A dream come true situation for project managers is always the feeling of dropping tasks in a machine and the machine beeps instantly informing of task completion. Unfortunately, with humans and reality, things are much different. One might wish for such a situation to exist but to achieve a small percentage of this, demands the right mix of technology, mobility and efficiency. The internet with its ‘cloud’ has made it possible to connect and collaborate with individuals and teams, across the globe. With towering workloads and task-lists, it is always useful to prioritize and plan while keeping all the team members or stake holders on board, accordingly. Understanding the strengths of both the social media and task management methods, DropTask presents a visually attractive and innovative online solution to the challenges of project management and efficiency. It connects the team members in a manner similar to popular social networks like Facebook while representing a plethora of tasks as Venn Diagrams based on priority of each component. DropTask allows you to keep track of updates and log data on to the cloud so that it becomes accessible, on the go.

Why save a high resolution picture from a PowerPoint slide, you might ask? Although there are a large number of fairly popular photo editors both as online tools and software applications, they may not be welcomed by a normal user. By a normal user, the reference is to all those individuals not comfortable in using software like Adobe Photoshop and the like. Quite often, you may require mild photo editing with overlay such as placing the company logo on a photo, and then saving it as a high resolution image that can then be used or resized as per requirement. Placing one image on the other is fairly simple and involves just a few drag and drop actions, along with the right use of Bring to Front and Send To Back options from the right click context menu in Microsoft PowerPoint. Saving it in a high quality format is a challenge in its own and hence, this post tells you exactly how to modify a few registry values in your favor. Once you successfully do this one-time customization, you’ll be able to do much more with the standard PowerPoint software.

Quite often many of the things that are taken for granted are the most challenging to tackle. Take the environment you are in, right now. The colors around you, the elements of the room and the overall floor plan is of critical importance since you’re not the only one living there and would want guests to be impressed by the creative you in case of your home or clients in case of a professional environment. Unfortunately, whether it be the case of designing a new building or redesigning it, there is a significant gap between the architect or designer and the owner. While the owner is expressing his/her thoughts on what type of an end-product is needed and how, the designer faces a challenge of deciphering these thoughts and ideas to the limits of reality. To simplify matters, there is a hefty web tool that can bridge this gap and make life much easier. FloorPlanner (available both as an online tool as well as a Chrome extension) is an easy to use application that allows you to quickly express your ideas in practical terms. You might decide against hiring a third-party designer when you, yourself, would be designing floor plans in record time, hopefully.

Whether you’re organizing an event or throwing a party, despite having sufficient preparation, the power of nature catches you when it’s least expected. Months of effort can be turned to rubble if you forget to check the weather forecasts. On the other hand, for the common man, everyday life depends on keeping track of weather. Quite often you might go and get your car cleaned and washed. As you glance at the sparkly clean car in pride, the clouds rumble and the rain starts. On your way back home, the car is topped off by mud and dirt bringing a frown to your face. What if you had seen the weather forecast and planned accordingly? You would definitely have saved both time, money and above all your mood. On a more serious note, weather disaster alerts are always usual to heed in preparation for natural disasters like hurricane, storms, cyclones and the like. WeatherBug is an amazing weather forecast application that allows you to keep track of weather conditions on a second-by-second basis. This real-time access to information ensures accuracy and reliability that is offered by very few programs. With browser-less entry, neighborhood-level forecasts, enhanced interactive maps, DTAs (Dangerous Thunderstorm Alerts), Live Weather Cams, MyLocation and Locations Summary, WeatherBug comprehensively offers an all-in-one solution to all your weather forecasting needs.