Contacts and Networking
Present.ly Allows Secure And Private Microblogging For Your Business
Present.ly allows individuals to post short, frequent updates that are tracked or “followed” by others. Unlike Twitter, Present.ly provides a secure and private way to share updates among members of a company, without them being visible to the outside world.
You can keep your conversations focused by creating Groups for each project or topic of discussion. Users receive messages that are relevant to the topic at hand and are free to move between conversations as desired.
With Present.ly, it’s easy to share images, documents, video, and audioclips with your colleagues. Whether you’re looking for quick feedback on a new design mockup or sending out new policy documents for human resources, it has never been easier to rapidly share and communicate media in your company.
You don’t need a computer at the ready to touch base with your team. Present.ly provides multiple interfaces that let you keep in touch wherever you are. You can use it from your computer, your mobile phone, or most any device capable of connecting to the internet.
Now Create, Track, Customize And Design Beautiful Proposals With Bidsketch
Bidsketch is an application that lets you create, track, customize, and design beautiful proposals. Multiple ways to present your proposals ensure clients get what they want. You can export to PDF or share online. Every client gets a portal that lets them view and comment on their proposals.
You can quickly mix and match proposal sections, fees, and designs to create professional proposals that win. Example proposal data is provided to help you get started quickly. You can even embed images and Flash content for online viewing by your clients.
Bidsketch provides you with several professional looking templates. Each template is available in different colors and exports to PDF for extra portability.
It has an easy way to keep track of all current and prospective clients. You can add client contact information as well as private notes to each client to ensure you never forget what you talked about last time.
This is highly customizable and you can create or customize proposal sections, pricing items, and content templates. You can customize all of these at a global level, or do it on a proposal by proposal basis.
Let’s Make It Easy And Efficient To Get Your Design Ideas Out With Notable
Are you stuck sharing feedback in text documents and email? Notable makes it possible to put your feedback directly on the webpage, highlighting your points exactly. With Notable you can quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser.
It helps your team collaborate through visual feedback on screenshots, via a chaos-free process so that everyone can express their opinion. By using this wonderful application you are transforming the way you create designs and communication with clients.
Notable makes it easy and efficient to get your ideas out. Forget useless emails with attachments or powerpoint. Get feedback done 400% faster than ever. You can shoot out alerts and provide feedback to anyone on your team from any computer. Asynchronous feedback makes it a perfect tool for teams working remotely or using outsourcing partners.
You can download the tool button in seconds and start grabbing screenshots. Within a minute you can have your annotated feedback shared with your team. There’s no need for a technical team.
This is not enough! If you are you an App Store or Mobile Safari developer then using the Notable iPhone app you can upload screen captures for feedback on NotableApp.com. How? You just need to open up the Notable iPhone app, sign in, and choose an image to upload from your Camera Roll, or snap a picture of anything.
Notable for iPhone is perfect for capturing screens of your iPhone app, Mobile Safari web app or even pictures of sketches, mockups and more.
Notable makes it easy to keep feedback organized in sets, workspaces and history. Never lose feedback in your email inbox because it’s all stored online for you.
Four ways to capture a page
- Capture logged in views and code via a Firefox tool button
- Upload a JPG image or design mock-up from your desktop
- Type in a URL to fetch a screen grab
- Capture on your iPhone or iPod Touch
Any computer, any time.
- Provide online design feedback to your team in minutes
- Awesome web or PDF presentation
- Give feedback in sets by capturing a web page flows
- Track the history of design changes
Control the feedback.
- Track who views your feedback for easy design collaboration
- Assign permissions per page or set
- Send email alerts to collaborators to request their feedback
- Simple feedback management with group viewing, private or public URLs
The 10 Most Popular And Useful iPhone Apps
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find the iPhone version of popular apps. I hope everyone of you will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, designer, developer etc. This is the list of The 10 Most Popular And Useful iPhone Apps. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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You can download the iPhone App and then sign into Skype from any WiFi zone and reach friends and family free with Skype-to-Skype calls.
Photoshop.com Mobile App For iPhone
It’s easy to use the Photoshop.com Mobile App on your iPhone. Simply drag your finger to crop, adjust color, apply effects. You can crop, rotate, change color with just a touch, give an extra glow with Soft Focus, apply one-touch effects like Warm Vintage and Vignette etc.
TweetDeck is your mobile browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now on Twitter from your iPhone or iPod Touch. TweetDeck shows you everything you want to see at once, so you can stay organised and up to date no matter where you are.
