Yesterday, Cisco launched its consumer telepresence offering, Umi, which will provide high definition video calling in the home. At $599, plus an additional $24.95 per month for unlimited calls, it seems a little pricey for its target consumer market, but could it work for SMBs? Read more »
Who says you can’t make a good thing even better? GrabBox is a nifty little utility that extends upon OS X’s built-in screenshot capabilities by automatically uploading screenshots to your Dropbox account. It also copies a URL to your clipboard, which makes sharing screenshots a snap! Read more »
Wondering how to make your website more accessible for people with disabilities? Check out this series of great video tutorials at Carsonified’s Think Vitamin Membership. There are 17 bite-size videos in the series, covering everything from how screen readers work to how to make forms accessible. Read more »
Citrix’s web conferencing products (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and GoToTraining) will have integrated HD conferencing, the company announced at its Citrix Synergy conference today. The HD technology, allows up to six simultaneous conferencing streams at a resolution with a total maximum resolution of 1920 x 960. Read more »
TinEye Reverse Image Search is a service that can search for similar images on the web. Give it a source URL and it’ll return where that image came from, if modified versions of the image exist or (usefully) if there is a higher resolution version available. Read more »
SkedgeMe is a little like Tungle.me, an app that we’ve covered previously, but it’s primarily designed for business, rather than individual, use. Companies using SkedgeMe can indicate the services they offer and when they’re available; their customers can then book those services online using the tool. Read more »
Ever thought that you would love to be able to shoot and destroy the annoying elements from a web page in an Asteroids-style game? No? Well, me neither, but that’s exactly what Kick Ass, a fun little bookmarklet, lets you do. Read more »
PlainText is a free text editor for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad from Hog Bay Software, the creators of WriteRoom and TaskPaper. It has a clean and uncluttered UI and built-in Dropbox support, which means that it can sync files with your computer. Read more »
While many people love the threaded “conversation view” that’s been a feature of Gmail since its launch, some don’t. The good news for those folks is that Google is adding the ability to turn off conversation view in Gmail for Google Apps users. Read more »
Have you ever wondered whether the “freemium” business model, nearly ubiquitous among the web apps that we review and use here at WebWorkerDaily, is workable? New data published by email marketing service provider MailChimp in a blog post suggests that it can be. Read more »
Google has bought Plannr, a Seattle-based startup, for an undisclosed fee, according to reports. Plannr is a service that helps groups of people coordinate their plans by bringing together the multiple planning tools that we use (calendar, phone, email, maps, SMS, etc.). Read more »
Google has bought Plannr, a Seattle-based startup, for an undisclosed fee, according to Alexia Tsotsis over on TechCrunch. Plannr is a service that helps groups of people coordinate their plans by bringing together the multiple planning tools that we use (calendar, phone, email, maps, SMS, etc.). Read more »
The Web Atom’s System Ninja is a useful free Windows tool for cleaning out the junk that accumulates on your hard drive over time, taking up valuable space and slowing your system down. I made a short screencast to show you how it works: Read more »
Cohuman, a team collaboration app with a slick interface that I demonstrated in a screencast earlier this year, today announced the availability of a new “Professional” version that’s aimed at businesses. It’s subscription-based and allows for greater control over who can access each project and task. Read more »
If you leave a lot of comments on other people’s blogs, having to fill out your details each time can feel like a chore. easyComment is a Firefox extension that can save time by automatically filling out the required fields in the click of a button. Read more »
Yesterday, Microsoft announced that it had added the ability to embed PowerPoint and Excel documents from Office Web Apps into other websites. It’s a really neat feature and easy to use, so I thought I’d make a quick screencast showing you how it works: Read more »
Are you the type of person who collects bookmarks from all over? Ever wish you could do something more useful with those bookmarks? Licorize can add context to bookmarks, to turn them into projects, ideas, notes and more that you can share with your team members. Read more »
Office Web Apps, the online version of Office, has gained some new features, and is now available in more countries, Microsoft announced today. Of particular note is that users can now embed PowerPoint and Excel documents from Office Web Apps in their own websites. Read more »
It might soon be quicker to note the devices that you can’t access cloud file sharing, syncing and storage service Dropbox on, because the company has just announced the availability of a BlackBerry client, to join the existing clients available for iOS and Android devices. Read more »
It might soon be quicker to note the devices that you can’t access cloud file sharing, syncing and storage service Dropbox on, because the company has just announced the availability of a BlackBerry client, to join the existing clients available for iOS and Android devices. Read more »
