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6 Web Apps To Manage Team Collaboration More Effectively

AN Jay — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:23:57 +0000

There are many collaboration web apps out there for business users, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing 6 Web Apps To Manage Team Collaboration More Effectively. Read each entry in the list and see which one suits your needs best.

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Binfire

Binfire’s collaboration tools are dedicated to creating multiple communication, sharing and interactivity opportunities between users to enhance productivity. They keep you up to date and in the loop.

Webplanner

Webplanner is an online collaborative project management tool. Brainstorm goals, obstacles, and tasks with our easy-to-use planning wizard. Next, work out scheduling with your team in a click-and-drag Gantt chart.

Otipo

Otipo is a web-based application which provides a new and fun way for scheduling shifts. With Otipo, all the required information is in one place, and all the team members can access it from anywhere, anytime. It’s time to say goodbye to the pen and paper and let Otipo schedule like a pro.

Cohuman

Cohuman is ideal for any group of people that needs to communicate more dynamically and effectively than email or traditional collaboration tools will allow. Startups, Distributed Teams, Small Businesses, Deal Teams, Departments in larger organizations… in short Cohuman is for any group that requires a solution designed to coordinate people and manage projects more intelligently.

Scrumrf

Manage your projects in an agile way, create user stories, sprints, assign tasks to your team members. Scrumrf has only the necessary functionalities to manage your projects, sprints, tasks, and people involved. You can also collab with your team members in your daily work, know who is doing what, comment tasks, sprints, user stories.

ideapi

ideapi allows you to create briefs, proposals and documents quickly, share them easily with your team and/or clients, work together to create better content and share ideas.

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12 Truly Helpful (Yet Free) Web Tools For Effective Business Management

AN Jay — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:19:31 +0000

The best business management tools are that will help you keep track of variables affecting your business and finances, let you generate invoices and directly send to your clients, creating presentations, scheduling meetings, document management, team collaboration and do more in aiding you with your business activities. Today we have gathered a list of 12 Truly Helpful (Yet Free) Web Tools For Effective Business Management.

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Doocuments

Doocuments is about people exchanging VIP documents. Doocuments technology is perfect for sending VIP files through the Internet without being afraid of the final destination or usage of the VIP information. This is designed both for individual use or company-wide deployments, Doocuments is a Cloud Computing tool that integrates seamlessly into user and corporations workflows with a suite of plug-ins for the main office software suites.

Projectial

Projectial is a system which makes managing projects, human resources, finances, and time, more effective. Implementing it, you can overview the employees, their tasks and projects, and the whole company.

Skyclerk

Skyclerk will change the way you look at bookkeeping and accounting forever. Our system makes it so any small to medium size business can be up and running with a fully robust accounting system in seconds.

Freedcamp

Freedcamp offers an extremely easy, yet fully customizable user permission system. You can choose what your co-workers and clients can see, or create a custom group to manage permissions. Each application can be separately managed allowing you to track each and every user role.

Quote Roller

Quote Roller helps to automate and streamline the proposal creation process. Forget routine text copy-pasting in Word. With Quote Roller, you can save and reuse general information about your company, terms of service and other things you used to manually put in proposals. Quote Roller also comes with a friendly and intuitive drag&drop interface which features unlimited customization capabilities.

Reel

Reel helps you quickly create and share presentations. Each presentation is stored online behind a unique URL, making it easy to poll your audience for for their impressions.

TimePanther

This is a simple time tracking for the busy freelancer. TimePanther can easily track your time straight from your web browser with a single click.

Podio

You can work with everyone on Podio: with your co-workers or with your clients in dedicated work spaces. In your free Employee Network your entire company can communicate, anyone with a company email-address can join. Podio Apps add structure to your work, with a social activity stream featuring comments, likes and status updates.

Any Messages

It’s an online replacement for the old carbon copy telephone message pad. Any Messages is designed to be super easy and quick to use.

AgreeDo

All common tools for taking meeting minutes (like pen &paper, Microsoft Word or Excel) are not suitable to track tasks or create follow-up meetings, nor are the capable of sharing the document easily with many meeting participants. AgreeDo addresses all these issues. And there is a lot more, From the moment you start using AgreeDo, your meetings will generate results.

Tradeshift

Tradeshift is a global startup with the ambition to change the way we do business by allowing organizations to exchange invoices for free. It connects businesses to all their suppliers and customers regardless of company size not only saving time but also ensuring they get paid faster at both ends of the supply chain.

