It’s easy to get so caught up in to-do lists that you never actually get anything done, which is why extremely simple to-do lists are a good idea. Some people need more control than that, however, which is why software like Wunderlist and Remember The Milk are so popular.

Nitro is more advanced than simple, and primarily intended for Linux users. Using the web app, however, users of any operating system can give Nitro a shot. Is it right for you? Let’s take a look.

Using Nitro

If you’ve ever used a to-do list program, the main interface of Nitro certainly won’t confuse you. You’ll see the usual way to sort your tasks, including the time and date something is due, and optional lists:

The top categories break things down depending on the dates you’ve assigned tasks, while the “lists” are essentially categories you design.

In any of these lists you can add tasks. You can also add notes. Unlike other solutions, the note field shows up while you’re adding a task. This makes adding notes a snap:

By default Nitro only works on a single computer. Syncing is easy, however, thanks to Dropbox and Ubuntu One integration.

The sync was slow for me, occasionally to the point of being unusable. I’m sure the team is working on it, but if this is important for you you might want to look elsewhere for now.

On a less important front – themes! There are a variety built into Nitro, most of which intended to make the program blend with skins in Ubuntu and other Linux distros:

There’s another that makes Nitro look remarkably similar to another online to-do service:

For the sake of all that is sacred – don’t load the Justin Bieber skin. It’s not worth it.

Set Up Nitro

Ready to get started? Head to NitroTasks. You can log in there using your Dropbox or Ubuntu One account, or download the program if you prefer using desktop software. There are packages for Ubuntu and Arch Linux, and source code for industrious users of other Linux distros.

Sorry, I can’t help you compile the code. Ask at MakeUseOf Answers before doing so in the comments below.

Conclusion

Yeah, it’s another to-do list. But this is a rare native program for Linux not yet found on other platforms. Even better – it’s really good. I hope the sync improves in the future, because I think I’ll have a new favorite to-do program when it does.

How do you like Nitro? Leave your thoughts in the comments below, along with any other Linux to-do software you might prefer over this.

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Mobile Internet Search is on the rise!

Lately the buzz word around the internet has been "mobile".  Statistics show that more and more, all around the world people are accessing the internet from mobile platforms.  With innovations in technology that give our smart phones and i-pads more power than Nasa computers of the past, even folks with no desktop or computer, or internet access at home are accessing the internet regularly via a mobile device.

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Chetan Sharma, an independent mobile analyst, released a study this week on the state of the global mobile industry. It found that overall text-messaging use is growing, but more slowly, and in some parts of the world, texting is in steep decline.

For example, cellphone users in the Philippines, one of the top texting nations, sent roughly 400 text messages a month each on average in 2011, down from about 660 a month in 2010.

American cellphone users are still sending more texts than before — about 680 messages a month in 2011 compared to about 640 a month in 2010 — but this growth is much slower than in previous years. Mr. Sharma said text messaging here could start to shrink this year. He said he combined the results from carriers’ financial reports around the world with some private data to come up with the estimates in his study.

Backing Mr. Sharma’s findings, a previous report revealed a decline in text messaging in several parts of the world, including Finland, Hong Kong and Australia.

What’s causing the shrinkage? Messaging services that you can use over the data connection of a smartphone, as opposed to the carrier’s standard text messages. Apple’s iMessage, Google Voice and Skype provide this service.

As for phone calls (remember talking?), voice minutes are on the decline as well — but that’s old news. Voice minutes have been decreasing in the United States and Western Europe for the last four years, and in Japan for the last eight years, Mr. Sharma said.

But it’s not like carriers are suffering. Instead, they’ve successfully adapted to our growing hunger for mobile data. Carriers are raking in huge amounts of revenue from mobile data plans alone — the regular fees we pay to reach the Internet. One way they do that is by offering price structures that compel you to pay for far more data than you would actually use.

Worldwide revenue from mobile data in 2011 amounted to $300 billion, according to Mr. Sharma’s findings. Revenue for mobile operators overall will total $1.5 trillion this year, with mobile data accounting for 28 percent of that, the study estimates. Profits for carriers have more than doubled over the last 10 years, the study found.

“The global mobile industry is the most vibrant and fastest growing industry,” Mr. Sharma said.

Looking at mobile devices, the NPD Group, a research firm, released numbers on Wednesday showing that Apple is the No. 1 smartphone maker in the United States with 29 percent of the market, while Samsung has become a fierce rival. Samsung in the last quarter accounted for 24 percent of smartphones sold in the United States, according to NPD.

Ross Rubin, executive director of Connected Intelligence for NPD, said Samsung is performing so well because so many carriers sell and promote its phones. “Samsung is the only market leader from the featurephone era to transition to market leadership in the smartphone era in the U.S.,” he said in a statement. By contrast, Nokia is one cellphone maker that hasn’t successfully made that transition.

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Collections & Rankings

• Technorati blog search and the Technorati Top 100 list of most linked-to blogs
• Feedster Search for news feeds and blogs by topic
• Bloglines (Registration required.) Find blogs by topic (or name) and read them here
• Blogpulse, from Intelliseek, lets you search blogs and automatically finds trends
• Truth Laid Bear Traffic Rankings Most-visited blogs
• Flickr Not quite blogging, but fascinating. Storytelling through photo sharing.

