Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Productivity, Web services, Google, Freeware

Since the dawn of time Google Calendar, we’ve been waiting for a free, easy way to fully synchronize our Google Calendar to desktop calendar clients like iCal. We’d love to be able to access the same calendar data across multiple personal, but it’s always been a messy affair, not free, an incomplete solution, or Personal computer only.

Well, Calgoo has been one of those paid options up until now, but the minds behind the program just announced that it is free from here on out. That’s right, Calgoo is now the free option in Google Calendar and desktop caledar synchronization. Calgoo officially supports 30 Boxes, Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, and — of course — Google Calendar.

Calgoo’s “Chief Owl” will not employ ads in the app in order to pay for the costs of developing the program, but the team will start to run ads on Calgoo Hub and possibly other future products. As for the software itself, it’s pretty easy to use, and it provides for two-way synchonization, which means that any changes on one calendar will apply to the other.

[via WebWorkerDaily]

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Filed under: Kids, Productivity

If you’ve a lot of studying to do, StudyProf FlashCards might be the buddy you’ve been looking for. The program, which has a free trial version available, grants you to create flashcards in a relatively easy environment. Give your card a title and an image or audio then virtually flip the card and place the information you’re trying to learn on the back.

After making a set of cards you can file them in your card box and retrieve them and replay them, slideshow style with simple mouse clicks.

If you’re studying something specific, StudyProf creators, Felling Software Development, has also created the Flashcard Archive to make it easier to download precreated sets of flashcards (though only the English to German flashcards are currently available).

Studying is never a lot of fun, but at least if your typing is better than your handwriting StudyProf gives you an substitute method to get the job done.

[Via download.com]

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Filed under: Business, Developer, Productivity, Web services, web 2.0

The clock just turned 5pm, and if you’re like us, everything you’ve worked on all day has instantly evaporated from your mind (yes, this just happens, we don’t need alcohol). Luckily, we left all those papers on our desk, the scribbled whiteboard, and a monitor-o-sticky notes to help us figure out where we left off.

5pm by QG | Software is a web-based project management suite that provides us the tools needed to get back on track at 8am.

The underlying features of 5pm are fairly standard in the project management world. You create projects and assign them to one or more users or groups. The project can have a deadline, a client, and a priority level. Once you have created a project you can add items such as tasks and files. Tasks can be assigned to individual team members and emails can be sent to the group when tasks are finished. etc…

To help visualize your project over the course of its life, there is a timeline feature that shows your projects and tasks in a “Gantt” style chart. In addition, there’s a reporting section that can help determine who is completing their projects on time and who isn’t.

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Filed under: Business, Developer, Productivity, Web services, web 2.0

The clock just turned 5pm, and if you’re like us, everything you’ve worked on all day has instantly evaporated from your mind (yes, this just happens, we don’t need alcohol). Luckily, we left all those papers on our desk, the scribbled whiteboard, and a monitor-o-sticky notes to help us figure out where we left off.

5pm by QG | Software is a web-based project management suite that provides us the tools needed to get back on track at 8am.

The underlying features of 5pm are fairly standard in the project management world. You create projects and assign them to one or more users or groups. The project can have a deadline, a client, and a priority level. Once you’ve created a project you can add items such as tasks and files. Tasks can be assigned to individual team members and emails can be sent to the group when tasks are completed. etc…

To help visualize your project over the course of its life, there’s a timeline feature that shows your projects and tasks in a “Gantt” style chart. In addition, there’s a reporting section that can help determine who is completing their projects on time and who isn’t.

Continue reading 5pm - Project management on time (so you don’t have to be)

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Filed under: Windows, Productivity, Freeware

Few things are as frustrating as having to repeat yourself over, and over, and over - like typing the same thing all the time. It’s a pain in the butt. Fortunately, KA Type In is the hemorrhoid relief you’ve been looking for!

Here’s what we like about it: 1) it’s under 1MB to download 2) it has a portable mode 3) it’s free 4) it’s simple to use…and last, but certainly not least, 5) it’s a huge time-and-effort saver.

Install it, move your mouse to the side of your screen, and the Type In windows slides in to view. Single click on one of your snippets and it’s sent to the active application. But wait, it gets superior! You can code fill-in fields and be prompted for values to input on-the-fly. This is an awesome way to make all your code snippets portable - take Type In with you on your flash drive and use them in any editor, even a browser-based HTML editor like FCK.

