Getting things done isn't easy. In fact, it's incredibly tough. In this article, we look at four ways to get through your work faster: running your life online, mastering RSS news feeds, aggregating your social networks and using keyboard shortcuts to save precious seconds.

This information is compiled from previous Mashable articles: more related articles appear at the bottom of this post.

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When it comes to getting things done, the web can be a real distraction. But thanks to the many new applications springing up online, it also provides invaluable ways to keep your life in order. To start, we look at the web-based apps that can help you most.

Word Processing Services

Online word processing provides you with ways to manage and write documents without a download - great for collaboration or those using multiple computers.

Google Docs - A way to create your documents and share them too.

Zoho Writer - Serious competition to Google Docs. There are some options present that Google Docs lacks and of course vice-versa.

ThinkFree - Think Microsoft Office, except this is the online equivalent.

Buzzword - A recently discovered service that is still in private beta. It has many offerings and a slick interface to boot! (Private Beta)

Web Portals

You have the potential to be productive the moment you turn on your computer and fire up that web browser. You can have all the information you want and need accessible to you immediately by using one of the following services.

Netvibes - Generally considered to be the first successful, independent startpage.

Pageflakes - Pageflakes could be considered the brother-in-law to Netvibes and both have very similar offerings in customization and content.

iGoogle - If you have a Google account, then the iGoogle comes part of the package deal, and since many of us have Google as our home page anyways, why not give iGoogle a trial? My Yahoo - The offerings are somewhat more customizable than iGoogle, but essentially the same concept from a different provider.

Calendar Services

Let's say you have your parent's anniversary, project deadlines, and finally taking the family pet to the vet all coming up this week. Having all these things on a calendar is undoubtedly the way to go for keeping track of these events. Unless you prefer writing it on your hand...

Google Calendar - I personally use Google Calendar on a daily basis. It is just that freaking awesome! Yahoo! Calendar - Yahoo provides a pretty good, but basic, calendar application for organizing your life 30 Boxes - Has a lightning fast interface that is really easy to navigate makes this a good contender. Kiko - A very nice calendar application with a drag & drop interface.

Contact Management Services

Your cell phone and e-mail program are likely your primary sources for keeping information about your contacts. This is fine. You must ask yourself though, what happens if your cell phone is lost, your webmail account goes down or you lose all the data on your computer? You are pretty much screwed. Time to rethink the way we do contact management.

Plaxo - One of the best known services which allow you to keep track of contacts. Other services that can tap into your Plaxo account and utilize your contacts with your permission. Tabber - was created with the notion of linking together friends from many social sites and services, but it still serves very well as an address book and contact management application. Highrise - A premium option to manage your business contacts. If you are more serious about keeping your contacts and have hundreds of them, this could be a cost efficient solution depending on your needs. HyperOffice - Another premium service that offers control of your contacts. This is for more serious contact management.

Communication Services

Stickam - If live video conversations are your thing, then Stickam provides you an excellent opportunity to mingle with friends, coworkers, or just random people if you so desire. We wouldn't use it for business calls, though. Google 411 - This service from Google is likely something you have never tried before, but once you do, you might use it for a long time coming. A good 411 replacement. (US Only) Meebo - If you prefer to communicate with friends and colleagues through IM, then Meebo is the site for you to do it all in one easy to use program. Gmail - The king of e-mail? We think so. Much more efficient at handling large volumes of email than rival services.

Charting & Diagram Services

Ever heard of brainstorming? Of course you have! Well, the following applications follow the same line of thought, but now you can throw your ideas in charts and diagrams often referred to as "mind maps" to plan any future project you may attempt. I personally use these types of applications very often.

Flowchart.com - The title says it all really. Flowchart allows you to create charts and diagrams in a nice drag & drop interface. (Private Beta) MindMeister - Offering both a free and premium version, MindMeister focuses on collaboration in an easy to use "mind mapping"environment. Mind42 - Yet another "mind mapping" web app that allows you to collaborate with others. This one is completely free. Gliffy - Likely the most technical and detailed option on this list. It has many more options available than the others.

Mapping Services

If you need to find out where you are going, and how to get there, these tools can help prevent (or at least reduce) the amount of times you get lost on those long road trips.

