Nick J. West

This is one of the coolest developments in e-mail management in years, well since Gmail. With Google Gmail AutopilotTM by CADIE, you can auto-manage many of the repetitive and annoying tasks that result from the tons of e-mail we receive each day, even replying to the most common spam e-mail like the Nigerian wanting to send you 10 million dollars.

The only drawback to the service as far as I can tell is the conflict of agreeing to attend multiple events in the same time slot, but I suspect that they will somehow tie this into Google Calendar so you don’t have that issue.

The only thing I can say about the product other than keep up the great work is “April Fool’s!”

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I recently began using an app with my reQall account (voice-to-text like Jott) called Xpenser. What’s great about Xpenser is that you can track your everyday purchases and expenses, coffee and danish, cab fare to a client meeting (for billing later) concert tickets, dinners and impulse purchases simply by sending them to your Xpenser account by text, IM, SMS, e-mail, Twitter, just about any messaging service.

Organizing your expenses can then be done later online through an intuitive interface. Simple commands like ‘Lunch 54.23 with John D,’ are automatically recognized by the system.

As always with technology there is an inherent risk with relying on an Internet service that may fail at some point or that may not be available in the future, always have a backup of your important data on another system, and always hang onto those receipts for tax purposes.

Find out more about Xpenser by clicking here.

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I am a big fan of Jott. Though I no longer subscribe to Jott, I love the services that Jott introduced to the masses and I sincerely hope they continue surprising us with even more great stuff.

The recent re-branding of Jott to Jott Assistant got me thinking of an even better product, as a free service provided by Google. I am only suggesting that Google would be wise to acquire Jott, like that of Grand Central which became Google Voice. The merging of the two systems together would make one hell of a great product.

Google Voice has allowed us to finally gain control of our office phones. By forwarding our main number through Google Voice, and then blocking the usual cast of repeated annoyance callers, now when the phone rings, we can usually expect it to be a paying customer or potential client on the other end.

I can only begin to imagine the control and organization that could be accomplished from a Jott-Google Voice type service. For now, I will just continue to dream.

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