With my current job I have to fly all over the USA doing consulting and presales work. Keeping track of my flights, hotels, and car bookings can sometimes be challenging.
I’ve been using a free web service called TripIT for some time now, and absolutely love it.
It’s a free service that organizes your itinerary for […]
Filed under: tools, internet | No Comments »
I personally use eFax for my inbound and outbound faxing, but I just came across a free inbound fax to email provider and I thought I should pass on the link.
The company is called FaxDigits.
Let me know if you like the service.
Filed under: tools, internet | No Comments »
Microsoft Office Groove is a one of the programs from the Office suite that not many people know about.
Groove is a useful application that allows you to create a workspace for collaborating with other team members.
The thing that differentiates Groove from other online project management solutions (which I’ll blog about in the near future), is […]
Filed under: tools | 1 Comment »
I’ve managed to find a freeware product that allows you to take an image backup of any partition (including the system partition) while the server is still live.
It’s capable of using a “volume lock” or “volume shadow copy services”. The latter will only interrupt server access for a matter of around 5 seconds or […]
Filed under: Windows Vista, Microsoft, tools, Windows Server 2003 | No Comments »
I just came across a promotion for AVG antivirus Pro, which normally sells for around $40, being offered for free.
You’ll need to get this quickly though, because this download is only being offered until Jan 17th, 2008.
If the link above is dead, then you may want to try this direct download link:
ftp://avg75:av75@ftp.vnudownloads.org/avg7_503a1171_vnu.exe
Filed under: tools | 2 Comments »
Microsoft has decided to quietly discontinue the Digital Imaging Suite product line, saying that all of the features can now be found in Windows Vista.
The Microsoft Digital Imaging Suite is an excellent set of tools for managing your digital photos. It has a photo library organizer and also a very powerful and […]
Filed under: Microsoft, Digital photography, tools | No Comments »
Joost is a very interesting new offering, where you get to watch free streaming TV over the web.
And it’s not some tiny little 300×300 pixel viewing box (similar to watching YouTube videos)….We’re talking about full screen video at a quality I’ve not seen before for streaming video.
You would be surprised at how many channels are […]
Filed under: tools | 1 Comment »
Here’s a large list of useful free MS Office 2007 software. You’ll find templates, add-ins, tools, training guides, extensions and many other goodies.
And here’s a large list of Windows Vista goodies, all of which are absolutely free.
Filed under: Windows Vista, Microsoft, tools | No Comments »
During the development phase of Office 2007, Microsoft approached many users and asked them what features they would like to see added to the various Office products.
It turns out that approximately 95% of the “new” features requested were already within Office 2003.
This meant that the majority of the features in Office 2003 were […]
Filed under: Microsoft, tools, Office | No Comments »
Today I stumbled up a large list of freeware programs (and some shareware), which seemed to be very useful.
There’s quite a few tools in there which I’ve used in the past, and wouldn’t have an issue recommending (eg MailWasher, Adaware, HijackThis, Spybot search and destroy, Avast, AVG, iTunes, WinAmp, Audacity, DVD Decrypter, WinRar, Winzip, CursorXP, […]
Filed under: tools | No Comments »