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PhiTodo in the Adobe AIR challenge finals

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

I am very happy to  announce that  my  application PhiTodo ( http://phitodo.com ) has been selected to be in the final three applications in Adobe AIR Challenge contest. The winner will be choice by the public next wednesday( 25 november ) on a public event.

You can read more about this event on Adobe website : http://myadobe.ro/2009/11/18/air-challenge-vino-la-finala/
If you want to hear more about AIR 2.0 and see me how I tell you that PhiTodo is great and awesome  this event will be perfect for you.

PhiTodo - Simple Task Manager

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

Time is important, valuable, precious, and we must not waste it. We must make use of it every second,
every hour, every day of our life. Every second counts. So our goal is to find a way to manage our time
the best we can and to do that we need a good tool to help us.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.”
- Benjamin Franklin

A good quote, from my point of view. This is why I like organizing my time, is the first thing I do at work
after a hot coffee, but a very important thing to keep in mind in organizing your time is not to spend
to much time organizing. The organizing process must be simple, fast and effective.

The search…

I have to say that I have spent a lot of time searching for the perfect tool to help me organizing my time. A tool
that has :

  • a simple interface but a nice one, I don’t like an “ugly” software the UX in this days is very important
  • a free tool
  • a tool that can allow me to share my tasks with my friends or my team mates
  • a tool that can offer me some features to see how much time I have spent on each task
  • a tool that saves a history of all my tasks
  • more than just a list of tasks

I can continue with this list but I think you got the idea. So because I have not found any tool to please all my
needs I sad “OK, I will build MY OWN TOOL :D”, don’t reach to any bad conclusions, I am not doing this for every thing
I’m not saying “Oooo Google is not so great, I will build MY OWN Google”, but I think that I can do a better job
than others in this area so this is why I have built PhiTodo.

PhiTodo - Simple Task Manager ( Perfect tool ? )

First let me tell you what is PhiTodo. PhiTodo is a simple task manager that can help you easily organize your
tasks and free up your mind for more important things. PhiTodo looks great and offers you a simple interface
to add/edit/delete tasks and more important to share tasks with your friends.

Is PhiTodo the perfect tool ? The answer is no, but in time with a lot of work I hope PhiTodo will
offer you all the features you need to organize your time very fast and
effective.

I hope you will enjoy:
http://phitodo.com

preview

Share a task with PhiTodo Task Manager from Alexandru Ghiura on Vimeo.

If you have any ideas or comments don’t be shy and post them here.

History of the Internet

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Apparently the Internet is born in 1957 from the need of American army (I hope we all know this :D).  Next video is a great animated documentary explaining how Internet got live.


History Of The Internet from Billy Wanzi on Vimeo.