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Use Bubbles and Your Android Phone to Create Memorable Phone Calls
19 Jan 2012 by Kevin Ivanca
In a world filled with short attention spans and thinning short-term memories, it can sometimes be difficult to remember to mentioning important topics while making a phone call. Heck, give a person 30 minutes of phone conversation to wander, and their mind will stray further than the island of Lilliput (hint: it’s a fictitious location from a book). Well I don’t know about you, but ...
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How to maintain Inbox Zero and still read every email
10 Jun 2011 by Evan Wondrasek
My inbox is a sanctuary, a veritable digital zen garden. I have 0 unread messages, I’ve never declared email bankruptcy, and I do a fairly good job of replying to any email that needs my input. A series of small yellow stars decorate my inbox, denoting any messages that still require my action. I’ve never really talked about my email practices with others before, so I was surprised w...
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Free Online Sites that Help You Get Organized
16 May 2011 by Vanessa Vasile
Since everything is online and available through our phones, USB flash drives and pens may as well be obsolete. There are hundreds of online services nowadays available for free to help you productively organize, access, and share aspects your life. Here are just a few that you may find useful: Mint: Organize your finances I’ve been using Mint for over two years now and they have by far ...
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Take Your To Do List to the Command Line
26 Apr 2011 by Scott Nesbitt / 1 Comment
If you’re serious about your to do list and want to be sure that you can use it in the future, then you should think about embracing your inner geek by 1) going text only, and 2) doing everything at the command line. The best way to do that is with Todo.txt. Hold On … The Command Line? You’re probably wondering why you should use the command line instead of popular Web applicatio...
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Let Your iPhone Organize Your Life with NoteTask and SimpleNote
03 Mar 2011 by Kevin Ivanca
Yep, this is called productivity Staying organized can be tough. Between paper notes, calendars, and technology, it can get pretty complicated to keep daily tasks in the forefront of one’s priorities. Heck, sometimes a person even needs to organize their organization methods just to keep their wits in place. Now how can Techerator aid you in this prioritizing predicament? First off, I recomm...
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“Catch” the New Way to Organize Notes with Smartphones and Browsers
29 Dec 2010 by Kate Bedrick
We’ve all done it; emailed yourself a note or reminder while at work or on the go, then weeding through your bursting inbox trying to find it. There is the option of a mailbox search with keywords, but it’s pretty much a bust if you can’t find something in 10 seconds. Catch Notes With the birth of the smartphone, this act of note-taking has become even worse, as using the inbox search op...
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Crack the Lid on Gmail’s Canned Responses to Dish Out Quick Replies
08 Nov 2010 by Evan Wondrasek
If you find yourself writing impersonal, repetitive emails often, Gmail’s Canned Responses feature is a great way to streamline this tedious process. Canned Responses allows you to save pre-written messages, so next time you need to remind Ted that the wireless network’s ID is “Potato1″ you can take care of it with just a couple clicks. To activate Canned Responses, open...
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Priority Inbox: Gmail Tells You What Messages are Important, You Profit (?)
01 Sep 2010 by Kevin Ivanca / 3 Comments
Busy people, rejoice. Gmail, the primary electronic mail client offered by the giant Google, is getting a simple add-on sometime in the near future (it’s actually rolling out right now, but it will be a week before everybody has it). What does it entail, one might ask? Well, its a filter. Not a new spam filter (Gmail already has one of those), but a new new filter that tells you, the u...
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Create and Sync Notes on your Desktop, Phone, and the Web with Simplenote
31 Aug 2010 by Derek Johnson / 2 Comments
Ever have an idea that you’re sure is going to make you rich, only to have forgotten it by the time you get home? Or how about the time you spent all week making a list of things you need the next time you go shopping, only to forget where you put it when the time finally came? With Simplenote for iPhone (and other iOS devices like the iPod Touch), that’s all in the past. Simplenote ...
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Block Distracting Sites with LeechBlock
08 Jan 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 3 Comments
Firefox only: Having a hard time focusing at work? Do you compulsively check websites while your to-do list is growing? We can be our own worst enemies when work needs to be done and things like Facebook and RSS feeds are at our fingertips. LeechBlock is an add-on for Firefox that allows you to block time-wasting sites so you can actually get some work done. LeechBlock is highly customizab...
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