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If you usually learn that your flight is delayed while standing at the gate along with 200 other passengers who all need to rebook simultaneously, there's hope on the horizon: I've found a tool that can give you a six hour lead on delayed flights.
If you're the type of person who can't remember passwords for love nor money, here's an amusing-but-practical low-tech solution: Hide them on old floppies. No, we're not talking about writing the data to the actual media (as if that was even possible in this post-floppy era), but rather a typed o...
If you want to watch movies on your netbook, you've got two basic choices: iTunes and the new Film Fresh movie-download service. Though Film Fresh doesn't specifically cater to netbook users (any Windows or Mac system will do), it does solve the problem of netbooks' lack of DVD drives. Better st...
A single, universal phone number that reaches out to you at work, at home, and on the road is a great idea, and that's just one of many reasons I love Google Voice. I am also a fan of the voice mail transcriptions that get texted to my cell phone. But I do not love the way Apple has blocked Googl...
Curious about Google Voice? Here are eight things you absolutely should know about Google Voice -- four good, and, for equal time, four bad. Read 'em and make up your own mind.
Aha, so now we know why the 3M MPro110 pocket projector went on sale earlier this month: Its successor was just around the corner. The 3M MPro120 is a "second-generation" pocket projector, and you'll be able to pick one up (in the palm of your hand, literally) starting September 1. Take a look at...
I tend to spend a lot of time looking for new and better online collaboration tools. Many are pretty cool, but for the most part, they all suffer from the same limitation: They require everyone to log into some new Web site in order to take advantage. Tgether is a little different: It functions like...
Yeah, there are a million ways to share files, everything from thumb drives to SkyDrive to YouSendIt. But this week, we ran across something a little bit different: StreamFile lets you share files up to 150MB using an encrypted point-to-point transfer from a simple and spiffy Web interface. T...
As authors of the upcoming book, How to Do Everything: Palm Pre (available now for preorder for just $16.49!), we continue to plumb the depths of what you can do with the phone. For example, did you know you can add a virtual onscreen keyboard? Why would you want to do that when one of the Pre's ...
Good news, Mac users: You no longer have to feel like the red-headed stepchild when you bring your MacBook to the office. Digital Inspiration outlines six ways to make Macs play nice with Windows networks. For example, here's how to access network drives from a Mac: To access a network shar...
If your projects are getting big enough that you need to graduate from using Excel to track tasks and dates to a full-blooded project management program, then you might already be considering Microsoft Project. But that's sort of like launching a nuke when waving a spear around might do. Peago, for ...
The world revolves around e-mail, right? It certainly seems that way -- right up to the moment you encounter a client who is firmly in the Stone Age and requires stuff to be sent via the good old US Postal Service. For times like that, it might be easier to send postal mail using the Internet than b...
I know for a fact that Dave would sooner give up one of his cats than sacrifice his second monitor -- and he really likes his cats. That's because a second monitor can seriously amp your productivity. Consider: Outlook running full-screen in one monitor, your Web browser in another. How handy wou...
It's the rare Outlook user who hasn't had cause to pound his/her head on the desk while waiting for the program to hurry the hell up already. Good news: There are many ways to goose the program. In fact, Lifehacker has rounded up 9 ways to make Outlook run faster. Here's my pick of the litter: ...
E-mail is the bane of my existence; since I spend at least 60 percent of my day sending e-mail, that leaves only about a quarter of my day -- factoring out lunch and other distractions -- to actually accomplish something related to my job description of "writer." That's why I'm always on the lookout...
