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.
Well, I love Bloglines (saves me a lot of time) and One True Media (so EASY to make FAST slideshows and videos). Great giveaway!
Outlook calendar and trip advisor – oh, and Kaboodle is fun too!
Spreadsheets – I am all about the spreadsheets. I organize everything in those happy little boxes. 🙂
I’m not at all techie….so my best tips is to use google to find out information on anything I happen to be looking for, and I call my future brother in law when I am having computer issues. Your daughter is adorable!!!
julie_ruhlman(at)hotmail(dot)com
DreamHost is my favorite webhosting company. 🙂 They have a wonderful control panel and really listen to what their customers want/need.
I am so not tech saavy. But I love Target!
I love Target!
Great giveaway!
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Google calendar is great!
I just started using delicious bookmarks and Sandy. They help me keep me organized!
What a beautiful model you have!!!
I love my Google Reader!!
I have just found and LOVE the picnik website – it’s a very fun, easy, and free photo editing site! Thanks 🙂
Gmail has a sharing documents thing where everyone you invite can work on a document together online. It is awesome for group projects and saves having to work on things only to find someone else did it too.
Google Calendar. It’s fabulous to be able to sinc with my hubby and keep our calendars together online!
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Not exactly a tech tool per se, but I do save a lot of time paying the bills directly from my bank’s online billpay service.
I am so not tech savy! I yell HELP and my fantastic hubby says, “what did you do now?” My favorite tool is Excel, I love making charts!!
I love the Bookmarks tab on my web browser. I have 5 million (slight exaggeration) folders and I bookmark sites I find that have great information in them or products I’ll want to buy later…I even have a folder for all the contests I want to enter! I couldn’t live without bookmarks!
I love the ad-aware program. It is a free program for personal use. I put it on every single computer I have, at work and at home. It doesn’t cause your computer to run slowly b/c it isn’t a background program. I run it once a week and clear TONS of spyware! I have tested it against other programs and it finds more spyware than others!
Thanks!
awww, what a cutie! happy half birthday!! 🙂
my favorite tech tip is the internet, lol! i would just die without it!!
I don’t know if this counts, but I love Shutterfly. It makes it so easy to take care of my digital photos and get them printed.
Jennifer
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I suppose “Get a Mac” would not be helpful? Seriously, you don’t want me touching your computer, even in theory.
come enter my contests, too…
Hmmm, I’m a big fan of Photoshop
Roboform is a good one if you like to sign up for freebies and giveaways!
I think one of the best photo processing tips is to use Picassa! It is easy to use even for the amateur.
I love to use fd’s Flickr Toys (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/) to play with photos. They have amazing options to use with things that I put on Flickr from time to time.
Thanks for the great giveaway and Happy Birthday to Emma!
Microsoft Money is awesome. I use it mostly for a checkbook, and I never have any more addition/subtraction errors. You can also set up for automated payments. It really saves time too.
Thanks so much for your generosity!
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cool i love target and that is a super cute picture !
I use photobucket to put up my photos and roboform to fill out for free samples.
I use Bloglines to check all of my blogs.
Not sure if anyone said this one yet – but Twitter! I love keeping in touch with readers of my blog through twitter.
I use the internet for everything. Looking up info. Connecting with family and friends. Blogging.
I use Goggle reader to keep up with all of the blogs that I read.
I also use Google calendar in one of my blogs.
I love my paint shop pro & front page.
I use garage band every week, not for my blog but for work. I also use my widgets like the dictionary, thesaurus, computer for everything … and of course, the internet. Thanks!
My greatest tech tip is….know someone who knows what they are doing. My dh handles all the tech stuff at his office, so I always say that I am lucky to sleep with the LAN manager!
Happy Bday to your cute little one!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
mnatherson(at)comcast(dot)net
My favorite computer program that makes my life easier and I use DAILY is Photoshop CS2. My favorite program on my MAC is iMovie HD.. I made the coolest DVD slide show for my mother’s 50th birthday.
Happy Birthday to your adorable daughter! She is SO cute!
I use Photoshop to design blogs and to edit my photos! Thanks for the giveaway. Please enter me!
Come enter mine for $25 for ebay!
I feel like just using Google when I’m desperate is a good idea, but I liked finding better ones! Great giveaway! Count me in. bebemiqui82(at)yahoo(dot)com
I like the yahoo toolbar. I have some standard links but it will also let me make my own custom links. I have the local newpaper, all of the blogs that I read, my bank, ebay, and my space. Great pic of your daughter and great giveaway! Thanks 🙂
I LOVE google – especially gmail. And, Picassa for pictures storage and organization.
Yahoo and yahoo mail. Helps me keep in touch with my people.
Spy Bot Search and Destroy: to keep my computer clean.
Picasa: To organize photos
Allrecipes.com: My online recipe book.
I am a big time user of Photoshop 7.0, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver.
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
First off your daughter is cute! Happy b-day
Secondly I love target
And last my favorite tech tool (I think this considered one) is my iphoto program on my mac. 🙂
Since I’m a contest fanatic, Roboform is an absolute must!
I love Picasa2!!
I use Photoshop. Does that count? Thanks so much! 🙂
Google’s Picassa is one of my favorites, love photoshop, and I use Microsoft’s “One Note” to clip and store everything from recipes to ideas for my blog.
LOL my favorite look-up for my computer is my hubby… Yeah, I don’t think I’d even know how to turn the computer on if I didn’t have him. J/K
On the subject of Photoshop, Photoshop is offering a free download of a simpler version of their program on their website. 🙂 It isn’t the same one the professionals use, but it does the job for the every day Joe.
I use Microsoft Excel all the time. I used it to make a diaper chart comparing all the different package sizes and prices. That way I can find out if an advertised deal is really a deal or not. I also use it to keep track of rebates I mail off. My upcoming project is going to be a grocery chart. I plan on listing different items we always buy down the left side and each column will be a different store. The next time I go shopping, I’ll fill in the price of each item to figure out where each item is the cheapest!
Your 2 1/2 year old is adorable. Mine turns 2 1/2 in 2 weeks! She doesn’t have nearly as much hair as Emma. I’m so jealous! I can’t even get her hair into much of a pony tail yet!
I love photobucket!
I love Mahalo. It is a search engine that searches in all of them and gives you an indexed list of who has what. It is great!
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