Web notebook service

‬37signals‭’ ‬online organizer tool,‭ ‬‬Backpack ‬has been a favorite with GTD geeks and web workers for some time now.‭ ‬It’s sleek,‭ ‬it’s cool,‭ ‬it’s got all kinds of Ajaxy goodness.‭ ‬And it can be used in many different ways to make you more productive.‭ ‬There are a million uses for Backpack,‭ ‬but what follows is a list of‭ ‬10‭ ‬productive uses for them.‭ ‬Why use Backpack‭? ‬As a web worker,‭ ‬you need a tool that you can access any time,‭ ‬anywhere‭ ‬–‭ ‬not just from your home computer.‭ ‬And Backpack is a great tool because of its intuitive,‭ ‬easy-to-use interface.‭ ‬It’s also versatile and seriously useful. ***

Gone are the days when daunted PC owners had no choice but to call a help desk and walk through the support process by phone. New direct-to-consumer services are letting technicians access and fix PCs remotely. Through these services--which are popping up on the Web and being offered by PC makers and retailers--technicians on the other end of the line can access a customer's computer through a high-speed Internet connection and fix it themselves, rather than walking a less tech-savvy customer through the often painful process. "Instead of reading arcane jargon, (remote support) can just show me directly," said Downs Deering, Dell's director of consumer services delivery. "All our customers have another life outside wanting be a junior phone technician." PC retailers, of course, have offered technical support for years through warranties and extra, fee-based services. ***

There are several Web start-ups that I see over and over again at new-tech conferences but none that launch a new product at each show. That"s certainly what it feels like Zoho does. "Look, it"s another conference! Let"s launch another product." Zoho Notebook takes on OneNote(Credit: Zoho) So here we are at Demo 07, and of course Zoho"s got something new: Notebook. If you"ve used Microsoft"s OneNote, you"ll grok it pretty quickly. It"s a content editing system that lets you create multiple sheets in one document. ***