Otipo

Otipo is a web-based application which provides a new and fun way for scheduling shifts. Forget your Excel sheet, notes and chasing after team members, forget phone calls and all that nonsense. With Otipo, all the required information is in one place, and all the team members can access it from anywhere, anytime. It’s time to say goodbye to the pen and paper and let Otipo schedule like a pro.

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Seven Excellent Business Tools You Might Not Know About (But Should)

AN Jay — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 14:29:56 +0000

There are many web apps out there, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing The Seven Excellent Business Tools You Might Not Know About But Should. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.

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SohoOS

Managing your business was never this easy. All of your contacts, clients, vendors and leads are bundled together in a simple, easy to use interface. It also maximizes the potential of your business by tracking the full life cycle of your marketing activities. Ultimately, you can get the inside scoop on how your business operates. Every report you ever needed, now available at your fingertips, easily created and viewed using an intuitive interface with built in templates.

Groupion

Groupion combines a multitude of Groupware, CRM and ERP in one modular platform, which make it the perfect platform to design and automate various business processes. Businesses have a lot of different requirements, ranging from standard applications, such as e-mail and shared calendar, to complex billing processes and this tool unites this broad set of features in one sophisticated and user-friendly platform.

Really Simple System

It has all the features and functionality you need to keep track of your customers and prospects – their names, when to call them back, what you said to them last, what they bought, what they might buy. And as the name implies, Free Edition is a completely free CRM system. You can also upload documents such as letters, faxes, spreadsheets and keep them on the system. In CRM jargon, it is a complete Sales Force Automation system: Account Management, Contact Management and Opportunity Management with Sales Forecasting.

Brix

BrixHQ makes online agile project management and collaboration easy and cost effective. This is a flexible and adaptable agile project management system to meet all your needs. Agile Project Reporting that you can customize and filter based on what you need.

Podio

Podio is an online work platform with a new take on how everyday work gets done. It gives people more power than they’ve ever had before to do manage their work better, smarter and in their own way. Combining hundreds of specialized and flexible work apps with messaging, tasks, reporting, workflow and contact management, Podio lets you build and shape the online workplace most fitting to your role. It eliminates scattered, unorganized work routines, and replaces multiple products from different companies with a single environment and a single login.

TeamSpinner

Teamspinner is a flexible tool to guide your projects. It does not constrain the structure of your projects and organization. With Teamspinner you can easily work together on a project with an outsourcing party or a freelancer without the need to expose anything else. Teamspinner allows users to participate in an unlimited number of projects and initiate new projects. The flexible structure makes it perfect to collaborate with remote teams, your clients and freelance specialists.

Appointy

Appointy is one of the best and simple scheduling software. You can schedule appointments, accept pre-payments, send reminder alerts, update social networks, update personal calendars, create promotions, create discount coupons, manage, and grow virally.

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Ten Brilliant Web Tools To Make Your Life Easier

AN Jay — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:23:15 +0000

There are many web apps out there for you, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Ten Brilliant Web Tools To Make Your Life Easier. Read each entry in the list and see which tool suits your needs best.

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PDFUnlock

PDF files can have restrictions that prevent you from for example copying text from them or editing, printing or merging them. PDFUnlock can remove these restrictions (a.k.a “owner password”)

ShiftEdit

ShiftEdit is an online IDE for developing PHP, Ruby, HTML, CSS and JavaScript with built-in (S)FTP.

Join.me

Join.me is an impromptu meeting space that happens wherever, whenever. It’s getting a second or third pair of eyes on your presentation from across the hall or across the continent. It’s sharing your screen instantly with anyone or everyone to get stuff done, quickly.

IdentyMe

IdentyMe is a service for making of virtual business cards. You can collect all your contacts in one place and create a portfolio. It will helps you share information with new people, find new friends and business partners.

TitanPad

TitanPad lets people work on one document simultaneously. While working on this app, you may do infinite undo and everyone gets their own color.

dushare

dushare is a simple direct file-file-transfer service. It makes sending unlimited file sizes between two people as simple as clicking a link. You can send you files to your peers directly (P2P) with no server for upload/download.

SmartPointment

SmartPointment is a simple but effective way to schedule appointments online. With this, You can let your customers schedule appointments at their convenience. SmartPointment analytics give you the insight you need so you can direct your efforts into what has the most impact on your business.

Respelt

Respelt is a free online spell checker with a powerful feature set. It help you spell check your documents, web pages and even RSS feeds.