QuickBooks Online on the iPhone
QuickBooks Online for the iPhone now lets you add and edit customers, vendors, and employees, create and email invoices, view balance sheet and profit & loss reports, access vendor, customer, and employee lists, view bank account and credit card balances, understand who owes you money and who you etc.
Dropbox is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. You can access your Dropbox on the go and download files for offline viewing. There is an option to sync photos and videos to your Dropbox and to share links to files in your Dropbox.
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. Facebook for iPhone will help those people to stay connected when they are away from their computers but would not like to away from facebook.
With Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. You can explore the same global satellite and aerial imagery available in the desktop version of Google Earth, including high-resolution imagery for over half of the world’s population and a third of the world’s land mass.
Waze is a free social mobile app that enables drivers to build and use live maps, real-time traffic updates and turn-by-turn navigation for an optimal commute. 100% powered by users the more you drive the better it gets. Join the community of drivers in your area today.
Twitterrific is the iPhone’s premiere app for reading and posting to the Twitter social network. The software has been designed to provide ease of use and a wide range of features while sporting one of the most elegant user interfaces available.
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.Now Its Possibile To Synchronize Many Devices Simultaneously With SyncMate
SyncMate is a sync tool for Mac OS X software, which allows syncing your Mac with a line of devices – Windows Mobile and Nokia S40 phones, other Macs, Google account and online storage. Since version 2.4 SyncMate also supports Mac to Windows PC, Mac to PSP and Mac to USB drive synchronization.
Now SyncMate provides you with the possibility to synchronize many devices simultaneously. You can sync your Mac with another Mac or PC, your Windows Mobile device, Nokia series 40 phone, PSP, USB Drive or your Google account. You can do that all at once and have an instant access to synchronized devices from the main toolbar.
SyncMate Free edition allows synchronizing Contacts and Calendar entries between your Mac and any device or account supported. Since version 2.4 you can sync these data between your Mac and Windows PC or PSP.
You can keep your address books organized at all your devices by just syncing them with friendly SyncMate.
Salient Features
- SyncMate makes installing any applications to your PDA quick and simple (CAB).
- Store your Contacts, Calendar and more (Expert Edition) online.
- By synchronizing files at your Mac with other devices you will always have access to the most fresh and actual version of your data.
- View, delete, create and send messages from your Mac with Expert edition. More features here.
7 Twitter Tools That Are Not Essential But Would Be Useful
As we all know Twitter is a rapidly growing micro-blogging service in these days. No doubt, It’s a great fun to share information or talk with your friends and the powerful way to spread the word as much as possible. For this reason, there are too many free twitter tools available that are offering you hassle free and simple way to tweet. In this post, we are listing down 7 Twitter Apps That Are Not Essential But Would Be Useful. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. We have tried to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here. If you like this post so please spread the word as much possible via twitter.
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Readtwit filters your twitter feed to links only, resolves link destinations and publishes the content as an RSS feed. You can then use any feed reading software / service to read twitter posted content along with the rest of your feeds.
With tweetalarm, you will get alerted when someone tweets about your company, your product or anything that interests you.
Clicktotweet is the best, easiest and simplest way to promote your stuff on Twitter. Now, whoever clicks on the link will have the message automatically added to their Twitter status box, then they simply click to tweet.
Tweepler Is an easy, more enjoyable way of processing your New Twitter Followers. View a list of New Followers and classify them in one of two “Buckets” Follow (meaning you wish to follow them back) and Ignore (meaning you don’t wish to follow them and want to archive them out of the way, reducing clutter).
It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying.
If you want to know that when and why someone stops following you on twitter then Qwitter is a best tool for you. Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter.
FutureTweets is a free service that lets you schedule your Twitter messages. You can send it at a specific time in the future or send a recurring Tweet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. With the help of this toop you’ll never forget the birthdays of your beloved Twitter friends again. Just schedule a nice Tweet on their birthday.
Let’s Create Smart Reminders Right From Your Email With Task.fm
Task.fm is a realy simple reminder and task management tool. Just use task.fm to create reminders that can be dilivered via sms, email or voice call. Task.fm is smart enough to understand your natural lnguage so you don’t need to bother entering daters manually. Instead, just type something like “meeting with bob next Tuesday at noon” and they will pick out the date, time and event automatically. You can create reminders on the task.fm site, through email or Twitter. Task.fm is free and allows you to create an unlimited number of reminders.
Task.fm is smart and can understand hundreds of date & time formats. This can works with Twitter and can create reminders by sending them a Direct Message. Another good option is sending reminders to others is as simple as CC’ing a contact. Task.fm includes a built in to-do manager so you can create unlimited lists.
