March 7, 2010
If your project needs to have the cooperation of two or more people, here is your free solution. For personal project/task management, I recommend you have a look at GTD and the many applications that support implementing the GTD methodology. Google Apps Standard Edition is free and includes Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google [...]
November 7, 2009
We all know some of the well known URL-shortening services such as TinyURL or Twitter’s own Bit.ly. MakeUseOf has also profiled many other URL shorteners in the past. But one of the drawbacks of using one of those URL-shortening services is that the links you’re firing out by email, blog post or Twitter stream to [...]
July 14, 2009
You would think that Microsoft Office and Google Docs working together is pretty much an impossiblity. After all, the two of them are fierce rivals and the thought of the two company’s products working seamlessly together is laughable. Well not anymore, thanks to Offisync which allows you to use, update and synchronize your Google Docs [...]
July 12, 2009
Google Updater is probably the only application from Google that does not have a face and is also not in your face. Because it runs periodically in the background. Google Updater is a part of the Google Pack (Google’s own apps and a few third party tools like Firefox, Norton Security Scan etc.). Google Updater [...]
July 4, 2009
The other week I moved my email service over from Yahoo Webhosting to Google Apps. I finally managed to stop the procrastinating after a year of dithering about and just did it – and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to set up. This was one of the reasons why I procrastinated [...]
April 3, 2009
The march of the Google juggernaut continues. Google might falter, it might stumble once in a while, but in its wake they do give us some novel services to play around with. Google Health still has a beta tag after having being launched in the early part of 2008. Those who are still unfamiliar with [...]
September 6, 2008
Do you use Gmail or Google Apps for your email? If so, you might want to check out the Windows program iContact. iContact gives you desktop access to all your Gmail/Google Apps contacts. Why do you need to use this? Well if you need to use contacts in more than one program or service (like [...]
