Which Date Works – Free online event planning software

Need to plan an event with a group of friends who live all over the country or all over the world? Maybe a baby shower or a vacation to Mexico? A good way to plan these type of events is to use event management software instead of email.

Which Date Works is a nitfy little online group planning and invitation management site that makes planning an event really easy.

Note that this kind of service is only useful if you have not already picked out a date for an event, but want to ask everyone which date works best for them.

Here’s how the whole thing works. First, you give you event a name and some details about the event such as the location, etc, etc.

Now you will go ahead and put in the email addresses of everyone who will be involved in this event. You can also quickly import contacts from Gmail, Yahoo! and other email services.

Next, everyone picks the dates on the calendar that they are available and the days that are not good.

After people start responding, you will be able to see which dates everyone picked. The calendar also has numbers indication how many people were available or not on that particular day.

Lastly, you finalize the date for your plans and Which Date Works will send out an email to everyone letting them know when the plans are taking place.

What’s nice about the service is that no one has to sign up, including you! You can do everything on the site without having to login or create an account, which is great!

Source: Online Tech Tips

Use Google Picasa to Face-Tag Your Photos

As you've probably discovered after years of taking digital snapshots, keeping a photo library organized can be a nightmare. Far and away your best ally: tags, which are little descriptors attached to each photo.

Unfortunately, it's a major hassle to manually assign tags, which is where the new automatic-tagging feature in the just-released Google Picasa 3.5 comes in.

When you first run the new version, it starts scanning your library for faces, automatically grouping those that look similar (and with impressive accuracy, based on initial tests).

To get started with face tagging, click the Scanning option under the new People section in the lefthand toolbar. (Depending on the size of your library, it might take Picasa several hours to complete its initial scan--but you can start tagging while it's working.)

You'll immediately see a batch of faces in the main pane. Click Add a name under any one of them, type the person's name, and then hit Enter.

In the dialog box that appears, click New Person, and then click OK. (You can also supply a nickname and/or e-mail address at this point; Picasa can sync these tags with your Picasa Web Albums.)

Repeat the process with other faces. If you want Picasa to ignore a face (you might not want to tag everybody, after all), just click the little x in the corner.

Each "new person" you add creates a tag in the aforementioned People section. Click one of those tags to see all the matches Picasa has detected. You can refine these matches further by selecting one or more photos, then clicking the green checkmark if they're accurate (i.e. the correct face) or the red x if they're not.

The more you fiddle with this feature, the more sense it will start to make. Keep in mind that all this scanning and tagging makes no actual changes to your photos. Ultimately, it's just a quick way to find all your photos of, say, Fluffy the Dog, or your Uncle Ed. Great stuff.

Source: Rick Broida, PC World

Get a free, disposable phone number from inumbr

Savvy online shoppers will often use disposable credit-card numbers (which are available from PayPal and some banks) to protect their privacy.

Here's a perfect companion: inumbr, which gives you free, temporary phone numbers. These throwaways are ideal for things like Craiglist ads, where you might want to include contact information--but not your contact information.

To use inumber, choose your closest city or area code (the service has roughly two dozen of them), then specify how long you want the number to last: an hour, a day, or a week.

Next, enter your real phone number, which is where inumbr will forward incoming calls. You'll also need to supply an e-mail address in order to activate the temporary number.

Once you've done that, you can log into the service and access a wealth of options, including extending the expiration date, adding a second number (in case you can't be reached at the first one), and even checking voicemail.

All this is free, believe it or not, making inumbr a must-bookmark site.

Source: PC World