Looking to get the home organized? Even though most people frown at the thought of doing housework, many of us don’t feel in control until we know everything is in its place. If you’re looking to get your home organized but aren’t sure how, we have the perfect geek tips that will make the process easier. That’s right – even geeks can keep a clean, organized house and if anything, the process is even simpler!

1. Make a Spreadsheet – You’re no stranger to spreadsheets, and these handy charts are perfect for keeping organized and allow you to see what types of chores need to be done and when. For starters, list all of your household chores on the far left column, such as dusting and vacuuming. Then list the areas of the home that these chores need to be done, as well as how often. Check them off as you go and in no time, your spreadsheet will be your go-to source for keeping organized.

2. Create a Shared Calendar – You’re a geek at heart, which means you’re programmed to work the internet to your advantage. Why not use it to your advantage when keeping organized? Make a shared calendar that allows you to be interactive and share your plans with others. Shared calendars are especially great if you’re splitting household tasks with roommates.

3. Use Desktop Widgets – You were born with the word widget in your vocabulary, and let’s face it, you use them for everything else, right? From keeping updated on emails to checking the weather, desktop widgets are convenient and fun. Why not add a widget that will help you stay on top of your housework as well? You can either design your own widget or use one that already exists. Maybe it’s a countdown to your next big cleaning day, or perhaps it’s a to-do list of your daily chores. Whatever the reason, a desktop widget can help you remember.

4. Virtual Cleaning – Even though you may be wired to think like a geek, it doesn’t mean you all think alike! While some geeks enjoy spreadsheets, others need visualizations. But instead of having to shamefully draw a picture of your home, make a virtual one on your computer. You can either use a high-tech program to make 3D images of your homes interior, or simply make a blueprint. Then, color code which areas need to be cleaned on which days using a color graph.

5. Establish a Game Plan – It’s not just the way you plan to keep organized that’s important. Implementing these strategies is the most difficult part, which is why you need a game plan in place. Determine how you’ll accomplish your tasks, such as by cleaning room by room or cleaning with certain supplies first.

6. Keep Track of Inventory – That’s right, you can’t get your cleaning done if you don’t have the right supplies on hand. In order to maximize time and reduce frustration, be sure to keep inventory of your cleaning supplies. Either add them to your spreadsheet or start a new spreadsheet. List all the supplies you need, including soap, dusting cloths, and glass cleaner. Do a check every few weeks so you know which cleaners you’ll need to pick up at the store.

7. Pop-Up Reminders – People often think that geeks aren’t forgetful, but really, it’s quite the opposite. Fortunately, geeks know how to keep organized a little better than everyone else. Those convenient little pop-up reminders on your computer are perfect for staying on track. Set up reminders for what rooms in the home need to be cleaned each day. These reminders are also great for little things, such as picking up detergent after work.

8. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle – Geeks are creative by nature, which means you can reduce clutter and find new uses for some of your regular trash. For example, try reusing plastic yogurt containers for kids’ stacking toys, to store small beads or trinkets, or to start an herb garden. Check out the lids of yogurt containers, the wrappers of juice boxes, and aluminum cans. Many products can be worth money when recycled properly.

9. Time Management – Geeks are resourceful when it comes to time, which is why you’ll want to get the most done in the shortest amount of time. Designate how much time you want to spend on each task. You can use desktop widgets to help you stay on track, such as digital timers or hourglasses. Another helpful tip is spray cleaners, let them sit, and work on something else in the meantime.

10. Preparation – All this planning sounds great, but it won’t work if you’re not prepared. Have a cleaning belt, caddy, or bucket that you can transport with you, as well as a copy of your spreadsheet. Also keep certain supplies, such as toilet bowl cleaner, in the bathroom for easy reach.

Guest blogger James compares vacuum bags and other appliance consumables at Spares Next Day.

