Weekend picks #015

Internet is not a network of Computers. Internet is a network of people!

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David Allen in YouTube
What is GTD? Well Getting Things Done is not tiring, what it is tiring is not Getting Things Done. Check out this lecture by David Allen in YouTube and you will understand more.

[2]

43 Folders in YouTube
And as long as you are in YouTube you may want to check out also Inbox Zero, a lecture from Merlin Mann, the creator of 43 Folders

[3]

Internet Download Manager
I haven’t used a Download Manager for years. I installed IDM [Internet Download Manager] because I wanted to test my Internet connection. The first thing I did, well, was to download something. I was surprised. The highest download speed I had ever seen was around 425-430kb/sec from a particular ftp server regardless the time of the day. With IDM I was somewhere between 465-480kb/sec from the same server! After some minutes it settled to 470kb/sec. I didn’t believe it. I tested with Firefox again, the result was 425kb/sec. One more test with IDM, the same results, after a while 470kb/sec. IDM is great! It can catch downloads from Internet Explorer or Firefox, Opera and Netscape or you can add your own browser. You can even download videos from YouTube, Google Video, and MySpaceTV and it works like a charm in Windows Vista.

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SmartLinks
SmartLinks is a different kind of Links. You can put them in your website, your blog or where ever you could put a weblink like your favorite social networking site. The Blueorganizer extension drives productivity by building smarts and semantics into the browser.It integrates with many popular sites and services - including Amazon, Flickr, YouTube, iTunes, Odeo and Netflix.

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Layered Desktop
Who said that a successful GTD tool must be a 100MB program? As I was writing this post a friend of mine (Thanks Maria) send me a link for a Flickr Image. What a great idea was my first thought! A nice looking desktop with four areas to help you stay focused in what needs to be done next. It doesn’t work if you have 20 or 30 icons on your desktop but if you have that many desktop icons then you really have another problem ;-)

Until next time... keep on using the net to meet new people.

Share files with Firefox

Keep folders synchronized and share files with your friends and family with Allpeers and Firefox.

I was trying to find an easy way to keep two folders (one in my PC at home and the other at work) synchronized. Allpeers does not only that but it will let you share files (any kind of files, any size) with your friends. Just install it as any other Firefox extension. It will permit drag n drop files and you could even set it to automatically download any new files your friends share with you. It will even let you download torrents with Firefox and I really liked that it let me share them with my contacts.
The current version has a limit of 300 hundred files but this will change in future versions.

You can find it here
UPDATE: The AllPeers service is no longer available