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PDF Editing & Creation: 40+ Opensource/Free alternatives to Adobe Acrobat

Posted by on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007






Adobe Acrobat is expensive, but that doesn’t mean you have to live a life without portable documents. What many people don’t realize is that PDF is a Federal Information Processing Standard, which means the specifications behind the format are widely published. Numerous developers take advantage of this fact and create programs that offer effective alternatives […]






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Being a Mac Guy One Year On

Posted by on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007






A year ago I bought my first Mac. Looking back on the year, my Apple-using experience was not at all what I had expected it to be. My motivations for moving to Mac were twofold; 1) I was developing for Apache, PHP and MySQL, and 2) I received regular Microsoft operating system betas through my […]






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The Excel Magician: 60+ Excel Tips and Shortcuts to help you make Excel Magic

Posted by on Wednesday, November 28th, 2007






Are you working with Excel and want take your Excel skills to the next level? Or do you want to learn Excel and don’t know where to start? Check out these 70+ tips and shortcuts that will help you make Excel Magic. Online tutorials & videos The following online tutorials are mostly free and will […]






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30+ Freelancer’s Productivity Boosters for Email, IM, Word & Excel | CogniView Blog

Posted by on Wednesday, October 17th, 2007






Freelancers often have to wear many hats: accountant, boss, quality control, marketing department, and beyond, which can leave you feeling like there’s just not enough time in the day to do everything you’d like. Fortunately, there are a number of tools designed to help you speed up the process of working. Check out these productivity […]






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Top 10 Tools I Can’t Live Without

Posted by on Thursday, October 4th, 2007






We all have our own unique ways of working. A large part of any persons individual productivity is the tools they use. Here is my top 10 Must Have Tools (and why), please add yours in the comments! Firefox – I started out with Mosaic, then Netscape. For years I was an Internet Explorer user […]






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Project Management Blogs: How to Run Your Project on the Web

Posted by on Thursday, September 6th, 2007






Project management has been given a huge boost by internet tools. The biggest improvements for me came from the fact we can collaborate so easily across geography, time zones and computing platforms. Now though we have grown with the web technologies to the point where we have tailor-made services plus innovative ways of using other […]






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Conversion Central: 86 Tools to Convert Video, Music, Images, PDF and More

Posted by on Wednesday, September 5th, 2007






Few things are more irritating than having to deal with a format that is incompatible with what you need it to do. It doesn’t matter if it’s a media file, document, or shoe size; it’s just plain frustrating. To make your life easier, check out this list of 101 tools that will allow you to […]






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Facebook: Productivity Boost or Bane?

Posted by on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007






Regular readers will have seen how I saved a big percentage of time by cutting out unnecessary distractions. One area I am struggling with though is keeping up with my contacts. Actually, to be more specific, Facebook. Facebook has the potential to benefit productivity. It keeps you up to date with your contacts all in […]






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Using Mind Maps for Creativity, Note-Taking and Productivity

Posted by on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007






That headline makes a bold promise, doesn’t it? Creativity, note-taking and productivity? Mind Mapping really is that useful. Read on and I will explain! What Are Mind Maps? Mind Maps are a visual diagram with lines and bubbles representing ideas and relationships between them. The core idea sits in the middle with related topics branching […]






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Announcing the Creative Commons PDF Converter

Posted by on Monday, July 2nd, 2007






The CC PDF Converter is a free (open source) application that enables you to create PDF documents from almost any application (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer and more). The CC PDF Converter also allows you to easily embed a creative commons license in your PDF file. If you find any bugs or have any suggestions, I […]