Productivity

This is a genius idea. ThemeFlash.com has a great list of 45 cheat sheet wallpapers for web designers and developers. Some of my favorites so far include the Photoshop shortcuts, Periodic Table of Typefaces, and The Anatomy of Type. I'd love to see some Visual Studio or Windows 7 shortcut…

Recordings from I connect in Belgium. Jan Smessaert introduces his session called 'The Future of Business Productivity'   

"Visual Studio LightSwitch is a new tool aimed at easily building data-driven applications, such as an inventory system or a basic customer relationship management system."Typically, when making difficult things easy, the price is solving a set of very difficult technical…

As great as the ribbon is in Outlook 2010, often some of the functions you want to use from it can be on different tabs and slow you down a bit. There's a very easy way to customize your messages for the functions you use the most. If you look at the top of your email message you'll see a drop…

Looking to take advantage of some new Windows 7 goodness?  Learn how to work with some of the great new taskbar features to create a more streamlined user interface. Introduction Windows 7 brings with it a large number of new features that will be available to developers from day one. …

If you've ever seen Expose on the Mac and wanted something similar for your PC, check out Switcher. This application for Vista + Aero allows you to instantly see all your current windows as a dock, grid, or tile by pressing "Win+`" and jump to any one of them with a keypress. (I've…

In case you haven't heard, TwitterDrive is going to revolutionize the way files are stored and shared on the Internet.  Today, we had the rare privilege of sitting down and talking with Brian Peek, creator of this cutting edge product. Q: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us…

  In this article, Brian Peek will provide a technical overview of TwitterDrive, an application used to store and retrieve files via the Twitter messaging service. Brian Peek ASPSOFT, Inc. Difficulty: Intermediate Time Required: 2-3 hours Cost: Free Software: Visual C# Express 2008…

Double Vision is the latest application designed with slacking office workers in mind. Built from Internet Explorer, this software lets you load up a web browser in your “productivity” applications like Microsoft Office for some stealthy web surfing and/or online video viewing on the sly. Once…

Stardock, a company known for its UI enhancements, has just released their latest app; Fences. Fences allows you to group together desktop icons, sometimes known as 'all that garbage on your desktop', into clean-looking folder containers known as fences. Simply drag select the icons on your desktop…