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Feeling like your pants have a hole in its pockets? Do you know how is your money being used and where it goes? Today, we’ll review a simple but useful online tool that will help you to track all your expenses and update it wherever you are, whenever you want, with a simple text message or twitter. Let’s review Texthog.

Texthog is a free and simple online expenses traciking tool. As simple as that!

With Texthog you can:

* Send transactions via Text (SMS) and Email
* Tags & Categories help organize transactions
* Export Data to Quickbooks, Excel, and Quicken
* View trends and generate spending reports
* Budgets and Reminders to Stay on Track
* Track expenses among large and small groups

How does it work?

Step1
Create your free account

Step2
Start updating your expenses report via online, sms, twitter or email

Step3
Track your expenses and start taking control of your finances!

Visit the Official Website: http://www.texthog.com/

We’ve been posting for the last two days different online tools for everyone planning events for their business, shows, school and organization activities, clients, etc. All these useful online tools alow to plan and organize your events, but today, we’ll provide you with 4 online services that will help you to actually promote and sell tickets for these events.

Event Brite

Eventbrite is the leading provider of online event management and ticketing services. Eventbrite makes it easy for anyone to hold a successful event of any type and size. Eventbrite is free if your event is free. If you sell tickets to your event, Eventbrite collects a small fee per ticket. So just like you, Eventbrite wants your event to be a big success.

The Eventbrite service includes many features and tools intended to let you perform three basic tasks really well:

1. Publish: Everything you need to create and easily personalize a custom web page for your event.
2. Promote: The tools you need to spread the word about your event and maximize attendance.
3. Sell: The immediate power to sell tickets and collect moneyonline.

Eventbrite helps businesses & organizations of all sizes manage, promote and sell-out their events.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.eventbrite.com/

Eventzi

Eventzi is a 100% free online service that allows you to sell tickets for all your events and start taking payments instantly. The service has a small fee charge for all your paid event tickets sold online. If your event is free to attend, then Eventzi’s service is free to use.

What are the features?

Creation Features
* Create your own personalised event web page
* Upload a logo or banner to brand your event web page
* Grab your own personalised URL
* Create multiple ticket types such as member or VIP
* Add discount codes to your tickets
* Add the location of your event
* Use the repeat event feature if your event repeats daily, weekly or monthly

Promotion Features
* Get the word out by sending customised email invitations
* Easily import email addresses from your address book in several different programs (Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Plaxo, Gmail, etc)
* Import and save contacts to your account for easy access next time
* Send reminders, to all registered attendees or certain groups of attendees
* Add video and photos to your event page to show off what you do!
* Share your event to several social sites using the share button

Selling Features
* You can start selling tickets and accepting payment in minutes
* Attendees can buy tickets in under a minute
* Accept 17 International Currencies in 103 Countries
* Accept a range of credit cards
* View real-time reporting of event revenue
* Your attendees can be seen in the attendees report which can be used as a door entry sheet

What are the benefits?

* Customisable event web page
* Analysis of events and revenues
* Sell tickets and take payment online
* $0.20 / £0.10 fee per ticket sold
* Email ticketing
* Centralise Contacts

Visit the Official website: http://www.eventzi.com/

TicketLeap

TicketLeap is today, the fastest growing ticketing company in the U.S. for small-to-midsize events, helping over 8,000 event organizers increase their sales and simplify their ticketing.

No event would be too small for even our earliest TicketLeap team — from Halloween parties and student activities with a few dozen tickets to sporting events, music festivals, conferences, expos and everything in between.

Why should you use TicketLeap?

* Customized solutions that grow with you.
TicketLeap works with the fastest-growing events out there. So, it’s vital that our technology is flexible enough to keep up, allowing you to increase capacity and add features at no additional cost.
* Personal service whenever you need it.
Your events don’t shut down after 5 PM, so neither does TicketLeap. Your business relies on the Team, so they’re here for you, day or night.
* Easy ticket purchasing for your patrons.
TicketLeap makes buying tickets so quick and easy — online, onsite and on-the-go — that your patrons will come back again and again.
* Automated ticket sales to save you time.
Ticketing is just one of dozens of details you’re juggling for your event, so TicketLeap put your ticketing on auto-pilot for you. Set it up once and watch as the ticket sales start rolling in.
* More options. Lower fees.
TicketLeap runs its business to be as cost-efficient as possible, so you (or your patrons) pay only the lowest fees anywhere.

What are some of the key feautures?

