Before you shop for big ticket items, check the calendar for the best time to buy.   Selection is best early; prices are better later.  Here ’s when to shop for:

• Cars:  August and September, when dealers are clearing inventory to make room for new-model-year cars.
• Gas grills: September through December
• Lawn mowers: October; its also the best time to buy winter coats
• Camcorders: November; also best for GPS devices and bicycles.
• Appliances: December through January.  Post holiday prices are best on appliances both large and small.  Large includes refrigerators, stoves, dishwashers and small includes toasters and blenders.
• Exercise equipment:   January-Prices drop in time for New Year’s “get in shape” resolutions
• Indoor furniture:February
• TVs: March – also best time to buy DVD and Blu-Ray players, MP3 players and digital cameras
• Computer: The end of each financial quarter-April, June, October and January when sellers need to move inventory
• Athletic shoes and apparel: May
• Tools: June, also the best time to buy electronics
• Outdoor furniture:  July starts end of season close out sales

Backing Up Your Favorites
You can keep a backup of your Favorites in case you accidentally delete any of your list. You can also use this backup to transfer your Favorites list to a different PC or another browser program.

Click on the File menu (in Internet Explorer 7 click the Add To Favorites button) then click Import and Export. You should see a window welcoming you to the Import and Export Wizard. Click Next, then select Export Favorites. Leave the main folder selected on the Export Favorites Source Folder screen and click Next.

Make sure Export to a File or Address is selected, then Browse to a location on your hard drive where you wish to store a copy of your Favorites list. Type a name for your backup, for example MyFavorites and click Save. Click Next, then Finish and a window should tell you the export was successful.

The Favorites backup file is saved as a web page file and it can also be opened in your browser like a normal web page by double-clicking it. It will appear as a simple-looking web page containing your Favorites links.

Importing Favorites
To import a Favorites list, go back to the Import and Export Wizard. Choose Import Favorites, click Next, then make sure Import from a File or Address is selected. Browse to your saved Favorites file and click Next. On the Import Favorites Destination Folder screen, click Next then Finish.

You should see a message telling you your Favorites have been successfully imported from the backup file.

New Version of Myspace Friend Finder !
Myspace Friend Finder is a MySpace automation software program. It will allow you to get thousands of MySpace Friends in few minutes.

Friend Finder application was designed to be a MySpace automation software program. It will allow you to get thousands of Myspace Friends in few minutes.


FriendFinder allows you to grow your MySpace Friends. You simply enter a keyword or a FriendID and click the Search button. You can find people by keyword or you can get all friends on a certain user. FriendFinder will instantly save any range of friends you choose.

Here are some key features of “Friend Finder”:

· Fast find Friends by keywords
· Get Friends of a certain user
· Save the results locally
· Easy management of saved Friends ID
· Easy send Add Friends requests
· SignIn to myspace
· Save Settings
· Automatic SignIn to your myspace account
· Add 2 Friends
· Send Message
· View Web Browser window
· New version notification

Download Myspace Friend Finder add thousands of friends

Do you have an effective way to process and organize your e-mail so that you can get to an empty Inbox on a routine basis? If you have lots of e-mail in your Inbox—we know people with as many as 7,000 messages—you might want to rethink your processing methods. Really, it is possible to empty your Inbox. The key is to evaluate how you are processing and organizing your e-mail and make some changes.

No doubt you’ve opened an e-mail and thought, “Hmmm, not sure what to do with this. I’ll deal with it later!”—and promptly closed the message. If you do this over and over again, it doesn’t take long to end up with several hundred (or thousand) messages in your Inbox.

Developing a new approach to processing your Inbox will help you to gain more control, improve your response time, and keep up with critical actions and due dates.

This article will cover 4 key factors that will help you process your e-mail more efficiently.

1. Set up a simple and effective e-mail reference system
The first step toward an organized Inbox is understanding the difference between reference information and action information.

Reference information is information that is not required to complete an action; it is information that you want to keep in case you need it later.

Action information is information you must have to complete an action.

Most people receive a considerable amount of reference information through e-mail. Sometimes as much as one-third of your e-mail is reference information. So it is essential to have a system that makes it easy to transfer messages from your Inbox into your e-mail reference system. An E-mail Reference System is a series of e-mail file folders where you store reference information to ensure you have easy access to it later. Learn more about setting up an E-mail Reference System. Once you take care of filing your reference information, you can use the next three steps to handle e-mail you have to do something with, your action information.

2. Schedule uninterrupted time to process and organize e-mail
How many interruptions do you get every each day? It’s nearly impossible to complete anything when you allow constant interruptions from the phone, people stopping by your office, and instant messaging. So it’s critical that you set aside uninterrupted time to process and organize your e-mail.

Many e-mail messages require you to make a decision. Good decisions require focus, and focus requires uninterrupted attention. You need to establish a regular time each day to process your e-mail so that you can empty your Inbox. Of course, you can scan your e-mail during the day for urgent messages or requests from your boss.

