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 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...
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...
If you use Microsoft Outlook to manage your contacts, you've probably spent a lot of time manually transferring names, companies, and phone numbers into the fields provided. It's a drag, and it usually means that you're willing folks on the margins slide by without collecting their vitals. (Unless they use...
If you're a Sprint customer, but you want to switch providers to, say, AT&T iPhone or T-Mobile (HotSpot@Home), you may be able to get out of paying an early termination fee. That's because Sprint's raising the rate for roaming; if you pay for roaming in your plan, you can cite...
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...
When you travel abroad, your cellphone rarely works. When it does, you get socked with roaming rates up to several dollars a minute. A simple fix would be to simply switch out your SIM card for a local one. Of course, with US carriers...
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...
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...