Sell tickets anywhere
* Online sales
* Box office sales
* Automated phone sales
* Accept credit cards everywhere

Market your event
* Email marketing & invitations
* Buttons for your website
* Branded tickets
* Custom survey forms

Manage every detail
* Sales tracking & analysis
* Reserved seating charts
* Ticket barcode scanning
* One-on-one customer service

Visit the Official Website: http://www.ticketleap.com/

TicketDerby

TicketDerby offers to all those individuals and small businesses that need to promote their events and sell tickets in a easy and secure way. TicketDerby offers a platform that will provide their users with the tools needed to sell their event tickets in few and easy steps.

Why should you use TicketDerby?
* Excellent customer service
* Free for sellers
* Lowest ticket fees in the industry
* Easy to use

For sellers
* TicketDerby has leading promotion tools
* Discount codes, group discounts, web links and web buttons
* which helps you sell more tickets. Oh and it is free!

For buyers
* Lowest per ticket fees, excellent customer service and easy to use!

Visit the Official Website: http://www.ticketderby.com/

Ready to take the big step? Today we’ll list a brief review about 4 useful tools to plan your wedding and share the fun and memories of this memorable event. Planning a wedding shouldn’t be a stressful experience. These online tools will provide you with those services needed to plan, invite, organize and track the progress of your event. If you’re a Wedding Planner, these tools will make your life, plans and work a little bit easier. Let’s review these 5 online tools.

FluidTables

FluidTables is a very simple and easy online service that allows you to organize your guest lists and room tables, match and organize them.

FluidTables offers you the opportunity to plan and organize all the room table according with your needs and resources, in just few clicks. You can move, add or delete guests or tables and work closely (import/export) with Excel. It also allows you to print, save or send the arragements and room charts via email, pdf or fax.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.fluidtables.com/

MomentVille

MomentVille is an online service that allows you to plan your Wedding Event. With a website, RSVPs, checklists, budgets and more a MomentVille account gives you everything you need  to plan and share your wedding! Best of all, it’s FREE!

The best of MomentVille is that it offers you not just the opportunity to plan your event, create your website, send invitations, but it also allows you to search for thousands of local vendors and service providers in its directory. Search, compare, rank and rate them using the MyVendors planning tool. Finding a vendor has never been so simple!

MomentVille indicates that the tools offered are by far the easiest to use, so you can spend more time on what is important: your wedding!

What are some of the key features?

Free Website Features
* Designer Themes & Matching Invites
* Invitations and Messages
* RSVPs
* Websites Never Expire
* Unlimited Pages
* Photo Albums
* Slideshows, Videos & More
* Photo Storage
* Ad Free For Guests
* Guestbooks
* Guest Uploads
* Blog
* Feeds & Subscriptions
* Email Notification
* Custom Fonts and Colors
* Customer Service and Tech Support

Premium Website Features
* Custom Themes
* Password Protection
* Music
* Increased Storage
* View Counter
* Downloadable Keepsake
* Ad Free For You

Planning Features
* Wedding Checklist
* Appointments
* Wedding Budget
* Payments
* My Vendors
* Dashboard
* Reminders

Visit the Official Website: http://www.momentville.com/

Seating arragement

Seating Arrangement is a Wedding and Event Planning software, designed to take the anxiety out of Guest Management and the Seating Assignment process. Seating Arrangement was designed by party and wedding coordinators with 30 years experience in the business and have organized thousands of events.

What can you do with Seating Arrangement?

* Design a Floor Plan, in which you can easily arrange tables, stage, dance floor, etc. in a graphical manner.
* Manage your Guest List, where you can organize Guests by Primary and Secondary Groups, track RSVP, keep gift records, and much more.
* Assign Seating, where you will specify, again in a graphical manner, which guests will sit at what tables.
* View Reports about your guests and event.
* Print your Floor Plan, Guest List, RSVP cards, Place Cards and Mailing Labels.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.seatingarrangement.com/

Invity

Invity is a feature rich online Indian e-invitation platform built with your privacy. You can invite, share wedding album & your stories, RSVP, choose designs, receive blessings and do many. That is what makes it different. A Wedding website helps to create your personalised online wedding invitation with all the details, which is not possible with your marriage invitation card. A wedding website is referred as wedsite.

Personal Wedding Website (Wedsite) is not a luxury any more, it’s a must have!

Announcing your Wedding plans, the e-way is the best option in today’s fast paced life style. A wedding website (Wedsite) is fun and adds to making your wedding an unforgettable occasion. Invity.com boasts the most comprehensive wedding website (Wedsite) available allowing you to add/edit/delete all aspects of your wedsite and build your own tailor-made site within minutes. It strives for continuous improvement.

