I am not a well organized person. Whenever I see something inspiring or interesting, I find a piece of paper and jot it down. As a big fan of Note-it notes, I stick the note on my laptop, on my desk, on my plans, … almost everywhere.

It is easy to throw away the to-do-list. But it is not easy to organize the little gems scattered here and there. Luckily I have found a very useful handy freeware, Stickies.

As you can see, the stickies look like the real note-it notes, but in electronic formats.

You can enter all kinds of info you want to remind yourself, just as you normally do as with the normal note-it notes. You enter items, you can cross them out when they are done, you can update them. You can have several notes stuck on your monitor. You can keep them open, you can hide them. All very handy.

I have found it a huge way of organizing my findings, thoughts and ideas. And I am happy that I don’t rely on the note-it notes that much any more. Well, I guess I have saved some money plus a part of a tree.

If you are interested in downloading is, here is the link.

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Look at these well-designed icons. They are free for download from http://www.userinterfaceicons.com/, a site created by Abdylas Tynyshov. These icons are a part of his project with the aim of

The objective of this project is to provide high quality, free icons to software and web application developers at zero cost!

And,

Icons come in 4 sizes; 80 by 80 pixels, 48 by 48 pixels, 32 by 32 pixels, and 24 by 24 pixels.

All images are in .PNG format with transparent background.

These are perfect for website designs!

There are 140 icons in the download package. I think it is great for the web developers to have these as a resource.

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I am in the process searching for a good solution for galleries, and the article posted by tutorialblog.org offers great resources and references. It is an excellent collection if you are considering setting up an easy gallery on your site.

“There are a large number of Flash image galleries but sometimes Flash is not required or cant be used so we turn to Javascript and CSS. Here is a roundup of some of the better Javascript and Ajax based solutions to our gallery requirements …”

In this post, you can find 12 image galleries. Here I would like to mention a couple I like the most.

• Modified Hoverbox Image Gallery

• slideViewer

• Minishowcase

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To make the web appealing is a task for web developers. To have some codes handy for use is a good idea.  Here is a small list of some of them. I hope this list will grow over the time…

Jibberbook -a free guestbook. Downloadable.

Fisheye –”The idea behind a fisheye control is a strip of icons, being vertical or horizontally laid out that reacts to the user’s mouse as it approaches the icon.”

phatfusion – It is a javascript men. Clicking on each image opens the item and closed it.

Fade Out Bottom — “This is a cool effect where the bottom of the page seems to fade out. The technique makes use of an fixed position div (bottom: 0%) with a transparent PNG image and a high z-index value.”

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I have to admit that I am not an organized person. I often get lost in various tasks and therefore got distracted. Then recently a friend sent me the link to Mark McGuinness’ e-book “Time Management for Creative People“. I thought it would be a normal e-book on time management, so I did not give too much attention at the beginning. One night I started to read it, and I could not put it down. It is a great book with great resources.

The index of the book contains

1. Why you need to be organised to be creative
2. Prioritise work that is ‘important but not urgent’
3. Ring-fence your most creative time
4. Avoid the ‘Sisyphus effect’ of endless to-do lists
5. Get things done by putting them off till tomorrow
6. Get things off your mind
7. Review your commitments
8. Resources to help you get things done

The point that we have to be organized to be creative makes a lot of sense to me. It also gives us a direction to improve our time management capacity.

I don’t want to say too much of the book so you will enjoy reading it better. However, when you finish reading it, I believe that you would feel the same urge to implement the mentioned tips.

I wish you a successful new year of 2008!

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It is cool to set a picture or a phrase reflect itself . ReflectionMaker is a free online tool for this very task. You simply upload a photo from your local disk or a webspace, specify how big you want it reflected shadow is and the work is done. So simply, isn’t it?

Here is a photo I made. Quite neat, I think you would agree.

Another tool is Speech Bubble tool. You add some word, click enter, the word is placed in a speech bubble. Fast and easy.

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It is important for a home business owner to come up with ideas. How to generate ideas? The best and most effective way is to use mind maps. Mind map is “the whole-brain alternative to linear thing. it reaches out in all directions and catches thoughts from any angle.” (- Michael Michalko, Cracking Creativity). If you don’t know much about it or how to use it, there are some extra readings for you:

Drawing mind maps on a piece of paper is fun. It really helps come up with brilliant ideas, find inspired solutions to any problem and set goals. However, sometimes it would be better to have the maps saved in a digital format and share it with other people. There are several mind mapping software available in the market, but most of them are not free and the functions are not completely satisfactory. But here came Exploratree–

Exploratree is a web-based application that allows the user to create mind maps, or to organize ideas and thoughts in a visual manner. The service is for free. There are a lot of ready-to-use templates for the user to start creating from the scratch. Users can share it as a group project. Users can save and print the created mind maps easily as well.

Let’s take a look at one of the many templates.

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I think it is a great resource for any home business owners of self-employed people to start using it to get ideas, to move ahead with innovative thoughts and plans. Well, of course, the next step, and more importantly, is to put the ideas into action.

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Being a home business owner, you cannot avoid giving presentations on your prospect, your business performance. Do you often use Excel chart to achieve the virsual effect? Now you can also try Rich Chart Live, an online chart creator. All the charts created with Rich chart Live are as flash, with animation and interactivity.

You don’t need to register to start creating your charts. You can choose chart types, add words and data, change the background of the charts, and lots of more. Complete charts look beautiful and interactive. I think they are more impressive than the common Excel charts.

Once you create the charts, you can save them as flash, powerpoint file or simply embed them into blogs by copying and pasting the link.

Below is an example.

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(by: Ahmed Zahid)

In “Web Designer’s FREElance Toolbox for Windows” from Digital Web Magazine, there is a great list of free software, some of which I use quite often and believe valuable to share with you.

Here I give you the list, if you want to find out more, please read the article.

Antivirus Software
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

Audio Editing
Audacity

CD/DVD Burning Software
CDBurnerXP Pro 3

Content Management System
WordPress
Interesting, Wordpress is listed as a free content management system. Well, I think it makes sense. Wordpress has lots of potential we can explore.

DHTML Menu Generator
OpenCube NavStudio

FTP
Leech FTP 1.3
Core FTP

HTML Editor
1st Page 2000

Messaging
Gaim

PDF Creation
PDF995

Office Suite
OpenOffice.org

Screen Capture
ScreenRip32

Video Editing
Windows Movie Maker

VoIP
Skype

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When your website or blogs get attention, advertisers come to you for a space on your site. Managing all the ads is very time-consuming, not to mention the uploading, changing links and other tasks.

There are some applications we can use to manage ads. But, most of them are not free. Well, the charges are not that expensive, but for a start-up business, free software is for sure more attractive. Luckily there is one, an open source ad management software, Openads. It is a powerful software and has been used by tens of thousands of web publishers around the world.

Want to know more, here is a brief introduction

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