Book yourself a recurring appointment for an hour a day to process e-mail, and mark it as “busy.” During this time don’t answer the phone or take interruptions, and work only on processing your Inbox.

At first, keeping these appointments will take discipline, but over time the discipline becomes habit. And once you get to zero e-mail in your Inbox, you’ll see the value of this one hour a day and you’ll stick to it like glue.

3. Process one item at a time, starting at the top
When you sit down to process your e-mail, the first step is to sort it by the order in which you want to process it. For example, you can filter by date, subject, or who the e-mail is from. In Outlook 2003, click the Arranged By: box at the top of your Inbox and click how you want to arrange your e-mail.

Tip: If you use Outlook 2003, enable the preview pane so that you can view your messages without having to open them. To enable the preview pane, on the View menu, click AutoPreview.

Resist the temptation to jump around in your Inbox in no particular order. Begin processing the message at the top of your Inbox and only move to the second one after you’ve handled the first. This can be hard at first when you might have thousands of messages in your Inbox. But as you reduce the number of messages over a few sessions, eventually you’ll get to the point where you can process the 60-100 messages you get every day and get your Inbox down to zero every day.

4. Use the “Four D’s for Decision Making” model
The “Four D’s for Decision Making” model (4 D’s) is a valuable tool for processing e-mail, helping you to quickly decide what action to take with each item and how to remove it from the Inbox.

Decide what to do with each and every message
How many times have you opened, reviewed, and closed the same e-mail message over and over? Some of those messages are getting lots of attention but very little action. It is better to handle each e-mail message only once before taking action—which means you have to make a decision as to what to do with it and where to put it. Under the 4 D’s model, you have four choices:

Delete it

Do it

Delegate it

Defer it

DELETE IT
Generally you can delete about half of all the e-mail you get. But some of you shudder when you hear “delete.” You’re hesitant to delete messages for fear you might need them at some point. That’s understandable, but ask yourself honestly: What percentage of information that you keep do you actually use?

If you do use a large percentage of what you keep, then what you’re doing is working. But many of you are keeping a lot more than you use. Here are some questions to ask yourself to help you decide what to delete:

Does the message relate to a meaningful objective you’re currently working on? If not, you can probably delete it. Why hang on to information that doesn’t relate to your main focus?

Does the message contain information you can find elsewhere? If so, delete it.

Does the message contain information that you will refer to within the next six months? If not, delete it.

Does the message contain information that you’re required to keep? If not, delete it.

DO IT (in less than two minutes)
If you can’t DELETE IT, then decide, “What specific action do I need to take?” and “Can I DO IT in less than two minutes?” If you can, just DO IT.

There is no point in filing an e-mail or closing an e-mail if you can complete it in less than 2 minutes. Try it out—see how much mail you can process in less than 2 minutes. I think you will be extremely surprised and happy with the results. You could file the message, you could respond to the message, or you could make a phone call. You can probably handle about one third of your e-mail messages in less than two minutes.

DELEGATE IT
If you can’t DELETE IT or DO IT in two minutes or less, can you DELEGATE IT?

If you can delegate it, do it right away. You should be able to compose and send the delegating message in about two minutes. Once you delegate the action, delete the original message or move it into your e-mail reference system.

DEFER IT
If you cannot DELETE IT, DO IT in less than two minutes, or DELEGATE IT, then the action required is something that only you can accomplish and that will take more than two minutes. Because this is your dedicated e-mail processing time, you need to DEFER IT and deal with it after you are done processing your e-mail. You’ll probably find that about 10 percent of your e-mail messages have to be deferred.

There are two things you can do to defer a message: turn it into an actionable task or turn it into an appointment. When you’re using Outlook 2003, you can DEFER e-mails with actions by turning the e-mail into a task on your Task List. Name the task to clearly state what action is required so that you don’t have to reopen the e-mail message. The result is a clearly defined list of actions in your task list that you can prioritize and schedule to complete on your Calendar. Learn how to:

Turn a message into a task

Turn a message into a meeting request

Do it daily
Using the 4 D’s model on a daily basis makes it easier to handle a large quantity of e-mail. Our experience shows that on average, people can process about 100 e-mail messages an hour. If you receive 40 to 100 messages per day, all you need is one hour of uninterrupted e-mail processing time to get through your Inbox. Our statistics show that of the e-mail you receive:

50 percent can be deleted or filed

30 percent can be delegated or completed in less than 2 minutes

20 percent can be deferred to your Task List or Calendar to complete later

Of course, if you have a backlog of hundreds of messages, it will take time to get to the point where your daily routine keeps you up to date. It’s important to get that backlog down, so I would suggest setting chunks of time aside to work through it. Then you can really enjoy processing your messages every day using the 4 D’s.