Posts Tagged 'Tools'

http://lifehacker.com/5525758/top-10-things-you-didnt-know-google-maps-could-do

Xobni is an Outlook plugin.  Xobni provides several enhancement to Outlook including enhanced searching, threaded conversations and links to social networks.  As a general rule we do not encourage our clients to load extra plugins or add-ons to Outlook, because they often create conflicts and issues, but we have several heavy email reliant clients who are using Xobni, so we decided to give it a try ourselves.

One of the features we really like a lot in our office is Xobni’s ...

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www.pingtest.net goes beyond measuring the speed of your Internet connection. It measures the quality of your internet connection.

Piriform (www.piriform.com) publishes four handy utilities for windows computers:

• CCleaner – Cleaning & Optimization
• Defraggler – Disk Defragmenter
• Recuva – File Recovery
• Speccy – System Profiler

Each utility is easy to use, fast and free.

Paint.NET is a free (windows-only) photo editor. It is not a full featured as Photoshop, but will also not set you back $700.

http://www.getpaint.net/download.html

This is not for the faint of heart, but the pay off is worth it.

http://lifehacker.com/5397023/enable-tethering-on-your-iphone-3g-or-3gs-running-312

The Economist business travel blog has a link to Time Magazine’s top 25 travel gadgets of the year. Enjoy!

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2009/11/travel_gadgets_of_the_year.cfm

Several months ago Google released a new browser. We have been using and testing Chrome at SmartTSG since the release and here are five of the reason we like it:

• Fast — Chrome is fast. The developers at Google built Chrome to compile JavaScript code on the fly. JavaScript is used on many website to validate forms, create dynamic content and in general create a richer experience. In all other browsers JavaScript is interpreted which is slow. Chrome compiles JavaScript into ...
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Mozilla Firefox is a great browser (although we are big fans of Google Chrome). One of the great features of Firefox is the ability to extend the functionality with browser add-ons. Here are some of the add-ons we use and recommend:

• Add-Art (http://add-art.org) – Replaces advertising on the web with curated art images. Not only does Add-Art speed up your web browsing experience it also improves the aesthetics.
• Xmarks (http://www.xmarks.com) – Bookmark synchronization. Xmarks synchronizes your bookmarks on multiple computers.
• Greasemonkey (http://www.greasespot.net/) – ...
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