Article • June 11, 2010

Discover and Purchase the Highest Quality Daily Essentials

Shop the best men's essentials with Manpacks

According to the stereotype, men are inadequate when it comes to fulfilling their own domestic needs.  Case in point: the average dude’s dresser drawers.

Enter Manpacks, a subscription service that sends you a fresh resupply of socks, underwear and t-shirts every three months.

To start, you set up an account and then select the pack you want—they range from the $11 starter kit to the $33 “Machopack,” which consists of 3 pairs of each item.

Then you add the details: your preferred brands, styles and sizing (they offer a decent range and you can alter your plan at any time).

Your first shipment will arrive shortly after you order.  Future manpacks are automatically sent at 3-month intervals—just when your stock needs to be replenished.

They currently ship to the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Australia, and Brazil.

Father’s Day, anyone?

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Article • June 28, 2010

Control Freak

A Task Management Service That Maximizes Productivity

Staying productive is hard, what with all the exciting ways to waste time the Internet provides.

Fortunately, there’s Action Method, a service that helps your organize and execute all your projects.

Start by creating a new action—cleaning out your storage room, say—and assigning it to a project, be it work-related or personal.

Action Method allows you to delegate tasks to other people using their email address. You can even send a “nag” to remind someone of a task you assigned to them.

If there’s a work in progress that requires some input, you can begin a discussion thread (this is great for avoiding email inbox overload). You can even upload pictures and documents for quick feedback.

The first 50 new action steps are free. After that, the service costs $12 a month or $99 for a year (there’s also a free iPhone app).

Use it or you may end up being recruited for an episode of Hoarders.

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Article • June 24, 2010

Party Time

Send Stylish Invitations And Manage Your Guest List Online

Great parties don’t just happen.  They are planned, and the first step is a stylish invitation.

Thankfully, there’s Cocodot, a new service that allows you to send out stylish, ad-free invitations, set up an event home page and manage your guest list online.

Start by choosing an event template– they have everything from birthdays to Fourth of July to bachelor parties. If one of their myriad art options doesn’t suit your fancy, you can upload your own photo.

Once you’ve decided on a layout, enter the time, date and location of your event. You can include a map, set a maximum attendance number and even schedule reminder emails to your guests (For those who like physical artifacts, they’ll send you a high-res copy that you can use to make a quality print).

After your invitations have been sent, Cocodot makes it simple to manage your guest list and RSVPs. You can opt to receive emails notifying you of any changes or comments your invitees make, and your guests can easily be notified if you need to make last minute changes (rain happens).

Cocodot also revives the lost art of sending notes on stationary. Simply select a template and choose “Card,” and fill in your sentiments.

Memberships cost $29 (cards only) or $49 (invitations and cards) for a year of unlimited use. You can also opt to pay a la carte, with an event costing $19 and cards costing $.99—a steal when you consider the cost of stamps and quality paper.

Also nice:  Not having the taste of envelope glue on your lips.

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Article • June 22, 2010

Read Everything About Your Contacts Right Inside Your Inbox

Turn Gmail sidebar ads into a virtual Rolodex with Rapportive

You receive a lot of email.  And sometimes it’s from a person you don’t know.  Wouldn’t it be nice if you could magically learn about them without leaving the email environment?

Enter Rapportive, a free browser plug-in for Gmail that replaces the sidebar ads with neatly presented contact information for the people you email.

While the product bills itself as a customer relationship tool we find useful for our personal email as well.  (The application currently works with Firefox and Google Chrome).

Once downloaded the app runs alongside the main email window as a browser add-on.

When you open an email (or mouse over an email address) it will show you the person’s photo, bio and links to their social networking profiles (in some cases it’ll even show recent Tweets).

In essence it creates a mini-profile about the person in the right-hand sidebar.  You can also add your own notes to any contact.

While the application requires access to your email it doesn’t need your password.  And the company is explicit about its commitment to privacy on its policy page.

Or you can just keep guessing at who’s emailing you those TPS reports.

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