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For some activities, it is hard to find a tool that will do the job and have all the features you need. This is not the case with To Do List managers. There are many good options for offline and online To Do list management.

My preference is to use one that automatically synchronizes items with my mobile device. This way I can view and organize my list while commuting to work on the train and prepare for my day.

Corporate email systems do a good job of To Do List management and synchronization with mobile devices. For Gmail users, there are label tricks and add-on scripts to use Gmail as a To Do List manager and Gmail can be accessed from your desktop as well as your mobile device.

But what if you need more out of your To Do List manager? What if you need something that is more robust but not as complex as Microsoft Project or other project management software? Fortunately, good options are available and free.

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So I’m just catching up on my RSS feeds in the new Bloglines Beta when I accidentally activate a Command Line or Shell interface as an overlay on the page.  It has the Bloglines logo in ASCII font with the tagline: Proudly Made on Earth!

To activate this, press the ` key. (left of the number 1)

It looks to be for experimental or debugging purposes as the HELP function reveals only three possible commands: echo, set and show.  Of course it is entirely possible that other commands do exist but aren’t documented in the HELP function.

A popup command line option in a news aggregator GUI is an interesting concept and can be useful for quickly adding feeds and folders or sending commands to change feed display settings.  I’d love to use something like this to set ad hoc filters.

If anyone knows what this is there for, I’d love to hear more about it.  If you’re hacking away at the shell and discover something cool, do share.