retaggr - your online presence everywhere
retaggr is about two things:
- displaying your Profile Card so the world can keep up to date with the details you choose
- tagging people you know on images anywhere on the web (not just on some social networks)
What is my Profile Card?
- Your profile card is like your business card for the web, except so much more!
- Aside from your name, bio, and links to your websites, you can add widgets to your card which will be visible to anyone that views your card.
- What kind of widgets? Recent blog posts, recent tweets from twitter, recent photos, the ability to communicate via MSN/Gtalk/Skype, and more.
- Explore the widgets on the My Profile Card page for a full list.
- Consolidate all your online identities into one.
What can I do with my Profile Card?
- On retaggr enabled blogs and partner sites, your Profile Card will be left when you leave a comment. Look for this icon:
- Embed it in your webpage! We have some options for you. Get started here.
- Include it in your email signature
- Encourage others to link to it when referring to you on their blog. If they retaggr enable their site, those (normal) links will pop up your card.
How do I embed my card in a blog / website?
- Anyone can embed or link to your card, by clicking “Embed” on your Profile Card, and following the instructions there.
- If you’re looking for something smaller, check out the retaggr badge
Where will my Profile Card be shown?
- Anywhere you (or anyone else) embeds it - blogs, websites, etc.
- As a pop up card on images in which you are tagged
- As a pop up card on retaggr enabled websites, when they link to you
- If you include it in your msn tag line, email signature, and so on, others will be able to view it by visiting the address in their browser
- If you have installed it on your blog, against your name when you post
- Linked from your retaggr email signature
- In community features on this site (Edit your settings if you’d like to change that)
Have fun with this new interactive business card.
DropCard
Nice FREE networking app for easily sending your “virtual business card” via your cell phone by DropCard.
1. Create your profile with your contact information.
2. Text their email to 41411 (for example, drop janesmith@email.com) or check out their shortcuts
3. They’ll receive your information by email (for example, your website, blog, LinkedIn and more) and they can immediately save it to their address book.
For premium service at $3.99 a month you have the ability to add a logo, attach files or documents and receive statistics.
Visit DropCard’s website at http://www.mydropcard.com/index.php.
I have not tried this but if you have, let me know how you like it!!!
Backing Up Data Made Easy
Losing your valuable files through accidental deletion, hard drive crashes, theft or virus attacks can be devastating. Data loss always carries a disastrously high cost in time, money and stress.
Making regular backup copies of your files is a good idea — you’d do it if you knew where to begin, right? There’s a free, simple-to-use program that allows you to create, schedule and run your own backups 5 minutes after you’ve downloaded it? Just pick your source and destination folders, pick the times you want it to run and you’re set. From now on, if your data gets lost, damaged or deleted you can quickly recover it at the touch of a button.
Comodo BackUp is suitable for both beginners and experienced users and is completely free of charge. Features of free Backup Software include complete file and folder duplication to local and network drives, FTP servers and CD/DVD re-writers; intelligent incremental backups; e-mail reporting; extensive report logs; real-time backups with synchronization mode; advanced rule-based filtering; flexible scheduling of backups; space-saving archiving capabilities and more.
Operating Systems
- Windows Vista
- Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or later)
- Windows 2000 (Service Pack 3 or later)
Hardware
- Intel Pentium II 233 MHz or equivalent processor
- 128 MB RAM
- 12 MB free hard drive space
Free CraigsList Search Tool
Are you an avid CraigsList reader? If you are, you know searching CraigsList is time-consuming and rather clunky. You need the free CraigsList Reader by Motion Technologies.
Main features include:
Your search will be based on multiple locations and multiple categories. Fast searches are performed by using concurrent connections. You can also only search for titles or for the jobs that have images.
You search through all the categories and sub-categories. A section “Categories” is provided in the left menu so that you can easily select mutliple categories and sub-categories.
You can search through the entire world, or just some Country, State or City.
A separate section “Options” is provided for you to manage your search settings. You can set the maximum thread count value and also you have the option to “Save settings when exit” or “Save Search result when exit.”
You can easily sort items by location, category or heading.
Save some time and get organized with the free CraigsList Reader search tool.
JiWire Wi-Fi Finder and Hotspot Directory
Taking care of business on the road is free and easy with a laptop and JiWire’s Wi-Fi Finder and Hotspot Directory. With a current listing of over 240,000 free or paid Wi-Fi hotspots in 135 countries, it’s easy to stay in touch with your clients. JiWire also offers free Wi-Fi tools for Apple’s iPhone, Skype, a widget for Mac Os X, and Hotspot Helper for Windows XP, find hotspots with or without an Internet connection. JiWire Wi-Fi Finder is a nice tool for business road warriors and the leisure traveler.
Repair corrupted or damaged Word documents for free
I ran across this free program from GetData and thought it worthy of attention. It’s a FREE program and has a 100% guarantee!
