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Google Launches ‘Keep,’ a New Note-Taking App for Android

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Google is finally getting into the list-making market with its new app, Google Keep. What is being described as Evernote’s biggest new rival, Keep gives users an easy way to make notes and create reminders for upcoming tasks. [Read more...]

What is Your Google Reader Replacement Recommendation?

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A screenshot of my Trends tab of Google Reader

Count me among the many avid Google Reader users who were bummed by yesterday’s news that Google is shutting down the RSS reader service. If you’re in the same boat, what RSS readers would you recommend I replace Reader with? On iOS, I’ve been using Feeddler and enjoy it, so this would be mostly for my browser or a MacBook Air app. [Read more...]

5 Productivity Apps for Android

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Increase your productivity and stay on top of your tasks with the help of these five apps for Android. Each of these apps works great for managing to-do lists and making sure you never forget a task. [Read more...]

Karotz Social Media-Savvy Robots Save Time on Tech Tasks

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Karotz ($129.99), adorable Internet-connected rabbits by U.K. company Violet, are now fully integrated with social networks, per the company’s announcement at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. [Read more...]

ToutApp Year in Review Analyzes Your Email Habits

ToutApp Year in Review

The free ToutApp Year in Review service analyzes your Gmail or Google Apps account to suss out useful statistics that can help you handle email more effectively. [Read more...]

IFTTT Stitches Internet Services Seamlessly

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IFTTT, or If This Then That, is a productivity service that aims to streamline common Internet tasks by stringing together services like Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. [Read more...]

The Email Game Makes Tackling Your Inbox Fun

The Email Game

The Email Game is a free tool for Gmail and Google Apps users that adds competitive elements to tackling your inbox. [Read more...]

Visualize Your Day With the Angry Productive Birds App

Angry Productive Birds App

I’ve written about the old adage that you cannot improve what you cannot measure, and the Angry Productive Birds app helps you visualize how your time is spent on projects and other work. [Read more...]

All About Evernote [INFOGRAPHIC]

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The Evernote productivity app has exploded in popularity, and this InfoGlyphs infographic shares some key features, fun facts and other tidbits. [Read more...]

The Unstuck App is a Problem-Solving Productivity Tool

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The free Unstuck app for iPad helps you solve prickly issues by acting like a virtual coach. [Read more...]

Is Kred the New Klout?

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The "Kredentials" for my Twitter account.

Kred is a new tool to measure Twitter influence in a far more transparent way than rival Klout. [Read more...]

5 Social Media Strategy Must-Reads

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Today’s must-reads zero in on the top issues and ideas in social media strategy. [Read more...]

Comunitee is a Social Network for News Discovery

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A screencap of the Comunitee dashboard for logged-in users.

Comunitee is a social network that blends features from StumbleUpon, Google+, Flipboard, Facebook, Twitter and Digg to simplify news discovery. [Read more...]

Mac Productivity: Focusbar Keeps You on Task

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Focusbar, a Mac productivity tool that fights multitasking.

Focusbar is a free Mac productivity tool that hopes to keep you on task with subtle reminders whenever you’ve switched windows. [Read more...]

The Wonderful Wunderlist To-Do Application

Wunderlist To-Do Application

The Wunderlist to-do application (Free, Mac App Store) by 6Wunderkinder is an excellent free cross-platform task management tool. [Read more...]