A cool promotional device and an invaluable tool rolled in one -- the
MeetingMiser application from PayScale. Enter your location and positions of the meeting attendees and push start; MeetingMiser will pull average salaries for everybody in the room and calculate the total cost of time spent looking at those ppt slides. If there is one online app that has to be a desktop widget, this is it, and it would be great to customize billable rates for more accurate estimates.