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Site: Quickbase.intuit.com
Category: Productivity

QuickBase is a browser-based database application. Users can collaborate on the same database online, and from different locations. And because it's hosted in the cloud, and supported by Intuit, there's less IT overhead than traditional, software-based database tools.

What's neat about QuickBase is the service's developer program. This lets developers create and sell add-on Web apps that are marketed directly to customers via a promotional channel. This system also lets developers not have to worry about collecting money for users who install it, or keeping track of usage, since Intuit handles both of those things.

The core QuickBase service runs at $249 a month. Additional users, data records, and file attachments cost more in monthly fees.

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Site: Calendar.google.com
Category: Productivity

Google Calendar is a free, Web-based calendar. Users can add events in multiple calendars and access them on their mobile phone or using Google's Gmail. Like many other Google applications, Google Calendar has a collaborative nature. Users can share and subscribe to one another's calendars or import them from third-party services that offer things such as national holidays, movie releases, or moon cycles.

In addition to a calendar view that can be toggled by day, week, or month, you can also create your own custom view that lists anywhere from two days to four weeks. To keep track of any upcoming events, there's also an agenda view that lists everything that's on your calendar in a chronological and color-coded view.

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Site: Docs.google.com
Category: Productivity

Google Docs & Spreadsheets is a free, Web-based collaborative office suite. Users can make and share documents, spreadsheets, and presentations with anyone. What makes the service really useful is that multiple users can be concurrently working on the same document. Also, all files are stored for free on Google's servers, and can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection.

While you need to be connected to the Internet to use these applications, you're also able to export Google Docs & Spreadsheets files to work with Microsoft Office and several other formats. Google Docs also offers the capability for users to edit their files while offline using Google Gears, which can be useful if you're jumping in and out of range of Wi-Fi or cellular data while out and about.

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Site: Smallbusiness.officelive.com
Category: Productivity

Microsoft Office Live Small Business is Microsoft's business-in-a-box service. It's designed to get a small business on the Web--both publicly, with a Web site, and privately, for collaboration and back-office work. Businesses get their own domain, e-mail, shared workspaces, Web site, and a contact manager tool.

Microsoft Office Live Small Business service is free, but users can tack on more services for additional monthly, and yearly fees. These include more storage, more users, premium ad-free e-mail, and domain name registration.

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Site: RememberTheMilk.com
Category: Productivity

Remember the Milk is one of the most portable goal-setting services in its space. Users can create to-do lists with it, then access them in Gmail, via SMS, on mobile handsets, Skype, and popular IM clients. Because of this, you can access it from nearly anywhere, all without having to return to its Web site.

Remember the Milk also has an API that developers can use to integrate it into their apps.

There are two levels of service, one free and one Pro that runs $25 a year. Pro members get extra support, early access to new features, as well as access to the service on various mobile devices.

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Site: Zoho.com
Category: Productivity

Zoho is a suite of more than 20 Web-based productivity applications, nearly all of which are completely free to use. Many compete directly with Google's online productivity and office tools and give users a way to work on projects entirely on their browser.

In addition to having a slew of consumer-oriented applications, Zoho has dipped into some SMB applications including a CRM tool, invoicing service, and Zoho People--which is a recruiting tool. The company has also been known to embrace the latest Web technologies including Ajax-heavy editors and compatibility with offline data access using Google Gears.

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Site: Mint.com
Category: Productivity

Mint is a free online financial management service designed to compete with local money management software and other online finance services. It will interface directly with your bank and credit card companies (there are more than 3,500 institutions on the system) to keep your accounts up to date.

You can also configure the product to send you e-mail or mobile alerts when certain conditions are met, such as accounts dropping to certain levels, bills coming due, or when large purchases are made on credit cards you're tracking. It also has an application for mobile devices that lets users keep an eye on things while away from a computer.

Mint makes money for itself, and for you, by looking at your spending habits and your accounts and recommending offers that will save you money. Got a high-interest credit card? Spending too much on DSL? Mint's advertising network will match offers from its partners to your particular situation. Mint's consumer pitch is that it will save you thousands of dollars a year if you listen to its paid advice.

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Site: Workspace.officelive.com
Category: Productivity

Microsoft Office Live Workspace is Microsoft's tool for sharing Office documents and mission critical files between multiple users. Workspace users can select privacy controls for each document and get the heads up when another user is editing it. If they want to work on a shared document at the same time, Live Workspace also taps into Microsoft's SharedView to enable screen sharing and overwriting protection.

In addition the Web view, users can take advantage of a plug-in for Microsoft Office that links up to Live Workspace, letting them save documents in real time to their selected Workspace without even having to navigate to the site.

Live Workspace will eventually include Web-based versions of Microsoft's Office apps, which should be released around the same time as this year's software version of Office. As it stands, clicking on one of your stored files will fire up that software application.

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Site: LogMeIn.com
Category: Productivity

LogMeIn is a remote desktop application that works on both Macs and PCs, letting you control and access files and data from one computer on another. It has several versions, including a free one that lets you use your home or work computer remotely, and with a mouse and keyboard that's connected somewhere else. Advanced versions add in remote printing, drag-and-drop file transfer, and support for several people controlling the same PC simultaneously.

We like the service because its free flavor is so incredibly useful in times when you need to access something from your remote PC and don't want to mess with the lackluster solutions that come built in to most computers.

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