Two of my 2007 resolutions for 2008 were to buy a home (which I did) and to work more efficiently. I waste a lot of time each day by jumping around from project to project. I call it “multitasking,” but let’s call it what it is: I’m pushing some projects farther and farther in time. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I want to do it but it seems that time really flies away from me.

In an effort to be more aware of “where the time goes,” which I wonder every day around 5 p.m. as I look at my barely dented to-do list, I’ve downloaded a handy-dandy piece of time-tracking software, imaginatively called actiTIME.

I must confess, it’s taking some getting used to. For instance, I forgot to write down how much time I’ve spent on Inkthinker tonight. But so far I’ve been doing well with it, especially for daily work like the many product reviews I write.

Once I know how much time I’m actually working in each day, I can work on making my work more efficient or, at least, be able to forecast my time-to-delivery for my projects. My goal? Six hours of actual coding/designing and one hour each of marketing and bookkeeping each day. The rest of the day will go to my personal projects or just living life.

I’m pretty sure there are lots of other time-tracking solutions but after using actiTIME for a few weeks, I’m convinced it will help me achieve my 2007 resolutions, and with some time spare!

My wife Patricia is a certified movie addict. Since the first day I met her, any free time goes to watching DVDs, movies in theatre or movie channels on TV. Recently, she has turned to watching movies on my laptop as nephew (who’s spending a few days with us) has been taking over our living room flat TV. That should give you an idea of how addicted to movies she is.

You can just imagine the pile of unorganized DVDs that are scattered in our home. As I was finding ways to organize her DVD movie collection one again, I stumbled upon this software called “All My Movies”. In its simplest form, it is a DVD organizer created for those are tired of collecting DVDs, CDs and more. Downloadable and easy to install. It makes your collection of movies be in a more ordered way, as we know where each movie is, what’s about, even who’s in it! It’s also easy to navigate (great for when you’re in a rush to find that special movie). It downloads all the information from the internet movie database (IMDB)

You can check on their screenshots to how simple to use this DVD catalog is. All My Movies does not only store the titles and category but a full record of the film which includes of course the title, director, year of release, actors, genre, a bit of a description and even the type of storage media you have it on (DVD, AVI file, VHS, etc…). With all this information, I can browse the movie collection, find something I like (or find what my wife is talking about when she mentions a movie….) and go right to where it is stored. How’s that for simplicity?

Although I most often work in projects requiring AJAX, I love FLASH components. I know Flash is a SEO killer when not used right, and that it can really cripple a website is the user happens to be using an old browser or if he decided to disable Flash support but there are times when things can only be done by using Flash.
I don’t mean only the dazzling effects you can do with Flash but also the endless interactions you can obtain using ActionScript. For instance, check the 3D wall galleries below.

They can be obtained using a component from Flashloaded.com. The cool about this component is that you can obtain all the effects you see on the picture by using simple configuration details. The component does the rest. Flashloaded is a website dedicated to one overall goal – to provide you with the most innovative, cost-effective flash components and extensions for your website.

At their site you can find almost anything you might need, including Flash movies, Flash website Templates, Flash Gallery, Flash CMS, 3D interactive interfaces, as well as basic elements of FLASH material such as fonts, sounds, video loops, etc. Best of all, many of them are free, and you can re-design, re-develop them, although there’s an agreement you must adhere to. In addition, Flashloaded provides RSS feeds; you can subscribe it for stay abreast of the latest FLASH components resources.

Often during a web conferencing meeting, a participant may experience breakage in his internet connectivity. Once the internet connection is restored, the participant needs to manually connect back to the conference. However, such issues can be easily avoided if you are using RHUB Communications web conferencing products.

The RHUB range of web conferencing solutions has an auto reconnection feature that reconnects the participant to the internet conference, immediately after the internet connection is restored.

Compared to other web conferencing companies, RHUB communications solutions carry an edge owing to its various innovative features such as unlimited web meetings, security for web meetings with firewall, compatibility with most operating systems and platforms, and a  4-in-1 functionality combining Remote access, Web conferencing, remote support, and Web seminar.

The products support application sharing, remote rebooting, chats, file transfer, whiteboard, annotation, meetings schedules, international language support and screen and voice recorder. The products are adaptable to locked computer also. The best feature of the RHUB products is that there is no need to download any software to make an internet conference.

The maintenance of an elaborate Information technology (IT) infrastructure often requires the services of a set of technicians. Providing support to your employees and other stake holders in an organization when they are situated at remote locations becomes a difficult proposition. Hence to reduce the cost of ownership of IT infrastructure, the concept of remote support tools were introduced.

Prominent among them is RHUB Communications which offers a number of remote access tools which are workable on both PC and Mac. They provide instant control, remote reboot and a remote control speed which is 3 times faster. They are also firewall and proxy friendly. RHUB’s products are helping users make the most of remote support applications. To know more about such innovative features you can visit RHUB site at http://RHUBcom.com

I’ve been a user (and a fan) of PhotoAcute software from quite a bit of time now. Since the guys at PhotoAcute have released Version 2.8 of PhotoAcute Studio, their Super Resolution based application for enhancing digital images, I decided to make a personal PhotoAcute Studio review of their newest release.

For those who aren’t familiar with the software, their Super Resolution technology is designed to process sets of photographs taken in continuous mode to produce high-resolution, low-noise pictures. It increases image resolution, removes noise without losing image details, corrects image geometry and chromatic aberrations and expands the dynamic range. Visit http://www.photoacute.com/ for more information.

PhotoAcute Studio improves the quality of photographs taken with digital cameras and camera phones. It increases resolution, reduces noise, removes chromatic aberrations, corrects brightness of overexposed and underexposed parts of the picture.

Most modern digital cameras and some camera phones maintenance the so-called “continuous shooting” or “burst” mode. PhotoAcute Studio Internet is an solution primarily developed for processing sets of digital photographs taken in “continuous mode” to create high-resolution, low-noise pictures. You will get amazing picture quality improvement without changing your camera.

Image resolution increase beyond camera capabilities. Using sophisticated algorithms, PhotoAcute Studio produces single high-resolution picture from a sequence of photos. Unlike the digital zooming and pic sharpening, resultant pics do really have higher spatial resolution. Little, thin and far away objects, traceries, textures and inscriptions become recognizable.

Main features:

• Color fringing amendment.
• Fixing handshaking artifacts in low light conditions.
• Larger picture with super-resolution more pixels in the pic.
• Strong noise reduction without losing the information.
• Removal of unneeded moving objects from the scene.
• The information in underexposed and overexposed parts of an pic become visible.

Minimum Requirements:

• Pentium-III or Athlon-XP or better processor with SSE support
• 512 MB RAM (more strongly recommended)