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Free time tracking tool for personal use, small business and employees


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“Activity Tracker Plus” is a free time tracking software that can keep track of all your daily activities. You can use if for anything you want - small business owners or employers can use it to track their employee hours, consultants can use it for time reporting, students can use it to track time spent in their homework and others can just use it to analyze how they spend their time. It provides a very simple interface and all you do is punch-in when you start an activity and punch-out when you are done. This gadget will take care of generating your time records or timesheet. It also comes with a social client - “Activity Tracker Plus Social” that will let you share your daily log on your blog or any opensocial social networking platform including orkut, hi5, Friendster, MySpace etc in real time.Activity Tracker Plus is built using Google Spreadsheet as the back end for data storage. That means, all your personal tracking data is stored on your own Google spreadsheet. You can back it up whenever you want or export it to your local machine whenever you want.

Activity Tracker Plus Running On Prism

Activity Tracker Plus can be accessed from any browser (yes.. you can use iPhone too) and it shares the same data from the same Google spreadsheet. That means, you can punch-in from your desktop Activity Tracker Plus or IGoogle and punch-out from your iPhone and you can punch-in again from you Mozilla internet browser. The data is shared and is stored on your very own Google spreadsheet. There are number of set-up options available for Activity Tracker Plus. You can have it on your computer’s system tray or you can have it in your IGoogle page or Gmail or you can access it from any personal web-sites. So you are not limited to using only iGoogle. Activity Tracker Plus is also very reliable and does not depend on a single platform like iGoogle. So even if iGoogle decides to disable all gadgets, all your data is still saved on your spreadsheet and you can still access them through any other Internet browser. You do not need iGoogle to access your data just use any Internet browser. Activity Tracker Plus is very secure. It uses three keys and optional password to make sure no one can access your data.

Points to note before using Activity Tracker Plus

  1. If you are a previous iGoogle Activity Tracker user, please note that Activity Tracker Plus is NOT compatible with the old Activity Tracker and you will NOT be able to import all your activities. You can continue to send me requests to recover your old data (screeperzone at gmail.com).

For Netvibes and Vista gadgets, please refer back to the previous version of Activity TrackerActivity Tracker - Punchclock & Time Management Gadget

For all other users, just click on the link below to setup your account and start using Activity Tracker Plus on your Internet Browser or any smartphone browser

Setup and start using Activity Tracker Plus

 

Activity Tracker Plus is a free time management or timesheet gadget. Use it to improve productivity following Getting things done principles. Managing your time efficiently. Capture billable time, capture time spent in writing blogs, time spent on leisure activities, daily life log. Project management gadget.

Expense tracking feature in Activity Tracker Plus


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You can track all your expenses with Activity Tracker Plus. You can add expense from activity list screen or by clicking “Manage Logs” menu for an activity.

Adding New Expense

You can view all your expense summary and expense logs from your weekly summary page for an activity or from weekly summary report from “Dashboard”

Adding New Expense

 

Activity Tracker Plus is a free time and task tracking or timesheet gadget. Use it to improve productivity following Getting things done principles. Managing your time efficiently. Capture billable time, capture time spent in writing blogs, track expenses, time spent on leisure activities, daily life log.

Activity Tracker Plus Security And Data Visibility


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I get lots of emails related to Activity Tracker Plus security and data visibility (who can see my data ?) . This blog post is dedicated to answer the following questions. Please feel free to leave your comments and suggestions.

  1. Who all has access to my Activity Tracker Plus web-application ?
  2. How secure is my data that is stored in Google Spreadsheet ?
  3. For Employers : I have setup Activity Tracker Plus for 50 employees using my Google account, can my employee access my Google Spreadsheet data ?
  4. For Employees: Can my employer view my password that I set and other settings ?

Who all has access to my Activity Tracker Plus web-application ?

Activity Tracker Plus application is protected with three keys (Google access Key, Spreadsheet Name, Private Key) and an optional password (can be set from settings tab). A user trying to access your data needs to know all three key information and password (if set). We always recommend you to set your password, as sometimes the three key information is stored in your browser history. When you set your password, there is no way others can access the application. As the password is saved in your Google spreadsheet, any one who is trying to access needs to know your Google account password as-well to get to your Google spreadsheet. So the answer would be, whoever has the three key information and the password can access Activity Tracker Plus web-application (but not the data that is stored in Google Spreadsheet).