9 Excellent Apps That Are Absolutely Useful
Today, we are publishing another list of 9 free web based applications that are very helpful for you to process your daily work. They are too much simple in terms of their usage because many of these do not need to register with them to use the service. Whether you are designer, developer, office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something interesting for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.
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This service is made for you to save your time on registration for many sites.
You can not register at all sites, so just type the name of site for which you need to enter login and password and click «Get».
You can prevent spambots from getting your email, encode all the addresses you publish on your site with Mailto Encoder.
A temporary inbox is a disposable email address, which doesn’t require registration and can be used to avoid spam. Use this email address in forums, lotteries, erotic sites or wherever. The spammers will never find out your private email address. You can also use their forwarding email address to register at websites/boards/lotteries and so on.
Tweet Blocker is a free resource for Twitter users and application developers. Using highly advanced filtering, they catalog and rank the top spammers on Twitter, allowing users to quickly and easily find spammers.
Ta-da List is a simple tool that lets you create to-do lists. It’s really useful and absolutely free. Ta-da List is the web’s easiest to-do list tool. You can make lists for yourself or share them with others. It couldn’t be simpler but Ta-da List is the web’s simplest and fastest to-do list maker.
A fast service where you can copy/paste your code, recipe, anything else and give the link to your friend. You can select your preferred languages and possibility to edit pastes. This service support for a large number of syntaxes that you would need.
Cozi is a free web service that helps families manage crazy schedules, track shopping and to-do lists, organize household chores, stay in communication and share memories—all in one place.
EmailTheWeb is the only web-based service that allows you to email any web page to any one. The entire web page is emailed in a flash and is captured as it is now. Your recipient will see the same exact page as you.
The Whisper Bot is a free, simple, and secure service to provide a modern day passing of the notes between you and your friends and keep away prying eyes. Stop using e-mail for your confidential messages.
9 Free Web Apps From Microsoft You Might Not Know About
Now a days, it’s really not hard to find free and online web service to perform your daily task but offering really useful and free online web applications from Microsoft is a great step. Today, we are discussing about some web tools from Microsoft. We hope this list will be helpful for for everyone and specially it could be useful for designer to developer, office worker, manager to supervisor, student to home user and so on. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features.
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You can use this service for free online storage and document sharing. You can store files up to 5GB, and share with anyone, and collaborate on a single document. It will allow you to view Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint files from your Web browser.
Microsoft My Phone syncs information on your mobile phone to a storage space on a web site hosted by Microsoft. If your phone is lost or stolen, or if you upgrade to a new phone, you can easily restore the contacts, calendar appointments, photos, and other information that you stored on My Phone to a compatible new or replacement phone. Most phones that run the Windows Mobile 6 operating system are compatible with My Phone service.
Windows Live OneCare safety scanner is a free service designed to help ensure the health of your PC.
Windows Live SkyDrive works well on any Windows or Macintosh computer with Firefox 1.5 or higher, or Internet Explorer 6 or higher. 5 GB of free online storage, available from any computer with Internet access. You can create personal, shared, and public folders and you can decide who has access to each folder.
Office Live Small Business provides your company with everything needed to create a professional web presence for free, including easy-to-use website design and management tools, and 100 email accounts. You also get a free suite of professional business applications that will allow you to manage customers, projects, and documents and easily share information with employees, customers, suppliers and vendors. All this is security-enhanced, managed, and maintained by Office Live Small Business.
With this service, you can keep important files up to date on all your computers, PC or Mac. This will also help you to share folders to sync files with friends or coworkers very easily. There is an option to sign in to the Sync website for remote access to any computer where you’ve installed Sync.
Microsoft® Silverlight™ Streaming by Windows Live™ is a companion service for Silverlight that makes it easier for developers and designers to deliver and scale rich media as part of their Silverlight applications. The service offers web designers and developers a free and convenient solution for hosting and streaming cross-platform, cross-browser media experiences and rich interactive applications that run on Windows™ and Mac.
The Microsoft® Translator is a free online translation service for worldwide web. You can type or paste text on the site that you want to translate and choose your translation language before you click translate. The Microsoft® Translator webpage widget allows you to bring real-time, in-place translations to your web site as well.
With Live Mesh, you can synchronize, share and access files with all of your devices, so you always have the updated copy of your files. It’s very simple and easy that you can now access your files from any device or from the web, easily share them with others, and get notified whenever someone changes a file. The best of all this service is powered by Microsoft and absolutely free for everyone.
15 (More) Free Web Tools To Simplify Your Work Life
Today, we have a new post in which we are covering few more simplest free web apps that can really simplify your work life. Whether you are office worker, manager, supervisor, designer, developer, student, home user, etc. But we make sure to add something useful for everyone. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought here.
