Open Loops blogger Bert Webb and I often collaborate on projects, include guesting at each others functions. At a recent presentation I did on “Effective Workplace Communication” the laptop I was using to run my PowerPoint presentation became possessed by evil juju and began a spontaneous series of automated functions ending in a system…

Tasks Jr. is an easy to use, yet robust task and project management tool created by King Management. Tasks Jr. is not quite as robust as Microsoft Project, but for smaller companies (or individuals) with big projects, it is an excellent free alternative. Tasks Jr. supports timelining, task trees (tasks with sub-task dependencies), and…

The Treepad personal information manager is a very flexible, easy to use organizer. Treepad is easily adapted to many different organizational styles so you can make Treepad work the way you want it to. TreePad is an award-winning Personal Information Manager, Organizer, Database, and Word Processor. Portability and compactness are smoothly blended into TreePad with its…

ToDoList 5 for Windows offers powerful task management for users. ToDoList is a “tree-based task manager with native XML support for custom reporting.” ToDoList is a rare form of task management tool, one that allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces whilst still presenting a clean and intuitive user experience. ToDoList has been…

Update: The guide below is outdated. Follow this site for more info. Users running Mac OS X with Bootcamp Windows may struggle to modify or update your documents and files in the Windows partition – usually it is in NTFS File System format which you can read the drive natively in Mac OS X…

ReminderFox is a Firefox extension that adds a scheduler and to-do list manager to Firefox. ReminderFox sits in the bottom corner of Firefox and lets you manage your to-do list, and it displays any reminders you set. Although it has an alarm and calendar built in, ReminderFox is not meant to replace your…

Remember The Milk is a pretty cool web app. As we introduced it before, it has many great features, including integration with Google Calendar. Now, what if could applies the GTD system onto Remember the Milk. Recently The Republic of Geektronica posts a tutorial on integrating Getting Things Done framework to RTM. Take…

Previously we posted about 12 ways to use LinkedIn. Guy Kawasaki has again offered up his LinkedIn expertise. This time Guy gives a tutorial on how to drastically improve your LinkedIn profile. Leveraging the Director of Corporate Communications…

Back in November, I posted an Excel spreadsheet that I sometimes use for making simple decisions. Though pretty basic, it always worked well for me. Well, Lucy over at lucylou.info took the idea and expanded on it, making a pretty cool workbook that she calls, the Ultimate Pros and Cons Excel Workbook: But what…

Our regular reader Blaine has sent us this great introduction on the software called jello Dashboard, which is a great GTD implementation for Outlook. You could use it to manage any contexts or projects you have, and there are couple of useful feature like searching and flagging on the action items: I thought you might also…

Aaron Hillegass at Big Nerd Ranch Weblog does some magic by using his program PagePacker (a Mac OS X app) to create a pocket-sized books with our beloved DIY Planner template. I often wander around without a computer, so I needed a nice easy way to print important bits into little books of information that…

LinkedIn is one of my favorite Web 2.0 apps. It gives me a great way to keep business contacts. With the latest feature, LinkedIn Answers, it creates another dimension to receive great insights and advices from professionals. In short, it is a grown up version of Myspace. Guy Kawasaki suggests 10 more ways (his readers…

Do you have any stuck pixels (not dead pixel which does not display at all, but a pixel which does not display the correct color) on your LCD? Look no further, here is a good Java program called JScreenFix to the rescue: A stuck pixel is a point on a screen that does not display the…

Email is important, especially they are business related and important to archive. You never want this happens to you. Chris Brogan has reminded me to backup my Gmail account by enabling and using POP access. The help document of enabling POP in Gmail. You may have done it before, but remember to take Chris’s…

Love .Mac but too expensive? Here is a great tip if couldn’t find .Mac alternatives and are stuck to it. Derek Punsalan at 5thirtyone shows you services that have similar convenience as .mac services but costs less (or even free). Solutions include: Staying code-free without iWeb; Sharing photos without “Photocasting”; Free file storage (WebDav) without…