And get this: it does auto-completion with a single keystroke. Set up a snip, type the first few letters, and hit ctrl+; and Type In does the rest. Take that, inefficiency!

It’s a 6MB process that uses almost no CPU, and it has so many possible applications that anyone can benefit from using it. Windows only, which makes us a tiny sad - this app is so sweet, everyone should be able to use it!

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Filed under: Developer, Blogging, Productivity, Social Software

SweetCron is a bit of self-hosted lifestreaming software from Yongfook, the creator of opensourcefood. It’s kind of like a hybrid of Tumblr and Friendfeed. While SweetCron hasn’t officially been released yet, Yongfook is already using it on his own blog, so we’ve a pretty clear idea of what you can do with it: feed in photos, videos, status updates, bookmarks, etc, each with a distinct look, so a reader can distinguish content types at a glance.

If this sounds a bit like Tumblr, that’s probably because part of it uses the Tumblr API. SweetCron is customizable and extensible via new PHP classes, though, and it lives on your own domain, so you have greater control over the data you’re feeding into it. The basic theme can be seen on Yongfook’s blog, where he’s testing it out, but he says you’ll be able to develop your own themes through a template editor. If you’re interested in SweetCron, sign up to be notified when it launches.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

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Filed under: Audio, Macintosh, Productivity, Commercial

If you ever tried your hand at transcribing audio to text you’re probably familiar with rewinding and playing back passages over and over again. What if you could slow down that audio file without altering the pitch to make it easier for you? Well if you’re a Mac users, you’re in luck as JS8 Media has developed a handy utility able to alter the speed of audio files without effecting it’s pitch.

AudioLobe 3 is a light weight application that you can use to speed up or slow down your audio files. All that you need to change the speed of the audio is to move a slider back and forth. No programing or entering percentages. Just drag a slider from left (slower) to right (faster).

If you’re working on a difficult passage you can set AudioLobe to loop that region and it will continue to play it back till you’re done. This feature comes in very handy since it loops the section for playback so you won’t need to press the rewind button over and over again allow you to concentrate on what is being said.

In our testing we found the audio quality very acceptable as the modified file still had a natural sound to it. We also appreciated the included Bass and Treble controls as that helped us focus on the talking voice by dialing in the correct amount of low and high frequencies.

You can download a demo version of AudioLobe directly from JS8 Media. A full version is available for $20 and supports the saving of the altered file so that you play it back later without having to adjust the speed again.

So if you’ve been looking for a way to slow down voice dictations so that you can transcribe easier AudioLobe might be the software for you.

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Filed under: Business, Design, World wide web, Office, Productivity, Google

A lot of desktop word processing and text editing apps feature templates you can use to jazz up your documents — or make them look terrible, depending on your view. Now Google Docs gives you the same option, with a new template gallery. There are over 300 templates, featuring everything from resumés to cards to calendars.

The selection of different templates is impressively versatile. Expense reports, presentations, invitations — it’s all there. Styles range from minimal (basic blue bars) to ostentatious (robots!). Something that immediately struck us as clever is the selection the Avery Dennison-sponsored themes, so you can print to those Avery labels and business cards that every office seems to be up to its ears in. If you use templates in your desktop writing app of choice, you’ll probably also find a use for them in Google docs. Although the designs are hit or miss, there are enough of them that you should be able to find what you’re looking for.

[via Lifehacker]

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Filed under: Productivity, P2P, Social Software, Search

Attention, law-abiding citizens! If you believe in BitTorrent as a means of distribution for huge files, but you’re concerned about the claims of piracy that are often associated with it, you should take a look at YouTorrent. Despite having to shut down for a while because of legal issues, YouTorrent is back in operation, with a reported 67,170 torrents that are all legal to share.

YouTorrent is a meta-search that can find verified torrents across a number of popular torrent sites, including Jamendo, Vuze, BitTorrent, Legaltorrents, Legittorrents, Gameupdates, Wortharchiving, BT.etree and Mininova’s featured torrents section. With all those sites combined, you can use YouTorrent to search over 6TB of data. This is a very good thing for the torrent community in general, as it shows how widely BitTorrent is used for non-piracy purposes.

[via TorrentFreak]

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Filed under: Business, Design, Internet, Office, Productivity, Google

A lot of desktop word processing and text editing apps feature templates you can use to jazz up your documents — or make them look terrible, depending on your view. Now Google Docs gives you the same option, with a new template gallery. There are over 300 templates, featuring everything from resum

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