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MyFontbook is an unique online font viewer that can save your time by providing a number of tools to view installed fonts quickly and easily. Unlike a classic font management tool, MyFontbook is platform independent and can be used freely through any web browser. MyFontbook tries to fill the gap between the limited font tools provided by your operating system and the expensive font management applications aimed at power users.
Box.net’s online file storage makes it easy to securely share content as a link or a shared folder with anyone inside or outside your company. This will help you create an online workspace where you can share project files, add comments, assign tasks, start discussions or create new content.
Ronin is a flexible application designed for creative professionals looking for an easy, affordable, web-based way of managing clients and invoices. You can send invoices and estimates in multiple currencies. The dashboard provides an at-a-glance summary of account activity for all of your staff users. Quickly access existing invoices and create new clients. Manage your account with simplicity.
Go2Convert is a set of free web based tools that allow you to convert, resize a picture without having to install any software on your computer. It is not meant to be a complete Image editing software package. It is meant to be an easy to use solution to convert, resize your pictures and digital photos without the need to learn a complex software package. Once you convert, resize an image, you can choose to copy image’s URL or download it directly to your computer – It doesn’t get easier than that.
Managing projects and work via email is just so old-school. How do you keep track of tasks, issues, files, timesheets & feedback via email? How much work is still yet to be completed? Who is working on what? Where is all the communication related to this project? Is it done yet? What’s holding the project back? DeskAway is simple to use, feature-rich online service. This is a web-based project collaboration service that provides teams a central location to easily organize, manage and track their projects.
Atmail allows users to access IMAP Mailboxes on any server of your choice. You and your users can experience webmail via a fluid, intuitive interface that excels aesthetically and functionally; a benchmark that very few webmail clients have achieved. Staying in touch with business or personal contacts is made easy by the groupware features of Atmail. The easy-to-use calendar events, tasks, and free-busy scheduler provide collaboration and communication around the clock, with the simplicity of a browser-based interface.
Having a good uptime is essential for the success of your website. 247webmonitoring will monitor it 24X7 from their servers and notify you whenever it goes down. This will check your website every 15 minutes to know it is up. They will send you notification by email or SMS when it goes down. So you can quickly fix the issue and you can stay happy. This way you can relax and focus on your core business. In future, you will also find out how fast your site is from different location.
This is a brand new site that allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s all powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything. Using ViewLike.Us is perfectly free.
You can use PDF to Excel to quickly and easily create highly, editable XLS files, making it a cinch to re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office. Best of all, you can do it entirely free.
With Shareflow you can share your team conversations so everyone involved can clearly see what’s being said, and you can all get more done. The more you use email, the more work you create for your team. Important information gets lost in the shuffle. The Shareflow bookmarklet gives you one-click access to post content from the web to any of your flows. You can use the bookmarklet with Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live Mail, and Gmail to share your email on a flow. Create multiple flows to organize different projects or teams. You can add or remove someone at any time and invited members can create their own flows, so different teams can work amongst themselves.
Vyew is a new and powerful platform for real-time and always-on interaction between people and connent. Vyew’s clear-view workspaces enable a transparent collaboration flow with content. Review the past, work together in the present and prepare for the future.
Windows Live SkyDrive works well on any Windows or Macintosh computer with Firefox 1.5 or higher, or Internet Explorer 6 or higher. 5 GB of free online storage, available from any computer with Internet access. You can create personal, shared, and public folders and you can decide who has access to each folder.
ShowDocument is a free service for online meetings with fully synchronized co-browsing of any document. It is a quick and simple way to share a document with other people at the same time. It is a web collaboration platform that lets individuals have a free online meeting. It is an alternative to various commercial desktop sharing applications. One can easily upload any file and during the session mark it up with a pen or a highlighter tool in addition to a text box tool and eraser.
AlertFox is a revolutionary new self-service website transaction monitoring service that is capable of keeping tabs on the functioning and performance of all websites. You can monitor even complicated steps, (e.g., complete check out process, not just store uptime) , only AlertFox can monitor the function and performance of sites that are based on any of the major rich internet applications (RIA), including ActiveX, AJAX, Flash, Flex, complex HTML and Silverlight technology. AlertFox also helps SaaS users monitor their provider’s reliability.
tgethr is for Project teams who need a no-frills, secure email-based collaboration solution and useful for families, friends, and clubs who don’t need the overhead of more complicated solutions. This is also best for remotely located people who still use email as a primary collaboration mechanism. With tgethr all correspondence over the web and email can be safely encrypted.
