Hiveminder is a web-based service that tracks all your daily tasks through email. It is full of tools that will help you remember, assign and create tasks all in one convinent place. It even allows you to share your tasks with family, friends and co-workers.

Do all those to-do lists seem to get you down? Find it hard to keep track of all the things you have to do each day? Hiveminder helps keep everything in order and makes life less complicated.

My life is full of these little sticky notes. No matter where I look there’s a note reminding me to do this and don’t forget that. The bad part is I do forget! I forget to look at the notes or they get lost in this pile of papers on what was once my desk.

Not anymore. With Hiveminder all I have to do is bring up my account, add the task to a list, check email and be on my way. No more missed appointments or deadline.

I love the braindump feature. Braindump is exactly what I need to do too. With braindump I just enter a task as soon as I think of it that way I don’t forget about it. I can then go back later and organize all my dumped tasks into categories.

The number system used for tasks works great too. As soon as I create a task it’s assigned a number. No two tasks have the same number so if it’s something I need to assign to someone else, I don’t have to worry that it will get mixed up with other tasks.

Hiveminder also include tabs. These tabs help you set out your tasks in different categories. I simply assign various tabs for items like phone calls, Dr. appointments, grocery shopping, laundry pickup, client projects and deadlines and so on. This saves me so much time because I don’t have to go through every single task I have in order to find just one. I just hit the tab, look at the tasks and find the right one in a blink of an eye.

In today’s world of go-go-go anything that can make my life simple has got to be good. From my standpoint Hiveminder is great. Sure helps keep me from running around in circles all the time!

Tasks Pro is a web based task manager. An upgrade from Tasks Jr. and Tasks, it puts all your tasks in an organized structure that is accessible to everyone who needs to be a part of the project at hand.

Task management can cause trouble in the ranks if not set up properly and handled well. When a number of people are in charge of getting a project done and those people don’t have access to the information needed things can quickly fall apart. With Tasks Pro these types of situations can easily be handled.

The program allows numerous people to work on selected projects together or apart. With features such as setting due dates and priority dates, publishing calendars, receiving automatic email notifications and being able to leave each other important notes, every step of a project from beginning to end is taken care of.

It’s easy to set up tasks and give access to only those you want to have access to it as well as set it up to notify those people when changes have been made to the project.

Task Pro works on all types of computers and is accessible from any location there is Internet access. It can be accessed by any number of people all at the same time. If you have an assistant on the other side of the world, he or she will still know exactly what is going on and what is expected of them.

Anyone who has a multi person project should try Task Pro. It will bring all your assistants, tasks and results together in one central location, making it easier for everyone involved.

Today is RSS day! Who says the internet doesn’t get holidays? By creating the RSS Awareness Day and celebrating it every year we should be able to get the general public exposed to this format, hopefully increasing the usage of RSS feeds and related applications among Internet users.

Chances are if you’re a blogger you’ve heard of RSS. I admit before blogging I had heard of RSS, but didn’t know what it really could do for me as a web user until I started getting more involved in the blogging world. So, today is the day. If you’ve been wondering what all the fuss is about RSS then get out there and learn all about it.

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Enough said for many of you I’m sure. Today is May 1st. The first of the month is a good day to sit down, take a few minutes and make back up files of everything. Backup your hard drive data. Files, pictures, all of it. Then if you work online go in there and make backups of all your website files, databases, etc…

You never know when a hacker might strike, or when lightning might hit your power lines. Anything could happen online or offline and we’ve all got data and pictures and all sorts of things just sitting there on our computers waiting to vanish. If you’re prepared ahead of time you’ll be less likely to need emergency data recovery, but it’s always good to have the contact information of a place like Flashback Date handy just in case!

Why are you still here? You’re backing up your files, remember!?

Yes, print screen is easy as pie, but if you use SnagIt to capture screen you don’t have to also open up editing software and paste, and crop, and all those things. It’s a huge time saver if you do a lot of screen captures like I do. I use it just about every day.

This software doesn’t just do a screen capture, it also lets you easily add circles, boxes, text, arrows, and other things to highlight why exactly it is that you captured that screen in the first place. Just need to capture a small part of the screen? Not a problem, do a capture region. Want to capture the whole page? That’s not a problem either, you can capture with scroll to get all the information on a page. Great for tutorials and showing off website designs.

Download the 30 day trial of SnagIt for free and give it a test run. There are loads of little gems about this program but I’m not going to chew your ear off all day about it. Just try it. You’ll be glad you did.

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The purchase price is $39.99, but if you enter Promotional Code SNUG at the time of checkout it will take $10 off and give you a purchase price of only $29.99 for this very useful gadget. Enjoy.

Or if you're saving your pennies for a Patek Philippe watch to splurge on your hubby’s birthday or your anniversary you can download the free trial for right now and give it a test drive. It’s worth it, I promise.

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If I ever win the lottery I am putting this in my bedroom. Forget the frilly girly beds, this thing is the bomb. You can surf the internet, watch movies, listen to music, play video games … it’s like sleeping inside of your computer! Pop a cozy memory foam mattress in there, give me lots of pillows, a cup of a tea, and I’ll be all set. Of course I can keep on dreaming because there’s no announcement of price or availability for this super cool geeky dream bed.

AKA what is that fat connector thing? If you have cable internet or are into techie stuff you’ve probably seen them or read about them at some point whether you realized it or not. CAT5e or Category 5 Cables are used pretty frequently in the world of computers and cables.

Definition from the ever popular and growing Wikipedia:

Cat 5e cable is an enhanced version of Cat 5 that adds specifications for far end crosstalk. It was formally defined in 2001 in the TIA/EIA-568-B standard, which no longer recognizes the original Cat 5 specification. Although 1000BASE-T was designed for use with Cat 5 cable, the tighter specifications associated with Cat 5e cable and connectors make it an excellent choice for use with 1000BASE-T. Despite the stricter performance specifications, Cat 5e cable does not enable longer cable distances for Ethernet networks: cables are still limited to a maximum of 100 m (328 ft) in length (normal practice is to limit fixed (”horizontal”) cables to 90 m to allow for up to 5 m of patch cable at each end). Cat 5e cable performance characteristics and test methods are defined in TIA/EIA-568-B.2-2001.