Baxtis’ blog

Hello,

Today I would like to present you some productivity tools that can make your life much easier. I have done a lot of research on software and webapps to suit this purpose but there is no one that could satisfy me completely. While searching for good apps I was looking for:

1. good design
2. good useability
3. possibility to expand software with plugins
4. price, ideally I would like to have them for free

I have started with Microsoft Outlook about 5 years ago, it has a great calendar, email client and vry nice interface. However now it became exremely heavy to load and t lacks portability. I also have used Todoist.com but after I have payed for the montly subscription and haven’t seen any offered features or any response from support team I have abandoned it as well. I have used some tome webapps and PC software but still with no good result.

So that’s where I have stopped:

Postbox

Postbox is a recently launched project, its client is available both for mac and pc. It is extremely useful if you have various email accounts and spend a lot of time to check for new email there online.

Pros:

1. Integration with Gmail, Hotmal, MSN, POP and IMAP servers
2. Great great design
3. Cross OS
4. Tiny intrgration with Facebook
5. Mozilla based core
6. Ability to use plugins (they have promised it in the newxt releases)
7. Zero price (at least now, while it is in beta version still)

Cons:

1. Postbox takes ts time to load
2. It lacks good spam filters
3. It lacks calendar although it has a rudimentary todo lists

Google Calnedar

Google calendar is a great webapp, it uses heavily Ajax so you can perform the most important tasks smoothly without annoying page reloads. Google Calendar is constantly updated and empovered with new features, so most recent one is its todo list, works great for a first release althout some improvement should be done there.

Pros:

1. Completelyportable (it is a webapp)
2. Great design
3. Todo lists
4. Intergration with a lot of services (weather forecast, remember the milk, facebook, horoscopes etc)
5. Availability for Iphone and another smart phones.

Cons:

1. It needs a better todo lists

With these two you will become more producstive, just take a look and decide if they suit your needs.

In the next post I will present you 2 more productivity tools I heavily use.

Yours Mike

Hello, I am almost sure that nobody reads my blog at this stage however I am adding new content whenever I can. This night I have installed a new theme called Modern, you also can download and use it for free using the link on the footer of this website. I think that’s a good measure since my own layout is still under development, and even more, since I will be heavy loaded by studies and exams in the next 7 weeks, using pre-made theme is the best solution. 

So, here it goes.

While I am still developing this blog’s layout I just would like to add a short trick that will increase your productivity, here is what you will need to do:

Often I have a great mess in my room, my PC table is full of glasses, Marlboro boxes and empty pack of candies, there is a lot of clothes on the floor, the trash bin is full of shit with a some papers around it, so you can imagine how nasty my room becomes at these moments. Once I enter “multitask robot mode” (this is my little game) I can clean all the mess in a question of a couple of minutes. So, what do I do for that? Let’s imagine that you have to leave all the glasses and plates to the kitchen, now pick them up, go to the kitchen, on your way there pick all the stuff that can be left there as well, once you are on the kitchen find everything that you could take to your room (I usually take a clean clothes), now with the clothes in your room, you begin to place on its site, while doing this just pick any other clothes that isn’t at its place. The goal is not to waste any single trip to kitchen, toilet etc and do all the stuff in multi thread mode. Wors great, just try it yourself

Good luck

Hello everyone,

This is my first blog entry, I am still developing the layout and tweaking all the PHP stuff here, so be sure to check it back soon, surely you will note some changes.

So, right now content is the king, what will I blog about? Hmm, nice question, to answer it I first should drop a couple of words about me:

My name is Mike and I am a russian guy currently living my 24th spring I have moved to Portugal when my mother has married to a portuguese man, after 3 years of living there I have decided to realize my most important dream: study Medicine. Once with a strong purpose I have moved to a little spanish town called Santiago de Compostela, that’s where I am currently living. 

I have a lot of interests and hobbies, music, health, webdeveloping and computers. I also like to read and learn new stuff, that’s precisely what I want to share with you. So, if you are a medical stud, freelancer or just a guy who wants to learn how to live your life better, you will find this blog interesting.

This is my first post, quite stupid but at least it serves you to get a little information about me.

Hope to see you here again,

Mike