Normally when you want to make a quick note for future reference, it requires some effort. You have to grab a pen and paper, or maybe your PDA if you’re more technologically inclined.

With Jott, all you have to do is grab your cellphone and dial a special toll free number (which you can easily put on speed dial!) You then say who your message is for, such as “myself”, ” family”, or a work group or friends name for example. Now you can dictate up to 30 seconds of a message. This is then transcribed and emailed or texted to yourself as a reminder or to the chosen group.

At the moment its currently only available in the US and Canada, but is certainly an exciting idea which sounds like it could be very useful.

Sound interesting to you? Check out the website and test it out for yourself!

Arranging Bookmark at times becomes a hassle when you need to deal with a large number of links. To help with your task the BixBookmark 2.1 comes across as a capable tool since it allows you to manage the links along with the screenshots. It also supports the function of opening the links directly from the program, in any of the popular browsers. You can keep each link saved specifically according to their different categories. The software also supports the features like setting the thumbnails, searching, checking the duplicates, password protection, etc. In short with this utility you can put as many bookmarks as you can and get all favorite sites with single click.

BixBookmark 2.1 displays the categories on the left side panel with an expandable folder menu. The containing links are shown on the right side on selecting the folder that you can access to the site with any of the famous browser like MS Internet Explorer, Opera, Maxthon, Mozilla, Firefox, etc. For creating and adding the link you need to set required information in the dialog box. The tool helps you to store, arrange, sort and so on, the links for the required website pages. If you’re having official links that are important and need to be secured so that nobody visits it, you can use the software to protect the folder having such links by setting the password. It also supports creating the thumbnails for the WebPages so that you can have the view of the content of the page. Even it supports creating the back up and restoration of the bookmark collection. You can search the required link easily with the context search features fro the large list of the links.

BixBookmark 2.1 helps managing links in an easy way and it also supports visiting the relating site directly through the program.

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While searching for the perfect candidates for your organization you need to surf many sites and get the ones that suit to your organization needs. Employees form most important part of the organization and selecting the efficient ones is much crucial task. But now you can directly find the resumes of capable candidates with the suitable qualification. With the ResumeFinder 2008 you can search for candidates and it carries out resume search with Google. You can find resumes using the filters like the keywords, location, years of experience, etc. With it you can also send the automatic or bulk emails to the candidates by using the pre-defined templates.

ResumeFinder 2008 helps you to find the resumes based on various aspects like location, job portals, etc. The toolbar is set with the explorer window that makes the search easier and the results are shown in the explorer window itself. It work with best search scripts and makes your work easier. For making the search perfect you need to set the Options given with the program. First you need to set the Search Settings; select the Search Engine, Regional Settings and Search Settings for searching in the updated WebPages. Script Settings are there for creating and selecting script, etc. Job Portals Settings allow you to search resumes with specified job portals or websites. You can set the URLs for the sites with the Site Settings features for using them in the portal search. Even if you’re looking for someone from the same location them you can have the search conducted by the location. Set the location with the settings and then make the selection of the desired ones for the resume search. You can also select the location filter for having more specified search. So set your preferences and start searching for the resumes.

With ResumeFinder 2008 you can also save the search setting for use in future and also search for the resumes that have been updated or posted in recent time.

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Whenever you tackle something, the best way to ensure success is to make sure that you have a strategy that makes success possible. Without a good strategy, even the best work ethic and the greatest mind will not be able to prevail over circumstances and that is why people that are good strategists have become important parts of some of the most successful businesses in the history of the world.

While there are some people that find it extremely easy to strategize for different things, personally I have never found it that easy and I know a number of people that would agree with that.   Tools like mind maps and strategy charts have helped people that don’t strategize well on their own immensely and being able to computerize and use these tools as software programs makes the process much easier.

That is exactly what the Strategy Map does.  It is a program that you can use to create mind maps and strategy charts that define the mission, what the goals of the mission are as well as the different objectives along the way along with competing perspectives on how to achieve those objectives.   It is a very powerful piece of software that just happens to also be free.

For more information, check out http://www.strategymap.com.au/

Now you can remember everything from the birthday to the important projects that you need to make or present by the date with the help of TimeBell 1.3 software which will take care of most of your remembering work without fail. It’s easy to use and you are unlikely to experience any difficulty to set the features. Now you won’t forget the meetings with your boss, the subjects that you wanted to discuss with him and of course now you would not be charged as guilty for forgetting your anniversary.

