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Getting wireless Internet access on your laptop is a tricky proposition -- if there's no hotspot around, your only option is a cellular connection. But phone companies charge a king's ransom to "tether" your laptop to a mobile phone, with fees running as high as $500/year.
What's the buzz on Google Buzz, and should business users be buzzing about it? We're getting buzzed just thinking about it! Okay, we've exhausted the joke supply.
Looks like the blogosphere was playing Chicken Little when it suggested Windows 7 was somehow causing laptop battery failures. As it turns out, the new OS is just a little smarter than its predecessors.
Microsoft has released an experimental add-on for Office apps which treats learning how to get around the ribbon like a computer game.
Last Friday, I got out of bed to discover that my Internet cable service was out. Not only couldn't I get any e-mail in Outlook, but I was unable to see any Web pages.
Google spent millions to buy Super Bowl ad time, but almost zero to create its commercial. Yet it was one of the best of the night. I made a knockoff in about 45 minutes using free tools.
Organizationally, we have a tendency to over communicate. Andc by adding nonessential participants to projects, we dramatically slow down the overall process.
Siri responds to voice recognition, interprets your plain English commands, and leverages a slew of Web sites and services to actually do useful work for you.
There are studies indicating that every March, during the NCAA basketball tournament, nationwide office productivity takes a hit. I suspect it's the same during the week leading up to the Super Bowl. So we understand if you spent the better part of last week choosing your squares in the office pool....
Like the fax machine, voicemail seems to be dying a slow but steady death. We say: good riddance to this outdated, inconvenient technology. Keep the e-mails, IMs, and text messages coming!
Learn this handy keyboard trick to rearrange paragraphs in a Word document.
you'll permit me one final post on the Apple iPad, here's a bit of Friday levity for you. Last week, Seth Myers summed up the iPad about as well as any journalist or pundit I've yet seen.
There's mounting anecdotal evidence that Windows 7 is either misreporting available battery life or actually damaging laptop and netbook batteries. Have you had any problems?
Whether you're suffering job burnout or just looking for a new challenge, a side business might be the perfect answer. Here are five reasons to consider starting one.
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