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With my current job position, I have a lot of moving parts in my schedule and am constantly scheduling a lot of meetings throughout each week. Inevitably, they get cancelled or postponed to a later date, and there are times when I can’t keep up with who I am meeting and when. Anyone else have this problem?
With the technology and smartphones that we have, I know it is a lot easier to take control of your calendar and see when things are happening. Sometimes I just want to know what is coming up for the current day. That is where Sunrise.im comes into play. It is a simple way to take a look at your daily schedule without all of the clutter and it is so easy to use. Let’s take a look.
While email has made it super-convenient to send a message to anyone in the world, it has taken away some of the charm of good old letter-writing. An email is essentially just a text file with attachments, while traditional letters had so much more to them. The letter was a blank canvas in which you could get more personal and communicate the way you want—you could stick a photo in it, sketch a cartoon, draw diagrams, attach sticky notes and so much more.
Well, the guys at @bubbles promise you can do all that while keeping the convenience of modern email intact. It’s a reimagination of what letter writing in the age of the internet should be, and we have to say, it’s quite cool.
Apple’s hardware and software releases have become global news events, something even non-techies know about. Practically everyone that is any bit informed about the phone industry at all knows Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 this week, enough so that its already sold out in preorders. Yet it’s a slightly unknown fact that Apple makes some very nice web apps for iCloud, ones that bring many of its well known native apps to any browser.
This past week, right along with unveiling new hardware and iOS software, Apple also upgraded its iCloud web apps. They’ve now finally dropped their beta tag, and gained the new Notes and Reminders apps that have become standard parts of iOS and OS X. Let’s take a look.
Email newsletters can still be one of the most effective marketing strategies. When you send out an email campaign, you’re sending a message directly to people who are already interested in your products and services: current customers, fans of your brand, and people who are considering buying your products. The only problem is, email newsletters can get pricey to send. With most email services, you’d spend over $100 to send out email newsletters if you’re contacting more than 10,000 subscribers.
How about sending out 10,000 emails for just $1? Does that sound better to your ears? How about getting the same features, with even more flexibility, and still saving that much money? Sounds like Sendy might be what your business needs.
Whether you’ve got ten customers or a thousand, email is perhaps the best way to keep them informed about what’s going on with your brand, product, or service. There are several apps out there that let you do just that, but what if you’re looking for a solution that doesn’t require a lot of time, coding and testing skills or effort? Enter Mad Mimi.
I’m still wondering how the name came to be, but in the meantime I tried the app and found it to be easy to set up and use, and perfect for businesses with customer bases big and small. Mad Mimi keeps things simple and affordable while offering plenty of useful features — but is it the newsletter service you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out. (more…)
If you’re a frequent Evernote user, then you’ll know that it’s not really big on notification features. In fact, making To-Do’s and lists in Evernote is easy – but the hard part is getting them done. Often times, you need to open the app once or twice a day just to be reminded of things you need to do.
With a web app like Evernotify, you can now receive e-mail notifications of tasks you have saved in Evernote. Here’s how:
There was a time, long ago in the mid-1990s, when Microsoft was the leader in email. Everyone who was anyone had a hotmail account. I remember mine well. It was joeyc1020@hotmail.com and it was my first foray into electronic mail.
The web has come a long way since those humble beginnings of the email awakening, and a lot has changed. I moved from Hotmail to Yahoo! Mail, then was a fairly early Gmail user (early 2004- thank you, dear Blooger account for getting me early access) and I’ve been on there ever since. As a matter of fact, I feel everything pales in comparison to Gmail. But when I found out that Microsoft was launching as a brand new email service, Outlook.com, I was curious and signed up. Let’s see what I found.
I don’t know how many times I get an email and it has something in it that’s important, so I do one of two things. I either leave it in my inbox or I archive it thinking that I am going to remember about it later. We all know how this goes: it either gets buried under all my other emails and I never look at it or I just forget about it. Or what about this scenario, you are out and about and you remember that you need to stop at the grocery store on the way home for milk. I know for me, I tend to just shoot myself a quick email so that I can remember or I put it in my task manager app and set an alarm. But, these never seem to work the way that I want them to and since I change task managers like I change my clothes, that doesn’t help either.
That is why when I came across FollowUpThen (FUT), I just had to try it out and see if it could work for me. The minute I started to use it, I started to see the potential and the different ways that I could use it to remember things. FUT is so simple to use and learn that you will find yourself using it literally in seconds.
Junk email is simply a normal part of online life these days. As if spam wasn’t bad enough, we make our own lives harder by signing up for newsletters and social network updates through emails, which essentially becomes junk mail we’ve almost asked for.
Rather than doing anything about it, most of us just accept the reality that we’ll have dozens of unimportant emails to skim through each day. We check each one, just in case there’s some important info. We’re wasting our lives clicking on pointless emails instead of getting our work done. I, personally, am ready to wake up to just a few emails, rather than 37 junk emails sent the night before.
Luckily, there are two great new services that have really helped me cut down on the amount of junk email that I receive: Scoop and Unroll.me. Stick with me after the jump to learn how these two services helped take care of my junk email problem.
Attachments are incredibly difficult to manage, especially in Gmail. Sure, you can use one of their custom search hack like has:attachment myfile.txt to locate a specific file or files with a particular extension. The problem is, Gmail seriously lacks content relevant search, like what you see on Google Images. Being a Gmail user since its inception, I’ve sent and received tens of thousands of emails, and at least a tenth of them have attachments. I don’t have to tell you how messy it would be if you’ve to open every other mail to find that one photo your girlfriend shared with you 5 years ago (True story!).
There should be a better way, I can hear you say. Oh! Yes, there is and that’s exactly what I’m going to show you today.
