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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Side Job Track

Side Job Track is a cool tool and if you do any contract freelance work, you need to check it out.

It's a web based job tracking, invoicing, reporting & project management software for freelancers. And best of all, it's free! There is no excuse now for you not to get your books in order.

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Sunday, June 18, 2006

37 Signals Tools

Seems to me that 37 Signals is 100% on the Web 2.0 bandwagon. They are leading the way in developing online software that simply make life easier.

Basecamp
A project management and collaboration tool that offers message boards, to-do lists, simple scheduling, collaborative writing, and file sharing.

Campfire
A web based group chat tool built for the business setting. Invite up to 60 people to chat at once, instantly share files, search archived transcripts and set up password-protected chats.

Backpack
A web based organizer that lets you organize anything. Organize to do lists, notes, images, and photos with a simple click on a button.

Writeboard
Whiteboard lets you write, share, revise, and compare text solo or with others. It's fast and easy.

Ta-da List
Keep all your to-do lists together and organized online. Keep the lists to yourself or share them with others for easy collaboration.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006

Murder Your Brand

Well, if you need to rebrand your company, it seems that murder might be a entertaining option to choose. That's what 2ndsite.biz has done at least.

Upon making the choice to rebrand their company, they decided to kill their old brand off in the format of a murder mystery story released online in eight episodes. Episode One starts off with the ever suspenseful "In short, it was a miserable Monday morning. The 2ndSite team is gathering like the storm clouds outside."

The murder takes place at brandmurder.com and as of today there are four episodes released.

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Thursday, January 5, 2006

BubbleShare

BubbleShare.com is worth checking out if you have images that you'd like to share online. Some of the features include:

1. No registration required
2. Photo sets can be 100 images max
3. Audio annotations of photos, 30 seconds max for each image
4. Auto playback of photo set and any audio annotation
5. iPhoto plug-in available for exporting
6. Idiot-proof design

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Tuesday, December 6, 2005

Fast Internet Surfing

I have a high speed cable connection through Comcast so I probably don't need the Google Web Accelerator. But I couldn't resist making my connection faster so I installed it today on my computer.

Google Web Accelerator is an application that uses the power of Google's global computer network to make web pages load faster. Their website says that dial-up users may not see much improvement because the Google Web Accelerator is currently optimized to speed up web page loading for broadband connections.

Google Web Accelerator uses various strategies to make web pages load faster, including:
- Sending your page requests through Google machines dedicated to handling Google Web Accelerator traffic.
- Storing copies of frequently looked at pages to make them quickly accessible.
- Downloading only the updates if a web page has changed slightly since you last viewed it.
- Prefetching certain pages onto your computer in advance.
- Managing your Internet connection to reduce delays.
- Compressing data before sending it to your computer.

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