http://www.bizhack.net Run your Business for free Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:27:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We love Google over here, in fact, our site relies heavily on it.  But there are some things we think could make it even better.  So without further ado, behold our Google Wish-list for 2009! Gmail Add contacts from group mail to address book (not just sender). Gmail allows you to add ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/691 It all started when Google released a tool for merging duplicate contacts in Gmail and Google Apps, a feature which for some was long overdue.  It didn't (and indeed doesn't) automatically search for duplicates like many other similar tools out there, you still need to delve into your contacts to ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/683 Spain is the fifth country to include Google's Street View images which launched yesterday.  New cities include Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Sevilla. While Google's plan is to eventually provide street views of the entire world, rumour has it that for the time being we should expect Germany, the UK, ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/618 When I first got my new Intel powered MacBook over a year ago I excitedly downloaded the free trial of Parallels and hoped to usher in a new dawn of working with OS X and Windows simultaneously. When my trial ran out I decided that as flashy as it was, ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/609 Wisestamp is a Firefox extension that allows webmail users to automatically include colourful HTML signatures in their emails.  After installing the extension users have the option to specify two different types of signatures, personal and professional, and may alternate between the two at will. Wisestamp currently supports Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/605 There are certainly worse places to be "incommunicado" on a Saturday afternoon, but whilst visiting the Bizhack.net health editor in Zurich I quickly realised that cross border calls at £0.80 per minute can rack up a hefty monthly bill. Whilst free wifi seems to be fairly abundant in the center of ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/599 Link: Zotero: The Next-Generation Research Tool. How do you organize and collect your legal research on the web? Thanks to Robert Ambrogi at LegalBlogWatch for this heads-up about the free Zotero tool from George Mason University. The Thomson Reuters litigation cited in the blog post notwithstanding, this add-on to Firefox 3 ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/576 It could be that you forgot to do something on your office computer, you need to work on something while you are on holiday, you want to collaborate on a document with a colleague or simply that you want to help out with an IT issue from the other side ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/541 Many small businesses and freelancers will swear by their trusted spreadsheet to create invoices and either print them each time or send them by email as a .pdf. While such simplicity is hard to beat, added complexity rears its ugly head further down the line when you need to ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/510 The monolithic standard of office software these days is Microsoft Office - particularly Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook/Entourage. Only a brave few venture out and try something different. Since switching to the Mac, I’ve preferred to use Apple iWork for any document/presentation work, and the integrated mail/calendar/contacts software included in OS ... http://www.bizhack.net/archives/497