Google Maps - Recently has taken over as one of the best mapping tools out there. Not only does it have streets, but you can get an insane amount of data displayed on Google Maps through other services like StreetAdvisor. Yahoo Maps - Google has obviously driven Yahoo to improve its mapping services, and it shows here. Mapquest - A very reliable source for getting you from point A to point B.

File Storage Services

Box.net - A very nice solution to uploading and backing up your files, as well as sharing them. You can sign up for free and get a gig of space, or you can have additional storage with the premium options. MediaMax - Another powerful and useful service to regularly back-up all your important data.

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RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, saves you time when consuming news and information. Instead of visiting hundreds of news sites and blogs, just subscribe and receive all your updates in a single news reader. If you need an RSS reader, choose one from the list; and if you're a little more tech-savvy, check out the browser plugins and management tools that can make your RSS consumption even more efficient.

RSS readers - Windows

Omea - one of the most fully featured RSS readers out there; can get a little slow as its database grows; free in its basic version, also has a commercial, advanced version with more features Mozilla Thunderbird - Mozilla's e-mail and RSS reader, supports skins and add-ons Awasu - RSS reader with a customizable user interface, the ability to synchronize with other readers, bookmarking and annotation, and republishing of your feeds GreatNews - integrates with Bloglines, and offers a very fast way to browse through your feeds RSS Bandit - RSS reader that offers organization of your feeds through folders, as well as synchronization across several installations IntraVNews - an RSS reader that integrates with Microsoft's Outlook. SharpReader - requires .NET framework, lets you organize feeds into folders, integrates with Feedster, can display new items via system tray popups eCruiser - an RSS reader in Japanese Juice - a pretty basic RSS reader Opera - Opera web browser comes with a fully featured RSS reader FeedDemon - Newsgator's feed reader offering a high degree of customization, newspaper-style feed reading, synchronization with other Newsgator products, and feed search Snarfer - a free RSS reader, with key features being river of news style view, embedded video display, synchronization with Bloglines, powerful search and filtering Active RSS Reader - simple RSS reader with a very small hard disk and memory footprint Feed Amasser - a very lightweight, freeware RSS reader FeedExpress - a freeware, open source RSS reader; quite basic, but with some nice features, for example CSS customization Crackfeed - a tiny systray based application that notifies you with RSS news as they come HappyFish - RSS reader and podcast client, requires .NET 2.0 Attensa for Outlook - RSS reader that fully integrates with Outlook, support OPML import/export, scheduling, republishing, and advanced feed organization Briz RSS Reader - a very simple RSS reader Particls - desktop RSS notifier and ticker with lots of options, also has a Firefox plugin Anothr - RSS reader/bot for Skype/Gtalk/MSN

RSS readers - OS X

Newsfire - RSS reader for OS X NetNewsWire - Newsgator's RSS reader for the Mac comes in two flavors: commercial and free PixelNews - a commercial Mac OS X RSS reader that comes with a huge database of feeds Shrook - a Mac RSS reader which also has a web based version; supports synchronization, instant notifications via Growl, real time search, smart grouping and more Vienna - a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader, with a built-in tabbed browser and the ability to customize feed display NewsLife - RSS reader for the Mac, pleasing to the eye, simple and easy to use Squeet - another Mac RSS reader, currently on hiatus

RSS readers - Linux

Liferea - RSS reader for Gnome users Akregator - RSS reader for KDE Straw - RSS reader for Gnome, supports RSS and ATOM, as well as exporting/importing OPML feeds Snownews - text based RSS reader for all you 1337 people AgileRSS - desktop aggregator that is able to display any RSS, ATOM, and XML news feed; also offers an RSS news ticker

RSS Readers - cross-platform

RSSOwl - works on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. Offers, among other features, a multi-pane, highly customizable interface, OPML and blogroll import, internal browser, and a search engine. BottomFeeder Rich-featured multiplatform RSS reader (works on Linux as well as Windows and OS X), supports CSS customization, OPML import/export, and plugins. BlogBridge - open source RSS aggregator that allows you to create dynamic feed reading lists

