Ford Tests Improve Gas Mileage 24% with EcoDriving (2)
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Recently, Ford and a group called Pro Formance decided to take on ecodriving in the form of a 4-day long seminar with 48 different drivers taking part. Using the ecodriving tups taught by Pro Formance, the participants increased their fuel economy between 6-50%, with and average increase of 24%.
JetPhoto - Photo Management App with Tons of Great Features (8)
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Even though I’m not much of a photo person, I do manage my photos. Mostly just collecting-grouping-tagging-retouching (using iPhoto), and resizing (using now not free anymore ImageWell) to be able to easily send to my friend or use the image for my blog. I also have a Flickr account but there was only 3 photos inside it. The reason: I personally thought that online photo management process was too troublesome for the happy-go-lucky-shoot-everything amateur photographer ...
Get remote file access, management on your iPhone with Sugarsync (3)
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Sugarsync, a pricey but excellent file-syncing and backup solution has a new iPhone application that's downright cool. It gives you access to all the files stored on computers linked up to your Sugarsync account. Better yet, it provides instant--and I do mean instant--updates when a file has been touched by you or another user by utilizing some spiffy push technology. I got a demo of it in action a few weeks back, and it's one ...
Save Time and Typing with Outlook 2007's Quick Parts [Step By Step] (32)
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Outlook users, if you find yourself entering the same things into email messages, you should take a look at the Quick Parts feature, which saves snippets of both text and images for easy reuse. While Gina briefly mentioned this feature in her guide to Tweaking Outlook to empty your inbox faster, let's take a closer look at how to use it. Open up a new email and create the "Quick Part" that you want to ...
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CYMR0 said:
add for catch all etc
SEC To Recognize Corporate Blogs as Public Disclosure. Can We Now Kill the Press Release? (62)
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For several years, Sun CEO, Jonathan Schwartz has lobbied the SEC to allow disclosure of financial information through corporate blogs. In a landmark announcement, it seems that Mr. Schwartz may indeed get his wish, and with it, a historical decision that could break the age-old shackles that bound businesses to traditional media and distribution channels in order to satisfy full disclosure. In a speech yesterday, SEC special counsel Kim McManus outlined new guidance the SEC ...
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Fred said:
PR, Transparency and social media: the new convergence
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Devlin D said:
Wow this is great news for all parties involved! Just goes to show how the web and social media are definitely becoming a truly accepted method of communication.
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Jay said:
This would augment more independence in the declarations and also provide more personal insights into disclosures. Really to say what they want to say.
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inna said:
brad this one's for you
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D&G said:
This should at least change the way corporations handle employee blogging. stricter regulations around this?
Groceries (1)
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Category: Productivity Released: Jul 28, 2008 Price: $2.99 Description:Groceries allows you to easily maintain a grocery list on iPhone. List Items can be checked off, grouped by store, or section, sorted, or manually ordered. This lets you maximize the screen real estate on iPhone for the task at hand. It also prevents you from reaching one side of the store only to remember that you forgot an item on the other side of the store. ...
DestroyFlickr: An Amazing Flickr AIR App (12)
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We’ve covered lots of neat Adobe AIR applications here before, but I found a new one lately that just blew my socks off. This new Adobe AIR application is sure to excite the photo lover in anyone! DestroyFlickr is a new application that was built for beauty and functionality. DestroyFlickr does its magic by giving you a whole new way of exploring Flickr images. The user interface is absolutely beautiful, with its dark neutral backgrounds, ...
OpenDNS Makes $20k/day Filtering Phishing And Porn Sites (100)
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OpenDNS, a San Francisco based startup founded by Minor Ventures and David Ulevitch, first launched in mid-2006 as a free tool to speed up web surfing and protect users from phishing and other malware sites. OpenDNS isn’t exactly a sexy service. Users have to do some basic configuration of their computer to get it going, and once it’s running they rarely see it again. Here’s when you do see it - when you type in ...
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That Kid from Omaha said:
It's also useful if you want to monitor your own traffic via their Dashboard. Also offers user-configurable Search shortcuts. Very nice product.
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Richard said:
This one goes firmly in the "why the hell didn't *I* think of that?" category.
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Boris said:
they are making pure money on a simple and easy to use product. BALLIN
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Alex said:
now that's smart
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John Pederson said:
"Cloud filtering."
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jayman16 said:
OpenDNS FTW.
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Matt said:
Went to school with DU - great dude.
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Bruce said:
If I were a parent, I'd be setting my router to use openDNS. It's a neat system.
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The Mason Technologist said:
I heard about OpenDNS at my last AAAA IT committee meeting. Worth checking out!
