Best sites: Six ways to work smarter

Posted by T3 Magazine on Thu 20 May 2010

Work websites you should bookmark right now

The web's not just for checking Facebook updates, tweeting your life and generally trying to find ways to get your head out of the spreadsheets, it can also raise your productivity so you can get to the pub in a much speedier fashion.

As Google Wave launches worldwide with the hope of making real-time communication even easier, we found five more useful website to help increase your productivity.

Read below for our Best websites: Six ways to work smarter.

Best site for...teamwork
Google Wave

Google’s much-hyped Wave allows real-time, IM-like communication and collaboration between a group of people working on a single document. While IM clients only offer two-way traffic, Google Wave allows you and your colleagues to adjust text and image documents simultaneously across the web. You’ll need to be invited by a current user as it’s still in Beta.

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Best site for… note taking
Evernote

Attempting to abolish the plucky, yellow Post-it note for good is this online note-taking tool. Type quick notes, grab web pages, make to-do lists, or upload photos and screenshots from your computer, iPhone or Android phone. Everything that you’ve captured is then stored in the cloud, with all notes clearly indexed and easily searchable from any device.

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Best site for...wordsmiths
Visuwords

If your job requires you to be particularly loquacious, like what we are, you’ve doubtless got a dog-eared dictionary and thesaurus taking up space on your desk, but reference books are anachronistic in this day and age. Visuwords links related words and phrases in a graphical map. Double-click a word to view all alternate meanings and any related words and phrases.

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Best site for... playing the markets
Pollster

Trading stocks and shares relies heavily on predicting market trends. Pollster may be US-centric, but it’s an excellent aggregator of current trends, political surveys and public opinion. Designed by a former baseball statistician, the featured charts and graphs are interactive and can be adjusted to highlight information that’s relevant to your business.

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Best site for... sharing files
Drop.io

Dropio can be used to share files between multiple users in real-time. Just head to the website, choose what files to upload and Drop.io will give you a unique web address to access them from. All “drops” are non-searchable and can be password-protected. Up to 100MB of data can be uploaded for free and there’s an Outlook plug-in available for emailing large files.

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Best site for... shipping from the States
BundleBox

It’s not uncommon for new tech to be launched in the States months before it hits UK shores and even with the enfeebled pound, it’s usually a fair bit cheaper too. Sign up to Bundlebox for free and it will provide you with a US address so that you can buy US goods and have them shipped to Blighty. You’ll need to pay international shipping costs, of course.

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