Task manager, reminder system, personal organizer
Among the slew of web-based task managers that have flooded the internet in the past couple of years, Remember the Milk stands head and shoulders above the rest: its modern interface and deep feature set make organizing your to-do’s actually fun. Here’s how to organize your life with Remember the Milk.
(via Lifehacker)
Cool new free service that tracks stolen USB gadgets like MP3 players, cameras and USB flash drives etc. When the device is stolen you log into the server, flag it as stolen and the next time the device is plugged into a computer it sends the owner of the device info about that system like IP address, location, username and computer name and more.
MAKE magazine presents, building a cigar box guitar. This video eschews a lot of the first steps, but does take you through the parts, and features a little playing example. 
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Yahoo! has updated their del.icio.us-like My Web bookmarking service with a fresh new look (pleasantly devoid of the over-used web 2.0 pastel palette) and more social tools geared towards helping you find new contacts, as well as what they’re bookmarking. A new ‘top tags’ section and an ‘interesting today’ tab help you keep on top of the latest My Web buzz, while tag search results are now accompanied by an ‘Active Taggers’ list to show you which users are tagging things you’re interested in, which makes it easier to add fellow My Web users who are interested in the same things you are to your contact list.
Having a multitude of email addresses, I thought of simplyfing my life and workflow one day. I realized I’ve been wasting too much time checking up on my email from various places. There are the different Gmail accounts, Yahoo mail accounts, and even those from my own domains.
As for domains, I actually had some applications for Gmail for domains activated already–this means I could use Gmail as the default mail handler for my domain email. No more of that crappy webmail that usually comes with hosting subscriptions. In my opinion, Gmail is simply the best webmail application ever. Just an opinion, of course, but who doesn’t like that threaded-mail view and the simple interface (no clutter like those of Yahoo! and Hotmail). [more Google Tutor]
It is simple. You have in hand the URL of a piece of news of the BBC, a blog post, a product page, or any other web page, and you want to know who is talking about it, you want to know what people have to say about it. You copy that URL, paste it in the Talk Digger search box and press Dig it!
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