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Keep Track Of Time Spent On Tasks With ‘Whatcha Doing?’ For Windows

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Computers and technology is meant to make our lives easier and if there's one thing most of us need assistance with, it’s task management. There are countless task management apps available across desktop, mobile and the web designed to aid people in finishing their work in a timely fashion, each boasting their own features and functionality. While most of the task management apps let you set alarms or reminders of some sort for your important chores and assignments, what if all you want to do is to track the time you've spent on a particular task? Whatcha Doing? is a desktop app that can be of great help in this regard. Let's take a look at it to find out more. Read More

Insanely Popular To-Do List App Clear For iPhone Available For Free

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App developers and even big companies like Apple are always accusing others of copying their ideas or different unique features. The rise of Siri was followed by a barrage of voice-controlled personal assistants. Having said that, few third-party apps reach the level of popularity where developers on the platform (and even other platforms) start copying them. Clear managed to do that, with clones coming out on Android, and even on the Mac App Store where it has an official client of its own. It’s not like the app costs too much on iOS (priced at only $0.99) but some people just refuse to spend money on apps if there is a free or stock alternative available. For such users, it is now possible to download Clear without spending anything, as long as they are living in the U.S. This is because Clear has been nominated as the Starbucks ‘App of the Week’. Read More

Postpone Is A To-Do List Web App With Mailbox-Like Task Reminders

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The world is an unorganized mess and there is a good chance that merely making a mental list of things you want to do will do you little or no good. It’s precisely why a new to-do app and task manager pops up every other day, and Postpone is yet another service for this very purpose. Postpone groups your tasks into workspaces and with a free account, you can add up to three workspaces. Each task has a title and a description. Tasks can be marked as done, kept in you current workspace's task box, or moved to the ‘Snoozed’ box.  Much like Mailbox for iOS, when snoozing a task, you can select when it will return to the main task box. You can use one of the preset time intervals or enter a time and date of your choice. The other noteworthy feature in Postpone is that you can ‘mention’ people who are involved in a particular task, provided they have a Postpone account too. This not only allows them to know when they've been included in a task, but also lets you search your tasks by person. In all objectivity, it’s an immensely productive use of the ‘mention’ concept that is largely used by social media sites. Postpone is currently in private beta and the invite codes can take up to a month to arrive in your inbox. Read More

Your To-Do List Is Always A Click Away With Wunderlist For Pokki

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At one time or another, you must have come across the name Wunderlist. The popular to-do list application that debuted on Windows has earned its fair share of success on Windows, web and mobile platforms including iOS, Android and Windows Phone. When we first reviewed it, the app instantly won us over, and as mentioned earlier, it has spread across different platforms since its inception. Recently, the app made its way to Pokki as well. For those who are unfamiliar with Pokki, it is a web app platform for Windows that houses a myriad of beautifully crafted web versions of various services and games. Wunderlist For Pokki not only looks better than its desktop counterpart, but it's also fairly lightweight in comparison. The app allows you to add various tasks and set reminder notifications prior to their due date. Read More

Asana Brings Its Official Mobile Project Management App To Android

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After a successful run on iOS, the official Asana Mobile app has been released for Android as well. Asana is easily one of the most sought after project management web apps, and its availability on the mobile platform gives any team of people working together, the ability to keep themselves and others updated with every development regarding a task or project. Having been just released for Android, I feel the app's UI needs to be slightly more user friendly for those who have just started with Asana. That said, the app brings almost all the Asana features you'll require for collaboration on the go. We take a look at the app and how it functions after the break. Read More

Tasks By Telerik Is An Elegant, Feature-Laden Task & Project Manager For Windows 8

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We live in an age where life has become a busy and hectic routine, with a lot on our hands and little time to manage it all manually. That’s why keeping a tab on what’s most important plays a significant role in managing everything successfully. Thanks to various task management utilities available for web, desktop and mobile platforms, technology is helping us tackling this more efficiently. If you’re on the hunt for a Modern UI task manager for Windows 8 or RT, take Tasks By Telerik for a spin. It’s a Windows store app that lets you manage your tasks and projects in a refreshing UI. You can set task notifications, add voice and photo notes, specify a recurrence pattern, filter or sort the tasks according to categories, and a lot more. Read More

InFocus Pro: iOS Project Management Suite With A Sketch Pad For Notes

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It’s always nice to see a feature-rich app, but when an app offers way too many unrelated features, people seldom like it. A successful app strikes a fine balance between being full of useful features while maintaining an acceptable level of understandability. You might be tempted to think that InFocus Pro tries to do too much, but all the features it offers are interconnected in one way or the other. Basically, InFocus Pro is a project management app incorporating task lists, notes, sketches and calendar appointments for each project. There might be other apps available for iOS that do the same things, but InFocus has the advantage of accepting handwritten entries for almost any field. It is also possible to make the app read your notes and lists out loud. Read More

