Web 2.0 — the interactive side of the internet — has amazing capacity for streamlining, simplifying, and even enriching your work life. The right tools and plugins can keep you on track, build accountability into your day, reduce the time you spend on repetitive tasks, and give you the benefits of organization whether it comes naturally to you or not.

Notice I said “the right tools and plugins.” You can also spend untold hours trolling the web, trying to find the best tools for your needs, figuring out how to use them, and then coping with incompatibilities. Especially if you’re the CEO or CFO rather than the CTO, the learning curve can seem too steep and the apparent complexities can drive you back to pencil and paper.

At Clevertech, we’ve discovered that a lot of our clients have this experience. We build custom software to streamline business systems, but we also see a need for individual work systems. Sometimes that means a custom solution, but often it just requires a guide through the thorny thicket of Web 2.0.

We can be that guide. Give us a call, and set up a one-on-one meeting or register for one of our group sessions. You’ll see increased productivity, reduced stress, and enhanced capacity.

It’s a great way to start the new year.

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The iPhone only makes sense for its computer-like functionality utilizing the apps that work for you. For me, it is really all about communication. That includes email via gmail, IM via trillian, basecamp, Remember The Milk and SMS.

I’ve grown used to the keyboard and can really move at a decent clip while I type. But voice is faster. And safer when I’m in the car. So I was looking for a good service and I tried out a few. This one wins in my book. Dragon Dictation allows you to click, talk and then wait a little to see it in text. While I’m sure that was the technically hard part – its the next part that shows the ingenious flexibility. You can then Send to Email, Send to Text Msg or Send to Clipboard.

The last one allows me to paste the text into any application. Now that is flexibility and worth sharing with you .

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If you have many open tabs in firefox, and especially if you leave them open for a long time (overnight anyone?) then you have experienced memory usage of hundreds of megabytes. Personally, I’ve seen it as high as 800mb and higher.

An add-on called AFOM seems to have solved this issue. I’ve installed it and then let loose with my 20+ tabs. Worked for a while and checked my memory. It was at 130mb. Wow!

I immediately wrote this post to share it with you. Check it out yourself.

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