DooID: Your very own personal showcase

DooID – How do you show yourself off on the internet? Your Facebook page? But there’s too many drunken photos of you on there to truly showcase yourself, especially professionally… Your Twitter? Maybe, but it’s very at-the-moment, and what you remarked on three days ago will probably already be forgotten tomorrow… How about a personal website? But it’s too expensive and time consuming you say… Well, actually it’s neither time consuming nor expensive to build a multi-platform personal website if you use dooID!

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Chain your life together!

How many hours do you sleep each night? How many fruit and veg do you consume each day? How many cigarettes do you smoke a day? If you want to improve your stats on these or countless other possible goals, and like the rest of us, don’t feel like you have a particularly easy way of doing it… you may want to start ‘chaining’ your life together!

Who needs paper anymore!?

Cloud computing. You’ve probably heard of it. But do you know how you could use it to organize your life? It’s basically the ability to store any information on an internet server you’ll never see, but be able to access it absolutely anywhere: on your computer, on your smartphone, on your tablet. Now think of that information as all those paper documents cluttering your home office, and you can start to see how our latest Weekly Fave, Doxo, could help you…

Use this to unsubscribe from all that junk & bulk email cluttering your inbox

Unsubscribr – Uncluttering your inbox just became a lot easier: Unsubscribr is a tool that scans your mail for bulk, junk, offers and daily deals emails. You know, those ones that seemed like a good idea at the time, but now just clog up your once pristine, clean inbox 😉 It’s as simple as that folks: this is one of those times when we review a quintessentially straightforward internet tool that was just made to be discovered! Click here, or on the preview pic below to try it out.

Apple’s first brochure proclaimed “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”. I am quite sure that if Steve Jobs was still alive he would have downloaded Clear to his personal iPhone. Clear is a time management App, designed to help you manage your life without adding clutter.

Readability - Read articles more comfortably, without all the added online clutter; save them for later

Readability is a free downloadable service aimed at making web-pages and articles more visually accessible and reader friendly, as well as allowing users to save and send articles they may want to go back to later. Particularly on smart phones, cluttered internet pages make reading good, interesting articles or blogs a far more stressful and uncomfortable experience than they should be.

With Readability, readers can extract articles from a busy webpage, and see it on a clear, in a customised style and font size, without any distractions. It makes reading online a far more relaxed, organic experience. Readability also allows users to save articles for later, or send them to an Amazon Kindle, leaving its users feeling organised and refreshed, and not frantically searching through Google for an article that seems to have been cleansed from the web, just to personally inconvenience you. Readability’s video gives a clear visual of how it works – simple, easy, readable. Click here to get to the Readability website.

Headspace Meditation – This, friends, is meditation for the internet generation. This isn’t some kooky class that your mother-in-law once went to and now insists you attend every other week, with a hippie instructor leisurely guiding you along the road to ‘nirvana’. Not at all.

This is an online program and free iPhone app designed out of cutting edge, scientific research, that appreciates the busy life you live. Headspace doesn’t want to make any drastic changes. It simply wants to help a modern generation for whom time is an all-too-elusive commodity take just 10 minutes out each day, follow some simple techniques and exercises, and help to enhance our busy lives by making us less stressed, more clear thinking and more motivated.

So before you start thinking i’ve gone all spacey, telling you about the inner calm I’ve been feeling over the last few days, take a look at the Headspace program. It’s led by zen-like, yet relate-able, Buddhist Brit Andy Puddicombe, and you get a series of beautifully animated, daily videos to start you off on the road to a clearer, more motivated mind. The video above on the benefits of meditation is a preview of the sort of short video you’ll be getting when you sign up for the 10 day trial Headspace offers. And you can click here to explore whether Headspace could help you get your mind in order!

Smartr Contacts – Ever felt like you’re circumnavigating a maze with no ending when trying to wade through all your contacts, trying to find that elusive one you’ve been looking for? You wouldn’t be alone, and Xobni has addressed this by bringing out the impressive iPhone and Android app, Smartr Contacts.

FindTheBest – This, ladies and gents, is the comparison site to end all comparison sites. We’ve seen them popping up all over the internet over the past few years; each one covering a different life decision, from choosing cheap car insurance to getting your groceries. Never before though, have we seen something as comprehensive as a site like Find the Best, that compares nearly anything for you. And I really mean nearly anything!

Routine Tap – Ever felt like you need a bit of help to reach those goals you set yourself at the beginning of the year? Do you really not have the time to learn that second language, or could you fit it in if your life was more organized?

Routine Tap – a free web application – helps you answer those questions; providing you with reports on your life, daily habits and routines, so you can see exactly how you’re spending your time. To get the best out of it, you need to set up a mini survey covering goals you want to achieve (losing weight for example), and then spend a couple of minutes each day answering a couple of questions to tell the clever Routine Tap computers about how you’re spending your time. It’s quick, easy to do and could potentially ‘enhance your life’! Click on the preview below, or here, to ‘track your habits’ today!

Nitro Type is a free, real-time, worldwide, online racing game that helps you improve your typing. It’s pretty simple: enter a race on the site; control a car against other real people from around the World; win the race by typing the fastest: as you increase the speed of your typing, you increase the speed of your car!

It’s a novel, fun way to track your ‘words-per-minute’ rate; and you also will notice yourself improving your touch typing speed over time, as you’re forced to read the rather complicated sentences the game gives you to type out. The only downside is that it really is quite tricky at times, but then I think that may have been down to my typing skills than the game being too hard! Still, it’s definitely fun and worth a quick try if you want to know your official typing speed! Click here or on the pic below to get racing…

A screenshot taken from a NitroType Race - click it to play!

The traditional resume. One (or two) pieces of paper, a few buzz words, your education, work experience yada yada yada. Is it just me, or is this just boring in our internet age!?

Just as All My Faves aims to redefine how you discover the internet with a visual guide to the best of the web; Re.Vu aims to revolutionize the way we can help employers and clients discover us, with a beautiful visual guide, stuffed full with pictures, infographics and timelines. This is way more than just a CV. It’s a Re.Vu. And it’s free!