Category Archives: Tools and Resources

One Note Examples of Use

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: October 28, 2012
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As promised, I am following up on my last post, ” Productivity With One Note“; this time to give you examples of how I use the program. I am a blogger, web designer, and internet marketer. This is in addition to my roles as mother/carer and committee member of a national disability charity. I need to be well organized so that I can easily swap from role to role. I always keep One Note open and available for every time I want to make any kind of notes. I have a few separate “Notebooks” open at a time, which are [...] Continue Reading…

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Productivity with One Note

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: October 22, 2012
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Microsoft One Note is my primary method of recording all details of my online business programs, blog notes, web design and development activities, personal notes and reminders. My records are always available to me from any computer, anywhere. If you need to be organized I highly recommend that you consider using this program. It has improved my efficiency, productivity and time management and is a vital tool for me. Built into many of the MS Office packages, One Note does not get the attention it deserves. Its features are far more extensive and powerful than Evernote and other note taking tools. [...] Continue Reading…

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Best Tools and Tips to Speed Up Blogging

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: June 24, 2011

Following up from my last post about tasks to complete before and after publishing a blog post, Post Writing a Blog Post Post, as promised I am going to talk about my favorite tools that you can use to automate or speed up this process: Spelling and Grammar To automatically check your spelling and grammar “After the Deadline” is available as a stand alone plugin for WordPress or as an add-on to the Tiny MCE plugin, as an add on for Firefox and Chrome and as an OpenOffice.org extension. Keywords and SEO A WordPress SEO plugin is a must have [...] Continue Reading…

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Tools for posting to Twitter and Facebook

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: April 18, 2011

I am all for making life easier by making  tedious tasks  as least time consuming as possible. I find tedium hard to cope with. I have always thought ironing outmoded and, despite liking cotton and natural fibres, now buy clothes that do not need the iron. Hopefully my carbon footprint remains steady; cost of manufacture of synthetic fibres versus electricity for the iron. I class posting numerous links to Twitter and Facebook a tedious task: copy title, copy link or open another site and minimize the link, paste link, comment, post, repeat. Here is how I make this easier: Make [...] Continue Reading…

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Firefox Collections and Social Networking

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: June 13, 2009

Collections are a newly introduced Firefox site feature that allow you to save lists of your favorite add-ons (extensions, toolbars, Greasemonkey scripts) to your Firefox profile. A subscribe option allows you to add the collections of others to your favorites and track when these are updated. These user created collections are ranked by the amount of subscribers they have attracted. The Firefox Collections page allows you to view lists of Editor’s Picks (so far only Firefox Created Collections), Popular Collections, your own and your favorite Collections. The lists are searchable by most popular all time, most popular this week or [...] Continue Reading…

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Best Color Tools For Your Blog

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: April 21, 2009

Do you come across web and blog templates or themes that are ideal layout wise but the colors do not suit you or your site’s purpose. These are relatively easy to change via a templates CSS style sheet but you may need some help choosing the correct color combinations. There are numerous free online tools to help in your decision, so many that it can take time just choosing which tool to choose. Rather than creating a long list of what is available I have chosen a selection of a variety of the more comprehensive but easy to use free [...] Continue Reading…

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Best Thunderbird Addins To Save Time

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: March 16, 2009

Image: by mybloodyself My previous post on Thunderbird covered methods to organize and keep up with your emails. This post will show you extra techniques to use, to speed up the process further, by using a small selection of Thunderbird addins. QuickFolders (Folder Tabs) 0.9.9.5 This is a real time saver for storing your emails if you have a lot of Thunderbird folders. Dragging your most used folders to the QuickFolders toolbar creates shortcut tabs to them. When you want to move emails to these folders, instead of having to search among the sidebar folder tree, you now just drag [...] Continue Reading…

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Downloading Videos and Video Players

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: February 28, 2009

Downloading videos from YouTube*, Google Videos, Myspace, Facebook and other popular video sites requires the use of downloader programs, browser addons or online video tools. Some downloaded video file formats may not play in your preferred video player. This article is intended to help you through the maze of optons so that you can easily download videos for personal use. You can then view them later without connecting to the internet. Video Downloaders There are many downloaders available in various forms. Some offer more features than just downloading. Here is a selection of the most popular for you to choose [...] Continue Reading…

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Social Bookmarking v Social Bookmarking Rating

By Sue Bride (Sueblimely) | Published: February 21, 2009

Advantages of Using Online Bookmarking Bookmarking services such as delicious came along very early before the surge of services of the social media revolution. They could now even be considered the start of it, although at the beginning bookmarking was probably considered more of an online service than a sharing activity. The popularity of social bookmarking rating sites such as Digg and Stumbleupon and Reddit left ordinary bookmarking in the shadow. However interesting, popular and up to date the content on the rating sites may be, they are not as useful for reference or research purposes as the bookmarking sites. [...] Continue Reading…

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