PrintWhatYouLike

Tired of printing web pages only to find your printout is full of ads, empty space and other junk you don’t want? PrintWhatYouLike is a free online editor that lets you format any web page for printing in seconds.

codepaste

CodePaste provides an easy and convenient way to send/share PHP, C++, Javascript, Java, CSS, Actionscript and HTML code with others. Copy and paste the code and enter the email where you want the CodePaste to send it. CodePaste then nicely formats the code and sends it over.

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Five Excellent Business Management Web Apps

AN Jay — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:08:43 +0000

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly amazing and Five Excellent (Yet Free) Business Management Web Apps. These would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list. This is absolutely helpful for business owners, entrepreneurs, office workers, managers, designers, web designers, developers etc. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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AgileWrap

AgileWrap is a simple, elegant, agile lean product lifecycle management solution to enhance product development, and realize faster time to market. It helps organizations optimize the product development process by enabling effective planning, providing visibility in real-time, incorporating customers feedback sooner, and facilitating collaboration easily in distributed teams.

DeskAway

DeskAway, is a web-based project collaboration software that provides teams a central location to easily organize, manage and track their projects & work. This could be small to medium businesses, organizations, or groups within large enterprises e.g. creative and technology firms, consulting, HR, media, marketing, SEO, startups and non-profit organizations etc.

youcalc

youcalc lets ordinary business users analyze data from most on-demand/SaaS systems. Their analytics solutions cover all areas of your business, from sales and marketing, across web analytics, to service & support, finance, project management, etc. youcalc even lets you mash and analyze data from several on-demand/SaaS systems for a unified view across your business.

Skylight

Skylight puts powerful but easy-to-use business management tools in the hands of the whole team, in or out of the office. Skylight helps business users achieve success while providing anytime, anywhere access to important business information. Projects, contacts, resources, accounts and files in one place.

SantexQ

SantexQ is a web-based tool created to assist businesses in the detail-driven world of time and task management. Designed to enhance team efficiency, the SantexQ keeps the critical information close by: the progress reports, deadlines and time budgets for all of your projects, all available at a glance.

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The 69 Coolest Apps Of 2010

AN Jay — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:41:39 +0000

The year 2010 is almost ended. We have explored and reviewed so many useful tools and resources for you all the year. Today, we are going to take a look on few of the web apps we have featured that we think you would like bookmark for 2011. I hope designers, developers and programmers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. They are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 69 Coolest Web Apps Of 2010 at Work. We have categorized them as Web Apps, Desktop Apps and Smartphone/Tablet PC Apps. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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Web Apps

Join.me

Kodingen

Kodingen is an Online Development Environment including Code Editor, Cloud Hosting, Database Administration, Collaboration, Web based access to file-system, Web based ftp & svn integration.

Write Maps

Write Maps is a free web app which allows its users to create, edit and share sitemaps online. With sitemaps, a blogger can easily plan the layout of their newest website according to its topic and for people who like to work in teams; the ability to collaborate and work on a project on a centrally stored sitemap through Write Maps is a great way to get the job done.

MyStickies

MyStickies allows you to add sticky notes to webpages while you’re visiting the page and save it for later. The saved web pages can later be reviewed and edited from any other computer. MyStickies not only bookmarks the webpages in its online repository, but also saves the pages on how you tagged content on it and presents it the same way later. MyStickies is completely free to use.

PhotoPeach

PhotoPeach is a great free web based slideshow creation service which allows creating, sharing and embedding slideshows online for any type of content which you want. A sign up is required to use the service.

Sketchfu

Sketchfu is simple drawing website where people can share their drawing with each other.

Wix

With Wix you can create a free website or make your free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.

HRLocker

HRLocker is low cost HR management software designed for managing employee record and things associated with it. With HRLocker you can streamline annual leave and absence management, manage HR documents online, organize time sheets and generate reports. HRLocker comes with a lot of customization options as well.

GoWaza

GoWaza is a web service that helps you plan your travels. You enter your destination, along with arrival and departure dates; consequently a list of nearby hotels and their prices are provided. The locations are marked on a small map that can be enlarged. You can share your created maps and trips with your friends that have accounts on GoWaza.

Mobyko

Mobyko gives you complete control over your cellphone as it allows you to safely backup your important contacts and their details online, securely in your Mobyko account. It also features live syncing of contacts, phonebook and calendar present in your cellphone in sync with those present online so whether you make changes in one or the other, your data stays consistent throughout.

NameChk

NameChk’s feature and usage is quite simple: it simply check for the available of the entered username across many social networking and social bookmarking websites.

PrintWhatYouLike

Abouthisite

Through Abouthisite you can find out the main details of a site – owner’s name, daily visitors, language, server location, server location’s on a map, thumbnail image of the homepage, and the color composition of the thumbnail image.

