Wondering if your New Years’ resolutions will make it past February? While there is no substitute for personal discipline and all that stuff, it is nice to have some help along the way. Here are some ways that technology can make that resolution just a little bit easer to keep:
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et Things Done
Do you just need help remembering all the stuff you didn’ get around to last year? Go no further than Remember The Milk. This free service has it all: To-do lists with calendering, email/SMS/RSS/instant message reminders, and integration with everything from the iPhone to Google homepages.
If you want to embrace hard-core efficiency, read Getting Things Done and then check out this list of GTD software tools. The list has both buyware and freeware for Palm, Pocket PC, Linux, and Windows.
Get Fit
The coolest exercise gadget this year has to be the Nike + iPod Sport Kit. If you own a pair of Nikes that can accomodate a special sensor, this kit turns your iPod into a performance monitor and coach. At $45, it beats buying a new treadmill.
Need help with a exercise program and fitness tracker? Here is a Online Fiteness Tracker that helps you manage both your diet and your exercise plan, monitoring nutrition, and creating weekly and monthly reports of your progress. There is a free version of this service as well.
Eat Right
Counting calories? If you have a personalized Google homepage, you can add this Calorie Calculator widget. “Use the calorie calculator to see each meal’s calorie details and sum up your daily total. Use the settings to see your recommended average daily intake.” If you want something more portable, try the Nutrition Assistant. Or if you own a Windows Mobile device here is a roundup of diet software for smartphones.
Need to completely overhaul your diet? I personally recommend The South Beach Diet website. You get lots of tools to help shed the pounds, including a diet profile to track your progress, forums and diaries to share successes and struggles with like-minded people. Best of all, it has a meal planner that lets you pick and print recipes, including a coalated shopping list. (If you pick four recipes that each call for a 1/4 cup of minced onion, for example, the shopping list will combine the amounts and let you know to buy a cup of mixed onion for that set.)
Get Going!
Good luck in 2008! If you use any high-tech tools not listed here, drop a comment and let us know what works for you. Happy New Year from TechBrew!

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