Check your ISP Speed ! from Speedtest !

Free ISP Speed Test website Speedtest (http://www.speedtest.net/) checks your upload and download speeds against various Geo Located ISPs based on proximity to the ISP. And it displays a nice report of upload and download speeds with URL Links to the reports so that you can share with others. I had my ISP speed checked and here are the results. http://www.speedtest.net/result/913584771.png

Organizing your TO-DO Tasks with Remember the Milk (RTM) ™ Website

Forget Often? The call that you were supposed to make this morning, the bill that you were to submit yesterday, your buddy or relative’s birthday which has gone past 2 days back ?
IT pros are busier with deadlines and often push their time in the offices. In doing this, they forget some “social” tasks, which others expect they would remember and do! I have been in all this too often!

http://www.rememberthemilk.com is a website which helps you build and organize a TO-DO task list. Its PRO version has Sync features with Google Calendar.

They have fused Mail and Tasks too. Just in case you can’t help “blackberrying” email or hitting F9 in Outlook, you can email your TO-DO task. Just signup with the RTM site and they will give a unique email id to you to which you can mail your task and it will get created in your RTM Inbox (See attached screenshot). And on the day of the task, you get reminded by SMS/ EMail.

Now, Lets not forget anymore.

Use Norton Ghost for Ghost Recall !

Once you have installed Windows (or Linux) and have got tons of Windows Updates and Security Fixes (or Linux Patches are there ? frequently ?), and installed n number of programs, it becomes crippling and a pain in the ass if one felt swoop of Virus or disk crash or malfunction wipes away all the stored data and settings. So, if you want to be SAFE and SECURE with your precious data, use Norton Ghost for a point in time recovery of your complete OS. It has options to backup your data by burning CDs (which you may require by tons if your OS and installed progs are several GB in size) or external Storage Hard Disk. Norton Ghost has an intitutive interface and you can do a "Managed Backup" (updates your systems recovery point (All OS and Data and settings etc) with a complete backup and then incremental backups at regular intervals) or a "One time backup", which will do a backup and after restoration you will xyz programs short, which you installed after the backup was done. See the attached screenshot.