If you want to be really sure you don’t forget something important, Remindr is a web-based service that pings cellphone, email, twitter account, and gTalk account simultaneously. There is no registration required, simply visit the site and plug in your information: the reminder, the date and time, and the info for the services you would like Remindr to use in notifying you. For another way of reminding yourself with multiple services, check out iReminder, an iGoogle widget.

For years now, the gaping hole in Google’s online suite of applications has been a to-do list manager, but not anymore: today Gmail Labs adds a lightweight Tasks module to your email account. The killer feature? You can add a Gmail message to your task list in one click or keystroke. To get started, enable Tasks in the Gmail Labs section of your Settings area, and a Tasks link will appear below your Contacts link. Click on that to make a Task list appear on the bottom right of your screen (like chat), and there you can create multiple lists and switch between them, indent items, mark them as complete, drag and drop to reorder items, and view or clear completed items. To turn an email into a task, from the More Actions drop-down, choose “Add to Tasks.” There are also copious keyboard shortcuts.

From LifeHacker.

iPhone/iPod touch only: One of the great strengths of Songbird, a jukebox app intended to serve as a more open-ended iTunes killer, is its Firefox-like extensibility. The 779Media group jumps out of the gate with a remote-control application for iPhones and iPod touch devices that, while simple in functionality, does give you basic play/pause/back/forward control from anywhere your home wireless network reaches. After installing the Songbird add-on for Windows, Mac, or Ubuntu 8.10 and the app on your device, you simply launch the app, hit the “info” button to choose your computer, then control your tunes. It desperately needs a full library listing to match up against Apple’s own Remote app, but it’s a nice start. Songbird Remote is a free download for iPhones and iPod touch models running at least the 2.0 software.

At the tips and tricks blog MakeUseOf, they’ve compiled a list of over sixty domestic and international carriers and the corresponding email address formats used for each. In the screenshot to the left, you can see the format for sending a plain text message to a user on the Sprint network: ##########@messaging.sprintpcs.com. Place your friend’s phone number in front of the proper provider domain and you’re on your way. Remember if you get carried away typing, that your poor friend will be reading it on a tiny phone screen and that some services truncate the length of text messages.

From LifeHacker.

Most people that own an iPhone have carefully gathered apps like a squirrel gathering nuts for the long winter. They’ve chosen what they believe they’ll need to enhance their way of life by painstakingly browsing the App Store and reading random reviews. To help those app gatherers, Apple today unveiled an easier way to fill your iPhone with apps by adding a new section on their website, “iPhone Your Life.”

Apple has selected apps from the iTunes App Store and divided them up into five categories, Around Town, World Travel, At Home, Getting Things Done, and Fun and Games. With an endless supply of new apps being poured in the App Store daily  it’s nice to have the very people who run the store suggesting apps that they find useful.

Complete with staff picks and “Did You Know” tips, Apple hopes to excite people about the apps available and will give insight to what they believe you need. The different sections spotlight the many uses of the iPhone and will suggest the top apps used. With the sea of iPhone apps growing everyday, it’s nice to have a place to help wade through the confusion and help you find exactly what you need.

From MacLife.

There’s hardly anything more embarrassing that admitting that your company still uses Lotus Notes, but for the millions upon millions (140 million, in fact) of licensed users who’d love the opportunity to check in via their S60-based handset, this one’s for you. Starting next month, Lotus Notes support will be granted for Symbian S60 3rd Edition, meaning that anyone with a fresh S60 device can soon tap into Lotus Notes Traveler and access real-time email, calendar, address book, journal and to-do list data. On second thought, maybe you shouldn’t be so enthusiastic — leaving work at work is a blessing too many take for granted.

From Engadget.

Windows only: If you’re in no hurry to adopt Windows Vista but you’ve taken a shine to the Vista Sidebar, Joshoon over at Deviant Art has uploaded a port of the actual application to Windows XP. Using a combination of resources such as Alky for Applications, a Windows Vista to XP compatibility client, and the sidebar extracted from Vista the port allows XP users to run Vista Sidebar. Users can grab additional sidebar gadgets directly from Microsoft and experience the same functionality as they would with the sidebar on a Vista system. If you’re running Windows XP and looking for something to round out real estate on your widescreen monitor this might just be it. For other sidebar candidates and general Vista goodness, check out how to get the best features of Vista in XP. The Windows Vista Sidebar pack is free, Windows XP only.

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