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ESLAssistant: Correct Grammatical Errors In Your English

]]> ESL Assistant is a new web service by Microsoft Research team to help people correct grammatical errors in their English writing. It is particularly useful for those whose native language isn’t English (ESL – English as Second Language). Just type in or copy paste the text into their box and hit check to find out the errors. It also searches Bing to check examples of English usage.

correct grammatical errors

And if you use Outlook as your email tool then you could download and use their Outlook add-in to check your emails for any errors in English.

Features:

  • Correct grammatical errors in your English writing.
  • Web based, easy to use and does not require registration.
  • Search Bing from the page to find usage examples on the web.
  • Outlook add-in available for Outlook users.
  • Similar tools: AfterTheDeadline, Spellify, Orangoo, Spellist, WebSourceIt and SpellJax.

Check out ESLAssistant @ www.eslassistant.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)



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Gist: Intelligent Contact Management Tool

]]> Gist is a brilliant web based email and social network contacts manager which entered into public beta recently. In fact, it could be better called a relationship manager. After you sign up for their web based service and provide them your email and social accounts (like Twitter, LinkedIn etc) information, it checks your contacts and creates a dashboard where you can see comprehensive details about each of them.

It can tell you who are your most important contacts, their web presence, the tweets, blogs and articles mentioning them and much more.

intelligent contact management

It also offers an Outlook plugin which can neatly integrate with your Outlook mail. Plus it can leverage your Salesforce contacts too.

contacts manager online

This web based service could certainly prove to be an useful one for people and businesses who want to prioritize their email by contacts and network with them in a better way.

To see Gist in action watch video below:

Check out Gist @ www.gist.com (via ReadWriteWeb) (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)



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ShortcutWorld: Keyboard Shortcut List For Essential Apps

]]> If you are someone who works at the computer for long hours, you would agree that using your mouse as less as possible is one of the most productive ways to work on the computer. Keyboard shortcuts are always great but the problem is different applications have different keyboard shortcuts and hence we find it difficult to remember. ShortcutWorld is a site which aims to address that problem by providing a keyboard shortcut lists for some of the most important tools we use everyday.

keyboard shortcut list

Currently, it provides keyboard shortcut lists for the following apps.

  • Firefox
  • Winamp
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Powerpoint
  • Google Chrome
  • Photoshop
  • Windows XP
  • Fireworks
  • Outlook 2007

Certainly, a site worth bookmarking. You might also want to check KeyXL which is another similar tool profiled earlier. Or better go and download some MakeUseOf Cheat sheets.

Check out Shortcutworld @ www.shortcutworld.com (By Abhijeet from Appscrazy)



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YouSendIt Outlook: Send Emails with Large Attachments from Outlook

]]> Large file transfer site YouSendIt has released an excellent plugin for Microsoft Outlook. With this plugin you’re able to send large files to any email address directly from Outlook. Simply attach the file as you normally do and let the plugin do the heavy lifiting. One really neat feature is the ability to configure the plugin to use YouSendIt for files larger than a pre-selected size.

send large files through email

Features:

  • Send large files (videos etc.) directly from Outlook. No need to launch external program.
  • Avoid serer slow downs and email bounce-backs.
  • Send files to multiple recipients.
  • Auto resumes file upload in case your PC was shut down.
  • Set it to automatically use YouSendIt when the attached files are bigger than certain size.
  • You must be a registered user to be able to use YouSendIt Outlook plugin.
  • For more details check out Outlook plugin FAQ section.
  • Free account is limited to 100 downloads per file and lets you send files upto 100 MB in size

Download YouSendIt Outlook plugin @ www.yousendit.com/cms/plugin-outlook



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