RSS readers - web based

Google Reader – In addition to tracking your feeds, Google’s popular RSS reader allows you to star items (like in Gmail), view trends in your feeds and reading habits, and recently added an option to read feeds offline. iGoogle – Formerly known as Google Personalized Home, iGoogle allows you to include RSS feeds as part of your custom start page. Netvibes - This personal homepage provider includes hundreds of “modules” you can add to your page from Hotmail to your Flickr photos, but also lets you create your own modules by simply entering an RSS feed URL. Pageflakes – Another personalized homepage provider, Pageflakes functions similar to Netvibes, letting you select from pre-made modules or create your own by adding an RSS feed. My Yahoo! – Still the most widely used custom homepage on the Web, My Yahoo now allows you to add RSS feeds alongside your weather, stock quotes, and news. Similar to Netvibes and Pageflakes, My Yahoo allows you to re-arrange your feeds with drag and drop features. My Netscape – Netscape’s personal homepage service also includes the ability to add RSS feeds as content modules. An account also lets you participate in their Digg-like homepage voting. Daily Rotation – A no-frills personalized homepage aimed targeted at techies, Daily Rotation includes recommended feeds from hundreds of tech sites, and also lets you add in additional feeds of your own choosing. Rojo – A part of Six Apart, Rojo is a web-based reader that combines RSS aggregation with a community of sorts, showing what people are reading on their homepage. Bloglines – One of the early online RSS readers, Bloglines “split screen” interface makes it easy to view the full content of any of your feeds. The service is part of the IAC family of sites. Newsgator – NewsGator’s RSS reader allows you to organize your feeds in Windows-style folders that can be expanded and collapsed. MySindicaat - an advanced online RSS reader with a tree-like feed layout, available in several different flavors, including a mini ticker and a mobile RSS viewer. It also has RSS mixing capabilities. Fwicki - web based RSS reader that lets you create custom river-of-news style feeds. NewsAlloy - a fast and full-featured web based RSS reader. Also has a mobile version. Feeds 2.0 - a personalized RSS aggregator, that learns from your reading habits and displays relevant feeds

Mobile RSS Readers

NewsGator Go! – NewsGator’s mobile version syncs with user’s online accounts, allowing you to read their feeds on the go for $29.95. LiteFeeds – Once downloaded to your phone, LiteFeeds allows you to browse your feeds, email articles to friends, or bookmark them to your del.icio.us account. Egress – This program for Windows Mobile sports a clean UI and also supports podcasts. Egress is available for $12.95. Mobispine – Mobispine is a free Java application for reading your feeds on your mobile. The service also includes a web component where users can add feeds to the Mobispine database, see related feeds, and leave comments. Quick News – Designed for Palm OS, Quick News lets you download feeds either via a HotSync or a direct internet connection for later use, which enables offline (or out of coverage) reading. Bloglines Mobile – The popular web-based reader also offers a browser-based mobile version to access your feeds without downloading anything. FeederReader – This application is designed for phones running Windows Mobile, and bills itself as being especially well suited for developers, allowing you to view the RAW XML files for and its XML elements and attributes. FreeRange – This Java application will work on Palm OS, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry. The site has optional Google Reader integration. Google Reader Mobile – If you use Google Reader, you can access a version designed for mobile phones. ZapTXT for mobile - mobile version of the ZapTXT widget.

RSS to email converters

Feedblitz - one of the most popular RSS to e-mail converters. Supported by FeedBurner. Also has a Firefox plugin. ZapTXT - monitors feeds for certain terms and sends you notifications via e-mail. Also has a mobile version. R|Mail - offers simple subscription to any RSS feed, as well as an R|mail subscription widget which you can use on your site

RSS Feed Validators

Feed Validator – By entering your feed URL at Feed Validator, the service will literally translate your RSS to code and identify any potential problems. It works with versions of RSS up to 2.0. RSS 1.0 Validator – This validator for RSS 1.0 generates an HTML page identifying any errors. Redland RSS 1.0 Validator & Viewer – This validator offers a variety of display options for checking your feeds.

RSS-related plugins - Firefox

Sage - RSS reader for Firefox, has a decent amount of options, allows CSS customization Wizz - a very advanced RSS reader for Firefox with a huge set of options RSS Ticker - an RSS ticker for Firefox with a large number of options Beatnik - simple RSS reader for Firefox BlogRovr - a Firefox plugin that brings you related news based on your feed choices and the website you're currently visiting NewsFox - fully featured RSS reader for Firefox, with three panes; similar to Thunderbird InfoRSS - another RSS ticker for Firefox with a very comprehensive set of options Feedbar - Feedbar displays new live bookmarks items directly in your Firefox sidebar