The program takes up the current date and time from your PC itself. You need to enter the date and time on which you want to set the reminder for. You can type in the message like ‘Daughter’s Birthday’, ‘Meeting with Boss’, etc to get with the reminder. If you set a time work on a particular file or want to be reminded of some file then you can attach a file with the reminder to be displayed. Select the sound of your choice from the given selection so that it catches your attention you notice the reminder. You can see the list of the reminder set by you with all the details like date, time, message, files to be opened, etc. If you want to Reboot and Shutdown at a specific time, then you just need to set the time for the action to take place. Change the skin of the program to make it look attractive. You can minimize on start and also have the program to start with windows.

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There are a number of different notes programs around and therefore in order to make the list of freeware programs a note program has to be particularly special in some way. Well, I think I can say with confidence that the PinNotes program is a very special one.  Not only is the program compatible with Windows Vista (something that a lot of different programs can not attest to as of yet), but it is also a program that allows you to use rich text support combined with different note colours in order to get exactly what you want.   It is a fantastic program because of the choice that it offers the user and this combined with the fact that the program is free is very good indeed.
 
The latest release of the PinNotes software was on December 7th and a number of new features were added.  You can now get to the website for the program directly from the about menu of the software and you can also create live links that are able to be opened by simply clicking on them in the actual note.   There is also a splash screen added for effect and a number of new options are now available for you to customize your notes to a greater degree.  All in all, this software continues to make great strides and it wouldn’t be that surprising if it quickly became one of the most popular notes software packages around.
 
More information can be found at http://www.pinnotes.co.uk/

Chandler is an interesting piece of software that is intended for personal information management.  In that vein, it has a number of different things that people will like about it that are typical of all PIM programs.   For example, you can use Chandler to store your e-mail and manipulate them in different ways to ensure that you are able to have quick access to the important e-mails that are still active in your inbox.   In addition to that however, it is also something that you can use to plan your day out; almost like a digital version of a daily planner and something that you can easily structure your life around without changing a great deal.
 
Additionally, you can also use Chandler for Windows to store contacts and create different task lists for yourself that you can then adjust as the day goes on and you are able to finish different tasks.   Another cool part of the program is your ability to create notes for yourself in different ways.  All in all, there is nothing particularly innovative about this software packages except for the fact that it is very convenient in that it combines all of the things that you might need access to for managing your personal information.
 
More information is available at http://www.osafoundation.org/

Actual Planner is a powerful organizer that allows you to schedule tasks, generate your personal schedule, maintain your address book, maintain your blog and a lot more.

Pros: The application is an organizer of things to do. The usual facilities for maintenance of tasks, birthday/anniversary reminders and contacts management are there. Additionally writing to your blog page, maintaining it is easy too through this package. Maintain notes too created during the day. As the data is maintained in one database, it is easy to move back and forth between home and work computers.

It is possible to view tasks created over a span of time, It could just for the current day, the week, month or whatever. Complete contact details of your contacts can be created and viewed.

Notes are based on post-it like freeform pieces of texts that can be tacked on to a specific area. Obviously the notes can be about anything. Blog facilities include an editor that creates the html text necessary for posting at a site. Blog can be published at any of several popular blog sites.

The interface is simple and fairly easy to use, other forms and user screens that appear are easy to use too.

Cons: Nothing obviously problematic was noticed. Only issue to my mind was if this exact combination of aggregation is required by a large community of users. For the rest, there are several other packages available already.

Overall: Quite easy to use application. This is particularly useful for people who manage several blog sites. Overall, I would think, this is at the 4 star level.

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With the ways advancements are made these days a software useful yesterday maybe totally useless today, that is why you need to have regular updates to stay in touch. Eneter SUMo.

SUMo (which stands for Software Updates Monitoring) detects applications you are using and tracks updates. If a new version is detected, you’ll be notified.It relies a social networking as its database is populated by the other users. By using up-to-date software you’ll reduce the risk of encountering bugs and will benefit from more features.

Want to give it a shot? A trial should convince you. Oh! Least I forget it’s freeeeee!

Go to http://www.kcsoftwares.com/?sumo for more info and download.

The thing with software these days is that it has to be updated every now and then, keeping up to date with recent improvement and versions can be tiresome, but that should be a thing of the past with UpdateStar.

UpdateStar lets you stay up-to-date with all of your personal software you are using on your computer. This way you make sure to always use the most up-to-date software, maximizing your every-day user experience. The good thing about this software is that it covers all of your freeware, shareware, demos, commercial software, and includes special offers.

Latest changes in the newly released version include:

• Keeps software bang up-to-date
• Provides information on an entire software setup
• Improved and simplified software management
• Protects against outdated software
• Updates can be individually controlled
• User-maintained software database

Want to give it a shot? Go to http://www.updatestar.com/