Manly Contest

Just a quick reminder about The Art of Manliness‘  Old Spice contest to find the Man of the Year. You have a few more days until November 8th, to nominate the person you feel displays the ideal traits of “Manliness”.  The winner gets $2,000 in cash and the top 10 entries all get a selection of Old Spice products.

Man of the Year Contest

Brett McKay over at The Art of Manliness has launched a contest with Old Spice to find the Man of the Year. You have until November 8th, to nominate the person you feel displays the ideal traits of “Manliness”.

If you know of a special man who would be ideal, head on over and nominate them.

Contratulations Martin

Martin won the ergonomic giveaway.  He chose the mousepad with the wrist-rest.  We shipped it out to him today.  Be watching for another contest with a giveaway.

Ergonomic Giveaway - Still Time

Just a reminder that there is still time to enter our ergonomic giveaway of some cool Fellowes products. To enter just leave a comment on the post where we interviewed Kevin Butler.  We will pick a winner later this week.

iPod Shuffle Giveaway on Twitter

If you use twitter, you might want to enter our iPod Shuffle giveaway.  Ends in 4 hours.  You simply retweet the linked message and make sure you are signed up as a follower of Productivity501. Good luck!

Fruitfultime Task Manager 2 Review

Many of us struggle with keeping our lives in proper order. It is nothing new, and there are many ways in which to attempt to prioritize one’s tasks and manage one’s time. There are a plethora of different programs available to the public that are meant to make a person’s life simpler and more productive by assisting that person with the organization of their daily routine. However, this is not to say that all of these programs are equally useful and user-friendly.

The developers of FruitfulTime Task Manager have put much thought and time into their latest version of the Task Manager, making it easier to use, more useful and less complex, in the very best sense of the word. Fruitfultime Task Manager 2 has been updated to improve several areas of the program.

The first of the newly revamped features is an always-visible search-as-you-type box. This feature makes the search process more efficient than ever before. This feature works much like the Search feature on Windows Vista, which I have found to be extremely helpful.

The second feature that the creators of Fruitfultime have worked on is the way tasks are organized. Now users of Fruitfultime Task Manager 2 can organize and prioritize tasks more easily and efficiently than ever before. For example, now users can filter tasks with options such as priority, status, progress and subtask filtration choices.

A third and well-thought-out feature of this newly updated program is the ability of the user to organize tasks with tags without any hassle. This version of the program allows a user to tag tasks in various different ways. A user may utilize right-click context menus and shortcuts to organize his or her tasks in order to put that particular task in a useful context.

With this software comes another useful tool called a “reminder.” These reminders can be set to alert a user at intervals such as, 12 hours before the event, 1 hour before, 30 minutes before, etc. Contact details are also archived, stored and managed in this one place, which makes it easy to look them up and organize them into useful groups.

As a whole, this program has been much improved in that it is more efficient and user-friendly than ever before. The new features that allow for the prioritization and organization of tasks make Fruitfultime Task Manager a wonderful tool for anyone that needs a hand in organizing his or her life.

Giveaway!

We are giving away a license for Fruitfultime Task Manager. To enter, simply add a comment telling how you or your coworkers keep track of your tasks and todo lists currently.  The contest runs for a week.

Update: We have a winner!  Jen Alford is now the owner of a copy of FruitfulTime 2. She was chosen at random for the commenters on this post.

Belkin Contest

We are 114 people away from giving away the Belkin Concealed Powerstrip.