We at ScreeperZone do not log or save any of your three key information or password or IP address on our servers. Any server request that you make to access your data needs to have three key information all the time. In fact as you must have noticed, we do not get any of your personal information like your name or email during setup. As your personal identity is hidden from us, we cannot associate any server request to a customer. You may ask, How are we going to support when we don’t have access to your data ?.  We cannot support your data, but as we provide service that accesses this data, we can support only the services and software we provide (like server up-time or availability, issues in the application etc) . That is why we highly recommend you to not tamper with your data in Google spreadsheet. Even if you mistakenly edit your data directly in Google spreadsheet, use Google Spreadsheet revision history to revert those changes.

How secure is my data that is stored in Google Spreadsheet ?

We decided to store data in your Google Spreadsheet so that you have full control of your own data. Again no one has access to your data except you. Your data is protected by your own Google account password.

For Employers : I have setup Activity Tracker Plus for 50 employees using my Google account, can my employee access my Google Spreadsheet data ?

No, employees don’t have access to your Google Spreadsheet data or to your Google account. All employees have access only to Activity Tracker Plus web-application that is set-up for that employee. He/she can only create task, punch-in/out, modify settings or view log information through the web-application.

For Employees: Can my employer view my password that I set and other settings ?

Employer has full access to his own Google Spreadsheet where employees task and time data is stored. Employer cannot view your personal password that you set as the password is encrypted and stored in Google Spreadsheet. Employer can view your IP address from where you punch-in or punch-out and other settings you save in your Google Spreadsheet. I would recommend all employees to set-up Activity Tracker Plus for themselves and see what all data is visible from Google Spreadsheet.

Activity Tracker Plus is a free time management or timesheet gadget. Use it to improve productivity following Getting things done principles. Managing your time efficiently. Capture billable time, capture time spent in writing blogs, time spent on leisure activities, daily life log. Project management gadget.

Please Backup your iGoogle ToDo gadget data

As I had mentioned in my previous blog post, I’m currently busy with my new venture (www.smazzle.com)  and hardly had  time to convert the iGoogle ToDo gadget  to a non-inline version.

Google sent me a mail indicating that they are going to stop supporting my iGoogle ToDo gadget within the next 2 months. You can still continue to use it until  Google eventually stops supporting it. You still may have 2 months left in the gadget.  But I strongly advice you to Print your tasks and move to any other version of iGoogle ToDo gadget or you can always checkout my alternative ToDo gadgets - Netvibes version or the Windows Vista version.

I will be working on a newer version of iGoogle ToDo gadget few months after the launch of our new venture.  Until then, please use alternative gadgets. Keep visiting my blog for any updates and thanks again for using my gadgets.



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Smazzle.com - Smart and Productive way to find the best price for any product.

Lately I had been busy with a brand new venture - a Deal Request Comparison Shopping Engine  (www.smazzle.com) .

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The idea is very simple - When you have decided on a product or list of products to buy,  just request a deal  and we (and the community) will help you find the best price including ALL rebates  + Shipping + tax. We also compare Cashback rebates (like fatwallet or mrrebates.com or QuickenPicks) and include the best cashback in the price.Comparison shopping is growing exponentially with 100’s of  comparison shopping sites being added every year.  This leads to a lot of confusion and a lot of clutter  making it a very unproductive experience when you are trying to find the best price for a product.  In general, if your time is more valuable, you would not care to spend time to comparison shop and would normally just go to a single site like amazon.com and make your purchase without worrying too much about price.  BUT what if there was one site that can help you find the best price WITHOUT you having to spend your valuable time - Would you be interested ?At Smazzle.com we understand that finding the best price involves a combination of Store Price + coupon + cashback + mail in rebates + gift card rebates +Shipping + tax.  And furthermore  each Cashback provider provides a different percentage of cashback. making it a even more complicated mathematical problem.  We have developed a  a very robust platform that can calculate all the combinations of rebates eventually providing you with the FINAL best price.We know your time is extremely valuable and therefore once you request a deal, we spend quality time making sure the deals are the best and are as accurate as possible. Read more about us at the Smazzle Blog.  Also learn more about the four categories of shopping sites and the steps to find the best price for any product.  Just try us out and we promise to wow you !!

