Struggling to form a new habit? Check out these cool tools that’ll aid you in forming new habits quickly.

3 Impressive Tools to Help You Create New Habits

Are you a heavy user of Microsoft Outlook? You might want want to consider this book to help improve your skills for managing time and work.

Reviewing Effective Time Management: Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life

Forget to take breaks and spend long hours in front of your computer? Well, that’s not a healthy habit and you should use one of these cool break reminders.

3 Neat Break Reminders to Reduce the Strain On Your Eyes

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Track your daily goals effectively with this online tool.

42goals

Tableau Public is a commercial tool which allows you to create amazing charts out of any data set. They offer also a free version which you can download an use at any time. With it, you have access to all features, except the possibility to save the charts on your computer. However, they do get stored on the Tableau Public servers and you can embed them into blog posts or share them online with anyone. If you are a blogger, crunching and sharing lots of data, you should definitely consider it.

Tableau Public Download Page (requires e-mail address to download & free account to use)

I’m pretty sure all geeks visiting our site work on different types of projects. One effective tool to define the deliverables of a project is to create a mind map. After trying out lots of mind mapping software, I’ve found a favorite – XMind. It does all the basics right, looks great, can save to different formats and it is open-source.

XMind Product Page | XMind Official Download Page | Mirror

Recently, I ran into a cool website called Write for Ten. It’s a project with one rule: write for 10 minutes about anything. Apparently, this helps develop a habit for writing, helps put ideas into words and helps you avoid procrastinating! Check it out!

Write for Ten

Ever heard of Sparklines? It’s a cool new feature in Excel 2010 that lets you create “mini-charts”, as you can see from the image above. It basically lets you analyze data in more ways and more efficiently. Want to quickly see a trend? Use Sparklines. Learn more below.

How to Use Sparklines in Excel

If you’ve ever worked with Excel files before, you’ve probably ran into the situation where you had to get rid of a bunch of blank lines or empty rows. There are several different ways to do it, but you certainly don’t want to go through and manually delete every blank cell or row! Read on to learn how to do it efficiently.

Remove Blank Cells or Rows in Excel