COTA: Leaving tracks—and erasing them—on the info superhighway
If you visit Amazon.com and put a few items in your cart, those items will be there waiting for you when you come back. Convenient? Yes. Expected? Yes. But it goes beyond that.
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WEB REVIEW: Padding out the functions on your new iPad
Judging by the action at the local Apple store, I think it’s safe to assume that many of you rang in 2011 with a new iPad. Here are some things to do with it.
WEB REVIEW: Find your address book perplexing? Consider Plaxo
At heart, Plaxo is a manager for your address book (or Rolodex if you happen to be of a certain generation).
SURF THIS: Start benefiting from a social media platform
Seems like almost every day a new social media platform is born. If you added them all up, you would easily be in the hundreds.
Obviously, all of them are too much for all of us to pay much attention to, but there are a few you should not only know about,
but participate in.
SURF THIS: Two sites meet demands of meeting planners
E-mail is a great communication tool. But sometimes, it simply falls flat on its face. TimeBridge and Tungle help users get down to business.
SURF THIS: Web Research 101 … going beyond Wikipedia
Wikipedia remains the de facto standard for research, having an archive containing more than 15
million articles. But if you need to go beyond the basic facts, there are a variety of places to turn.
SURF THIS: Think your family is awkward? Check this out.
Sharing this guilty pleasure makes me feel a little … well, grimy.
COTA: Getting things done is more than just a resolution
When the work seems to pile up, OmniFocus and Things can help productivity.
COTA: Get out of town … but click first
There’s a lot more than Travelocity when it comes to booking travel online.