by Scott on September 27, 2010
I’d like to introduce the latest title from Smart Productivity Software, it’s called Smart Bingo Cards. Smart Bingo Cards, if you haven’t guessed already, is software used to create bingo cards. The primary audience for this application is educators and parents.
Smart Bingo Cards comes with ready made templates for the most popular bingo categories and we will continue to add additional categories on a regular basis. For example, there are ready made word lists for categories like Halloween Bingo, Christmas Bingo, English Grammar, and many, many others.
Of course, printing the bingo cards is super easy (see the simple options to the left). To print, simply select how many cards you want per page and how many pages you would like. All of the printed cards will be unique, no matter how many you print. You can also print a call list. Every time you print a call list you get a brand new, completely unique, randomly created list. The call list can either contain a simple list of all the words or you can print the heading letters along with it (i.e. B-Little Rock or just Little Rock).
The software is the easiest available software of its kind. The installation is a simple 2MB file and doesn’t require any additional downloads. After you download the setup file, you don’t have to be connected to the internet either, it doesn’t get any simpler. Our slogan is that you can make 20 bingo cards in 5 minutes or less. The license permits the software to be installed on all of your household computers as well as your workplace computer.
A sample printout from our Halloween Bingo template is shown below (size reduced to fit the blog post :):
There are some other additions to the Smart Productivity Software family coming soon:
Simple Chore List
Simple Grocery List
League Schedule Creator
These titles will hopefully be available before the new year! All of my icons come from the wonderful resources located at Mouse Runner.
by Scott on November 30, 2009
Christmas is right around the corner. This is the year you should can have all of your Christmas To Do’s organized (with Smart To-Do List of course). Having a to do list will help reduce some of the stresses you encounter over the holiday season. The more you have everything planned out, the better prepared you will be if something unexpected occurs.
One way to use Smart To-Do List for Christmas is to a have a Gift Ideas project:
You could use this project to keep track of all of your gift ideas. Simply tag each idea with the name of the person that will be receiving the gift. You could then easily filter your list by one of the names used as a tag:
I’ve made up a few templates to help keep your Christmas To Do list organized this year. If you would like to check them out please click the links below, you can download the templates and import them into Smart To-Do List.
New Christmas Templates:
Hope you have a safe Holiday Season!
by Scott on November 18, 2009
Hello, just wanted to let you know that Smart To-Do List version 1.4 is now available for download. This version includes some minor bug fixes as well as a couple new features. Your to do lists are now autosaved periodically instead of only on exit. One other new feature is a quick entry box:
This quick entry box allows you to add multiple tasks quickly. This is especially useful if you would like to copy and paste a list that you received in an email or a list from a website.
You can access the Quick Task Entry window from the Tools menu or by typing q in the To-Do / Command box and pressing enter.
Don’t forget that Thanksgiving is right around the corner, if you need help creating that Thanksgiving To Do List. There are also some Christmas To Do List templates available as well.
by Scott on March 11, 2009
The latest version of Smart To-Do List has been posted to the server. If you’ve previously purchased Smart To-Do List you will be getting an email detailing where to download the latest version. This version adds the following functionality:
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by Scott on March 3, 2009
The Adobe Air runtime allows developers to create rich Internet applications that run from the desktop on Windows, Mac OS X, as well as Linux.
From the Adobe Air Wikipedia entry:
AIR is intended to be a versatile runtime environment, as it allows existing Flash, Actionscript or HTML and JavaScript code to be used to construct a more traditional desktop-like program. Adobe positions it as a browser-less runtime for rich Internet applications that can be deployed onto the desktop, rather than a fully-fledged application framework.
Adobe provides a marketplace to find applications that have been developed using this framework. Here are a few of the applications that I found looking through the productivity and creativity sections of the Adobe Air Marketplace. All of these applications are free.
1. Vertabase Timer
Vertabase Timer is perfect for anyone that has to track their time spent on specific projects. To use this application you simply enter the projects name in the Track Time On entry box (or select a previously entered project) and press the Start button. When you press the Stop button an optional note can be added to the recorded time.
Clicking the Show Time button allows you to view a breakdown of your time spent on each project. The time can then be exported to XML and CSV.
2. Color Browser
Color Browser is useful to anyone that develops webpages as well as other creative types that need to keep track of color palettes that they currently use or get inspired by. This application allows you to create a color palette as well as import palettes from outside sources.
The first palette shown in the screen shot below is the palette that I based my website design on for Smart To-Do List. I found this palette on ColourLovers.com. Colour Lovers allows you to export the palettes in a variety of formats, one of which is the ASE format which this application uses.
If you know of any other useful Adobe Air applications, I’d love to hear about them.
Updated on 7/9/2010
Removed an application based on feedback in the comments below.
