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Most of us who use smartphones eventually start to like using text messaging. Once you get the hang of it and realize that you can reduce a potential thirty-minute chitchat to a mere sentence or two, then you begin to appreciate text messaging as an alternative to phone calling. But there are times when you want to send a message but not write it. That's where TalkBox comes in. It allows you to send voice messages using your iPhone or Android.
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If you’re fortunate enough to have more than one person in your sales team, then you may experience uncoordinated sales reps, each talking to the same customer about different things. This is a what a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system is for, and insight.ly is one such CRM, with an attractive free plan and a strong focus on Google services.
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Gmail is where I spend a lot of time during a given day. Whether I'm answering a fresh round of emails or searching through a pile of old ones to find important information I had either forgotten or misplaced. One thing I never find myself doing however, is adding contacts to my address book. Where would I even find the kind of information that goes along with my contacts' names and email addresses?
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How close are you with the people you have listed under Contacts on your phone? My guess is pretty close, seeing as you take them with you everywhere you go. If this is the case, I would also bet that you reach some of these people in multiple ways, like Twitter perhaps, or Facebook. Twezr [...]
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The Gmail team has clearly been hard at work with two new features released within hours of each other this week. When you thought the already feature-rich Gmail couldn’t get any better, they’ve added two new services, each aiming to make life just a little bit easier for you. The latest additions are the ability to [...]
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Open an email and instantly see background information about the person who wrote it. That’s the idea behind Rapportive, a Gmail plugin that automatically looks up their professional and social networking links and adds it to Gmail’s sidebar. Best of all: you can leave custom notes about a person for future reference, perfect if you’re [...]
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If there is anything that I always forget to do, it’s maintain my contact list. For years, I tried to keep a current list, but my family or friends would move, their address and phone numbers would change – and inevitably my entire mobile address book would be completely outdated. There has never been a [...]
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Google Contacts expand far beyond their use in Gmail. They return in Google Docs and can even be synchronized with an Android handset. When you first start using it though, your contact list will be unorganized and mighty confusing, with missing, superfluous and duplicate contacts. If you want a tidy address book, be it in Gmail or [...]
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To some people, the most important data are contacts, calendars and events. This kind of data should be recorded the moment you encounter them, in your trusted devices, or they will be gone for sure. It’s been proven over and over again that a normal human just can’t rely on their brain cells to store [...]
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Keeping track of how things are going, whom to contact, who your friends are, not forgetting important dates, all of this is part of modern life. Naturally managing such personal information is critical and having a helping hand doesn’t hurt. Personal Information Managers or PIMs (as they are frequently known as) help you manage everything [...]
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Let’s face it, Windows Mobile is losing control of the mobile market. More and more people find themselves with an Android or iPhone. Most problematic in this big telephone switch, is having to move contacts from Windows Mobile to Android. Calendars expire and pictures can be copied, but contacts often hide away in a very [...]
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Last time I wrote an article on some cool tips and tricks in Windows Live Messenger such as how to remove ads, or view who has blocked or deleted you as a contact. This time, I am going to explore the magical features that Messenger Plus! Live brings to WLM. Messenger Plus! Live is basically [...]
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Windows Live Messenger, formally known has MSN Messenger (provided by Microsoft), has to be one of my favourite messaging clients. I am on it almost 24/7 and there are a few nifty features that make the experience a whole lot better. This will be a two part post with the first part covering cool Windows [...]
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Do you hate using Microsoft products? Do you instead want to use a free, lightweight, easy to use calendar and contact management application? Well I needed something very lightweight for a project I was working on. My requirements were to use a small amount of memory, be cross-platform, we needed a calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes. [...]
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Gist takes elements of MS Outlook and LinkedIn, adds a dollop of social networking, and brings you a new business networking techniques to manage your contacts and control information overload. It is a cool new “Relationship Manager” that recently launched publicly in beta. Gist is not for casual users, rather, it’s a one-of-its-kind service for [...]
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