Wow, in two days 2007 will have come around and another year in our lives will have passed. Our lives are stressful enough without having the computer creating even more stress, so here is a quick New Years checklist to get yourself organized, ready, and prepared for 2007.

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Clear your inbox to zero messages

You can use some of my tips to get organized with your Mail application in this post. This will help reduce stress and the only Mail in your inbox will be from the New Year.

Tidy your desktop, leaving only devices

Clear up all the clutter on your desktop by filing items to their applicable folder/s. This will give you a clean working space to begin the year with.

Organize your dock

Scan your dock and drag out any applications you use very rarely. If you have applications in your dock that you dont use much, but still want super fast access too, consider installing OverFlow. Another task to complete is zapping un-used applications with AppZapper.

Review your contacts

Pop open Address Book, Adium, and iChat; to review all your contacts, deleting ones you no longer need or are not in contact with anymore. In iChat and Adium, create groups for your contacts based on importance, which will make it much easier to scan and see who’s online.

Clean up your iTunes playlists

Most iTunes users will have dozens and dozens of playlists, these are very handy at times but can slowly clutter up your sidebar. Sort through each and every one of your playlists removing what you can. Another cool thing to do with iTunes is create a “Best Of 06″ Smart Playlist. The criteria being: Year 2006, Rating 5. This will group all the tracks in your library that were released in 2006 and are rated 5 stars.

RSS Reader tidy up

Go through your RSS reader and delete any blogs you dont particularly like anymore, or ones that haven’t been updated in a long time. If you dont have too many items to delete, create a folder system for your feeds which will help you sort through them more quickly.

Backup your data

On a final note, the worst thing that can happen to you is data loss - so backup now! Buy yourself an external hard-drive and archive/backup all your documents, pictures, movies, and sites from the previous year using a tool such as SuperDuper! If you dont want to fork out for a new HDD, connect your iPod to your computer and drag your most important data onto it’s icon; this will create a copy of it on your iPod to use as a backup.

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To celebrate the New Year let’s have a little fun, once you are finished organizing, upload a picture of your desktop to Flickr and post a link in the comments below.

I’ll randomly select someone to win a free copy of a training video for an Apple application (thats all the details I will provide..) which is currently in the works.

2006 was a great year for myself, it’s been a pleasure getting to know you all and hopefully teaching you a few things along the road. 2007 will be a big year, not only for me but for Apple. I cant wait to see whats in store - see you in 2007. Happy New Year.

Update:The three winners for the copy of a secret training video are: Mike Vitoroulis, Smaran, and tomnook10.

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