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...
Over at MakeUseOf, they've compiled very useful keyboard shortcuts for Google search, Firefox, Gmail, Windows including Word and Excel, and Mac OSX. They're not searchable except once you download them as PDFs, but they are a great resource; In the Google page, I picked up a few tricks on how...
When I think about giving up my trusty Dell laptop for a MacBook, I sometimes fantasize about how great it would be to have a machine that doesn't need constant virus scans. Or think about how awesome it would be to go through the day without being nagged by a...
For some reason, Microsoft has decided to start renting an Office software package (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote and a security program called OneCare) to consumers for about $70/year. I'm assuming this subscription policy is an effort to gain back some of the market share they're losing to free programs like...
Here on Business Hacks, I've sung the praises of Doodle as the best and simplest application for coordinating schedules for group meetings. I still love Doodle, but there's a new app in town called Jiffle that you can sync to your Outlook or Google calendar to show people when you'll...
Next time you're wandering through the airport looking to grab a bite to eat before you cram yourself into coach, look to see if there are any Chipotles before you head over to Burger King. Health Magazine ranked the best fast food chains out there and found that the burrito...
Google Docs is fast becoming my text editor of choice simply because the collaborative advantages it gives me are far beyond what passing a Word document back and forth over email allows me to do. No longer do I have to do with improperly formatted documents, nor do I have...
Why should you have a usb-powered remote like the one shown on the left for your computer? There are a lot of reasons. First, it combines the PowerPoint usefulness and laser pointer of this wireless presenter with the folds-into-your-laptop's-PCMCIA-Slot portability of a Mogo mouse. Second, it has controls...
The daily annoyances of writing programs like Word have sent several frustrated users running to stripped-down word processors like Google Docs and even Notepad. But if you're a Mac user, it might make sense to get a writing program with more capabilities: Scrivener. Although Scrivener, which costs $35 (but offers...
For slow typists like me, speech recognition software has always been an alluring beacon to what I thought would be workplace efficiency. Instead of casting off my qwerty shackles and doubling my words per minute rate, though, I've instead wasted a lot of time playing around with junky software that...
Sure, we all know that we should be backing up all of our files regularly. And, given that storage has dropped below a dollar per gigabyte, there are certainly no space constraints anymore. But even using the "system tools" menu on our PC to...
Microsoft Word, the medium in which almost all of my work is done, is not a particularly user-friendly beast. It crashes on occasion, and it doesnt interact well with documents written on other software. In its standard settings, it tries—often incorrectly—to anticipate my needs, and it messes with my concentration...
By now, you should have a Gmail account. Its easy to set up, simple to use, and pretty big. You can forward your other accounts to it and use it as an autoreplier when youre out of the office. Because of the large amount...
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...
For years, my best attempt to organize my airline miles came in the form of a laminated card I kept in my wallet that contained all of my frequent flier numbers. Id pull it out whenever I was buying tickets, but never had any real idea of the following things:...
One reason that the present doesnt look as much like the future that we imagined it would be twenty years ago is that voice recognition technology still isnt nearly as meaningful as we thought it would be. The recognition software is slow to learn, makes lots of mistakes, and cant...
One of the biggest headaches about Microsofts new Vista OS is that the several different versions (among them: Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise) have such variable features. For example, the BitLocker Drive Encryption feature thats so perfect for protecting sensitive files on your work PC (or, indeed,...
For your next presentation, here's a simple way to make an interesting graphic of the topics you're going to talk about. Input the text of your talk into Wordle.net and you'll get what's known as a word cloud back in return; the biggest words in the cloud are the ones...
As Rick points out, you can use Google Chrome's incognito mode (ctrl-shift-N) to protect yourself from big brother. But there's also another great reason you should use it: multiple gmail accounts at the same time. I'm sick of having to sign out from my main account to check my spam...
NEW YORK -- CRM magazine is proud to announce the launch of destinationCRM 2006, an executive-level conference for sales, marketing, and customer service professionals. The event will take place at the San Jose Marriott in San Jose, California from September 17-19, 2006. "Successful customer strategies...
Organizations that use CRM have long been raising the bar of customers' service expectations in the private sector. Those expectations are now crossing over into the public sector. Government agencies are feeling the same pressures as their corporate cousins--both financially and from customers. Recognizing the necessity...
Articles 2004-07-01
<< Previous
page 1 of 1
Next >>
Premier Vendor Content
Whitepapers, webcasts & resources from our Power Center Sponsors
With AT&T Tech Support 360, you'll have certified, U.S. based technicians on call 24/7 to help keep your computers, connections, software and peripherals up to speed for just 82¢ a day.