Calendar Pro: All-In-One Journal, To-Do List & Notes App For Android

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If your daily routine involves handling and keeping track of a lot of events, to-do lists, tasks, notes and reminders etc. on the move, you might be in search of a comprehensive personal schedule management app for your smartphone. Cloud sync support and an intuitive interface are two important aspects to consider for such an app, and those are exactly what Calendar Pro delivers. Fresh to the Play Store, Calendar Pro aims to be the only calendar and personal journals, notes, to-do lists, reminders, events and activity management app you’ll ever need on your Android device. Sporting an uncluttered UI, the app comes with Google Calendar and Facebook integration to let you sync your events and friends' birthdays. In addition, it also comes with extensive weather details for multiple locations, horoscopes, themes, a unified view for daily activities, and plenty of other options. Read More

Note Down & Track Your Daily Tasks With ActiveNote for Windows 8

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It can be quite annoying to keep forgetting tasks that you can’t afford to ignore, be it an important visit to the airport to pick up your old chap, or your spouse waiting to celebrate your wedding anniversary. If you are in the habit of forgetting important tasks like me, then try giving ActiveNote a shot. It’s a Windows 8 application that lets you create tasks and event notes so you can keep a tab on your daily agenda. The app is fully optimized for Windows RT tablets with a convenient alternate layout for portrait orientation. Read More

Auxo Adds System Toggles, Thumbnail Previews & More To iOS App Switcher

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Some of the most popular Cydia tweaks started their journey to fame as mere concepts from ordinary iOS users. The magical thing about the jailbreak store is that it puts no restrictions on imagination. That is why Cydia developers can turn concepts into reality pretty quickly, and the latest example of Cydia’s true potential is Auxo. The tweak was released a few days back, but very few people could actually use it since it was exclusive to iOS 6. Now however, Auxo has been updated to work with iOS 5.1.1 and above. This App Switcher alternative makes the multitasking tray much more cosmetically appealing. No longer will you have to bear the drab app icons in the switcher, as Auxo shows snapshots of apps themselves, right in the tray. Though, cosmetic changes are not the only thing offered by the tweak; you also get better music controls and customizable system toggles. Let's take a closer look at all its features after the jump. Read More

Zime Is An Android To-Do List Manager With A Gesture-Controlled 3D Timeline

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It’s the beginning of a brand new year, and to help you with your new year resolutions, we have a brand new to-do list and event management Android app for that aims to take care of your task scheduling needs more efficiently compared to most alternatives. Currently in beta, Zime is a well-crafted personal time-organizing app boasting plenty of interesting features including an interactive gesture-controlled 3D timeline view, Google Calendar integration, custom workdays, work hours & lunch break specification, advanced task prioritization, statistical analysis of self-evaluated tasks, multiple skins, and all the basic notes and event management tools that you’re required to work with. There's a lot more to the app than that, so let's take a look at its features in detail after the jump. Read More

jLauncher Is A Gorgeous, Fullscreen Multitasking Overlay For iPhone

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Cydia developers just love tinkering with the App Switcher tray and bringing new multitasking methods to iOS. Tweaks like Imperium, Switchy and Zephyr all deal with multitasking. While all these tweaks have been pretty successful among jailbroken users, the quest for the perfect App Switcher hasn’t quite ended. jLauncher is the latest effort to perfect task management in iOS. This attractive new tweak doesn’t mess with the existing App Switcher tray, but offers a completely new, Activator-based task manager. The features aren’t too different from the stock switcher, but when it comes to looks and convenience, jLauncher is in a league of its own. The app switcher offered by this tweak can be accessed even when you are on the lock screen, and appears as a translucent, overlaid screen that shows music controls (complete with album art) and recently used apps, which feels much better than having the whole thing confined to the bottom of the screen. Read More

Nitro Is A Simple OS X To-Do List App That Syncs To Dropbox & Ubuntu One

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Task management, at times, gets so complex that you need a better way to keep track of the things you have to get done, other than just taking a mental note of them. Not doubting the use of a stack of Post-it notes, but you might want to use a more sophisticated method for creating  lengthier to-do lists or reminders. Nitro is a free Mac app that lets you do just that. Besides an aesthetically pleasing interface, the app is very well written in terms of functionality. Tasks can be grouped into lists, you can set a due date for a task and add tags and notes to it. It supports keyboard shortcuts, allows you to control how the week and date are laid out, comes loaded with five UI skins to chose from and last but not the least, syncs with Dropbox and Ubuntu One. Read More

Bitrix24 Offers Easy Project Management, Feedback & File Sharing For Web & iOS

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In order to ensure that a project runs smoothly, communication between all team members is of paramount importance. All persons involved in a project must be familiar with  their responsibilities, and the tasks for all the team members should be clearly defined. A centralized workspace, especially where a large number of individuals are concerned, where every aspect of current and upcoming tasks are written down and available for all the participants, is a one of the prerequisites of accomplishing the set tasks. Good desktop project management software can provide you with all those things, but you will required to install the software on the computers of all team members. To avoid this hassle, and all the problems that might accompany it, you can turn to an online solution like Bitrix24. Primarily a web app, Bitrix24 lets you to create and manage team-based tasks, share files and get feedback without having to configure any specialized work management solution, and even has an iOS (iPhone and iPad) app for on-the-go management. Read More