Some of the key features are:
* Photogallery
* Email Support
* Unlimited RSVP’s
* Testimonials
* Passcode Protection
* Background Music
* Quiz/Polls
* Unlimited Changes
* Emails/SMS Alerts
* Blessbook
* Recent Activities
* Ads Free

Visit the Official website: http://www.invity.com/

Zankyou

Zankyou is a unique online service that allows you to create your wedding list and get the full cash equivalent in your bank account.

How’s that possible? As soon as your Wedding Page is up and running, you can create your Wedding List. Your guests can visit your Wedding List, choose the gift they prefer and pay for it by credit card. Any guests who don’t use the internet can also buy gifts over the phone (local telephone numbers in UK, Ireland, France, Belgium, Spain and Italy).

You can request a transfer at any time to your regular bank account (the bank account that you give us, there’s no need to open a special account).

Zankyou will transfer the full cash equivalent of the gifts you’ve received from your guests and in less than 48 hours the money will be in your regular bank account. You can then do whatever you like with the money. That’s how it should be, it’s yours.

Why should you use Zankyou?
* Create your private wedding website for free , with no adverts and many features * Receive the full value of the gifts in your bank account.
* Make the gift list of your dreams as you can include any item you want. At Zankyou you can create your own gifts, for example the different stages of your honeymoon, a dinner at a fancy restaurant or a donation to a humanitarian cause. Any gift is possible!
* Use the contributions as you choose, with no obligations. Since we transfer to your bank account all of the contributions made by your guests, you are free to use it as you want.
* Enjoy your wedding website in 5 languages. Your guests coming from abroad will be happy to use it in their own language (and will be able to offer you a gift from anywhere in the world).
* Allow your guests to buy their gifts over the phone.

What are some of the benefits?
* You’ll get the full cash equivalent of the gifts received in your regular bank account.
* You’ll be free to use the gifts as you wish. The money will be in your account, so you can do as you like!
* You’ll be able to create the gifts you want and include them in your list. Any gift is possible – stages in your honeymoon, charitable contributions, etc.
* Your wedding list will be accessible in 5 languages and your guests will have access to our customer services in their own language.
* You’ll have the most advanced privacy options on the market.
* You’ll be able to include your list on your Zankyou webpage or create a link to it from another website if you already have one.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.zankyou.com/

What online service have you used for your memorable event?

One of the common activities or tasks offered by many different freelancers, professionals, small business owners and especially, virtual assistants, is planning and setting events and meetings for their clients. today, we’ll provide a quick view of some useful online tools that will make this event planning process a little bit easier. Now, you might need to select the most accurate and useful tool depending on the event and things you want to achieve from this activity. Here’s the quick view of these 17 useful online event planner services:

Bantora

Bantora is the place for connecting like-minded people in the coder / developer / planner community and making events happen. If you are looking for fresh ways to share your ideas, get support for existing ones or better still, create new ones, Bantora might be for you.

Bantora provides you with the necessary tools and resources to get an event going and keeping it going once the event is over. Share knowledge through the Bantora Planner Community, plan and discuss in blogs and connect with its social networking features.

Visit the Official Website: http://bantora.com/

Pogby

Pogby is the first and only web solution to provide event planners and suppliers with real-time venue availability and the ability to reserve and book a venue for a special event. The first-ever venue booking engine, coupled with sophisticated search and planning capabilities, meets an untapped need within a multi-billion dollar event planning industry.

Pogby.com will be the premier distribution channel for venues to list and market their services effectively on line.

Finally, Pogby.com introduces the only on-line event-planning community, fostering venue and supplier awareness, affinity, partnerships and expert reviews associated with the experience of planning an event.

Pogby provides the ability for suppliers to distribute their assets and venues to market as well as manage and confirm actual bookings. Pogby is the first website that gives vendors control over their inventory, budget, lead generation and performance. Pogby makes it simple for planners to book events at your location and provides a robust on-line solution for managing your customer relationships.

With Pogby, event planners can search, check availability, book unique venues and associated suppliers automatically using the first to market on-line tools such as:

* View venue availability and event calendar
* View event packages and amenities available
* Make an actual guaranteed booking and receive a confirmation

Visit the Official Website: http://www.pogby.com/

Activity Brain

Activity Brain is a free and unique tool to help you schedule your events.

One of the greatest features offered is the opportunity to log on Activity Brain with your Facebook account and be able to send your event information to all your friends and colleagues listed in your friends list.

Activity Brain offers you manual event creation, giving you all the control you need to create and organize your everyday events. Clubs, teams, and other groups with regularly occurring events, such as meetings and practice, can conveniently create repeating events that will monitor attendance and send out event updates and reminders.

