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Want to Manage Twitter in Your CRM System? Try CureCRM

As we covered last month with the launch of Bantam Live, CRM providers are starting to incorporate more social features into their systems. Another example is Santa Clara, Calif.-based CureCRM, which publicly launched its browser-based CRM service today. It extracts customer contact information, … Read More »

Teambox: Collaborate Freely with Your Team

At first peek, web app Teambox looks like another collaboration tool: it’s a Basecamp rival that facilitates collaboration and notifies team members of additions and changes to your projects. Both come with a simple, user-friendly interface. But Teambox has one bonus; it lets … Read More »

 
 

Concentrate: The Perfect Singletasking App?

I like my orange juice freshly squeezed, but there are some good things that come from Concentrate. From the new app, that is, not the distilled juice essence. Concentrate is a new program that seems perfectly designed for aspiring singletaskers. It aims … Read More »

Peago: Flash-Based Project Management

We cover a lot of project management apps here on WebWorkerDaily; it almost feels like we’re inundated with them, with a new option being launched practically every week. So I confess to being wary about trying yet another offering. Peago, a Flash-based PM tool, … Read More »

Most web workers have have stories of struggling to send large files around to their geographically-dispersed project team with the inevitable choking of network bandwidth. Even while online collaboration tools like SharePoint are used in many organizations, it’s almost impossible to escape emailing large Microsoft Office … Read More »

Bing vs. Google: Comparing Them Side-by-side

Have you been using Microsoft’s (and now Yahoo’s) new Bing search engine in conjunction with Google for searches? I have, partly because of the novelty, and partly because Bing does a few interesting things that Google doesn’t, including good natural language searches. Webware has published an … Read More »

Superminder: Simple, No Hassle Task Management

There are a huge number of task management and reminder apps available, each with a different range of features and complexity. Some applications seem to have too many features for me, while others don’t have enough. Superminder seems to get it just right. It … Read More »

reMail: Email Search for the iPhone

A new iPhone app called reMail gives iPhone users the email archive search functionality available in applications like Gmail and Outlook.  reMail is priced at $4.99 until September 1st ($9.99 after that date). The creator of reMail is Gabor Cselle, who has previously worked on … Read More »

Web Work 101: Great Software Starter Bundles

Making the jump from longtime corporate employee to self-employed or freelance web worker carries a lot of challenges. One of those is finding the right tools for the job, since in a corporate environment, standard equipment and software deployment is most often determined for you. Being … Read More »

What Does It Take to Run a Virtual Team?

As more and more companies and teams are going strictly virtual, there are a whole new set of issues to consider and challenges to address. Using my own virtual social media marketing team as an example, I’ve identified a number of needs that require some kind … Read More »

Back Up Your Life With LifestreamBackup

Like many web workers, I store a lot of information in the cloud. It’s great to have my data, my contacts and even my files accessible from anywhere I’m working, but there’s also something of a risk with having all of my data stored elsewhere, because … Read More »

Popular online scheduling tool Doodle (as used by WWD writer Aliza Sherman) today launched a Premium Edition. This new version of the app, which costs $28 per year, lets people present a more professional image by removing advertising and allowing customization of their Doodle … Read More »

More Must Reads

Thanks to the web, the old adage that there’s strength in numbers has never been more true than now. Increasingly, web workers are finding ways to establish powerful partnerships with vendors that offer products or services that compliment their own. They’re learning that while they might … Read More »

LogMyTask, a collaboration-friendly time-tracking web app, launches into closed beta today, and we have an exclusive invitation code to let you try it out. Simply head to the LogMyTask web site and sign up using the invitation code “WWD” to get your free account. Time … Read More »

Just as large businesses cultivate a network of professional partners that extend their reach into new markets and broaden the professional skill sets of their internal staff, so can web workers. As the availability of new projects continues to tighten due to the economy, it’s time … Read More »

Maybe it’s just because I was an English major, but the names people give to their web apps never cease to rouse my sense of curiosity. Hence my attraction to Ronin, which had me more eager to try out a new invoicing app than … Read More »

LogMeIn has long been one of the top remote control applications for managing and monitoring computers when you’re away from them. Now, LogMeIn is beta testing a new web-based application — centered around a management console — that allows people who oversee numerous computers to … Read More »

Personal blogs have innumerable benefits for web workers including establishing expertise on a subject, personal branding, online marketing and general desire for keeping your name up there in Google search results. The right hosted blog platform is a time-saver for web workers who may … Read More »

I’ve been using Google Voice since it was GrandCentral, and have been quite impressed. But it’s still in beta, and while invitations to the beta are finally becoming available, I understand that they’re still hard to come by. 3jam is billing itself … Read More »

With Apple’s recent banning of the Google Voice App from its App Store, some technorati are ditching their iPhones. The reasons given for switching from the device tend to be more politically-charged than practical. While I think it is important for us to … Read More »

Team Apart, a free collaboration tool that enables real-time video conferencing, whiteboarding and file-sharing, launches into closed beta today, and we have some beta invites available. The first 100 WebWorkerDaily readers to click this link will be given access. Team Apart focuses on making online … Read More »