Every week we will chum the waters to find the big Sharks who have published articles this past week. Each article will be featured here at the feeding frenzy. Do you have something worthy for our Sharks to feed on?

Lines in the water!

The Bait Bucket – Writing, Self Improvement and Health

Fetching Friday – A weekly series authored by Kristi at Kikolani.com. This weeks line up is loaded with many resources and so much more. I highly recommend that you read this wonderful weekly series. You never know, you may be in the spotlight next week.

Thank you yeah you – Potpolitics, a blog that never pulls punches. This article is a thank you to all the visitors who have written some of the best insightful comments.

Advertising Toward Dummies – The Series – An interview with a marketing and advertising professional. Great article and interview Bunny!

Friday with Friends – This blog features female bloggers that are really amazing. I am a big fan of one of these talented female bloggers.

1,000 Comments, Trackbacks, And Pingbacks – 1,000 comments with a little over 40 posts. That is an amazing accomplishment! Congratulations Deneil Merritt!

Story Starter – Are you suffering from a little writer’s block? Here’s a little thought experiment – story starter to get you going.

Does becoming a parent restrict your social circle? - New friends and relationships can makes us forget our old friends. A very insightful article written by phpdinwriting.

Tasty Technology Bytes – Tech News, SEO, Security

Entrecard acquired by Ziprunner – Graham Langdon announced that Entrecard has been acquired by a company called Ziprunner Inc. I use to be a member, but I left for reasons I will not mention. How much did he sell the site for?

7 Beautiful CSS Galleries To Help You Find Inspiration – These top 7 beautiful CSS galleries can help you find inspiration and ultimately make you a better web designer.

7 Things I Like About Seesmic’s Browser Client – A very detailed article on why Ching the author of Social @ Blogging Tracker loves Seemic’s Browser. Don’t know what Seemic’s browser is? Learn more by reading this article.

Hacker Croll Hacks Into Twitter Account Via Password Retrieval – Twitter hacked? Are you kidding me? It’s true and the founder of Twitter was distressed over this incident.

What Google Will Look Like In Year 2084 – Most of us or even all of us will not be around to see what this power house will look like in 2084, but you can get an idea if it’s realistic, just use your imagination.

We Need a Bigger Boat – Marketing, Business and Making Money

More ways to make money online with Social Spark – Learn how to make money using Social Spark. The author provides tips on how to get approved to post at Social Spark.

Get More from Twitter – Twitter Marketing eBook Review – If your looking to market your business or blog using Twitter, this is a must read article.

Hook, Line and Sinker – Odd stuff, Humor and Ramblings

The Chris Farley Show: Captivating Bio of a younger generation’s Belushi – Chris Farley was one of my favorite actors who always made me laugh from movies and TV Shows like Tommy Boy and Saturday Night Live. Check out this captivating biography.

Trophy Catches – Arts and Entertainment

It Came From Outerspace the Painting in Progress – Jay Zuck needs no luck. This talented artist continues to amaze me with his latest work of art.

10 Short-Lived Celebrity Marriages – An article on short lived marriages and in my opinion they should have never enter into unity.

Spread Your Wings – A beautiful and thoughtful blog post by my best friend Susie, the owner and author of soul-to-soul.com.

Your Bark is Bigger than Your Byte – Animals and Pets

Camping with Your Dog– A great article on how to keep your dog safe during outdoor events like camping. Great article once again Hart!

Three Reasons to Own Two or More Cats – Find out why households with more than one cat have less problems.

Week in review at TechJaws

Things to Check for when Purchasing a Domain Name
Securing Your Wireless Network
Increase Traffic to your Blog with this Method
Get Some Link Juice As GeoCities Plans to Close
How to Avoid being Penalized by Google

Want to be featured in the Feeding Frenzy Series?

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Every Saturday we will hunt down the best of the best blog articles in the past week and serve them up for our visitors and fans. Do you have something worthy for our Sharks to feed on?

Let the chumming begin!

