Sep 23

Send a fax for free with myfax.com

Internet tools    ©2009 Jean-Philippe Massin, 2,550 views 1 Comment »

I’ve been looking quite some time after a good easy to use free tool to get my few faxes sent online, now and then. In my willingness to serve the web community, here is my choice and best rating from far: Myfax.com.  Beside a regular business offering, Myfax.com is also proposing free services, with no [...]

Jan 02

The best freewares – reviewed and rated

Internet tools    ©2009 Jean-Philippe Massin, 2,326 views No Comments »

Gizmo’s website, that I already presented in this blog (read my post about “The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities”), upgraded its user interface and significantly increased the number of reviewed, rated and recommanded freewares. It’s better than ever and a true time-saver when searching for a small-app to make a value-added job like finding and deleting [...]

Dec 12

Organizations are increasingly delegating their information technology (IT) intensive business activities to external service providers to take advantage of the rapid evolution of the global telecommunications infrastructure and emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) capabilities. The business processes being outsourced range from routine and non-critical tasks, which are resource intensive and operational, to strategic processes [...]

Aug 21

Do you SlideShare?

Internet tools    ©2008 Jean-Philippe Massin, 1,520 views No Comments »

Today a Dutch collegue sent to me a link to a powerpoint presentation he wanted me to view and read. The powerpoint presentation was available and hosted on SlideShare, “the best way to share your presentations with the world.” You can let your ideas reach a broad audience, share them publicly or privately, even add [...]

Sep 06

Conv2pdf.com allows you to convert online and instantly in one single click several formats of documents in PDF. This conversion takes in consideration files of many different sources. Conv2pdf.com is a simple way to read and exchange documents without any software and format limitation. Better than pdf995. Enjoy conv2pdf!

Aug 14

Clipperz: an online encrypted password manager tool

Internet tools    ©2007 Jean-Philippe Massin, 2,124 views 4 Comments »

So far, I was gladly using Roboform to access with one click to my 100 of websites needing an authentication code to get in. But, when it comes to change your computer or to use several computers (home, office, friends…), then what a hell: either you have to buy another licence of roboform (25$-ish) and duplicate [...]

Jul 25

TripAdvisor: My preferred website for hotels

Internet tools    ©2007 Jean-Philippe Massin, 1,241 views No Comments »

What you need first hand, when travelling to places you don’t know, is finding a good hotel to avoid just the unacceptable: leaking, smelling, cold water, noise, broken air-co etc… (yes, I know quite some in this area!). To get there (to the perfect hotel), I’ve been successfully using  – for the last 3 years [...]

Jun 21

As English,Dutch or Spanish are not my mother tong, I regularly need to get help and support from an online translation tool to capture the essence of some expressions or words I stumble on. So far, I’ve been happily using babelfish from altavista. Quick and straightforward for sentence translation, it is not precise enough at [...]

May 21

Outsourcing activities in a wink

Case study, Internet tools    ©2007 Jean-Philippe Massin, 1,485 views No Comments »

I’ve been issuing posts so far about outsourcing procurement tasks or goods, but do you know that you can as well outsource part of you activities to india,  as easy as buying online? What I am talking about is not new but it looks that the momentum is coming-up now. World is starting to tame [...]

Apr 26

Ever dreamt about 3D pictures?

innovation, Internet tools, Misc    ©2007 Jean-Philippe Massin, 1,342 views No Comments »

This has nothing to see with procurement, although I can imagine it could be useful to present a product online to potential buyers. What? Adding, with no tags and manual work, 3D information to pictures. Yes, looks weird but… 2 applications are currently making some viral-marketing-buzz about their future capabilities (not even yet in beta). [...]

Apr 05

Who never dreamt about a place where to find key topics and dates of trade fairs and conferences to come and related to your professional interests? I walked by chance by www.goingtomeet.com, a website where anyone can ‘post an event’ and enabling visitors to search events by keywords. Let’s be honest, the site is far [...]

Mar 07

A Professional Virtual Office

Internet tools, Service Providers    ©2007 Jean-Philippe Massin, 2,982 views No Comments »

If you are a mobile worker, using several terminals (Mobile Phone, PDA, laptop, home desktop, office desktop…), here is a cool online ASP service from ContactOffice: A professional Virtual Office! Subscribing (for 0 to 50€ a month, depending the package you take) will enable you to access a set of interconnected tools that centralize organizational, [...]

Feb 15

Though this Website is not dedicated to Procurement & Sourcing, let me just recommend you BNET.com. Belonging to CNET networks and proudly showing a PageRank of 7 to 8, it’s definitly a well-established information portal for Professionals, whatever your function is: You’ll find there nice articles, news, thoughts, links to business reports and even download-able [...]

Feb 09

Here are links and comments I found on Line56 to the most downloaded free enterprise applications on Sourceforge: wxPython: “A set of Python extension modules that wrap the cross-platform GUI classes from wxWidgets.” Compiere: “Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global market covering all areas from order and customer/supplier management, supply chain to [...]