480+ Open Source Applications

March 10, 2009 4 comments

Article by Daksh Sharma
Source : Mashable

Accounting

Adaptive Planning Express – An open source solution enabling medium sized companies to automate budgeting and forecasting by moving beyond traditional applications like Excel.
Buddi – A simple budgeting program for users with no financial background.
CheckItOut – A Ruby on Rails application to manage personal money accounts.
FrontAccounting – A professional web-based [...]

8 Tips for Surviving PC Failure

March 9, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Craig Buckler
Source : SitePoint
Losing a computer can be traumatic. We store our lives on them: contact details, financial accounts, family photographs, music collections, videos and more. Here are 8 tips that could help you survive a PC meltdown…
1. BACK UP
If you have never backed up your data, stop everything and do it now! [...]

5 Best E-mail Practices

March 5, 2009 No comments yet

Source : DelliBlog
Make Registration Easy
Place as few barriers to entry as possible during the registration. Many companies still require users to sign up for a full account before allowing them to opt in to e-mail lists. Smart companies require only an e-mail address. Place contextually relevant sign-up boxes throughout your site.
Let’s say you are a [...]

How Google Translation And Gmail help people Communicate

March 5, 2009 No comments yet

Article by T.V. Raman
Source : GoogleBlog
Language barriers can be a primary source of accessibility problems on the web, and automatic translation, though not perfect, provides a useful solution.
We recently made our machine translation technology accessible from within Gmail and Google Talk, which gives mail and IM users instant access to translation capabilities at the point [...]

10 Tools to Get the Most Out of GTalk

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Palin Ningthoujam
Source : Mashable

For those of us who are active Google Talk (GTalk) users, sometimes chatting is not enough. Luckily, there are tools to make your GTalk experience more interesting like VOIP, translations, and more. Here are 10 third party tools and special features that will help you get the most out of [...]

5 Great Instant Messenger Aggregators Across Multiple Platforms

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Hillel Fuld
Source : Mashable
Since the proliferation of the Internet, instant messaging (IMing from here on in) has become a very popular means of communicating on the Web. Even with the rapid growth of Twitter, many people still communicate using IM. Now, there is no shortage of IM protocols out there; these [...]

Top 10 Free Tools for Monitoring Your Brand’s Reputation

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Dan Schawbel
Source : Mashable
Brand monitoring has become an essential task for any individual or corporation. Years ago, when people talked about our brands, it was behind our backs and we almost never found out about it. Today, most of these dialogues are right in front of our own eyes and the number of [...]

25+ Tools For Accounting and Budgeting

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Sean P.Aune
Source: Mashable
There are a growing number of online services dedicated to helping users manage their finances. There are many benefits to using these accounting applications, they can simplify the process as well as help you find ways to save money. Here are 25+ tools for accounting and budgeting both personal and [...]

7 Coolest Web Apps

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Stan Schroeder
Source : Mashable
Mixaloo -Perhaps in the future mix tapes will be nothing but a forgotten relic, their very concept devoured by the internet and its easy access to everything. But right now, mix tapes are retro in an undeniably cool way, and Mixaloo comes as near to the concept of a mix [...]

Get your Browser Page Personalized : 14 Great Apps

March 2, 2009 3 comments

Article by James Mowery
Source : Mashable
Netvibes

Netvibes is without question the one to beat. Its customization is practically unrivaled. Not only that, Netvibes also provides social functionality by sharing modules with others. Netvibes, all in itself, could be your one stop solution to finding all your information on the internet.
Pageflakes

Pageflakes must be considered the main competition [...]

Great Instant Messenger Startups

March 2, 2009 No comments yet

Article by Stan Schroeder
Source : Mashable

Meebo & Meebo Rooms

Meebo is a very popular web based IM client, and with its latest release, Meebo Rooms, it’s destined to become even bigger. It’s a completely web based chat space with embedded video and plenty of options, including bold and italic fonts and different typefaces. Most importantly, just [...]

8 Most Notable Redesigns of 2008

March 2, 2009 Comments Off

Article by Stan Schroeder
Source : Mashable
2008 was definitely the year that social was brought into the mainstream. Nearly all big social networking sites have redesigned to accommodate their quickly growing audiences, while the big portals have incorporated many social features into their front pages.
It’s still too early to say whether many of these are good [...]