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Google Wave Developer Preview At Google I/O 2009
Saturday, July 4th, 2009Apple is cutting price on iPhone and MacBook
Monday, June 8th, 2009The long debated price reduction for iPhone is finally here. Apple has announced a reduction in price for Iphone and MacBook today. iPhone prices are reduced by half and the MacBook prices are reduced by $300. 8GB iPhone will only cost $99 after the price cut and the 16GB version will cost $199. A 13 inch MacBook Pro starts at $1,200 and 15 inch at $1,700 after the $300 price cut. MacBook Air will be priced at $1,500.
Another good news to the iPhone fans is the introduction of two new models of the iPhone called 3G S. The new model comes with a faster processor, a video camera, an improved photo camera and an internal compass. A 16GB version will cost $199 and 32 GB will cost $299. The new models are expected to be available by Jun 19th.
What more do you want? Oh, how about an upgrade to the iPhone software? Yes, the 3.0 software update will be available for download from Jun 17th.
S3CRM – Recharge your business
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Keeping a small or medium-sized business knows afloat during these trying times can be a huge challenge, like walking on a tight rope. When your business is facing a crisis, you need to make sure that your CRM solution is up to the challenge that lies ahead.
S3 CRM is a new and revolutionary web based software application that can easily be integrated into any small to medium sized business and will enable business owners to make their processes and service more efficient and therefore will not only save but make money too.
If you are looking for an amazing all round CRM solution to manage your business better, S3 CRM is your best bet.
Here is what you can expect from S3 CRM the most flexible, accessible, cost effective and user friendly CRM solution available:
- Customer, Contacts and Employees contact information storage – all contact details can be stored in different categories for easy retrieval.
- Quoting and invoicing tools – create quotes for customers. When a customer accepts a quote, users can easily turn these into invoices to be sent at a later date.
- Employee calendars – this feature allows a business owners to view the meetings, events and tasks for each day in the calendar. You can also keep track of employees who are on leave or who called in sick.
- Project tools – use this feature to define projects, set deadlines, define tasks under projects and assign tasks to users. You can view the project progress at any stage ensuring that you keep on top of your work
- Email marketing – create email marketing campaigns in minutes and send them to all on your email marketing list.
- Reporting tools – check outstanding invoices; find out which customer generates the most revenue for your business and much more.
- Easy to use dashboard – users can create their own dashboard and a glance at the dashboard would give you an overview of your business at any stage. So make decisions faster and more efficiently
- Accessibility – as S3 CRM is web based users can log into their account from anywhere in the world. So you stay in touch with your business even if you are out of the country.
- Easy to use – S3 CRM is so easy to use that anyone can learn how to access it and utilize its features in just a few hours – which means saying goodbye to long and expensive training days for employees.
- Cost effective – S3 CRM costs £4.99 / $9.99 per month which makes it one of the most reasonably priced CRM solutions in the market.
In addition to these features S3 CRM also offers – document storage, meeting planning tools, route optimization tools, recycle bin – the list is endless, proving that S3 CRM really is the best bet for managing your business.
What’s more? It comes with a 14 day free trial. So be sure check it out! You have nothing to lose but loads to gain.
Want to host your cricket tournament online?
Friday, April 3rd, 2009Ever wondered as to whether or how you could host your local cricket tournaments online?
Well, Crickees.com offers a very unique solution. I found their Cricket Tournament Hosting facility very appealing and interesting and it really suited the need of one of my friends who is into organizing cricket tournaments. I enjoyed getting updated on the match results and reading up on the happenings at the ground as well as visiting the photo gallery to see my favorite players in action.
The Crickees cricket tournament hosting platform is specifically designed to host cricket tournaments in the limited over format of the game.
It presents an extremely simple and easy-to-use interface for the Cricket Tournament Organizers to enter the tournament details, details of players and teams, upcoming matches, scorecard once a match is over. The statistics as well as the net run rate are then automatically calculated and displayed separately.
The reason why I find the Crickees Cricket Tournament Hosting Platform appealing is that
- Audience from anywhere in the world can get up to date details of their favorite upcoming matches as well as read up on tournament news & events
- Audience can easily access the detailed match scorecard, match result and also check up on the points table online
- There is a fabulous photo gallery where the audience can view their favorite players in action.
- It is a highly suitable and handy tool to keep track of all the records and statistics.
- An additional functionality is the calculation of the net run rate which will prove extremely convenient and transparent, when deciding the winner from a pool of teams having the same number of points.
So, if you are planning to organize a cricket tournament and you want to host it online, look no further!
You can easily create your own cricket tournament website and host it online using the Crickees tournament hosting platform to conveniently store all the statistics, match schedules, results, related news and photos.
Check out some of the Cricket Tournaments hosted on crickees.com platform: technopark.crickees.com, mcc.crickees.com, ecct.crickees.com, mace.crickees.com
Take a step forward to bring interactivity, transparency and fun to your cricket tournament.
Website testing across 17 Windows browsers on your Mac
Monday, March 30th, 2009Litmus has released Alkaline 1.0 for Mac OS X. It’s a cross-browser testing tool for web designers and developers, letting them test their website designs on 17 different Windows browsers right from their Mac desktop in seconds.
According to the folks at Litmus, since Alkaline uses a vast remote grid of Windows computers to gather website screen shots, no installation of Windows is required, nor is any other additional software.
Using Alkaline in combination with Coda and Textmate plug-ins gives the best possible testing experience. It allows for instant cross-browser webs site testing from right inside these coding tools.
Alkaline was developed for Litmus by Shiny Development. It’s available with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”) or higher.
Alkaline 1.0 is free of charge to test web site designs in two browsers (Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0 on Windows). To access all 17 available web browsers the user can either purchase a 24 hour pass for US$24 or a monthly subscription for $49 per month.
Convert HTML Websites into PDF
Monday, March 30th, 2009I have come across a very useful web tool called HTML-PDF-Converter. It’s a simple service to convert the web pages to PDF files. No need to install applications on your computer. It’s completely free and without registration!
On some occasions you might want or need to convert a website or a specific web page into a PDF document. For example, if you come across a really interesting article or a fabulous web page that you want to save locally in your computer for future reference.
You just need to type the URL of the website or page, and in a matter of seconds a download window will open asking where you want to save the PDF document.
Give it a try and do comment if you found it useful!
Promote your website and increase online traffic
Monday, March 30th, 2009Wondering about how to promote your newly created website and get it off the ground? Well, here is a very simple lightweight solution. And you also have the additional benefit that you do not need to be a developer to do this.
You must have seen this button in many websites and blogs.
In case you haven’t seen this anywhere, check out the website crickees.com. Look at the extreme right corner. Crickees.com uses a customized version of the standard button.
Addthis – The #1 bookmarking and sharing service helps you and your website users to share content with the help of one button. By making sharing easy for your users you can ensure that that your content gets promoted and your website traffic gets boosted. You can also track how users are sharing your content by using their free usage analytics. Use the data to optimize your site and how you want to share it. Boosting traffic back to your page increases your search engine rankings. Isn’t it great?
So how exactly do you do this?
Go to addthis.com and click on “Get your button”
Select the button you want and a code is generated for you. Copy and paste the code snippet into your pages and voila you are done! Try it out!
One button and your content everywhere!


