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Archive for the ‘Internet tips’ Category

April 29th, 2008

Disconnecting the Internet Might Make You More Productive

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I’ve mentioned in some previous posts that I live in a Third World country. This means that my area’s phone/internet cables can be stolen at night (presumably to be sold at junk shops) and I’ll be left disconnected from work.
Well, this happened last week.
Surprisingly, my productivity actually doubled. I was producing twice my […]

By Celine -- 1 comment

March 6th, 2008

How I Freed Myself from Mountains of Email Part 1

Image by Lusi, taken from stock.xchng

“One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There’s always more than you can cope with.” - Marshall McLuhan
Too much email can cause insanity. If you think information overload is restricted to your email server and client, […]

By Celine -- 11 comments

February 28th, 2008

The Corporate Worker’s Guide to Evaluating a Facebook Profile

When we think of “cleaning up” one’s social networking profile, we often restrict this to business sites like LinkedIn. However, nowadays, many experts are recommending that you also polish your Facebook profiles.
And why shouldn’t you? Odds are, potential employers and business contacts could be looking at it (see this article from CBS News […]

By Celine -- 3 comments

September 19th, 2007

I’ve talked about ThinkFree: Now You Can Try It For Yourself

I’ve talked about ThinkFree before, and since then have been using it pretty much exclusively over MS Office.  It rocks.  It’s light, responsive, and really has only the things you need to get the job done.
I’ve been using ThinkFree Premium as an online office organizer, I put all the docs related to a project in […]

By Tris Hussey -- 4 comments

August 23rd, 2007

Zoho Moves Offline, But Was It the Right Move?

This week online office suite company Zoho announced that they have used Google’s Gears technology and API to give Writer some offline capabilities:
Zoho announced early this morning that they’ve taken the first steps toward making Zoho Writer available as an offline app using the Google Gears tool. Initially the docs saved offline will be read […]

By Tris Hussey -- 6 comments

July 16th, 2007

Online storage has come a long way, worth another look

Sometimes you just need to stash a file somewhere.  Somewhere online, where you can get to it on another computer, or share, or back it up.  Lots of reasons.  Storage costs have dropped so much that online storage solutions have been getting better and cheaper.  That and our Net connections faster and faster.  I have […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

July 9th, 2007

Make some cool buttons to jazz up your presentations and websites

 There is nothing like nice graphics to make a presentation or website pop.  Sometimes, however, making those graphics is a real challenge.  When I wanted spiffy glassy or 3D buttons I would open Photoshop and start with one of my many plugins and tricks I had learned.  That was then, this is now.  Now I […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

July 4th, 2007

Use Instacalc to crunch numbers before Excel even loads

We all know that Excel is a number crunching power-house.  I know that I couldn’t live without some kind of spreadsheet application.  Sometimes, however, you just need to crunch some numbers.  Usually I just fire up the Calculator app (my keyboard even has a quick launch button for it), but what if you need to […]

By Tris Hussey -- 1 comment

July 3rd, 2007

Zoho comes to Facebook…Facebook ready for business

Just last week the question of whether Facebook could be used as a collaboration tool on the cheap.  Now Zoho has announced that it released a Facebook application to connect to its online office suite:
Also included in the release is a central control panel where users can manage all of their private and shared documents […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

July 3rd, 2007

Using a personalized homepage as an information hub: 14 options for you

Remember Web 1.0?  All the battles to get you to make one site or another your start/homepage for when you started your browser?  The major players of the time were all fighting to get your eyeballs on their ads.  Tons of time and money was spent trying to add features and tools to draw you […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

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