MakeSomeTime is simplest way to keep on top of your time for all the reasons stated on the homepage. We hope you enjoy using this service and that it boosts your productivity by making it as easy as possible to keep track of your time.

This web-based app lets you give clients a detailed explanation of exactly how much time you spent working on their projects. Once you've registered for a free account, just enter the projects you're working on, along with client information like billing address and notes you need. Then, when you're ready to buckle down just enter what task you're starting and assign it to a project.

The built-in timer keeps track of the cumulative time you're working; just start it up, minimize the browser window, and get on with what you're doing. When you've completed the task or just want to take a break, click the timer's stop button. When you're ready to resume, the timer picks up right where you left off.

MakeSomeTime remembers everything it's tracking, so when it comes time to invoice all you have to do is fill in a few fields, select your project from the drop down menu, and let the app do its thing. The invoice it churns out can be easily emailed to your client in a couple of clicks. MakeSomeTime also assigns each invoice a permanent URL so clients can access it anywhere.

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Looking for a helpful read on writing a better resume, but can't get around pulling up everyone else's resumes instead? Search PDF is a custom Google search that filters up books and instructional PDFs.

Some how-to projects and tasks only require a single web page of instructions. Other times, you'd really like a deeper read. Search PDF is a custom Google search that brings back only PDF files, opens them in Scribd's no-software-required viewer, and hones the search in on tutorials, instructions, and manuals. For alternative PDF finders, there's the ebook search at PDF Search Engine and simply using filetype:pdf in a Google search.

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Xint (pronounced “zint”) is an alternative to Windows notepad, with dozens of useful functions. Most of its functions are accessible via hotkeys and toolbar, and extra formatting options are also available through a convenient floating menu that is activated also via hotkeys or the system menu to wherever your cursor happens to be.

Make extracting html content from a text file, or alternately, saving only the html easy. Turn tab space delimited text files into comma delimited files, or, vice-a-versa. Xint also does the standard find and replace much quicker then with regular notepad.

Another thing that is of great convenience, is that Xint can perform secure data encryption, using “Twofish”, a certified military strength 160-bit encryption algorithm, to securely hide sensitive data. Xint is a fairly resource-friendly application which comes with an uninstaller. Hope you find it useful.

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MailDrop is an application that expands the scope of Dropbox to the inbox. Now you can upload files to Dropbox by email. Any emails with the label 'Dropbox' will automatically be sent to the 'MailDrop' folder in your Dropbox. Now files can be put on Dropbox from your mobile device or from any computer without having to login to Dropbox.


MailDrop runs in the background on your computer, periodically checking your specified email address. When it finds an email in the Dropbox folder of your email, it automatically searches for attachments and downloads them. The attachments are saved to your local Dropbox where Dropbox then takes care of uploading them.

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USB AUDIO ADAPTER (16-Bit) If you need to add an External Sound Card to your system and or if your system sound card is Dead or Bad sounding, this is a very fast and cost effective way to add a USB External Adapter to act as a Real Sound Card. - 5.1 channel sound effect (virtual 5.1 sound with just 2 channels!) - Hot Plug and Play - Virtual Speaker Shifter - Mute Button - Record function by Microphone.



USB Audio Adapters with LED Indicator Volume and Mute Button Ultra Small High-Quality Sound

No Drivers Needed for XP and Vista, Just Plug and Play. Item Uses C-Media CM108 Chip

Model Number:USBG-52

This very compact adapter is the easiest, most affordable way to add sound capability to your notebook or desktop computer. It features connections for your microphone and stereo

headphones/speakers..

Compliant with USB 2.0 Full Speed

Operation

Compliant with USB Audio Device Class

Specification v1.0

Real USB Plug & Play

Drive 2CH speakers Directly

Support 3D positional sound and virtual

5.1CH sound track

Supports Volume Up, Volume Down, and

Speaker Mute

LED indicator work status

Use USB Port power directly external power

adapter no need

16-Bit Audio DAC with Earphone Phone

Amplifier

16-Bit ADC Input with Microphone Boost

Compatible with Win ME / Win 2000 / Win

XP / Vista and Mac OS9 / OS X without

Additional Driver

With one of the following operating systems: Windows Me/2000/XP/Vista MAC OS X

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You've all seen these invisible bookshelves, right? The books stack horizontally and and appear to just float on the wall.

In fact, there's nothing special to their guide apart from the fact that they don't affix the required L-bracket to the inside of the bottom book. Instead, they just bought sufficiently large brackets and figured that the limited visibility of the brackets wasn't that big of a deal; having seen the results, we'd be inclined to agree.

They look really cool, but they can cost a bundle.

Fortunately, they're easy and cheap to make from simple L-brackets.

A bit of careful measuring and making sure they're level, and you're ready to start stacking.

Just make sure they're well anchored to the wall!

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Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

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Tom's Planner, allows you to create and share Gantt Charts online with "drag and drop" sim- plicity. It has great ease of use and gives control back to the project manager.

Programs like MS Project® or Primavera® often too complex? Do you find yourself still trying to plan your projects in Excel? Tom's Planner is the answer to your needs. It makes planning easy, fast and even enjoyable.

Private and secure
Although Tom's Planner is web based software you save your work directly on your own computer or corporate network.

Just like you are used to with applications like Word or Excel. So your information stays private and secure.

No extensive manual
We have made Tom's Planner as intuitive as possible. It might be best described as a drawing program for Gantt Charts. You can visualize your project planning thoughts directly into your charts, making Tom's Planner really user friendly and the ideal starting point for every project.

Key features of Tom's Planner

* Create schedules with simple drag and drop actions.
* No extensive manual, just a quick 3-minute tutorial
* No installation required, just hit the 'open tool' link
* Share your schedules online with your team
* Viewing schedules is free, no account needed
* Schedules are saved on your computer: private and secure
* Include schedules in your report as an image
* Export your schedules to MS Project®

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We're excited to say that support for watching 1080p HD videos in full resolution is on its way. Starting next week, YouTube's HD mode will add support for viewing videos in 720p or 1080p, depending on the resolution of the original source, up from our maximum output of 720p today.

As resolution of consumer cameras increases, we want to make sure YouTube is the best home on the web to showcase your content. For viewers with big monitors and a fast computer, try switching to 1080p to get the most out of the fullscreen experience.

Just how much larger is 1080p? Take a look at the following screenshots from this video:

Have an HD camera? We would love to see your awesome 1080p videos! Be creative and choose subjects that really show off the beauty of your camera. We will run the best examples on our homepage in a future spotlight.

And those of you who have already uploaded in 1080p, don't worry. We're in the process of re-encoding your videos so we can show them the way you intended.
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now available for download. This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3.6 can be followed in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #planning or #developers.

This first revision of the Beta of Firefox 3.6 / Gecko 1.9.2 introduces several new features:

* Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
* Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
* Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
* Support for the WOFF font format.
* Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
* Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.

Web developers and Add-on developers should read more detail about the many new features in Firefox 3.6 for developers on the Mozilla Developer Center. For the full list of changes since the alpha release, see this list.

Testers can download Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 builds for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in 53 different languages. Developers should also read the Firefox 3.6 for Developers article on the Mozilla Developer Center.

At this time most Add-ons have not yet been upgraded by their authors to be compatible with Firefox 3.6 Beta. If you wish to help test your Add-ons, please also download and install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter – your favorite Add-on author will appreciate it!

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