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Send email and text hands free with Jott

Jott is a service that lets you send messages in either text or speech format from your cellphone. You call your Jott number, leave the message, choose the recipients and Jott does the rest. I believe Jott could be very helpful as a to do/GTD manager. Jott – [Jott.com]…

Manage your web-based projects with Workspace

Workspace is a online development environment that facilitates the complete management of your Web-based projects. With a syntax highlighting editor built right in, it provides the ability to edit text, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, Java, Perl, SQL and other types of files directly on a remote server. Finding and managing those files is made easy with…

Organize your digital photos

Real Simple has an article that introduces many different ways to organize your digital photography collection. The article covers topics such as hosting your images online, organizing them on the desktop, printing, and using shared services like flickr. You can’t invite everyone over whenever you take new pictures, but with a few mouse clicks…

8 habits of highly ineffective emailing

The Cranking Widgets Blog has a reminder article about 8 ways to use email ineffectively. The Cranking Widgets Blog sheds light on 8 common mistakes people make when sending email. I think we’re all guilty of making these mistakes at one point or another. Saying Way More than is Necessary – This is one…

Create your own photo album website using Photoshop

You can create your own photo album to host your picture collection on the web in just a few simple steps. The Digital Photography School has a short (six minute) video tutorial that demonstrates how to create your own web-based photo album using Photoshop. The process is all graphical and automated, so you…

Create a map for your wedding

If you’ve got a wedding coming up your guests will certainly appreciate a detailed map including the locations of the wedding ceremony, the reception hall, the hotel, etc. The Wedding Mapper is a three step website that will automatically create a map that has the locations of all the various parts of…

Playgreen: Green living wiki

Playgreen is a recently launched wiki that allows users to contribute ideas about how to live environmentally conscious lives. If you’re looking for ways to live greener (or if you’re an expert in the green lifestyle) give Playgreen a read. We’ are smarter than ‘me’. The central premise of this assumption is…

101 Essential Freelancing Resources

The Freelance Switch weblog compiled a list of 101 resources for freelancers and small business owners. The list is extremely thorough and covers resources dedicated to timing, invoicing, project management and organization, stock libraries, business tools, legal, job boards, web tools, advertising and marketing, and even a bunch of miscellaneous tools. The web…

5 foods to prevent bad breath

So you’re at a lunch meeting with a potential employer and the lunch is going to turn into an interview. If you don’t have an opportunity to run to the restroom to brush your teeth after the meal, the following are five tips to help you choose a meal selection that will keep…

Make your idle computer work for you

Since you’re not sitting at your home computer all day, (you have a job right?) your computer is probably available to become your personal productivity/fun slave. The following are five ways to make use of your idle computer when you are away. Legally download (good) music for free If the whole copyright issue surrounding free…

The importance of social energy

The Scott H Young weblog has an interesting article that introduces the concept of social energy. Unlike traditional “types” of energy (mental and physical), social energy is a form of energy that is derived from the interaction with others. Social energy comes from spending time in a stimulating environment with other people. The symptoms of…

Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Avoid

A few weeks ago we posted the top 10 Firefox extensions to improve your productivity. Today Computer World did a reverse post that lists ten Firefox extensions you should not use. I find the post interesting because it gives some extremely convincing arguments against many of the extensions that people commonly have…

Watch all of your tv shows online at alluc.org

Earlier today we posted about the benefits of ditching the TV. If you’re like me, you can never not have a TV (pardon the double negative) — I just love my TV shows too much! However, alluc.org is a website that allows you to watch most popular television shows online…

Use Scotch Tape to Clean Your Keyboard

Scotch tape has always been a great tool for cleaning lint and hair off your clothes in the morning. Well that same piece of Scotch tape can double as a great way to clean your keyboard. This will help to stop your keys from sticking and result in less typos…

Tame your RSS feed with FeedBuddy

If you’ve got a blog and you find yourself getting out of control with all the RSS buttons: Google, Bloglines, MSN, Yahoo!, etc. you can tuck all your RSS feeds into a nice little Javascript button called FeedBuddy. It’s much easier to demonstrate…give the RSS button a click below and checkout how nicely it…