Glossary
This
is where we’d like to pay tribute to some of the companies and tools that will help to
make you successful. The list below is not just a compilation of companies we
like. It’s a snapshot of companies and tools we also actually use. These are
the cream of the crop and we recommend checking them out.
1PASSWORD
1Password can create strong, unique passwords for you, remember them, and restore them, all directly in your web browser. Available for Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, and Android.
3ONES
3ones is a product development company for hire. They develop products for communities, consumers, and corporations. Their products appear on Web sites, social networks, desktops, and mobile phones. They can take your idea from concept to completion in 90 days.
37SIGNALS
37signals creates web-based applications such as Backpack, a web-based personal information manager and intranet for small business. Basecamp, a web-based project management tool. Campfire, a business-oriented online chat service. Highrise, a "shared contact management" web application which supports basic CRM tasks.
ADOBE
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. The company has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Internet application software development.
AMAZON WEB SERVICES
Amazon Web Services is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3.
APPLE
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation best-known for their Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. And their softwares such as Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software; Aperture, a professional photography package; Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products; Logic Studio, a suite of music production tools; the Safari internet browser; and iOS, a mobile operating system.
CARBON COPY CLONER
Spinning for years at 75MPH, your hard drive's catastrophic crash could really hinder your productivity. Use CCC to make a bootable backup of your digital life today!
CISCO
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American-based multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Headquartered in San Jose, California.
DROPBOX
Dropbox is a Web-based file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. that uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization.
EVERNOTE
Evernote is a suite of software and services designed for notetaking and archiving. A "note" can be a piece of formattable text, a full webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can then be sorted into folders, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, and searched. Evernote supports a number of operating system platforms (including Android, Mac OS X, iOS, Microsoft Windows and WebOS), and also offers online synchronization and backup services.
FACEBOOK
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. As of January 2011, Facebook has more than 600 million active users.
FIREFOX
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. As of March 2011, Firefox is the second most widely used browser with approximately 30% of worldwide usage share of web browsers.
GOOGLE APPS
Google Apps is a service from Google providing independently customizable versions of several Google products under a custom domain name. It features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including: Gmail, Google Groups, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites.
JUNGLE DISK
Jungle Disk is an online backup tool that stores its data in Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud Files. It was highlighted by Amazon as one of the earliest S3 clients. The basic Jungle Disk software is sold as a monthly subscription model, and the customer is billed directly by Amazon for data storage and transfer.
MERLIN
Merlin 2 is the leading professional project management software for Mac OS X. Developed by project managers for project managers, Merlin truly delivers in meeting your professional requirements.
MINDJET
MindManager is a commercial mind mapping software application developed by Mindjet Corporation. Mind maps created in MindManager are based on the mind mapping method by Tony Buzan.
MINDTOUCH
MindTouch makes the world's most respected social knowledge base. They power purpose-built help 2.0 communities that connect companies with their customers. Millions use their software every day.
PAPERS
Papers will gladly organize all your documents, whether they are word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, posters, scanned receipts, and many more. Papers even has a dedicated space for your own articles, and conference related materials, like your travel documents and posters.
SALES FORCE
Salesforce is an enterprise cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, USA that distributes business software on a subscription basis. Salesforce.com hosts the applications offsite. It is best known for its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) products and, through acquisition, has expanded into the "social enterprise arena."
SKYPE
Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice and video calls and chats over the Internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phones can be made for a fee using a debit-based user account system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features which include instant messaging, file transfer, and video conferencing. Skype has 663 million registered users as of 2010.
SQUARE
Square currently provides its card readers for free to its users. The Square app is also freely downloadable from the App Store and the Android Market. Square charges a fee of 2.75% on every credit card transaction. This rate is higher than the rate charged by conventional credit card processors, but Square claims that the conventional credit card processors also include many hidden costs which are never disclosed to the customers.
SUGAR SYNC
SugarSync is a startup company based in San Mateo, California, specializing in data synchronization software. Their main product, SugarSync, is an application which syncs files, photos and media among multiple computers and backs them up on the Web. It is available for Windows and Mac OS X. There is also a version for Linux being developed by a third-party developer, which is in alpha.
TRANSMIT
Transmit is an FTP client for Mac OS X. Developed by Panic, Transmit is shareware – after a seven-day trial period, the product can only be used for seven-minute sessions until it has been purchased.
TRUECRYPT
TrueCrypt is a software application used for on-the-fly encryption (OTFE). It is distributed without cost and the source code is available. It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or (under MS Windows except Windows 2000) the entire storage device (pre-boot authentication).
TWITTER
Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page.
VIMEO
Vimeo is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. The name Vimeo was created by co-founder Jake Lodwick and is a play on the word video, inserting the word "me" as a reference to the site's exclusive dedication to user-made video, and is also an anagram of "movie."
WEBEX
WebEx Communications Inc. is a Cisco company that provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and videoconferencing applications. Its products include Meeting Center, Training Center, Event Center, Support Center, Sales Center, MeetMeNow, PCNow, WebEx AIM Pro Business Edition, WebEx WebOffice, and WebEx Connect.
YOUTUBE
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share and view videos, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.