RSS-related plugins - Wordpress

Feedlist - a wordpress plugin that displays linked lists imported from an RSS or ATOM feed Feedsmith - redirects all RSS feeds on a Wordpress blog to the Feedburner feed. Fedafi RSS plugin - a plugin for Wordpress that creates a full text valid RSS 2.0 feed from your Wordpress blog and adds a style sheet, tracks subscribers and clicks on articles. BDP RSS aggregator - converts RSS feeds to Wordpress blog entries. Handy for creating an automatic blog. Sig2Feed - Wordpress plugin that lets you add a signature to your RSS feeds

RSS-related plugins - other

Good News Trillian RSS plugin - allows you to read RSS feeds in Trillian RSSNews - RSS reader for IM client Miranda RSS Feed Scanner - Azureus plugin that allows for automated downloads by means of advanced feed filter configurability RSS Popper - RSS plugin for Outlook and Outlook Express RSS Reader for Gaim - enables you to read RSS feeds in Pidgin (formerly Gaim)

RSS managers

Feedburner - the obvious one. Recently acquired by Google, FeedBurner has become the de facto standard for RSS feed management, offering a huge set of features, including detailed analytics, chicklets, feed optimization and ad insertion. WebPasties - a set of RSS-related tools, including some feed management features FeedPass - creates a nice landing page for your feeds

RSS mixers

Yahoo! Pipes - an advanced RSS mixer with a graphical user interface; supports simple operators, filters, and many advanced functions Feedbite - a combination of an online RSS reader and an RSS mixer, with the possibility to vote for RSS "bundles" Feedblendr - a very simple RSS mixer that doesn't require registration Blogsieve - full featured RSS mixer that lets you blend up to 5 feeds and do some advanced filtering on the results Feedcombine - RSS mixer that lets you blend feeds from a list of predefined sources Feedshake - RSS mixing and some basic filtering xFruits - a set of very neat tools for RSS blending, filtering and conversion, including an RSS to PDF tool BlastFeed - an RSS mixer that lets you combine and filter feeds and get them delivered via e-mail, IM or RSS FeedRinse - an advanced RSS filter that enables you to get rid of the "spam" in your RSS feeds FeedDigest - RSS mixer that lets you mix and sort feeds and then republish them on a website Popfly - Microsoft's very promising RSS mixer, currently in closed beta Google Mashup Editor (GME) - Google's set of developer tools for creating mashups RSSMesh - a PHP script that lets you blend several feeds into one Afeeda - RSS mixer which lets you blend all your favorite feeds into one

RSS Ping Tools

Pingoat – On Pingoat, you enter your blog URL and select the services you would like to ping. Doing so will make sure that the selected sites crawl and index your site. The site has nearly 50 different services you can ping. Ping-o-matic – Enter your blog or feed URL and select from a variety of blog search engines and Ping-o-matic will send them a ping. The site has about 20 services to choose from. Blog Flux – In addition to a variety of other tools for bloggers, Blog Flux offers Pinger, which includes more than 30 sites you can automatically ping, including several language specific indexes. ping service – This site is mostly in Dutch and automatically pings a few of the larger services such as Technorati and Weblogs.com

Feed directories

Syndic8 - one of the biggest RSS feed directories; integrates with several services on this list Technorati - indexes blogs based on tags and authority, as measured by incoming links. Feedster - organizes feeds into content channels such as technology and celebrity gossip. Blogstreet - places feeds into different directory categories and also has a Digg-like homepage powered by user rankings. Weblogs.com - one of the original feed directories, Weblogs.com simply shows the most recent blog updates automatically as they happen. Icerocket - a blog search engine that also keeps track of blog statistics with their Blog Tracker product. blo.gs - a simple listing of recently updated blogs in the spirit of Weblogs.com. blogdigger - blog search engine, also has a Local feature for finding bloggers in your area. 2rss.com - a categorized blog directory and search engine with about 10,000 feeds indexed. WeBlogALot - a blog directory that also pulls in breaking news feeds from mainstream sources.

