Two great tools to keep you organized
Evernote 
XMind
Each of these two tools is extremely powerful and combined they can change the way you organize your digital life.
Evernote and XMind. Both will help you remember all your thoughts, but each does it a little differently. Evernote is structured like a notebook so that you can add notes, images, audio and video on digital pages of your digital notebooks. Entries can be tagged and you have a choice of synchronizing in the cloud or not. If you do sync, you can do so between a mac and a pc which can be extremely helpful if you need to jump between the two. I’ve been enjoying the benefits of Evernote for about a year and have found it to be an excellent way to organize my meeting notes and to-do lists. It’s also great at capturing screenshots. I quickly downloaded the iPhone app once I heard of it and can easily say this app has changed the way I work. Using the app on my iPhone allows me to take pictures of articles or books that I later want to return to or purchase. I should also mention that text in images is also searchable within the application.
I’ve only just come across XMind as it was recently reviewed on lifehacker. This application takes the mind mapping approach to organizing all your crazy new business ideas or whatever. Based on what I’ve seen so far, I know I’ll be spending time pouring my thoughts into this cool utility.
Both are available for Mac or PC and both are FREE!
Grand Central becoming Google Voice
The news is out about google voice – coming soon! Get yourself on the invitation list so you can have one master phone number for everything!
Description from Google Help Page:
Google Voice is a service that gives you one number for all your phones, voicemail that is easy as email, and many enhanced calling features like call blocking and screening, voicemail transcripts, call conferencing, international calls, and more.
Blog from your iPhone
I’ve been testing this app and have to say that it is outstanding! I can virtually blog from anywhere.
Free Photoshop Alternative
I’ve only just started playing with this application, but it already seems truly amazing! If you need to edit an image and don’t own a copy of Adobe Photoshop, give this online application at pixlr.com a try!
Edit photos for free
pixlr.com
So you’ve got some digital images you want to edit, but you don’t want to fork over the big bucks for Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Elements? Head on over to pixlr and give their online application a try. I’ve given it a quick test and it appears to be incredible. The performance and features are amazing. Best of all, it’s free!
Start promoting yourself for less than $10 bucks
I recently was asked by a friend, “How do I get a website”? The first thought that went through my head was that I needed to offer this person a solution that was incredibly simple and inexpensive. There are many ways to get a website up and running and many potential problems and costs that you may run into depending on the type of site you want to have. For the sake of time and money, let’s say you just want a personal website that you can maintain yourself with little to no programming ability and with a very small budget.
Solution: WordPress.com
Step 1: (Cost $9.99)
Register your domain name with GoDaddy. You can do the same thing with other registrars, but GoDaddy does have very low prices and their customer service is good.
Step 2: (Cost $0)
Create a site at WordPress.com. They offer plenty of instructions and the process is very quick and simple. Video tutorials can be found on wordpress.tv. There are no hosting charges unless you upgrade and/or your site becomes ultra popular and you start getting slammed with hits. But that would be a good thing!
Step 3: (Cost $0)
Log in to GoDaddy and redirect your site to go to your new wordpress.com site URL.
For examples of sites using Wordpress.com – see the WordPress Blog.