Doit.im

Doit.im is a very useful free peice of software that runs using adobe air; meaning it’s cross platform. It’s features include

• An inbox to add tasks quickly
• Ability to group tasks in projects
• Add contacts to mark individual tasks to them
• Ability to sync to the server
• Much, much more

Remember The Milk

Remember the milk is a web based to-do list application that has features that include:

• The ability to get reminders anywhere e.g. through SMS, IM, skype and E-mail
• The ability to tag tasks
• View tasks on a map
• And mooo-re (get it)

teuxdeux.com

teuxdeux is another web based to-do list application that is extremely easy to use and is very well designed, but lacks many features of the other mentioned applications. It’s features include

• The ability to add tasks to future days
• uh, oh, that’s it really. Did I mention it’s easy to use

tadalist

tadalist is yet another web based to-do list application that has the ability to group tasks and share them with friends. It’s very simple but very useful.

Todo.txt

Todo.txt is a bash script that works from the a command line like interface, it has very useful features that include:

• Add to-do’s
• Group to-do’s
• search to-do’s
• Prioritise to-do’s

Todoist

Yes, you guessed todoist is another web based application that is ‘fast and easy to use’. It features:

• A built in calendar
• The ability to create sub-projects and sub items
• Reminders
• Labels

Free GTD articles

Okay, so it’s not software but it’s still useful. Free articles by the GTD master himself David allen:

What is ClearType?

ClearType is a type of technology developed by Microsoft that improves the display of text on LCD screens that can be found on a variety of devices. Examples of such devices are laptops, pocket PCs and flat panel monitors.

Though you may not know it ClearType comes built into Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. ClearType is automaticly turned on in the windows Vista operating system.

How Do I use it?

As mentioned above ClearType is already turned on in Windows Vista. To turn it on in xp you need to:

• Right click on the desktop and select ‘Properties’
• Select the ‘Appearance’ tab and press the ‘Effects…’ button
• Check the box for ‘Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts’, then select ‘ClearType’ in the dropdown list
• Close the Effects dialog by clicking ‘OK’ and click ‘Apply’ to complete the process

Tuning ClearType

You may want to tweak your ClearType settings. To do this Microsoft have provided a web Tuner (requires windows Internet Explorer) that allows you to change your settings from there website. Microsoft also provides ‘Power Toy‘;a piece of software that allows you to to tweak your settings. For more information on ClearType visit the ClearType website.

The thing I hate about firefox 3 is the (in my opinion) inappropriately named named ‘Awesome bar’. The problem I have with it is that every time I start to enter a URL it brings up a list of URLs that have been found in the history or your favourites and have been matched with the text that was entered into the address bar. I just don’t like it. I much prefer the firefox 2 address bar. The fact that the ‘Awesome bar’ exist isn’t my problem; my problem is that there isn’t any way of making it act like it does in firefox 2. Sure, you can turn it off but that’s just as unhelpful as having turned on.

I can see that people are either going to love it. Or hate it. I personally hate it.

What do you think?

Update: I Have found a way to stop the bookmarks from appearing in the address bar drop down.

Use this guide to find the you firefox profile

• Now find the userChrome.css file. It should be in the file called chrome. If isn’t in there then just rename the userChrome-example file to ‘userChrome’.
• Now add the following code to the userChrome.css file.

   richlistitem[type=”bookmark”] {
  display: none !important;
  }

• Restart Firefox