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VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas 18 Online Productivity Tools for Your Business This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer or platform. As a business or startup owner you may have occasion to bring your work home with you, or require frequent access to your to-do lists, notes and documents on the go. Choosing primarily online tools for your productivity workflow is a great way to address the issue of source agnostic accessibility. It's also a convenient method to ensure you have a backup of your important day-to-day items and files in case a particular computer or device fails. With the tools on this list, you should be able to check in on your current workflow stack regardless of which machine you happen to be in front of, what operating system it uses, and what browser it's running.

david rumsey map collection Cartouches are the elaborate decorations that frame map titles and other information about the map. They add an artistic or symbolic narrative to the maps they describe. According to map historian Edward Lynam, cartouches that frame titles first appear on Italian maps in the 16th century. They persist on maps until the middle of the 19th century, going through many stylistic changes. Below are selected cartouches from maps in our collection, beginning in 1703 and ending in 1852. This first group of three cartouches are from Guillaume de Lisle's World Atlas of 1731: Carte du Canada ou de la Nouvelle France et des decouvertes que y ont ete faites; Guillaume de Lisle; 1708. Carte des Courones du Nord. Carte de la Grece. Henry Popple's 1733 atlas Map of the British Empire in America features a cartouche remarkable for its mysterious symbolism, including a severed head of a (we assume European) man with an arrow sticking into it: L'Empire du Japon; Didier and Gilles Robert de Vaugondy; 1750.

Online Productivity Tools for the Small Business : Technology :: Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one com January 08, 2010 Small business owners may have more of a need than most to be able to access their chosen suite of productivity tools from more than one computer or platform. As a business or startup owner you may have occasion to bring your work home with you, or require frequent access to your to-do lists, notes and documents on the go. mobile productivity tools as a logical companion to this piece, and consider your phone platform and setup and how well it may integrate with particular tools as you build out your productivity arsenal. Remember the Milk. Toodledo is a popular newcomer with a full-featured slate of ways to enter, organize, and sort your tasks. TeuxDeux bills itself as a "simple, designy, free, browser-based to-do app" and embraces a minimalist interface accordingly. Evernote. Google Notebook and Zoho Notebook.

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