Productivity 09

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 … Read more

Site: Freshbooks.com Category: Productivity

FreshBooks is an online billing service. It handles expenses, invoicing, estimates, and time tracking with a simple and straightforward Web front end. Users can automate bill collection with clients, track time spent on projects, and view of all that activity against a project's budget.

There are a number of FreshBooks add-ons that can enhance its functionality, or give users an alternate way to get at their data. The service also has its own API, which has led to it being integrated with a number of third-party tools. Developers can use this to integrate the … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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.

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 … Read more