RSS tips & hacks

Steve Rubel's collection of RSS hacks Another set of RSS-related hacks from Steve Rubel Web Worker Daily's tips on RSS reading 5 RSS tips by LifeDev Steve Rubel's 35 ways to use RSS feeds RSS tools for Firefox - a detailed roundup of RSS-related add-ons for Firefox here on Mashable Mister Tipster - a hardware USB mini display aimed specifically at displaying RSS feeds Some RSS tips from Wired Read RSS on your AppleTV

Miscellaneous RSS-related tools

SearchFeedr - RSS feed search, supports Yahoo!, Google, MSN Live and Altavista FeedCycle - bundles feeds into "episodes" and delivers them on a scheduled/daily basis FeedCrier - brings RSS feeds to your instant messenger Clicky's RSS feed - Clicky is a web analytics tool which can deliver analytics results via an RSS feed RSS Panel X - a Greasemonkey script that displays RSS, Atom, hAtom and OPML directly from originating website FeedForAll - create and edit RSS feeds and podcasts Radio UserLand - a combination of a publishing platform and a news aggregator Custom Reader - a white label RSS reader solution, ready to be branded to your liking Chaos Wallpaper - RSS reader and wallpaper changer in one FireAnt - RSS reader focused on podcasts, vidcasts, and media NewsAloud - converts RSS feeds to voice RSS2PDF - converts RSS feeds to PDF format Dapper - creates an RSS feed from any website Feedity - another RSS generator that can generate an RSS feed from any website RSSMicro - an RSS search engine; searches over 65 million feeds

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OK, so social networking isn't often productive, unless you're rubbing virtual shoulders with a potential employer. But if you must use all these sites (and most people do), how about saving time by aggregating all your profiles and updates in one place? These services do just that.

Profilactic

Profilactic has very recently been upgraded to version 2, which brought a decent amount of new features - a new look, support for Pownce, LinkedIn, Shelfari, and the ability to add more than one account for the same site. At its core, Profilactic still does the same two things: it displays your personal lifestream, which consists of your social networking activity, and a group lifestream from your friends. What it does, it does well; however, we'd still like to see more options to interact with the items in your streams. There's also the option to create clippings - bits and pieces of information from the web; but this option is not really connected to the rest of the features on the site.

Minggl

Minggl is a browser toolbar that works with Firefox, IE and Flock and promises to "put you in control of your social web universe". Unfortunately, you'll have a hard time testing this claim unless you have an invitation code, since Minggl is currently in invitation-only phase. The idea behind Minggl is to "attach" social networking profiles to Minggl and then control them all from one place. You can see an overview of the main features in this video tutorial.

iStalkr

Another application that's based on the concept of group lifestreaming, iStalkr perhaps chooses the most logical route of all the applications on this list. It enables you to follow your own and your friends' social networking activities on a timeline, and to act on it directly from iStalkr's interface. Working with iStalkr, we've noticed that the updates aren't coming that fast; but we're not sure if this is due to the limitations of various APIs involved or iStalkr itself.

Correlate.us

Correlate.us doesn't really give you the ability to do much with your social networks, it merely gives you a nice overview of your activities on them. While the application is quite simple, it's done well, and we think that it could be a good basis for a bigger project.

Explode.us

Instead of aggregating social networking information, Explode.us lets you search all the social networks with one form. For each found user you can see tags, friends, comments, as well as the latest content this user posted. Explode.us supports, among others, LiveJournal, Flickr, Twitter, Jaiku and 43Things.

Spokeo

Spokeo is a social network tracker which enables you to track what your friends are doing on various social networks from Spokeo's interface. It aims to be the simplest of the aggregators, offering a kind of "RSS reader for social networks". Our longer review of the newly launched Spokeo is here.

Profilefly

Create a profile with your personal information, clippings from the web and your personal social networking lifestream. Profilefly works as a widget or as a Facebook application, and it supports a huge number of social networks, including MySpace, Digg, Hi5, Facebook, Last.FM, Second Life and many others. The actual profile is a bit bland, with the lifestream - which should be the center of such an application - offering very limited options; for example, time stamps and any kind of interactivity is lacking.

PeopleAggregator

PeopleAggregator aims to become a social identity hub. It works through a desktop software application which currently runs only on Linux, and although we applaud its reliance on OpenID and open standards in general, the decision to start a service that aims to connect social networking users and their profiles, on a Linux platform, seems like a suicide. The official FAQ which is at the moment a bunch of spam links doesn't help. Look at the presentation of the service in HTML form here.

SocialURL

SocialURL helps you organize your online identity and get back in touch with all of your friends and classmates. It's a unified profile with support for photo galleries and videos, as well as a central portal with links pointing out to all your other social network profiles. It's all spiced up with lots of additional features, like on-site email, reminders and bookmarks.

