Bookmarking can be a messy business. It shouldn't be but it is. I don't know anyone who has actually organized all their bookmarked web pages the way it should be done. Grazely is a free bookmarking and organize tool where you can display, store and discover new sites and links. Then you can even share your bookmarks and links with your friends. Read more
There’s nothing wrong with introducing a bit of competition to the workplace and if it helps productivity as well as perhaps capturing some billable hours that might otherwise have slipped through the net all the better. Read more
I can't believe how many times I've read stories about bad billing by businesses. So many businesses have disappeared off the face of the earth because they don't seem to be able to deliver an itemized and correct bill for the services used. Then there are the seemingly dodgy practices that some law firms use where they estimate a price for a specific service like photocopying at the scandalous price of ten bucks a page and hope it gets lost in the overall invoice for 'services provided.' Someone should recommend cloc.kr to these companies right now. cloc.kr is a productivity ... Read more
If you run a business with multiple locations and have to organize the shifts of a considerable labor force then getting all of those ducks in a line is no easy task. NimbleSchedule has features to cover all of the headaches usually associated with making sure people are in the right location and that shifts are covered with contingencies in place. A task which when carried out manually can take hours of valuable management time. Read more
Erbix.com provides a suite of apps aimed at small businesses allowing them to organize all activities, collaborate on projects, produce web forms and keep on top of customer relationships. There are apparently a number of apps in the Erbix bag and the main ones are covered here. Read more
Pistashio is like having a notebook at your fingertips when you don't have a pencil. This bookmarking share tool is a fast and efficient way of saving all those things that you want to remember. Whether it's the website of that South Of The Border truckstop in South Carolina that you HAVE to visit or maybe the name of that band that you just read an article about. Then you can share them with your friends. You can use Pistashio to store and save all those important things you find online that you usually just bookmark and forget all ... Read more
I've lost count of the number of concert tickets I've missed out on because I've put the email or newsletter with its details in my "I'll deal with that later." That basically means my 'keep' box in my email or on top of that big pile of papers on my desk. Tentative.ly is a bookmarking email event alert tool that installs a designated bookmarklet (I love that word) and you can start adding events to your list from your favorite sites straight away. The way we go to events has changed dramatically these days. In the past it was ... Read more
No it's not the latest soccer app from England. That would be called 101 great dives. 101 Smart Goals is a free online motivational goal setting tool that's heaps of fun as well as being a virtual diary of tasks to set yourself. The attractive interface is easy to use and navigate and encourages you to improve your lot in this big wide world of ours. Read more
Pleeq is the simplest of bookmarking photo share tools. There's nothing flashy or pretentious about it. It's just a place to save your favorite images from the internet in one place and then share it with friends and other users. Read more
FollowUp.cc is a really good concept for what is essentially a straightforward reminder service. The beauty of this app is that it effortlessly blends into existing technology that we all know and use day in and day out - the humble email. Therefore it is wonderfully simple to use, even for non-techno minded folk. Basically you copy the FollowUp people into any emails by using their email address and designating a time you want to be reminded about that email - for example 5hrs@followup.cc. Once you've familiarized yourself with the basic concept it's really easy to adopt their system into ... Read more