Skylight

TimsFreeStuff HTML Editor

This real time HTML editor solves the problem of continuously switching between browser windows and provides a live show of what HTML code would look like in a separate preview pane. This solves the problem of first writing the HTML code in the web development software and then testing it in the browser window.

dushare

Qhub

Qhub is a platform you can use on your blog or website that allows your audience to ask questions and get real answers, it doesn’t just help answer questions it allows a genuine community to develop around your site.

SnapBird

SnapBird is a free online tool that helps you search Twitter for things in a much better way than Twitter’s native search allows. Using SnapBird you can search for a particular keyword in a particular Twitter user’s stream. You can also search for items in Tweets with your mentions or in the sent and received DMs (direct messages). In addition to those features, SnapBird lets you search for items in very old Tweets along with the latest ones.

Slide Deck

Slideshows on websites serve an important purpose: they easily let you showcase the latest or the most popular content of your website. Instead of spending a lot of time coding up the slideshow, you can use Slide Deck. Slide Deck will provide you with the slideshow you desire for your website. It comes as a jQuery plug-in and a WordPress plug-in.

TeamworkPM

TeamworkPM is an online tool that can help you manage those tasks in an easy manner. No matter how big or small your team, the online service will help you setup a good communicating ground for your team.

Webpage Test

Through “Webpage Test” you can set a number of parameters before you begin testing a URL. The test results are comprehensively broken down into speed tests, JavaScript file sizes, and image file sizes. The site also provides tools to compare the performance of multiple websites.

LiveMocha

LiveMocha offers free and paid plans. It provides its users with a unique combination of tutorials and practice with native speakers from around the world.

Bounce

Bounce is a little app that lets people quickly to add feedback to any webpage and toss that back and forth with other people.

Project Bubble

Project Bubble is a simple and easy tool for managing your projects, client and invoices. It’s intuitive interface makes project management a breeze. You can easily generate PDF invoices and get paid through PayPal.

icloud

icloud lets you do just that. icloud is a web service that provides its users with a virtual desktop. After creating an account and signing in to it, you virtual desktop loads up.

Flash Paint

Flash Paint is a full web based drawing tool with many drawing features. The feature I liked best was its ability to create complex geometrical drawings with ease. This was achieved through a combination of lines and curves which you can modify easily.

Zoho

Zoho is the name for a collection of services. The entries you see in the image above are only few of what Zoho has to offer. We can sign up for an account and use Zoho’s services to easily gather ideas and create plus modify files / documents / images / presentations as a group. Click here to visit Zoho.

WhatTheFont

WhatTheFont recognizes fonts in the same way as IdentifyFont. The image we upload can be of GIF, JPEG, TIFF or BMP image format and must not have more than 25 characters. As the characters are scanned by the website, we are asked to confirm if the right character has been confirmed. The site then proceeds to analyze each character and find our font.

IDriveSync

IDriveSync syncs files online and across multiple PCs. On installing and logging into the application, it opens up a ‘Sync’ area where you can drag-n-drop files from your PC into or add your files into. Anytime you make a change to synced data anywhere on those multiple PCs, all the PCs will shortly reflect the modified data. IDriveSync does easy sharing too.

1DayLater

1DayLater is a free website that lets users enter tasks and enter the value of those tasks either in time units, money, or distance units. Once we have all our tasks fed into our 1DayLater account, we can view graphs of our activities and vary the graph parameters to see what our time/money/distance is being concentrated on.

Youblisher

With Youblisher you can make your pdf documents flippable and attractive looking book style presentation. It is like touching a real document.

Lookout

Lookout is a free application compatible with all major mobile operating systems. In addition to the remote location and remote controlling features, the application also has built-in antivirus and firewall tools that protect it against malware.

Web Page to PDF

Web2PDF Converter helps Internet users, website publishers and bloggers to save their content to PDF and then share, print or archive it. Web2PDF Converter is fast, powerful and easy to install.

Springnote

Springnote is a great way for you to create notebooks for ideas, interests, multimedia, projects, and documents. It allows you to create pages, to work on them together with your friends, and to share files.

Crocodoc

crocodoc takes your PDFs, Word documents, and PowerPoint presentations, and lets you view and mark them up online. Documents can be shared with others, who can collaboratively highlight or strikeout text, add notes and comments, and make revisions. All files are stored securely on their servers, and can be password protected and encrypted for maximum security.

Dial2Do

Dial2Do lets you do common tasks by just calling a number and speaking. You can use it to send EMAIL or TEXT messages, record REMINDERS to help you remember things, post updates to your TWITTER or JAIKU stream and LISTEN to your favourite internet content. It’s easy and hands-free.

