It's been a while since I've posted here. Recently I discovered a number of tools that publish across multiple websites from one location. I especially like Hootsite.com and Ping.fm. All one has to do is login at one place, write a message, select social networks to publish on and send. Hootsite also allows scheduling the submission of messages, which is a great feature in my opinion. There is no need to flood one's followers with several tweets or shouts if these can wait.

SmartLinks Test

Testing SmartLinks...

Jack Johnson

Aerosmith

Rene Gruss

GOOG

RIMM

Last.fm

Check out the newly found wigit from Last.fm on the right of the page. I've added a few of my favorites by Rene Gruss, including The Red Room and Bellatrix.

Last.fm is a free online service that seamlessly creates a personalized internet radio that streams the songs that you want or similar to the ones you selected. The radio learns your preferences. One can "love" the track or "hate" it, so it never appears again.

It's one of the sites of Music Genome Project.

Unfortunately, Pandora is not accessible from Canada without a proxy.

Online Organizer

This is an update to my previous online organizer post about www.stikkit.com. After using it for a few months, I found out that some of the features were still buggy. Send sms reminder feature did not work with my Vancouver Rogers number.

One of the things that I really wanted to see with this software is the ability to clean up your emailbox just by forwarding emails to StikkIt (allowing you to safely delete the email) and letting the tool parse the keywords to add reminders, phone numbers, links, etc. However, it is not there yet. Email forwards just get appended to a particular note, but without the ability to merge it with the main one or, more frustratingly, to modify the forward.

I believe it will reach the perfection in future. In the meanwhile, I am moving to Google Notes, which also has the feature of sharing it with others, but no text parsing (making sense of text that makes StikkIt so attractive).

Online Organizer

Now, that's the online tool I was looking for. Stikkit.com is an organizer, really easy and intuitive. Nothing needs to be installed, meaning you can use it anywhere where there's internet. What I found useful is the support for various email keywords. Forwarding your friend's email to your Stikkit account's address and adding a few words will automatically tag and format the note.

Trip planning demo

Cool Tools

Here is another set of useful online tools that I came across this past week. First - somewhat randomly, unusually for me by following a commercial link.

1. QIPIT - Online jpg scanning tool with email and fax capabilities. It allows taking a pic of a document, whiteboard, notes, etc and sending it, already scanned (color and b/w) to email or a fax number. This tool has proved to be really useful the same day. JPG has been emailed to copy@qipit.com with email of a friend who the doc was supposed to be delivered to. Qipit scanned it and delivered both to my friend and myself as a backup in PDF format. PDF files are also stored on the server. Check it out: www.qipit.com
2. ScanR. Similar alternative for mobile phones, which I have not tested yet: www.scanR.com
   http://www.getjar.com/products/6744/scanRScanCopyandFax
3. RDM++ - remote desktop via cell phone. I did not like the idea of third party server storing info about your computer, but that's their implementation (I might be wrong as I have not spent too much time on their website). I'd look for something else. Nevertheless, here's the link: http://www.shapeservices.com/en/products/details/rdmhow
4. GMaps. Really cool mobile tool for your cell phone. That's what I was thining of building myself one of these days. I'll definitely come back to it later and check it out. http://www.getjar.com/products/6949/MobileGMaps

Easy online sync tool to backup and synchronize your files

Wicked! Check out this flash demo first: http://www.getdropbox.com/u/2/screencast.html

So far they are in private beta: http://www.getdropbox.com/

Online Picture Editing

Online picture editing tool allowing you to save directly to your computer, Flikr or WebShots: http://snipshot.com/