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Free 2010 fillable calender PDF Pro Printable template

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Is it too early in the year for next years calendar? We had a few request from our viewers for a fillable 2010 calendar, so here it is. Start organizing for next year now.

Check out our free, fillable and printable PDF document template 2010 calendar with notepad! It has the features you need to keep your life on track on calender pages that are a fully printable 8.5″ x 11″. Please also check out our PDFplannerPRO, a fillable printable planner, organizer, diary and more! If you need our 2009 Calender, go for that as well or here if you need a 2011 calandar!!

Features at a glance:

  • Customize with your own logo or image
  • Input your data and save or print
  • Print the complete calendar or specific pages
  • Notepad for each month
  • PDF format allows for easy sharing and opening

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Turn Gnome into a productivity blaster

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If you rely on computers to help you get things done in your personal or professional life, then you’re probably on the lookout for useful applications that will help you stay on top of things. Recently, we took a look at productivity tools for the KDE desktop, but there are plenty of options out there for the GNOME desktop, too. Here are a batch of tools designed with GNOME users in mind.

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10 Best Free Online Photo Editors

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Sure you can fire up Adobe Photoshop to do your image editing, but sometimes less is more and all you need is a quick tool to resize an image or take out some red eye. Or maybe you don’t have the extra $300 lying around to buy Photoshop software. Don’t fret, we looked at free online image editors available and compiled a list of the best!

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Spruce Up KDE With All the Productivity Tools You’ll Ever Need

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There’s no question computers make our lives easier, especially with all the productivity tools available today. If you use the KDE desktop, then you may already know that there are many wonderful productivity applications designed especially for KDE. Let’s take a look at how some of these apps can help you streamline your work and stay organized while you get things done.

by Lisa Hoover

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Video Editing Made Easy with Kino!

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There are lots of good tools in the Free Open Source Software world for capturing and editing video, but common to making almost any movie is a basic understanding of the steps to building a good story using a storyboard editor. This article will help you take the very first step toward creating a movie by using the very simple storyboard video editing program called Kino to create a story.
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Quick Free Business Cards Online

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You can quickly and very easily generate your own business cards online for free at freepdfcards.com:

Use Worldlabel’s standard business card stock to print

Another quick and easy way to create business cards is using AutofillPDF-labels. Here all you have to do is select an image which will automatically populate the template, and then type in your information > press tab to finish populating the format.

Fonts: If you want to change the font type, size or color, (as well as bold, italics, etc.) in the AutofillPDF-labels, select Control +E if you’re using a PC or Apple + E on a Mac. A toolbar will appear that will provide you with additional text properties. Select “More” in the font properties toolbar for paragraph alignment and more changes as desired.

Cozi: Online Organizer for Active Families

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Front of your fridge?

If the front of your refrigerator is your household’s central command, you have hi-tech organization alternatives available for active families. Cozi.com is a Web app for families that has been highly reviewed by several sites such as Better Homes and Gardens and Parents magazines.

Completely free and Web-based, Cozi has several features active families can use to stay connected, organized and informed about everyone’s activities. The calendar, shopping list and family journal are nice productivity features to help you keep on top of all the details without having to carry your fridge around with you or take sticky notes everywhere.

During the brief sign up process, you input the member names of your household. When you log in, the calendar displays members’ names with their own personal color code. The color corresponds to each family member’s respective events and appointments. Inputting events is quite easy. You just click on the person’s name and the event is created in their color.

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PDFplannerPRO: Free Fillable Printable Planner, Organizer, Diary and more

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Check out our free, fillable and printable PDF document template planner, organizer, diary and more! It has the features you need to keep your life on track on planner pages that are a fully printable 8.5″ x 11″.

Features at a glance:

  • Customize with your own logo or image
  • Input your data and save or print
  • Print the complete planner or specific pages
  • Schedule has easy date pull down for easy calendar reference
  • PDF format allows for easy sharing and opening

MAKING YOUR LIFE EASIER

Contents: Weekly Plan, Weekly Schedule, Time Organizer, Task Organizer, Daily To-Do, Daily Schedule, Expenses, Daily Diary, Project Plan, Weekly Menu and a Note Pad.

Click on listings in Contents menu within the planner to jump to desired page.

Instructions For Inputting Your Data:

Date – Place your cursor in the date field, you will be prompted to open up a calendar. It will open with the day’s date. Now choose the dates you want to plan.

Insert your own image – Place cursor on Worldlabel.com logo and click; a Select Image File window will pop up; choose the desired file from your computer. Images must be about 4 inches w x .75 inches. Once you choose a file, it will automatically populate the template.

More Tools: – Fonts: If you want to change the font type, size or color, (as well as bold, italics, etc.) select Control +E if you’re using a PC or Apple + E on a Mac. A toolbar will appear giving you additional text properties. Select “More” in the font properties toolbar for paragraph alignment and more.

  • Select Control + 5 to reduce/increase line weights.
  • Select Tools > Typewriter > Show Toolbar > fill in the blank areas in the PDFplannerPRO with your desired information.

Specs:
PDFplannerPRO is cross platform and application independent. It will work on Mac OSX, Linux, Windows, Solaris and other operating systems. There can be compatibility issues between different PDF Readers. For optimum performance and full use of all functions, we recommend you download for free Adobe PDF Reader version 9.

PDF is and ISO International Standard: ISO 32000-1. PDF Reader Required.

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Ten Great Organizing Sites

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We’re far from perfect when it comes to organization, so we often scout the Web for new and interesting ideas on how to keep our plates clean. This list is one way to organize, as we can reference it when we need new ideas. So, we thought we’d share the list with you, along with some of the greatest organizing ideas we’ve learned along the way.

The list is in no particular order, and we don’t recommend any site over another:

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