(FORTUNE Small Business) – CORANTE.COM Attention! There is some venture capital fueling tech these days, and e-commerce is alive and well, but you might not know it if you haven't been poring over the dailies. Check out the shorts at Corante.com, a tech news site whose editors--all experts (bios included) in their designated field--pull and condense the day's most insightful news from world sources. Coverage is broken down into eight tech categories, and related special reports, though a bit too cerebral in their vocab ("initial froth"), can also be included in your inbox.

FRESHADDRESS.COM When your customers move unbeknownst to you, chances are that anything you send will still find them, thanks to the U.S. Postal Service's forwarding service. But what about e-mail? The closest thing we've found is FreshAddress.com, a handy startup that, once you register, will automatically alert you to and eliminate "dead" addresses in your outgoing mail. Of course, you can get a customer's forwarding address only if he has registered with FreshAddress as well--something to recommend, and to consider yourself if you ever switch e-mail systems.

JUNKBUSTERS.COM Although it clearly hasn't spent much money on Web design, JunkBusters.com helps you deal with and reduce the amount of spam in your in box, junk mail in your post office box, and unwanted marketing phone calls. The first step: Plow your way through a lengthy form, checking off the type of mail you do want to receive (catalogs? surveys? from which industries?). Then sit back and read up on how to steer clear of e-mail lists, because it takes time to see JunkBusters' results. It does work--so far we've seen less spam from certain outlets, but we have yet to open up a free and clear mailbox.

PLACEWARE.COM Great business ideas evolve from great brainstorming sessions, like those in which employees are hunched around a conference table at 3 A.M., legal pads dotted with pizza grease and chicken-scratch notes. But when your best creative types happen to work in another time zone, bring 'em together with PlaceWare.com. It lets you work together in real time--virtually. Surf the Web simultaneously or collaboratively edit uploaded docs, all while chatting in a separate window. But take a tutorial first; PlaceWare can be confusing without training.

WHITEDRESSSHIRTS.COM Some of the pizza grease from last night's on-the-road brainstorming session got on your last clean white button-down. No biggie, except you have two days left on your biz trip and no time to hit the cleaners before work Thursday. Place an order at WhiteDressShirts.com and have a high-quality one (Egyptian cotton, designed by a textile-developing veteran) waiting for you at your next hotel. At $55 plus shipping, is it too good to be true? We thought so, until we ordered. Not only is the shirt lovely, but so is the customer service.

MY.PALM.COM What's not to love about a free calendar app that lets you access your master schedule from any Web browser, even a wireless Palm? Plenty--the unfixed bugs, to start. Click on Dec. 10, 2001, to enter an event's info, and the site pulls up Mar. 5, 2002. Annoying and time wasting. And the all-too-frequent outages during the biz day will send you back to pen and paper. Or at least to Palm's desktop software.