All events have a dedicated event page where everyone involved can view details of the event, RSVP, comment, invite more friends, and view upcoming events if the event is recurring.

Another great feature is the Brain Event Creation. Let the Brain help you figure out the best time! The Brain will provide date and time suggestions for your event based on your friends’ schedules. Just select a suggestion and create the event!

Visit the Official Website: http://www.activitybrain.com/

Centerd

Center’d is a new site that combines a local search tool with an event and organized event-planning section that helps you connect with many other people.

The company creator has define this site as “the only site on the Web that provides an integrated way to manage all the core elements of local planning: picking a place, agreeing on a time, selecting service providers, sending invites, managing volunteers, hosting and communicating.”

Center’d does this by focusing on three categories:

People
Connect to people you trust, and get their opinions and information to help you find that perfect place or make successful that successful plan.

Places
See what the crowds think by seeing ratings and reviews from across the web, or find out what your trusted friends think.

Plans
Easily invite friends, find out where everyone wants to go and when with place and time voting, empower volunteers to sign up for tasks, and stay on top of it with reminders and notifications

Visit the Official Website: http://www.centerd.com/

Atomeet

Atomeet is a free service that helps you organize your parties, outings or any kind of events. In a few clicks, you can create your event’s homepage, invite your friends, organize your guest list and discuss the event all together.

Why Atomeet?

* Something that is fast & easy to use
* Open to everyone. No account, no password to remember
* One page that has all the information on it: location, date, guests
* Be able to invite everyone easily and let them confirm their presence by a simple click

What are the main features?

* Create your event in a few seconds
* Locate your event
* Invite your friends
* Import your contacts
* Real time guest list

Visit the Official Website: http://www.atomeet.com/

BestPartyEver

BestPartyEver is a social network that helps people find and share: Party Ideas, Special Event Vendors, and party planning advice and information to help make their next party, the best party ever. Online Party Planning Tools make it easy to setup an event, manage vendors to hire, monitor a budget, create invite RSVP lists, and create and manage task lists for the upcoming event. BestPartyEver also has business listings more indepth than you would find on partypop, and tons of user submitted of party ideas, unlike those found on party411.

What can you do on BestPartyEver.com?

* Personalize your profile
* Search for Party Ideas, Recipes, Friends, and Special Event Professionals to help/inspire you.
* Add anything you find that you wish to save to your basket.
* Create your own party in the “Party Planning Center” by setting up a date and time, event type, vendors to hire, guest list, budget, and task list.
* Reference items you saved in your basket for inspiration and add them to your event.
* Blog about your event or event related topics that interest you.
* Follow the activites of your friends, and make new ones.
* Create your own party ideas, and recipes to share with the community and your friends. Inspire others!.

Visit the Official Website: http://bestpartyever.com/

MyEventBid

myEventBid is the most innovative auction site currently available on the web. By focusing solely on the party and special event industry, mYeventBiD is able to provide businesses with a unique way to reach consumers while also making it possible for consumers to search for the best products and services available.

myEventBid provides businesses and individuals with the opportunity to put new and gently used party or special events items up for auction. Service providers such as photographers, videographers, DJs and event planners may also put their services up for auction. By providing businesses with the opportunity to create a virtual storefront and by making it possible for them to participate within our community, mYeventBiD hopes to provide its members with a wide variety of reputable services and products to select from.

myEventBid is more than just a place for buying and seling items, it is also a networking tool that can be used by anyone interested in event planning. Whether you are a business that is trying to forge a relationship with your target market or someone who is simply looking for party planning tips and advice, our community link makes it possible for you to make valuable connections. By taking advantage of the option to upload videos and pictures within the community, members can also show off their special events and businesses can demonstrate their products and services.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.myeventbid.com/

When Is Good

When is Good is an online meeting organizer that allows you to schedule meetings, events or any given activity with a great simplicity. When is Good allows you to set different possible days and times for your events and share the event and schedule with everyone involved to confirm your time with theirs and set the best day and time for yur activities. No sign-up form or password to choose is needed.

The When is Good service as you currently see it is completely free and will be staying that way. When is Good is also planning to add some great premium features for a small annual fee.
Recently, When is Good has released their beta option to sync your events with your iCal calendars.

Visit the Official Website: http://whenisgood.net/

Bistrola

Bistrola is an online service that takes care of making everyone equally happy when it comes to coordinating a get-together. How? Simple: every meeting participant to the get together fills in his personal preferences and Bistrola sums everything up and suggests the best meeting places. No more of these meeting bullies (i.e. folks-who-think-they-know-what’s-best-for-everyone but get you to the wrong places) – At Bistrola everyone is accounted equally and for once – a get together place to meet suits the group perfectly!

