If you have a small startup or a company, you must have used a project management application for managing tasks, clients and projects. There are tons of online task and time management services out there, among which Intervals is one of the best solutions to choose from.

If your team members are struggling with time tracking and task management and you are losing clients and offers just because your project management application is not up to the mark, it’s high time you test out Intervals’ online project management software.

Intervals is ideal for small business organizations, creative agencies, web designers, web developers and anyone who needs a project management app without having to install or download anything. Just sign up for an account, and start managing projects from anywhere, all you need is a web browser and an Internet connection.

Plans and pricing

Intervals provides a 30 day free trial on any plan you choose – you can always upgrade, downgrade or cancel your plan at any time. Plans range from $20 to $175 per month — depending on the number of projects managed — and there is no long term contract to sign. Here are the detailed pricing options for the Intervals project management service:

Setting Up Your Intervals Account

Setting up your Intervals account is fast and easy. After you have signed up for an account, go to http://yourusername.intervalsonline.com/ and login with your Intervals credentials. Once you are logged in, you will see an auto wizard which will guide you through setting up different parameters about your account.

Setting up the Work types and adding Hourly Rates:

The first step involves adding work types and defining an hourly rate for the work type. You can add the different types of work involved in your project and define an hourly rate to the type of work. Examples: Designing – $60 a hour, writing – $40 an hour and so on.

Setting up Custom Modules

The next step allows you to create modules for your project. Modules are typically used for phases of a project or project features, but they can be whatever works best for your work flow. Modules are essentially loosely defined groupings of tasks and time that enable companies to build robust reports spanning across multiple clients and projects. Attaching tasks and tracked time to a module gives companies more control over their projects and reports.

For example, suppose you are building Ecommerce Web sites for several different clients. You can attach tasks and time to the Ecommerce module as you are working through each project. Having tracked your time in this manner gives your company a report showing how much time it is spending on Ecommerce projects relative to other projects such as blogs, redesigns or CMS web sites. These modules provide a greater level of control when managing multiple projects and can be customized according to your needs.

Setting up Task Status

The next step will allow you to define the different status of tasks. The status of a task is useful when you want to track the progress or completion of a task and want to know which of the tasks are under progress, which of them are finished and which of them needs to be started. Task status’ help companies track the lifecycle of a task as it goes through phases — from open to closed.

The two default status are “Open” and “Closed”, although you can assign more task status if you want. (example – ongoing, aborted, pending and so on).

Choose Task Priorities

The next step will allow you to setup task priorities, indicators of a tasks importance and urgency. You can customize the priority of tasks to match with your project management work flow. When you are creating or managing a task, the chosen priorities will be shown, this will be useful to filter tasks that are urgent or require immediate attention.

This is the last step of the wizard, one you click “Finish” you are taken to your account Intervals account dashboard.

Here is how your dashboard looks:

There are different pages to create Tasks, projects clients, invoices, reports, documents – let’s see some of the features in detail.

The Projects tab

The projects tab allows you to create new projects and manage existing projects. You can enter a custom date range for the project and enter a total budget. Then choose an Alert budget and the system will notify you when you have reached the “Alert budget”, so that you can reinforce funds.

You can also choose a project manager for your project and enter a custom description. The status of any project can be chosen as “active” or “inactive”.

Once the project is saved, the profile will be shown in your account dashboard, as shown below:

Create Clients

The clients page allows you to add new clients and manage existing clients from your account dashboard. You can add description, phone number, website and FAX number of the client and also import the data from a vcard. In addition, clients can each be assigned multiple contacts for keeping in touch with people via email, phone number and social networks. And you determine whether or not each client contact can login and view project updates.

Once you have added information about clients, you can associate them with any of the projects you are managing.

Timesheets, Timers and Adding Time

Intervals features timers that make it easy to track time. Whenever you are working on something simply start a timer. When you are done apply the timer to a project or directly to a task. Tracking time on tasks gives you powerful reporting where you can see the total time and financial value of each task. You can manually add time as well and there is a mobile version that is in beta that helps when you are out of the office or away from your computer. At the end of the week Intervals prompts each user to submit their time for approval and the review and approval process is pretty quick and painless.

