After 19 years of being Windows-only, Techsmith’s popular screen capturing tool Snagit has today finally been released for the Mac. It promises to be an intuitive app with more powerful features than those available from OS X’s built-in tools, so I took it for a spin. Read more »
Thanks to broadband and mobile technology, the tools and the very nature of work are changing, but are corporate IT policies keeping up? According to data released today by Cisco, it would appear not: workers are prepared to break IT policies to get their jobs done. Read more »
You may not realize it, but IBM has actually been a player in the enterprise social networking space for quite some time. Lotus Connections, the company’s corporate social software suite, was originally released way back in June 2007. IBM today announced Connections 3.0, a major update. Read more »
I’ve been making a mind map to help me brainstorm an upcoming trip. The software I’ve been using is MindNode, a free mind mapping tool for the Mac. I thought I’d put together a short screencast showing how easy it is to use: Read more »
MindTouch, a provider of intranet tools, has teamed up with Dachis Group to release a new product, the bit-of-a-mouthful MindTouch Social Intranet, with Workforce by Dachis Group. It’s an app that builds on MindTouch’s existing intranet software with a suite of custom-built collaboration applications. Read more »
In most companies, a lot of project communication occurs via email. That can cause problems, because issues that are supposedly “flagged” via email often end up getting lost in people’s inboxes; there’s no central place to track them. That’s why Webyog created its new project, IssueBurner. Read more »
One way to bridge the gap between remote workers and aid remote collaboration is to invest in telepresence technology. These systems have traditionally been expensive, but that cost is coming down all the time. XVD Corporation launched its low-cost EspressoHD system in North America today. Read more »
BridgeURL is a free app that lets you gather together a collection of links and share them as a slideshow via a single URL. It’s useful for researching a project with your team, or just for sharing a bunch of cool sites on Twitter. Read more »
If you use a webmail service, you’ll find that clicking on email links on the web won’t work properly; your computer will try to open a desktop client. Fortunately, there are a couple of free apps that you can use to fix this behavior. Read more »
Jume is a a task management app that incorporates social features. The idea is that by making your to-do lists public, you can lean on your friends for motivation and help. It’s a nice idea in theory, but it falls down for a couple of reasons. Read more »
Adobe has announced the availability of the latest version of its Flash-based enterprise web conferencing tool, Connect. Boasting a completely redesigned user interface, Adobe Connect 8 should prove to be easier to use for both presenters and conference attendees, while also offering powerful new features. Read more »
Wrike, an online project management and collaboration tool that we’ve covered previously, today gets a new update that aims to marry its project management functionality, like Gantt charts and reports, with the real-time updates and ease-of-use of social networking tools. Read more »
Cloud-based collaboration suite HyperOffice has delivered a slew of improvements to its project management tool. It now features task dependencies and interactive Gantt charts, which should allow for the management of much more complex projects, as well as some other productivity-boosting tweaks to existing functionality. Read more »
The release of Firefox 4 has been postponed, with a release candidate of expected to ship in early 2011, with a final release to come shortly after, according to a posting by Mozilla Director of Firefox Mike Beltzner on the mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup. Read more »
Up until now, if you wanted to sync tasks between popular to-do list management app Remember the Milk and Outlook, you’ve had to rely on third-party apps and plugins. But now there’s MilkSync for Outlook, a new app from the makers of Remember the Milk themselves. Read more »
It looks like Google’s planning some revisions to its simple to-do list management app, Tasks, because the company is asking for feature suggestions. You can submit new feature ideas and vote on the ideas already submitted in an online poll that will run until November 19. Read more »
After archiving a message in Gmail, you’re taken back to the inbox view. A new Labs feature, Auto-advance, modifies that behavior; it takes you straight to the next message. It should save some time when you’ve got a full inbox that you want to power through. Read more »
Pasteboard’s one of those simple little Windows utility apps that’s so useful you wonder why you’ve never installed it before. Effectively, it’s a clipboard extender that provides a tabbed notepad that you can use to store snippets of plain text on. Read more »
WWD readers may fondly remember EtherPad, an online collaborative text editing tool, which was acquired by Google and subsequently shut down. EtherPad’s code was made open source, and it has spawned some spin-off projects. The latest of these is a collaborative code editing app called EtherCodes. Read more »
Holla is a simple group chat application. Developer Alex MacCraw describes it as an open-source version of Campfire. Holla doesn’t have all of the advanced features that Campfire has, but it does support file sharing, it’s free and runs on your own server. Read more »
