Productivity

I hate packing for trips. I will put it off until the last possible moment, and even then some. Part of the reason I hate it is that I’m never quite sure exactly what I need to pack.
If you’re in the same boat, you might find the Universal Packing List site as interesting as [...]

Mozilla’s Ubiquity dazzlingly cool preview release promises to make commands a great deal easier to remember and use by removing those annoying hyphens. With a totally updated parser — unimaginatively referred to as “Parser 2″ Ubiquity also promises support for a ton of new languages.
“[The old parser] was based on a lot of assumptions [...]

Venerable New York Times technology columnist David Pogue recently posted a list of his productivity tips and tricks that allow him to be uber productive. The list is good in that he tries to generalize and talk about ways of doing things instead of specific software or hardware. For example, Pogue talks about using macro [...]

Fever is a new feed reader that calculates the “temperature” of your feeds by asking you to group them into essential and occasional categories, and looking at how they relate to one another to create a “hot” category. It’s like your own personalized, automated Digg. It’s the brainchild of Shaun Inman, one of the most [...]

“I’m gonna be a champion!!’
Yes, you are Little Mac. As long as you’ve got a handy application like Shoutbox Timer installed on your computer.
The free application lets you create a workout routine that plays back on your computer screen with audio notifications, verbal cues, and, of course, a timer.
I imagine this could be very handy [...]

Thymer is an absurdly simple web based project management tool. Thymer’s approach is unique in that you can literally start using the system immediately without having to learn a complex project management software package. It sticks to the basics - a time tracking tool, to do lists, project lists, report functions, and the ability to [...]

New Tab Jumpstart isn’t the name of some geeky new action movie, although that would be kind of cool. It’s the latest in the ongoing development of a decent new tab behavior for Firefox. We’ve covered several attempts at getting this just right, and New Tab Jumpstart is one of the best so far. It [...]

With all the hype around Twitter as the future of search, it makes sense that someone would put together a search engine that combines Google results with results from social sites around the web. Enter SearchMerge. It’s basically just a text entry field and a selection of sites to search, including Twitter, Friendfeed and YouTube, [...]

Sometimes it’s hard to make yourself hunker down and write something, whether it’s an important email, a lengthy diary entry, or a report for school or work. It’s just so easy to take get distracted by email, instant messaging, or Minesweeper.
There are a handful of word processors and text editors designed to give you a [...]

There are a lot of different interfaces for creating and using color palettes, but ColoRotate may be the one with the coolest visuals. It plots your colors on a 3D diamond as you blend, tint and change hues to form a palette. More experienced designers may not find it useful, and may prefer something more [...]