There are a lot of other options available which are worth exploring – you can create and manage invoices, track payments and expenses, run and save custom reports, manage tasks through milestones, and more. The documents tab allows you or your team members to upload the necessary support documents required when working through a project. This makes the need for another third party file upload service obsolete and keeps your team out of their inbox for team collaboration, communication and project management.

The Intervals application is very user friendly and customizable, designed for companies who need customizable workflow and powerful filtering to get at the important details of their business. If you are serious about your business and want an efficient project management application, definitely give Intervals a try.

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Site owners often need to bookmark a number of site-testing web tools. These tests include site loading time testers, optimization testers, site comparison tools, and performance tools.

If you are looking for these tools, then look no further. Below you will find our list of free online website testing tools. Read about each of the seven entries and determine yourself which one is most useful for you and bookmark-worthy.

WebWait is a simple website that tells you the average waiting time each visitor has to face before you site fully loads up. In addition to the average waiting times, median times and the standard deviation values are also provided, making the site a good tool to rely on for speed statistics.

LinkVendor runs tests on your website and reveals the speed and size of the domain, estimated load time for various bandwidths, number and sizes of all found images, CSS and JavaScript files.

If you own multiple domains or would like to compare load times of different websites, you can use this web tool. “iWebTool’s Website Speed Test” lets you enter up to 10 domains in the same go and execute speed tests on them. For each site you see the size, load time, and average speed per kilobyte.

SelfSEO’s Website Speed Test is similar to the speed test tool of iWebTool. You can simultaneous test for up to 10 websites and get their size, load time, and average speed per kilobyte.

If you want to compare the speed times of two websites, then this is a must-bookmark site for you. You can enter two websites’ URLs in WhichLoadsFaster and the site will provide the individual loading time of each site. A percentage factor shows how fast one website is compared to the other.

Through “Webpage Test” you can set a number of parameters before you begin testing a URL. The test results are comprehensively broken down into speed tests, JavaScript file sizes, and image file sizes. The site also provides tools to compare the performance of multiple websites.

Web Page Analyzer lets you run site analyzing tests on a URL or on an (X)HTML code; the site can diagnose the code for you.

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We all want remote access to our computer files. Whether we want to listen to our favorite music, view pictures or videos stored on our computer, or open an important document, remote access to our files can be very beneficial. Although there are programs out there that enable remote access, they require your main computer to be powered on at all times with an active internet connection. ZumoDrive provides a better alternative.

ZumoDrive is a software and web service that will upload your files on the web and provide them in a very friendly interface.

The installable part of ZumoDrive comes in versions compatible with Windows, Linux, and Mac running machines. The service even has smartphone apps for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre.

The Windows installer is sized at nearly 9 MB. After its installation you are prompted to sign up for a Zumo account which can be done through the app.

Zumo will then create your account and sign you into it. You are then asked to select the folders you want to upload to Zumo.

Then you choose your package. Free Windows users are provided up to 1 GB of storage and the upload size of each folder is shown against it.

Choosing your package will end the setup process.

Your files will be uploaded in the background. This upload activity will be shown by ZumoDrive’s cloud icon in the System Tray.

With the files uploaded, you can sign into ZumoDrive via your web browser and get access to the files.

When you access My Computer, you will see another drive added that will correspond to Zumo. Opening this drive will open the material already uploaded to Zumo.

If you log on to Zumo’s website and complete its tour after setting it all up, you can get an extra 1 GB of storage.

ZumoDrive will surely benefit many computer users desiring remote access but unwilling to leave their computers powered on all the time.

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This is a post in which we are listing down some Stunning Digital Art That Look Like (Surprisingly) Real But Are Not. These are some of the beautiful digital artwork and illustration examples. These are the wonder creations of designers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.

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This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and life saver FREE apps for your android that you probably never used of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list, you can try these whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc.These are really amazing in respect to their features. The 7 Must-Have Apps For Android Phones To Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

You can edit and share anywhere with Adobe Photoshop Express software for Android phones. It will help you crop, rotate, and color-correct with the touch of a finger.

Twitter for Android

Twitter for Android is a fantastic application to use, and sharing any link or photo is super simple too. Just look for the share button in your favorite application and choose Twitter.

AndFTP

AndFTP is a FTP/SFTP/FTPS client for Android devices. It allows managing several FTP servers. It comes with both a device file browser and a FTP file browser. It provides download and upload features with resume support. Use device menu to rename, delete, copy, set permissions and create folders. It provides FTP (File Transfer Protocol), SFTP (SSH’s secure File transfer protocol) support and FTPS (Explicit FTP over TLS/SSL).

