Archive for 'Technology'

Screen Shot Tool

30 May 2008

FireShot is my new favorite screen shot tool for sharing “What I am looking at on the web” in a very LOW TECH fashion…

I use this tool for showing people cool websites I have found, for blogging images right here on this website, and for sending my customers ‘paper clippings’ of online news articles that […]

Best Way to download YouTube Videos and replay offline

16 May 2008

I have had the recent need to make online videos available offline, and have had friends and family ask for the same thing…. So its worth a simple post:
There are a myriad of choices out there to download and replay, but which are the best? Well I don’t know of the best- but I do […]

Zoho Office Suite

11 May 2008

I don’t often find cool new tools to write about, and this year, the plethora of Web 2.0 platforms (thousands of which you can see at www.simplespark.com) all just seem to be new ways of barely squeaking out $40 in advertising revenue for the providers.
This year, however, I finally do see a tool that I […]

Create scheduled reminders with your voice using Jott and PingMe

28 August 2007

I havent written about Ping Me before -but it is basically a reminder website that helps in Getting Things Done. Read THIS article on Zetetic by Stephen Lombardo about combining my previously mentioned JOTT tool with Ping Me to create calendear reminders for yourself while you drive.

Awesome combination of two great tools.
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Web 2.0 - its hard to keep up with it.

22 August 2007

As I share interesting web applications with my friends and colleagues, and as I have in this post, I continually am flabergasted by the sheer volume of initiatives by web companies. As a tool to help sort through the web applications, a site called SimpleSpark.com is a cataloger of all web 2.0 applications. […]

Voicemail Greeting Tips

19 June 2007

Voicemail is a necessary evil in our day and age, and if you are a professional, you have to do the best you can to make your callers comfortable.
I recommend a voice mail greeting that uses the following components;

Greeting, name and company name
Call to Action
Salutation

Greeting
A greeting should be swift and simple.
“Hello, you’ve reached the office […]

Use Jott and record voice messages to yourself that are automatically translated into text email

17 May 2007

One of my favorite tools to use with my cell phone is jott. Jott is, currently, a free service that allows you to speak messages into your phone, and then have them come to you as an email to your inbox. - or to any number of other mail recipients that you setup in your […]

My Maps at Google Maps

13 May 2007

Previously I wrote about Zeemaps, a mashup of Google Maps that allowed users to store all sorts of information on its site to map out many destinations. I still use it for bulk uploads.
However for a simple map, you can’t beat Google’s new feature, My Maps.
Check out my map there: Google Maps - MY MAPS
It […]

The Encyclopedia of Life

10 May 2007

Not a great tool, but an interesting passtime…This ambitious project is looking to do for the Animal Kingdom what Wikipedia did for us. - A large format collaborative site specifically tailored to record all 1.8Million known species into one website. The Encyclopedia of Life looks like it can pull it off - at least, it […]

Splashblog for your mobile device

9 May 2007

SplashBlog is my favorite way to share instant images from my mobile phone camera to the world. With a free SplashBlog account, you can take photographs on your phone throught their small application, and instantly sync them with a photoblog on their website (mine happens to be : http://www.splashblog.com/mttorley )
This is an INSTANT way to […]

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