The business card reader for your organization
Scan2Contacts is an easy to use and accurate, add-on scanning software for Microsoft Outlook contacts management. The business card reader scans business cards and automatically creates a new contact record.
The software is completely integrated into Microsoft Outlook and shows up as a toolbar within Outlook. This ensures that you do not need to use another application to first scan the business card and then import into Outlook for your contacts management. The simplistic approach followed by Scan2Contacts ensures that there is no need to learn another software application, and at the same time, simplifying contacts management by integrating into a tool like Microsoft Outlook. Outlook is used significantly in most organizations these days.
The reader is inexpensive and at the price it is available for, it will help you save a lot of time which would otherwise be spent in typing the address manually!
The card reader weighing in at only 210 grams connects to the computer using a USB interface. It has an optical scanning resolution of 600 dpi x 1200 dpi, and has a scanning area of A6 size.
This is an ideal business card reader for you. CNet has given it a 5-star rating which speaks volumes about it.
Yahoo! Messenger 9 Beta available!
A beta version of Yahoo! Messenger 9 is available for download. This is currently available for Windows only.
The new features in this beta include:
1. Viewing YouTube or Yahoo! Videoes
2. Flickr pictures and online map links
3. Removal of file size limits for file transfer. This used to be 1GB earlier.
4. You can now forward text messages and computer-to-computer voice calls to mobile phones.
5. New emoticons and new skins.
You can watch a video preview of this beta version as well.
Get your prepaid phone cards at TheRichCom
Phone cards are a cost effective and efficient tool to keep in touch with loved ones, especially if they reside outside the country.
TheRichCom has over 800 phone cards offering inexpensive rates and good quality. All Phone Cards and Calling Cards are delivered instantly online.
I was looking for a prepaid phone card to call back home in Bangalore, India. The best deal that I got was 528 minutes of talk time for just $20. That works out to less than 4 cents a minute!! In fact, the choice of prepaid phone cards is just unbelievable. I had almost 180 options to chose from. Such a large selection should cater to everyone’s needs.
Speed Linking: 30-Oct-07
Some useful articles for the day:
- Do you want to have a terabyte pen drive? Well, it seems that it might be a reality sooner than expected. The ‘cool’ 8GB pen drives that you have now won’t sound so cool after all, when such a pen drive hits the market!
- Mashable has a wonderful review about Hulu. Hulu is an online video site from NBC and News Corp.
- Want to create a button or a badge for your website? Have a look at this list of button & badge makers and let loose your creative side…
- Amazon.com got a weird patent awarded to them whereby you just put your search string in the URL. Duh! Isn’t there enough and more prior art on this already? Lets see how this unfolds in the coming months.
- Read the Mozilla Blog on how the look and feel will change in Firefox 3. Sounds exciting to me, but there has been an uproar in the Linux community about them being neglected in this release.
More later…
Chat at Friendsation
Friendsation is a website that provides you with free dating, blogging, and chat.
Members can sign up for free and can send instant messages to other members. Members can also have a free live chat in our online chat room with other members. We also have live & free phone chat for members to talk with people live all over the United States for free.
The website also provides blogging and personals.
Speed Linking: 29-Oct-07
Some useful links for the day:
- GigaTribe is a revolutionary program that lets you share entire folders with friends in a private peer to peer (P2P) environment. Share all your files (home movies, pictures, documents…) no matter how large they are. It is secure, encrypted…and free!
- LifeHacker has a nice list of useful Google Products, which are all free to use. Its a useful consolidation of tools from Google many of which you might have forgotten about!!
- Mashable has a report on the Top 10 LinkedIn tools. I’ve used a few of these tools before as I love LinkedIn. If you’re not already on LinkedIn, do join today.
- Do you use Facebook? Yes! How about reading your Google News within Facebook. Get the app here.
- gHacks has an interesting article on how to use Greasemonkey to enhance the look & feel of Gmail. This is only for Firefox users.
- The Mozilla Foundation has announced a new program called Prism. Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop. A prototype version for Windows is available for download.
