gAttach!  allows you to easily attach files to new messages in Gmail or Google Apps Mail.

All the features available in Windows that were once only available to your desktop mail-using friends are now available to all Gmail users.

Website: http://www.gattach.net/index.html

For example, if you had a column of data that contained a phone number without separators (1234567890), you could easily change the contents to be formatted to include separators (123-456-7890).

Magic/Replace will also change the case of the data in a field.

You would use Excel or some other more powerful tool for major data cleanup. However, Magic/Replace works well and is quick for simple data cleanup. Magic/Replace is brought to you by Dabble DB – an easy way to create online databases.

Website: http://cleanupdata.com/

Like a big catfish going after a dough ball, folks are snapping up malware like it’s a $20 bill blowing across a parking lot. Specifically, we’re talking about the old “Antivirus XP”, which is now making the rounds re-branded as “Antivirus Plus”.

Behold…

System Tray

Desktop Icon

Fake Infection Alert

And I’d be willing to bet there are entries in the Quick Launch bar and start menu as well.

ATTENTION PLANET EARTH!

** Antivirus XP 2008, 2009 and Antivirus Plus are SPYWARE! **

They are not helpful programs, and you certainly shouldn’t give these folks your credit card number, OK??

Scroll down for removal instructions. Thank you!

Props to Kevin Royalty [SBS-MVP] for snapping these pics on his camera phone.

REMOVAL
According to Kevin, our old pal Malwarebytes still gets rid of this nasty. Thanks for the heads-up Kev!

Antivirus XP now Antivirus Plus
nogeekleftbehind@mac.com (Tim Barrett)
Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:30:30 GMT

Don’t email large files. These free online services allow upto 100MB files to be saved and transferred.

Drop.io

http://drop.io/

Use drop.io to take anything and add it to a private online space or ‘drop’ to share by web, email, phone, fax, and more. Drops are protected from search engines so you can share what you want, how you want, with whom you want.

MediaFire

http://www.mediafire.com/

MediaFire is the simplest file hosting service to share files and images with others.

Simple-Share

http://www.simple-share.com/

Maximum allowed file size: 100MB

YouSendIt

http://www.yousendit.com/

YouSendIt is the No.1 digital delivery company serving business and individuals on the Web today.

iFile.it

http://ifile.it/

Maximum allowed file size: 100MB

Top 5 Free Online Storage Sites to Transfer 100MB Files
eConsultant
Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:06:06 GMT

Capture application screenshots or portions of them to use in your blogs and reports. These screen capture freeware will come in handy.

Jing

http://www.jingproject.com/

The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.

ScreenPrint32

http://www.provtech.co.uk/software/screenprint32.asp

ScreenPrint32 allows you to print and/or capture to disk or clipboard, the full desktop, active window, predefined area, or user selected area of the screen. Add user defined headers and footers with date and time stamps etc, resize the printed image, convert to greyscale or negative image, fade or resize the image to reduce toner/ink usage, print by default to any available printer.

MWSnap

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

MWSnap is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen.

ScreenHunter 5 Free

http://www.wisdom-soft.com/sh/sh_free.htm

ScreenHunter 5 Free is a completely free screen capture software for you to easily take screenshots.

Gadwin PrintScreen

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

Want to create a screenshot suitable for saving or printing? Then just hit a key on your keyboard.

Top 5 Freeware to Capture Screenshots in Windows
eConsultant
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:05:19 GMT

Since moving to Gmail for all of my email accounts I have been on the lookout for various add-ins and tools that would enhance my email experience. One of the best tools I have found is Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures. 

Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures is a Firefox extension that automatically inserts HTML signatures into your Gmail messages based on which address you are sending from. Works for Compose Message and Reply/Forward.

From the Blank Canvas Gmail Signatures home page this plug-in provides the following features:

• Works for Compose Mail, Reply, and Forward
• Support for single or multiple email addresses
• Create a different signature for each email address you use in your Gmail account
• Supports up to four signatures per address
• Real-time signature preview while editing signature HTML
• Signature automatically inserted into message above (or optionally below) quoted text
• Support for special characters
• Easy setup and configuration interface

Steve Michelotti has a good list: http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti/archive/2008/11/23/developer-tools-and-utilities.aspx

Scott Hanselman’s ComputerZen.com is the granddaddy of the list of developer tools: http://www.hanselman.com/tools

Ronda Tipton also has a good list of tools and applications: http://rtipton.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/tools-that-i-use-daily/

Xoopit is a website and tool that integrates into your GMAIL interface via a Firefox plugin. It allows you to search and browse attachments and media that exist in your GMail account.

Xoopit installs itself just above your Gmail inbox area. It also allows integration with Facebook, blogs, and other social tools.

Xoopit also will send you email summaries of all photos, files, and videos in your Gmail account.

Another benefit is Xoopit provides Xobni (for Outlook) type information on the sender of the message. This includes all attachments received from the sender as well as quick searches of other emails from that sender.

There appears to be thousands of publications on Scribd. A lot of them are self published, however, I did find some published books that have been uploaded to Scribd.

I do not know yet if this service will add value to the end user or not. It is an interesting idea though.

Dashwire is a free mobile phone contact, photo, video, and text messaging tool. It works on phones running Windows Mobile and symbian OS. It syncs your phones contents to the web and allows you to manipulate the data via a web browser.

I use Dashwire often to answer text messages because I can use the computer keyboard instead of the phone text input – which for me is quicker. I can also update contacts via the web interface with ease.

Other features I use is the ability to view, save, and forward pictures that I take with my phone.

Other things you can do with Dashwire includes seeing a list of all of your conversations (text messages), change the phone ringtone, set up speeddial for your phone, update your Dashwire, Facebook, and / or Twitter status, manage your mobile internet bookmarks, and manage videos you take with your phone.

The best thing is that Dashwire is free. 

The only downside to Dashwire (at least on a Windows Mobile device) is that it speeds up battery consumption. This is in part because it is in constant contact with dashwire.com so that the phone and the web site are in sync.