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Need a five-minute game break to refresh your brain but can't risk getting caught by the boss? Head to Can't You See I'm Busy, where you can play three familiar arcade games that look exactly like work. First up is Breakdown, a Breakout-style game that takes place in a faux word processor. Instea...
Last week I told you about Gist, an online contact management tool that aggregates your contact information from Outlook, Gmail, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and other locations. It has a Web-based component, and, if you install the Outlook add-in, it also behaves a lot like Xobni. We really like Gist, ...
Around the office, I'm generally known as the Visio Guy. I like to visualize processes and procedures, so I tend to create a lot of drawings. And while everyone tends to assume I am working in Visio, the truth is that I find that program too expensive and a bit too complicated. That's why I love tra...
What's the first thing you do when your plane touches down? Easy: You call, e-mail, text, and/or tweet your clients, co-workers, family members, etc. to let them know you're on the ground. Enter ArrivedOK, which automatically notifies people when you land. Just sign up for the free service, perf...
The ideal backup solution is one that works automatically, in the background, and in real-time, archiving your data all day, every day, as you work. Set it up once and shazam, you're done. Mac users have long enjoyed that kind of protection from Apple's Time Machine. Now Windows users can get...
As I learned from Bruce Willis's character in the classic film Hudson Hawk, when you travel, you can never be too prepared. And to that end, you can fill your iPhone with a slew of single-purpose travel apps and URLs to access information via the Web, but why bother when you can carry a single app t...
Sometimes a deal comes along that sounds almost too good to be true. In this case, it really is true -- if you meet the fairly narrow set of requirements to qualify for Microsoft's latest small business offering. But if you qualify, oh, the bounty. You get access to Windows, Office, Visual Studio...
A presentation without narration is like a comic book without word-balloons: You get the general idea, but it's not nearly as informative or entertaining. The MyBrainshark presentation-hosting service lets you add narration just by picking up your phone. All you do is upload your PowerPoint slid...
I've always been a bit miffed that Word plops you at the start of a document when you open it. If you're editing a very long document, you literally need to write on a piece of paper where you left off the day before, as if you were a stenographer in Charlemagne's court. Excel, after all, always rem...
Staying on top of your email is like a fight to the death with a hungry python; get distracted even briefly and you're quickly overwhelmed. If you're an Outlook user, I've already given you some handy tips for staying organized, such as the video on how to use flags and categories. Today's video foc...
Hot on the heels of last week's hotel room-key iPhone stand comes this clever coffee-sleeve hack. All you need is your usual cuppa Joe, a scissors, and about 30 seconds to create a terrific little stand for your iPhone, iPod Touch, or other mobile media device. The above video (which plods al...
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, TIFF, or just about any...
Most of the password advice you hear is fairly hypothetical: Don't use words you can find in the dictionary. Don't use the word password or a simple string of numbers. But it's not every day that we can look at real passwords used by real people, and point out just how poorly conceived they are. Tha...
Need an office suite? A graphics program? Security software? Everyone knows the big names that rule the commercial space for each of those areas. But there are plenty of smaller commercial options and even a goodly number of open source alternatives to choose from too. Wouldn't it be great if someon...
As you may have heard, T-Mobile Sidekick users just got a kick in the teeth: Two weeks after their contacts, calendar entries, and other personal data mysteriously disappeared, T-Mobile says the data is gone for good. While the Sidekick isn't really a business device (and it stores most data onli...
