Happy new year 2010!!

Top 10 Underhyped Webapps, 2009 Edition - Webapps - Lifehacker

Top 10 Underhyped Webapps, 2009 Edition - Webapps - Lifehacker:

"Lovely Charts succeeds at what it promises. The Flash-based webapp produces
very clean-looking charts for all kinds of purposes, be it a flowchart to
describe a process, a diagram describing a network setup, conference seating, or
whatever you might want to sketch out on the back of a napkin."

ZoomIt

ZoomIt: "ZoomIt is screen zoom and annotation tool for technical presentations that include application demonstrations. ZoomIt runs unobtrusively in the tray and activates with customizable hotkeys to zoom in on an area of the screen, move around while zoomed, and draw on the zoomed image."

Robot Dog Therapy: Science Videos - Science News - ScienCentral

Cool stuff from my alma mater Saint Louis University:

There's no forgetting that Aibo is a robot pup, but he makes a good companion for nursing home residents, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association.

William Banks, a physician and author of the new study, says that playtime with Aibo reduces loneliness in nursing homes as much as visits from a real-live drooling and shedding animal. "We thought there would be a difference in loneliness between the two," says Banks. "What we found basically was that the living dog and Aibo were equally effective in decreasing loneliness."

Robot Dog Therapy: Science Videos - Science News - ScienCentral

Windows Tip: Sysinternals Live is One-Stop Shop for Launching Must-Have Utilities

From Lifehacker.com:

If you've ever done any serious Windows troubleshooting, you've no doubt come across a freeware utility or two by Sysinternals...

...you can point your browser to http://live.sysinternals.com/ for no-nonsense access to any Sysinternals tool. Even better, though, you can open up Windows Explorer and point it to \\live.sysinternals.com\ to browse and launch any Sysinternals app as though you've already downloaded and installed it on your computer. That means next time you're doing tech support for friends and you forgot your PC Rescue Kit, you can quickly get to any Sysinternals tool for help.

Windows Tip: Sysinternals Live is One-Stop Shop for Launching Must-Have Utilities

Simply GTD with Kelly: What makes a good GTD list manager?

I've tried many list managers for GTD and my current favorite is Remember the Milk. RTM has offline use with Google Gears, integration with Gmail and Google Calendar, the ability to add tasks from a phone call using Jott, shared lists and mobile access.

What makes a good GTD list manager?

Having a total life reminder system is a key to GTD and a trusted list manager to track projects and actions is one of the first choices for people to make when implementing the system.

Unfortunately, some of the programs out there that are trying to be "GTD list managers" miss the mark not by what they didn't include, but by what they did include. Some of them build in too many convoluted features, that in GTD terms make the whole thing more complex than it needs to be.

Simply GTD with Kelly: What makes a good GTD list manager?

AllSnap brings your Windows applications together - literally

From Download Squad:

Sometimes you want to look at several programs on your Windows desktop at the same time. So you resize Firefox, Word, Excel, and whatever else it is you're using, and then spend about 5 minutes trying to line them up to maximize your screen real estate. The whole process would be a lot easier if programs would just sort of snap together at the edges, wouldn't it?

AllSnap brings your Windows applications together - literally - Download Squad

DarkCopy: web-based, distraction-free text editing - Download Squad

Interesting software:

DarkCopy is a web-based alternative to programs like WriteRoom and DarkRoom that lets you compose text files in full (or almost full) screen to eliminate distractions like instant messages, Flash games, LOLcats, etc.

DarkCopy: web-based, distraction-free text editing - Download Squad

Travel: Where to Search for Low Airfares Online

Travel: Where to Search for Low Airfares Online: "the Productivity Portfolio weblog test-drove some top travel search engines you may want to hit up. They tried out Lifehacker favorite Kayak, Yahoo Farechase, SideStep and Farecast for a flight in December and got back varying results for each"

Geek To Live: Make the Most of Your Dual Monitors

Geek To Live: Make the Most of Your Dual Monitors: "free utility which sets per-monitor wallpaper OR stretches one panoramic image across two screens is ... DisplayFusion, ... DisplayFusion has a nice perk: the ability to search Flickr for wallpaper images built right in."

The Simpsons on old media

From Season 19 Episode 10: Springfield voters rejected the leading candidates and embrace a write-in: Ralph Wiggum.