Another Free Push Calendar and Contacts Source for Your iPhone [How To] (28)
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We've shown you how to set up free push email, contacts, and calendars on your iPhone, but for those who aren't using Gmail, or who only want live calendar and contact syncing, one intrepid blogger has found a free, low-key service dubbed NuevaSync that acts as a free Exchange server for just those two services (for now). Hit the link below for detailed instructions on setting up NuevaSync inside your iPhone, as well as Windows ...
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Sacha said:
so I just set this up on my iPhone (for Calendar push). it works ok, but all my Google calendars are blended together (birthdays, my work cal, my personal cal). on the whole it is a nice, free solution for push, Apple really needs to build Mobile Me out. or alternatively, Google needs to introduce support for push from all of their apps to mobile devices. (I think the latter is more likely to happen around the release of Android...)
Social software that power Intranet 2.0 (3)
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“Looking for greater flexibility and support for more ad hoc processes, employees have responded with a more bottom-up approach, in some cases circumventing official information systems,” say CMS Watch Founder Tony Byrne and contributing analyst Jarod Gingras, the principal authors of The Enterprise Social Software Report 2008. CMS Watch's social media vendors matrix. In other words, if your organization hasn’t embraced and standardized social software, your employees will begin installing it and using it without ...
TuneUp is an iTunes plugin that fingerprints your songs and corrects their names and titles, and fetches album art (30)
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TuneUp, the iTunes plugin that uses digital fingerprinting to help clean up your iTunes library, has launched to the public. The plugin is currently available to Windows users, with a Mac version expected this fall (annoying, by the site’s own admission). You can download it here. Users can get a free version of the software that limits them to 500 song tag cleanups and 50 album cover lookups (suitable for only the smallest music libraries), ...
14 Web Apps for Your Portable Office (4)
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Shared 19 times Tagged Business (783) Communication (187) Featured (870) office (89) organization (112) Technology (1695) Webapps (161) Last week we talked about setting up your flash drive so that you had a “portable office” of sorts wherever you go. This week we’ll take it a step further and look at the web apps you can use: all you’ll need to ensure is that the computer you’re “borrowing” has a good browser installed. In recent ...
Get Productive with Social Media (and Stay Sane) [Social Media] (16)
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Editor: We asked self-described social media junkie Steve Rubel for his tips on how to participate in online social sites like Twitter and FriendFeed without losing your entire workday. Here's what he said. Social media is the equivalent of digital food. It's nourishing, tasty and, for many of us, necessary. However, consume too much and you can get sidetracked and create larger consequences. The good news is you can participate in social media in a ...
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Mark said:
Good advice. I think I am ending up in the dabbler/dilettante category of social media user.
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Nils said:
Have we met? It's like he knows me.
Did the “Enron of Norway” Pull a Fast One On Microsoft? More Details About the Mess at Fast Search & Transfer (5)
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Even back in January when Microsoft agreed to pay $1.2 billion for enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer, it was mired in an accounting scandal and trading in its stock had been suspended. Its aggressive accounting for phantom deals that never materialized earned it the moniker the “Enron of Norway.” But more sordid details keep coming out from some tenacious reporting by the Norwegian press. The latest account comes in the June 28 issue ...
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Enterprise 2.0: Oracle & BEA Webcast (1)
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After the commentary, you will find a collection of links to different resources that provide additional information on Oracle's recent webcast regarding the BEA acquisition and Oracle's Enterprise 2.0 effort. Webcast Notes On Tuesday (7/1/08), Oracle provided an in-depth overview that provided insight regarding alignment, integration, and convergence of BEA and Oracle products into a common middleware solution. While I was mostly interested in the information provided on collaboration and social computing, I found some ...
7 Steps to Completing Your Projects on Time (1)
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Written on 7/02/2008 by Aaron Stannard, editor of Working Smarter.My background is in software development, a field infamous for delivering the vast majority of its projects over budget. This problem is not limited to just software projects; in fact, most projects are delivered late and over budget. Why does this happen?The answer is simple: poor project planning.So how can you ensure that your projects, both personal and business are delivered on time and on budget? ...
10 Tips on Establishing Your Profile in SharePoint My Site (2)
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The My Profile component of My Site is absolutely critical to the effective use of SharePoint for recruiting a project team. Here are 10 tips on establishing your profile for maximum effect: Make your areas of expertise interesting, not generic. A rich description of who you are and what you are interested in is much better than using generic terms. So don’t write "Marketing" as an area of expertise; write "Marketing strategy for expanding into ...
Master Your Digital Media with VLC [Vlc] (37)
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Cross-platform media player VLC is often referred to as the "Swiss Army knife of media applications" for good reason: Not only does VLC play nearly any file you throw at it (you even voted it the best desktop media player), but it can do so much more. From ripping DVDs to converting files to iPod-friendly formats, let's take a look at the four coolest things you can do with VLC and start you on your ...
