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Is there a Web 2.0 app for organizing a job search?

Is there a Web 2.0 app for organizing a job search?

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An off-topic post about music (for your aural enjoyment)

Hope posting about a fantastic indie band isn't too "off-topic" for the Grabass forum. If I am out of line, please someone, put me in my damn place.

So anyways, one of my favorite indie-rock acts Division Day are releasing either a cover or a remix of something from their current catalog over the span of 8 weeks (8 songs total) which will make up a "Covers and Remixes EP".

Last Tuesday they released this little doozie - a cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence"

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bookmarking like water

bookmarking like water

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Getting Things Done

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Tool send email requests for address updates?

I'm am trying hard to keep my address book up-to-date, and it becomes a more difficult tast as the number of entries grows rapidly.

What would be tremendously helpful is a utility, script, or else, that would email each of the people in my address book and say: "[Premade message from user]. I have your information as such [auto-fill from address book] is this still current? If not please let me know.

That's it, I'm happy to make sure to do the data entry as email replies come back.

Thanks in advance, and please let me know if I'm being at all unclear.

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GTDer's Choice Awards: Ubiquitous Capturing Device

The ultimate ubiquitous capturing device has the following qualities:

(1) You can take it with you anywhere, (2) It's always with you, (3) You begin writing immediately (less than 5 seconds).

With all the options out there I'd like to know from others what their #1 choice is for ubiquitous capture. And I'd prefer it came from those who have been using that collecting device/method for over a year.

"Next" comments should link directly TO comments

I finish reading an article and start reading the comments. At the end of the page, I click Next. I find myself at the top of the next page, but again at the top of the article, which I must scroll through to get to the second page of comments.

When I reach the bottom I click Next and, once again, there's the entire article to scroll through.

The "Next" link should position me at the top of the next set of comments. (Whether or not the article is on the page doesn't matter to me much if my screen is positioned at the top of comments).

help me find an app

i'll just copy some of my notes here. i'm trying to find a specific application. i've tried the 37signals stuff, stikkit, google-stuff. So far nothing fits the bill very well.

it doesn't have to be all-in-one (like stikkit) but i wouldn't mind. either way as long as it all works as one.

stikkit is so close. but the lack of further development and the inability to display data to people who don't want to start their own stikkit account makes it difficult to keep using.

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i want a

contact (highrise, stikkit) notes (writeboard, stikkit, backpack, basecamp, phpbb, wordpress)

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Unplug

Talk about unplugging. The latest Bruno Aveillan ad for Loius Vuitton is the sweetest little homage to letting go. God this guy can make 'just being' the sexiest damn thing in the world. This clip is like transcendental meditation on ecstasy. My life hack resolution this week is to slip a volume of Pablo Neruda into my brief case and to somehow find a half hour in my workday to step off the gerbil wheel and just be...

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Real-world 'Mission Statements:' What's yours?

Real-world "Mission Statements:" What's yours?

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