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Ever wonder how to make your iPhone and iPod Touch’s decent storage capacity for something worthwhile. DiskAid enables owners of iPhone and iPod touch to use them as an external hard drive. Just install DiskAid and plug in your iPod touch or iPhone and after detecting your device it lets you copy files. Other cool features include renaming of files and folders, creation of folders. A very handy application as it makes your iPhone and iPod into a very reliable external drive.

DiskAid does not require you to jailbreak your device. DiskAid is a freeware download for Windows and Mac OS X.

DiskAid via Lifehacker

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Sharing pictures is definitely something everybody loves, marriages, parties, taking photos and sharing them with your friends such a great feeling, so nothing beats a fast, easy to use photo sharing service. Actually i got few emails asking me to write about some cool photo sharing services that are free, fast and easy to use. Well thou I’m a avid photobucket user which i think is the best photo sharing service(no offense to flickr users) there are many to choose from.

Photobucket - is one of the most popular image hosting services around, favorite amongst MySpace users. Makes it very easy to post your images to social networking sites; gives you 25 GB of monthly traffic and 1 GB of storage with images themselves being up to 1 MB in size. You can also upgrade to the paid version which gives you 5GB of storage, unlimited bandwidth and images upto 5MB all for just $25 a year.

Do you have a problem remembering all those passwords from different social networks and websites that you visit daily. Assuming that you aren’t an psychotic alien, you won’t remember each and every password  thats why we use Firefox’s built in password manger lets you save your entered user ids and passwords and retrieve them later when you visit that particular website thus make it whole lot easier to login.

But for some reason Firefox tends to corrupt itself and thus I normally end up loosing all those credentials, thus i have to meticulously enter each of them again and again. Password Export, a Firefox addon, is a useful addon that lets you export your saved passwords or say back them up,  so that you can retrieve them later.

Wondering how to upload all your office documents in your mac to Google Docs at one go! Gdocsuploader is tiny little application that lets you upload your office documents to the cloud in one click. Gdocsuploader is awesome because of the cool drag and drop documents. It snuggly fits into your Dock, Finder sidebar, or desktop. Gdocsuploader is still new and as expected quite buggy. Except some trial and errors before it works properly. Gdocsuploader is a free download for Mac OS X only and its certainly not OS X Tiger friendly.
gdocsuploader [Google Code via VinodLive]

Managing contacts through Desktop managers is getting old fashioned. Using desktop tools to manage your contacts, particularly if you share them with others, is no longer useful. Besides that there is always a chance of your data getting lost or corrupted. Time for sending your address book online!

There are countless contact management solutions are available on the web, but lets narrow it down to the best. Below is a list of some best online contact management systems, that works just like the desktop alternatives.

Plaxo is a free online contact manager that nestles into Microsoft Outlook automatically, adding a toolbar and a handy pop-up dashboard for managing and updating your contact lists. Besides that it Syncs with MS Outlook Express, Max OS X, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, MSN Hotmail/Windows Live, LinkedIn (Pro Version) and and Windows Mail.

photo credit: kolix

Nothing’s worse for a photographer then seeing the dreaded “Card Corrupt” or a similar message on your camera’s LCD. A lot of us have gone through that, most of the time you can’t do anything besides crushing the card manufacturer.

Recovering photos from corrupted cards usually impossible. Yet still with some photo recovery programs there’s still a possibility.

Before you use these photo recovery tools I would suggest 3 steps before going through the inevitable.

a. Don’t Panic

Don’t start panicking and start doing things that could further damage the photos. Take a deep breath and slow down. Take the card out of the camera and try it in another camera. Sometimes reinserting the card does the trick in most cases.

b. Don’t format your card

Distraction is something evident with almost everybody. Especially people working over the internet, bloggers, writers, journalist can get distracted easily with latest and great of the social media, feeds, emails, IM and almost all flashy desktop softwares.

Recently i did a topic on how to efficiently save time, and improve productivity. But you won’t be productive until you pull the plug or apply some drastic measures to reduce distraction.

Here are 5 ways to help block distractions while going through your work.

1. Limit Time-Wasting Web Sites with LeechBlock (Firefox)

With Leechblock you can block all your addictive websites.You can specify the time periods and its GUI interface is pretty good. If you are an ace blogger but get easily distracted with the social stuffs, leechblock is your buddy! After from that LeechBlock is free, works wherever Firefox does.