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Happy Birthday Firefox (p.s. burn in hell Internet Explorer)

Take a minute to wish Firefox a happy 5th birthday.  Can you believe? It’s been 5 glorious years since Firefox made it fun again to get on the Internet. Sure Chrome has been a noble experiment and Safari is as elegant as Apple itself, but Firefox is the original bad boy of browsers and it can still makes a geek’s heart flutter.

Happy Birthday Firefox

Twitoaster – Bringing Twitter to your Blog

Twitoaster threads and archives Twitter conversations about you and your blog posts, then threads them and presents them along with background, context, and statistics. Twitoaster is available as a WordPress plugin that automatically retrieves Twitter replies to your blog posts. Readers, bloggers, brands, and companies interested in follower response can easily monitor, manage, and accumulate market sentiment using Twitoaster. Twitoaster may also be used  as a CRM tool or a Twitter client. The service is free by the way.

Can being online increase productivity?

Who knew? It turns out that free tools online can help you achieve your personal, financial, and practice goals. Below you’ll find the 10-step plan to do it.

1.  Get the big-picture of what you want do to using software like mindjet.

2. Develop task lists via Remember the Milk, Google Tasks, etc.

3.  Use services like Bing and Hunch that give suggestions.

4.  Record your progress via Springpad and like services.

5.  Use tools like Diigo, Zotero, and Laterloop, to save work.

6. Searchpad can help integrate the results of your research.

7. Calendar and organize using services like Ning and Meetup.

8. Build or participate in communities of goal-oriented people.

9. Review content-sharing sites like WordPress, YouTube, etc.

10. Refine, reconfigure, repeat.

Sites to Checkout

Geezeo tracks personal finances in a community of like-minded people. The site just launched a Facebook application.

Mint: the more famous and earlier financial website recently purchased by Intuit, the makers of Quicken. Imagine the possibilities.

Goalmigo is an online community that helps you set, track and find supporters to reach your goals.

112 Apps that help you Get Things Done (GTD) is a great list, but of course who has time when you’re getting things done?

From 5 Steps to Getting Unstuck and Pursuing Your Goals