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I'm not a big fan of top “n” lists. They generally lack any kind of metric, and end up with bizarre compromise choices. This “Top Agenda Setters 2008”, supposedly about “the top 50 most influential individuals in the worldwide technology and IT industries”, is no exception....On Open Enterprise blog.

Goal-tracking webapp Lifetick offers some pretty helpful tools for creating and tracking your long-term but manageable life goals, with a focus on the S.M.A.R.T. target-setting and a clean,...

Remember the Milk's in-house blog has a meaty post up from guest Doug Ireton, explaining how reader favorite to-do manager Remember the Milk can be fully integrated into any Getting Things Done...

Feel like your Getting-Things-Done-style next-action list is slipping away from you? Having a hard time getting through the list because it's feeling overwhelming? The Tools for Thought blog suggests...

Writing things down, on paper or on-screen, is the best way to make sure you remember important info and tasks, but sometimes you've got to rely on your plain old brain to keep essential data sorted...

Lost in the deluge of GNU/Linux ultaportable announcements? Me too. Here's a consolidate list that might help.

I've written a number of times about wannabe Asus EEE PCs, but there are now so many popping up hither and thither (a *very* good sign) that it's getting hard to keep them all straight. Happily, Laptop Magazine has put together a handy cheatsheet that saves us all the effort.

On Open Enterprise blog.

Top n lists are two-a-penny in the world of computing, and collections of open source alternatives to proprietary are pretty common. This one has the virtue of offering a paragraph on each, so you have a better chance of deciding if something's worth following up.

The same site has some other lists that may be of interest: Top 25 GNU/Linux Games, and an intriguing list of "brave" hosting companies that won't (it is claimed) dump you when the going gets a smidge tough.