Google Earth–Maybe the Coolest Google Tool Yet

For me, this in anything BUT a productivity tool. Every time I start it up I lose hours. If you have an addictive personality, stay away. If you think you can keep it under control, read on… Continue Reading >>

Flickr Photo Sharing Online

Want an easy and fun way to share photos with your friends? Need a place to store photos online for your blog or website without taking up space on your own account? Try Flickr.

Flickr is an image hosting service owned by Yahoo!. Like all of their tools, it is FREE, and allows you to upload 100Mb per month. It is super easy to upload your photos and share them with friends and family. Just like Picasa on your home computer, Flickr uses tags to organize photos. Instead of a photo being tagged under one category, it can fall under multiple categories (tags). Continue Reading >>

Google Reader

If you aren’t sure what RSS is, there’s a quick primer available on this site. If you already know about RSS and are itching to try it out, I think Google Reader is the best one out there.

Not only is it a nice reader, but it also ties in with your Google account along with GMail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc., so it integrates nicely. If you are a fan of Gmail, you will love Google Reader’s interface. It allows you to arrange your feeds by subject and shows new updates from your feeds in bold, indicating they are “unread”. Continue Reading >>

Using Google Docs Instead of Microsoft Office

How frustrating is it to work on a document at home and not have it available to you on a different computer? Those days are over!!!

Google now has FREE word processing and spreadsheet tools available online. The best part is that any documents you create there are saved to your Google account, not your home computer. This means that you can access them anywhere, from any browser, and they are ALWAYS backed up. Continue Reading >>

Squidoo The Next Big Thing in Web Marketing?

Squidoo provides users with lots of good information on how to promote and market their lenses to get people to use them. They give new users $5 just for signing up and creating a lens. I know you’re thinking, “okay, what’s the catch?” Continue Reading >>

The Basics of Blogs and Blogging

The word “blog” came from the combination of the words web and log — weBLOG. It is basically an online diary, and much, much more. People create blogs to record entries at their leisure, be it daily, weekly, or several times a day. The blogging software they use keeps track of all of their posts and arranges them according to the theme, or layout, of the blog. In fact, you are reading a blog right now. Continue Reading >>

So What Exactly is MySpace?

MySpace is a social networking site that allows users to quickly and easily set up a homepage. Once the page is established, the user can change change the page’s colors, and add photos, videos, and music. In addition to that, MySpace does much more…almost too much. Continue Reading >>

Picasa–Free Photo Organizer

If you’re like most of us, you have more digital photos than you can deal with. How to sort though them is probably the least of your problems. Just knowing where they all are is a challenge in and of itself.

Luckily, the folks at Google have provided us a free solution. It is called Picasa, and it is absolutely brilliant. Picasa scans your computer for and finds all of your images. It then allows you to sort through them in more ways than you can imagine, resize, crop, enhance, make black and white–the possibilities are endless. Picasa is part of GooglePack, and it’s free!!!

There are many photo editing and organization tools out there, but Picasa has them all beat not only with its features, but also with the ease of use. It basically does all the work for you.

Firefox Web Browser

Firefox is a free web browser developed by Mozilla, a non-profit organization dedicated to making your experience on the web easier, safer, and more enjoyable. Unlike Internet Explorer, Firefox is an open source browser, which means that many people in the world contribute to its maintenance and improvement. For you, this means that bugs are found and fixed quickly, and that new features are constantly being added.

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Digg is a Social Frenzy

Digg is a free social bookmarking tool. It allows you to quickly mark a page or article on the web as one that you like, or “digg”. You can network with friends on your Digg account, which allows them to see what you Digg and you to see what they Digg.
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