AppliancesEnergyUse

AppliancesEnergyUse lists the power input of almost 50 household appliances. By finding out how much power we are using simultaneously we can see if we are wasting energy. We can also set a personal power goal for ourselves and vow to never cross that wattage at a given time. Whether or not we are crossing our goal can then be determined by AppliancesEnergyUse.

Draw Anywhere

DrawAnywhere is an online diagramming website, where you can draw, modify and share flowcharts and other diagrams, with the look & feel of a desktop application. It runs on any browser with Flash 9 installed. There is no need to download and install any custom software. It runs entirely on the web, and thus it is an always-on-access-anywhere solution. It meets all your diagramming needs without installing, maintaining and purchasing expensive software.

Read More : Five Best Online Diagramming Tools

Google Notebook

Google Notebook is a free online application offered by Google that allows users to save and organize clips of information while conducting research online. The browser-based tool permits a user to write notes, clip text and images, and save links from pages during a browser session. The information is saved to an online “notebook” with sharing and collaboration features. Notebooks can be made “public”, or visible to others, and can also be used to collaborate with a list of users (either publicly or privately).

Desktop Apps

Recuva

Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. Even if you’ve formatted a drive so that it looks blank, Recuva can still find your files on it.

YouTube Jockey

With YouTube jockey you can save the YouTube videos you watch without having to login with your YouTube or Google account. YouTube Jockey is a video player based on Adobe Air platform and has the ability to search for YouTube videos from within the player and drag and drop feature for playing videos.

Cloud Magic

Cloud Magic is a free web tool that works as a browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome for people running Mac, Windows, or Linux machines. The extension indexes all emails and their data locally. It then provides an interface for you to quickly search those emails. The response time is amazing because your search is conducted locally instead of online. Cloud Magic supports indexing multiple Gmail accounts.

AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2011

AVG Free provides you with basic antivirus and antispyware protection for Windows and is available to download for free. It can work like a fast and effective protection against viruses and spyware. You will stay protected on social networks with AVG Social Networking Protection.

Elmedia Mac Media Player

Elmedia Mac media player is a versatile tool that supports multiple formats playback (FLV, SWF, XAP (Silverlight), RM and RV (Real), AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV). No need to install a separate player for each video you want to watch. Enjoy your screening with Elmedia Player.

Freemake

Freemake is an installable video converter for Windows operating systems. In addition to converting videos to AVI, MP4, 3GP, and DVD formats, the application can also rip DVDs, rip audio from videos, and split videos and upload them to YouTube as a playlist.

Google Dictionary

Google Dictionary extension is Google’s own extension for its own browser, Chrome. With the extension installed, Chrome users will no longer need to bookmark any dictionary websites. The extension simplifies looking up word meanings by eliminating the need to visit a dictionary website in a new tab.

Apture Highlights

Apture Highlights is a free tool, built from the ground up to let you take the power of Google search, and the richness YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and Wikipedia with you to any site. Just highlight a phrase on any site to reveal the web’s best content without ever leaving the page. Fast, powerful, and fun.

Lunascape

Lunascape is the world’s only triple engine browser. With Lunascape, you can choose the right engine at the right time, realizing a dramatic decrease in web-browser compatibility issues, long loading times, and messed up websites display. You need only 2 clicks to change your engine. Lunascape is 20 times faster than IE7, 6.5 times faster than IE8. And it stays up! We have gone head to head with well-known “fast” browsers, and have achieved one of the fastest JavaScript speed.

Smart Defrag

Smart Defrag is a tiny Windows compatible utility sized at only 1.8 MB. When you run the program, you can view all your hard drive partitions. Click on the partition you feel is responding slowly, and perform an analysis to see if any files require defragmentation.

AppFresh

AppFresh helps you to keep all applications, widgets, preference panes and application plugins installed on your Mac up to date. All from one place, easy to use and fully integrated into Mac OS X.

CodySafe

CodySafe is a simple to use program that can be installed on any flash drive or removable media. The installer is only 2.1 MB large and installs directly to your flash drive.

IE Tab

Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome. Great for web developers who want to test the IE rendering engine, users who use sites with ActiveX controls, and users who want to use the explorer view for local files.

Windows Memory Diagnostic

Microsoft has its own memory testing tool and it is called Windows Memory Diagnostic. The program performs a series of extensive tests on your system to find anything wrong with your computer’s memory. This tool also gives you the options to either create a bootable floppy disk or CD / DVD (by burning the image). Booting from the disk or optical disk will automatically begin the testing process.

