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...
My computer started crapping out on me yesterday, and I realized that it might have something to do with the fact that I had six different programs running: Word, Firefox, GIMP, Filezilla, PowerPoint, and Adobe. Or maybe it was because I had 20 different Firefox windows open along with eight...
Every year, a new study seems to come out claiming that either IMing is a productivity timesuck or that it's actually a useful, relatively non-intrusive tool. Recently, the scientific pendulum has swung to the "useful" side, as a recent study found that "workers who used instant messaging on the job...
As I've mentioned several times on Business Hacks, one of the best ways to manage your online reputation is to create your own website; that way, when people google you, one of the first things they'll come across is something that makes you look good—and you can control. I finally...
As Rick has mentioned before, one of the best ways to free up space on your hard drive is to get a birds-eye view of all the stuff you've got on there and then bulk delete the stuff you've got no use for (say, temporary internet files). I tried out...
The time for buying valuable websites that contain important keywords for just a few bucks is over. Domain speculators have snatched up tens of millions of websites, and they've got intricate setups to make sure that they're the first to any other valuable sites that come onto the market in...
The dam has broken. Yesterday, Emirates passengers were allowed to use their cellphones on a plane specially outfitted to protect its electronic signals. Soon, passengers will be able to use the internet, text and talk every time they take to the skies. But just because we can do it, does...
Yelp—the user-generated business rating site—aint just for restaurants and bars anymore. I just used the website to find a CPA to help me figure out my increasingly-complicated taxes. Yesterday, I used it to find someone to sharpen my knives. Last week, I used Yelp to find a plumber for a...
In Slate a few days ago, Jeffrey MacIntyre wrote about a few small applications he likes to call ZenWare for their supposed ability to cull distractions from your desktop. He tested a few of them out, and came away particularly impressed with Spirited Away for Macs—the PC version is Swept...
As we've mentioned before, the internet often looks ugly when you're trying to view it through your (non-iPhone) mobile phone. But Digital Inspiration via LifeHacker has an awesome hack that will allow you to use your phone to read any site that has an rss feed. Simply point your...
Liveblogging was once a nifty way for political and sports bloggers to increase pageviews—readers following along with a speech or game would continually refresh to get a pundit's take on the action. Now, though, the practice has been extended to all sorts of pursuits, and small business conferences and presentations...
If you're traveling out of the US, you might want to reserve your airplane tickets and rental cars through a website based out of the country you're going to. An article in the New York Times Travel section found that you can often save a significant amount of money on...
