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Watercooler Clips: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude

June 30th, 2008 (5:00pm) Liz Shannon Miller 1 Comment

Need a quick break from the grind? WWD sister site NewTeeVee Station brings you Watercooler Clips, a selection from our collection of what’s good, interesting and/or of note in the online video world — whatever the web is talking about at the virtual watercooler.

Today, we offer The Website is Down’s dramatization of that most epic of clashes — the sales guy versus the web dude. Told from the perspective of the Web Guy’s monitor, this breakdown of office relations will seem all too familiar to those on either side of the screen.

Keep in Sync With a Free Exchange Server

April 7th, 2008 (7:00am) Jason Harris 8 Comments

logoFor those who have Microsoft Exchange as their email system, they know its utility for keeping multiple devices in sync with emails, contacts, calendars, tasks, and so on.  However, buying and managing an Exchange Server is a time consuming and expensive proposition.  Mail2Web features a hosted Exchange account with “limited access”.

With their free service, you can:

  • Have a personal calendar, tasks list, contacts, reminders, journal
  • Have 100MB of free storage
  • Sync with your mobile device
  • Automatically fetch emails from other accounts

The syncing happiness begins with setting up your Mail2Web Live account and configuring your devices.  If you have a Windows Mobile device, this will involve configuring ActiveSync to work with your Mail2Web service.

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Tungle Helps You Manage the Time Management Jungle

February 26th, 2008 (11:00am) Jason Harris 5 Comments

Arranging meetings with co-workers and team mates can often be a very tedious task.  The main issue with meeting scheduling the is time wasted trying to arrange meeting times. Microsoft Exchange tools help solve this inside the enterprise, but outside your own company efficiently scheduling meetings becomes difficult if not impossible. Another issue with scheduling meetings is having to work with timezones.

In conclusion, time is wasted arranging meetings because they involve multiple email transactions and/or phone calls.

A newcomer to the meeting coordinating scene, Tungle is an add-on application that tries to take some of the frustration out of arranging meetings.

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