I hope you enjoy these links…
Get your cartridges here!
Cartridge Finder helps you find the right cartridges for your printer, copier or fax machine. They have a partnership with PriceGrabber to ensure that you get the best deals from across various online merchants who sell these products.
The website has a large choice of brands which will keep growing over a period of time. The next time you’re looking at buying a cartridge, do visit Cartridge Finder.
16 Must-Have FireFox Add-ons
Here are some extremely useful Firefox add-ons that you should use:
Download Statusbar [home page]
It is a browser extension that allows you to keep track of ongoing and completed downloads in a hide-away status bar.
FireFTP [home page]
It is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
FlashGot [home page]
It enables you to integrate Firefox with download managers.
Foxmarks [home page]
If you use multiple PCs you will love this add-on. Foxmarks is a bookmarks synchronizer which allows you to synchronize your bookmarks across multiple PCs.
Forecastfox [home page]
It is an extension that brings international weather from AccuWeather.com to your Firefox web browser
Greasemonkey [home page]
It is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function. Hundreds of scripts are already available for free.
IETab [home page]
It is an extension that embeds Internet Explorer in a Mozilla/Firefox tab. There is no need to launch Internet Explorer separately! You can configure which websites should automatically open in an IE Tab.
iMacros [home page]
Just automate your clicks using iMacros. It takes care of repetitive tasks quite easily.
MeasureIt [home page]
A tool for website developers which allows you to draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels.
PDF Download [home page]
With this extension, every time you click on a link, it checks if the target is a pdf file and in this case let you choose what you want to do (open pdf file inside or outside Firefox, download it to the file system or view it as HTML).
Screengrab [home page]
It is an extension for Firefox that makes it easy to save a web-page as an image. With it, you can save anything that you can see in a browser window – from a small selection, to a complete page. There is no need for expensive tools to do this when you have a free extension embedded right inside Firefox!
SearchStatus [home page]
It lets you view its Google PageRank, Google Category, Alexa popularity ranking, Compete.com ranking, Alexa incoming links, Alexa related links and backward links from Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
Split Browser [home page]
This splits the content area of the browser window as you like. It will help you in various cases. For example, to compare multiple webpages, to show a calendar always, and so on.
StumbleUpon [home page]
Do I really need to say much about what StumbleUpon is?? Get the add-on for Firefox.
Tab Mix Plus [home page]
Enhance your tabbed browsing with this add-on.
Web Developer [home page]
It adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various web developer tools. A must for all website developers.
I personally use all the above add-ons and many more!
UPDATE [20-Nov-07]: I have left out AdBlock Plus from the list, since I personally run a lot of websites with the aim of monetization using advertisements. I have mixed feelings of using an add-on like AdBlock due to that! Just a personal opinion though.
Get your discount coupons from the chief!
The holiday season is just a few months away! First Halloween, then Thanksgiving, and before you know it, you’ll be stuffing stockings! Don’t worry, couponchief.com is here for you. Once you have your wish list in place, head over to CouponChief and get some great online discount coupons.
I checked out some discount coupons keeping the theme of this blog in mind. I checked out some CompUSA coupons and some Buy.com coupons. Trust me, you can get some great deals at CouponChief and it will be worth the few minutes you spend on this site getting yourself a great deal in return.
This website is surely going to give you a smile this holiday season.
Speed Linking: 24-Oct-07
Useful links for the day:
- Xubuntu is a distribution of Ubuntu Linux and version 7.10 is available. Read a review about it at The Great Software List Blog.
- FaceBook has announced a $10m fund for developing FB Apps. Wow!!! You can expect a hell of a lot of new apps on FaceBook in the near future for sure.
- Flock is a “social web browser” and recently released a beta of its 1.0 version.
- TechCrunch has an interesting article which claims that Gmail will be enabling IMAP support. This is just going to take Gmail a step forward in the right direction and help it differentiate itself further from its competition.
- Do you use Flickr? Yes?? These Greasemonkey scripts will be a great add-on for you in that case.