PZenDump: Create Memory Dumps For Multiple Processes In Batch

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Whichever application you execute on your PC, Windows treats each as a separate process. Among various advantages that such scheme of running applications holds, process debugging is one of them, and comes useful in varying situations. For instance, abnormal crashes of a particular application are identified through debugging the process. For this, a process must first go through a memory dump – more like a snapshot of the process from memory to your local drive. Programmers or system analysts also use the dumped file to sort out various issues in the problem at hand. Dumped processes are saved with a .dmp extension. Windows Task Manager easily lets you dump any selected process, but not as efficiently, and more importantly, not in batch. Moreover, it’s also quite difficult to identify the exact process you’re looking for – especially for casual users. If you have had a problem creating a memory dump of the target process, then PZenDump is probably what you need. It’s a very lightweight application that lets you dump multiple processes in one go. In addition, it also shows the application icon next to its process, something which the Task Manager doesn’t come bundled with, and which can be a huge help. Read More

MissionBoard: A Graphical App Switcher For Jailbroken iPhone & iPad

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The iOS App Switcher does a pretty good job, and lets users efficiently perform all the tasks that it has been designed for. Having said that, if you have a jailbroken iDevice, then chances are that you always welcome new alternatives to existing iOS features, and that’s exactly what MissionBoard is all about. This Cydia tweak does not bring any new functionality to the table, but provides a whole new way of task switching for users having jailbroken iPhone or iPads. MissionBoard does not disturb the existing App Switcher tray, and offers a separate view of recently opened apps. You can select any Activator gesture to launch MissionBoard, and the tweak will come up with a screen containing a thumbnail view of all the apps you used recently. Read More

RoboTask: An Effective Task Automation Tool For Windows

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By automating system operations, one can save a significant amount of time in order to achieve efficiency and optimum task management. RoboTask is a useful application that equips you with a feature-rich task automation environment loaded with useful hotkeys for essential functions. It can automate a wide range of tasks sequentially whether be it simple execution or manipulation of system variables. It eliminates the need for batch file execution, offering you an easy way to run multiple applications scripts and commands in a required sequence. You can now ensure data integrity by automating backup operations as well as peak system performance by configuring automatic execution of useful tools like the disk defragmenter, data backup etc. Similarly, you can choose to run the tasks when the system is idle. In short, RoboTask monitors both the user needs and the system activity to optimize utilization at each end. Read More

To-Do DeskList Lets You Manage Tasks In A Collaborative Manner

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Imagine a situation where a thought comes to your mind and you automatically look for either a pencil or a pen to jot it down or an advanced task management software to retain the memory for later use. Many a times, these notes get lost either physically or in a huge jargon of information. To-Do DeskList is a user-friendly task management utility that organizes tasks on your desktop with emphasis on priority and flexibility. It is a small yet powerful utility boasting auto-arranged sticky notes on your desktop, global hotkeys, synchronization and sharing options equipping you to effectively manage varying workloads over time. The DeskList concept is based on user-friendliness, achieved through accessibility from the desktop. With a comprehensive support document and window, managing life using notes and reminders could never have been this easy. Read More

Intelligently Organize, Schedule, Prioritize And Manage Tasks Online [Web]

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There are numerous task management software that aim to simplify and schedule your to-do lists with emphasis on efficiency and effectiveness. Although your information may get organized and overlaid exactly in accordance with your specifications, this may not guarantee successful decisions. Taskk is an online tool that intelligently schedules tasks according to the specified priority and the relevant time span. The interface is equipped with useful tooltips that enable you to fully understand its features and options. Now, you can plan, organize lists, prioritize tasks, share and collaborate in order to achieve the most in the minimum possible time while taking care of any unforeseen circumstances with just a few clicks. The web interface is fully responsive for access on the go using mobile devices. Read More

Paymo: Cross-Platform Solution For App Usage Tracking & Billing

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For everyone interested in resource optimization when dealing with multi-tasked problem solving both indoors and outdoors, Paymo is a fairly useful and powerful application that is available for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android, which enables you to achieve the collective goals of project management, time tracking and online invoicing with a few clicks. The activity track can be shared for the relevant office-bearers via RSS feeds, while documents can be uploaded through the file storage provided with the account. Now, your data can easily be synchronized automatically, on the go. With feature-rich tools, Paymo Plus manages simultaneous tasks using a simple time tracking technique. Its desktop widget records timer-based task-specific information, while Paymo's Android and iPhone apps allow you to take note of time utilization during and between meetings. So, if you're a freelancer, convincing your employer of your hard work coupled with activity-based charging. The task set-rate and application usage then become an accurate basis for online invoicing through Paymo's built-in Invoice and app usage features. Read More