This is why I LOVE SAAS!
Today I was at the library and I was using Firefox portable, when I noticed my browser was being hijacked and sent to ad sites…
I looked to see if there was a portable app for anti mal-ware, ad-ware, spy-ware, etc. but found none useful.
They have clam win but it had an error.
So anyway, as I read on the forum I got the idea that there may be a Scan as a service website somewhere.
Enter Bit Defender free online virus scan! How great is that?!
So today I was typing up an email and the thought occurred to me, “Am I using ‘I’ to much in this letter instead of ‘you’?”
(theory: email recipients don’t care about me they care about themselves)
But how can I count and compare the # of “I”s to the # of “you”s?
so I googled…
“count word occurrence”
And i found
http://www.wordcounttool.com/
It is a web based tool (exactly what I wanted) so I was happy
Hope it helps you too.
Have a SaaSy day,
TaiyoJ
Ask any blogger and they will tell you that blogging is a lot of work. I know, I blogged everyday for a year on my Japan-related blog, DailyJ, and many of those posts were interviews where I had to find interviewees, contact them, edit their replies into an engaging format, etc. Burn-out was inevitable.
For anyone looking to make money by their knowledge or products online and to give a bit of the knowledge away in order to gain traffic, blogging is probably going to be part of the equation. But how can you manage running a blog when you have other important things to attend to too?
Being overworked already and on the constant look out for SaaSy web 2.0 solutions to time/money problems I turned early to various blogging by phone solutions.
On my personal (and productivity) blog tori.taiyojohnson.com I experiment often with various ways of blogging by phone.
I was first inspired to do this after using the THEN free/cool service Jott.com.
They have since gone paid-only and greatly chaffed their loyal early adopters. But that’s another story.
After Jott I tried other services like Dail2Do.com, etc. most of which I found through sites like lifehacker.com (they get a link, Jott doesn’t 
).
I was also an early grandcentral.com (Voip phone awesomeness) user which became google voice. And I realised early on that Google Voice could be used easily to record long podcasts with just a phone (or record phone interviews), using its call recording feature. I called this “GoogleCasting.” And for a bright shining moment all was well.
Just recently however it looks like Google Voice has dropped its call recording feature. I am not sure if this is truly the case or not but it looks like it. Perhaps it will come back.
In either case, this prompted me to go searching for other podcasting by phone solutions and luckily I found a few [hopefully] good ones.
First up is spoink.com. A free service. I like free.
GabCast.com is another, but not free. 0.10USD per minute.
And of course you can google for yourself “free podcast by phone” and find others.
Is saas taking over the world?
Have a wonderful and saasy day,
TaiyoJ
I signed up for a batchbook account today to test it out.
Here is part of an email they send out to new users:
Did you know you could send email directly into your new BatchBook account to automatically create or attach to contact records? It’s true: your unique BatchBox address is listed below. Just forward or “bcc” a message to your account and it will be logged in BatchBook:
batchbox+11111@[company-name].batchbook.com
Ahh, I love you too SaaS!