PayPal for Android

This PayPal application will give you easy access to your PayPal account right from your Android phone. You can withdraw funds from your PayPal balance. Request Money: Get paid faster. It’s the easy way to ask for the money you are owed. Split the Bill: Instantly split the bill, calculate tip, and request everyone’s share. Set Reminders: Never miss rent or a bill.

Thinking Space

Thinking Space is a Mind Mapping application for Android phones. Portable Mind Mapping has never been so much fun! Thinking Space is available for free in the Android Market.

WordPress for Android

The initial release of WordPress for Android has focused on giving you the ability to manage your blog while on the go. You can manage posts, comments, pages.

Dropbox for Android

Accessing your Dropbox using android phone can give you another great experience of data synchronization.  You can upload photos from your Android and email its public link to a friend in less than a minute. All the contents of your Dropbox are available for viewing. You can even stream music and movies in your Dropbox straight to your Android.

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A wireframe or mockup tool is a must have tool for every web designer and developer. These tools have their importance in web designing and development world. It is good to use them because it saves your time and efforts, a mockup or wireframe can give you the whole idea about how your web will look and work. Combination of your own creativity and client’s requirement into a blank canvas, allows you to effectively plan the visual arrangements of the site’s contents. Well, a good and reliable wireframing application will cost you for sure and cost can starts from 150$ to 5000$. So, are you going to buy or what? and I definitely heard a big NO out there. So, my friends here comes the solution to the problem, I am listing some good web apps and tools for you in my article and you can use these mockup and wireframe apps and tools for FREE.

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MockFlow helps to design interactive UI mockups for Desktop Software, Rich Internet Apps and Web sites. MockFlow is Hybrid, so you can design seamlessly from anywhere & even with No net-connection. You can get your visual concept ready in minutes, it is faster than drawing/coding wireframes, you can share your UI design with your clients, team chat, track project activities and you can export your Mockup to image, PDF or PowerPoint Presentation.

Jumpstart is a simple online collaborative wireframe designed to make planing websites simple, fast and more efficient. With a Jumpchart preview, -clients just get it and it’s not an abstract concept, it works just like the website will. It is great for Web Developers, Information Architects, Website Owners, and Copywriters. Now you can also export your mockup to HTML and WordPress WXR format! Besides WordPress – which is one of the most widely used Content Management Systems in the world.

PencilProject is a free and fairly powerful Firefox add on tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping. Its an open-source tool which is very popular among designers and developers. It has many built-in stencils for diagramming and prototyping webs and options like multi-page documents, adding external objects, inter-page linking, on screen text editing and exporting to HTML, PNG, Openoffice.org document, Word document and PDF makes this addon very necessary for designer and developer.

You can build the wireframe in minutes with this particular tool, and if desired, a link to view the wireframe can be sent through email, instant message, or even the phone. The attraction to this tool is the simplicity of usage, lending itself to speed, both in wireframe creation, as well as being able to quickly share the results without having to send anything more than a web address. It is free to register and use, and works in modern web browsers including Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.

Lumzy is a quick Mockup creation and Prototyping tool for software designers and developers. As a Mockup tool, you can use it to create a rough sketch of how the final website or application will look like while prototyping extends this by adding event based functionalities. Its totally FREE and its function like send on the go, make it public, collaboration and chat, and quick drag and drop will attract you to use it. And by the way you can export your Mockup to jpeg, PNG and PDF files.

DENIM is a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design. DENIM supports sketching input, allows design at different refinement levels, and unifies the levels through zooming. It allows designers to quickly sketch an interface using an electronic pad and stylus. Its now available for Windows, Unix, and Mac OS X. You can download it from here.

fluidIA is an emerging agile design tool for prototyping rich user interfaces. It provides support for truly rapid prototyping and changes of interface representations, expression of rich interactions, and collaboration.

Prototype Composer is a completely new way of gathering requirements. Prototype Composer makes it possible to see how an application will look and function before any code is ever written. Instead of endless text documents, Prototype Composer makes it easy for business users and business analysts to collaborate on requirements by building simple, high-fidelity prototypes that simulate a working application.