The Bait Bucket – Writing, Self Improvement and Health

16 Misconceptions About ‘Serious’ Blogging – Ching Ya over at Social @ Blogging Tracker explains that blogging and running a blog is not that difficult. In fact, it’s easy once you start practicing and knowing your way around a WordPress blog. This Shark has no fear!

Fetching Friday – A weekly series authored by Kristi at Kikolani.com. I enjoyed many of the articles in the Tech/SEO section and why not, I am a technology enthusiast. Another article that caught my interest was the Benefits of Blogging – Developing SEO & Internet Marketing Skills. This is a must read!

11 Steps to a More Positive You – It’s all about your attitude that can make or break you. If you have a great outlook on life and stay positive even during challenging times, you can overcome. Nice read as always Jonathan!

Prime Prine – My friend Kilroy over at Fear And Loathing – The Gonzo Papers shares a beautiful photo and music from John Prine. It looks like a couple of more days in the Grand Canyon for Kilroy.

McCunications Weekend Mashup – A new mashup series that features Stumbles, Follow-Friday, Tweets and so much more. We look forward to more of these articles in weeks to come. Thanks Anthony!

Communicate through Blogs Effectively – This article is a must read. It really puts things in perspective on writing, communication and how to choose the right words. If you blog, than read this informative blog post. It’s amazing how much you can learn!

Five Blogs – Four Women – One Apple & Me – Bunny found some gems here. She provides some of the best Women blogs on the internet. I noticed one that I am a huge fan of, can you guess?

Tasty Technology Bytes – Tech News, SEO, Security

Link building – The San Antonio crazy man John Sullivan shares a great article on link building. If you are not familiar with the importance of building links, I suggest you read this article.

mod_rewrite Quick Reference and Cheat Sheet – This technique written by David Hopkins is probably the most important when it comes to SEO. David provides an overview without getting too detailed.

Redirect from HTTP to WWW – A great tip on how to achieve this simple redirect. Michael Aulia is an old friend that I met over a year ago at Entrecard. Michael is a tech enthusiast like me and he serves up great information.

Blogging: SEO images enhance your posts – The Google crawler cannot read image scripts and therefore using the ALT attribute (providing a description) will allow you to tell the crawler what the image is referring to. I couldn’t have said it any better! Great article timethief!

We Need a Bigger Boat – Marketing, Business and Making Money

How To Use Article Marketing To Promote Your Blog – Deneil the author of deneilmerritt.com explains the challenges of article marketing and how you can take advantage on building backlinks.

Just Ask – Article Marketing And Site Promotion – Brian the author of Extreme Ezine tries to help out a long time friend by asking a question for other subscribers and fans to assist. Maybe you can help out as well.

Make Money Online Status Report for June 2009 – Wayne shares his success by providing an update on his efforts in terms of making money online.

Hook, Line and Sinker – Odd stuff, Humor and Ramblings

My two favorite emotions are lucky and enthusiastic – Tracy the author of “I hate my messageboard” shares an article I would categorize as a rant, but a good read with your morning coffee.

Trophy Catches – Arts and Entertainment

Jay Zuck’s Sketch of the Day – Happy Forth of July – Jay is a talented sketch artist and you will agree once you visit his blog and appreciate his talent.

Your Bark is Bigger than Your Byte – Animals and Pets

How Does Your Pet Rank in the Household? – Hart the author of PetLvr.com shares insight on how our pets hold rank in our homes. Is your pet taking over?

Week in review at TechJaws

How to Get More Traffic with Google Trends
Free SEO Analysis Tool
StumbleUpon is Stumbling Downward
Free Directory Sites with a High Google Pagerank

Want to be featured in Saturday Feeding Frenzy?

We all love link juice and a little recognition. The articles that we feature on Saturday Feeding Frenzy are from people who leave comments on the articles we have published this past week. TechJaws is a Dofollow blog that averages over 1000 unique visitors per day.