Bistrola allows you to set your new events providing the occasion, the place and date, the opportunity to receive votes from all the people invited about the place(s) and date(s) provided, send notifications about the events (reminders and updates), and provide recommendations about restaurantes and other placed in your city search. All the people invited can raise their opinions and rank the details provided for the event (place, date, etc).

Visit the Official Website: http://www.bistrola.com/

Doodle

Doodle makes it easy to find a date and time for a group event. Doodle is a free online coordination tool which requires neither registration nor software installation.

Doodle helps finding suitable dates and times for group events, e.g., an appointment, a conference call, a family reunion, etc. Doodle is particularly easy to use – and passes the “grandma-test”.

In addition to scheduling events, Doodle also supports polls in general. That is, groups can conveniently decide on options other than dates.

What can you do with Doodle?

Schedule an event
Such as a board meeting, business lunch, conference call, family reunion, movie night, or any other group event

Make a choice
Among movies, menus, travel destinations, or among any other selection

Visit the Official Website: http://www.doodle.com/

GoodInvitation

Goodinvitation is free online tool that allows you to create a poll or an invitation, as often you want. Create interactive invitations with flash or audio trailer presentations for your friends, colleagues and clients. You can create polls to decide what date is the correct one and get feedback and comments from your invites.

Try the Movie trailer invitation, where you get you get to put phrases together in hundreds of different combinations and hear the result voiced-over what appears to be the opening to an epic film. Have fun and create the ultimate in unique, and sometimes side-splitting, invitations!

Visit the Official Website: http://www.goodinvitation.com/

Presdo

Presdo is the world’s fastest event scheduler. Instead of lots of back and forth emails, texts, or voicemails, collect everyone’s input in one place, and let Presdo show you the best times to pick from—fast. Use Presdo for: meetings, movie nights, business lunches, study group sessions, conference calls, or any group event!

With Presdo, you can:

Make an event. Enter a phrase. Presdo figures out the who, what, when and where. Give one or several times, or even a time window.

Check with guests. Collect time preferences from your guests. They refine your time suggestion when replying to your invite.

Pick the best time. Quickly see the best times from the replies. Pick the best time, and Presdo notifies your guests of the new time.

Presdo allows you to plan the next movie night, business lunch, study group session, or any group event. Enter a simple phrase to create an event, then let Presdo find out what times are best for you and guests.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.presdo.com/

AnyVite

Anyvite is the next generation in event creation. It leverages today’s technologies (mobile, IM, SMS) and the idea that less is more, to enable people to quickly and easily invite their friends to events.

Anyvite strives to be the most straight-forward, easy to use service for creating online invitations. We believe that the user experience is above all the most important part of the service, and are continually working to improve it. We hate banner ads and have never subscribed to the “service as a billboard for advertisers” approach. We’re small, nimble, and can make changes, build new features, and fix bugs at the drop of a hat. We think that customer service makes or breaks a company and we’ll drop everything, day or night, to answer support emails and fix what’s wrong.

Visit the Official Website: http://anyvite.com/

Socializr

Socializr is a new web service offering free online event invitations, and innovative ways to share event and party information with your friends.

With Socializr you can:

Create free customized online event invitations
* Your guests can RSVP without registration
* Your invitations will not be cluttered with ads
* Customize your invitation with music, videos, and more
* Add Flash widgets such as slideshows or chat rooms
* Use our designs, design your own, or share designs with other users
* Import your address book from Evite

Share events with your friends
* See what events your friends are attending
* Share event photos with your friends
* Send events to your phone
* Share events on Facebook
* Integrate with Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, and more

Promote your events
* Create free organization profiles
* Promote your events virally through friends of guests
* Use our list management features
* View detailed event statistics
* Extend your event listings through the web with RSS feeds and Flash widgets

Visit the Official Website: http://www.socializr.com/

Which Date Works

WhichDateWorks was created with the goal of making it easier to make plans with friends and families. WhichDateWorks is a simple, hassle-free planning solution for all the events in your life.

You can use WhichDateWorks when you plan:
* Dinner party
* BBQ
* Birthday party
* Holiday party
* Family reunion
* Guys / Girls night out
* Bachelor / Bachelorette party
* Vacation
* Weekend getaway
* Summer trips that never seem to get planned…
* Fundraiser
* Study group
* Babysitting schedules
* Sports team practices
* and much more…!

WhichDateWorks is FREE, simple, and easy to use. No registration/sign up required!