This simple web app allows you to create your own iPhone app mockups, share your mockup with other people, and the changes you make will be synced to everyone who has the mockup’s URL. This app is currently in Alpha and offers no password protection so, you better be careful about the privacy of what you creates.

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Running a business today is not as straightforward as it once used to be. This is primarily because one needs to maintain records of every transaction that has occurred. Because there are many transaction and of different types, organizing and managing them becomes difficult. To help business owners in this area, there are a number of options available. WorkingPoint is one of those options.

WorkingPoint is a web service that manages transactional records for its users. You start by creating an account on the site. During your signup, you specify a domain name that will generate a unique login page.

The URL will be of the form https://domainName.workingpoint.com/home. You can add other users to your account that can view and add transactional details. The following options are what you get each time you login; you can choose to disable them on startup.

This is how your WorkingPoint dashboard will look like:

You can import your history of transaction through your bank account or credit card online. You can then sort your transactions, classify them, and observe how your dashboard reflects the changes. Contacts can also be added to your WorkingPoint account. You can add clients or business contacts with ease.

Overall, the site is a great convenience to its users. As one satisfied customer puts it, “Best $10 I could ever spend on the internet. I love your product because it allows me to focus on my business and not the business of doing business.”
The site has a paid plan as well as a free one. It would be advisable to test the free service before signing up for the paid one.

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When there are many department involved in a company, then handling customer complaints can become quite complex. Recording a complaint, then forwarding it to the right department, and checking its status now and then can become very complicated. The best way to go about the issue is through a ticket based system. By assigning each complaint a unique ticket, you can assign it to the right person, and check the issue’s status easily.

Many website operate a ticket based complaints and contact system. If you run such a website then you can surely take advantage of osTicket, a widely-used open source support ticket system.

osTicket is a complete and feature-rich open source support ticket system that easily fits into your website. It can seamlessly integrate inquiries created via email, phone and web-based forms into a simple easy-to-use multi-user web interface.

All that osTicket requires is PHP 4.3 or later and MySQL 4.4 or later. You can follow the installation guide available on osTicket’s website, follow the instructions on it, and set it up.

If you are thinking about going for a paid solution for your web complaints and issue handling, think again. “osTicket is an attractive alternative to higher-cost and complex customer support systems; simple, lightweight, reliable, open source, web-based and easy to setup and use.” It makes the entire process easier for the customer as well as the employees.

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Icons can be useful to furnish users with unforgettable images and examples if used properly, and this is the reason why Icon sets always come in handy. You will find the huge collection of recently released icon sets which are believed to assist you in bettering your designs on websites as well as on web applications.

In this post, we have also gathered some useful icon sets for your inspiration. If you like them, you can use them in your next design project. The icon sets that we have provided below may become valuable and useful in corporate designs, portfolios, blogs, and magazines as well as in Web-applications. Feel free to suggest and share more icon sets in the comments section below.

Pos Machine Icons

ADOBE CS5 PREMIUM ICONS

Android 2.2 Official Icons

Daft Punk Helmets v2.0

New exclusive icon set: Copenhagen

Apple Mug Icons and Extras

Hel?

Detailed 3D Icon Set

Alias Badges

Applications Icons and Extras

Briefcase

Camera Sony Alpha 380

Social Buzz Icon Pack

Mixed Icons Pack

Payment Method Icon Set

Umbrella

The ‘Square’ Social Media Icon Set

E-Commerce Icon Set

Sketchy Social Media Icons Freebie

IronMan Icon Pack

Cute Blogging Icon Set

Freebie Fiesta – Twitter Bird & Egg

The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources)

NIXUS Icon Pack

Great Web Button Set

Designer Icons – Professionally Hand-Crafted Free Icon Set

FontLab Studio Icons OS X

Glass icons

The ‘Free Style’ Social Media Icon Set

Mobile Icon Set

Ball

Picasso: A Free Social Media Icon Set

Isometrica (Volume 1): A Free Social Media Icon Set

Free Social Media Icons: Tricons

Content Management System Icon Set

Cartoon Icons

This is ART Icons

Free Computer Part Icon Set

Oxe Icons Set

El Bandito

Women’s Day Icons

‘The’ Lens

CalorieQuick Icons

PixeloPhilia 32PX Icon Set

Free Web Design Icon Set By Iconshock

OLED social icons

FriendFeed

Once

Touchscreen Icons

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With the incredible competition in the online marketplace, it has become obvious that more importance should be put on site’s credibility. Generating more leads becomes possible when customers feel comfortable and secure while shopping online with your web store. So it is highly recommended to apply the proven basics of the retail success.

