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Get Gmail Tasks on your Desktop with Google Chrome

I love Gmail Tasks. It’s my to-do list of choice for its simplicity, portability, and (of course) integration with Gmail. If you’re a fan of Google Chrome, you can also easily add Tasks as an application directly on your desktop.

Enable Gmail Tasks

First things first, if you have not already enabled Tasks [...]

FeedRinse: Search and Consolidate your RSS Feeds

OPML are outlines of RSS feeds…

Have you run into the problem of having too many RSS feeds that only SOMETIMES contain an article that you’re interested in? They publish lots of updates to your favorite sites, but you are only interested in a fraction of those stories. Don’t you wish you [...]

A Quick Way to Pin Folders to the Start Menu (XP / Vista)

Here’s a quick tip about Windows that you may not know. While both XP and Vista allow you to easily add executables to the Start Menu via a right-click –> Pin to Start Menu, adding a folder is not so easy.

Actually, I lied. It’s much easier!

There’s no need to deal with complicated [...]

Google Launches Sync for Mobile Phones – General Acclamation Ensues

Earlier this week Google launched the Beta version of Sync – free tools for synchronizing your mobile phone’s Contacts and Calendar with your Google account.

Phones supported by Sync include the Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile.

As you might suspect, I’m quite excited about Google Sync, and I’m glad to see [...]

Get Acronis True Image 10 Personal Edition for FREE

Want to get your hands on a free copy of Acronis True Image 10? Act quickly and you can! In conjunction with PC World, Acronis is currently giving away licenses of True Image 10 Personal Edition.

Link – http://www.acronis.co.uk/mag/ati10pe

The catch, of course, is that they hope you like the now-outdated version 10 so [...]

FREE Book – Ubuntu Pocket Guide (PDF)

For those of you just getting started with Ubuntu Linux (and for you seasoned veterans as well), don’t miss this opportunity to get your hands on a FREE pocket guide (PDF).

Download – Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

Alternate download link (in case the original is unavailable)

Written by Keir Thomas (author of the [...]

TipsFor.us is now on Facebook

If you are a Facebook addict casual user, I invite you to visit the official TipsFor.us Facebook fan page.

Yeah, it’s pretty bare right now, but you are welcome to change that. Feel free to become a fan, add any photos or videos that you like, and participate in the discussion board.

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