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Use These 8 Apps To Ditch Your Expensive Texting Plan
This week’s TechTipTuesday is practical: if you have a smartphone and youmdo not want to pay pay for text messages, your in luck, check out the applications:
Top 5 Tech Products in 2010
To start out the New Year, in the first TechTipTuesday of the year, I am highlighting a post I contributed to the Attention 2 Tech website last week:
Please check out the post when you get a chance and let me know what your Top 5 tech products of the year are.
Six extensions to make Google’s Chrome Browser more business-friendly
Google’s Chrome browser is a solid alternative to Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari: Chrome is fast, sleek and lightweight. Chrome is available for PC and Mac. If you are comfortable in the Google ecosystem, Chrome is particularly good choice. Chrome has extensions and Google recently release an App store for Chrome. 
In her recent Mashable article, Grace Smith highlights “6 Free Chome Apps and Extensions for Small Businesses” which make Chrome even more efficient and effective. Some of the suggestions are Google Shortcuts, Scribble and Todo.ly. If you are a Chrome user, check out the full article here
Print Files on a printer from Any Phone or Remote Computer via Dropbox
This week’s TechTipTuesday is an old favorite:
It is difficult to sing the praises of the goodness and utility of Dropbox. If you have not tried this cross-platform file storage and synching system, you should do so immediately.
Today’s Tech Tip Tuesday presents another way that Dropbox add functionality to your digital life: Printing. As Lifehacker discusses in detail in this post, Dropbox allows printing files on your printer or phone or any remote computer.
Print Files on a printer from Any Phone or Remote Computer via Dropbox
Gmail Tips: Using only one Gmail account, Multiple Google Email Addresses
There are many benefits to using Google’s Gmail. This week’s TechTipTuesday post highlights one of the many: the ability to have multiple email addresses tied to the same Google account.
Gmail Tips
A few months ago HTS Tech Tips, computer information and repair website wrote a detailed and easily digestable article on operating mutile email accounts through one Google Account.
Check out the article here.
Gmail Tips
Top 5 Free Google Apps Add-ons For Work
This week’s TechTipTuesday looks at an app store for Google. Google long ago push beyond being a killer search engine and advertising platform and started offering many applications for business. Google offers “Google Apps for Business” a productivity suite of web-based software that includes Gmail, calendar, contacts and many more utilities.
Last March, Google launched its Apps Marketplace, which provides a platform for third parties to create software to complement the native Google Apps applications. You can browse, app store-style, hundreds of apps that work alongside your Google Apps. If you have not had a chance, check out the Marketplace.
PCWorld recently identified its Top 5 Apps in the Marketplace. This a good starting place for finding some applications to increase your productivity, effeciciency and, generally, make your life easier.
WooWooMac – tips for all of Apple’s iOS devices
This week’s TechTipTuesday comes from Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog, a site by an attorney, for attorneys, but with a lot of value for anyone interested in tech. Jim highlights the site WooWooMac.com which provides tips for the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and even your Mac. There tips for productivity, entertainment, value all organized in way that is relatively easy to navigate.
If you have any iOS device, you should check out WooWooMac and also sure to take a look at Jim’s Law Practice Tips Blog.
Free tech tools to better your business
Every business is looking for an edge, a few tips or tricks to improve efficiency or productivity. I love finding that new piece of software or hack that makes things run faster or makes my life a bit easier. In that vein, I am highlighting an article from PCWorld that is titled five awesome free tools for small businesses.
In this article, PCWorld highlights several pieces of software that may enhance your business, regardless of the platform you use. I would love to hear if any of these tools tips or tricks are particularly helpful for useful to you. Please let me know in the comments below.
These are frugal times for business, and an organization starting out might have very little money to spend on IT. Even if you’re part of an established business, you’re probably feeling the pinch.
Here are five extremely useful computing resources that are free of charge for small business users–unlike some “free” services you might see that are only for home users. These choices have few if any restrictions, and are established services unlikely to shut up shop anytime soon.
Organize your personal life with DropBox
This week’s TechTipTuesday revisits an awesome and reliable service – Dropbox – and outlines another way it can be useful. Lifehacker provides an interesting article on organizing and synching all of your person digital material: Create a Highly Organized, Synchronized Home Folder with Dropbox. The article includes Movies, Music, and Photos, projects, documents and much more:
When you love Dropbox like we do, you start syncing more and more stuff. The more stuff you sync, the harder it is to organize. Here’s a simple way to sort quickly and stay organized across multiple computers, Windows, Mac, or Linux.
Read the whole article here.
How much “Klout” do you have on Twitter?
This week’s Tech Tip Tuesday pick is of lighter kind: a web-based called “Klout” which bills itself as the “standard for influence” primarily covering Twitter. Klout takes your Twitter username and uses a variety of measures to determine your Klout “score”, your “true reach” as well as several other things. The scores range from 1 to 100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. Klout also uses over 35 variables on Facebook and Twitter to measure True Reach, Amplification Probability, and Network Score.
Like any service that claims to be a “standard” on Twitter, there is some room for debate. However, Klout is interesting because it backs up its claim with solid formula. Here is my Klout score: 
What is your Klout score?
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