Socialstream

We've already said quite a lot about Social Stream considering that it's not even in beta stage yet - all that's available at this point is a vidcast presentation of what Social Stream can do. However, the huge amount of attention that Social Stream got is a clear indicator that some pieces of the puzzle are still missing in the social network aggregator space.

Tabber

Tabber is a personal profile page, which displays some information about you together with your latest activity on Digg, del.icio.us, your blog, Twitter, or any RSS feed. It's very similar in concept to ProfileFly, and just like it, it lacks any possibility to interact with your lifestream.

Naymz

Naymz is another personal profile site, which goes a step further than services like Tabber or ProfileFly by giving you the possibility to actively monitor certain sites for mention of your name. Naymz also actively promotes your profile by trying to make it more visible on Google.

8hands

In contrast to the majority of the other services described here, 8hands is a desktop application which currently works on Windows XP and Vista. It allows you to access your profiles on social networks (currently supported are Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and many more) from a single IM-like interface. The idea is to have an overview of what's happening on your social networks, and send instant messages to other users. 8hands software is currently in alpha (I guess we're lucky alpha is the first letter of Greek alphabet, otherwise we'd have even more unstable software dubbed with a name that signifies even earlier stages of development), so expect some instability.

Second Brain

Second Brain takes a radically different approach to aggregation than other apps on this list. You organize your data - this includes data from your social network profiles, like Flickr photos or YouTube videos - into collections. A collection is basically a bunch of links, photos, or other bits and pieces of data thrown onto a dashboard; you can create your own collections or explore what others have collected. While the concept seems powerful, I've found myself trying to find something to do with it all. In any case, Second Brain is currently in invite-only beta stage and there will probably be some changes in the service until it goes public.

UpScoop

UpScoop lets you upload the contacts from your address book (Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail and AOL are supported) and it lets you discover which of your friends are active on social networks like Hi5, MySpace and others. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing UpScoop didn't work with my perfectly valid Gmail address, so I couldn't properly test it out. Hopefully, it's just a temporary glitch.

ProfileOMat

ProfileOMat advertises itself as the last profile we'll ever need - if only things were that simple! ProfileOMat doesn't really aggregate your social networking profiles; it merely creates a profile from which you can reach all of your other profiles on social network. It does have a couple of nifty features, for example, you can set up your geographical location with the help of Google Maps.

MyLifeBrand

MyLifeBrand tries to go a step further by really integrating various social network sites within a MyLifeBrand frame. While this approach brings a far more streamlined experience, it's unlikely that social network users will want to open their favorite website within some other website; also, there's always the possibility of unexpected errors with this approach. At this time MyLifeBrand is in invite-only beta, so if you don't have an invitation code, you won't be able to try it out.

ProfileLinker

Amongst the rounded corners and reflections that have become the usual visual identity for Web 2.0 ProfileLinker stands out by looking very Web 1.0-ish. After registration, you can add your various social network profiles and your contacts, and all this activity will be shown on your ProfileLinker profile. The look and feel of the interface leaves a lot to be desired; for one thing, I'd like to be able to remove random information about ProfileLinker's history that shows up on my profile; in general, the options for personalization are quite limited.

Snag

Snag takes a no-nonsense approach: no registration required; just enter some of your social network credentials (Facebook, MySpace, Hi5, Friendster and LinkedIn are supported) and you get a group lifestream of your activity on these networks. The application needs much polishing, though; for example, entering the wrong credentials won't result in an error; instead, your lifestream will consist of login errors retrieved from that particular network. At this point, Snag looks more like proof-of-concept than a full-fledged app.

Socialnetwork.in

Besides aggregating your social network profiles, Socialnetwork.in spices things up with ratings. Perhaps I'm just unlucky, but testing the service resulted in numerous errors which pretty much prevented me to do any serious analysis. To see some basic features check out the screencast here.

MyMashable

OK, a free bonus for the 21st: Mashable also aggregates your social networking links in one place, with video, photo sharing, Flickr import and other features. It's worth disclosing at least.

