Last week I explained How I double my PC productivity with only 65MB of free software, so this week I’ll continue sharing some more productivity tips using browser extensions. I normally use Firefox and Chrome for 95% of my work. The rest of 5% is split between Opera and Internet Explorer.

Victorinox, the Swiss Army Knife creators, have come up with an ultra cool smartphone app which takes the concept of multi-use tools and adapts it firmly for the digital 21st century.

Like many readers of the Red Ferret, I spend much of my working day in front of a computer, and like others I have an inbox flooded with emails arriving every minute, in addition to client and business partner phone calls…and in between all of this I need to get work done. There are a number of good task management and work organization systems out-there (David Allen’s GTD, 43Folder’s Inbox Zero, etc …) but they all need to be supported…

For some reason web editors, tools to help code and build websites, appear to have fallen out of fashion. Maybe it’s the rise of themed CMSs or just a decline in demand, but there aren’t that many of them being marketed any more. Unlike, say, video editors.

We love Amazon to bits, but the one annoying part about shopping there is having to peer at tiny thumbnail photos of products the whole time, trying to get an idea of what’s on offer.

The problem with having terabyte drives and digital cameras with increasingly large resolutions, is the fact that we all end up storing gazillions of files, and often large ones, on our computers. Which probably wouldn’t be a problem if it wasn’t for the fact that by the time we end up editing a good proportion of them, leaves us with duplicates all over the place.

Well it looks as though all may not be lost with the shutdown of Google Reader, if this new open source replacement service is anything to go by. CommaFeed.com offers the same kind of simple, easy to use interface as the soon to by gone Google service, but without all the branding fluff.