February 13, 2013
If you're an iPhone user who regularly attends conferences and social networks in which you collect business cards, or the names and email addresses of people you meet, you definitely should check out the newly revised and updated free Evernote Hello 2.0. Evernote Hello made it to the list of my top 10 favorite apps of last year. But its 2.0 update deserves a full review for the useful features it now includes.
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January 30, 2013
Google Plus Circles allow you to organize your contacts and the people you follow into groups.This article provides some ideas on how you could organize your Circles. Keep in mind that neither people you are following, nor people who have you in their Circles, can see what Circle/s you add them to or even that you add them to more than one Circle. So do experiment with Circles!
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January 13, 2013
Google is giving Contacts a makeover. Google Voice Contacts is being integrated into Contacts for a more seamless user experience. Very soon you will be able to use Google Contacts alone to place calls and send voice SMS. The thought behind the new layout appears to be an attempt at unification of the multiple points for managing your Google Contacts.
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October 6, 2012
Have you ever received an email and wondered if it was legitimate or not? Or maybe you have corresponded with someone and were curious to know more about them. Of course you could ask, but it might come across awkward or simply off-topic to what is being discussed. Plus, do you really want to ask each person you encounter online through email what their social accounts are, what they do, where they’re from and so on? Likely not.
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September 29, 2012
A good number of users highly value the services provided by Google, including emails, calendars, tasks, documents, and so much more. But Linux users also love their desktop applications, and how they often integrate very nicely with the desktop. So what can people do who use Linux but love Google's products? Thankfully, there are a good number of Linux applications which can connect very well to both Google's products as well as your Linux desktop.
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May 14, 2012
The contacts synchronization feature on my smartphone prompted me to get my contacts in order. I was rewarded for this effort a few months later when that same cellphone started breaking down, and decided to do away with all of my data — emails, contacts, applications — the whole lot of it. Restoring it all from the cloud took a measly five minutes. And yet I've never been able to get my contacts sorted out on my Mac. I guess I don't like Address Book.
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April 16, 2012
Using Google Forms, you can collect names, emails, and other contact information on your computer or mobile device that supports mobile browsing. All the data is saved to a spread sheet which can be used for various purposes.
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March 21, 2012
In my entire life, I think I can honestly say that the single most annoying task (and the one I am worst at), is maintaining an updated list of the addresses, phone numbers and birthdays of all of my friends, family and colleagues. Lately I've been looking for an alternative to using a computer application or a mobile app to maintain a contact database. I believe I found the perfect solution.
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March 8, 2012
Many of you will already know all about Apple’s iCloud, its wonderful sync features and the fact that it allows you to find your iDevice and access mail, your calendar and even documents from any standard web browser. Then again I regularly encounter iPad and iPhone owners who have yet to update their devices to take advantage of the many new features.
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December 21, 2011
One advantage of the Internet is that you can build relationships with a wide range of people from various demographics that you may never physically meet. Social network sites like Twitter and Facebook are worldwide Internet forums in which we can get news and information in a short amount of time. Now another community-based site called Favo.rs has come out of Beta release.
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December 16, 2011
For many of us savvy computer users, Evernote is among the top 10 essential apps for our computer and mobile devices. And it is also its design appeal that makes Evernote's two recently released iPhone and iPod touch apps, Hello and Food, worthy of a download.
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October 25, 2011
Do you have a central contacts list? It's pretty difficult to nowadays. In my case, it's a near impossibility. I've simply changed services too many times, failing to copy all of my contacts over each time I move. You know what we could all use? A consolidation tool. Something that will connect with all of my old services and pull all of my contacts.
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October 18, 2011
There are a lot of web-based business card apps out there, sure, but I can't seem to stick with any of them, and a lot of the phone apps require that the other user have the same app as me, which is rarely the case. Also, a problem with business cards in general is that the information on them becomes outdated over time. In this article, I'm going to show you my new favorite business card app.
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September 27, 2011
Google announced a new feature yesterday for Google+ called circle sharing. You can now share whole circles with your friends, and thus introduce or suggest people to them easily. This is especially useful for professional circles. If you want, for example, to share all your professional contacts with your colleagues, you can now do it in two clicks.
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September 15, 2011
One of the most frequently used apps on many Android smartphones is the dialer, which is often only so-so. The dialer on my HTC Thunderbolt, for example, has always felt a slow and clunky, and doesn’t allow for customization. As with any other function on an Android phone, these shortcomings can be addressed with third-party [...]
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