Productivity geeks! Do you use an app launcher? Here’s an excellent overview of more awesome ways you can use them:
Do you still launch applications by pressing the Windows key and searching for your app? That’s a serviceable way to get your apps up and running, but it’s pretty limited. If you’ve never used an app…
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Handy tool! Automatically convert files in a folder to PDF. Behold HotFolder:
HotFolder is a free program that you can use to monitor folders on your system to turn files into pdf documents automatically.
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BitTorrent Sync is one of the very best tools I use for syncing all my data to all my devices, as well as syncing files with all my outsourcing partners across the globe. It’s utterly replaced Dropbox for me. This is a simple, easy-to-understand guide showing its ease of use and power. I strongly recommend it if you share files with anyone, collaborate remotely, or simply want to sync your data between multiple devices. It’s also free. Check it out!
“Sync App: All Your Desktop Folders, On The Go”
When I’m at work and on my laptop, there’s a very specific folder structure that I’m used to: Each project has it’s own folder (with different sub folders), while each product has it’s own separate…
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This is incredible! Adobe Photoshop Streaming runs inside the Chrome browser. We live in the future. 🙂
Using Photoshop usually requires lugging a typically cumbersome, expensive computer around, and changing that experience has been the dream of many creatives for years. As we found out back in…
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Hi everybody! The Tools and Tech of the Globetrotting Freelancer talk that I gave this year at the External Development Summit 2014 in Vancouver is finally online! It’s an overview of how I stay online, connected, powered up, and secure when I travel, based on my experiences working as a freelance outsourcing manager as well as being employed by large game developers. The part of the talk where I talk about the apps I use is the bit people liked the most, especially on how to keep your phone and your clients’ data secure no matter what. Feedback is appreciated!
Also, the slides are here: http://www.jonjones.com/2014/09/11/slides-and-information-from-my-xds-2014-presentations/
Here’s the video:
Check this out! BitTorrent Sync is one of my favorite tools. Lots of great stuff here.
What To Expect Next From Sync
A year and a half ago, BitTorrent Sync started with a simple idea: give people the ability to sync large files fast by skipping the cloud. We’ve been humbled by the enthusiastic reception during th…
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Great freelancer app tips from MakeUseOf! “How Apps Can Help Any Freelancer Or Small Business Owner Be Productive”
If you’re running your own small business or making a living as a freelancer, then you already know quite a bit about getting things done on your own. You have to, otherwise everything falls apart. So…
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If you work with PDFs, check out PDF Shaper! This sounds super cool. You can extract text or images from a PDF, rotate pages, sign them, convert the PDF to a Word document or an image, and more. That’s the level of control I’ve always wished I could have with a PDF, which is ordinarily a horribly annoying format to use with nothing but artificially crippled, awful tools. Now, I can bend PDFs to my will!
“Multi-PDF Tool PDF Shaper 3.0 released with Windows 10 support” http://bit.ly/1Gxh71x
PDF Shaper 3.0 is the latest version of a collection of tools to manipulate PDF documents.
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Here’s a handy Gmail filter to auto-filter Twitter messages into nested folders. Thanks, Robert Headley! http://buff.ly/1xdOfFh
Gmail filter to automatically filter twitter messages into nested folders
by +Robert Headley
I recently found myself working on a new #twitter that is… – Robert Headley – Google+
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This is awesome! You can now launch desktop applications from Google Drive in Chrome, like PSDs into Photoshop. 🙂 http://buff.ly/1wxLZdJ