Sep26

PageOnce – Your Online Personal Assistant

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PageOnce describes itself as a virtual personal assistant, and that’s just what it offers. The concept is simple. It’s a single page where you can manage almost every part of your online life, whether that’s social, shopping or financial. It only takes a few minutes to start using PageOnce. When you’re signed in you can start adding accounts in one of six categories: finance, shopping, utilities, social, travel, and email. Clicking on the section gives you a list of the most common service providers, and you also have the option to add your own. Just input your account name, username and password and that account is added to your start page. Continue reading this article —>

Sep26

Profilactic – Aggregating Your Online Identity

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Profilactic is a lifestreaming application. This just means it aggregates all your online activities into a single location that can be shared with others. What makes Profilactic stand out from other similar sites is the sheer number of sites it supports – nearly 200, and the number is growing by the week. When you join Profilactic, you can add sites specializing in books, music and video, sites for social networking and business networking, and much more. Adding sites is as easy as choosing from a dropdown list and typing in your username. Even if a particular site isn’t supported, you can add it yourself by typing the name, URL, and RSS feed URL. You can also link feeds from the same site together. Once that’s done, you can customize how the sites appear and build your lifestream. Continue reading this article —>

Sep26

Remember The Milk – Never Forget Another Task

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If you’ve ever written a to-do list on a sticky note and proceeded to lose it shortly thereafter, then Remember The Milk is for you. Remember The Milk makes it easy – and even enjoyable – to manage your daily tasks. You can sign up in seconds and start the process. You can sort tasks by tabs (such as work, home, personal, or school) and assign new tabs if the built-in ones don’t meet your needs. An important feature is the ability to assign priorities to tasks and to sort by those priorities so you can quickly see which tasks are critical. This makes it easy to plan your workload or your day. Continue reading this article —>

Sep26

RescueTime – What Do You Do All Day?

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We all have the desire to save time and that’s exactly what RescueTime helps you do. To get started, register with the site (it’s quick) and download the application. Once logged in the application will start tracking the software you use on your computer. The application scans your system every couple of seconds and sends updates to your online dashboard every half hour. You can change this interval if you wish. Once your data is loaded on the dashboard, things start to get interesting. RescueTime provides a snapshot of the web sites and software that consume most of your day, so you may find that you spend a lot of time using Microsoft Word or playing with Facebook. Continue reading this article —>

Sep26

Squidoo – Show Off Your Expertise

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Everyone’s an expert, at least that’s what Squidoo believes. The Squidoo platform allows anyone to publish a one-page website within minutes. The sites may be rich in content such as photos, videos, RSS feeds, and more and creating a Squidoo page is extremely simple. Squidoo makes it easy by giving you options for groups of modules depending on whether you want to promote yourself, share something or do your own thing. Just create a title, add keywords, and add content. Continue reading this article —>

Sep19

aNobii – The Site For Bookworms

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aNobii derives its name from the Latin word for bookworm and bookworms are indeed the target audience. It takes only a few seconds to set up an account and start creating a book catalog. You can add books by searching for individual authors or titles, or do a mass import from Amazon, LibraryThing, your Google Library, an Excel spreadsheet, or a web page. Once you begin the import, your shelf will be complete within a few minutes. It’s then easy to add reviews, ratings, and comments and to see what others have thought of the books you’ve read. Continue reading this article —>