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Looking for a way to stay on top of all those tasks piling up on you? Maybe you need a way to keep track of your homework assignments and due dates, or maybe you need to better organize your work day to optimize efficiency. Stacy Reed shares five free task management tools that just might be the solution you're looking for.

This week, Stacy Reed shares her favorite textbook swapping sites and offers some advice about selling, buying and trading your gently used college materials online. If you're looking for ways to

save money on textbooks for back to school

, this episode will show you where to find the sweet stuff for a sweet price.

Before you go to the book store and pay top dollar for new textbooks, or too much for used books, consider doing some preliminary shopping online. In this episode, Stacy Reed shows us some of her favorite sites that offer incredible deals on second-hand textbooks, and where you'll be able to find the titles your looking for at the lowest price around.

Stacy Reed shares five free sites that can help you keep your digital life organized when you go back to school. From class notes and schedules to gradebooks and collections, we'll show you how to keep it all tidy and access it remotely anywhere you have an internet connection!

Striving toward the utopian dream of a paperless office? Did you know you can verify the authenticity of a document, sign contracts, send secure forms to your colleagues (and much more), but do so quickly, securely and most importantly, legally online? Most countries recognize the legality of a digital signature and deem it binding. Also, many industries have established regulations that recognize digital signatures as valid replacements for handwritten signatures. This week, Stacy introduces three online services for creating your own digital signatures.

Stacy Reed shares five more

sites where you can create free cartoon representations of your unique personality

. Use these avatars to spruce up your social network profiles or to use in online forums where you'd prefer to remain anonymous. You could even make cartoon characters of all your phone contacts or chat buddies! This episode follows up on last week's episode where Stacy demos five other avatar creating online apps.

Create free cartoon avatars that can be customized to represent your unique personality or interests across the social networks or chat clients you frequent. Stacy Reed shares five of her favorites this week.

Stacy Reed explains how you can

receive notifications through email, RSS or desktop widget whenever your website server goes down

and again when it comes back up with Montastic's free monitoring services.

Many Internet services use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connections to encrypt data that travels between your computer and their server. This week, Stacy Reed shows us Google's encrypted web search and will show how to make it your default search engine in Firefox's search box.

Stacy Reed explains how to use GuerrillaMail, a site that provides its visitors with

disposable email addresses

that expire within an hour's time. This service is ideal for situations where you need to sign up for a service you only plan to use once, so you can avoid the subsequent spam as well as the headache of having to unsubscribe later.