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Activity Tracker For Small Business - Employee and Employers

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Managers can leverage Activity Tracker Plus to the benefit of them and their employees.Some of the benefits of using Activity Tracker Plus by managers or employers include the following:

  1. Get a live view of the time logged by your employees or consultants wthout leaving your desks.
  2. Managers can view the activities of any remotely scattered team - Very useful if you have out-sourced consultants or contractors working in different places of the world.
  3. A dasboard view of all the activities that your employees are working on with a option to check the logs for each of them - in real time.
  4. Help boost productivity of the team by ensuring that everyone is working on the activity they were assigned to do.
  5. Get a real time estimate of how long an activity could take by looking at the logs.
  6. Get necessary help for employees who seem to take way too much time on few activities.
  7. Steer your team in the right direction if you find employees straying away to work on activities that are not important.
  8. Get a real time view of the projected total cost of the project by closely monitoring the time taken for the activities.
  9. Check the billable hours that are logged even before the consultant provides you with the bill.

Continued in next page [See how you can setup Activity Tracker Plus for each employee] …

Activity Tracker is a free time management or timesheet gadget. Capture billable time for invoicing and billing. Project management gadget. Free time tracking timesheet application and gadget for managers employees consultants and freelancers

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To-do List with Google Maps - Recovering your lost data

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Few had informed me that To-Do List gadget all of a sudden stopped working. Google had stopped supporting inlining feature (which the gadget uses) but assured that the existing gadgets should not be affected.  Unfortunately, it has affected To-do List gadget for few users.   It is unfortunately beyond my control.

The good news is - ALL YOUR DATA IS SAFE within the gadget itself.   so DONOT PANIC.  and DONOT delete the gadget. If you delete it, then you will lose ALL your data.

I have outlined the steps on how to retrieve your data very easily and use other alternative gadgets I have developed.

  1. Assuming you had entered your todo  and it looked previously like below:
  2. With this issue, the gadget should look like below:
  3. Right click on this gadget and say “View Source”. It should open a notepad with a lot of contents.
  4. Search for “screeperzone” and around that text, you should see a lot of “%22″ wherein you will see your todo lists. Unfortunately it is a little messy to extract one by one.
  5.   I have other alternatives for the same todo list gadget - including for Vista and Netvibes.  Please visit this link for the alternatives.

 



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Activity Tracker Plus Social - Live sharing of your daily life log

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“Activity Tracker Plus Social” is a social client for “Activity Tracker Plus“.  It lets you share your daily life log on your blog or your website or on any opensocial social networking platform including orkut, hi5, linkedin, Ning, Friendster, MySpace etc.  It lets others see what you are doing now. It is always updated and therefore your viewers can always be current on your activities.

Your viewers will not be able to edit your activites and you have full control over what they see. You can just handpick a few activities to be public while the rest remains private. You can also decide to hide or show all the past logs for an activity that is made public.Since “Activity Tracker Plus”  can work on any internet browser - You can punch-in from anywhere and punch-out from anywhere and all your viewers will be able to see what you are upto.To start publishing your life log, follow the steps below:

  1. You need to be using “Activity Tracker Plus” .  Follow the link below to setup Activity Tracker Plus.  It is a one time setup and takes only a few minutes.

    Setup and start using Activity Tracker Plus

  2. Once you have setup Activity Tracker Plus and followed the instructions on how to use it, you can then setup “Activity Tracker Plus Social”.  Just open Activity Tracker Plus and click on “Menu | What Else Can I Do ?” which should take you to the instruction sheet.
  3. Just click the appropriate topic . (eg) “Publish my activites and time log for everyone to see on my blog or website”  to read instructions on how to publish your  life log.

Activity Tracker Plus Social lets you share your daily lifelog on your blog or any other social networking platform. It answers one question - What are you doing now ? Always updated and accurate. Control what they can see. Share your daily activities, daily lifelog, day-to-day activity on any blog or social networking platform with friends and family.