To run a successful ecommerce website, you need to make your web store as attractive as possible and display your product range to the best advantage.

You may incorporate an online catalogue that provides detailed information on each product and make it easy for the online shopper to make a purchase. Perhaps it would be nice to have organized categories and use thumbnails to give faster load time. Just let the visitors learn about your product, win your customers’ interest before they will actually shop online.

Note that for a fail-safe eCommerce project it is highly recommended that the retailer is physically present in the web store having a real name instead of pseudonym, putting a personal picture and being ready to communicate with customers, explain the process of placing the order and proceeding with it. Simply let your customers feel that they know at least something about you to be certain that someone will take care of them.

Additionally, you should give clear and accessible information about your company, your contact information, customer service. It’s highly preferable to present these options as links on your eCommerce website’s main navigation menu. What’s also important here is to provide the answers to the commonly asked questions using FAQs, for instance. Your customers will feel comfortable with a fully developed customer service policy. They will also feel secure in your store if there is SSL on your online payment pages, some visible signs that your site is secure and online payment systems are safe. Plus you can show credibility signs like 3rd party trust logos, security audits of your website, accreditation logos included in strategic points on your site, etc. The above-mentioned factors are actually the prime concern of every potential online shopper.

Do you know that the visitors are sure to give up shopping with eCommerce websites that have large sections under construction or offer coming soon banners, stores that never offer any new content, littered with dead links, hosted by providers that provide slow or inconsistent services? Be sure, all this will kill online shopping and a business eventually. It is extremely important that you, as a solid online retailer, could afford to professionally maintain your eCommerce website, otherwise the visitors will leave you.

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The subtitles for a movie serve an important purpose. If your hearing is impaired or if you do not speak the language used in a movie, reading the subtitles can greatly help in keeping up with what goes on in every scene. If you have rented a DVD, chances are that it includes subtitles. But if you have downloaded a movie it might not have subtitles accompanying it.

To get subtitles for movies and TV shows, there are a number of free tools available online. These tools help you obtain subtitles and, in some cases, let you add subtitles of your own. Check out the list of 5 such tools that we have gathered below.

Subs.to lets you search for subtitles for movies. You can choose your desired language of subtitles. Supported languages include Farsi, Hebrew, Slovenian, and many more. Most of the subtitles include file format and FPS (frames per second) with them.

DivxSubtitles is another online database for subtitles for movies. The site offers better search options that include language, file format, date of upload, number of CDs, minimum quality, and name of movie.

Movie subtitles are not that hard to find online. What are hard to find are subtitles for television shows. Through TVsubtitles you can look for subtitles for most popular TV shows. Subtitles can be found in a variety of languages including English, French, Polish, Italian, Romanian, and many others.

SubtitleSync lets you search for movies and TV subtitles. Additionally it offers online apps for synchronizing, splitting, and merging your subtitle files. If the only subtitles file you can find is out of sync, then these online tools can be of great help.

Aegisub is an advanced subtitles tools. The tool is installable and comes in version for Windows, Mac OS, and Unix. You can use Aegisub to create subtitles and position them exactly where you want in your video. You can also edit the font style and size using this program. Existing subtitle files can also be modified.

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Online social networks are today scattered all over the internet. In addition to Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, and MySpace, there are countless other social networks you might not even have heard of. While these networks serve the purpose of helping you keep in touch with friends and family, they do not help you with keeping a track of your life – that can only be done through a diary.

Writing a diary mean documenting your days. You write what happened every day; then as time passes you read about your past events and feelings; this can be a great way to analyze how you have grown. Social networks do not offer this facility. Thankfully “Daileez” does.

Daileez can be you online diary that lets you express yourself fully. In a physical diary all you can store is text and doodles. But using Dialeez you can sign up for a free account and then start recording everyday via textual notes and emoticons.

These emoticons can be used as shortcuts too; for instance the first aid emoticon can be used to represent a visit to the doctor or an injury. The airplane icon can be used to mark journeys by air. This way you can express yourself without having to type a lot.