ProofHQ is an online collaboration tool that allows markup and review of files, web pages and documents. The company has recently added AV proofing to the app, and to celebrate we have top-of-the-range premium accounts to give away to three lucky readers. Read more »
Boarrd is an app that enables users to create dashboard consisting of “widgets” that pull information from various sources on the web. It could be useful for creating dashboards to keep abreast of project information and updates, or to create a monitoring dashboard, for example. Read more »
If you’re like me, and would prefer Faceboook not know about your every move, you might like Facebook Disconnect. It’s an extension for Chrome that does pretty much exactly what you’d expect: stops websites from reporting back to Facebook via Facebook Connect. Read more »
Join.me, the easy-to-use web conferencing app from the folks at LogMeIn, is coming out of beta and will today get a premium “Pro” version. The new edition gets some handy additional functionality: a meeting scheduler, personalized join.me URLs and user management features. Read more »
Following in the footsteps of the popular MacHeist bundle, a time-limited offer on a collection of Mac apps, three Swiss web app start-ups have clubbed together to create the “eKnife bundle;” one-year subscriptions to all three services for the price of two. Read more »
Video conferencing company LifeSize today announced the LifeSize Bridge 2200, an HD video conferencing product. The Austin, Texas-based company (now a division of Logitech) says that because the 16-port product is modular, it should enable businesses using it to scale their video conferencing needs as required. Read more »
As broadband erases the boundaries between places and time zones, companies can take advantage of remote workers and virtual teams, but two new surveys show that many organizations aren’t, and generally it’s not because they don’t have the tools, but because they don’t have the mindset. Read more »
Search engine optimization (SEO), the process of optimizing a web page to improve its visibility in search engines, can seem like a complicated business. SEO Doctor, a free add-on for Firefox, can help. It has an easy-to-understand scoring mechanism to help you find potential SEO problems. Read more »
Adobe today announced Acrobat X, the latest iteration of its family of PDF creation and reading tools. PDF authoring tool Acrobat gets several new features designed to improve business collaboration and productivity, while Reader introduces support for a wider range of content types and collaboration tools. Read more »
If you’re fed up with the cruft that’s built up on your machine, eating up valuable disk space and slowing it down, check out BleachBit, an open-source drive cleaning utility. It’s specifically designed to remove the junk that’s generated by over 70 different applications Read more »
Looking for a no-hassle way to receive large files over the web from your contacts, colleagues, clients and friends? DROPitTOme is a service that provides a password-protected public web interface to a Dropbox account. It’s free, simple to set up and works 24/7. Read more »
The really cool thing about Joliprint’s bookmarklet is that it can work with Google Reader. Simply select an item in Google Reader, hit the bookmarklet and a nicely-formatted PDF of that article will be saved to your machine, ready for printing or transferring to an e-reader Read more »
Last week, I went to the Future of Web Apps conference in London. As a non-developer, what I found most exciting about the event was that it offered me some insight into how our web apps will change thanks to new technologies, like HTML5 and CSS3. Read more »
Techsmith’s popular screencast recording and editing tool, Camtasia, has just been updated and now includes much better captioning support. Both Camtasia Studio 7.1 (the Windows version of the app) and Camtasia for Mac 1.2 offer new and improved captioning tools. Read more »
Over on GigaOM Pro, my latest Long View takes a look at some of the lessons that vendors of enterprise apps could learn from the the vibrant and innovative consumer web apps market. Here’s a quick rundown of my five key takeaways: Read more »
A new version of Xobni, an add-on for Outlook, is being released today, including integration with Huddle, a cloud-based collaboration suite. Huddle data will appear in Xobni’s sidebar, providing users with visibility of project workflows, team communications and access to uploaded files. Read more »
iQ-Notes is a neat app that provides the features of paper sticky notes on your computer. Just like paper notes, you can leave them on your screen as reminders, and you can also attach notes to documents so that they pop up as you open them. Read more »
In-flight Wi-Fi is becoming more common but it’s unfortunately not ubiquitous just yet; it can be difficult to tell which flights have it available. Enter your flight details into HasWifi and it’ll let you know whether you’ll be able to stay connected during your journey. Read more »
The Jawbone Icon for Cisco is a little different from other headsets because it adds in upgradable firmware and the ability to seamlessly switch between mobile phones, Cisco IP desk phones, the Cius tablet and softphones, all through the headset. It’s basically a wearable computing device. Read more »
Want to make sure that your Gmail account is secure? Google has provided a handy online checklist that contains the steps needed to protect your account against hackers. The list is organized into five sections, and most items have a “read more” link for further explanation. Read more »
