Sharing a few really great sites I’ve become fond of in the last year …Grooveshark, Prezi, Google Voice, and Quertle!
Free music streaming over the internet (not downloading). Great interface, and pay a little extra for removing ads and more features. Amazing for streaming my European favorites on my Italy-songs playlist!
Tired of *another* power point presentation?? click click … snooozeeeee … Check out Prezi! Its a presentation interface, where you make a large ‘desktop’ then bounce around from one area to another, zoom in and out on a specific topic and move to the next. Check out the demos and examples, give it a try next time you need to spice up that presentation!
In Italy during recruiting season, it was difficult to communicate with companies across time zone and long-distance calling. Also while I was travelling to other countries for interviews or school, it became very complicated! I used a google voice number to handle my phone calls for me; so great.
Google voice is a phone forwarding service, where you have a set US number (you help choose a number/area code) that can then be forwarded to your US cell phone and/or your gmail account with many other features.
- Voicemails are available online by audio or “transcribed” into text (not always correct, but improving). Yes, that means the voicemail is online, not so great for people who leave voicemails over emails for security reasons. As a friend said “its in the cloud!”
- One number that I can use on my business card for a long time.
- When I’m in the US, it gets forwarded to my cell phone and computer, when I’m out of the country, just to my computer! No confusion for what number I can be reached at, and no waking up from calls from US recruiters at 2 am in Italy.
A biomedical-related search engine for publications. This has been so helpful when searching articles for my thesis (based on my internship in a vaccine manufacturing plant). A few things its been great for - 1. Learning how tools like system optimization have been used in pharma manufacturing. 2. In supply chain analysis, reviewing how dynamics change with relationships in high-value product in small volumes, and key needs for product integrity and storage constraints.
(Thanks to Steve for introducing me to both Grooveshark and Prezi!)