A bonus feature of the site is its ability to link Facebook and Twitter accounts with itself. While typing in a new message on Daileez you can choose it to simultaneously be posted on your Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Anybody who wants to keep a record of his days and how he / she spent them will find Daileez to be highly helpful.

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OffiSync Supercharges Microsoft Office, enabling users to significantly improve the way they create, collaborate and share their documents by integrating Microsoft Office with Google Docs, and Google Apps.

Installing OffiSync adds a new toolbar to any version of Microsoft Office, letting users easily import web content such as images and templates right from within MS Office, collaborate with others in real time, letting users see each other’s edits as they work with Office files and share their final documents with others inside or outside the firewall.

The OffiSync plug-in for Microsoft Office downloads seamlessly as a new toolbar in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel 2003, 2007 and 2010, making it very easy to use with no training required.

Opening and saving a document to Google Docs and Google Sites is as easy as using documents on your own computer.

OffiSync tracks, manages and syncs all changes made by collaborators to merge them correctly into one updated version of the document. With OffiSync you can work on a document while others do the same and see their changes appearing in real time.

The prices of fuel are today at a stage that we couldn’t have imagined a few years ago. With such high prices our main concern while traveling through cars is the cost of fuel required for each trip. What you could do to estimate the cost is check your car’s mileage, then calculate the distance of your journey, then factor in the local fuel rates; when all this information is at hand you can manually estimate the cost of fuel required. An alternative to the manual calculation is Go-Gas.

Go-Gas is a great website that can be of great benefit to people planning road trips. The site works in a very simple way.

Step 1: You see a map on the site’s homepage. You locate your position, and mark the departure and destination spots on the map. The map contains roads so the travelling-by-car distance from start to finish is automatically calculated by the site.

Step 2: Then you enter the information required by the website. This includes your car’s mileage and the local fuel rate. The fuel rate can be entered either in Euros or in Dollars.

Step 3: You enter these results and have the site estimate the total cost of required fuel for the journery.

The site’s feature is quite simple but greatly useful.

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This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find incredibly useful and life saver FREE web apps that you probably never heard of and these would be great enough to bookmark or just for get in your knowledge. I hope everyone of you will like this list, you can try these whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc.These are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 10 Best Business Web Apps To Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

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Project Bubble

Project Bubble is a simple and easy tool for managing your projects, client and invoices. It’s intuitive interface makes project management a breeze. You can easily generate PDF invoices and get paid through PayPal.

Collabtive is a modern Web application that allows teams to collaborate on projects, manage tasks, milestones, and files, and send instant messages to each other. It is multilanguage capable, supporting more than 20 languages. Collabtive integrates with other webservices via an XML API. It also provides importing functionality for data from other applications.

Pivotal Tracker is a great collaboration tool for people working on a software or web coding project. You start work on a project by first creating an account on the site. After logging in you can create and name a new project.

ShiftPlanning

ShiftPlanning is a free online employee scheduling management software aimed at helping businesses with their employee scheduling. Interactive and easy to use, ShiftPlanning is next-generation scheduling software that delivers precision and speed to the business’s scheduling responsibilities, freeing up time to concentrate on other demands.

Fortunately I have found a greatly user friendly task management tool and am about to share it with you – Doit.Im. Doit.Im is a free web app that offers task management services. It offers comprehensive options yet packs them into a neat and tidy interface.

Stixy is a free to use website that acts as your portable work desk. Basically it is a virtual desk that operates from within your browser. You create an account on Stixy then upload files to your account; you get thumbnail views of each file; these thumbnails can be dragged around or stacked on top of each other, whichever way suits you best. Thus whether it is organization you want or that scrambled documents look, Stixy can help you out.

Zoho is the name for a collection of services. The entries you see in the image above are only few of what Zoho has to offer. We can sign up for an account and use Zoho’s services to easily gather ideas and create plus modify files / documents / images / presentations as a group.

Tabzon is a free website that acts as an in-out board. It can work as a wonderful attendance tool for businesses. To take advantage of the site, the boss creates a Tabzon account. This requires entering the name of the company and no kind of personal details. Upon successful account creation we are provided with a URL for our company’s in-out board. We can then proceed to invite our employees to Tabzon either from within our account or by sharing the URL.

