VerusNova

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!

If you have a blog or website that has frequently updated or valuable data that would attract the mobile crowd - here is an easy way to instantly turn your website into a cellphone friendly site for free: WireNode.

We detect all mobile phones, which access our platform and we try to render the best output for it.
We know the phone type, model, manufacturer, screen resolution, preferred markup language and image types and other parameters. Based on this data, our mobile detection core decides, which output format it will give to each particular phone.

Here is the WireNode mobile version of VerusNova: verusnova.wirenode.mobi

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Rogomo - Find experts, or be one and earn cash

YouTube video fast search at: http://www.yvoschaap.com/youtube/

Currency Converter for the traveler or arbitrage mogul.

FilePub - free file hosting up to 20GB files.

SlyDial - send someone a voicemail without ringing their phone; good for ex’s, and to leave that message with the boss so you can say “I called you but you didn’t pick up.”

Get your own Toll Free or Local Number with voicemail for as low as $9.99 per month

Why would any small or medium business spend tens of thousands of dollars on a PBX when they can spend $10/month with companies like RingCentral?

The rich menu of business features of RingCentral Online is unmatched in the industry and provides advanced functions unavailable in even the most expensive PBXs, including:

Toll Free Numbers
Local Numbers
Voicemail
Internet Fax
Virtual PBX
Extensions
Dial-by-name Directory
Call Forwarding
Answering Rules
Call Screening
Call Controller+SoftPhone
Message Alerts
Music on Hold
Click-to-Call Out
Click-to-Call Me
Outlook Integration
Call Logs
Calling Card
Recorded Greetings
Unified Messaging
Auto Attendant

Unlimited Conferencing - reliable, quality conference calls for only 6.5¢ per minute.

Their conferencing services and pricing plans are designed to suit the needs of a range of customers, from small businesses that do only a few conferences a month to large corporations that do hundreds of conferences a month. Unlimited Conferencing offers a full suite of audio and web conferencing services with lots of features, good performance, quality and an eye to security.

There are many price offerings including a flat-fee monthly or a pay as you go per minute plan.

KoolWire - Convert multiple pages and document types into one big PDF.

PDF Escape - Fill in PDF forms, add text and graphics, add links, and even add new form fields to a PDF file, all online.

PDF Hammer - Edit your PDF files online for free; reorder, rotate, delete pages, etc.

Hello PDF - Convert PDF to Word and preserve the original layout of your PDF in an editable MS Word Document.

PDF Text Online - Extract test from any PDF document (multi-language)

A great small business tool —

Invoice Journal - For the incredibly low price of zero dollars and zero cents you too can use Invoice Journal to send an unlimited number of invoices to an unlimited number of clients.

ADRIVE - A quick, easy, and secure solution to backup your valuable files - get 50GB for free.

ProQuo - Your personal information is being collected, bought, and sold by thousands of businesses every day. Without your consent. Stop the Junk Mail!

Lifehacker has a good article I used to find a video encoder for one of my projects.

Top 10 Free Video Rippers, Encoders, and Converters

Here is a look at 2 new tools I thought might be useful to small business. One is for those still looking for an Outlook-style email contact system without the cost/hassle; the other is for creating marketing, training, and other screen shows.
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(1) I am always looking for a better online contact management software. I like Plaxo and a few others but ContactOffice – currently in beta — looks very promising. It reminds me of an Outlook interface with drag-and-drop in an online venue. I think this is a good solution for a very small team or office.
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(2) Screencast-O-Matic is the free and easy way to create a video recording of your screen and upload it for free hosting all from your browser with no install. You can export your screencast to quicktime (.mov) format. The maximum hosted screencast time is 15 minutes.

Happy 2008 to all the VerusNova readers.

It has now been over 2 years of publishing for this blog.

Well, it looks like I won’t be able to get the remainder of my posts back….bummer…

In case you were wondering where I got the New & Improved banner in the top tight corner, you can get one too at QuickRibbon.com

In the tradition of “Doc, it hurts when I do this…”

As you may have noticed - I have moved VerusNova (after 2 years) to another service provider since my previous one was plagued by outages and poor service.

Unfortunately my old wordpress site was 2.0, and this blog is based on 2.3. So I couldn’t use my old template. That isn’t a problem since it was time for a change anyway…but, somehow when I imported all of my old data - I only got the first part of the blog entry. This is a problem I still may be able to resolve — but maybe not — I’m sorry about that…but the show must go on.

I think the problem is there are inherent DB structure changes between 2.0 and 2.3 and so not everything restored properly. I used the service from BlogBackupOnline.com - they had all my entries, but after it loaded this site is what I got.

Anyway - moving is always painful

Stay tuned for more great stuff….

Here are 6 new ways to make your cell phone even more indispensable….

Numbr.com - Create throwaway numbers for posting ads online, marketing campaigns, or when you meet someone new…

Knotler - Create and manage your shopping lists

Dial Directions - get directions from someone who can actually find their way around town…

TextMemos and WakerUpper - 2 great […]

Billeo - provides small businesses with an easier way to transact on the Internet.

NetBooks® - Invented by the visionary behind the original QuickBooks; created for small inventory-based businesses

PassPack - an online password manager for people who travel or change computers often.

YuuGuu - A remote desktop client; Instantly share your screen with anyone, anywhere for free.

Mosio - a mobile Q&A community enabling you to text any question from your phone and have it answered by real people

SlideRocket - a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations

VCASMO - a multimedia presentation solution for personal photo-video slide show, business presentations, etc. Synch slides with audio.

Letter Pop - You can make Astonishingly Creative Newsletters in minutes for Free

Marketing Experiments - A Great resource of marketing tests and experiments so you can find out what really works online.

Bravisa - A fast and easy way to make money with your free personal online store.

FreeWebs - Making a website is fast and really easy - and free

Spruz - Create your own free website for social networking

SpongeCell - A calendar that lets you publish your events promotions across websites, email/SMS, blogs and social networks.

Mark This Date - calendars of events that you can import into any iCal calendar. Includes sports calendars, events, birthdays, etc.

Having trouble sending a big file because of email server limitations? Here are 9 ways to get it done:

SendUit - Save files up to 1 week; 100MB limit
MailBigFile - Save files up to 3 days; 100MB limit
Sendspace - Save files indefinitely (until not accessed for 7 days); 300MB limit
BigUpload - Save files indefinitely (until not […]