Today Emma turned two-and-a-half. To commemorate this momentous occasion we decided to hold a giveaway in her honor. Since I am a big fan of automation, efficiency, and cycle-time reduction, I want to hear what software products or web-based services you use to get things done. You wanna know what you’re playing for? (Can you tell I love Survivor). Then take a look at the official rules below:
What is the prize:
$25 Target Gift Card
How you can win:
Leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite tech tip (i.e. any tools or web services you use that make you more efficient and productive). For an example of such services click here.
Who is eligible:
You must have a US mailing address. You don’t have to be a blogger to win, just supply a valid e-mail address (don’t forget to include this or I won’t be able to contact you if you are the winner).
When the giveaway ends:
Friday, April 25. I’ll e-mail the winner on the 26th. If the winner doesn’t respond within four business days, a new winner will be drawn.
My favorite tech tip… always be willing to learn new things. It seems once I learn something about technology, it changes. One must be flexible!
Target is a fun store!!
I use Paint Shop Pro every day. I wuv it!
Depends on what I’m doing. I really love Adobe Photoshop album for pictures, iTunes for keeping track of my music and favorite Podcasts, and Blaze Media Pro for converting music from one format to another (I convert my iTunes tracks to .mp3s using that program so I can play them in my car.
There are many others but those are just a few.
Please enter me. I like photobucket too to share videos with family and friends. I am currently trying to figure out how to keep up with all the blogs I read and am trying Google Reader.
Microsoft outlook is my favorite tech tip! It is so great and it connects to my Palm pilot so I can sync up my computer to that and everything is much more portable. Thanks!
I use Picasa for pics and I also use a word count javascript site.
iGoogle. It’s so convenient to have a homepage I can access from anywhere. I keep all my bookmarks on my iGoogle homepage so that wherever I am, I can access anything I need. It works out well for me, since I don’t have my own computer. I use my dad’s or sometimes my brother’s, so using the built-in bookmark tool feels like I’m encroaching on their space a little bit. So I just keep them all in one place on my own homepage. So great.
google is probably my life preserver!! Love love love it. It helps me find anything & everything. BTW.. you’re daughter is beautiful. Thanks for the giveaway.
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Hahahaha! I am so tech-challenged so I hope people like me sitll have a chance. I’d give you advice if I had any but I’m in desperate need of it myself, lol!
I love my iPhone. I have all I need in that little gem! Oh, and I love a good spreadsheet for my grading!
I love Picasa for photo editing.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I use BirthdayAlarm.com to keep track of all my family and friend’s birthdays and anniversaries. I get a gentle reminder by email one week ahead of time and then 2 days before the date. It’s great!
I really don’t know if this counts, but I use my Palm T/X like crazy and don’t know how I ever survived without it. When the battery dies, I go nuts b/c I don’t know what is going on next in my life! LOL
Well… my husband swears by the iGTD program he installed on both our computers. I’m sure that it would work for me too if I would just input my tasks like he does… maybe tomorrow?
I like Shutterfly for organizing my photos and sharing them with friends and family. And I like my yahoo address book for keeping contact info somewhere besides my cell!
AVG and spybot to keep out pesky spyware and such
I love target! But to qualify…. I know nothing techy! Ok, so I just finally learned how to basically use igoogle. So I love iGoogle. I hope that counts! 🙁
paying bills online is a MUST for me. your little girl is the epitome of toddlerhood–HOW CUTE.
I’m not very tech, but I use flickr and google way too much.
Keeping in touch with family and friends via email and Skype! Love Skype…must use it more, though.
dbstout[at]juno[dot]com
Hey, don’t forget my giveaways!
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Your website is set up so organized and clean. I can tell you are efficient and probably a fantastic dad! What a fun way to celebrate your daughters 2.5 birthday.
As for my own tech resources, I LOVE listography.com. I inherited my mom’s habit of using lists, and sticky notes. Well, no more (except for grocery lists)! I log into listography first thing in the morning when I’m logging into mail, and it’s totally saved our house from random paper and stickies.
Thanks for the great giveaway, and happy carnivaling!
laurachilton {at} hotmail {dot} com
RoboForm helps to fill in those forms I use all the time. It helps me to remember which password did I use here. Or which password did this site assign me.
thank you for asking. Time for me to look over everyone else’s choices on software.
Great place to learn about something that will make life on the computer easier.
Thank you.
She is such a cutie pie. I would LOVE, did I mention LOVE, to win this gift card. Thanks so much!
godslittlefamily@hotmail.com
Such a cute picture fro your give-away. I don’t know if this is a tip or not, but I know my life got a whole lot easier when I discovered Google Reader instead of trying to click on every site on my blogroll every day.
Thanks for the entry.
I’m not very techy, but I’ll give it a try…Picasa is some great software for picture editing and collage making 🙂
Love me some Target!
I use the Google calender feature a lot, as it reminds me of things while I am online. Also, I love ?Flickr and other photo-sharing sites so I don’t clog people’s email when I want to share pictures.
We do almost all our banking at ing.com–it’s worked really well for us!
My favorite tech help is the googlereader. I love only having to check for blog updates in one spot.
I love my motorola q smartphone! phone, email, contacts, music all in one place!!
well, I love firefox. and they have an email program called Thunderbird that makes my life easier. I also like google and all the things it offers, like docs, videos etc. It makes it easier to keep in touch with my family.
by the way, your daughter is adorable!
Online banking is a great timesaver for us.
I can’t think of many… I’m somewhat technologically challenged. I do love my photo-shopping software, PaintShopPro.
My favorite tech tip is the Google calendar!
I couldn’t live without my instant messaging!
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I enjoy instant messaging. I’m not much of a computer person.
I downloaded free software from Avery so that I can type addresses into the computer and print labels to send out my baby announcements when she arrives!
I use a thing called Roboform on my comp to fill forms.
I like my Yahoo page because I can set up the RSS feed to all the blogs I like to read. Thanks for the chance!
My only tech tip probably isn’t much of a tip…we just use picasa to store photos and such. It’s nice to have a back-up somewhere that won’t get lost in case the computer crashes. My best tech tip though, is that the less I am on the computer, the more I get done (for me personally…I know some people have to use the computer to get things done). Thanks for the giveaway!
Let’s see…some of my favorite things I use daily on my computer are:
Mozilla Firefox
Bloglines
Google Toolbar (autofill is my favorite function for freebies)
Google Calendar
Trillian (hosts all my IMs)
PSP XI, Dreamsuite, & Animation shop for my graphics
I use to be very impressed with making photo books on Shutterfly or Snapfish, but now I am in love with making photo book on the Creative Memories Photo Center!
I love firefox and del.icio.us bookmarks. I read all my blogs in bloglines. I also love google notebook & clipmarks.
oh technology- I so don’t know much about it. I just love blogging, and how you can get to know people all over the world. so fun!
I love using Walgreens.com photos. We live pretty close to one so I just send them over online and they email me when they’re finished. I really love that!
i sadly just use an excel spreadsheet to monitor my spending. does that count?
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My best tip is use Roboform to fill out n,a,c,s and such!
I love google reader-cuts my blog reading time in half!! Thanks!
Happy 2 1/2 b-day!
To help me be more efficient…three words…ON LINE BANKING!