David lives in San Francisco and is an editor at Gelf Magazine. He also freelances for several magazines including Wired and Business 2.0. He's always on the lookout for new ideas about how to make life at work more efficient, more productive, and more fun. Please feel free to send...
As someone who flies frequently but whose only loyalty is to the airliner that can get me the cheapest seat to where I'm going, I almost always find myself with a bunch of miles spread out over a bunch of frequent flier programs. Which is why I have subscriptions to...
Okay, so I probably don't need this gadget, as I spend almost all of my days within a few feet of a power outlet. But maybe the fact that I don't own this gadget is the reason I'm so sedentary. If I owned the Powermonkey eXplorer with solar charger, I'd...
Just in case you thought big brother had gone on sabbatical, a shocking new report came out this week that highlights how unprivate your corporate email account is. According to an article in CNET about a new report by Proofpoint, more than 40% of large companies have hired folks to...
While I'm not quite as excited about the new online scheduler Presdo as the folks over at TechCrunch, I will say that it's pretty darn simple, and it seems to integrate seamlessly with Google Calendar. It also has Google's intuitive understanding of what you mean when you use natural...
A few days ago, the folks over at Gizmodo pointed out a new way to reach your international contacts. Using Jaxtr, which is primarily a free phone-to-web-to-phone international calling service, you can now send free text messages to cellphones all over the world. While Giz rightly points out some limitations—no...
As someone who routinely sends out newsletters to large subscriber bases, I've moved beyond the BCC-ed bulk email as a way to communicate with my customers. Instead, I use Campaign Monitor, which is well worth the $10 or so it charges me to send out an email newsletter. Here's why:...
Despite the fact that I pound two to three cups of coffee every day, I've never really thought about caffeine as a performance enhancing drug beyond the fact the fact that it makes me less tired. But there's evidence that, like steroids and other drugs, caffeine works better when it's...
Or at least make sure you pay close attention to who you're emailing before you hit send. That message, which has always been pretty close to Business Hacks' heart, was nailed home today when it appears that the New York Times scoop about a one billion dollar Eli Lilly settlement...
A typical office worker gets 126 non-spam messages per day and spends over a quarter of a day managing his inbox, according to a recent (free!) Wall Street Journal article. If you out of necessity or compulsion have to check your email box on demand, there...
Fuser is a recently launched email and social network message aggregator. You plug in your logins and passwords and—presto!—all of your emails, wall posts, etc. show up in the same inbox. Sounds easy, but maybe a little discombobulating to deal with all of this information in one place. So should...
Next time you're up for a performance review, Slacker Manager reminds you to bring along a folder chock-full of praise for you and your work. Sure, you have to fill the folder up yourself, but it's a great way to remind bosses, clients, and even yourself that you're a good...
Your email signature, that bit of text that's automatically added at the end of all of your messages, says a lot about you. If you're a minimalist, you probably don't have one, which means that you're assuming that everyone you write to knows who you are, what you do, and...
Spending hours a day sitting on your butt is not a great way to remain healthy or—more importantly—look good naked. But immobility is usually necessary in order to be productive at work. Here are a few ideas to get around this conundrum:Â Treadmill Desk: You'll need a cool boss and a...
It's hard for me to listen to any productivity advice that includes the suggestion that I turn off my email notification system. I know that it's a waste of time to keep returning to my inbox every time my message detector pops up—I've read Clive Thompson's article on interruption science...
If youve got a cameraphone with more than one megapixel resolution, then you can take advantage of a cool free service called scanR. It lets you take photos of whiteboards, business cards, and documents and upload them via email to its website, where it...
Ive never really understood why it is so upsetting to so many people to get "spammed" by colleagues. Other types of spam—for say, Hoodia or fake online degrees—are obviously unwanted, but mildly relevant bulk emails from groups or people Im associated with in some...
After PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak wrote a screed about the evils of using AutoReply, the folks over at LifeHacker set up a poll asking readers whether they used the feature when they were away on vacation or otherwise unable...
Here's a super simple mail proxy service that Web Worker Daily just clued me in on. The site of Akapost.com is borderline unusable, but the service it provides is awesome. (Besides, once you sign up on the site and follow these instructions, you basically never have to go there again.)...
If you're one of those folks with a bunch of unread mail in your gmail account, here's a quick weekend project for you: empty it out. Here's how to do it: First, filter your inbox so that all you see are your unread messages. Phillip Lenssen, author of Google App...
Without getting too complicated, the new startup ididwork.com is Twitter for your worklife. You get a certain number of characters in which to input status updates throughout the day. You can follow what coworkers on your team are up. Unlike Twitter, you can tag your updates with things like "presentation"...
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