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Problem: You discover yet another killer Business Hacks post while perusing your feeds in Google Reader, but you can't easily download it for future reference. Solution: Google Reader's new Send To option, which, in addition to providing quick links to services like Digg, Facebook, and Twitter, l...
If you ask me, e-mail is best used as a direct, linear conduit between two people. Add a third person and it gets messy. Throw in a whole team and the noise quickly overwhelms the signal. If you're looking for a better way to communicate and collaborate, try Shareflow, a site that lets groups of peo...
From time to time, you no doubt need to get consensus on some simple question -- Logo A or Logo B, pizza or tacos, that sort of thing. You could fire up some Web site with voting or polling features, but why bother? You can just add voting buttons to an Outlook message. Watch this exclusive Business...
If you've got time to kill while commuting to and from work, why not stock your phone or MP3 player with podcasts that can enrich your business brain? Here's a roundup of our six favorites: Harvard Business IdeaCast [iTunes link] Ideas and commentaries from some of the top folks in business and m...
When one of my writers recently announced that she was pregnant, I found myself passing the hat for a gift -- almost literally. Despite living firmly in the 21st Century, it seemed odd that I was secretly passing a greeting card around into which people could insert 10 dollar bills. Well, the new...
So your e-mail thread has been dragging on for days, and now there are a dozen people on the TO: line. It's time to get everyone in a room and hash it out once and for all. Wouldn't it be great if there was one button you could press to turn the e-mail into a meeting invite? If you use Outlook, now ...
As most Windows 7 users are aware, the new OS lets you dock windows just by dragging them to various areas of the screen. GridMove is a free utility that offers Windows 7-style drag-and-dock window management. Watch in action right here: This little animation doesn't really do the program ...
I can't decide if this is the dumbest thing ever or a genuinely practical tool. The Flash Drive Lock is a combination lock for your flash drive. It fits over the USB connector and secures it using a three-digit rotary lock. Take a look: Given the inherently unsafe nature of USB drives -- ...
I hate business cards. I don't like carrying a stack of my own cards, and I certainly don't relish the job of transferring other people's cards into my contact manager -- especially when I get a stack of them, like at a trade show. That's so 1987. That's why I'm cautiously optimistic that these...
Sending effective e-mail is hard. Even harder, apparently, than I had suspected. Did you ever think about your signoff, for example? Ending an e-mail with "Best" or "Sincerely" could be causing unintended damage. At least, The Washington Post contends your e-mail signoff can hurt yor busines...
Want to spruce up your diagrams? Looking for images specific to a certain company, like Dell or EMC? Check out VisioCafe, home to hundreds of Visio shapes and stencils that are free for the download. The site carries "official" corporate collections for companies including Blade, HP, and IBM, alo...
I think it goes without saying that the greatest invention since the mouse is the mouse wheel. I can't comfortably operate a computer without one. Most users know that the wheel makes for quick and easy scrolling in Web pages and documents. But you may not have known that Office 2007 has a little...
One of the more interesting bits of Windows 7 trivia is the fact that the revised logon screen -- which looks pretty snazzy to begin with -- is customizable. OEMs apparently have the ability to change the background image, but end users do not -- at least not without some registry hacking. But th...
As counter-intuitive as that sounds, the Wall Street Journal ran a story last week contending that coffee shops are pulling the plug on laptop users. I'm not so sure. Personally, I've seen no evidence of a trend towards Wi-Fi equipped coffee shops or restaurants turning away laptop users here in ...
What's better: Five straight days of 9-5 toil, or four 10-hour days followed by a three-day weekend? If you said the latter, now's the time to have a sit-down with your boss. According to a new Scientific American report, the four-day workweek is a money-saver for companies and a health and well-...