Sharks, although fierce predators of the sea, hunt in groups. When one smells blood, they all go for it. And that’s how feeding frenzies get started. Teeth gnash, sharks bite other sharks while trying to get to the kill. How would you like it if your content, business, or service was the feast our readers are hunting down?

Every Saturday we will hunt down the best of the best blog articles in the past week and serve them up for our visitors and fans. Do you have something worthy for our Sharks to feed on?

The Bait Bucket – Writing, Self Improvement and Health

Fetching Friday – A weekly series authored by Kristi at Kikolani.com. This week has many surprises that will sure spark a feeding frenzy for many readers. One of the articles I found interesting was the Twitter Marketing eBook Review. This is a must read weekly article.

The Relationship Between Success and Failure – Jonathan the author of Advanced Life Skills provides a great article on self improvement. As I stated in my comment – “A challenge to me is something outside my comfort zone and I test myself to see if I can adapt.”

Family & Blogging — Who Comes First? – Ching the author of this blog really puts things into perspective. This blog is a must read to understand the importance of how to share time between blogging and family.

Grammar Helper: Farther vs. Further – Joanie the author of CornerScribe explains and compares the difference between these two words. I am sure we all have our own words we tend to use incorrectly.

Tasty Technology Bytes – Tech Stuff, SEO, Security

Robot txt mystery unraveled – The San Antonio crazy man John Sullivan gets techie on us with this eye opening article.

Firefox 3.5 Final Version Released – Download Now – Gennice the author of Gnoted takes you through some of the added features and performance improvements for Firefox 3.5.

I Set Up A Posterous Site – Todd the author of Todd’s Tips  explains how you can make posts to your blog, Facebook, Twitter, and many other services simply by sending an email.

Multi-threaded Stack Class for PHP – Authored by David Hopkins over at SemLabs. This is a PHP class to quickly download single URLs and stacks of URLs using multiple threads.

Giveaway of the Day – PDFZilla 1.2 – PDFZilla is a desktop application that quickly and accurately converts PDF files. Thanks to my friend Fool for finding these great keepers! To get your free copy visit http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdfzilla-1-2/.

We Need a Bigger Boat – Marketing, Business and Making Money

Teen Entrepreneurs are Taking Over the World – Jennifer the author of Connect with your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology writes about this phenomenon of how more and more teens are becoming business savvy.

Oh, you do eCommerce too? – Matt the owner and author of Mattched IT provides valuable information on what a business should know about ecommerce.

Hook, Line and Sinker – Odd stuff, Humor and Ramblings

Protecting Your Comics – This is more of a tip on how to protect your valuable collection of comic books. If you are a collector, this is a must read to keep your investment protected. Thank you for sharing James!

Trophy Catches – Arts and Entertainment

A beautifully wise passage by Kahlil Gibran – Bren the author of Mystic’s Thought Garden always finds the treasure chest.

Your Bark is Bigger than Your Byte – Animals and Pets

Should You Let Your Dog Play in Creeks and Lakes? – Hart the author of PetLvr.com shares this safety tip about dogs who love water. I never thought about this before, but thanks to Hart, I have a better understanding.

Week in review at TechJaws

Free Keyword Suggestion and Popularity Tool
Firefox 3.5 Under The Hood
How Well is Your Blog Working?
Many SEO Experts Don’t Know Jack

Want to be featured in Saturday Feeding Frenzy?

We all love link juice and a little recognition. The articles that we feature on Saturday Feeding Frenzy are from people who have commented and who I interact with on StumbleUpon and other social network sites. TechJaws is a Dofollow blog that averages over 1000 unique visitors per day.

Sharks, although fierce predators of the sea, hunt in groups. When one smells blood, they all go for it. And that’s how feeding frenzies get started. Teeth gnash, sharks bite other sharks while trying to get to the kill. How would you like it if your content, business, or service was the feast our readers are hunting down?

