Smartlife

Product/Service Name

Central Desktop

Brief Description

Central Desktop is a web-based collaboration platform that businesses can use to manage teams, projects, and documents from anywhere at any time. Central Desktop includes a full suite of online collaboration tools including wikis, online documents, task management, shared calendars, discussion forums, databases, and micro-blogging. Easy to implement and scalable for mid-sized businesses, Central Desktop helps businesses communicate efficiently, increase productivity, and reduce costs.

The most important part of getting everything done is remembering what “everything” actually is. We haven’t re-branded as the Dumb Obviousness Blog; proper project management is often overlooked, especially when you’re not actually a project manager but only organizing your own things, and double-especially because it’s the sort of problem that creeps up on you even when things are going well. You’re getting more clients and tasks, you’re making more money and items, and suddenly your heart’s stopped by an e-mail asking “By the way, where’s the [3 MONTHS WORTH…

People ignore some Smartlife advice because it messes with their established patterns, even though the whole point of staying alive is to make tomorrow better than today. Some advice seems like too much work, even though it saves time and energy in the longer run. And sometimes, just sometimes, the advice simply seems too good to be true: an excuse to indulge under the guise of efficiency. This is one such time. Buying a second monitor isn’t an obscene luxury or a greedy gadget grab; it really can improve your…

Making your way around some of the more popular technology blogs on the Internet, you’ll find there is no shortage of coverage when it comes to different apps available for the Apple iPhone. The BlackBerry crew gets their fair share of attention too, so where does that leave all the Nokia owners in the audience? The Symbian OS may not be as sexy or “out there” as some of its competitors, but that doesn’t mean that Nokia smartphones should be left out in the cold either.

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“One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO LIST every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.”

This quote isn’t from some buzz-word business busybody, pushing their latest pack of painfully obvious essays wrapped up in “You Go Officeworker!” patter. Instead, it’s from seventeenth century French fabulist Jean de la Fontaine, a.k.a. “someone who succeeded at a career we don’t even have anymore.” (A fabulist is “a maker of fables,” by the way,…

The real secret to a smart life isn’t solving special relativity or the mysteries of creation: it’s eliminating those almost invisible hassles you never imagine but always experience, usually when you’re on the last minute of an important deadline. Jammed photocopiers, missing the train, the little widget-thing blinking LEDs instead of working — basically everything that doesn’t happen to James Bond. Those are what delay your day.

The most common problem of all is moving a large file. You’ve been up all night, all week, even all month preparing the…