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 we've noted before here on Business Hacks, a quick recall is often an important asset in business. Not only does memorizing a bunch of names of people you just met make them feel happy, they might also think it's an indicator that you have other sorts of smarts, as...
With web and mobile applications being developed at a startling rate, it's often hard to figure which ones are useful and which ones are a waste of time. Here at Business Hacks, we often single out apps that we like, but this time, I am going to point you to...
Last week, the New York Times Tech guru David Pogue explained the genius behind T-Mobile's new HotSpot@Home plan, in which, for $10 extra a month, you can make phone calls over a Wi-Fi network for free, without using any of your minutes.The marketing phrase HotSpot@Home is technically correct, as T-Mobile...
While many of us use Skype recreationally to chat with fellow Skypers around the globe, you can also pay a little bit of money to turn your Skype account into a cheap phone line while you're travelling on business or on a working vacation. For about $4 a month, you...
While Im not about to get into the merits of different PDAs at least not right now, the Treo does give its users one advantage that seems to be lacking in other handhelds—the ability to save phone call recordings to their SD cards. CallRec costs $20 and turns...
If you're one of the 43% of Business Hacks readers who said they're considering buying the new T-Mobile G1 phone that uses the Android platform, you're in luck—the phone went on sale yesterday. Once you get your phone, though, there are a few ways to make it work even better....
Dear Fellow Blackberry Users: Yes, we may be a dwindling bunch with the advent of the 3G iPhone and the Android. Yes, we may not be able to get cool versions of Facebook or have third-party developers build games specifically for...
Today, the be-rollerbladed dynamic duo of Larry and Sergey introduced the new Google phone platform Android to the world by way of the T-Mobile G1. The new 3G phone will cost $179 and data plans will start at an extra $25-$35 a month. While the testers at Gizmodo were impressed...