Visit the Official Website: http://whichdateworks.com/

PurpleTrail

PurpleTrail is a brand new way to organize and manage parties, get-togethers, events and meetings. With it’s fresh perspective, PurpleTrail brings together some of the best features and experiences to help you easily manage your event. We’ve created a short video tour that will show you all the basics of PurpleTrail.

According with the Official Website, PurpleTrail is the only service that gives you free invitations, ecards and announcements with no ads.

With PurpleTrail you can:

* Personalize the invite the way you want it by choosing from hundreds of design or easily creating your own. Click on the image below for a quick tour.
* Your event gets stunning looking online presence.
* Send invites over email SMS and Facebook.
* Easily import your contacts from your current addressbook with Address Book. You can organize these contacts in a group for ease in sending invites.
* Track guest invitations and their responses. Track when email is opened, web page of event visited, RSVP done and view total guest response summary.
* Complete control over your event and event reports for staying up to date on the events.
* Choose from numerous modules and select those that fit your event needs.
* Build excitement around the event through the event message board,event photos and event videos.
* Plan meetings and events that repeat periodically.
* Forget about ads, even more because it is a 100% free service!

Visit the Official Website: http://purpletrail.com/

Pingg

pingg is an invitation creation and event management site. Pingg brings style, functionality and personality to events you plan on the web. With pingg, hosts can create stylish online invitations, choose how to send their invites – online (via email, social network or mobile text) or print (pingg will print, stamp and mail the invitations for you), customize their own event web page and manage all guest communications from one location. With its stylish designs, integrated print and online features, personalized event web page and easy to use tools, pingg will change the way you create and plan your event on the web.

Pingg’s key features are:

* Design: Create & Customize. Pingg offers you pingg Gallery, Designer Series, Custom Design and Pingg Plus+ to help you chose the best design for your event plans and invitations.
* Online Invitations & Ecards
* Print Invitations & Cards
* surroundSend & Social Networks. It allows you to send your invitations and event plans via Email, SMS, Web, Facebook, Twitter, etc.
* Guest List Creation & Management, RSVP Options
* Personalized Web Page – Available With No Ads
* Gift & Charity Registries & Event Funds
* Guest Communications
* Event Reporting & Newsfeed
* Premium Services

Visit the Official Website: http://www.pingg.com/

What tool do you use for your events?

Have you ever been in one of those urgent situations when you need to send or receive an important file from your client, boss, colleague or teacher, but it is too big to be attached or transferred to your email?. Today, we’ll go through a brief review of one of the most famous and used online file transfer services. Let’s review YouSendIt.

YouSendIt provides a trusted, convenient and smart solution for transferring large files over the Internet, replacing the need for FTP transfers or overnight courier. YouSendIt makes it really easy to deliver files larger than what your email service may allow.

YouSendIt has different service plans. Most of them have a monthly fee. These plans allow you to send files up to 2GB, but the service Lite is completely free.

YouSendIt can now count more than 10 million people among its registered users, which is a big step for a small business that started in 2004. Part of the reason YouSendIt’s had its best two quarters in the company’s history this year is that enterprises are catching on, and the company’s Corporate Suite now has 1,500 registered companies after only two years in the market.

Some of the larger companies using YouSendIt’s solutions are Shell Oil, Sprint and ABC.

Beyond being a really simple information transfer service and alleviating email restrictions, YouSendIt in many cases is replacing FTP systems as a simpler, more secure way to transfer data.

The free service allows you to:

* Send files up to 100MB with a 1GB of monthly download limit
* Allow up to 100 download of every file
* Keep track of your friend’s and family’s email addresses in one handy location
* Give your recipients 7 days to download the files you’ve sent

How does it work?

Step1
Enter the recipient email address and an optional message

Step2
Attach your file and click “Send it”

Step3
Your recipients receive an email that lets them inmediately click and download the file

A really useful tool to keep in mind for your daily work duties and files transfers.

Recently, YouSendIt reached 10 million users and released a press note:

YouSendIt Soars Past 10 Million Users

Rapid growth propels YouSendIt to world’s most popular secure digital file delivery service

CAMPBELL, Calif. – August 20, 2009 – YouSendIt, Inc. announced its latest milestone today, now counting more than 10 million people among its registered user base, accelerating at the rate of a quarter million new users each month. Since its founding in 2004, YouSendIt has established itself as the most widely used secure digital file delivery service on the Web, capitalizing on increased corporate demand for fast, secure and compliant information transfer.

