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    Tool: More Cheap Web Based Calling

    June 2, 2006August 27, 2014

    Tim and Natalie at Decisive Flow are my favorite Web 2.0 experts. That means they go through all the cool new internet tools and write useful reviews. Of all the sites out there, seems like I’m quote from Natalie and Tim more than anyone else! So, here’s another post stolen, I mean borrowed, I mean…

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    Tool: Check your internet security

    May 28, 2006August 27, 2014

    How secure is your computer on the internet? How do you know? Check and make sure at Shields UP! It was easy to do. I just followed the instructions, and clicked on the appropriate buttons. It tested my firewall, to make sure that a hacker could not gain control of my machine remotely. Note that…

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    Tool: Send huge emails without clogging the inbox

    May 25, 2006August 27, 2014

    YouSendIt lets you send huge emails to anyone without clogging up their inbox. I’ll have to try this next time I want to send massive photo emails to Jeanne! Found at VerusNova. small biz rural entrepreneurship tools

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    Tool: Get legal signatures at a distance with EchoSign

    May 23, 2006August 27, 2014

    Tim Norton, Decisive Flow blog, has done such a great job describing this tool, echosign – sign agreements accross the world – easy, that I don’t think I could improve on it: This morning I arrived to find an email from someone interested in involving us in a project in New York, which is brilliant,…

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    TOOL: ePassport Photo

    May 19, 2006August 27, 2014

    Here’s another interesting online tool: ePassport Photo. Go to their site, upload your photo (follow the instructions), rotate and crop, download and print. Nifty! Thanks to Decisive Flow for finding this one. small biz rural entrepreneurship tools web2.0

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    TOOL: Office software on the web

    May 18, 2006August 27, 2014

    Here’s a review of Microsoft Office Type Tools from Mike at Versus Nova Blog, in Microsoft Office Live…or Memorex? First is AjaxWrite which provides “the look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform”. This is MS Word gone Web2.0! The same folks also have AjaxSketch which is a pared down…

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    TOOL: Free phone calls with Skype

    May 16, 2006August 27, 2014

    Our second phone calling tool article. After years and years of hearing about computer telephony, it is finally getting “here”. Skype, a big player in this, is offering an interesting special. Steve Rucinski, Small Business CEO, has written the best summary I’ve seen, Free Skype Out in US and Canada. This could be a real…

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    TOOL: Small business time tracking

    May 16, 2006August 27, 2014

    Part of our continuing series on web-based tools to help your small business. Two reviews of time tracking tools caught my eye recently, so I wanted to share them here. The first is from Small Business CEO, Steve Rucinski, in Online Time Tracking – Simple Yet Effective . Web-based time tracker Harvest logs you and…

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