Repair My Word “is a data recovery program for Microsoft Word documents. It is designed to recover text from damaged or corrupt Word files (.doc files) that will not open normally. The recovered text can then be saved as an error free Microsoft Word document.
Some common error messages which can prevent a user opening a Microsoft Word document include:
- “The document name or path is not valid. Try these suggestions. Check the file permissions for the document or drive. Use the File Open dialog box to locate the document.”
- “Word cannot open the document.”
- “Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privileges.”
- When you attempt to open a Microsoft Word 97 document into Microsoft Word version 6.x or 7.x, the document contains garbage characters.
Repair My Word will allow you to obtain access to the contents of corrupt word documents. It will repair Microsoft Word 6.0, Word 95, 97, 2000, XP, and 2003 for Windows.
Repair My Word is simple to use. Just open the corrupt Word file, preview the recoverable text in the preview window and save this text to a new error free Word file.”
Free Online Collaboration and TinyURL
As you may have noticed, I don’t write a lot of entries solely written about a topic I believe I have expertise or more knowledge than someone else. When I have a “light bulb” moment to share an experience or thought I think is worth writing, I do.
The main intent of this blog is to bring to you the best news, freeware, tech tips and more that I have found reading the mountains of newsletters and web sites I have visited. A lot of my recommendations come from everyday experience with my clients who are seeking a specific software and/or I use myself.
TinyURL - “Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you’ve come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.”
Turn this URL:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&mqma
p.x=300&mqmap.y=75&mapdata=%252bKZmeiIh6N%252bI
gpXRP3bylMaN0O4z8OOUkZWYe7NRH6ldDN96YFTIUmSH3Q6
OzE5XVqcuc5zb%252fY5wy1MZwTnT2pu%252bNMjOjsHjvN
lygTRMzqazPStrN%252f1YzA0oWEWLwkHdhVHeG9sG6cMrf
XNJKHY6fML4o6Nb0SeQm75ET9jAjKelrmqBCNta%252bsKC
9n8jslz%252fo188N4g3BvAJYuzx8J8r%252f1fPFWkPYg%
252bT9Su5KoQ9YpNSj%252bmo0h0aEK%252bofj3f6vCP
into this tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/6
Which one would you rather cut and paste into your browser? That’s the power of TinyURL! Click and drag the following link to your links toolbar.
TinyURL!
Once this is on your toolbar, you’ll be able to make a TinyURL at the click of a button. By clicking on the toolbar button, a TinyURL will be created for the page you are currently at.
This is compatible with most web browsers and platforms as long as your bookmarks or favorites allow javascript. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar.
Don’t want to be instantly redirected to a TinyURL and instead want to see where it’s going before going to the site? Not a problem with our preview feature.
Author’s Note: If you find this software useful, please do send a donation to support the future development of this terrific time-saving software and to encourage the open source and freeware development communities.
Writeboard makes it easy to…
Write without fear of losing or overwriting a good idea
Compare different versions of a document
Collaborate with colleagues on copy, proposals, memos, etc.
Subscribe to documents via RSS and be notified of changes
Keep your writings organized with Backpack integration
Writeboard is perfect for…
Authors, journalists, PR folks, editors, and publishers
Bloggers or freelance/independent writers
Letter writers, songwriters, poets, comedians, creatives
Students, professors, and groups collaborating on a paper
…and plenty more! Writeboard is great for personal and business use.
Free Time Sheet Recorder
I’ve been working nonstop the past few days but wanted to make sure I gave you some news or free productivity tool. HourGuard is another free top-quality program from NCH Software. I have been using this company’s free and paid software for years and have never been disappointed.
HourGuard is a completely free, easy-to-use time-sheet and time-recording software designed to relieve the pressure of having to account for your time. Using HourGuard is simple. Just click start when you begin working on a task and stop when you’re finished. HourGuard will store this as a time sheet entry.
When you have completely finished your task, HourGuard will create a full time sheet including a breakdown of what you did when. HourGuard also lets you create invoices to bill for your time.
Designed to be very easy and intuitive to use, this software will have you up and running within minutes. Simply download now and install. We make HourGuard free in the hope you will like it so much you will try our other business related software.
Features
- Start and stop timing with the push of a button
- Choose to start timing automatically when your computer becomes active.
- Create your own easy to follow task structures by breaking your projects down into sub-tasks.
- Create manual time sheet entries for those times you are not at your computer.
- Manage your tasks effectively by marking them as active (default), complete or closed.
- Generate easy-to-read activity reports.
- Save, print or email reports for billing purposes.
- Runs in the background without interfering with your normal day to day tasks.
- Easy to use interface makes timing your tasks a breeze.
- Completely free.
Works with Windows 98/2000/XP/2003/Vista
