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Total Organizer - a freeware tool to store your personal information divided into folder tree structure and tags. Calendar, organizer, to-do list, notebook and contact manager software (PIM).

ScreenSteps - takes the drudgery out of creating visual, step-by-step software tutorials/guides. With ScreenSteps you can communicate software instructions clearly and quickly.

Verify Email is an email verification tool actually connects to the mail server and checks whether the mailbox exists or not.

This is useful for cleaning your lists from bad and undeliverable emails; if you have an e-commerce or newsletter site; or possibly you administer a user forum.

This tool does a three-part check:

• Valid email format
• Valid domain
• Valid user

Your Easy Way to Buy from China
Wholesale discounted offers from China to your door.
Great products; High quality; Hassle-free import

If you have an Alibaba account then you know getting stuff from China is much easier than the old days (i.e. pre-Internet) but still can be a lot of work. Well here is a way to buy directly without the hassle. You can get electronics, sporting goods, health and beauty, and other consumer goods to re-sale.

Buyers order immediately from the convenient Global Sources Direct online store. Products range from consumer electronics and general merchandise, to premiums and DIY products. Small lot orders are welcome.

Advantages:

• Purchase products immediately from our convenient online store
• Deal exclusively with Global Sources Direct — not with different suppliers
• Low China-factory direct prices
• Easy, secure online payment
• Fast delivery — from China to your door
• Free! E-mail updates of new products available for online purchase

Time is the most precious resource for any consultant or sole proprietor. The CardScan Small Office / Home Office Solution helps you spend less time locating contact information and reaching out to contacts – and more time cultivating the relationships that lead to initial sales and continuing business.

CardScan is a small desktop device that quickly and accurately reads the printed information from business cards, email or internet contact data into the fields of a powerfully searchable, highly compatible contact database.

Turn your business cards into digital contacts. Find out Which CardScan business card reader is right for you!

Please visit the New VerusNova Store.
Here you will find some of the services and products that I have used in the past 2 years as well as those recommended by my colleagues. Especially check out the great free materials at Brian Tracy’ site!

PsPrint is a different kind of online printing company. By combining the very best in web technologies with state-of-the-art production facilities, PsPrint is able to deliver online printing convenience combined with competitive prices and consistent quality.

But we’re more than just an online printing company. With our expert Mailing Services, PsPrint is also your direct mail partner, with the marketing solutions you need to make your promotional mailings a success. They focus on small business.

PsPrint offers many options:

• Professional Mailing Services at PsPrint
  
• Free Online Design Tool - Design It! At PsPrint
  
• Full Color Booklets & Catalogs from PsPrint
  
• Full Color Postcard Printing, Brochures, Stickers, Calendars and More!
  

For VerusNova readers, here is a coupon: Save 10%, up to $75, off any product by entering code buynow

Auctomatic is a tool for managing your eBay business. Use Auctomatic to track your inventory, pictures, and auction templates, and track the traffic on your auctions so you can optimize your listing strategy.
This site is FREE while in Beta (no word on pricing afterwards)…

Features include:

Auctions –

* Import templates from Selling Manager and Turbolister
* Free scheduled listing capability for your auctions
* Auction statistics to see which are your popular items
* WYSIWYG text editor and HTML template functionality
* Use an unlimited number of eBay ID’s to list from

Inventory Management –

* Import from Selling Manager, Vendio, Marketworks, Channeladvisor and Inkfrog with one click.
* Upload inventory from CSV files.
* Organize and edit products

Pictures —

* Unlimited free picture uploads and storage
* Bulk upload zip archives

In my search for an easy to use web-based employee time & expense tracking system, I ended going with Zed Office. Originally I was looking for something more on the “Free” side - but QuickBooks integration was mandatory and so I settled for a very reasonable price of $5 per user per month. But the great thing is that the first 5 employees are free - and I have 5! How lucky…until my business expands — still worth the cost.

If you want to know the other potential choices I investigated for time & expense management (all worthy choices) - here they are:

SantexQ - nice interface and full featured; Free; very project oriented. Includes task management as well as time tracking. No expense tracking that I saw…

Time59 - very good choice at only $20 per year and includes invoicing as well. I probably would have went with this service but did not see QuickBooks integration as a feature.

PayMo - very simple and easy to use, free and commercial versions available.

BitNami takes the dreary job of compiling or tweaking installs of open source applications and turns it in to a plug-and-play operation. Bitnami Stacks are available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Bitnami Stacks are self-containted and won’t interfere with any software already installed on your system. “All Bitnami Stacks are free to download and use under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.” Some of the pre-packaged applications include: Wordpress, Subversion, Drupal, RedRoller, moodle, Joomla, and KTDMS. I recently used the KnowledgeTree stack for my corporate document system. There was a slight tweak required for Ubuntu-flavor Linux - but got it running in about 15 minutes.

Jumpbox focuses their pre-packaged server application offerings using virtual machines (i.e. “ready-to-run virtual machines”). The virtual machine choices include VMware, Xen, MS Virtual Server, and more. They have a decent list of growing applications already available. Some include: Joomla, Cacti, Wordpress, Alfresco, Drupal, vTiger CRM, MediaWiki, SugarCRM, Mantis, etc.

Do you need to monitor your servers, applications, and would you like to know in advance when you need more computing and IT resources?
Up.Time Software provides - “Easy Server monitoring, from dashboard to detailed metrics in seconds… Monitor all of your IT Services, Applications, and Databases with ease… Easy to use capacity monitoring and reporting helps you identify trends…”
You can download a 14-day trial of this software online - there is no info about how much it costs, only a place to request a quote.
It looks very feature-rich and has lots of easy to read graphs and reports. I may give this a whirl soon and let you know how I fared….

ALSO - Product Tour is here.