Halloween Bingo:

• Sample Halloween Bingo Cards
• Halloween Bingo Call Lists

Trick-or-Treat Bingo:

• Sample Halloween Candy Bingo Cards
• Halloween Candy Bingo Call Lists

If you like what you see, then please visit Smart Bingo Cards. The purchased version of Smart Bingo Cards allows you to print as many bingo cards (and call lists) as you’d like!

A sample printout from our Halloween Bingo template is shown below (size reduced to fit the blog post:

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.

The Halloween Party To Do List is available for download as an Adobe PDF as well as a Smart To-Do List template.  The Smart To-Do List template comes complete with tags that will allow it to be filtered based on the following subtopics: Planning, Guests, Preparation, and Party-Day.  Of course once you open the template from within Smart To-Do List you can add things like priority level and due dates to each item on the list.

List View from Within Smart To-Do List

To add this template to Smart To-Do List right-click the button below, select Save-As, and download the file onto your computer.  After downloading the file select Open Template from the File menu.

To download the Adobe pdf version of the Halloween Party Checklist please right click the button below and select Save-As to save it to your computer.

Website Launch List:

1. Cross browser testing.

2. Setup Web Analytics

3. Create a Favicon

4. Remove Borders for Links and Images

5. Test forms (contacts, etc.)

6. Spell Check!

7. Check for broken links

8. Add Meta Information

9. Setup a 404 page

10. Setup 301 redirects

To add this template to Smart To-Do List either copy and paste the list into a new project using the Quick Task Entry box found under the Tools menu or you can right-click the button below, select Save-As, and download the file onto your computer.  After downloading the file select Open Template from the File menu.

Here is Steve Job’s full response:

Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance, with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone. If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases.

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:

• Christmas Cards List
• Holiday Travel Checklist
• Gifts for the Family
• Christmas Party!
• Decoration Storage Safety

Hope you have a safe Holiday Season!

In the mean time here is some information from the publisher, followed by a link to download a sample chapter from the book.

“WordPress MU enables you to build a complete, professional blog network. Each user gets their own blog, and can choose their favorite templates and plug-ins, and develop their own content. WordPress MU powers some of the largest blog networks in the world, including the mighty WordPress.com – home to thousands of bloggers.
This book will take you through the setup of a WordPress MU-powered blogging network, using a real, working blog network as an example, so that you can follow the creation process step-by-step. Your blogging network will be complete with professional features such as friends lists, status feeds, groups, forums, photo galleries, and more, to build your own WordPress.com – a place where users can quickly come and create a blog for themselves.
The book starts with a clean install of WordPress MU, and as you work through the book, you will build the blog network, and add on more and more features, all seamlessly integrated to achieve a professional, custom-built look.”

Please download the sample chapter below and let me know what you think:

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.

Have a BIG goal that you would like to achieve?  How about password protecting that goal.  For instance, if you’d like to retire at the age of 45, you could make one of your online passwords Retire45.  If you need to lose 20 pounds your password could be LOSeTwenty.  I’m sure you get the idea.

I learned from an article I read recently on the Income.com blog that one great way to achieve goals is with incremental success.  Using this technique to create your passwords is one small method to help incrementally achieve your goals by providing a constant reminder.  According to the author, John Reese:

In order for you to accomplish anything in life you have to learn the power of INCREMENTAL SUCCESS.  Let me explain how it works…

It doesn’t matter what you want to accomplish… making a million dollars, losing 50 pounds, learning to speak French, etc.  In order for you to accomplish what it is that you want you MUST achieve your goal incrementally.

This post was inspired by a comment (by commenter azpat) that I read on a Lifehacker.com post.  Thank you for the inspiration.

Over the past month or so I’ve had the opportunity to try out the Peek email device.  This device is billed as the first email only gadget and retails for only $49.95.  The best part is that there is no contract to sign.  Service is a flat $19.95 a month and you can stop it whenever you’d like.

I have to tell you that I have been thoroughly impressed with this simple, elegant, and useful device.

As you can see from the images below the Peek is slightly shorter than the iPhone and thinner as well.

Setting up the device couldn’t be easier.  I simply entered my Gmail account name and password and that was all that I needed to do start receiving emails.

The number of things you can accomplish with the Peek is pretty impressive.  Here are some examples:

• Send text messages, just type the 10-digit number in instead of the email address.
• Download all of your contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, or AOL.
• Check the weather by sending an email to weather@getpeek.net with your zip code in the subject line.
• Use Ping.fm to update basically any social network.  This would work from any email account, but having this power at your finger tips at all times is great.  In case you didn’t know, Ping.fm will assign you a custom email address that you can email with special prefixes to post to various social networks.  For example, you can update Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, create a post on your Wordpress blog and many others.  For a complete list please visit Ping.fm.

The discussion board for the Peek is awesome and full of energetic users.  Here is a link to a constantly updated list of services that can be used from the Peek: http://boards.getpeek.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=465&page=1#Item_0

I believe if you already have a device like the iPhone or a Blackberry, this isn’t for you.  The purpose of this device is to strip away the costs and complexity of these other devices.  The Peek does the one thing it was meant to do and it does it well, email.

One last thing, the latest Peek device has been introduced and will be available soon, the Peek Pronto.  This device will allow you to have unlimited text messages (same as the original), push email support (with Microsoft Exchange), up to 5 email accounts, and the ability to view PDFs and .doc (Microsoft Word) files.  This device is currently listed on pre-order at Amazon for $79.95.