In a few short hours, 2007 will be no more and it’s been years since I’ve written those good old top “whatever” of “insert year” lists. Since I’ve read, seen, heard and played maybe one book, movie, album and video game respectively this year and I’ve been focusing more and more on technology with this site, I’m going to list off just that…so here we go:
Google Everything: I’ve been a big fan of Google’s Gmail since the service was still invite-only but this year they took it even further, improving the contact feature, adding IMAP support and many other small improvements to the web interface.
On top of that, there’s Google Notebook which allows me to keep a unified repository of notes and can even access stuff I jotted down on my cell phone.
The improved Google Reader is probably the best RSS feed reader out there right now and finally, when I was seriously thinking of switching my e-mail and calendaring work to a service that would work better with my Blackberry, they made Google Sync, which automatically synchronizes Google Calendar to my Blackberry.
Oh, and on top of all that, there was also Google Gears, which allows some of these fancy web applications to accessed offline.
Plus an interesting third-party added a great to-do list to Gmail which brings me to…
Remember the Milk: Earlier this year, I decided to get more organized and at the same time was looking for ways to use my trusty computers make this easier.
Enter Remember the Milk, a web-based to-do list. At first, it simply had a cool interface and again, I was able to access it from my cell phone so I was never without my list of tasks. But it kept getting better. They added direct integration with Google Calendar giving it the much needed task management function…but the tipping point came earlier this month.
The RTM team created a Firefox extension that added a nice to-do list right in Gmail’s interface…and since I keep Gmail open in a separate at all times when I’m online, this means my task list is always open, too.
So, that’s it? A bunch of web services, you ask…pretty much. The iPhone isn’t available in Canada without an excessive amount of effort and doesn’t hold much appeal to me anyway. Vista and Leopard? Please, I have no interest in bloated eye-candy.
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