EventBrite – A better way to host events

Posted in Web on July 31st, 2009 by ericson07

I’d like to tell you about a cool way to organize events and send out invitations online. It’s like www.evite.com except much, much better.

To start, evite.com wasn’t meant to cater to the business market while www.eventbrite.com does. (At some point they will probably stop being free and offer a premium version of their service.) I don’t know about you but I’ve never been satisfied with Evite.com – they don’t have an overarching theme. They’re still sort of a playful idea (with ads) instead of a proper site. Read more »

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More Bang for the iPod

Posted in Hardware, Software on May 28th, 2009 by nedyoung

Many of us lack fancy iPhones, Blackberrys and other portable media devices.  Without these, we find ourselves without certain things at our fingertips: etch-e-sketch applications, chatting tools, and perhaps most crippling our calendars.  In my calendar during my blackberry days, I would store business event details, trip directions, grocery lists, flight confirmation numbers in my calendar entries; they would be accessible at the touch of a button – wherever I happened to be.

For those of use who lack these devices, many of us have an alternative to gleam these benefits of a mobile world – the iPod.  Most iPods have within their capabilities an often forgotten calendar and contacts functions that can easily be synced with your Outlook or Apple iCal calendars (NB – its under the “Extras” header).

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Get to know me better: Gmail – Part 2

Posted in Web on February 19th, 2009 by ab

In the Part 1 of this series, I wrote about searching better. This article will be on using Gmail for productivity – we’ll call it remember better. Just for kicks, let me point out that this article was written from Istanbul. :)

Whether you use Gmail for work or play, it’s always good to have a technique for reminding yourself what to do and which email that started you on that path in the first place. As usual, Gmail does not let us down. Here are three thoughts to get things moving: Read more »

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