GreenPrint for a Better World

GreenPrint Technologies has a free application that helps protect the environment by increasing the efficiency and saving money when printing. How does this work? Instead of printing to your printer, you would print to the "GreenPrint" printer, this will open a dialog that will give you a preview of what is about to be printed and allow you to remove unwanted things that you don't need to print and save ink and pages. For example you can remove unwanted pages (like that extra page that is always printed when you print a page from a web site with 1 line of text..), remove graphics (like banners from a page) etc. You can also create a PDF from their application instead of printing the page.

Not only that the "World" edition  is free, it will keep a counter and show you over time how much money and how many pages you saved! Go ahead and give it a try.

MarketFilters v2.0

A few months ago I wrote about MarketFilters which is a great free application to access stock information. This company released a new version with many new features and it is still free for all!

What's new?

• Symbols are added to a list and quotes are pulled for all at once
• Detailed information and charts can be viewed for any symbol in the list
• Indexes can be shown or hidden through the options
• The application can stay open (in the background) so the most recent quotes are shown on next view
• Advanced connection parameters can be added for carriers that require special settings
• Market Scans now use the same powerful scanning technology available on the web site
• A counter of data transmitted is shown on the options screen
• The most recent scan remains on the scan page after getting a quote for a symbol
• Improved user interface

To download point your BlackBerry browser to: http://www.marketfilters.com/widgets/v1/MarketFilters.jad

Xobni for Outlook

Xobni (that's inbox spelled backwards) is a startup based in San Francisco. They created a free Outlook sidebar with some great features such as Email analytics, threaded email (like Gmail) and quick search. I have been testing this for the last few days and I must say it works great and is very useful. When you select a specific mail the Xobni sidebar is updated and is showing you everything relevant to this email: the contact of the sender, how many emails you exchanged with the sender, conversations (threaded) with the sender and more. This is a quick and great way to find other relevant interactions with the sender so you don't need to look them up in your Outlook folders.

You can watch here the video of what this looks like before you test it out and then head to their download page to install.