So you've got iCal at home, Outlook at work, Google Calendar on the Web -- that's three calendars to manage! Calgoo Connect promises to keep these and other calendars in sync, and it's now available free of charge. Specifically, the Calgoo sync program is available for both...
As any Google Calendar user knows, having a copy of your appointment schedule on the Web can really come in handy. Now Outlook users can sync their calendars with Windows Live Calendar thanks to a new beta version of the Microsoft Outlook Connector. When we first looked...
Even if you spend a lot of time using Excel, you may not be taking full advantage of the spreadsheet program's power. Productivity501 sheds some light on three of Excel's lesser-known, but extremely useful, capabilities. They are: Transpose copy function Validate entries to a list ...
When you create a presentation with Web-based software, it's highly desirable to be able to export that presentation in PowerPoint format. Google Docs inherited that capability back in April; now Zoho Show can export to PowerPoint as well. And not just PowerPoint: Show can also export to...
Indispensable Outlook plug-in Xobni just released version 1.4, adding integration with social-networking service LinkedIn. Users will now see a contact's LinkedIn profile data (job title, company, and photo), assuming he/she has any, in their Xobni sidebar. Clicking the accompanying LinkedIn logo takes you to that contact's page on the service. Also...
The other day I showed you how to remove e-mail and Web hyperlinks from text copied and pasted into a Word document. Okay, but what about formatting? What if you want to rid pasted text of weird line spacing, italics, and the like? Turns out there's an easy shortcut for...
When you copy text from an e-mail, Web page, or another source into a Word document, any URLs or e-mail addresses contained within that text usually wind up hyperlinked. Word offers no clear-cut method of removing those links. You can right-click one and choose Remove Hyperlink, but that's a pretty slow...
As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using keyboard shortcuts--especially in Microsoft Word. But there are some program functions, like Word Count, that don't have shortcuts assigned to them. Fortunately, it's an easy matter to set up shortcuts for just about any Word command. Here's the...
Google Calendar users have the enviable option to create new events using plain English: "Lunch meeting with Joe tomorrow at Panera Bread," for example. Freeware applet Easy2Add adds the same capability to Outlook, allowing you to create appointments just by typing a line of text. The applet sits...
Text messages are a great way to reach someone when a phone call won't do, but do you really have to pull out your cell phone whenever you want to send one? Not if you use Joopz, a Web-based service that enables two-way texting from inside your browser. ...
Lotus Symphony is a free office suite for Windows and Linux. It rivals Microsoft Office, offering business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. And it's no longer in beta: IBM just announced Symphony's official 1.0 release. Though built on an OpenOffice core, Symphony bears little...
As anyone who receives more than 50 e-mails per day can attest, effective inbox management is essential. Microsoft exec Amit Mital offers a surprisingly simple three-pronged approach to dealing with e-mail overload, starting with the creation of three inbox folders: The first one should be just for you, so set...
Seems like just a month ago that Microsoft Office competitor OpenOffice.org trotted out version 2.4. Today the open-source office suite debuted its long-awaited 3.0 version albeit in beta form, adding native support for Mac OS X, import filters for Office 2007, an updated interface, and countless other tweaks and...
If you spend a lot of time in Microsoft Word or any other word processor, it's high time you learned how to select text using only your keyboard. Why? Because it saves you having to reach for your mouse and lets you use other keyboard shortcuts more effectively. Here's how:...
Whenever I migrate to a new PC it happens more often than you might think, I immediately install the following five programs. I can't live without them, and neither should you. Copernic Desktop Search I don't know why desktop-search utilities have all but vanished, but thank goodness Copernic...
Zoho continues to one-up Google Docs. (Actually, they're more like four or five "up" at this point.) Zoho Sheet, the company's Web-based spreadsheet, just added over a dozen new features, including support for Visual Basic macros the same kind used in Excel and pivot tables/charts (which are already supported in...
An oldie but goodie, Autosync formerly Intellisync for Yahoo synchronizes your contacts, calendar, and other data to the Web. That not only gives you a backup in case of disaster, but also makes your info available from any PC. The software synchronizes data between your desktop PIM (Act, Outlook,...
The most efficient computer users are those who rarely take their hands off their keyboards. If you want to be among them, learn to use keyboard shortcuts for commonly used commands. Own Your Inbox offers a batch of keyboard shortcuts for Outlook users, including: Send message: ALT+S...
As regular Business Hacks readers know, I'm a big fan of using Jott for personal reminders: If I remember something I need to do and I'm driving down the highway at the time, a quick call to Jott sends a reminder to my inbox. But what if I'm in the...
Before you spend hundreds of dollars on the latest version of Microsoft Office, consider a less-expensive alternative: OpenOffice, which offers business-caliber word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, databases, and drawing. Because it's open-source software, it doesn't cost a penny. The latest version, 2.4, adds a host of minor fixes...
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