Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier
If you are running a business, or even a website that regularly pays their writers, then you should check out the following tools that allow you to create and manage invoices online.
Having an online invoice not only gives you a backup of the invoices but also prompts the receiver of the payment as soon as the payment is made or so.
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At meetings, there are usually many speakers who have different agendas to cover. It is easy to get bored in meetings and lose track of some of the things that are said. While this is fine for regular meeting attendees, for people responsible for recording the meeting’s minutes, this is a major problem. They need to pay close attention to everything that is mentioned in the meeting. But this is not the most difficult part of recording meeting minutes; the hardest part is to sort the minutes into appropriate categories and send them to your bosses.
This latter part is what consumes the most time. Putting everything in the right format to be emailed with your superiors can consume a surprisingly large amount of time. But that time can be drastically reduced if you are using a web service called “MinuteIO”.
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Editing pictures can be difficult and time consuming many times, especially when you are a blogger. This is because when you take screenshots for any of your article and if they are large in size, the page load time will increase which can affect the reputation of your website.
There are many software, like Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, that can accomplish this task, but they may slow down your computer. These days, majority of people prefer to use online tools to perform these simple task rather then installing different softwares to edit images.
To solve this problem, we came across an excellent online tool called iPiccy.
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Sharing files over the internet has become very common in recent years. For smaller files (usually under 20MB) it is possible to simply attach it to an email, however larger files require special websites. In this article I have outlined 5 interesting file sharing services which offer something a little bit different.
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Gmail comes with the labs features where you can activate new (and useful) features to enhance your email experience. Other than the labs features, there are also several other third party Gmail web apps that you can use to improve your productivity. These web apps can help you to organize your inbox behind the scene so you can still maintain your sanity while clearing your emails. Some of them are so useful that make you wonder why Google didn’t include them in Gmail.
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Google recently launched the Chrome Web Store which stocks Chrome “webapps” as well as Chrome themes and extensions. These free and paid webapps allow you to extend the functionality of your Chrome browser by installing small third party programs within your browser. we have outlined the method of installing and uninstalling these webapps as well as making effective use of them. In this article, I will highlight some of my favourite webapps.
A number of the webapps in the Chrome web store are merely links to standard HTML websites, and these really aren’t worth installing. Instead, I have selected six of my favourite free webapps (so far) which use the latest and greatest browser technologies, such as HTML5, to provide specific functions in the Chrome browser.
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Web based apps are really useful because of the fact that they can be used from any computer without having to download or install anything. Since the launch of Google Chrome OS, we have seen a lot of cloud computing solutions come and go.
Services like Dropbox, iDriveSync offer a decent amount of online storage while Windows live skydrive aims to create an online hard drive with 25 GB of free online storage space.
But in reality, it’s more than the storage which you need for everyday computing jobs. If you are a heavyweight web worker, you need the following applications at your disposal:
The list depends from one user to another. Hence, getting all of these applications under one hood is really a challenge and Glide OS is one of the comprehensive solutions to a web based Operating system
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One of the advantages of using a Web based office suite is that it allows you to share the document with your friends/colleagues and get them to collaborate on the document. On the other hand, using Microsoft Office on your computer allows you to make use of the rich formatting/editing tool to improve your productivity. Wouldn’t it be great if you can get the best of both worlds, by editing your documents in Microsoft Office, and upload/publish/sync the edited version back to the web based office apps? In this article, we will see how this can be done with three popular online office suite – Google Docs, Zoho and Office Live.
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Many of us are on a quest for a great all-in-one tool do it all. We also know it is impossible to make such an application. So we try countless pairing of programs, gadgets and other productivity voodoo in the hope of finding the magic combination.
Really Useful Web Apps has put together a really great combination pack for bloggers. It packs together 5 different applications that every person making a living online needs. You can grow this offering with both free and paid add-on apps.
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Job hunting these days is a battle. With fewer jobs available in certain industries, one needs to be efficient, streamlined and spot on in their quest for employment. Below are some things I personally use or have used to keep abreast of possible opportunities. Even if you are happy in your current career or company, it is never bad to be prepared in case you find yourself in need of a job.
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