Experiencing its two best quarters in the history of the company this year, YouSendIt now has more than 100,000 paid subscribers and completes more than 10,000 new pay-per-use transactions per month. In addition, YouSendIt’s corporate solution has attracted more than 1,500 companies after a mere two years in the market.

YouSendIt has seen significant traction among small and midsized businesses and within specific line-of-business functions where the need for secure, fast delivery of large volumes of digital data is paramount. YouSendIt is also finding success among large enterprises, counting organizations such as ABC, BP, Chevron, Conde Nast, Disney, GE, MTV, Shell Oil, Sprint, Starbucks and the US Army among its customers.

“Five years ago, we set out with one goal: to delight our customers and exceed their expectations. Now, 10 million registered users later, YouSendIt has validated secure digital file delivery as a viable professional and business solution for critical, secure information transfer,” said Ranjith Kumaran, CTO and co-founder of YouSendIt. “Moving forward, our focus will continue to be on easing the pains of business document delivery and collaboration, while increasing value to our IT customers with cost reduction, enhanced security and compliance enforcement, all of which will help us continue growing our leading market share.”

YouSendIt’s 10 millionth user was Barry Smith, MD, PhD, director of The Rogosin Institute in New York City, a not-for-profit institution for research, treatment, and education relating to kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer and lipid (cholesterol) control. Employing more than 350 doctors, nurses, researchers and administrative employees, the Institute’s mission is fostering understanding of disease and bringing the resulting research advances to patients and clinics as quickly as possible. Rogosin is an affiliate of The New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical College and is a member of the New York- Presbyterian Healthcare System.

The Institute needed to send large files—such as data from clinical trials of potential new therapies, research data and manuscripts, protocols, and digital imaging files—to collaborators both within and outside the Institute, as well as government agencies and institutional review panels. All of this data had to be sent back and forth quickly, reliably, and— most important—securely.

“YouSendIt lets us deliver critical laboratory, clinical research and care information, and work products quickly and safely throughout our Institute, as well as to a variety of outside partners,” said Dr. Smith. “We no longer need to worry about the capacity of the recipients’ e-mail servers or networks. File transfer has become a smooth and simple process.”

In addition to its growing customer base, YouSendIt has also expanded its service capabilities and debuted its first mobile application for the iPhone this year. In July, it also unveiled a new Microsoft Outlook plug-in, allowing users to send entire folders via the digital file delivery service. The company also received industry recognition for its market leadership. It was awarded a Stevie Award for “Best Overall Company,” voted a Webware 100 winner, and named a Network Products Guide Hot Company and a Red Herring North America 100 winner. For more, please visit our blog at: http://blog.yousendit.com/.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.yousendit.com/

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I always remember those old times at school or college when I needed a scientific calculator for an unexpected test and had to run and work miracles to get it for my answers. Today, those are just funny memories. You can find  about anything on the Internet, especially, the important and vital tools for your education and school. Today, we’ll review a very useful tool: Encalc.

According with the Official Website, Encalc is a free online calculator with support for variables and dimensional units (meters, inches, Amps, etc). It makes unit conversions and evaluating formulas simple by abstracting away the calculation part from your side to the computer’s side. Encalc was made to simplify long, dimensionful calculations. You can also define variables in order to vary the parameters independently of the expression.

Encalc supports the abs, sqrt, log, ln, exp, sin, cos, tan, sec, csc, and cot functions, as well as the inverse trigonometric functions arcsin, arccos, arctan, arccsc, arcsec, arccot. It also works with binary and hexadecimal numbers. Encalc supports logical comparison calculations.

The calculator does not require any installation. It is located on the web and works through your browser.

It’s now possible to share Encalc through your website or blog. To do so, simply copy the code below and paste it on your blog or website.

Embed calculations of your choice

If you have a specific equation that you’d like to put on a website, you can do so easily. First, type in your expression and any variables on the main calculator. Then click on “Embed This” in the top right corner of the calculator. You will be taken back to this page, along with your expression.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.encalc.com/

Facing so many different things, activities and responsibilities, if we can’t take control of our tasks and time, we’re dead. That’s why it is so important to adopt a personal time and task management tool and be able to take control of all our daily activities, tasks, meetings, responsibilities, objectives and goals. There are dozens of online services offering you time or task management tools. Today, we’ll go through a brief review of a new fresh, easy-to-use and friendly task management tool: ToBeeDo.

According with the Official website, ToBeeDo is an online to-do list and task management service that saves time and helps get stuff done faster.

ToBeeDo’s interface is very unique in this industry and the developer team hopes it’s something new that you will love and use with pleasure. ToBeeDo’s goal is to have an intuitive and simple interface that allows you to save time and money.