CCleaner

CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download.

FastestFox – Browse Faster

You can save time and get faster, parallelized downloads, quick definitions, auto-loading of next page, improved searching, and can do more with FastestFox.

iSynchronize

iSynchronize is an application that synchronizes the original file or folder of aliases. It creates a folder in your home directory, where you can put either real files and folders or aliases, and then syncs the contents to another folder you specify. The application concludes a daemon that does al the work in the background.

ComparePSD

ComparePSD compares two Adobe Photoshop PSD files for you and highlights the differences. It can compare the difference Layer by layer, Effect by effect. ComparePSD allows you to select the files in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on them.

Smartphone And Tablet PC Apps

0.03 Seconds

0.03 Seconds was the top iOS game in many countries within 2 days of its release. The game, sized at 11.9 MB, helps you judge your reaction time. Through a variety of responses it determines how fast you react and tap the screen.

Read It Later

When you come across an article or a webpage you’d like to read but can’t at that time, save it to your Read it Later list. You can then read it whenever you have a moment, on the couch, in your commute, on the plane, train, or practically
anywhere.

Google Mobile App

You can use Google Mobile App to search fast from your phones. It has some stunning features like you can speak your queries instead of typing, use pictures to search the web, avoid typing your current location while searching for nearby businesses (e.g. “pizza” or “best buy”). You can also quickly navigate to other Google services, such as Maps and Gmail. Available on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows and Nokia S60.

Chess with Friends

This simple game lets you play chess over the network with a friend or a random player. The game’s simple functionality and cool graphics make the game worthwhile.

LEGO Photo

Here’s an app to immortalize your favorite things and those special moments in LEGO form. Just point the camera, snap a pic, press the button, and watch the masterpiece build.

WordPress for Android

The initial release of WordPress for Android has focused on giving you the ability to manage your blog while on the go. You can manage posts, comments, pages.

Google Earth

With Google Earth for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, you can fly to far corners of the planet with just the swipe of a finger. 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.

Wi-Fi Finder

This app for iPhone has tremendous use. Instead of shaking your phone to discover a good Wi-Fi signal, you can Wi-Fi Finder to find many free and paid Wi-Fi hotspots. The app has indexed over 280,000 locations in 140 countries worldwide.

Hair MakeOver Lite

Do you want to find out what is the best hairstyle for you and your friends? With Hair MakeOver you can try on many different kind of hair styles and hair cuts in less than a minute on your iPhone. There are 32 32 hairstyles that you can try in this app.

Lightning Bug – Sleep Clock

Just running and jogging and taking control over your eating habits is not important. Studies shows that adequate sleep is also necessary for the body to stay fit. Now with Lightning Bug – Sleep Clock relax and get to sleep easier by playing soothing sounds. It can also wake you up after specified time to keep you going.

Angry Birds

Angry Birds is a puzzle video game developed by Finland-based Rovio Mobile. Since its release for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices, over 10 million copies of the game have been purchased and versions have appeared for other touchscreen-based smartphones. You can download this app for your Samsung Galaxy Tab from Android Market.

Photoshop

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.

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Absolutely Useful Web Apps For People Who Run Business

AN Jay — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:55:37 +0000

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly amazing and Absolutely Useful (Yet Free) Web Apps For Business People. These would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list. This is absolutely helpful for business owners, entrepreneurs, office workers, managers, designers, web designers, developers etc. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

smartQ

smartQ is a web-based visual project board for tracking tickets through a multi-step process. You can distribute the work, track the progress, identify the bottlenecks and store team communication in one central place. It is really adjustable to fit any workflow.

Skylight

Gantt

GANTTIC is an online project management software for scheduling resources and projects. This online scheduling software provides user-friendly graphical interface and interactive Gantt chart for real time collaboration. This is really perfect for resource management and project scheduling of any business.

Teamlab

TeamLab is a free open-source platform for business collaboration and project management. It allows you to use social networking tools such as blogs and forums, organize business tasks and milestones, as well as communicate with your team members via corporate IM.

Perq

Perq makes leave management painless with an easy-to-use policy creation tool, automated tracking with accrual, and a simple time-off request process.

SmartPointment

Mavenlink

This is one of the best project collaboration applications which can be used to manage your projects, track time spent on each project, communicate with team members, manage payments, invoices and do a lot more.

