Multitasking Mondays: Sync Contacts with Funambol
It’s amazing how much your productivity increases when you have all the information for all your contacts on all your devices.
There is literally only one service that provides this functionality. And its free.
Try funambol.
There’s an iPhone app. Which syncs with Outlook. Or your smartphone. Or your Blackberry. And with some modern mobile [...]
Saving Money with Open Source Software
The times, they are a changing. One interesting, and in my opinion welcome, change is a new push by businesses and institutions to move to Open Source Software. Aside from the fact that most open source software is free, there are a whole host of other advantages worth considering. Two that stand out: (1) interpolability [...]
Getting Things Done with Remember the Milk
Though the interface is not perfect, online web application Remember the Milk works well for those practicing any kind of “Getting Things Done” methodology. Here is an excellent guide for that.
To integrate RTM with Gmail, Thunderbird, or other services, check out this post.
For those willing to get their elbows a little dirty, you can also [...]
Sync Google Calendar with Desktop Applications
Google Calendar now syncs with Apple’s iCal, Mozilla’s Sunbird, or Thunderbird (with the Lightning extension) without any additional plugins or even all that much work. Follow these instructions.
Google Calendar with one of these applications provides the perfect online/offline solution to scheduling. Individuals and organizations alike can benifit from this.
Gmail Adds To-do Lists
Gmail finally has a built in to-do list, a much needed and requested feature. It’s pretty bare-bones, but its there, which is certainly an improvement. You have to enable it through Gmail Labs. From Webware:
Since e-mail is where and how many of us get things done, both in our personal and professional life, why not [...]
Avoid Attachment Embarrassment: Thunderbird Edition
Awhile back I posted about a handy little Gmail feature that many of you enjoyed. If you use the word “attached,” or any number of related words, but fail to actually attach a file to the email, it alerts you to that affect. This prevents those embarrassing moments when you realize you are going to [...]
Sync Thunderbird Address Books using Funambol
There is now an easy way to sync your Thunderbird addresses and calendars with, well, anything!
Our family uses Mozilla’s Thunderbird to get things done–it syncs up perfectly with Gmail (use IMAP for best results) and Google Calendar (with this plugin). The only persistent problem I have had is getting all our address books to sync [...]
Get a to-do List in Gmail
Ever wish Gmail had a simple to-do list? Follow this guide, which describes how to add the services provided by Remember the Milk, a web-bsaed to-do list manager, to Gmail’s sidebar.
I have been a user of Remember the Milk since it was released over a year ago, and it’a pretty powerful stuff. You can tag [...]
Free Office Software: OpenOffice 3.0 Released!
In honor of the release of OpenOffice 3.0 I thought I would make it my first post in the Don’t Pay for Software Series.
What is OpenOffice.org?
It is an office document suite, similar to (but better and free-er than) Microsoft Office or (for those of you who still use it) WordPerfect. Now don’t be nervous because [...]
More Gmail IMAP Options
For those of you who use gmail, and have IMAP enabled (IMAP allows you to keep your email client–such as Thunderbird, Outlook, iPhone, or Blackberry–perfectly in-sync with all your other email clients, including Google’s web client, so you only have to check your email once), now there are even more options available to you. Read [...]
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