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Lifehacker is a great site to find the best of the best in productivity ideas and applications. One word of warning, you can get hooked on reading Lifehacker articles and forget about being productive. Taken in moderation, Lifehacker is an invaluable resource. One thing in particular to use Lifehacker for is finding "the best" whatever. They regularly conduct polls of the best app for this, that, or the other thing and their users vote on it.

Multitasking often gives us the feeling of being productive, doing numerous things at once. But does it really works? Studies revealed multitasking can actually result in losing 20-30% of your productive time.

Toodledo is a task list tool which helps you organize all your projects and tasks. Since it's online, it's accessible anywhere you need it, including on your iPhone. There is a free version as well as a paid version, which the main difference is sub-tasks and the length of time your completed tasks are stored. Be sure to check out the comparison chart to see how Toodledo compares to the competition. One great way I've used Toodledo is integrated to an iPhone app called Appigo Todo. It helps you manage all your tasks in a way that follows the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. The products work well together and really help with tracking your tasks as well as seeing accomplishments.

While not a cloud app, Open Office gives you basically all the features of Microsoft Office except the price. Open Office is a free product to download and has equivalent programs to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access. If you're used to having MS Word before you left your last employer and don't want to shell out the dough for your own copy of MS Office, give Open Office a try. It even allows you to save your files in MS Office formats so you're sure everyone else you give the file to can read it. Open Office also allows you to output your files as PDF documents.

Vistaprint is the place to go to get 250 professionally designed, full-color business cards for free. You can upgrade the free product for an add-on price. One consideration, it may be worth paying the extra money to not have the back side of the card glossy as it could then be written on by people you hand it to.

Recommended by a friend named Jenn, Lunalux creates high quality business cards and personal branding products.

Find out what Google Docs can do for you. It's online, integrated productivity by allowing you to break free of saving files on flash drives and separate computers. Save one file, one place on Google Docs and and collaborate with others on the same file. Never send an attachment again.

If you need to promote your own personal brand, Zazzle is the way to do it. Create custom printed or embroidered shirts, jackets, or whatever, with no minimum orders and fast delivery. Fantastic prices on the products that are truly one of a kind.

In this fiercely competitive business environment you need proactive employees who can boost your organization's performance and productivity. And this criterion is even more critical when you are to hire a candidate for a managerial role

As it turns out, MS Office has an online template for tracking your job search. It works in Excel 2007. Check it out and tweak it to meet your needs.

Article in the New York Times about how companies like Appirio are creating web applications that help connect employers to matching employee candidates through social networks like Facebook. While many people may dismiss Facebook as an illegitimate way to connecting to employers, the industry is changing.

Do you wonder what Twitter is? Many people do, and it's not exactly the easiest thing to explain or understand. Commoncraft has put together a fantastic video which explains it in easy to understand concepts. I recommend all Commoncraft videos.