Productivity Tools
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.
Customize your Browsers with the Quix Super Bookmarklet%
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.
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.
You can Create the Web Operating System Today%
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?
Sync Files on Multiple Computers Using DropBox%
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.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: