One of the things that I spend a little bit of time on each week is trying to find new applications to test out and integrate into my daily life. I want to be as efficient as possible with email, social networking, writing, and communicating in general. No doubt, after a few years of switching between applications, at some point I would be settling on one set of tools that allow me to perform all of my tasks very well and very efficiently.

Here is a list of those tools:

Do you have seem to have hundreds of different passwords lying around for email, hosting, banking, joomla, ftp, mysql and all the other websites you visit? It can be a real nightmare to try and keep track of them all. If you're a Mac user, why not try KeypassX to store all your valuable, secure data? As an open source (and therefore free!) application, KeepassX is a great way to regain control of all your passwords.