Every Saturday we will hunt down the best of the best blog articles in the past week and serve them up for our visitors and fans. Do you have something worthy for our Sharks to feed on?

The Bait Bucket – Writing, Self Improvement and Health

Fetching Friday – A weekly series authored by Kristi at Kikolani.com. Kristi uses tasty bait to land some of the best blog articles that are featured in this series. This is a must read weekly article. If you missed any of the Fetching Friday articles, you can visit the Fetching Friday link at Kikolani.com.

Michael Jackson’s Death & The Rise of Social Media – The biggest story of the week was the death of Michael Jackson.

9 Ultra Useful Writing Sites – A nice list of useful sites for writers. You may want to subscribe to these sites as well.

Who Needs Approval? – The author Jonathan of Advanced Life Skills puts things in perspective. I am sure you will agree with many of the points he makes.

Tasty Technology Bytes – Tech News, SEO, Security

Video Preview Of New Features in Mozilla Firefox 3.5 – Check out what’s new in Firefox 3.5. The video provides details on new features and so much more.

Foolsville 2.0 – This blogger catches the best free tech stuff on the internet. If you’re looking for free stuff, visit this blog today.

If Facebook Nails This, Twitter is Toast! – YourSeoSucks pulls no punches and really has the knowledge of a true SEO Pro.

New Tween Video Games from Ubisoft – new video games for kids and tweens that will be going on sale this fall.

We Need a Bigger Boat – Marketing, Business and Making Money

So you want to be rich? – There was no way I could leave John off the Saturday Feeding Frenzy or I would never hear the end of it. Here’s some reading material and resources that I know you will reap benefits from.

Hook, Line and Sinker – Odd stuff, Humor and Ramblings

Lines from “Whose Line” – A look back at some of the funniest shows on TV. I am sure this will put a smile on your face and bring back some old memories.

Trophy Catches – Arts and Entertainment

Have a Little Cheese with the Whine – One of my favorite sketch artists and a very close friend. Susie is a very creative and passionate about art and music. She also loves her Corona beer.

12 Monkeys Stencil Graffiti - You will find many great sketches and articles from this blogger.

A Stringer of Art and Photos – Bren sends me many artistic photos and images. She is one of my favorite StumbleUpon friends.

Your Bark is Bigger than Your Byte – Animals and Pets

Differences in Priorities: How to Cope with Less Passionate Pet Parents – Hart the author of PetLvr.com provides many tips on pet care and so much more.

Week in review at TechJaws

Hackers Prepare to Capitalize on Michael Jackson Death
A List of Dofollow Blogs to Improve Your Pagerank
Invisible Browsing – Secure and Anonymous
How to Unfollow who are not Following you

Want to be featured in Saturday Feeding Frenzy?

We all love link juice and a little recognition. The articles that we feature on Saturday Feeding Frenzy are from people who have commented and who I interact with on StumbleUpon and other social network sites. TechJaws is a Dofollow blog.

Microsoft should have used a calculator to factor the correct severance pay outs, but instead they used an abacus which they didn’t know how to operate apparently.

As the company was handing out pink slips to some 1,400 employees last month, the accounting department miscalculated severance packages. It turns out that the company overpaid these former workers and, now that the error has been discovered, Microsoft wants its money back.

The copy of the letter floating around the Internet has the names and dollar amounts blacked out so it’s hard to say if the payback amount is $10, $100, $1,000 or more. And we also don’t know if all 1,400 laid-off workers were affected.

Copy of the letter at TechCrunch here.

Why would anyone who just got the boot give back money to Microsoft? You can bet I wouldn’t!

In a recent poll, 72% said they would not give the money back, 20% would, and I like to know who that 20% are. The remaining 7% couldn’t decide.

Talk about adding insult to injury. I think Microsoft should just write it off, Uncle Sam will not mind that at all.

