Keeping a finger on the pulse

We’re all familiar with ‘group cards’; cards bought and signed by a group of friends, family or co-workers. This activity has become more and more popular over the years and has now given rise to a fantastic website called GroupCard.

GroupCard allows you to choose from tons of high-quality greetings cards, personalize the card with a photo and then invite friends, family and co-workers to sign the card as well. You can then pay for a PDF (that you can print yourself), a poster card, a wall poster or a flip book of the group card.

With Blip.fm, music enthusiasts can now become DJs by adding a collection of songs into their own music stations. Creating a station is essentially automatic – all you have to do is search and add songs to your account.

One of the reasons Blip.fm has gained so much popularity is because they added a social aspect to their system. With every song that you add to your account, you can also attach a short message. This is what constitutes a ‘blip’.

Zoho Writer is an excellent web-based word processor, providing pretty much the same functionality as Microsoft Word. However, Zoho Writer goes several steps further, as it has features for sharing your documents directly with anyone.

Zoho has been going from strength to strength since 1996, when they started. They actually beat Google to releasing a decent online word processor, and since rather humble beginnings, it’s been developed into a powerhouse.

Here is a list of 10 free web-based tools that you should find really useful in helping you complete a variety of tasks.

There’s a chance you won’t have heard of a lot of these, but you’ll be interested to find out about them. Many of them do not even require you to create an account, meaning you can start using them immediately.

Online file-sharing has grown a great deal over the past couple of years, and with cloud computing becoming more and more prevalent, online programs like Dropbox are gaining popularity.

Online programs such as these are addressing an issue that we’ve all experiencing; the need for an easier way to send files. Most of us have been through the tedious act of emailing ourselves files, as well as wanting to access files anywhere, send large files and share files with others, but not being able to. Dropbox solves these problems.

Remember The Milk is an easy-to-use online to-do list and task management website. It can be used for any type of list; such as home shopping lists, to-do lists or even as a full task management system in a business environment.

One of most notable points of Remember The Milk is its number of features, and with its full integration into Google Calendar, Apple iCal, iGoogle, Gmail, Twitter, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Netvibes and instant messengers, its easily one of the most feature-rich task managers available.