With ToBeeDo you won’t have to worry about updates or hosting. ToBeeDo hosts the application for you. This way, you are always using the latest version of our service.

Stop juggling tasks in your brain. ToBeeDo helps you to stay on top of your busy life simply and quickly. You will never forget what you need to do next.

What are some of the benefits of using ToBeeDo?

Save your money
ToBeeDo is a service by subscription that billed on a per user per month basis, so you will use what you need and pay for what you use. An on-going monthly expense is easier to incorporate into your budget than a large one-time outlay. You can cancel or change your subscription at any time without losing a large initial investment.

Save your time
The software is already running on our servers. All you need to do is to create account and start using ToBeeDo.

Other
* Friendly, fast and simple interface
* Hierarchical folders in each project
* Time tracking ability for every task
* Taggable tasks
* Multiple contexts

ToBeeDo works with Google OpenID platform. You can log on this service with your own Google Account. This way, you won’t need to create an account.

Visit the Official Website: http://www.tobeedo.com/

Sharing your personal/business email address in Twitter, public forums, Craigslist, Gumtree, Social Networks, Chat rooms, Blogs, etc., might expose your email to some spam robots and email harvesters constantly browsing these sites to collect new victim emails. Today, we’ll bring a brief review of two useful free online tools that help you to protect your email address from these security and privacy risks. Let’s review scr.im and emailcover.

scr.im is an online service that allows you to convert your email address into a short, cute and safe link you can share anywhere on the web.

How does it work?

Step1
Type your email address

Step2
Select the url you want for the scr.im link

Step3
Start sharing your email account everywhere you want safely with your new scr.im link

Visit the Official Website: http://scr.im/

Emailcover provides this free service which hides your email address in a CAPTCHA image to help prevent spam email being sent to your email address. This dynamically created image never looks exactly the same, making it just a little harder for spam bots!

How does it work?

Step1
Type your email address

Step2
Get your CAPTCHA image and share it with confidence anywhere you want

Visit the Official Website: http://www.emailcover.com/

One of the biggest concerns for every professional, small business owner, student and even for any family, is how safe is their personal/business data on the network, or how reliable is their internet access and safety when someone tries to access harmful websites. It is always useful to set your security options in your router or DNS Server and install an anti virus in your computers. Today, we’ll provide a brief review about OpenDNS, a free security tool that will bring extra protection to your network at home or personal business. Let’s review OpenDNS.

According with the Official Website,  OpenDNS is the leading provider of free security and infrastructure services that make the Internet safer through integrated Web content filtering, anti-phishing and DNS. OpenDNS services enable consumers and network administrators to secure their networks from online threats, reduce costs and enforce Internet-use policies. OpenDNS is used today by millions of users and organizations around the world.. OpenDNS is a free service that works for networks of all sizes, from home networks to K-12 schools, SMBs and large enterprises. Learn more about how OpenDNS can benefit you by selecting your network type on the left.

What are some of the benefits of using OpenDNS?

Security

• Industry-leading anti-phishing protects everyone on your network from fraudulent phishing scams
• Award-winning Web content filtering gives you the power to block up to 50 categories of content
• Detailed statistics empower you to understand your network traffic and spot trends before they become problems

Infrastructure

• OpenDNS globally distributed network makes Web sites load noticeably faster on your network
• Anycast routing technology makes your Internet more reliable, freeing you of intermittent outages

Navigation

• Browser Shortcuts let your users map a short term to a long URL via the address bar
• Typo correction auto-corrects the most common typos in top-level domains
• OpenDNS Guide provides helpful search results when your users try to visit a Web site that isn’t resolving

For more information about the services and configuration, watch a short video here

Visit the Official Website: http://www.opendns.com/

A good friend sent me few days ago a video with some amazing and extremely interesting facts about Socia Media and how it has come to create one of the greatest revolution processes ever known in human history.

Here’s the video:

The video has said it all. As shown on this short video, I personally believe that Social Media will break paradigms (it is breaking them right now!) and will create and expand the way we see and understand things in business, education and life.

The key for professional and business success will be focused on how well we’ll understand people and all the communication process through Social Media. We can see it now, how Social Media is breaking all kind of boundaries (social, political, economical, etc) and brings so much opportunities and a massive avalanche of information available for anyone and everyone, at anytime, anywhere… in just a matter or seconds.

I hope you could enjoy this video as much as I did. If you’re a small business owner, an individual providing any given professional service,  a student or just a reader, think about it and start changing your own paradigms about Social Media and all the great opportunities it brings to all of us and how it will change the world forever.