Disqourse

It’s easy to use communication and task management system. Disqourse is best for teams that are communicating with their customers and mainly it’s perfect for B2B businesses like design shops, webdevelopers etc

SkyLedger

SkyLedger will change the way you look at bookkeeping and accounting forever.This system makes it so any small to medium size business can be up and running with a fully robust accounting system in seconds.

Producteev

Producteev will help you manage your tasks from wherever you’re comfortable working like E-mail, IM, Web, iPhone, Gmail, Google Calendar…

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Cloud Based Project Management Solution From Mavenlink To Manage Your Online Work

Chris Peterson — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:45:43 +0000

Desktop based project management applications are at a serious disadvantage of instant collaboration, idea sharing, time tracking and file management. In the age of cloud computing, you need a good cloud based project management tool to manage your projects, payments, set up timely goals and track expenses. Everyone wants to reduce the overhead of communication and better manage the assets of their organization from a central location.

If you are a web worker, your team members, clients and other employees may work from different geographic locations, hence making it impossible to work with an offline project management application. In comes Mavenlink – one of the best project collaboration applications which can be used to manage your projects, track time spent on each project, communicate with team members, manage payments, invoices and do a lot more. It’s time to abandon your email inbox and use Mavenlink’s project management solution to manage your online work.

Try Mavenlink For Free

You can sign up for an Independent or a Business plan and begin using the service free of charge for 30 days. Mavenlink also supports OpenID, hence you can use your existing Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Facebook, AOL or with any other Open ID provider.

At the end of 30 days, you may either pay the monthly fee to continue using Mavenlink or cancel your plan free of charge. All plans include Web collaboration, time tracking, online payments, project budgets, file sharing, task management, invoicing and email integration.

Here is a quick run down of some important features of Mavenlink:

The MavenLink Dashboard and Your Project Workspace

After logging in to your Mavenlink account’s dashboard, you can start a new project by clicking the “Start a new project” link. Prior to that, it would be a good idea to tweak the settings of your profile, add a profile image, configure or customize your company’s branding. All this can be done under “Settings”.

To start a new project, first create a workspace and enter a name, choose your role (client or consultant) and specify a budget with due date. An example is shown below:

When the project has been created, go back to your workspace and hit the “Invite Members” link. This will open a browser window where you can invite team members, clients, developers and other individuals involved with the project.

Now that the project is ready and you have invited all your team members, start posting messages and uploading files on your workspace.

Your team members can read these messages, comment on it and download the files uploaded by you. In addition to that, each team member can start a new discussion thread, upload their files so that other members can download it.

This is very useful in the sense that all files and conversations are accessible to everyone. You can also send a private message to a specific member of your team, they can reply to messages directly from their email inbox, without having to login to Mavenlink every time.

Time Tracking Features

The time tracking section allows you to set deadlines on specific tasks and track the amount of time spent on each task of a project. You can create as many time entries by choosing a date from the calendar and then apply different details e.g budget, hourly rates, tags, whether billable or non billable and so on.

You will receive notifications on your Mavenlink workspace when the time allotted to finish a task comes to an end. This is useful, because you can track the amount of time associated with different tasks of your project and divide the work accordingly.

Expense Tracking

The Expense tracking section allows service providers to add expenses across any project. If you are working on multiple projects and want to keep an eye on the total amount of money spent, use the Expense tracking section and add all your projects one by one.

You can specify a date, the amount and the payment receipt in any format. When you are done, hit the “Save” button and a new entry will be logged under your account’s expense tracking section. This is very useful when you have hired a lot of developers for your project and want a central location to track your project expenses and plan your budget.

Invoicing

This is what makes Mavenlink one of the best online workplace among web workers. You can create and manage payment invoices directly from Mavenlink’s project workspace and don’t have to use third party online invoicing apps. This is useful for two reasons. First, you don’t have to spend money on premium invoicing apps because Mavenlink allows you to create and track as many invoices as you want.

Secondly, all the invoices are tightly integrated within your project workspace and project feed, this is useful because you can track all the details from the same location.

Mavenlink supports creating invoices based on:

Completed tasks or Deliverables: Works simple – you create a task, assign a budget and send it to any of your consultants, developers or clients. When the person finishes it, the task can be added in the invoice and the payment can be made accordingly.
Hours or Timely rates: There are situations when you may want to pay an hourly rate to your team members. This option let’s you create an invoice based on timed inputs.
Tracked expenses: You can also create invoice according to tracked expenses.

The advantage of using Mavenlink’s invoicing system is that the invoices are directly tied to the conversations, files and other deliverables from your project workplace. Hence, less time is required to manage payments at the end of a project.

