February 3, 2010, Vol. 4, Issue 2

So Punxsutawney Phil is gone, and we’re left to our own devices to get through February.

For me, January is about improvement and aspirations. February? More about common sense ‘get it done’ sort of things. And so, we’re stepping back with some really nice, down-to-earth tools that you may not know about. If you’re with a big company, you might like some of these for personal use. If you’re on your own or with a small group (and we know lots of you are), these will make you smile.

Return to Sender

Back when I was a PC, I could set our mail deliver for the future with Outlook. But now that I’m a Mac, it’s not so easy. But never fear, I’ve found a great, reliable solution. Letter Me Later. It’s not fancy. In fact, the lack of glitter made me worry at first. But it’s never let me down.

Slim Timer

Just their tagline is reason enough to visit the site. Friends don’t let friends use timesheets.

Slim Timer was developed by Richard White to suit his own time tracking needs as a freelancer. You create tasks, time your work, create reports. Honestly? It couldn’t be simpler. It’s nice to track jobs even if it’s not a billing issue. I mean, seriously, who doesn’t get carried away and take 10 hours on a 2 hour request to pull stats on parking meters because it’s so exciting she can’t help it? Ahem. Excuse me. Moving on….

Matchy-matchy

Instant Eyedropper is a software tool that will identify and automatically paste to the clipboard the HTML color code of any pixel on the screen with just a single mouse click. How many times have you wished for that?

I know, right?

Size matters

This online image Web Resizer helps you optimize photos for web or email. Easy peasy.

TTFN

We know this was a little different than our recent emails. Kind of retro Scherer Cybrarian-like. Hope you enjoyed it. We’ll be back to our research-y selves soon!