Drop.io is a website that allows you to create a private chunk of space that you can use to store and share anything (pictures, video, audio, docs, etc) privately, without accounts, personal registration, or email addresses.
Only people that know the URL of a drop can access it. You can create as many “drops” as you want and password protect access to your “drops”. You can also select whether visitors can add files to your drop and when the drop should expire.
Drop.io recently added FREE faxing to their services.
To send a fax from your drop to a recipient:
1. Click on ‘send’ and then select ‘fax’ next to any document (.doc) or PDF
2. Enter the 10 digit fax number of the recipient (our service is US only)
3. Your fax is sent, end of story
Note: you can only fax out documents up to 20 pages.. Certain word documents with embedded charts, or other OLE objects PDF files made with Postscript 3 will not work.
To receive a fax into your drop:
1. Go to your drop and click ‘receive a fax’
2. Email the cover sheet to the person sending the fax to your drop OR click ‘this coversheet’ and send the custom drop.io cover sheet to the person sending the fax
3. The sender must put the drop.io cover-page on top of the fax.
4. The fax will appear in your drop as a .PDF
Note: So, the basic idea, to fax a document into a drop you must use the drop’s custom ‘cover page’ – give the cover page to the fax sender and you are in good shape (email it to them, print it and send it to them, whatever you want)
With the growing popularity of handheld devices, you should constantly be checking to see what mobile users are seeing when they look up your site. One way is to type the URL into your wireless device, but how do you test on devices you don’t have? Or what if you’re not a mobile user? Now you can use mobile device simulators on your computer to see what mobile users with different handheld devices are seeing.
For a quick and easy look, you can try the pocket device simulator from G-site. This site lets you type in any URL and see what mobile users might see. It displays the page in a generic handheld device.
| For example, here’s a screen cap of yesterday’s Webgrrls Wisdom blog using G-site: |
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Sites like G-site meet many people’s needs. However, they don’t take host files and other local settings into account. To test your site on specific types of devices or to play with more advanced options, you might want to install applications from the different mobile device creators.
| Microsoft allows you to download emulators that can be used with or without Visual Studio. Here’s a glance at the same Webgrrls blog post using the Microsoft Mobile Emulator: |
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BlackBerry also provides its own mobile simulators for BlackBerry devices for you to download, and the Palm Developer Network provides free access to mobile simulators for Palm devices as well.
You can no longer afford to hope for the best when it comes to mobile devices. You should find out what your customers are seeing and then seek out ways to make the user experience on mobile devices simpler and easier to use.
For all you web developers, be sure to check out the new beta versions of Microsoft and Mozilla browsers.
Internet Explorer 8 Beta
The IE 8 Beta includes features such as CSS 2.1 support, CSS certification, performance, start of HTML 5 support, new developer tools, activities, web slices which will allow users to break a web site into parts and only get updates from the part they want.
Learn more or download the IE 8 Beta.
Firefox 3 Beta
The Firefox 3 Beta has been built on top of the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.
Did you know that the larger the size of your Microsoft Outlook data file, the slower your Outlook performance is?
In this post I will give you instructions on how to improve Outlook performance by reducing the size of the main Outlook data file.
1. Learn about Outlook data file(s)
In Outlook, you Personal Folder (.pst) files live in this directory:
C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook\
Note: You have to enable the “Show hidden files and folder” & “Show file extensions” option to see all of the folders shown above.
By default, all of your Outlook data gets stored on one main data file…usually called outlook.pst. In your Outlook, that data file is called Personal Folder (see image below). What we will do here is move all of the old emails into a new data file.
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PDF documents are becoming more and more prevalent in the business world and the documents are no longer just text. They also contain “fields” that need to be filled in…name, date, address, email, digital signature, etc.
Adobe Acrobat has a $299 dollar solution.
Here are some FREE and low-cost PDF editors
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