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Tired of losing that e-mail containing the link to an article that piqued your interest? Weary of sorting through your bookmarks and looking for the one-time-read-only links you’d want to delete?
If you want to save yourself the trouble and still get to read that article you saw (but can’t read due to time constraints), then you might want to check out Read It Later. Read It Later is a Firefox extension that serves as a storehouse of the links you want to read later on, sans the cluttering of your bookmarks.
Since it’s just a Firefox extension, it’s straightforward to install. …read more

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Using computers for long hours without breaks isn’t healthy. However, one can lose track of time if an activity requires a lot of concentration. That is why Dejal decided to create Time Out.
TimeOut gives you two (2) break options: a normal break and a micro break. The normal break is a 10-minute break after 50 minutes of use. A micro break is a 10-second break after 10 minutes of use.
While it does have some presets, TimeOut is very customizable. The time between breaks and length of each break can be set. Even the signal to start the break can be …read more

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Over at ChangeThis, you can get a free download of Michael Lee Stallard’s “The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage“.  Here’s how he describes this ebook:
In a nutshell, one of the most powerful and least understood aspects of business is how an emotional connection between management, employees and customers provides a competitive advantage. Unless the people who are part of a business feel a sense of connection –an emotional bond that promotes trust, cooperation and esprit de corps – they will never reach their potential as individuals, nor will the organization.
I say it’s a must-read for any …read more

Want to know how much your time is worth and where you spend it?  PC Fare Meter works like a taxicab meter for your working life.  From the website:
Clocks your time, what you’ve been working on and adds up how much $ you should charge clients

No need to remember what you were doing, automatically records your activities on the computer.
You don’t want to spend more time managing your time. Auto move automatically moves your activities into the correct projects.
Useful later on when you have too many projects and need to separate them into groups.
Saves every minute so you won’t lose …read more

Thinking Rock is a free organizational tool based on David Allen’s GTD system.
From the website:
Thinking Rock allows you to collect your thoughts and process them into actions, projects, information or future possibilities.
Actions can be done by you, delegated to someone else or scheduled for a particular date. Projects can be organized with ordered actions and sub-projects. You can review all of your actions, projects and other information quickly and easily to see what you need to do or to choose what you want to do at a particular time.
Click here to learn more about Thinking Rock.

Stressed at work?  Release it all with this fun flash game called Cubicle Freakout.  It lets you tear apart your office, throw your computer off the window, and measures your stress levels based on your game play.  (I was told that I’m a bit tense and need some tea!)
Give it a try for your personal amusement.  It has some audio so either use headphones or turn your speakers off/down.  Make sure the boss doesn’t see you freaking out ;)

Project management can be a tough gig, but, with the right organizing tools, you can be quite productive.  OpenProj is one of those tools.
From the website:
OpenProj is a free, open source desktop alternative to Microsoft Project. OpenProj has been downloaded over 175,000 times in the first weeks since it was released and has quickly become one of the most popular open source applications. If you are managing a group project we recommend Project-ON-Demand. If you want a free replacement to commercial desktop software, then OpenProj is perfect. It’s available on Linux, Unix, Mac or Windows, and it’s free.
Click here to …read more

If you’re like me, your computer hard drive is all cluttered and disorganized.  You have to organize new and pending files at least once a week.  You spend hours doing this.
What a colossal waste of time.
File Action 1.0 is a FREE tool that helps you declutter your files automatically.  It’s for the Mac OS only, which is good news for those people who are sick of seeing Windows only tools in our Downloadables section.  Here’s a snippet from the website:
File Action is small, one-trick app that moves files from one place to another automatically to keep your computer organized and …read more

Want to make sure you have great follow through on your projects for the year? How about your priorities, have you got them all sorted out? If you’re the type of person who needs to write everything down to get organized, you’ll benefit from David Seah’s Concrete Goals Tracker for 2008.
Here’s a description from the site:
The Concrete Goals Tracker (CGT) is the original Printable CEO™ form, created one evening in 2005 to alleviate my desire to have a “trusted personal CEO” that would tell me what to do. I figured since I couldn’t hire anyone to do the …read more

Is launching programs in Windows a pain in the neck for you?  I bet it is! That’s why there’s Rocket Dock, the single greatest piece of software.  Ever. (Says their website.)
From the RocketDock website:
RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock.
Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.
 Click here to download …read more