All in all, Mavenlink is one of the best online project collaboration apps which includes time and expense tracking and online invoicing. There are more features which cannot be wrapped in a single article e.g

Scheduling: Create a timetable for projects and set hard or soft deadlines.
Real time messaging: Messages will instantly go out to everyone in a workspace via email
File sharing: Upload multiple files at once and share up to 20GB across projects
Custom filters: Choose what you want to see. Sort by messages with attachments or those linked to your tracker.
Permissions: Give specific rights to users within a project.

You can also visit the Mavenlink’s tour page to learn more

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Absolutely Useful (Yet Free) Web Apps To Make Designers Lives Easier

AN Jay — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:32:18 +0000

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly amazing and Absolutely Useful (Yet Free) Web Apps To Make Designers Lives Easier. These would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list. This is absolutely helpful for designers, web designers, developers etc. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

CloudFlare

CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through their intelligent global network. They automatically optimize the delivery of your web pages so your visitors get the fastest page load times and best performance. They also block threats and limit abusive bots and crawlers from wasting your bandwidth and server resources. The result: CloudFlare-powered websites see
a significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

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CloudCanvas

CloudCanvas enables creative people to make digital art, design and other rich media right in the web browser without any plugin to download. It has all the powerful tools and high end features that designers require to unleash creativity,
new ideas and mashups.

Recurse

Recurse is a simple solution to show clients your spiffy new design. By emulating a website with multiple flat images clients will have a better idea of what the composition will look like ‘in the wild’.

Teambox

Teambox is another but unique and much robust online collaboration tool. This is absolutely secure and you can access your data from any computer. It has another good feature that will help you get notified by emails from activities in your projects.

DevHub

With the DevHub™ online website builder, you don’t need to be a code monkey or learn complicated coding hacks or HTML. You can quickly and easily build your site in mere seconds using our system’s click n’ drag modules that snap into place. DevHub also offers a set of themes for you to use for free. You can even tweak or modify them to fit your company or personal brand.

SlideSix

SlideSix is a social presentation sharing community that caters to everyone. Users can privately share a personalized and narrated photo album, or a public product introduction with an embedded multimedia demonstration. The possibilities are as endless as the users creativity.

Web font

A Web font service is only as good as the typefaces it provides. Fonts.com Web Fonts offers a selection of fonts that is unmatched in size, range and quality. Their massive inventory includes thousands of designs. From workhorse sans and serif text faces to eye-catching display designs to elegant script typefaces, Fonts.com Web Fonts offers a diverse range of styles to cover any design need.

Resizer

It lets you dynamically resize your images on the fly by just calling a URL. With this, You can directly embed your resized & improved image into your webpage by simply a url.

Launchlist

Launchlist is intended to help and encourage web designers and developers to check their work before exposing it to the world at large.

resizeMyBrowser

resizeMyBrowser is simple yet very useful online tool. With this tool you will be able to set the browser size by both Inner window and Outer window.

Paper Browser

This tool provides you an approximation tool to guide you translate those quick sketches into a design-ready format.

ClueApp

ClueApp is a free to use web service that helps you determine what about your website a visitor remembers. The procedure is fairly simple. You pass your site’s URL to ClueApp’s interface. The service then takes a snapshot of your website and hosts it online for 24 hours. The URL of the image can be shared amongst users and friends. The URL shows image for five-and-a-half seconds and then asks the visitor the top 5 thinks he / she remembers about the site. Later you can view what visitors to the URL had typed in as those 5 memorable things.

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Awesome (Yet Free) Web Apps To Make Project Managers Lives Easier

AN Jay — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:26:08 +0000

This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and Awesome (Yet Free) Web Apps To Make Project Managers Lives Easier. These would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list. This is absolutely helpful for project managers, team leaders etc. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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Glasscubes

Glasscubes takes project management online and using a combination of features and tools addresses the key challenges faced by project managers. Their version control feature is perfect if you need to work from the latest version of a document, and need to find it quickly. Rather than having multiple versions scattered across multiple computers and email addresses, keep them stored in one place – and always keep the latest version available. You can then comment – sending notifications at any stage.

Pivotal Tracker

Pivotal Tracker is a great collaboration tool for people working on a software or web coding project. You start work on a project by first creating an account on the site. After logging in you can create and name a new project.

Project Bubble

HiTask

HiTask is a friendly and easy-to-use task management system that anyone can start using right away. It is designed to satisfy both sophisticated followers of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology and anyone who just needs a quick and easy tool to manage their everyday tasks.

Flow

flow is a lean project management application based on kanban. You can see what is going on at a glance. How many tasks there are in each phase, and who is working on what.

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