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I have mentioned a few services for screen sharing and conference calls before. Here are a couple new ones I’ve discovered.
Usually if you want to open a program or document, you click on your Dock/Taskbar icon or search for it in the Finder/Windows. An application launcher allows you to access those same files with only a few quick keyboard strokes. It’s a huge timesaver! Here are a few launchers you can try:
If you don’t have an iPhone but you’d like to synchronize your Mac’s files and settings (i.e. contacts, calendars, photos) with your phone, SyncMate might be able to help.
SyncMate is an application that will sync your Mac with Windows Mobile, Android, Nokia phones, additional Mac or Windows computers, Google and Dropbox accounts, online storage, USB drives and Sony PSP. You can sync a multitude of applications and files such as your Address book, Calendar, bookmarks, iTunes files and iPhoto albums.
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