Life & Tech

Have been trying out different online storage services - my favorite by far is Sugarsync. The desktop software is very intuitive. If you have more than one PC/laptop, you will appreciate the ability to sync multiple computers as well as online off-site storage. It’s not free but well worth it. Highly recommended.

Instead of viewing the PDF files on your PC or Mac using Adobe Acrobat (which can be very slow), view it online using PdfMeNot. It even allows you to embed a pdf page on your website.

Benefits of LinkedIn:
1. Connect or re-connect with business colleagues or friends.
2. Staying informed: when your colleagues changed positions, you can see what they are doing.
3. Stay in touch: as your colleges changed jobs and/or their email addresses, you will always have an up-to-date contacts.

Three Quick Start Steps:
1. Get an account at http://www.linkedin.com & create a simple profile of where you have worked (and school).
2. Search for a few colleagues who are already in LinkedIn, when you find someone you would like to connect to, click “Add… to your network”
3. Once you have a few people to your network, check their connections to find other common colleagues.

If you are a regular Gmail users (on Firefox), then Remember The Milk + Gmail Firefox Extension (task management) is really slick. It integrates task/to do seamlessly with Gmail. Read the blog for more detail.

The new Google iPhone optimized page — three particularly great services: Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Reader. Of course now that Gmail supports IMAP, it’s a very sweet set up on iPhone.

Jott has been expanding it’s functionality with integration to other online services (via Jott’s Links). Three outstanding must have services:
1. Google Calendar: Call Jott and it will place your appointment into your Google Calendar
2. Xpenser.com tracks your expenses, again call Jott and it will add your expense to Xpenser
3. Jott to Twitter/Jaiku (and other blogging platforms: Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress, TypePad)

reQall helps you remember stuff (to do, tasks). For example, when you are driving and need to jot down a note or task, use reQall to help taking down the note. All you have to do is call: 1-888-973-7255 and dictate your text (you have up to 60 seconds).
It uses transcription services to convert voice to text (similar to Jott.com), however, reQall and iPhone UI work together really well. (http://www.reqall.com/web/). Jott can do more in term of converting your voice into emails that can be sent to other, but I found that reQall.com on iPhone is a killer app for me. It’s a free service.

Grandcentral.com lets you select and give out one number that will ring to your mobile, home, and even Gizmo SIP. Plus you can screen your call (listen while the caller left voicemail), and even record the call impromptu. Check messages via email and web. Clean interface and easy to use. Free right now while in beta.

There are several sites on-line for photo sharing (www.flckr.com, www.yahoo.com, etc.) But for a quick set up, www.bubbleshare.com is probably one of the easiest to set up. You don’t even have to create an account.
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Now you can pay via your mobile phone. This is a similar service to Textpayme. Use it for paying your share of dinner, movie, collecting fees, send money to family, etc. This is great when you don’t have any cash with you.

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Yahoo! Voice - Internet Phone Calls and Numbers:

• Phone Out: For pc-to-phone calling 2¢ or less per minute, call anywhere in the U.S.
• Phone In: For phone-to-pc, it’s about $29/year (a little cheaper than Skype)

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finance.google.com

A strong competitor to Yahoo Finance. The page is well-designed with relevant information. The daily stock chart has a notation indicating ‘event’ that was happening during the day (i.e. how it may impact the rise and fall of the stock price). You can drag on the chart to go forward/backward.

“Web 2.0″ is the new buzz word on the Net, actually it’s getting such an over-exposure that a lot of tech people are now shying away from it. But it does show the new innovation on the web. The grand-dad of all Google Maps and Web 2.0 Email: Google Mail. There are at least several hundreds good Web 2.0 apps.
Here are the top 10 Web 2.0 samplers (note that many are still in ‘beta’). They are not ‘perfect’ but you can see the strong potential. One strength for these apps, most of them are designed to allow easy sharing and collaboration. Also, most of these give you free starter account.

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