Productivity Tools
This list of Resource Links represents Links from the Productivity Tools Category.
Category: Tools Links – (business tools, online tools, web development tools)
Photo Tools (photo posting & sharing, image editing & manipulation)
- Aviary – image editor, vector editor, color manager, Firefox plugin for screen capture with image markup; great for blogging (rating 8 out of 10)
- Picnik – photo editing/posting with perhaps the best online photo editors (rating 7 out of 10)
- Smugmug – subscription based photo posting with image selling & merchandising, video posting with upgrade (rating 7 out of 10)
- Flickr – free photo/video posting (rating 6 out of 10)
- Shutterfly – free unlimited photo posting with free download of nice photo editor software, free web pages, & merchandising (rating 6 out of 10)
- Photobucket – free photo/video posting, integrates well social networking sites (rating 6 out of 10)
- Vimeo – free video posting, some minor limits on storage, integrates well social networking sites (rating 5 out of 10)
- YouTube – free video posting (rating 5 out of 10)
- Flauntr – photo editing/posting with image merchandising, integrates well social networking sites (rating 4 out of 10)
- Picasa – free photo posting (rating 3 out of 10)
Website Analytics Tools
- LeadLander – detailed info on site visitors, integrates with SalesForce.com ($158/mnth but subscription fee is billed up front for the full year@$1900
- GoogleAnalytics (free) (rating 7 out of 10)
- Omniture SiteCatalyst – enterprise focus (pricing not avail) (rating 7 out of 10)
- Clicky (1 site free, up to $50 enterprise) (rating 6 out of 10)
- OneStat ($10-$47/mnth) (rating 6 out of 10)
- Sitemeter (free, fee for high page views) (rating 5 out of 10)
- Quantcast – demographics focus (free) (rating 4 out of 10)
- Statcounter (free, no ads) (rating 4 out of 10)
- AddFreeStats (free) (rating 3 out of 10)
- Tealeaf – enterprise focus (pricing not avail) (not yet rated)
Backup Solutions for Home and Small Businesses (backup, synchronization and online storage)
- SugarSync – Sync Files Across PC, Mac and Mobile Phone (2GB free, 30GB $5/mnth, 60GB $10/mnth, 100GB $15/mnth, 250GB $25/mnth) (rated 10 out of 10)
- Syncplicity – online backup/sync and collaboration; syncs with Facebook & GoogleDocs, etc. (2GB free or $99/yr for 100GB) (rated 9 out of 10)
- DropBox – online backup/sync and collaboration; photo viewer (2GB free or $99/yr for 50GB, $199/yr for 100GB) (rated 9 out of 10)
- Huddle.net – online storage with focus on collaboration (starts free) (rated 9 out of 10)
- JungleDisk – online storage based on Amazon S3 Web Services; can work with Good Sync or SyncBack ($0.15cents/GB) (rated 8 out of 10)
- Mediafire – online storage (unlimited storage, unlimited uploads, no sign up required) (rated 8 out of 10)
- Adobe Acrobat Share – online storage with focus on collaboration (5GB free) (rated 8 out of 10)
- ADrive – online storage (50GB free) (rated 8 out of 10)
- Good Sync – PC backup utility (Win client download) (free limited trial or $30 to buy) (rated 7 out of 10)
- ElephantDrive – online storage (starts@$5/mnth) (rated 7 out of 10)
- Qwest Personal Digital Vault – online backup (2GB free, 50GB $7/mnth, unlimited $10/mnth) (rated 5 out of 10)
- SyncBack SE – PC backup utility (Win client download) (free trial or $30 to buy) (rated 6 out of 10)
- Nivio – online storage with mobile focus (starts free) (rated 5 out of 10)
- Mozy – online backup (Win/Mac client download; very slow!) (2GB free or $4.95/mnthy unlimited space) (rated 4 out of 10)
Web Host Providers (supporting Joomla/WordPress)
- HostGator – free unlimited domains and sub-domains! ($4.95/mnth) (rating 9 out of 10)
- iPowerWeb ($5.95/mnth) (rating 8 out of 10)
- SiteGround – unlimited space and traffic ($5.95/mnth) (rating 8 out of 10)
Domain Registration and DNS Management Tools
- Register.com – domain registrar (rating 7 out of 10)
- ZoneEdit – DNS manager (rating 7 out of 10)
- HostGator – web host (rating 6 out of 10)
- EasyDNS – DNS manager (not yet rated)
- BuyDomains.com (rating 6 out of 10)
- NetworkSolutions – domain registrar and web host (rating 5 out of 10)
Web Design and Development Tools
- WooThemes – WordPress templates
- RocketTheme – Joomla templates
- Kickapps – social networking widgets
- AddThis.com – social networking widget
Free iPhone Apps
- Pandora – internet radio (rating 7 out of 10)
- Evernote – online clipmarking & storage with great search, synchronization & access methods (rating 7 out of 10)
- Facebook (rating 6 out of 10)
- ABC News – daily news videos (rating 6 out of 10)
- Google – shortcut to Google on Safari (rating 6 out of 10)
- Bible (rating 6 out of 10)
- LinkedIn (rating 5 out of 10)
- TwitterFon (rating 5 out of 10)
- Remote – control your iTunes from iPhone (rating 5 out of 10)
- Fring – Skype VOIP (not yet rated)
- SalesForce Lite – free extension to web app (not yet rated)
- Shutterfly – upload photos to Shutterfly (not yet rated)
- Flashlight (rating 2 out of 10)
- Ruler (rating 1 out of 10)
Paid iPhone Apps
- Toodledo – task mgmt (rating 8 out of 10)
- Salesforce – full version (dashboards, contact & opportunity editing) (not yet rated)
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