Cool Tools
+ - Free Webware
Google Docs: docs.google.com
Documents
Spreadsheets
Collaboration
Publishing
Doc: http://snipurl.com/1esjv
Spreadsheet:
Auto-archive & revisions
SnipURL.com
Short URLs for emailing, documents, etc.
Automatically copies to clipboard
+ - Naming
snipurl.com/blademap
YouSendIt.com
+ - Sending large documents
Email to youself and copy link to send to others
+ - Windows built-in Zip
Send to... Compressed (Zipped) Folder
7 days, 100 downloads, 100GB files, 1Gb bandwidth for free
SurveyMonkey.com
Surveys & polls
10 questions, 100 responses for free
+ - Free Downloads
+ - Microsoft Live Desktop Search
Download: http://desktop.live.com
+ - Install
Acrobat 8 to index PDF files: http://snipurl.com/adobe
ZIP iFilter to index ZIP files:
http://snipurl.com/18zhe
Leave PC for 8 hours to index
+ - Searching
+ - Outlook
Save Search
Conversation
Desktop
Limiting search by type (Spreadsheet, Contact, Email)
Sorting: Click on column
Searching within preview pane: F4
+ - Advanced search
Boolean: AND, OR, NOT
Quotation marks "blade network"
from:vikram
title:oscar
date:last week
+ - PDFCreator
Download: http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
Print to PDFCreator printer
Google Earth
Download: http://earth.google.com/
Find places & businesses
"Flying" directions
+ - Geo Tagging
Photos
Yelp dining reviews
Picasa
Download: http://picasa.google.com
Importing
+ - Editing
Rotate
Crop
I'm Feeling Lucky
Red Eye
Fill Light
Infinite undo
Printing
Emailing
Burning CDs
Slideshows
Exporting
Web
albums
FreeMind
Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemind/
+ - Information organization
Mindmapping
Visual outline
+ - Shortcuts
New sibling: Enter
New child: Insert
Edit: F2
Move Up/Down: Ctrl+arrow
Back to root: Escape
+ - Moving topics
Repositioning: Drag oval
Rearranging: Drag & drop
Export to PDF, JPG or Web: http://snipurl.com/1c0xh
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