use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things, post updates to your TWITTER or JAIKU stream and LISTEN to your favourite internet content. It’s easy and handsfree… How Dial2Do Works You get a call in number when you set up your account. They integrate with more services than you can shake a stick at. Using Dial2Do to handle your business is extremely simple: Create a free account at Dial2Do. Create Your Own Secretary using Dial2Do.com. Email Hosting, CRM, Project Management, Office Suite, Document M.
You can Create the Web Operating System Today% Every so often I read about the Web OS or the Cloud OS, “When are we going to see the Web OS arrive?” In my mind, it’s pretty much here (with a few caveats). A Web Desktop or webtop is a desktop environment embedded in a web browser or similar client application. A webtop integrates web applications, web services, and applications on the local computer into a “desktop-like” environment. Web Desktops provide an environment similar to that of Windows, Mac, or Linux systems. It is a virtual desktop running in a web browser where data, files, configuration, settings, and access privileges reside remotely over the network. I’ve tried a bunch of the so called “Web OS” projects out there (list here) and find them all to be pretty worthless.
All of this disappointing research raised the following question: Can you create a portable desktop environment using a collection of entirely web-based applications and services that can do (just about) anything from anywhere in the world? Let’s get started. Using Zoho Apps to Create an Integrated Web Office Suite. Home - Online backup, file sync and sharing made easy. Sync Files on Multiple Computers Using DropBox% Overview: Learn how to keep your files in sync across multiple computers with this Dropbox Tutorial. Do you work on multiple computers during the day? Perhaps one at work and one at home? Maybe one is a Mac and another is a PC? Well there are a lot of files that you may create or update on one machine that you suddenly need on the other.
Sure, you could use a USB drive, but that is very manual and error prone. I have a few computers in my house: A windows desktop in my Office, Windows laptop downstairs, a Linux Laptop in our Bedroom (My Wife’s) and a new MacBook Pro where I do most of my writing now. If I do a Screencast on my PC, I just put it into my DropBox and upload it from my Mac when I’m ready. What exactly is Dropbox? This is how DropBox describes their service: Dropbox is the easiest way to share and store your files online. How to Use DropBox The entire process is incredibly quick and simple. There is a free account which limits your DropBox capacity to 2 gigs. Conlclusion: Sync Files on Multiple Computers using DropBox. Remember The Milk: Online to do list and task management. Get Things Done with RememberTheMilk% Keeping track of the myriad of things that I need to get done on a daily basis can be near impossible.
I use the RememberTheMilk task management service to keep track of my tasks. This is a very simple, powerful, elegant tool for task management and to-do list creation. You can sign up for a Free or Pro (paid) account. The Free account gives you just about all of the best, most valuable features. The Pro account ($25 USD/year) adds applications for your phone (iPhone, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile). Here’s how RememberTheMilk describes their service: Take your tasks anywhere with this feature-packed application. RememberTheMilk integrates with an increasing number of third party services to incorporate your task management process into some familar places. Put my task list into Gmail and my Google Calendar.Send tasks from Google Reader to my to do list.Use the mobile interface from my phone.Add tasks using Firefox’s Ubiquity extension. Great Ways to Use RememberTheMilk Conclusion. Manage Your To-Do List with RememberTheMilk. Welcome to your notable world | Evernote Corporation.
Never Forget Another Idea - Capture Everything with Evernote% Overview: Learn how to take notes and sync them everywhere in this Evernonte Tutorial. When you have to create content for a living (here and my day job), you are constantly processing information. I am constantly looking for new approaches to capture the information and ideas during the day. The best tool that I have found so far is the note taking service Evernote. Here’s how Evernote explains their service: Evernote allows you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.You capture the things you want to remember using what you already use—your Windows or Mac computer, the web, and your mobile phone.We run everything through our recognition technology, and then synchronize it across your devices.
See the Many Possibilities for Using Evernote in this Video Tutorial Download the Capture Anything with Evernote video. Ways I Use Evernote Conclusion: Capture Every Brilliant Idea with Evernote.