Do you find that
there isn't enough time in the day?
I figured I'd take it easy on you today. That
means no marketing advice, no business
strategies and nothing too complicated.
Instead, I'd like to share with you my 10
favorite time-saving tools. No, these are not
affiliate links, they are just a handful of
slick apps that reside on my own PC. They all
save me lots of time and money on a daily basis.
Perhaps you'll find a tool that will help you.
Jim's favorite PC
apps...
AuctionSentry
Whether you are a buyer or a seller, this clever
tool can streamline and automate your eBay
auctions. It automates bidding by placing your
bid as close to the end of the auction as
possible (referred to as "sniping"). Your
auctions are displayed in a color-coded grid,
indicating which auctions you are winning, which
you have been out-bid on, and which you have set
up a snipe bid for. Definitely worth downloading
if you frequent Ebay like I do!
Google Toolbar
When the free Google Toolbar is installed, it
automatically appears along with the Internet
Explorer toolbar. This means you can quickly and
easily use Google to search from any website
location, without returning to the Google home
page to begin another search. The new version
also blocks popups and offers an auto-fill
feature to fill out forms online. It's a great
time saver. Oh yeah, and if you prefer Yahoo!
over Google, Yahoo! now offers a free
Yahoo! toolbar which gives you one click
access to your Yahoo email, a popup blocker and
more.
KeyboardExpress
Do you answer a lot of email? Keyboard Express
allows you to record, key in, and play back any
set of keystrokes and associate it with one of
more than 450 different hot keys. Eliminate the
repetition of the same sets of keystrokes in
word processors, email, and more. The program
can create hot keys for standard email replies,
URL's and forms. Keyboard Express can even be
scheduled to check for email messages. This
program is such a powerful tool, I don't know
how I'd get by without it.
PDF995
With PDF995 you can easily create
professional-quality documents in the popular
PDF file format. Its easy-to-use interface helps
you to create PDF files by simply selecting the
"print" command from any application. And best
of all, it is free!
ScreenPrint32
ScreenPrint32 allows you to print and/or capture
to disk or clipboard, the full desktop, active
window, predefined area, or user selected area
of the screen. It's very useful when compiling
tutorials or web lessons. It lets you capture a
screen area and paste directly into your
documents. The resulting images may be saved to
either GIF, BMP, JPG or PNG formats.
SecondCopy
There are lots of backup utility programs
available for backing up data and I've tried
quite a few. But the one I rely on daily is
called Second Copy, and it automates all my
backups completely. If your computer is not
backing up your crucial data while you sleep,
this is a great way to make that happen.
Sothink HTML Editor
So you have a nice new website template, but no
way to customize it? That is, unless you want to
shell out two hundred bucks for a web editor
program. In steps Sothink, with their powerful
HTML editor you can get for... free. It packs
almost as much power as the expensive programs
including html mode, visual (WYSIWYG) mode, site
preview and upload. If you need a solid website
editor but don't have a budget for the "big"
programs, this may be all you need and more.
UltraEdit
A great ASCII based word processing program is a
must for anyone running an email list. This
program offers great features for email
newsletter publishers, including a spell-checker
and the ability to set line width for easy
message reading in all email programs.
WeatherBug
Get neighborhood weather conditions on your
desktop. OK, it's not business related, but it's
slick. A digital thermometer sits in
the corner of my PC so I always know the
conditions outside.
Forecast and weather alerts are always at my
finger tips. Try
this fun, free tool.
Window Washer
Many people don't realize that everything you do
on your PC can be traced: documents you've used,
pictures you've viewed, Web sites you've
visited. These online tracks put your privacy at
risk and eat up valuable hard-drive space. You
can take back your privacy and improve your
system's performance by regularly cleaning your
cache, cookies, history, recent documents list,
and more with Window Washer.
Jim Daniels
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