For all you web designers (or web design wannabes)… boy have we come a long way from the color wheel we learned in grade school! Now we have the ability to drag a mouse across a Color Sphere…

Color Sphere

…and see all manner of hues, saturation, and balance.

If you need to find a group of colors that are complimentary, the home page shows recently saved and most popular pallets:

ColorJack

The Color Studio allows you to pick a batch (non-technical term, that) of colors and “spin” them into many variations:

Color Studio

To explore the individual color sets used in Windows, Mozilla, or molded into crayons by Crayola, you’ll want to check out the Color Galaxy:

Color Galaxy

Thanks to the amazing folks at ColorJack for this impressive tool set!

Capture Contact data quickly from business cards

Look at your desk. Is there a stack of business cards sitting there with a rubber band around it? Two stacks? Those contacts are not doing you any good sitting on your desk. The most likely reason that they are not in your computer is that it will take time to enter them into your contact manager — and you have better things to do. Enter the card scanner — time saving gadget du jour. Run your cards through this little jewel and, voila!, the contact data is presented to you ready for a final edit, along with a picture of the card. Scan, edit, post to Outlook — snappy!

Card Scan

CardScan

Highlights

• Capture contact data without typing in the data

• Eliminate stacks of cards on your desk

• Easy to use — thousands of office workers enjoy this time saver

Time-saving Impact

Eliminate typing time when gathering contact data.

Learn more…

What office worker’s day would be complete without sending out documents? Since PDF files are smaller and nearly everyone in the known universe has a PDF viewer, I usually send out PDF files instead of Word documents.

Here are two free time saving tools in the PDF category: CutePDF and doPDF. They both install like a printer on your compure and work similarly: you select them when printing any document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.) and the tool then prompts you where to save the resulting PDF file.

Not only will you save time creating PDF files with these tools, but you’ll save your recipients time opening the files. This is especially true if they are using the very fast Foxit PDF reader. Plus, because you send them a PDF, you’ll know how the content will look when it is printed. No worries about how their printer renders a document differently than yours.