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December 18th, 2007

Productivity Toolkit: Scout of Nintendo Nonstop

Scout is my business partner, and she runs Nintendo Nonstop, a site about, well, Nintendo products. She’s the most productive person I know, and because of that I’m highlighting her in this week’s productivity toolkit.
Google Calendar For planning and scheduling tasks, as well as sharing calendars with contractors, clients, and other business contacts. Very […]

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December 17th, 2007

Downloadables: Taskbar Shuffle

Whenever I’m working on my computer, I like to arrange things in such a way that makes my workflow easier.  Wouldn’t it be great if you could rearrange the windows on your taskbar so that all the related tasks would be close to each other?  You can do that with Taskbar Shuffle.  I’ve been using […]

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December 14th, 2007

Productivity gifts for the holiday season (under $50)

Ah, the holiday season is near. If you’re a true productivity genius, you probably bought all your gifts and planned your holiday budget way back in June. But for those who are new to the productivity game, here is a quick list of great productivity gifts you can get for the following people:

Geeks […]

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November 15th, 2007

Productivity Toolkit: Jason of CoolBlogTech

Jason Baird of Cool Blog Tech (there doesn’t seem to be anything on his site right now) shares his own productivity toolkit with us today. Here are the tools that Jason uses to stay productive:
HottNotes This tool lets Jason paste little sticky notes all over his 2 computer monitors. He uses these […]

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November 15th, 2007

Want to know how much a meeting costs? Check out Meeting Miser

Almost all Some meetings are a complete waste of time. You can easily identify this kind of meeting if you’re sitting in a conference room, thinking “What a waste of time!”. If this is familiar, keep in mind that you’re also wasting money. Figure out exactly how much money a meeting costs […]

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October 21st, 2007

Productivity Toolkit: Celine of Pimp Your Work

I’m going to do a series of posts called “Productivity Toolkit”, where I ask professionals about which productivity tools they use.  They may or may not answer me. If you want to contribute to the Productivity Toolkit, simply email me (celineroque AT b5media DOT com) your list of tools and why you use them.  One […]

By Celine -- 2 comments

May 11th, 2007

A Skype application for the Blackberry that works? Maybe?

I saw this a few days ago and have held off writing about this Skype for Blackberry app until I had some time to play with it:
IM+ for Skype Software by SHAPE Services is a mobile client for Skype Software. It enables voice and text communication with other Skype users as well as cost-effective calling […]

By Tris Hussey -- 4 comments

March 19th, 2007

IE7Pro makes IE7 better?

As much as IE7 has made major leaps forward over IE6, it still leaves something to be desired compared to Firefox, Opera, and Maxthon.  Some folks have found IE7Pro as a suite of add-ons for IE7 to bring it close to par with the others:
Ajay has uncovered a great addon for IE7 called IE7pro that […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

March 18th, 2007

Ultimate Boot CD could save your tush in a pinch

I seem to be tech guy du jour lately.  I’ve been working on machines left, right, centre, up and down.  If it isn’t the computer from the garage it’s a friend’s.  Often what I need is a rescue CD to help things along.  This boot CD has a lot of power tools for the uber-geek
You […]

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March 14th, 2007

Microsoft Time Zone answers the "what time is it where you are" question

PYW friend Amit blogged a free tool from Microsoft that lets you quickly see what time it is in five different time zones.  Since the U.S. & Canada have thrown the world a curve ball by starting daylight savings time this past Sunday, remember what time it is in the rest of the world is […]

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