Need to buy or sell something fast? StuffBuff lets you take advantage of the real-time stream and gives you a 10 minute auction rather than 10 days. It’s easy to catalog all of your items with cool tools such as web-cam barcode scanning, image recognition and mobile integration – you can even chat with buyers and sellers in real-time!

 Looking for a fun way to explore your city? FourSquare is a mobile app where users can find new and interesting things in their city. Finding different items lets you earn virtual badges and unlock new recomendations from other people. FourSquare also allows you to become the “mayor” of a particular hangout spot with rewards (such as free coffee and ice-cream) specific to each location.

 Rippol is a simple discovery solution for finding new things to watch from the social web. It uses a butterfly-effect algorithm to find material based on your preferences, and guarentees that every video can be watched online immediately.

 Do you need to send faxes in your business? Do it for free! MyFax is simplified online faxing and supports many standard document and image formats. You can send up to a 10 page document to 41 different countries, you get an editable cover page and a confirmation when the fax completes.

 Is your desktop filled with icons? BumpTop is an easy intuitive way to organize everything! BumpTop transforms your desktop into a 3-D workspace where you can create “piles” similarly to how you do on your desk. Icons can be sized by use, and you have the ability to toss photos directly to Twitter or Facebook from the desktop.

Font is something we often take for granted, but it can make or break a website or document. My Fontbook is a broswer-based viewer that lets you quickly and easily browse through your fonts. You can tag fonts (by style, creator, project etc) and even rate them with the familiar star-interface.

 Printee is a web-printing tool for Internet Explorer that lets you print only what you want from a website. No more printing ads, no more copy/paste to Word, and you can reduce your paper and ink usage. The interface is completely “what you see is what you get” so you get complete control over your website printing!

ShareFlow lets you organize your emails into flows based on a team structure. It is like your inbox merged with a message board! You can post to your flow directly from email, preview photos and even edit document attachments online! ShareFlow will also integrate with your mobile device to give you complete flexibility.

If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then a video is worth 10,000! Jing is a desktop tool for simple visual communication. It allows you to capture images or videos from your screen and add voice-over or drawn figures with text explanation. The best feature is that you can upload your video or images to a screencast.com account (free when you download jing) and send the URL to others so they can easily see your explanations from email or IM.

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers (even from PC to Mac). It is intended for users with multiple computers on the desk (e.g. a desktop plus a laptop). Synergy also merges the clipboards of all the systems into one and synchronizes screen-savers. To move from one computer to another, you simply move your mouse off the side of the screen. Some configuration is required (see this week’s tech-tip).

Launchy is a free application launcher that will make you forget about your Start Menu! It indexes programs, documents, bookmarks and folders so you can launch them with a single simple search. Lightweight and easy to configure, you will wonder how you lived without it.

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Maintaining consistent access to each piece of information is a critical part of productivity and efficiency. If you or your employees cannot access that information quickly, then you will not be as productive as you could be. There are many technologies out there that can help you access your shared information and that of others. That is where we come in!  We’re happy to consult, implement and maintain any technological system you need.