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...
What's well-written, fairly interesting, and incredibly freaking annoying to read? Time Magazine's list of 25 Gotta Have Travel Gadgets, that's what. The article is pretty well researched (the gadgets tend to be light and useful like the Kensington ComboSaver Portable Notebook Lock and the Tumi Ultra Slim Universal Power Adaptor...
When I want to get a bunch of people together for a party or business gathering, I often find myself reluctantly turning to Evite. I hate it. Besides for the late-'90s styling, it's got a clunky interface, is packed with ads, and forces guests to go to the website to...
Search engine optimization SEO is hugely important these days, but most small businesses are fairly clueless about how to make their sites look as good as possible to the spiders of the web. An extremely cheap (actually, free) way to see if your site is up to snuff is to...
If you're a caffeine junkie and a coffee snob, you'll often find yourself gritting your teeth while drinking subpar java from the office pot. To make sure you've got fresh coffee whenever you want it, you might try investing in a single-serve coffee brewer like a Senseo. As Web Worker...
A few months ago, Rick brought up the topic of work collaboration through "mind mapping" using the web tool MindMeister. If the concept of mind mapping is still a bit daunting, check out the simple and stripped-down app called bubbl.us that the folks at Web Worker Daily were just playing...
Headman Bernardo Provenzano may be in jail, but he reversed the Mafia's failing fortunes and revitalized their image during the decade he was in power using a system that's detailed in a new book by John Murray. An article in The Guardian details his seven-point plan towards doing business, mafia...
As someone who routinely sends out newsletters to large subscriber bases, I've moved beyond the BCC-ed bulk email as a way to communicate with my customers. Instead, I use Campaign Monitor, which is well worth the $10 or so it charges me to send out an email newsletter. Here's why:...
I mentioned the new site HowCast a couple of weeks ago right before it launched. Now that it's up and running, I thought I'd point to a few of the instructional videos that I found to be informative or entertaining. Here goes: How to...
If you're trying to brush up on your language skills, there are a few new cool web apps that can help you stay focused and motivated. My favorite so far is LiveMocha, which is free because it relies on the language skills of users who are native speakers of other...
On Thursday, a fun new instructional site called HowCast is launching. I was able to take a peek around the beta version of the site and came across a bunch of useful videos as well as lists and wikis. While the videos can be a little bit silly (for example,...
FixMyMovie.com http://www.fixmymovie.com/home is a new site that allows you to upload blurry webcam, cellphone, or digital camera videos with the promise of making them better by drastically increasing the number of pixels in each frame. It isn't going to turn YouTube quality videos into professional grade stuff, but a few...
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...
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...
Fuser is a recently launched email and social network message aggregator. You plug in your logins and passwords and—presto!—all of your emails, wall posts, etc. show up in the same inbox. Sounds easy, but maybe a little discombobulating to deal with all of this information in one place. So should...
You work hard, so you should be able to check your Facebook account or watch a few YouTube videos whenever you damn well please. But, lest the boss get the wrong idea (or lest your underlings think you're lazy), it's best to hide your extraneous surfing from wandering eyes. There...
Given the deluge of information you can precipitate simply by surfing the web these days, there is a new wave in web design to get the relevant information out front as quickly and usefully as possible. It doesn't get much more lightning fast than UmbrellaToday?, which has stormed the weather...
Picasa just added a new face-tagging tool that's similar to Facebook's, but holy crap is it powerful. It only works on my web albums right now, but I was able to tag over 300 people in 200 photos in less than ten minutes. (Not yet using Picasa for your web...
So Twitter is not for everyone, and I'm still not sure where I stand on the whole micro-blogging thing myself. (Though the Summize search function has at least made it possible to see what everyone's up to.) But if you're going to partake in the latest tech craze, you might...
Stealing Confidential Information from Competitor BERGEN COUNTY, N.J. -- David A. Goldenberg, Vice President of AMX Corporation, a subsidiary of Duchossois Industries, was arrested Friday on three charges related to illegally hacking into the private computer network of the Northeast Regional Sales office/Sapphire Marketing of Crestron Electronics Inc.,...
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