10 Apps That Will Help You Get Organized

Interested in getting a little bit more organized? Anybody who's tried working at their computer knows how easy it is to get distracted by the huge pile of online and offline distractions that you always have available. Read on for a list of applications that can help you get on task and stay there.

1. RescueTime: Find out where you're wasting time with this web based program that tells you exactly how much time you are spending on your computer. By running this application in the background, you can find out how long you're spending browsing individual websites instead of working to give yourself the motivation to stay on task.


2. Toggl: Track the time you spend on different tasks with this great little application. You can use Toggl to track your time statistics on just about any platform you can think up with fast synchronization and easy input.
   
   
   
3. Evernote: Take notes from anywhere with Evernote for Windows, Mac OS X, and even on your smart phone. It will synchronize notes between your computer and your phone and allow you to gather clips from whatever you're working with.


4. NetVibes: This is a web based application that will let you set up all your social networking accounts on one page. So, instead of spending your first few minutes every morning jumping from website to website you can just get everything in one place along side useful extras like the weather and just about anything else you can think of.


5. Latpass: A web based application that will help you fill in passwords and forms with data you've used once already. You can use this program to keep track of the giant pile of passwords you use for individual sites and make handling form data easy.


6. SiteLauncher: Put the right site in the right place with this Firefox addon that will let you save the websites and tab locations you prefer to have running while you do your work up with a quick keyboard shortcut.


7. Mind42: Use Mind42 to map out and organize your ideas before you get started on a project. Mind42 is free, easy to use, and completely browser based.


8. Hyperwords: Research as you go with a Firefox addon that will let you get definitions, synonyms, and just about anything else you can think of for any word you highlight while reading through something online.


9. WakeOnStandby: You can use WakeOnStandby to set up your Windows computer to go from sleep to active at specified times to run whatever application you need to run. If you've got tasks your computer can perform without supervision, this will let you set things up to let them run while you're not even there.


10. SearchEdu: You can use SearchEdu to specify all sorts of specific search criteria easily. If you need to find reliable sources online, you can use it to do what the title suggests and search Google for .edu and .gov sites matching your criteria easily, or you can set it up to search just about anything else you want without learning any weird syntax.

This is a guest article from James Adams, a writer who works for Cartridge Save where he spends his time reviewing products like the HP 342 ink cartridge and other supplies.

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Blogger post preview before posting, now available!

The bloggers who use blogger, you mostly view your post after posting many times until you are satisfied with it's layout. Blogger in Draft now supports a new, improved preview feature that allows you to see how your post will actually look to your readers. Now, you can preview you post before posting lie this:

To use this feature go to Blogger Draft. Click on New Post and scroll down you will see new button "Preview". Click it, And your post will appear in new window to have a look how it looks like.

The update post preview button is available on Draft Blogger. This feature works better that before preview which appear on pop-up window.

Now, this will make us easy to preview out post before posting. Blogger is still rocking because it is releasing lots of new feature ahead. Blogging in WordPress needs web hosting to host your blog. Enjoy!

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10 Essential iCal Tips & Tricks You Should Know

iCal, the popular Apple calendar has a lot of power that can be used to get your life organized. While some disagree, most Apple users believe that iCal is an invaluable resource for keeping their lives organized and running on schedule. Here are 10 essential iCal tips and tricks that you should know.

1. Change the default event duration - By default every event in iCal is created as lasting one hour. You can change this so you don’t have to manually change every entry you make. Just a simple command typed into terminal can do the trick.


2. Resolve issues with stuck iCal updates - Uncheck and then recheck the calendar display option box and you can relieve yourself of those painful 1000% resource utilizations when the updates don’t work.


3. Integrate iCal with Kinkless GTD - Organize tasks by metagroups, and more using serious getting things done principles.


4. Open files on schedule - iCal can be used to open a file at a scheduled date and time. Have you thought about writing an Applescript and letting iCal open it? Use this to play music, load web pages, or run complex batch routines.


5. Use the keyboard shortcut Command+E to go straight to an editable window - You can also edit an event without the popup. All you have to do is select the event, press Enter and start typing. You can even change your titles to three lines of text by pressing Option +Enter. Another tip is to realize that event popup windows are movable. This is especially important when the window blocks important information on your screen. Just click the popup and drag it out of the way.


6. Set multiple alarms for a single event - This is handy when you have something important to do and you want to make sure you don’t miss it. In the event’s Info panel, click “Alarm” and you will see a menu for adding alarms. You can even set alarms to go off after the event. This can be used to remind you to clean up following an event or a variety of other situations.


7. Explore Easter eggs -Easter eggs are cool hidden features within a program that can include commands, a credits list, and animations.


8. Print to do lists directly from iCal - Click on File and then Print (or press Command + P). To print a list, change the View field to List from Month and uncheck all the options except for To Dos.


9. Migrate from Outlook to iCal - If you’ve wanted to switch over to iCal but didn’t want to re-key your data, there’s a way to do it. Using Palm Desktop as an intermediary, the process that once seemed impossible becomes quite easy.


10. Customize the alarm message - In just a few steps you can customize the alarm message in iCal. The process involves creating a .mov and replacing a file in your iCal installation.

Go ahead and give these tips a try. You will be surprised at how much you will learn just by checking out the links, exploring iCal, and doing things just a little bit differently to squeeze even more out of iCal. Caution: once you begin tweaking iCal it’s hard to stop. iCal quickly becomes addictive.

The guest author, James Adams, is a writer and designer working for Cartridge Save where he reviews products such as the HP 21 ink cartridge.

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Virtual On-Screen keyboard in Google search

Most of the Google users more comfortable formulating search queries in their own language but have difficulty typing these queries into Google. To overcome the difficulty they face in typing in their local language scripts, some people have resorted to copying and pasting from other sites and from online translation tools. Now Google has perform a virtual, or “on-screen” keyboard, lets you type directly in your local language script in an easy and consistent manner, no matter where you are or what computer you’re using.

Last year, Google introduced a virtual keyboard API through code.google.com. This allowed developers to enable virtual keyboards on any text field or text area in their webpages.

Now Google is taking this effort one step further by integrating virtual keyboards into Google search in 35 languages.



If you use Google search, you’ll see a small keyboard icon show up next to the search field, on both the Google homepage and search results page. Clicking on that keyboard icon brings up a virtual keyboard in your language. You can input text by either clicking on the on-screen keyboard or pressing the corresponding key. You can type directly from your keyboard after you have taken an action on Google Search virtual keyboard. For example, try to type Nepal in Google search it will convert into नेपाल.

Now, you are able to search with your own language in Google. But, your local language may not be popular and when you are searching with your own country language, it will show page not found. It only show the result if any site match your search. Now it is more searchable with popular languages. Enjoy searching in Google with your local language :)

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