Business cards: How 20th-century. Dropcard lets you exchange your contact information -- and then some -- with others using only your cell phone. It's a free service, and it's pretty cool. Let's say you meet someone at a trade show. Instead of handing over a business card...
Sure, it's already a great phone, Web browser, e-mail client, and so on, but your iPhone can be used for so much more. Internet Service Deals lists 100 ways to turn an iPhone into the ultimate productivity tool. A few of my favorites: Find out where people...
If your iPhone service plan doesn't include text messages or you routinely burn through your monthly allotment, here's a trick for getting unlimited SMS without spending a penny. In a nutshell, you install the iPhone AIM client iTunes link, then add new AIM contacts in your desktop instant-messaging program (iChat, AIM,...
In honor of today's iPhone 3G launch, here's a clever new app that taps the new model's GPS capabilities: G-Park, which helps you navigate back to where you parked your car. All you do is tap the Park Me button optionally adding details about where you parked. Later, when you...
Can't figure out why you're not ascending the corporate ladder? Maybe it's because you're unknowingly practicing some of the 12 Ways to Become an Utter Failure at Work. Written with tongue planted firmly in cheek but with a serious underlying message, the article shows how office workers can really make...
Like countless business folks, IBM's Luis Suarez was tired of his overstuffed inbox and the hours it demanded every day. So he took some drastic measures: He stopped using e-mail. Not entirely, and not cold-turkey, but enough to make e-mail overload a thing of the past. Here's how he did...
Wikipedia may have some accuracy issues, but there's no debating it's home to a considerable collection of human knowledge. Now you can take it with you: Pocket Wikipedia offers some 14 million words and 24,000 images -- not the entire 'pedia, but hand-picked selections -- you can view on your...
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...
Now that hundreds of you have signed up for the Evernote beta, many of you are no doubt wondering, "How can I put this thing to good use?" Lifehack.org offers 7 ways to work with Evernote, including this: Share information unobtrusively: Instead of being "that guy" who sends every last scrap...
New Web service Alerts.com sends gas-price updates, traffic alerts, baseball scores, and more to your cell phone or inbox. The free service currently offers about a dozen alert choices, including a "free form" alert that lets you send yourself a reminder or any other tidbit of...
There are lots of ways to track packages when you're out and about, but it's hard to imagine a simpler method than this: Compose a new e-mail on your mobile phone. Leave the subject line blank; put the tracking number in the body of the message. Address it to track@fedex.com...
If you saw our recent posts on Web-based appointment-scheduling services Acuity and Genbook and thought, "Huh, that sounds pretty cool," you should also check out HourTown. Designed for small-business owners, HourTown lets you post your open time slots on the Web so customers can schedule appointments with you. ...
Suffering from e-mail overload? A couple weeks back, we showed you how one Microsoft exec manages his inbox. If you liked the idea but not the approach, Lifehacker's Gina Trapani offers this alternative: a "trusted trio" of folders you can use to empty out your inbox. You'll have to read...
So you're standing in the aisles of your local big-box store, about to spring for a color laser printer, when you stop and think: "I wonder if can get this cheaper somewhere else." Frucall gives you price comparisons on your cell phone: Just call the service (888-DO-FRUCALL) and enter the product's...
Our first batch of Evernote beta invitations barely lasted 24 hours. Thankfully, the company was generous enough to give us 100 more! If you're still interested in taking the whiz-bang information-capture service for a spin, just drop us a line at bizhacks@gmail.com. As before, we promise not to use your e-mail...
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...
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...
You already know you can get driving directions via Google SMS, but what if you're on foot in a big city and want to get around via public transportation? Enter HopStop, a free service that lets you access subway and bus directions using only your cell...
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...
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