a different way to manage your billing needs

What is CurdBee?
CurdBee is a safe and secure web-based billing application from Vesess. Use it to send clients invoices and then collect payments via PayPal or Google Checkout, billing them easily in the currency you choose. It’s so simple, you won’t believe it till you see it.
New: Supports mulitple currencies
CurdBee now supports multiple currencies
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What to do with all of those old magazines?

Weblog Apartment Therapy Re-Nest shows how to repurpose a pile of old magazines or vintage books into a small table in just about 10 minutes. Pulling it off is a simple matter of tucking every 10 pages or so back into the spine of the magazine—you don’t even need glue or any additional supplies. As [...]

slow down with a good read

Tempted by a book of “one-minute bedtime stories” to read to his son and thereby save time while fulfilling, albeit barely, the paternal role, Honore had a moment of truth. Speed, he realized, was a cultural addiction that, far from enhancing his life, was eroding his pleasure in it. He set about finding those swimming–slowly, [...]

the starbucks experience

From Publishers Weekly
In this paean to “one of the truly exceptional American success stories,” Michelli convinces the reader that Starbucks is a great company, but he stumbles when trying to extract “precepts that can enhance your business and your personal life.” He explores the various levels on which Starbucks succeeds, from its generous HR policies [...]

a fresh perspective business blog

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A Fresh Perspective: Inc.’s Staff Blog
Inc. Magazine’s staff blog is an eclectic and refreshing look at issues of direct — and indirect — interest to smaller businesses. The blogs are sometimes personal and sometimes global and range from a blogger’s issues with PayPal to the virtues [...]

Commonwealth study on the medical bill payments

A number of states have begun to consider legislation that would restrict access to physician prescribing information for data mining companies as part of a “backlash against pharmaceutical marketing efforts,” the AP/Arizona Republic reports. Data mining companies, such as IMS Health and Verispan, collect information on which medications physicians prescribe and the quantities in [...]

legislative debate over physicians and data mining

A number of states have begun to consider legislation that would restrict access to physician prescribing information for data mining companies as part of a “backlash against pharmaceutical marketing efforts,” the AP/Arizona Republic reports. Data mining companies, such as IMS Health and Verispan, collect information on which medications physicians prescribe and the quantities in [...]

To Do List Managers

If all the methodology of the best GTD applications loses you in the productivity shuffle, there’s nothing like a classic, simple to-do list to keep you on track. You’ve never had more options—both simple and robust—for managing your to-do list as you do today. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite to-do list [...]

zapproved – helping groups work online

Webapp Zapproved helps you mediate group decisions, like where to have the company holiday party, or if everyone likes the new logo design. Users create proposals and then send requests to their coworkers, family, and friends. The requests appear as emails to the recipients who can approve or deny the proposal with or without commenting [...]

Need Help pressing the restart button?

Here are a few tips:
1. Start with a single step.
Go through each item in your inbox one at a time. If you don’t have an inbox, collect all the piles from your work area into one mission control center. Use a sticky note to group like-actions together. For example, make notes labeled: read, email, file, [...]