Online photo editor FotoFlexer integrates with popular social networking and digital photo sites like Facebook, MySpace and Flickr to seamlessly edit and return pictures to your online accounts all from the comfort of your browser. Aside from the online integration, FotoFlexer does everything that you’d expect from an online image editor and then some (including webcam shots).

We’ve posted an embarrassing number of online image editors in the past year, but FotoFlexer looks like the editor that devoured the features of all the rest and then went back for seconds. If you need to do serious image editing, desktop editors like Photoshop, GIMP, or Paint.NET will always be your best bets, but if you want to do some fun, lightweight editing—especially with social sites—FotoFlexer is the place to go.

Tech blogger Bryan Murdaugh shares how he uses tagging and filters in Gmail to create the ultimate GTD system in a free ebook [PDF Alert] .

Steve from the Inventoids weblog loves the Moleskine hacked for GTD, but he hates the floppy page-marking tabs that “get bent, or pushed out of place, or lose their stick.” So instead of sticky tabs protruding from his notebook, he’s cut innie tabs at the first five pages of every section similar to what you see marking new letter sets on dictionaries. The idea isn’t terribly groundbreaking, but if you’re sick of messy tabs sticking out from your notebooks, this might be your solution.

Reader Darrell writes in:

At work I am a IS manager in a Microsoft environment. At home, I love Mac OS X. At work we use Exchange, Outlook 2007 and Treos with Goodlink. At home, my email is all in Mail.app, Address Book and other info storing programs like Journaler. The main issue is my info at work. It is really locked in since it is Exchange and our Treos use Goodlink. So, what ideas do you have for making my life easier and less “now where did I put that info?”

Work data lockdown—especially in Microsoft Outlook for you Mac users—isn’t an easy problem to solve. Beyond Adam’s recent suggestions for keeping up a consistent workspace across computers, any readers have home/work syncing tips for a home Mac-using work Exchange server guy? Let us and Darrell know in the comments.

Having hundreds of ideas is of no use if you have a hard time staying on track. Keeping yourself motivated isn’t always easy. Design weblog A List Apart offers an excellent guide on how to keep yourself from losing that energy.

Maintaining motivation requires paying attention to your behavior, listening to your instincts, and learning how to encourage, bargain and even trick yourself into being creative.

The article acknowledges that starting out is often the toughest part of self-motivation, but by unleashing your enthusiasm and setting some solid goals, you can be on your way to keeping those creative juices flowing.

Set SMS, email or Twitter reminders from your iGoogle homepage with the iRemind iGoogle gadget. Setup is extremely easy (it can all be done from your iGoogle page), which means you’ll be ready to start creating natural-language reminders from your homepage in under a minute. iRemind is built by the creator of the popular Todoist online task manager (which, incidentally, integrates nicely into Gmail), but it’s actually a completely separate service. If you’ve already got a Todoist account and you want the full functionality of Todoist from your iGoogle or Netvibes homepage, the Todoist widget is for you.

Surf securely while enjoying a cup of Joe at Starbucks. Starbucks uses T-Mobile’s HotSpot service to provide internet access for their customers. The Mac OS X Hints weblog shows how you can ensure that your privacy doesn’t get compromised by perusing the web on their unsecured network. Windows users have it easy, since T-Mobile provides a free connection manager application. However, Mac users must manually connect using TTLS.

AU – Obviously this story is US-centric, and I have to confess I’ve never used a coffee shop wireless – at Starbucks or anywhere else. If you’ve use unsecured public wireless, how did you stay secure? Share in comments please!

The NY Times tackles that old September chestnut: where to find discounted textbooks. Suggestions include using online book deal-hunter Bookfinder, and opting for lesser-expensive international editions of textbooks. See Lifehacker readers’ take on textbook buying in this Ask the Readers post from last August.

The folks at the Unclutterer weblog are serious about getting birthday cards to loved ones on time. In addition to using Plaxo to capture and get reminders about whose birthday is when, they pre-buy cards: In addition to a birthday reminder system, I also purchased a card organiser. At the start of the year, I print out a birthday list from Plaxo, buy cards for all of my family and friends in a single trip to the card store, and organise the cards in my organiser.

Personally, Plaxo or other reminder system nag emails asking me to update my birthday so someone else doesn’t forget it makes me want to stick pins in my eyes, so I opt for the more subtle approach: find out birthdays the old-fashioned way (face-to-face *gasp!* or via mutual acquaintance) and use a web-based calendar to schedule reminders. But the card organiser with pre-bought cards? Now that is preparation.