General

• BoingBoing “A directory of wonderful things” from around the Internet
• Gawker Gossip and snarkiness about media, showbiz, New York City, etc.
• Defamer Similar in tone to Gawker, but with a West Coast slant

Technology & Media

• Romenesko The blog all journalists know
• Media Bistro Sort of a blog. Its Fishbowl is more of a blog.
• John Battelle’s Searchblog Media, technology, Internet search, etc.
• Dan Gillmor’s blog Well-regarded former columnist for San Jose Mercury, now on Bayosphere
• Cyberjournalist.net Jonathan Dube for the Online News Assocation
• BuzzMachine Jeff Jarvis talks a lot about new media (and himself).
• PressThink Jay Rosen of N.Y.U. on The Media vs. the press
• SimonWaldman.net Newspapers and new media from a British perspective
• Scripting News Dave Winer tracks the world of blogging and technology and has some interesting (and some cranky) thoughts.
• TheJasonCalacanisWeblog Blog about blogs from the chairman of Weblogs Inc.
• Paidcontent.org Looks at the economics of the Web
• Journal-isms Richard Prince, of the Maynard Institute, pays attention to diversity issues in journalism.
• Media Law Robert J. Ambrogi

Technology Toys & Cool Things

• Gizmodo From the Gawker empire
• Engadget Gadgets of all sorts
• Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting “Stuff from the intersection of design, culture and technology”
• Cool Tools Kevin Kelly finds all manner of intriguing things.
• Josh Spear “The pulse of cool.”
• Treehugger Environmental design and consciousness

Politics & Government

• Daily Kos Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. One of the best-known liberal blogs.
• Talking Points Memo Joshua Micah Marshall. Widely read liberal blog from a contributor to Washington Monthly and The Hill.
• MyDD Jerome Armstrong and Chris Bowers.
• Eschaton Atrios, aka Duncan Black. “Proud member of the reality-based community.”
• AmericaBlog John Aravosis. Politics from the left; one of the key sources of info in the Gannon/Guckert affair.
• Crooks and Liars and politics, with a liberal slant. And a great collection of video clips.
• Daily Dish Andrew Sullivan on conservative, religious and gay issues. (He tried to stop but couldn’t.)
• InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds. One of the best-known conservative blogs.
• Kausfiles Mickey Kaus’s mostly political blog on Slate
• Little Green Footballs
• Power Line One of the more widely read blogs from the right.
• Iraqi Bloggers Central Good collection of links to Iraqi bloggers.
• Mystery Pollster Mark Blumenthal’s intelligent analysis of polls and polling.
• Wonkette Washington gossip (also from the Gawker empire).
• Global Voices gathers some interesting views from blogs around the world.
• ScotusBlog and the related Supreme Court Nomination Blog are keeping a close watch on the proceedings in the court.
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‘Traditional Media’

• Altercation. Eric Alterman. MSNBC.
• Howard Fineman MSNBC
• Bloggermann Keith Olbermann. MSNBC.
• Citizen Journalists MSNBC’s experiment in participatory journalism
• LOOSE wire Jeremy Wagstaff, Dow Jones
• The Corner From National Review
• Hit and Run From Reason
• Editor’s Blog John Robinson, Greensboro, N.C., News Record. The paper is conducting a widely-commented-on experiment in increasing communication with its readers. Other News-Record blogs can be reached from this page.
• The Politicker Ben Smith, New York Observer
• Tapped from the American Prospect
• CJRDaily Updates from the Columbia Journalism Review (successor to its Campaign Desk)
• The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington’s celebrity blogfest
• Blinq Daniel Rubin, a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, blogs for its Web site
• Blogspotting from Stephen Baker and Heather Green of Business Week. (You can find other Business Week blogs from there.)

Business

• Seeking Alpha and The Internet Stock Blog News and analysis by David Jackson, a money manager and former tech stock analyst
• Footnoted.org reads corporate filings and news releases more carefully than most people

New York

• Curbed Everyone’s favorite New York City topic: real estate
• Gothamist
• About Last Night Terry Teachout writes about culture in New York and elsewhere. Interesting blogroll of culture sites, too.
• NYC Bloggers Thousands of other New York City bloggers, organized by subway line

Food

• The Food Section Josh Friedland. With a New York slant.
• Gothamist Food From the Gothamist folks
• Saute Wednesday Bruce Cole.
• Chocolate and Zucchini Clotilde writes about food from Paris.
• A Full Belly Alaina Browne.

Design

• Apartment TherapyMaxwell and Oliver Ryan. Tips and things for living better in small spaces
• Core77Industrial design
• Design*SpongeA little breathless, but some interesting finds.
• Land and Living
• MocoLocoModern design from all over
• Reluct.comDesign and architecture from a team in the Netherlands.
• TreehuggerDesign with an environmental slant

Miscellany

• PostSecret People mail their secrets — touching, funny, scary — on homemade postcards.

If we look a little closer to home however I have to wonder if we’re seeing a restriction in what we can say.  Barely a week goes by without someone making the news for saying something on Facebook or Twitter, only to subsequently be reprimanded by their employer for their words.

The latest such case was Police Constable David Crawford from Merseyside Police.  This weekend saw thousands flock to Aintree race track for the Grand National, arguably the highlight of the British horse racing calendar.  A particular highlight of the event is Ladies’ Day, where women are encouraged to glam up, with prizes on offer for the best dressed lady on the day.

The fashion is not to everyone’s tastes however, not least PC Crawford, who complained on his Facebook account that Ladies Day was more like Halloween.

He wrote: “Enjoy ‘ladies’ day – ladies” before accusing them of being “back to drinkLambrini at 10 in the morning watching Jeremy Kyle whilst shouting the kids ‘Britney and Tyson come down for ya pork scratching breakfast’.”

He went on to comment on the use of “ten quid fake bake tan….smeared all over the place” and ended with: “Tramps! Ladies Day – more like Halloween! Rant over.”
Whilst a glance over photos from the event cannot help but lend some credence to his words, they were not met favorably by his employer.  They have referred his complaint to the police standards department, with the officers Facebook account mysteriously vanishing over night.
With the very real possibility of your online commentary lending you in hot water at work, is it now the case that social media is clamping down on free speech?
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