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How to Make the Most of Your Mouse's Scroll Wheel
Your mouse's scroll wheel can be used for a lot more than just scrolling. For example, did you know you can use it to raise and lower your PC's audio volume? Or copy and paste text? How about switching between tabs in Firefox? MakeUseOf details these and other scroll-wheel tips...
Tags: Scroll Wheel, Mouse, MakeUseOf, Mice, Hardware, Peripherals, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-06-03
Improve Your Wi-Fi Router's Performance
Do you have one of those rooms that the router's Wi-Fi signal just can't seem to reach? Of course you do; we all have one of those. (We also have a conference room that someone thought was a great idea to paint peach, but that's a different problem). Well fear...
Tags: Router, Performance, Wi-Fi Router, Wi-Fi, MakeUseOf, Routers & Switches, Wireless LANs, Network Technology, Networking, Wireless And Mobility, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-07-29

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Free PDF Packed with iPhone Tips, Tricks, and How-To Goodness
Do you know how to get the most out of your iPhone? Can you use it as a flash drive? Convert music to ringtones? Extend your battery life? Your iPhone has so much potential that odds are good you're only tapping a small part of what it can do. That's...
Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe PDF, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-08-04
Find Great Free Apps for Your Phone and PC
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...
Tags: Telecom & Utilities, PC, Phone, David Goldenberg, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, App
Blog posts 2007-10-15
Create Business Cards for Free with Deyey
Designing a business card just got a whole lot easier. The "name card" builder at Deyey lets you create stylish, customized business cards using templates and/or your own artwork (company logos, photos, etc.). The site walks you through four simple steps: creating a background, adding a logo,...
Tags: Rick Broida, Deyey, Business Card, Card
Blog posts 2008-01-25
Save Time with Six Firefox Extensions
MakeUseOf lists six Firefox extensions that can save you time, usually by automating or simplifying common tasks. For example: Hyperwords - All in the Right Click!  This is undoubtedly one of the best Firefox extensions available and my favourite too. It adds a huge number of options to the mouse...
Tags: Firefox Extension, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-05-07
Find Instruction Manuals for Computers, Phones, and Other Gear at SafeManuals
Can't find the instruction manual for your BlackBerry? Your old HP LaserJet? Adobe Photoshop? Head to SafeManuals, an online repository of instructions and user guides for a whopping 900,000 products. (Okay, the actual count is 883,542, but still.) You can browse the guide database or search for...
Tags: Phone, Computer, Smart Phones, Handhelds, Branding, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Marketing, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-06-12
Get Your Cheat Sheets Right Here
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...
Tags: David Goldenberg, Peripherals, Hardware, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Cloud Computing, Keyboards, Microsoft Office, Apple Mac OS X, Word Processors, Microsoft Word, Sheet, Google Inc.
Blog posts 2008-07-16
Get More from OpenOffice with Writer's Tools Extension
If you took my advice (and you always do, right?) and dumped Microsoft Office in favor of OpenOffice 3.0, here's a cool way to juice it up: The Writer's Tools extension for OpenOffice lets you back up documents, look up and translate words and phrases, manage text snippets, keep tabs...
Tags: Tool, miniInvoices, OpenOffice, Productivity, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-10-22
Add Free Content-Filtering to Your Network with OpenDNS
If you run a small office, you no doubt want to keep your employees from visiting inappropriate Web sites. Normally this would require pricey filtering software, complex proxy servers, or the like, but you can use the free OpenDNS service to filter content and even protect...
Tags: Employee, Network, Internet, Phishing, Servers, Security, Spam And Phishing, Hardware, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-10-30
Create and Share Flow Charts with LucidChart
I’ve long been a fan of Gliffy, a fantastic online diagram tool that’s like Microsoft Visio in your browser, only free. Now it has a bit of competition in the form of LucidChart, a similar browser-based tool that lets you whip up flow charts in a flash. LucidChart...
Tags: Microsoft Visio, Web Browser, LucidChart, Web Browsers, Productivity, Internet, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-12-18
Three Cool Ways to Use Your USB Drive
USB flash drives are getting cooler all the time. Not just in design (though there's definitely cool stuff happening there as well), but in what they can do for everyday business users. To that end, I've compiled three new and interesting ways you can use a flash drive: ...
Tags: USB Flash Drive, DropboxPortable Utility, Flash Memory, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2009-03-27
Use Hotkeys to Make Copyright, Trademark, and Registered Symbols in Word
Looking for an easy way to enter common symbols like copyright and trademark? They're easy enough to find in Word's Symbol dialog box, but if you use them frequently enough, it's handy to know the keyboard shortcuts. First, a refresher: If you are...
Tags: Symbol, Hotkey, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-06-05
Free Templates for Your Next Resume
We've made much ado here in recent months about the cataclysmic financial conditions, and we're always on the lookout for stuff to help you get your next job. I was thus quite happy to see that MakeUseOf recently rounded up a slew of Web sites with free...
Tags: Template, Recruitment & Selection, Web Site Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Internet, Dave Johnson
Blog posts 2009-07-01
Use Twitter on the Sly with Spreadtweet
Not allowed to tweet at work? Obviously your bosses aren't aware of Twitter's inestimable marketing value. Until you can prove them wrong, you'll have to tweet on the sly. Spreadtweet provides a Twitter interface that looks like a spreadsheet. No, this isn't some lame "boss key" like...
Tags: Twitter Inc., Spreadtweet, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2009-09-23
Another Free OCR Option for Software Cheapskates
Need to turn a printed page of text into an electronic page of editable text? Try OnlineOCR, a free optical-character-recognition service. Traditionally, this kind of process takes place on your PC via pricey OCR software. With OnlineOCR, you simply upload a PDF, JPEG,...
Tags: Software, Optical Character Recognition, Try OnlineOCR, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2009-10-13
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