Audio Transcription Techniques

Last time I had voice recordings transcribe it ran $120/hr for the audio transcription. This new service has the following rates — making it less than $26/hr for podcast transcriptions!

URL Podcast transcription is 42 cents a minute. Podcasts are made searchable.
Uploaded file transcription is 75 cents a minute. Transcripts are not searchable.

The transcribing is done […]

Landmark Education for Business

Productivity guru Franklin Covey often talks about ’sharpening the saw’ — taking time to get training, focus, and get inspired to achieve new levels of greatness. Landmark Education Business Development offers business services dedicated to creating new levels of business results. Their services and technology allows them to partner with clients to design and implement […]

Great Free Software Tools

I compiled a list of must-have free software tools for the home user or student:

Foxit - Opens PDF Files Fast
iTunes - Useful for Podcasts
Hosts - Remove All Ads (Windows)
Juice - Popular iTunes Replacement
OpenOffice - Fast MS Office Clone
gCalc - Replace Your Calculator
GAIM - 11 Instant Messengers in 1
RA - Replacement for Real Player
GIMP - Powerful […]

Succeeding with Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management is a complex business function which covers the process of each part of the product manufacturing process (the ’supply chain’). Choosing the best supply chain management software is crucial for enterprises to be able to control and streamline their business. In business where the product margins are thin, the benefits of even […]

Navicat for MySQL GUI Management

Anyone who has worked on web sites that use open source MySQL database will appreciate a good tool to manage and create your databases. WordPress is my CMS of choice for most pet projects, with Expressions Engine coming in as the tool of choice for most higher-end projects that demand a more robust feature set.
I […]

Enterprise Support from Rimini Street

Enterprise support services traditionally will cost you an arm and a leg. Rimini Street annual support services can replace Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards maintenance and support services while providing 24×7, 30 minute emergency engineer response and premium support features.
They tought a 50% cost savings. If you use Siebel Support today, you might want to get […]

NetSimplicity’s Asset Management

A new software solution from NetSimplicity: meeting room scheduling and asset management.
NetSimplicity’s product automates many day-to-day office administration tasks. It integrates with Microsoft Outlook and other tools to provide for the management and scheduling of rooms, equipment, assets and resources.
This software can replace personal calendaring software and spreadsheets to […]

DNForum — Domain Sales & Appraisals

This site — DNForum.com — is a clearing house for discussions on a variety of topics on domain name sales, domain appraisals, and discussions about domain registrars.
Their “Industry Leaders” forum allows you to talk about issues with registrars. If you’re like me and have a lot of domain names, then you’ve likely run afoul of […]

Free Forums using GoBoardz

GoBoardz is a new — and free! — forum service that allows you to create online message boards. Some selected features:

Picture uploading/linking via embedded Photobucket widgets
Avatars
Active Topics (via RSS too!),
Customizable colors
Digg suppport
Del.icio.us linking

Unlike some other systems in the market, this system is very fast (no graphics, just colors), and simple to set up. I set […]

Web Site “Pulse”

I liked how this website monitoring tool is positioned.
They have geographically dispersed monitoring locations which take the ‘pulse’ of your servers’ health. They also have a “triple stage” error verification system and multi-level error correlated notification system.
This type of independent, off-site monitoring of the availability and performance of your web sites allow you to keep […]