We’ve covered Remember the Milk before to help you manage your lists and tasks.  However, Remember the Milk and similar services require registration and a little bit of configuration.  What if you’d like to have a reminder sent to you at a certain date/time, sans all the registration headache?

This is where a new site called YourLi.st comes into play.  With YourList, you enter in a title and summary of the task, then set up whether the event needs has recurrence.  In my testing, setting up a reminder generates an initial e-mail confirming the reminder.

On their front page, the site pledges to not re-use or sell your email address, but I’d recommend using a disposable email address if you are concerned with getting spammed by the new service.

Also, check out the bookmarklet if you want to quickly create reminders easily in your browser.

“Strong passwords.” That’s one of the mantras of online security, along with looking for SSL connections and using unique passwords for each site you register at. But do you know how strong is strong? If you need some help evaluating the security of a password you’re planning on using, try the Microsoft Password Checker. In addition to being an AJAX tool - so that the password you’re checking never actually leaves your own computer - it includes tips on creating good passwords.Of course, if you’re really using unique passwords for every site, you’ll also want to implement some sort of password-management tool, like the ones we’ve reviewed in the past. The best of these utilities will even generate unique, strong passwords for you.
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We’ve reached a point where free online file storage space is no longer a distinguishing feature; anyone who bothers to look around and sign up for various services can easily find dozens of gigabytes of space on other people’s servers without paying a cent. Some providers have been trying to stand out from the pack with extra features. But newcomer Openomy has a different strategy: they’ll give you a gigabyte of storage and a way for you to build your own features.

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Specifically, Openomy has implemented a REST-based API with (at the moment) Ruby language bindings. Anyone can write an application that gets authenticated access to files stored on Openomy, then perform operations like uploading, downloading, and tagging. If you’re a developer looking to add online storage to your own applications, this gives you a potential way to do that without running your own disk farm.

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