Some More GTD & Personal Productivity With TimeGT
What do David Allen, Dwight Eisenhower and Stephen Covey have in common? Apart from believing in the ‘time as a virtue’ maxim, and practicing it, I can’t think of anything else. It turns out that all three are gurus of time management (or task management) theories. All three (and some more) of their time management ideas find a place in the free personal productivity application called TimeGT.
The thing about time or task management apps is that there’s no “one size fits all” (thus TimeGT also might not be the final solution you are looking for). We all have our own foibles and like to see them accommodated in the solutions offered to us. Perhaps this see-saw of human nature gets mirrored in the numerous ‘get things done’ theories that are propounded, and by extension in the web or desktop apps that spring up.
Google Chrome Extensions On Mac With The Latest Dev Release
Last week, a fellow nerd finally persuaded me to make the switch. I must admit that all those years of IE-bashing had brought me and Firefox ever closer. Simply the idea of a better browser was inconceivable.
Back then, Chrome still lacked the customizability of Firefox. Without Google Chrome add ons and extensions, it just wasn’t enough. That soon changed. Now, almost every Firefox add-on has a Chrome extension counterpart.
So it was time to make the switch. Finally, newfound speed, flexibility – and extensions!
Map Your Adventures With a Free GPS Mobile Tracker for Android
I recently took a trip to the Rocky Mountains in Montana to do some skiing. While I was out there, I started thinking how great it would be if I could use my Motorola Droid (which runs on Android and has a built-in GPS) to track my adventures through the mountains.
After doing a little searching, I discovered a free GPS mobile tracker in the Android Market called My Tracks. My Tracks was developed by Google and lets you record your GPS tracks and view live statistics like speed, elevation, and distance. My Tracks is great for activities like skiing, hiking, running, and many other outdoor activities.
2 Websites With The Coolest Free Web Page Templates
Are you a web designer? Do you have a need or urge to design your own website? Nowadays it is easier then ever with the plethora of FREE web page templates available to be downloaded, modified and uploaded to your own site!
People would have loved these types of sites 10 years ago! Some of them even have Flash templates also for free. We will take a look at 3 of the best sites for downloading and finding free web templates. We will run through what they offer, the quality of the templates and how easy they are to modify!
The first site we will cover is Free Website Templates which you can get to from here.
Cool Websites and Tools [January 7th]
Check out some of the latest MakeUseOf discoveries. All listed websites are FREE (or come with a decent free account option). No trials or buy-to-use craplets. For more cool websites and web app reviews subscribe to MakeUseOf Directory.
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4 Quick Sites That Let You Check if Links Are Safe
Whether you’re accessing popular social networking sites or other communication apps such as your webmail portal and IM clients, the links let you dive into a world of new information. With one click, you may end up enjoying a great story, or on the other hand unfortunately trying to crawl your way out of a potentially harming website.
You may have your anti-virus and malware removal tools programs installed, but they will not prevent you from clicking any of those potentially-harmful-but-so-interestingly-looking Twitter, Facebook or email links. Even if you have security toolbars and add-ons installed, the following online tools may help you find out whether a website really is safe, especially if you would like to get a second opinion (e.g. you suspect the site’s review hasn’t been updated) or if you decide that you don’t need more add-ons slowing your browser’s performance.
Incredible Bookmarks – Add Some Smarts To Your Firefox Bookmarks
Mozilla lists around 844 bookmark add-ons for Firefox. One would think that’s a choice too many. But ask a download buff and he would shout – ‘Bring ‘em on!’ That’s what we download junkies search for…an app that does a better job. Maybe, it’s around the next download.
Incredible Bookmarks for Firefox is one among those bookmark add-ons for Firefox. In the next few lines we will try to discover if it stands apart from its brethren. If it does, it will certainly deserve the ‘Incredible’ conditioner. The download page hints that the add-on is highly regarded. Great, neat and nice are the words bandied about.
5 Websites With Things To Make You Smile & Light Up Your Day
There are many ways to push yourself forward during bad times. You can be strong, focused, and disciplined.
The most simple and best cure for a personal low, however, is to stop for a moment. Take a deep breath. Count your blessings. And smile!
As I have written previously, the mere physical act of smiling, the activation of those face muscles, stimulates the release of hormones that put you into a better mood.
Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Want to learn more about the health benefits of smiling and laughter? About.com has a very good article on The Laughing Cure. To make it a little easier, I have compiled a list of pages with things that will hopefully trigger a genuine smile and light up your day.
Choose Between Nofollow & Dofollow With Lucia’s Linky Love
If you are a blogger and have been for any time, you know how it is to get spam in your comments section. What is the point to the spam and what exactly do they get out of it?
Well, one benefit a spammer gets is “link juice.” In other words, the more your site is linked to on other sites, the more “important” it seems in Google’s eyes. Everyone wants to be important to one of the most popular search engines on the Internet, right?
Well, spammers know and understand this principle and will spam as many sites as possible by putting links to their sites in comment sections on blogs all over the Internet. That was of course until Google came up with the “nofollow” attribute. Now, putting just a tiny bit of code in each link will eliminate any kind of benefit the link would have won in Google’s eyes.
