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I am getting a lot requests about the online applications and tools I use. That is why todays post is about the four tools I use to make my life easier when it comes to online productivity. One of the next posts will be about the Google applications and tools I am using. So stay tuned for that as well.

These are my four most useful tools:

Remember the Milk
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Managing tasks is generally not a fun way to spend your time. Remember The Milk is a free service where you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand. Remember The Milk makes managing tasks a breeze. And you can integrate it into many other applications such as your Google calendar. Indispensable.

Evernote
http://www.evernote.com/
I have only started to use this recently but find it a very useful free service. This is what the team at Evernote have to say about their service:
“Our goal at Evernote is to give everyone the ability to easily capture any moment, idea, inspiration, or experience whenever they want using whichever device or platform they find most convenient, and then to make all of that information easy to find. And we’ve done just that. From creating text and ink notes, to snapshots of whiteboards and wine labels, to clips of webpages, Evernote users can capture anything from their real and digital lives and find it all anytime.”

Jing
http://www.jingproject.com/
Use Jing to capture anything you see on your computer screen and share it instantly…as an image or short movie. It is a great tool for your daily screenshots, etc. Really useful tool and I could not do my work properly without it now really.

Dropbox
http://www.dropbox.com/
Dropbox is a great tool for your backup. I have been using for over a year now and this free tool just convinces you right away.
This is the official description: “Let’s say you’re editing a document at home. As soon as you click ‘Save’, Dropbox will sync this same file to all your other computers (and now your iPhone!) instantly and automatically. It’s as if you saved the document to all of your computers. This gives you the freedom to work on any of your computers and always have the files you need.”

Please feel free to leave any feedback here as well on these tools or other interesting tools and applications you are using.

I have started using iGoogle over the past weeks and I am really amazed what you can do with it. This post is about how you could use iGoogle to better organize your day.

The general purpose of iGoogle is to provide you with one or more pages to combine many gadgets as they call that can make your life easier.  Gadgets can either be RSS feeds, blogs and applications. Everything is customizable and really a pleasure to work with.

Here are my favourite gadgets for raising your productivity and for the better organisation of your day through iGoogle:

• A simple but highly useful To-Do list: To-Do List
• The best “Date and Time” gadget in my opinion: Date And Time
• Important when going out and you are thinking about taking the umbrella. The Weather Gadget
• A great and easy to use currency converter: Currency Converter
• If you using Twitter then BeTwittered is indispensible: Twitter on iGoogle
• For all the website owners this Adsense gadget is extremely useful: Adsense
• For directions is the Google Map Search the ideal companion: Google Maps
• Translation anyone: The Babelfish translation gadget: Translation Gadget
• Facebook for iGoogle. Access your Facebook account through the interface: Facebook

And finally when you look at your iGoogle page and think that it is a mess then take a look at this gadget. The compound gadget is a great tool to organize your gadgets into tabs in a compound gadget to give you a cleaner and easier usage of the page.

This is rounds up our look at iGoogle today so let me know whether I missed any good gadgets. All gadgets can be found here: All iGoogle Gadgets

All the best,
Fabian