Long silences. Tapping PDAs. The faint buzz of snoring. Sound like a meeting you led recently? Use our tips to make face-time more focused and productive.There's nothing worse than attending a boring, unnecessary meeting — except, of course, presiding over one. With our step-by-step guide to better meetings, you can...
Tired of hearing dead air on the speaker phone? Use these helpful hints to liven up your long-distance meetings. Before the Meeting: Know Your Gear If you're using videoconferencing technology, spend some time learning how it works before your meeting. Use the...
Tired of typical conference-room confabs? Try these creative meeting techniques used by companies like Yahoo!, Ritz Carlton, and Old Navy. Ritz-Carlton Meeting Technique:Start each shift with short stand-up meetings Pros:Quickly disseminates critical information Cons:Not long enough to go in-depth...
It's the stuff of horror stories: screaming fights, racist comments, coworkers falling asleep. Learn the right way to handle any conference-room crisis. "If you disagree with a colleague's idea, you should..." Propose a constructive alternative without being immediately dismissive. Mildred S....
Have you ever sat though a pointless meeting and calculated just how much money was being wasted as a dozen well-paid professionals zoned out around a deathly boring conference table? Make Every Meeting Matter — or Don't Meet at All Goal:...
YouTube may be the most popular video-sharing site in the world, but similar homegrown sites are popping up and gaining popularity in some of the world's most illiberal locales. Just like YouTube in the United States, China's 6rooms.com, Turkey's Izleriz.com, and Jordan's Ikbis.com make it easy...
I don't like paying any more than I have to for my favorite gadgets. So I was happy to come across the dealmac Web site--a great place to find bargains on hardware and software for your Mac and related gadgets, including digital cameras, iPod accessories, hard drives,...
For history and world affairs buffs, there's something very gratifying about Sid Meier's Civilization IV. The epic series Civilization, from Aspyr Media, lets you create and evolve a civilization from 4000 BC to AD 2050. Civilization IV is a highly conceptual,...
For Commander Sid Heal of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, one of the most frightening aspects of responding to a future terrorist attack is knowing how to respond correctly. In an era of increasingly sophisticated terrorist plots, the proper response may require a Ph.D. in...
In June, more than 700 cartographers, developers, and entrepreneurs flocked to San Jose for Where 2.0, a conference by publisher O'Reilly on "the future of mapping and local search." I spent a day at the conference checking out the latest technology and was pleased by the...
My family lives in Los Angeles, so I'm often scouring the Web for cheap flights. Usually this involves numerous visits to Southwest Airlines' Web site--almost always the least expensive way to go--looking for good deals. But lately, I've been letting Southwest do the work for me,...
When I need to buy something--whether it's a used toaster or a used Mac--I always check Craigslist first (www.craigslist.org). This classified ad Web site started as an e-mail list in San Francisco in 1995 and now covers more than 120 cities in the United States and 80...
In late April, the University of California at Berkeley became the latest addition to the iTunes U program, which lets universities use the iTunes interface for distributing material to students. But unlike most other members of the program, Cal has made many classes and guest lectures...
Back in the day, clever geeks who wanted to customize a cool piece of hardware hot-rodded their cars. These days, they mod their Macs. In the Mac's sleek exterior, they see an invitation to a little self-expression. Modders love their Macs and iPods so much that they...
Over the years, Google has become much more than just a search engine. And one of my favorite offshoots is Google Calendar. This online calendar lets you view and add events from any Internet-connected computer--perfect when you're on the road. Perhaps the best feature for Mac...
Wish you could carry Wikipedia in your pocket? Then check out Robert Bamler's free Encyclopodia, software that brings the contents of the famous online encyclopedia to your iPod. Encyclopodia includes all of Wikipedia in only 750MB, letting you read about your favorite subjects when you tire...
1 Kyocera KR-1 Get Kyocera's KR-1 router, and you can hit the Net wirelessly (at speeds as fast as 2.4 megabits per second), from nearly anywhere you can receive a cell-phone signal. $250; www.kyocera-wireless.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2...
On April 1,1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Computer to begin selling the Apple I. Thirty years later, you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who could reasonably challenge the notion that the company has had a profound impact on the personal computer industry, in...
Are you the kind of person who can't take one step without an iPod? The kind of person who believes that you can glean much more information about people from their iPod libraries than from their book libraries? Then Leander Kahney's $25 The Cult of iPod (No...
"Since Mac OS is rising in popularity, it's a natural target. People need to be vigilant about protecting their systems, no matter the platform."--Jennifer Shearman, manager of public relations and corporate identity for Mitre Corporation, which maintains the Common Malware Enumeration initiative. "I think that Mac users in general...
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