Activity Tracker Plus - Track all your life activities with just a single click


Related to: [ Activity Tracker Plus - Free Time And Task Tracking Tool for personal use, small business and employees ]

“Activity Tracker Plus” is a punchclock time tracking tool that can keep track of all your daily activities. You can use if for anything you want - small business owners or employers can use it to track their employee hours, consultants can use it for time reporting, students can use it to track time spent in their homework and others can just use it to analyze how they spend their time. It provides a very simple interface and all you do is punch-in when you start an activity and punch-out when you are done. This gadget will take care of generating your time records or timesheet. It also comes with a social client - “Activity Tracker Plus Social”  that will let you share your daily log on your blog or any opensocial social networking platform including orkut, hi5, Friendster, MySpace etc in real time.Activity Tracker Plus is built using Google Spreadsheet as the back end for data storage. That means, all your personal tracking data is stored on your own Google spreadsheet. You can back it up whenever you want or export it to your local machine whenever you want.

Activity Tracker Plus Running On Prism

Activity Tracker Plus can be accessed from any browser (yes.. you can use iPhone too) and it shares the same data from the same Google spreadsheet. That means, you can punch-in from your desktop Activity Tracker Plus or IGoogle and punch-out from your iPhone and you can punch-in again from you Mozilla internet browser.  The data is shared and is stored on your very own Google spreadsheet. There are number of set-up options available for Activity Tracker Plus. You can have it on your computer’s system tray or you can have it in your IGoogle page or Gmail or you can access it from any personal web-sites. So you are not limited to using only iGoogle. Activity Tracker Plus is also very reliable and does not depend on a single platform like iGoogle. So even if iGoogle decides to disable all gadgets, all your data is still saved on your spreadsheet and you can still access them through any other Internet browser.  You do not need iGoogle to access your data just use any Internet browser. Activity Tracker Plus is very secure. It uses three keys and optional password to make sure no one can access your data.

Points to note before using Activity Tracker Plus

  1. If you are a previous iGoogle Activity Tracker user, please note that Activity Tracker Plus is NOT compatible with the old Activity Tracker and you will NOT be able to import all your activities. You can continue to send me requests to recover your old data (screeperzone at gmail.com).

For Netvibes and Vista gadgets, please refer back to the previous version of Activity TrackerActivity Tracker - Punchclock & Time Management Gadget

For all other users, just click on the link below to setup your account and start using Activity Tracker Plus on your Internet Browser or any smartphone browser

Setup and start using Activity Tracker Plus

 

Activity Tracker Plus is a free time management or timesheet gadget. Use it to improve productivity following Getting things done principles. Managing your time efficiently. Capture billable time, capture time spent in writing blogs, time spent on leisure activities, daily life log. Project management gadget.

Activity Tracker - Sorry, this gadget uses the inlining feature, which is no longer supported.

You must have noticed today that Activity Tracker says “Sorry, this gadget uses the inlining feature, which is no longer supported.“  This has been reported to iGoogle Developer forum and should be fixed shortly. Please watch this link for any updates.

IMPORTANT: DONOT close Activity Tracker. You will lose ALL the data.

In order to backup your data, please follow my post on backing up or exporting the settings . Please note the following:

  1. Before you click on “Restore your iGoogle page to the last backup”  make sure you “Export” current settings.
  2. Then click on “Restore” as explained in the post and then “Export” to export the settings that you just restored (which should have all your activity tracker preferences).
  3. Now you should have 2 settings that you exported - the latest settings and the restored settings.  The restored settings should normally have the Activity Tracker preference data.
  4. Then you can wait for iGoogle folks to fix the issue.
  5. If you need all the current settings for all your other gadgets, then import your latest settings back again using the import button.
  6. If you donot want to wait for Google to help us with the issue, then open this xml file in textpad and check for activity tracker related preferences. Then email it to screeperzone+pc  at  gmail.com  and I can help you retrieve your data.

Hopefully Google should help us resolve this issue.    If you are looking for alternatives, we have the Netvibes and Vista version too - Please visit this link

 



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