I make no bones about my love for Google’s online application suite, from Gmail to Docs, I love ‘em all. But yesterday, Gmail added a feature that really just stunned me and I cannot get enough of. It’s the “Create a document from this email message” option from Google Labs. It’s pretty simple - if [...]

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Today is the big day, when Microsoft pulls the plug on Foldershare, the awesome PC peer-2-peer file/folder syncing service they bought a year or so ago. it’s been prettified and re-branded as “Windows Live Sync”, and well, the launch has not gone well for me and my clients.
You see, with this new version, Microsoft has [...]

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Today as I was reading a new post about OpenOffice 3.0 over at Chief Home Officer, I remembered my very short-lived love affair with OO3, and its predecessors. For some reason, I just can’t seem to stick with OO, no matter how much they update it. I find myself trying it for a week or [...]

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Google Docs has been, at least for this Couchworker, a Godsend. It’s allowed for far better collaboration than just emailing documents back and forth could ever offer. Thing is, there are times when GDocs feels a littlethin in the offerings department in other ways — like missing a dektop app, or a quick way to [...]

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After reading “The Four Hour Work Week,” and hearing author Timothy Ferriss extol the virtues of a virtual assistant, I figured I’d give it a shot, after all, I’m game for an inexpensive way to offload the more monotonous aspects of my work, such as reporting on client coverage and handling mailings.
Let me tell you, [...]

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