Ofuz is an “all in one” business suite that provides a range of integrated tools to help you manage your business throughout the sales cycle: contact management, task management and invoicing. Somewhat unusually for such an app, Ofuz is open source. Read more »
Scheduling conference calls can be a real pain. If you’re a user of meeting scheduling app Tungle.me (a favorite of WWD writer Aliza Sherman), then the process just got a little easier, because the company has rolled out integration with conference call provider WebEx. Read more »
For many of us, “inbox zero” is the unattainable holy grail of email organization and productivity. While getting to inbox zero through a period of concerted effort just takes a little time and feels quite rewarding, maintaining that empty inbox is difficult. Read more »
I would like to get the opinions of the corporate web workers in the WWD readership about the tools that you use. How do you find the equipment and software that are issued to you by your employer? Are they hindering your productivity? Read more »
I would like to get the opinions of the corporate web workers in the WWD readership about the tools that you use. How do you find the equipment and software that are issued to you by your employer? Are they hindering your productivity? Read more »
Google today announced that it was adding the option of a two-step verification process to Google Apps, which requires users to log in using a password and a verification code that’s sent to their phone via SMS or generated using a mobile app. Read more »
Here are some interesting posts from around the ‘Net to catch up with over the weekend: Jim Ray: “Quick thoughts on the new Twitter” Dave Winer Winder: “How to reboot RSS” GigaOM: “No, RSS Is Not Dead, and Neither Are RSS Readers” PCWorld: “Top 5 Social Network Disorders” […] Read more »
Over time, an install of Internet Explorer can develop problems, which is when having the SF IE Restorator tool from Seven Forums may come in handy. It’s a troubleshooting utility that you can use to try to automatically fix some of the most common IE issues. Read more »
It seems that LogMeIn’s super-simple web conferencing product LogMeIn Express, which I first wrote about back in November last year, has been rebranded as join.me. It’s basically still the same product with a few tweaks that make it easier to use and a little more useful. Read more »
Itsy is a Twitter client that’s designed to take up minimal screen real estate; particularly useful if you’re working on a smaller laptop screen. It’s like a condensed version of Tweetie; it uses a smaller font and more compact design to achieve the space savings. Read more »
Solvate, a company that matches businesses looking for resources with professionals looking for work, today announced the launch of its “Talent Engine.” It’s basically a search engine that is designed to enable small businesses to query Solvate’s index of independent professionals and connect with appropriate matches. Read more »
Siphon is an add-on that lets you sync a list of add-ons between multiple Firefox installs. Big deal, you might be thinking, Firefox already has Firefox Sync. You’d be right, except that Siphon provides the ability to manage which add-ons are installed via a management interface. Read more »
Cleaning up text — which can incorporate doing things like correcting erroneous capitalization, removing unnecessary spaces and removing duplicate entries — can be a laborious, time-consuming process. Next time you need to do some text cleanup, check out CleanHaven, a free text cleanup tool Read more »
Solvate, a company that matches businesses looking for resources with professionals looking for work, today announced the launch of its “Talent Engine.” It’s basically a search engine that is designed to enable small businesses to query Solvate’s index of independent professionals and connect with appropriate matches. Read more »
Over the years, IE has fallen some way behind its competitors in terms of raw speed and standards compliance. So has the the new version done anything to make up that lost ground? I ran it through some benchmarking tools to find out. Read more »
Ever wanted to see a graph of how much email you’ve received from particular person, or about a particular topic, over time? Graph Your Inbox is a Chrome extension that plots the results of Gmail search queries. It’s like having Google Analytics for your inbox. Read more »
Alarms is well-designed, intuitive to-do list manager/reminder app for the Mac with some nice touches. Above all it’s unobtrusive, so unlike some more complex task management apps it doesn’t take your focus away from whatever it is that you’re actually supposed to be doing. Read more »
jotOnce is an app that enables you to write a note, encrypt it with a password and share it. It could be useful if you wanted to share project notes with some colleagues, for example, or to send some information without leaving an email trail. Read more »
Firefox-using “taboholics” may have been enjoying Tab Panorama, a feature introduced in Firefox 4b4 that enables users to arrange their tabs into groups. Chrome-using tab addicts may have been a little envious, but they now have Tab Sugar, an extension that replicates Tab Panorama in Chrome. Read more »
Most of our readers probably use some “consumer” collaborative tools in their daily work: Skype, Google Chat, Delicious, Twitter, Dropbox, etc. But their use introduces risks, such as security concerns and the way the tools can change (or disappear) overnight. So should businesses be using them? Read more »
