December 3, 2010
I love budget software. I mean, seriously, I must try a different budgeting application or website at least once every other month. As I wrote about here at MakeUseOf, I’ve tried SimpleD, and I even created my own customized budget spreadsheet in Excel. I even tried Mint, which Bakari wrote about. Even after using all [...]
October 16, 2010
Owning a smartphone that allows you to check your email no matter where you are can sometimes be counterproductive. One of the biggest mistakes I make is to check my email when I know that I don’t have the time to reply to the emails I read. If I don’t reply to them on the [...]
July 26, 2010
Life on the fast track can be taxing. With the ever-growing list of responsibilities, we have more and more bills to pay and an even longer set of reminders and tasks there is to keep track of. Life on the fast track can be taxing. In order to help reduce the burden of remembering the [...]
June 7, 2010
With the advent of smart phones came the argument of whether or not you really want one device that can do everything for you. There were those who would prefer to carry around an iPod, mobile phone and camera, and there were those who would prefer to combine all three and carry only one device. [...]
May 7, 2010
We have spoken a lot about the best ways to take notes on a laptop during classes, lectures or meetings. I always found specific applications either too feature rich (bulky) or not enough features. I wanted something super simple to use but it also needed to record the time I was writing the notes. A [...]
February 25, 2010
I love taking notes. Or the more accurate term is I need to always take notes. Ideas, to dos, reminders and other noteworthy items always pop up out of the blue and evaporate as fast as they came. And since my handwriting could rival Picasso’s paintings every time I take quick notes; the pen and [...]
February 3, 2010
Just a few days ago, our friends over at PoweryBase launched their new app, Bills ~ On your table. I’ve had the good fortune to participate in the beta testing of this application and played around with it a little. First impressions? There’s nothing else like it. Bills ~ On your table is an iPhone [...]
February 1, 2010
If you (like most of MUO readers, I suppose) receive and send quite a few emails daily, you should be using Gmail for two simple reasons: it’s free and feature-rich. One of the best Gmail features is the ability to create and use customized Gmail filters. We’ve seen a lot of possible uses of Gmail [...]
January 23, 2010
We have shown you plenty of alarm clocks in the past but before you write this one off because you just happen to love the one you are using, let me tell you that this ‘Alarm Clock’ is different. First off, this alarm scheduler is a Linux application, specifically for Gnome users. It is called [...]
January 15, 2010
Do you have a job? Or maybe you are a student. Either way you are both sitting through some sort of lecture. It may be a meeting or a class and you need to take notes in an easy to input, easy to understand manner. When I was in school (yeah you young whippersnappers I [...]
