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- Productivity
- The products and services we create. This is perhaps the most overused and abused buzzword in computer advertising. It is amazing how every hardware and software product makes...
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- ThinkFree and EditGrid announce online spreadsheet partnership
- Why are these two men smiling? Because a partnership that increases the value of both parties is always cause for celebration.ThinkFree has been on a roll this year with big presence at both ETech where CEO TJ Kang also presented a new document sharing community and Web 2.0 Expo. I've...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Work virtually from anywhere
- Leo Babauta at Web Worker Daily has posted a very thorough guide to working virtually that focuses primarily on tools but also includes some excellent workflow recommendations. It's a bit Google-centric but he does provide a number of alternative choices for most of the key ingredients for a cloud-based workspace.What...
- Tags: Windows, Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, OpenOffice, Mobility, Microsoft Office, Mac
- Blog posts 2007-06-03
- NYC on 2 Nokias a day
- A couple of weeks ago, I took the family on a trip to New York City. We got a pretty good deal on travel in the form of a package deal from Hotwired.com that included four round-trip tickets and two hotel rooms for about $600 per person for a four-night,...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mobility, Productivity, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-05-26
- Zoho Notebook now in Public Beta
- At the end of January, I wrote about Zoho Notebook, the latest addition to the company's stable of web-based applications. At the time, I was very impressed with the concept and initial execution and today, Zoho has made Notebook publicly available as a beta. If you use a product like...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-05-22
- A collection of Mac tidbits
- Yesterday was a good day if youre a Mac user. Here are three nice things I came across while catching up on RSS feeds last night:Flickr has released a new Universal Binary of the Flickr Uploadr tool for the Mac (can I buy a vowel please?). According the the download...
- Tags: Web Apps, Utilities and Add-Ins, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Mac, Hardware, Google, Gadgetry, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Web 2.0 Expo notes for Monday
- Its been a pretty action-packed day here at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco between a full slate of sessions and a number of briefings with companies who are announcing interesting new or improved products and services here at the event. One of the trends I see is that there...
- Tags: Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Software, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-04-16
- Wagstaff hits a home run on "death of software"
- This is a post I wish Id written. WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff, writing on his loose wire blog, sums up the sturm und drang about the "death" of Microsoft recently announced by Paul Graham with an elegant and hard to argue observation. What were really talking about has less to...
- Tags: Web Apps, Software, Productivity, Mobility, Blogs
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Thoughts on the online/offiine apps controversy
- So David from 37Signals dropped the f-bomb in a particularly myopic post wherein he tries to argue that we dont need offline functionality from online applications because, "like dude... were all connected ll of the time and why dont you read a book or something when youre on a plane?"....
- Tags: Web Apps, Productivity, Mobility
- Blog posts 2007-04-08
- How I solved my Outlook-Google Calendar issues
- Working on a number of different PCs and connected devices introduces all sorts of complexity. A constant issue is how to keep all of the information I need access to at hand, regardless of the device I happen to be using. E-mail is pretty easy - between Gmail and IMAP...
- Tags: Gadgetry, Hardware, Mac, Mastering the Inbox, Microsoft Office, Mobility, Productivity, Software, Tablet PCs, Utilities and Add-Ins, Vista, Web Apps, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- ThinkFree Office - 250,000 registered users!
- Congratulations to the good folks at ThinkFree who announced today that they have now registered 250,000 users in their online community. The stats on this community are mighty impressive. According to the announcement today, the ThinkFree Online community: Accounts for 228,000 unique page views Stores over 654,000 files totaling 189...
- Tags: Mobility, Software, Web Apps, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Steve Rubel: Top five Gmail Hacks for info warriors
- Steve Rubel offers up some great ideas on how to hack Gmail, other Google apps, and web services like del.icio.us and Twitter into a serious information collection, aggregation, and organization system. Its a lengthy post and in it Stev documents very clearly how he has mashed up a variety of...
- Tags: Blogs, Mastering the Inbox, Productivity, Software, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- Google Apps Premier Edition - let the games begin!
- The white noise level surrounding Googles announcement last night about their new premium offering – Google Apps Premier Edition – is bound to reach epic levels and last quite a while as everyone wraps their head around what has always seemed to me to be an inevitability on a par...
- Tags: Mobility, Microsoft Office, Software, Web Apps, Mac, Productivity
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- MindMeister - collaborative web-based mind mapping
- Thanks to a tip from a reader and his gracious offer of an invite (thanks Robbie!), Ive discovered MindMeister, a web-based mind mapping tool that does three things I consider to be absolutely essential for an online offering in this category. First, it is compatible with MindManager, the mapping...
- Tags: Mac, Productivity, Software, Vista, Web Apps, Windows
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Central Desktop adds spreadsheets to their mix
- Central Desktop has just expanded its collaboration platform with online spreadsheets from Teams and Concepts Limiteds EditGrid. With the addition, Central Desktop users can collaborate on spreadsheets in real-time within the Central Desktop environment, which also includes collaborative document editing, Web and audio conferencing, discussion threads and versioned file tracking.As...
- Tags: Productivity, Software, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- Battelle interviews Michael Wesch - the web 2.0 video
- Unless youve been hiding under a rock, youve seen the Web 2.0 video created by Michael Wesch, a professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. Its been screaming through the tubes and has been posted and commented on all over the sphere. John Battelle just posted a really fine...
- Tags: Blogs, Mobility, Productivity, Software, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Intelligent bookmarking with BlueOrganizer 3.2
- If you use Firefox or Flock and are looking for a way to capture, organize, and share information about the places you visit and the products you own or wish you did, BlueOrganizer is worth a serious look. I first saw this intelligent organizer last Fall when it debuted at...
- Tags: DEMOfall 2006, Productivity, Software, Utilities and Add-Ins, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-02-12
- Nozbe - a new GTD web app that keeps it simple
- Ive been following an evergreen thread of comments to a post on Whats the next action where people are listing the litany of applications theyve tried and dropped in their pursuit of the perfect tools for Getting Things Done. I rarely subscribe to comment threads but this one has...
- Tags: Productivity, Software, Web Apps, Ive, GTD
- Blog posts 2007-02-10
- DEMO 07 - the wisdom of crowds and algorithms
- As DEMO 07 enters the final afternoon, the theme is all about wisdom – the wisdom of the crowds as well as the wisdom of the algorithms. You probably have the same reaction to that last concept as I did – what the heck does that mean? Turns out theres...
- Tags: Productivity, Software, Web Apps, DEMO, algorithm
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- A busy afternoon at DEMO 07
- The afternoon at DEMO 07 covers a number of topics with presenting companies organized around three themes:Making it all work – companies providing the architecture and foundation for web-based applications and services.SupportSoft – System TuneUp and Security Audit – System TuneUp helps computer users speed up the performance of...
- Tags: DEMO, Mobility, Productivity, Software, video, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- First look at Zoho Notebook
- Zoho has taken what I consider to be a most important step beyond providing a online office suite experience with the announcement today of Zoho Notebook. If youre familiar with Microsoft Office OneNote on the Windows platform or any number of "junk drawer" applications on the Mac that allow...
- Tags: notebook, Productivity, Software, Web Apps, Zoho, Zoho Notebook
- Blog posts 2007-01-30
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