I tried to compile twelve good productivity tools that I plan to use in 2012. All these tools are free and some of them have professional paid edition.

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We have now released the newest version of OfficeClip 9.2.5, that incorporates, in addition to numerous bug fixes, implementation of many feedback that you had been giving us in the past few months. Thank you for all your feedback and suggestions for improvements.

To explain all the features will make this newsletter long, so I have decided to highlight the salient points here. I am planning to offer a webinar next week to go through all these features, check your email for the invitation.

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Yesterday one of our customers wanted to know how he can invite the employees of a new outsourcing company (he is working with) to OfficeClip but keep them from seeing internal information of the company. 

Sometimes people have to go extra mile to hide their information. For example, if you want to give access to somebody to your personal computer, you may want to make sure that they do not have access to folders or files on the hard drive.

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Although this board is used for making our product announcements, I could not help reacting to the news.

Steve Jobs departure from Apple is a well anticipated event since his leave of absense back in 2004. Although I do not personally own any Apple devices (except the company owns a few for testing purposes) and not too many of my friends do (yes I am branded out of fashion and opted for open android), I still could not part with my, now unusable, Newton Pad. I had hoped that Apple would bring back Newton after Steve Jobs came back as CEO and felt sad when he killed it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_(platform)

It was revived many years later with iPad, which was a category creator, and I would say is "Newton done right". Then we saw the years of copycats (per Steve Jobs)! There were windows based tablets before iPad but nobody understood the opportunity of bringing it for masses for a resonable price before Apple (Microsoft failed a few times!). It was a combination of innovation, think different branding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Different), vision of Steve Jobs and well executed marketing machine.

Now looking at how investor confidence showed up in the market post Steve's departure, it seems that Apple is under pressure to continue to innovate for the next few years to shift the brand focus away from Steve Jobs as continuous innovator and CEO. We all expect from Apple to come up with innovative products every two years or so. If they stay with +1 improvements it will create opportunities for other competitors to come closer.

Maybe HP killed their tablet too soon!

OfficeClip is an all-in-one suite of Software that allows management of Employees Time and Expenses, keeping track of your Prospects, Customers, Opportunities and Issues . It also has feature to send Invoices and get paid on-line.

Many of our customers choose the installed version (where your install it on your own server) of the software as compared to the hosted version (on the cloud) because they want full control of their data. Some of our installed version customer wants to host OfficeClip on a shared hosting or dedicated hosting at a service provider. With OfficeClip 9.1 it has become easy to install in a shared or dedicated host using manual installation.

We looked around for cost effective hosting providers for our customers so that OfficeClip can be installed outside the firewall. the top 2 are given below:

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We are excited to announce our new release of OfficeClip 9.1. This is a major release and has been made possible because our users have provided us lots of feedback in our feedback site. In this release we bring you a new Application called Paid Time Off. It is now possible to track employee paid time off (PTO) and manage vacation accruals. Other major enhancements include ability to control the page size and using template to create the login screen. In addition to this we have made a lot of small enhancements and many bug fixes.

The OfficeClip Invoice application can now accept payments via credit cards, debit cards, Paypal and your customer's bank account (ACH payments available only in the US).

OfficeClip creates a seamless workflow for the entire process. An invoice is created and sent to the customer via OfficeClip extranet. The customer can then open the invoice by clicking on a link on their email. Upon presentation, the customer can pay for the invoice by clicking on the Pay button. Payment can be made using a credit card, Paypal or bank account. Upon payment, an email will be sent to you and the customer as the receipt for the payment.

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Do you need to notify your team members that the meeting which is going to start in 30 minutes is rescheduled?

When there is a need to notify people urgently, group SMS (or mobile text messages) is a useful tool. OfficeClip alerts supports quick text messages (SMS) in addition to emails. Sometimes, when people are on to go, mobile phones are useful for communicating various information like:

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Many of our customers have requested to host their installed version of OfficeClip outside their company. In this article we present a simple way to host OfficeClip on the Amazon EC2 cloud. OfficeClip uses Windows 2008 Datacenter OS and Sql Express 2008 image on the Amazon EC2 cloud. Running OfficeClip on the amazon EC2 cloud will provide you with the following benefits:

• You can run the installed version of OfficeClip on a dedicated server.
• There is no need to install OfficeClip, the installation is already done for you and you can just configure and run it.
• You have the flexibility to increase or decrease the machine resources based on your needs.
• It is cheaper than many dedicated or virtual servers you can find in the market.

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Many users have asked about a simple way to create Avery labels using the OfficeClip. Web Contact Manager allows you to create labels in few easy steps. You will need to export the contact address from OfficeClip and then use the tool from the Avery website to create the label in Microsoft Word. The steps are given below:

1. Export appropriate contacts from the OfficeClip Contact Manager as CSV file
2. Download the Avery wizard for Microsoft Office from the Avery website
3. Merge your contact data with the Avery Wizard
4. Print the label, peel and put in envelope

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