I bet you have struggled with your itunes songs and have had those miserable headaches where it's all a mess. The titles are all wrong, genres are off, artwork is funky. This tip will blow your socks off because this fixes that  in a snap. Pollux is here to stay.  This is not free but it comes close to free at $10 a year. The only negative, is that it's for mac but the windows version is on its way. Join their mailing list to get notified here when it arrives. Remember before trying this out back up your library.

Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Don't want your family to see a folder with your secrets in it! Well here is a way so you can hide your files.  Just download the program from WinMend-Folder-Hidden.  Once you hide the folder('s) it will remain hidden until you unhide it using the valid password.

Difficulty Level: Easy

We all know students in College are always on a budget. It's expensive to buy books, pay classes, and have a dorm. Sometimes we over think that we can ask for students discounts. It does not hurt to ask. Here are some links to Big Tech companies who give student discounts. Apple- store.apple.com/us/browse/home/education_routing

Microsoft- www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal

Staples - http://www.stapleshighered.com/education/docs/value-discount.asp

Your school book store!

Difficulty Level: Very Easy

Have you ever wanted to insert an image or Rss feed in your Gmail signature? There is a little work around because Gmail does not allow this. Using the "canned responses" in the Gmail labs you manually can select a "canned responses" (your Signature) and have it appear at the end of the email. Here are some simple steps... 1.) Go to Gmail and go to the settings link  in the upper right hand corner

2.)Look for the "labs"  tab. When you click the labs link you will be presented with many options.

3.) Scroll down till you see the Canned Responses

4.) Click enable and scroll all the way down to save your changes.

5.) Now click on  Compose  message and create your Signature. This is where you insert  your icons, images, etc..

6) When your done, go right of the Attach a file link and you will see a "canned responses" link. CLick...

Click and save your "New canned response..."

and put a  name(title) to  your signature.

Your set!! Now every time you want to  send an email with your signature make sure  your cursor is at the end of your message and click "canned responses" and select the signature.

Faxes are becoming a thing of the past and now people are sending PDF's back and forth.  Now you wish there was an easy way to fill a PDF out or maybe sign one. Well, FillAnyPDF does that trick. You can upload your PDF, edit it, and send a link to someone else to view it. It easy and secure with 128-bit SSL encryption. Give it a try its useful and productive.   FillAnyPDF

Difficulty  Level: Beginner

UPDATE! Listentoyoutube.com is working now.

www.vidtomp3.com is also working.

www.dirpy.com is not working

listentoyoutube.com is currently not working. Here are some alternatives

www.dirpy.com

www.vidtomp3.com

I have currently not tested them fully but are like listentoyoutube.com

Here is a little tip that I do not want you to abuse ;-). Listentoyoutube.com is a great site to rip audio from you tube videos.  So, do not go around and download  Beetles songs. It's a good web app because its free. If you are shaky on the idea of  this service check out there Terms of service.

Difficulty Level: Easy

Have you ever wondered how to convert one type of file to another?I bet you have.  Now, there is a free online way to do so. This website  converts files from your computer, from a URL, and much more. Want to check it out, just go to www.media-convert.com.

Difficulty Level: Beginner

Wolfram|Alpha is not like Google. It's more of an answer engine. It answers factual queries. For an example I can put any Math equation into it and it will give an answer. Great for Math, Physics, and etc.(You know who you are ;-).) Other information you can type in are Dates, cities and you can compare stocks . The report you get back from  Wolfram|Alpha is amazing. Play around with it. Later you will thank me. Just go ahead and click here www.wolframalpha.com

Difficulty Level: Beginner

Many of us have Hotmail accounts and also carry our usb flash drives around. The size of those flash drives are maybe two to maybe four gigs but don't you wish you had more space? Microsoft offers with your Hotmail or live account something called Sky drive. It has a limit of 25 gigs.  It's basically a flash drive up in the cloud (internet). Simply go to www.skydrive.live.com and sign in. You will have a place to store all those documents and even organize them into folders.

Difficulty Level: Beginner

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="315" caption="www.textbookpricecomparison.com"][/caption] Textbooks are very expensive now a days and the book store is not excluded. This Website comes very handy when you want  the cheapest textbook.

You can search for books by ISBN, title, author, or keywords.

Give it a try http://www.textbookpricecomparison.com/

Difficult Level:  Beginner

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="365" caption="www.memorizenow.com"][/caption] Personally I do not like to study nor memorize words or passages. I recently found a little cool website that helps you "Memorize Now". You can plug in your own words and passages and it will help you make the process a little more pain free. There is a fill in the blank mode or flash cards. Go ahead and give it a try at www.memorizenow.com.

Difficulty Level: Beginner

Why back up your "cloud" services? Well, you never know when Google or any cloud service might shut you down like Mr. excel who was shut down for no reason. Thats why we need to have a backup. Backupify is a start up company that backs up to 15 services and counting. You can have it backup weekly or daily. This service will be free till Jan 31. So click along and dont wait. Its always good to have backups.

www.backupify.com

Difficulty Level: Beginner

Have you ever thought of, "is my computer secure?" but still using Internet Explorer. Many hacker's attack IE because of the many users it has. A good way to avoid the hacker's is to use the other known browsers, such as: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, etc. Hacker's wont try to get to the small things, they want to get the big things cause that's where all the big bucks are.

Difficulty Level: Beginner