It looks like talks are back on with Yahoo on a potential deal for Microsoft to buyout the struggling search company. It has not been a week since Yahoo found their new CEO Carol Bartz. Microsoft’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, met with Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock in New York this week, according to a report in The New York Times.

The newspaper cited an unnamed source who had been briefed on the meeting, but no details of the conversation have been released.

Yahoo’s appointment of Carol Bartz as chief executive has heightened speculation that the companies may be able to agree on a takeover, with Microsoft possibly acquiring Yahoo’s search engine business.

The news follows reports of an informal conversation between Bartz and Ballmer after she was selected by Yahoo’s board.

Jerry Yang, who has stepped down as the head of Yahoo, let a deal with Microsoft fall through last year, angering many of the company’s investors.

Yahoo didn’t immediately return a call for comment, and Microsoft declined to comment.

Will Microsoft finally get what they wanted for more than a year? I believe there’s a better chance now that Jerry Yang is no longer making the calls for Yahoo.

The last 24 hours have been the most frustrating for me with TechJaws.com going off the air. The reason for the outage is both good and bad.

The Good:

We received more than 10,000 unique visitors between 2:00pm and 4:00pm CDT on October 31st.

The Bad:

According to our current host company, TechJaws exceed the CPU utilization during that time period. This caused all the virtual accounts on that server to respond slow or not respond at all.

I am in the process of trying to get my upload files, image folder, and get the other two domains back online as they’re paid for until 8/2009. This process of getting my account un-suspended has been painful to say the least. It would have been a great close for the month of October with that traffic I missed out on. It also would have been a great start for the month of November.

I would like to thank all of you who were concerned and sent emails. I received more than 100 emails in the last 24 hours.

Thank you all, you’re the best!

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will announce Tuesday it is spinning off its manufacturing operations as part of its cost saving strategy, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Sunnyvale-based AMD said it will make a “significant corporate announcement” and hold a conference call with industry analyst Tuesday hosted by Chief Executive Dirk Meyer. It did not give details on the announcement.

The Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, said the chip maker will say it is spinning off its manufacturing operations into a new joint venture that will make chips for AMD, as well as other companies.

With funding from investment groups associated with the government of Abu Dhabi, the new venture will take over AMD manufacturing facilities, including large plants in Germany, the Journal reported.

Last year, the Abu Dhabi government’s investment arm, the Mubadala Development Co., took an 8.1 percent stake in AMD.

There are many great rockers and guitar virtuosos, but there’s one man that is far more superior and dubbed “Not Of This Earth”. Joe Satriani is a technological guitar virtuoso that is awe inspiring. The sounds that are generated from his collection of Ibanez guitars are far beyond our galaxy and imagination.

I was introduced to Joe’s music back in 1992. I was in J&R Music World in New York City and I ask the man behind the counter – who is that playing? – Joe Satriani he replied. I asked what song and CD is it from? And he said – his latest called “Extremist”. Of course I purchased a copy and out the door I went. I played that CD everyday until I my ears bleed.

I truly love instrumentals and for good reason. I can have my own interpretation of the song that puts me at a time and place in my life. With lyrics you kind of lose that as it’s the artist providing you their feeling and story behind the song.

One of my favorite licks is Cool #9, because it has a blues sound that just takes it to the next level. There are many other songs I like such as Flying in a Blue Dream, Rubina, Love Thing, and many of what G3 produced.

I am very excited that Joe is coming to Chicago in October 8th and playing at the Chicago Theater. I have been privileged to see Joe 6 times in 3 different cities, New York, Las Vegas and now Chicago.

Thank you Joe for sharing!

Special thanks goes to my friend Susie from Soul-to-Soul for sketching an awesome drawing of Joe. You can see the drawing here.

I also want to thank Buck (Susie’s Husband) for being so cool and for the Cactus Live CD. I am going to play that all weekend! Check out Buck’s new blog site, though we had to twist his arm, he finally caved.