As web workers, sometimes we have to walk a fine line between keeping clients happy, and providing the best possible services. For web developers like me, the issue of whether to continue supporting Internet Explorer 6 is becoming a major headache. It would seem to be a … Read More »

Not too long ago, I had a major scare: I went to log into my Twitter account, only to be informed that my page no longer existed. Considering that I rely pretty heavily on Twitter in my work, I had a bit of a panic. After … Read More »

I never got into Microsoft Access. Maybe this is not the best thing to admit in an online publication like this one, where my admission will be indexed and archived, conceivably, for the rest of recorded history. So, as a note to future employers: By the … Read More »

Thanks to this gloomy economy, many people are looking for work, and many people who already have some are looking for more. The job search sites are good places to start, but not everyone realizes that you can use some of the employment sites to track … Read More »

The other day, some friends and I were discussing the various productivity tools and services that we rely on to manage our lives and our businesses. The usual question came up, “What application or service do you really rely on the most?” To answer this question, … Read More »

Do you often repeat the same tasks over and over on a Windows machine? You can avoid many of the steps and save time if you save your actions for later replay using WinAutomation. The application is ideal for power users and can even take … Read More »

Time-tracking and productivity app Slife (previously covered on WebWorkerDaily) has just launched a new feature called Slife Rewards that lets you reward yourself for meeting various productivity targets. Set some monthly productivity goals for yourself, like “spend no more than 30 minutes on … Read More »

As IDC recently reported, business adoption of free, open-source software is rapidly on the rise. It’s also true that many open-source applications are being launched as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) appls, free to try online, where you often don’t need to download or install anything. Recently, on … Read More »

Thunderbird, Mozilla’s email client, is a favorite of many web workers because it’s free, open source and feels faster, lighter and more efficient than Microsoft Outlook. But did you know that, like Firefox, Thunderbird has a wide range of free add-ons available that can … Read More »

While many web workers use (and love) Macs, most of the rest of the world still uses Windows PCs. So what do you do if you need to connect to, or control, a client’s Windows machine? Microsoft offers its free Remote Desktop Connection Client, but … Read More »

It’s a great time to be a web worker. Almost every day, a new site, service or product comes on the scene that promises to make our work more efficient (or more fun). Some areas, like project management or image editing, are crowded with options. And … Read More »

Up until yesterday, one of the really annoying things about Gmail was that if you wanted to use it to send email from an address other than your Gmail address (a company email address, say), it would add your Gmail address into the Sender header in … Read More »

These days, there seems to be a new product aimed at managing projects every week. Just in the last month or so, WWD has reviewed MissingLink Project Center, Zen, Zoho Projects and EasyProjects.net. Joining this parade is WizeHive, which has just … Read More »

While my first impressions of the next version of Microsoft Office, Office 2010, were quite positive, I did have one major disappointment. Why didn’t Microsoft make Outlook 2010 more social? I was hoping that the venerable email application would gain support for social media. While email … Read More »

Like Simon, I use Google tools to manage just about everything I do. I keep most of my files saved as Google Docs. I use Google Calendar to schedule my time. I rely on Gmail to manage the several emails addresses I have. Having a … Read More »

If you’re like me, you’re probably skipping between various Google services all the time. If you use Firefox, and are looking for a simple, customizable and, above all, fast way to access Google web sites from either a drop-down menu or a toolbar, you should check … Read More »

Recently, I got access to the Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview. I spent some quality time over the past week going through the latest version of the suite and delving into all of its new features. In this post, I am going to concentrate on … Read More »

James over at our sister site jkOnTheRun has been trying the latest version of Skype (version 4.1 on Windows, 2.8 on Mac). This new version includes screen-sharing features that allow you to share your desktop with other Skype users. James tested it out while collaborating … Read More »

Recently, I wrote about WatchDox, the security application that allows you to secure and track the documents you send online. The company behind the app, Confidela, has just moved the app to a fee-based model (free accounts are no longer available). As of this … Read More »

In a great post from a couple of weeks ago, Charles wrote about some options for managing many online identities. As we branch out and use more and more services on the social web, sites like … Read More »

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my quest to organize my workflow, it is that everyone’s brain works differently. There are almost as many answers to the question “what task management tool do you like” as there are people, and we’ve reviewed a host … Read More »

If you own a BlackBerry and use Twitter as much as I do, you’re more than likely frustrated with the experience of using the Twitter web site via your phone’s browser. With more Twitter applications available for the device, do any succeed in turning the BlackBerry … Read More »

While some productivity and project management mavens may decry using Microsoft Outlook for managing projects, it’s often the one application that people keep open at all times on their Windows desktops. MissingLink Project Center from Moore Software Solutions is a lightweight add-in that makes project … Read More »

PortableApps has issued a new beta version of its Platform 2.0 release, downloadable here. If you’re unfamiliar with PortableApps, I covered it previously here. It’s a suite of pre-selected free, primarily open-source applications that you can stick on a USB flash drive. It’s especially … Read More »

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