Imagine that your emailing, blogging, media sharing, planning, project managing, discussing, socializing, and all communications actions could compressed and optimally organized together in one tool. That tool, my friends, is the upcoming Google Wave [See Video Below].

With the announcement of Google Wave at this year’s 2009 Google I/O, we are as excited as ever for the amazing work that Google repeatedly displays. From one point of view, it’s hard to even figure out where to begin talking about Google Wave, seeing that it literally revolutionizes the way we communicate online by changing our old digital snail mail methods to something that one would expect if Email was reinvented in the 21st century – oh wait… Google Wave DID REINVENT the Email system.

So exactly how is Google Wave so revolutionary? Will for starters, rather than having a traditional email system that basically emulates snail mail except through the Internet, all communications in Google Wave exists on a so called “Wave.” This Wave is basically one (1) and only one instance of data that lives either on the Google Wave server (similar to how your Gmail mails are also hosted on Google’s servers) but can be accessed and edited by different participants of a that Wave. This way, people can communicate in real time and any edits, comments, messages, remarks, inserts, uploads, links, etc that a participant of a Wave makes, everyone else of that Wave with eligibility will also see, instantaneously. Sounds confusing? You should be, seeing that, once again, Google Wave is changing everything about the way we communicate.

Just speaking of the surface of this new platform, there are many new features and functions of Google Wave. For instance, rather than your traditional email with a Reply or Forward mode to carry on a message or conversations, Google Wave offers messaging with a different perspective. Anyone of a single Wave can edit the message and text anywhere he or she desires, whether it’s at the end of a Wave message, like in the case of a Email reply, or it’s directly in the middle of a Wave. The good news is that all this commenting and editing is stored in one Google Wave to prevent syncing problems with multiple instances of Waves. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a VERY LONG VIDEO. Therefore, the best way to watch this is to not watch this. Just turn up the speakers and listen while you do some other easy task. Actually do listen/watch this… because it actually helps and is useful. This Google Tech Talk seminar beautifully describes methods to not burn all your time on emails but rather process them efficiently. Good luck with Advanced Common Sense…

“I haven’t shown you anything here that you don’t already know how to do. But if you actually do it, you’re gonna see extraordinary differences.“

Slides of this Presentation: Inbox Zero [Slide Share]

As USB thumb drives and portable storage devices become cheaper and cheaper, most of us have sizable amounts. Now if you don’t already know, many applications and programs can be stored and ran/executed from a portable USB thumb drive. However, to be truly portable is to run an application from a device and leave no traces of the occurance. This is where PortableApps.com comes into play. PortableApps.com is a continued growing site in which the best portable software are displayed, introduced, and made available to download. These portable programs and souped up to run and leave no traces. Read the rest of this entry »

Pascal Beyeler brings us 3 great free applications for us to use online: the previously mentioned mediaconverter.org, temporaryinbox.com, and mediapirate.org.

As mentioned before, Media Converter is an online application that converts media files from one format to another. It can convert uploaded media into different types, such as for iPod and PSP, and can convert YouTube videos. In addition, mediaconverter.org offers a downloadable version of its sleek software. This is all free!

Temporary Inbox is quite different. It is a spam-fighting, disposable email address creator that can make a temporary email inbox. It allows users to avoid spam that can occur from forced email submissions, forward emails to your real account and control what is received, and of course many other unmentioned usages. Again, it is all free!

Media Pirate is a bit similar to Media Converter. It allows users to retrieve video files from many different internet web addresses. By going to mediapirate.org, you can enter the url in which a video is located at. During the processing, mediapirate.org finds the source of the video file and then presents it for you to download. In addition, Media Pirate is featured as a Firefox extension. This is quite useful for those who uses Firefox. Once again, it’s free.