HiTask

HiTask is a friendly and easy-to-use task management system that anyone can start using right away. It is designed to satisfy both sophisticated followers of David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” methodology and anyone who just needs a quick and easy tool to manage their everyday tasks.

inDinero

Even if you are running a small business you need a service that analyzes your finances and keeps the figures updated. Through this analysis you can view if there are any upcoming shortages or anything you should be alarmed about. By monitoring the financial health of your business you are able to better ensure its success. inDinero makes that possible. inDinero is a web service that can be dashboard for your business’s financial health.

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All computer users want remote access to their files; but remote access requires your computer to stay powered on and have internet access. If you do not want to leave your computer powered on all the time, then uploading your files on the web is the best solution. You could use file hosting websites but that would be impractical as you would have to save separate URLs for each file. There are a few web services out there that let you upload files and keep it organized but almost all do not provide storage capacity more than 1 GB. That is what sets Humyo apart from its competition.

Humyo is a web service that lets you upload your files and access from anywhere on the web. The site offers paid service but it has a great free package as well: opting for the free package will give you 5 GB upload limit for media files (videos and audio) and a 5 GB limit for non-media files, totaling the storage capacity to 10 GB.

Apart from its massive storage, Humyo also features a great user friendly interface. Although it does not offer a desktop application, you can open up its Java app in your web browser and simply drag the files there to be uploaded. The Java app is in the bottom left of your dashboard.

With your files uploaded, you can sign into Humyo from a web browser on any computer and get access to your uploaded files.

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After long wait and excitement it seems the new digg launched. Yes! you read it right digg releases their version 4. People have too many reservations with digg’s new version but today is a day when every one has to accept it with it’s all pros and cons. At the moment, there are some deployment issues and implementations of the new version is going on due to which digg is responding very slow, but digg’s  administration is working very hard to get it rolled out successfully. Guys, you can follow us on digg by going here.

This is how new digg looks like

They also shared picture of the digg office to show the world what is going on there.

No doubt it’s a great news for digg community and now everyone is waiting to start exploring the new digg as production version. Will it give more surprises, to find out this we have to wait and keep using the new digg. I am hoping that this new digg will be as lovable as the old one for the community and it will be a much greater place for everyone. Good luck Digg.com guys.

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Usability engineering is a field that is concerned generally with human-computer interaction and specifically with making human-computer interfaces that have high usability or user friendliness. In effect, a user-friendly interface is one that allows users to effectively and efficiently accomplish the tasks for which it was designed.

The picture below is a most humorous example of user interface usability that any usability engineer would propose. I am sure there will be nothing to explain when you see the picture yourself because a picture is worth a 1000 words. Now it makes sense to me that why usability engineers don’t design video games.

Hint : If usability engineer develops video games then it might have a single button to click and rescue the princes instead of playing long time taking video games.

Via The Princess Rescuing Application: Slides

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Gardening is the hobby of many. It requires patience and knowledge; when you plant seeds, you need to take constantly care of them and be patient while they blossom into flowers.

If you are a gardener or planning to take up gardening as a hobby, check out the following online resources. These websites will provide you with various gardening practices, tips, and advices that will definitely help you out.

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This free to use website will help you identify plants. If you find an unknown plant somewhere and would like to plant it in your garden, you can use MyPlantID to find the plant’s name. this can be done entering the plant’s location and leaf properties or by uploading an image and having the site’s members identify the plant for you.

If you are going to rearrange your garden, this website is a perfect tool to visualize what the end result will look like. You get a grid onto which you can drag and drop various garden elements: paving, paths, fences, trees, shrubs, flowers, ponds, fountains, etc. The final image can be printed out in high quality.

GardenPuzzle is another garden planner but it offers a more 3-dimensional look. You can upload a picture of your garden and then place the plants on the site in the picture. It can be useful in getting an idea of how the plants will go with the rest of the garden.

Not only do you have to take care of a plant’s nourishment but you also have to fend off pests and diseases the plants might be prone to. This website can help you identify the diseases and pest infecting your garden’s plants. You can see how to prevent and control each of the diseases and pests.

Planting seeds on the right time is crucial to a plant’s successful growth. Use this website to find when is the best time to plant certain plants according to your location.

Just like Facebook is a social network for friends and family, iBotanika is a social network for gardening enthusiasts. Instead of a wall you get ‘Greenhouse’ on which you add plants and record their health, maintenance, environment, and location.

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