Send pictures currently stored on your computer to a cell phone user at no-charge, and without any fuss.  Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT& users can use PixDrop, a no-charge service that allows you to send a photo currently saved on your computer to any cell phone user.  Even iPhone users on AT&T can use PixDrop at no-charge!

Simply select the recipient’s mobile carrier and enter the mobile number.  Browse for the desired photo and hit ‘Send’.  Your archived PC photos just got their groove back.  Give it a try!  No registration necessary. Currently works in the US and Canada only.

Android users can also download the app for $1.99 here to avoid MMS charges.  Apples users can download the app here for $2.99

It’s not often that you get a guided tour of online software but that is exactly what the Microsoft Dynamics® CRM team is offering along with a 30 day trial. The CRM (Customer Relationship Management) team has been busy; they have taken the time to put together a great resource that helps you find the information you need when considering Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online. The CRM 2011 Test Drive Guide includes videos, material downloads, and informative links from the Microsoft CRM 2011 Resource Center.

The topics covered include:

• Installing and Using the Microsoft Outlook Client for CRM 2011
• Streamlining CRM 2011 Online
• Configuring Business Units and Security Roles
• Creating Workflows
• Data Import
• Extending CRM 2011

With such a great tool available it doesn’t hurt to give Microsoft Dynamics CRM a try. If you are interested in learning more about CRM (online or on-premise) let us know and we can help you get started today. Give us a call at 855-729-1300 or send an email to info@appliedtech.us.  We look forward to hearing from you.

Don’t have a Kindle?  No problem!

Thanks to Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac, you can now read over 1million (and growing) ebooks on your PC or Mac.  No Kindle required.  Already have a Kindle?  Use Amazon’s Whispersync technology to synchronize your last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across your devices.

• Get the best reading experience available on your PC or Mac . No Kindle required
• Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you
• Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync
• Create new highlights, notes, and bookmarks and manage those created on your Kindle
• Search for words or phrases within the book you’re reading
• Use the built-in dictionary to seamlessly look up the definitions of English words without interrupting your reading.
• Full screen reading view, color modes, and brightness controls offer an immersive reading experience
• Real page numbers for thousands of books in the Kindle Store. Now you can easily reference and cite passages, and read alongside others in a book club or class.

Minimum system requirements for Kindle for PC

• A PC with a 500MHz Intel or AMD processor
• 128MB of RAM
• Screen resolution of 800×600
• Windows XP Service Pack 2 or later, Windows Vista or Windows 7
• 100MB of available disk space

 Minimum system requirements for Kindle for Mac

• A Mac with a 500MHz Intel processor or faster
• At least 512MB of RAM
• Screen resolution of 800×600 or greater
• 100MB of available disk space
• Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion)
•  Note: The last version of Kindle for Mac to support Mac OS X 1.5 (Leopard) is available for download

If you are looking for an easy way to support your preferred charities, or a way to earn funds for your registered nonprofit or school, look no further.  GoodSearch.com is a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half of it’s advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate.  Use it just as you would any search engine to get quality search results and watch the donations add up!  With over 100,085 participating nonprofits, you’re sure to find a mission you want to support.

Need to raise funds?  Register your nonprofit or school with GoodSearch and encourage your supporters to use the GoodSearch search engine to help your mission raise funds. 

Like to shop online?  Visit GoodSearch’s sister website, GoodShop, to shop at more than 2,400 merchants and a percentage of each purchase will go to your cause!

     A tool so cool, even WE use it!

It is the easiest, fastest way to install or update your favorite software. Period.

At Applied Tech we pay for a business version, Ninite Pro, but the average user can get it free and, as “the How-to-Geek” says, it’s so easy “even Grandma can pull it off.”

Go to their homepage,  http://ninite.com/, pick out the apps you want, run the installer and go sit down to watch the winning pass of your favorite football team. The work is done for you without a signup, client or registration. You save time because there is no need to go out to individual sites and download each app, one at a time. So it’s a real time saver!   

Here’s how it works: Once you’ve chosen the bundles of apps you want, just click and Ninite uploads offscreen, picking out the latest version that is right for your PC, in your language, without all the toolbars and other junk.

Could it be simpler? No.

What an idea. No more clicking next, next, next, next, next next, next …..

Do you sometimes forget the file attachments you meant to include in an email message? Thanks to a free plugin for Outlook, now you can be alerted when you do just that.

Head over to CodeTwo‘s website and download the free Outlook Attachment Reminder. Install and configure it to scan for text in your email’s subject line and body text (such as “attachment” or “attached” or “see document”). When you press the send button, if the system finds that you included these phrases but did not attach a file, it will prompt you to do so before sending out the email.

Move over leather wallet, Google Wallet is coming!  Starting soon, Google’s newest addition, Google Wallet, will allow users to make purchases and payments all from a single smartphone.

The technology is also designed so that the user can turn the chip off when Google Wallet is not being used, making it safe from hackers. If the smartphone is lost, the data can also be wiped remotely. While the concept of Google Wallet has great potential, there are still several limitations to the system as Google continues to look for more partners for the enterprise before its official launch, which is slated for within a month or two.  Google’s intention is that Google Wallet will be an open mobile wallet holding all the cards and coupons you keep in your leather wallet today.

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If you think our society has too much Mr. Mom and not enough Rooster Cogburn, then you might want to check out http://artofmanliness.com/  It has ton of great how-to articles and practical advice such as  “How to Smell Like a Barbershop” and “5 Lessons Rugby Taught Me About Fatherhood.”

It also has special sections for men on grooming, dressing, sports, relationships, money and “A Man’s Life” ( e.g., the “five power switches of manliness that are connected to our primal man and deeply ingrained and embedded in the male psyche..”)

But the advice is not just for men, either. Men and women both will enjoy “How to Ride a Motorcycle” or “How to Plan a Camping Trip” and the always useful “How to Chase Down a Purse Snatcher Workout.”

Read on. You might be surprised to find something upbeat in gender-bending!

Cocktail napkins and the backs of envelopes may be a good place to jot down that next million dollar idea. But when it comes to designing a website, you want an online software that makes it fast and easy to create, link, preview and share mockups in real time. And https://gomockingbird.com/ soars as that tool. 

Mockingbird helps with wireframing, the first step in the design process in which the basic illustrations and components of the webpage are decided. It gives your layouts a great starting point and a solid foundation and helps clarify exactly what needs to be on the different page types of your website.

By taking the time to create at least a simple wireframe using a tool like Mockingbird, you can make sure that your designs will take into account all the different page elements that need to go into the design, and that they’re positioned in the best possible way. Best of all, it is cost-effective because it allows wireframes to be revised or discarded without costly back-and-forth exchanges.

Mockingbird works in Safari, Firefox and Chrome and has a number of unique features. One of its better time-saving features is automatic text resizing: If you change the size of a button or similar element, Mockingbird changes the text size to match. It also lets you create multi-page wireframes with links.

With Mockingbird, you’ll want to make your website on the fly!

Applied Tech presents: An eye-opener of a cool site!

If Alice had a Corning-made mirror, she probably would never have stepped through the looking glass in search of dreams and adventure. At least, that is what the marketers at Corning want you to believe in their YouTube presentation “A Day Made of Glass.”

 In this glass-meets-the-Jetsons production, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38&feature=player_embedded  , Corning makers show their idea of where technology is going in the not-so-distant future. And the multiple uses of glass, from the kitchen to the street, are so compelling that Alice would have never bothered to look for something else to do. Of course, their glass is just a vehicle for new uses of computers in our daily life….  But it’s still an eye-opener!