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...
Now that you've got an RSS reader (right?), you need to make sure that it doesn't become another email-esque albatross that you check way too often and spend way too much time going through. That doesn't necessarily mean, though, that you need to cut down on the number of feeds...
The August issue of Wired Magazine isn't out online just yet, but it is packed to the gills with cool tips in its annual How To guide. Like how to outsource your job (check out yourmaninindia.com) and use a Wiki compose your thoughts offline and run a fast meeting (keep...
How do you survive a poorly run meeting? How do you explain your ideas in thirty seconds? Guy Kawasaki—Apple evangelist—tells you in tiny snippets what you need to be able to do in the office environment and how to do it in a recent blog post on his site, How...
I was reading the great blog Internet Duct Tape the other day, and came across this statement: "One of the handiest 'life hacks' is to figure out how much money your time is worth after taxes and use that to as a basis for deciding if a time saving service...
Why should you be curt with colleagues and customers over email? According to a study of executive recruiters via Web Worker Daily, people are more likely to reply to important things when there's no chitchat mixed in. Stuart Jeffries of The Guardian would like to extend that curtness to faux-cheerful...
What happens when you Google yourself? If you've got a popular name, any pertinent results are usually washed out by waves of news about the serial killers, athletes, and CEOs who share your name. If you don't have one, then the results will probably be a mismash of labeled photos,...
What happens when you have a work question that either a) you're embarrassed to ask because it might make you look bad, or b) no one around you knows the answer to? You could simply do a google search, but useful results for complicated queries are often washed out.Not to...
I used to think that LinkedIn requests were obnoxious. I felt like I was being roped into a social network that, unlike Friendster, has been scrubbed free of interestingness and instead has a glossy PR sheen. But as a business professional, it's become unavoidable; not having a LinkedIn profile is...
Or if you don't use one yet, get one now. Really Simple Syndication is a really simple way to manage the articles, blog posts, and web searches that you want to keep up with—without actually having to take the time to go to each site. Web-based Bloglines has treated me...
Putting your email address up online is an invitation for spammers to scrape it and bombard you with offers for penis enlargements. But often times youll want certain people to be able to get in touch with you, so its nice to have contact information you can leave...
If you run—or work for—a small business, youll often find yourself wondering whether other folks have encountered the same issues you have. More importantly, you wonder how theyve solved their problems. There are lots of places to look for answers, but sometimes its nice to be able to have one...
A few months ago, I told you about DesktopTwo, a nifty (free!) online personal computing environment that you can access from anywhere and lets you upload and download files quickly. Sometimes, though, Id like to be able to access much more than the two gigs of space that...
Despite what most manufacturers would have you believe, your inkjet printer is not going to implode if you use third-party ink cartridges in it. Desktop printers are so cheap now based in part on the fact that the big brands expect to stick it to you later down...
If Woot, Dealhack, Cool Tools, and ThinkGeek havent given you enough ideas as to where to blow your money on the latest gadgets, try TechBargains, a site devoted to ferreting out the latest and best deals on everything electronica. Unlike the other sites mentioned above, TechBargains doesnt necessarily...
Perhaps youve heard that its not exactly the most hygienic thing in the world to eat at your desk. CNN tells us that our desks are hundreds of times dirtier than our toilets, and thats based on real science (that...
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...
Laptops and liquids dont mix well. Ive lost one to a Diet Dr. Pepper and have seen another fried due to a harried late-night combination of Google and Heineken. The two seem to be brought together in the most inopportune places—conference rooms and airplane...
A giant source of frustration in dealing with most companies is that they have little incentive to provide efficient customer service. In fact, by obscuring their inner workings, they make it that much more difficult for you to complain, much less extract yourself from them as a customer. But there...
Now that you know how to turn your voicemails into written documents, its also cool to be able to do the opposite. MagneticTime is a software app that lets you turn documents and emails into mp3 files for your iPod or handheld so that you can still have access to...
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