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Guess what? It's National Tell-a-Friend-About-Business-Hacks Week! Okay, we made that up, but if you like what you see around these parts, why not clue in some friends and co-workers? We certainly would appreciate it. In the meantime, here's a recap of some post gold from last week: Easily Sc...
I hate scattering icons and folders on my desktop, but I also like the convenience of storing files I need on the desktop where they're easy to get to. The middle ground? Fences, a program that lets you organize icons into groups that you can show or hide with a double click. The good news is that F...
Imagine a site that offered SharePoint-like file sharing, scheduling, and online collaboration features. Now dress it up in a Facebook-like interface with user profiles and news feeds.
We frequently address the subject of passwords, and with good reason: Most users suck at choosing them. That's a problem, because compromised passwords make it a breeze for hackers to steal personal information, access private files, and wreak other kinds of havoc. Over at the Official Gmail ...
Do you keep your resume locked up inside a Word document? How 20th-century. Web service CeeVee helps you build a polished-looking resume and then share it online via Facebook, Twitter, and other methods. To get started with CeeVee, you provide an e-mail address and password, choose a personalized...
I'm not exactly a financial genius; I've been known to invest in airlines and lend money to Rick. Moreover, I don't speak QuickBooks and am always on the lookout for simple, straight-forward, and inexpensive accounting solutions. I've tried all sorts of ways to send invoices and track my meager i...
Packing for a trip to Newark, New Jersey? Well then, one thing's for sure: You're not Conan O'Brien: But no matter who you are, you might want to know the weather to help you pack. There's a million ways to get that kind of information these days, but I'm currently geeking out over a cool...
We love to rip on Microsoft as much as the next blog, but let's face it: The company has been making all the right moves of late. (Okay, maybe not so much with the hilariously awful Windows 7 House Party video.) Witness Security Essentials, a new anti-virus utility that's fast, effective, and fre...
iPhones, iPod Touches, and various smartphones are great for watching movies and TV shows on planes and trains, but some kind of stand is absolutely essential. (Take it from someone who's spent two hours holding his iPhone at an upright angle.) If you still have your hotel room-key floating ar...
Your resume is a powerful weapon in your next job hunt, so it pays to keep it sharp. Take your accomplishments, for example. Are they relevant, notable, recent, and accurate? If not, they could well be a liability that makes your hiring manager say, "pass." For starters, make sure your acc...
It's ironic: Both the iPhone and the Palm Pre are nominally phones, but I find that I tend to use them more for e-mail and texting than talking. Assuming I'm not some sort of freakish anomaly, I've rounded up ten tips (five for the iPhone, five for the Pre) that will help you enter text faster and m...
We here at Business Hacks sometimes forget that not everyone eats, sleeps, and breathes technology like we do. In fact, some users don't even know what a Web browser is. They just click that "little blue e" (for Internet Explorer) to "get on the Internet." With that in mind, Google cobbled tog...
Sometimes it seems like managing my Outlook inbox is my main job, and everything else I do is a distant second priority. After all, I get hundreds of emails a day, both from people I need to respond to and from mailing lists and newsgroups I'm subscribed to. I'd never be able to function without Out...
There's been a lot of Palm Pre news lately -- you can finally buy paid apps in the App Catalog, for example, and syncing with iTunes is back, at least until Apple pulls the plug yet again. Perhaps the most interesting news for long-time Palm users, though, is that you can now HotSync your Pre when i...
For a couple months now I've been using TwInbox to track my Twitter account in Outlook. But that's a somewhat messy solution, as it merely lumps together all inbound tweets. Xobni to the rescue! The uber-awesome Outlook accessory just added Twitter integration, meaning I can now follow my contact...