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OK, Speedy Gonzales, it's time to half your email response time and double your productivity with these keyboard shortcuts for popular services. Cast aside your mouse: this is much quicker.

c - compose a new mail / - puts your cursor in the search box k - move to newer conversation j - Move to older conversation n - next message p - previous message o or Enter - open a conversation u - return to conversation list y - archive a conversation m - mute (archive and make all future messages from this conversation skip the inbox) x - select conversation s - star a message or conversation ! - report spam r - reply to a mail a - reply to all recepients f - forward message Esc - escape from input field ctrl+s - save draft

key combos

tab then Enter - send message y then o - archive your conversation and move to the next one. g then a - go to all mail g then s - go to starred conversations g then c - go to contacts list. g then d - go to drafts g then i - go to inbox

Official list of Gmail shortcuts

j/k - selects the next/previous item in the list space/shift-space - moves the page down/up n/p - in list view, selects the next item without opening it o - in list view, expands or collapses the selected item enter - in list view, expands or collapses the selected item s - stars the selected item shift-s - shares the selected item m - switches the read state of the selected item t - opens the tagging field for the selected item v - opens the original source for this article in a new window shift-a - marks all items in the current view as read 1 - displays the subscription as expanded items 2 - displays the subscription as a list of headlines r - refreshes the unread counts in the navigation shift-n/p - selects the next/previous subscription or folder in the navigation shift-x - expand or collapse a folder selected in the navigation shift-o - opens the item currently selected in the navigation gh - goes to the Google Reader homepage ga - goes to the "All items" view gs - goes to the "Starred items" view gt - allows you to navigate to a tag by entering the tag name gu - allows you to navigate to a subscription by entering the subscription name u - hides and shows the list of subscriptions ? - displays a quick guide to all of Reader's shortcuts

Official list of Google Reader shortcuts

calendar view

c - Allows you to create a new event. + c allows you to create an event in a new window. / - Places your cursor in the search box p - Moves your calendar view to the previous date range n - Moves your calendar view to the next date range t - Moves you to the current day d - Displays your calendar in the "Day" view x - Displays your calendar in a customized view w - Displays your calendar in the "Week" view m - Displays your calendar in the "Month" view a - Displays your calendar in the "Agenda" view q - Opens "Quick Add" Esc - Brings you back to the default calendar view

event view

Enter - Expands a collapsed region Tab - Moves your cursor to the next field Alt then s - Saves the event Esc - Brings you back to the default calendar view

Official list of Google Calendar shortcuts

arrow keys - pan the map in various directions page up, page down, home and end - pan out even wider +/- - zoom in/out

Official list of Google Maps shortcuts

space bar - play/pause right/left arrow skip -jump back 5% up/down arrow - increase/decrease the volume 5% m - mute f - toggle full screen Esc - return from full screen to normal mode

Official list of Google Video shortcuts

Ctrl+B - bold Ctrl+C - copy Ctrl+I - italicize Ctrl+P - print Ctrl+S - save Ctrl+U - underline Ctrl+V - paste Ctrl+X - cut Ctrl+Y - redo Ctrl+Z - undo Shift+Tab - move to previous cell/row Tab - move to next cell/row

The above are only the shortcuts which work in both docs and spreadsheets. For a full list of all keyboard shortcuts in these two apps, see below.

Official list of Google Docs & Spreadsheets shortcuts

main panel

h - show help arrow keys - navigate through modules e - edit module d - delete module p - publish module Enter - perform action on module (depending on the module, it can be open feed, start typing, etc) Esc - removes focus from current module a - add content to your Netvibes page j and k - navigate through tabs

tabs shortcuts

t then o - opens tab options t then 1,2,3,4 - sets the number of columns to 1,2,3 or 4 in the current tab t then r - rename tab t then d - delete tab

content panel

h - show help a - add new feed b - go to Netvibes ecosystem t - close the content panel

feed reader

h - show help n - next item p - previous items a - mark all as read u - mark all as unread Esc - close feed reader

Official list of Netvibes shortcuts

+ - add a new section (talk pages only) . - opens your user page if logged in = - protect/unprotect the current page (sysops only) c - shows the content page associated with the current article d - delete/undelete the current page (sysops only) e - edit this page/show source of current page f - search Wikipedia h - current page's history j - shows all of the pages that link to the current one k - shows recent changes in pages linked to the current one l - opens your watchlist (logged - in users only) m - move the current page and its talk page (non - move - protected pages only) n - opens your user's or IP's talk page p - shows a preview of your changes (on edit pages) q - shows a list of all special pages r - shows a list of recent changes to the Wikipedia s - saves the changes that you have made (on edit pages) t - opens the current article's talk page u - allows you to upload images or media files v - shows what changes you made to the text (on edit pages) w - adds the current page to your watchlist (logged - in users only) x - loads a random article y - opens a list of your user's or IP's contributions z - goes to the Main Page

