With so much free and “freemium” software available out there, it seems a waste to pay for features you don’t need. That’s why whenever I’m looking for a new application, the first place I stop is TechSupportAlert, also called Gizmo’s Freeware. Started more than a decade ago by a retired Australian IT manager, the site [...]
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PowerPoint bloat is a growing problem. As people copy and paste screen grabs and Web images into their presentations, file sizes can grow to 10MB or more. This makes them slow to download, particularly over a mobile connection, and vulnerable to blockage by some mail servers. There are several ways to reduce PowerPoint bloat without [...]
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A little-known but wonderful feature of Google Documents is its forms capability. You can build reasonably functional surveys and capture results in a spreadsheet. I’m finding value in this feature from both a professional development and marketing perspective. Whenever I present a speech or training class, I send a short form to the attendees asking [...]
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If you’ve ever tried to transcribe a Twitter chat or conversation thread around a particular keyword or hash tag, you know that converting the chain to chronological order can be a real hassle. Whether you copy and paste a thread from Twitter search or a chat-hosting service like Twebevent, the default presentation is reverse-chronological, with [...]
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We hear a lot of talk about social CRM, and here’s a tool that shows the concept in action. Nimble was created by Jon Ferrara, founder of the legendary GoldMine sales automation software. After selling the company and taking several years off, he is back with a CRM tool that makes social connections an essential [...]
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You might look at a page like this one or this one and think, “Wow, that must have been a lot of work!” But as my wife says, “Really not so much.” The hundreds of articles and links on those pages are actually generated automatically by the social bookmarking site Delicious using a feature called [...]
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