Archive for the ‘productivity’ tag
How To Quickly Navigate To Your Favourite Folders From The Save As Dialog
If you frequently work with Word documents and the like, chances are you’ll find it very annoying to quickly navigate to your folders of choice in the Windows ‘Save As’ dialog box. You have to keep clicking, clicking and clicking to go down to the folder where you want to put the file in.
5 Firefox Addons To Check Out If You Browse Inappropriate Sites From Office
Do you frequently browse social networking sites when you’re at work? Do you also fear getting embarrassed in front of your colleagues or boss for opening inappropriate sites when you really have you be working? Check out these five Firefox extensions that could save you in times of crisis.
5 Unique Freeware That Tweak Your Desktop and Save Your Time
A new day. A dozen apps. A dozen installs and then uninstalls. You should have heard of several virtual desktop managers, sticky note apps for your Windows desktop. All such apps improve productivity and there’s no doubt about that.
Why not you take a look at the following apps as well? These are very tiny, friendly, and free, yet very unique software that could save your precious time. Check them out:
Thoughts: Planypus Online Event Planner
Planyp.us has launched version ‘2.0’ of their online event planner that I’m sure you’ll love using – it’s basically kind of like a stripped down blog platform and it lets you create and plan events.
Set Reminders inside Gmail with G Alert Greasemonkey Script
G Alert is a Greasemonkey based tool for Firefox that lets you set reminders inside Gmail. Basically, you tell G Alerts to remind you of something, set the time, and then a pop up window comes up reminding you of the task you’ve set – all this happens inside your Gmail window.
Distraction-Free Writing Environment With Q10
This is a guest post by Sumesh (see end of this post for details about him)
Writing quickly and efficiently (without compromising on quality) is one of the challenges that every writer faces (blogger in this specific example). Computers can be notorious in causing distractions, what with all the hundreds of desktop applications, various websites/services and music.
Gnome Do Application Launcher
Gnome Do is an application launcher for the Gnome Desktop that works quite well. In addition to being an application launcher, Gnome Do is capable of performing many other actions including quick online searching, quick music access, etc. I managed to install and try it on my Ubuntu Gutsy Desktop, and wanted to introduce it to Killer Tech Tips readers.
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