Official list of Wikipedia shortcuts

(these shortcuts work when editing posts)

control + b - Bold control + i - Italic control + l - Blockquote (when in HTML - mode only) control + z - Undo control + y - Redo control + shift + a - Link control + shift + p - Preview control + d - Save as Draft control + p - Publish Post control + s - Autosave and keep editing control + g - Hindi transliteration

Official list of Blogger shortcuts

t - Add a new item to the current list c - Complete the selected task/s p - Postpone the selected task/s by one day if they have a due date d - Change the due date of the selected task f - Change the repeat of the selected task g - Change the time estimate of the selected task s - Change the tags for the selected task u - Change the URL for the selected task l - Change the location for the selected task y - Add a note to the selected task r - Rename the selected item z - Undo the last action 1 - Set the priority of the selected task/s to 1 2 - Set the priority of the selected task/s to 2 3 - Set the priority of the selected task/s to 3 4 - Set the selected task/s to have no priority Del - Delete the currently selected task(s) a - Select all items in the current list n - Select none of the items in the current list k - When on a list, move the cursor up j - When on a list, move the cursor down i - When on a list, select an item h - Switch between tabs (e.g. Task and Notes) m - Toggle multi - edit mode on or off (default is off) Tab - Save input and move to the next input field Esc - Remove the cursor from the current input field

Ctrl + Shift + / - Moves the cursor to the search box Ctrl + Shift + 6 - Switch to the Overview screen Ctrl + Shift + 7 - Switch to the Tasks screen Ctrl + Shift + 8 - Switch to the Locations screen Ctrl + Shift + 9 - Switch to the Contacts screen Ctrl + Shift + 0 - Switch to the Settings screen Ctrl + Shift + Right - Switch between tabs (e.g. move to the next list) Ctrl + Shift + Left - Switch between tabs (e.g. move to the previous list) Ctrl + Shift + l - Skip to Login screen (from homepage)

Arrow Keys - pan/move around the map Page Up, Page Dn, Home, End - Pan - Move around the map, wider pan than arrow keys +/- - Zoom In/Out Ctrl + Shift + l - Moves the cursor to the location 'go' box

Official list of Remember the Milk shortcuts

Space - play/pause right arrow - skip song + - mark as "thumbs up" - - mark as "thumbs down" up arrow - increase volume down arrow - decrease volume Shift+up arrow - max volume Shift+down arrow - mute

Official list of Pandora shortcuts

m - check mail Shift+m - check all mail Ctrl+\ - close current tab n - new message Shift+n - new message in its own window r - reply Shift+r - reply in a new window a - reply all Shift+a - reply all in a new window f - forward message Shift+f - forward in a new window k - mark as read Shift+k - mark as unread l - flag Shift+l - clear flag del - delete item p/Ctrl+p - print Ctrl+s - save draft Ctrl+Enter - send message v - turn reading pane on/off Ctrl+[ - navigate through tabs Ctrl+] - navigate through tabs Enter - open message in its own tab (when message is selected) Enter - edit contact info (when contact is selected) Ctrl+f - find a word or phrase in message F11 - expand window to max height Ctrl+. - next message (in message tab) Ctrl+, - previous message (in message tab) Ctrl+Alt+Shift+up arrow/down arrow - next/previous message Ctrl+Shift+End - skip to oldest unread message d - move message to folder Esc - close read - message tab Ctrl+Shift+End - start a new chat

Official list of Yahoo! Mail shortcuts

All letters uppercase - effectively, it means you have to press Alt+Shift+key

Alt+P - publish Alt+B - bold Alt+I - italic Alt+Q - Blockquote Alt+T - more (Read More tag) Alt+U - ul (Unordered list) Alt+O - ol (Ordered list) Alt+L - li (list item) Alt+A - link Alt+C - code Alt+S - ins Alt+D - del

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That wraps up this guide: now quit reading and go get things done! Oh, and about you being a demon in the sack: that was just a catchy headline to get you to read this article. Now do you see how easily distracted you are? ;)